Denny’s party was a BIG surprise!

He didn’t expect it at all. . .our cousin,

Jerry Sager, his daughter, Michelle, her son, Jaden and his son’s daughter, Abby came from the Ft. Worth area.  We were so happy they

came and stayed over for another meal last night.

 

Janet was the main organizer for the event’s food and it was delicious.  She worked harder and longer than anyone but we had several people help us prepare and clean up the church dining room afterward. Lots of folks were there to help celebrate!

The most heard statement, besides “Happy Birthday” was, “Denny, I can’t believe you are really 60!  You look so much younger!”

God is good.

This is Dad, George Wirth with Denny when he was just about 19 years old at Galveston, TX 

 

 

Tomorrow is Travis Easton’s birthday. . .he will be four!

He is one bundle of energy. . .always wanting to figure how things are put together or taken apart. . .he’s is ALL boy for sure. . .loves dirt,

Mud puddles. . .climbing. . .teasing. . .snatching things from his siblings. . .

Bugs. . .dogs. . .food. . .life.

He is very excited about his birthday coming and reminds me each time I see him.

Here is a cute video of him with his Papaw videoing the event.

 

 

Happy Birthday, Dear Travis!

And many more.

Happy Anniversary! Stanley and Becky - Denny and Michelle

 

 

They tried to hold him back but he had found what he was looking for!

 

 

Congratulations Stan and Becky!

 

The newly wed Mr. & Mrs.

 

It's a wonderful thing to see marriages last through the years.

 

Seems like only yesterday Stan brought home that beautiful heart shaped diamond

 

ring and showed it to me.

 

He was going to give it to Becky after he watched her and waited for the right time.

 

He wanted to make sure she would be the kind of wife he was looking for

 

to raise his children.

 

She fit the bill and several months later, at Uncle Donnie and Aunt Nancy's Thanksgiving

 

Day dinner for the Peach family, he went down on bended knee and asked her

 

to "trust me with your heart. . .I'll guard it with my life".

 

She said, "You've got it!" and eighteen years later he's still guarding

 

her heart. . .she's still making his house a home.

 

They have five children and lots of love to share with one another.

 

Isn't God good!

 

 

 

One more note. . .

 

Denny and Michelle are also celebrating their anniversary!

 

I'm not sure the number of years but close to 31 or 32 years.

 

God has allowed their marraige to bloom into a thing of beauty.

 

Congratulations Denny and Michelle!

 

 

Thank you all for staying together and allowing the Lord to be honored by your testimonies.

 

Two couples the Lord can use to give light in the darkness.

Emily Jane is ONE. .."Sweet Baby Joe" catches our dinner!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY EMILY JANE!

She is definitely a "sweetheart"!

 

 Look what "Sweet Baby Joe" caught fishing with Uncle Denny and Dad!

He loves to fish and he caught enough

for us to have a big fish meal yesterday!

Dad, Doug, fried the fish and we had some good eating thanks to Joe's

skills. . .Daniel was the biggest fish eater followed by myself.

Love that fish. 

Two big ones.

 

 

       

Surrounded by all his fish. . .there's a catfish at the top

you can't hardly see.

 

Heavy!

  

 

 

 



 

Sweethearts eating pancakes at Emily's house on Valentine's Day.

 

Found this picture of March 2011. . . Paul and Silas

at the Mt. Carmel church.

Too sweet not to post.

Some updates on my Grands. . .plus

George gets glasses in January 2012.  He really likes them too.
His vision is good but his eyes have trouble holding focus. . .sounds like some of our spiritual problem. . .we have a good vision but we sometimes lose our ability to focus.

Laura, and Jaida Luckey (Denny's grandchild) singing as Sis. Lydia plays at the big Humble church.



Aunt Janet with Kathryn as she poses in her fancy new dress and shoes at  the church.

Sophie and Maya have a breakfast treat of waffles with cream and chocolate prepared by Davita.

Pictures of Progress on Stan's Stables

Stan, Doug, chad, tom and forest begin

work on horse stalls in the back pasture. . .

this was the day after thanksgiving.

Daniel and Brooklyn are playing out near

the project.

Doug checking out some work progress while

help, Forest  stands on other side of the wall.



Doug, Stan and Denny at work in the sun.

Stan with his traditional tongue between his teeth. . .a papaw wirth trait.

chad and Doug making lots of progress

Denny, Doug, Stan, chad all working to get

the stable ready for a horse or two.

Forest  and Stan up in the air working

on beams.

forest , Stan and Doug

Stan and doug getting ready to run roof beams.

doug and stan have to sign off on day 4. . .

it was getting dark and doug had to leave early the next morning.

they didn't get it completed, but thanks to all the help they were well on their way.

Brian Nelson came over and worked one day with

stan but we weren't there so didn't get any pictures.

Tom took these.

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Day 2012

 

Here it is, our Thanksgiving Day of 2012.

The Tom Peach family

Tom and Karen.

I am so blessed to have such a creative man for my husband.

He makes all kinds of neat things to help us have special memories of events.

Like this little Prairie house. . .he put this up for me so all could get their

pictures made in it. . .and he had plenty of props in the great room of the shop

to make it look rustic.

We have been blessed to have the energy to have these outing most Thanksgivings,

Christmases and 4th's of July. . .plus some in between.

This year Tom, Chad, Janet, Michelle, Doug and his boys all

helped get things together. . .it was a blessing to work together.

 

One more note, My folks were married on Thanksgiving Day 61 years ago and

Stan proposed to and gave a ring to Becky on Thanksgiving Day in 1995.

We owe so much of our happiness to the moral fiber our parents (Peach/Wirth)

and grandparents embraced. . .we carry much of the love they invested into

our lives inside our hearts and we are trying to continue in their example.

 

 

The Sam Perry family

Janet and the Preacher man..

Davita and Phillip were out of town visiting Phillips family.

David and Krista were with her family.

Kristen and Kevin weren't able to come because he couldn't get off work.

 

 

The Chad Hanna family

George, Chad, Travis, Laura, Sarah and Kimberly

 

 

The Stan Peach Family

Brooklyn, Kathryn, Emily, Stan, Jesse, Becky and Jillian

 

 

 

The Doug Wirth family

Joseph, Daniel, Doug, David (Bucky), Rachel and Paul

 

 

 

 

The Denny Wirth family

Michelle, Ashley, Brayden, Denny and Jaida

Autumn and Josh couldn't come since they'd just taken off to go to Abby's wedding.

 

Jon's entire family didn't get to make it as they had just used lots

of time and energy getting their daughter married. . .

Abby and Andrew are in Texas now, but they were barely home from

their honeymoon!





Below you see the Stephens' family.

We were glad to have them share our day with us.

All the boys had a great time and we enjoyed them so much.

When their dad was ready to leave the boys talked him into

staying longer. . .so they were still here for the fireside.

Jacob was getting into frontier character below.

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Some folks didn't come by for the whole day, but were here for a while.

Here's Barbara and David Peach with George getting in on the hug.

Then we were also honored to have Sis Margaret Orand come by

to eat and fellowship with us.

We've made her part of our "holiday family".

 

Doug Stephen's mother, Mary, enjoyed the day with us.

She was in town from DesMoines, Iowa.

She attends Bro. Goodwin's church.

It was a pleasure to get to know her and get better acquainted with her family.

 

 

Brayden has his mouth full of Sarah's "cutie" oranges. . .

He can put away the food!

Travis enjoys just sitting out on the stump beside the prairie house with

his big straw hat.

 

 

 

Janet, Rachel and Doug help get last minute coffee and etc. ready.

 

 

Rachel goes outside to see if she can help carry some food into the building.

Notice that we even had a table for the two toddlers to sit at.

There was a table for men, a table for women, For younger kids and for the older.

We also had high chairs for the two babies so we ALL got to sit down together.

 

 

 

 

Above we have Doug and Chad who both helped to make sure each family

attending got their pictures taken.

Below, Doug helps make sure the little prairie house was all set up for

pictures.  The kids had a good time playing in it all day.

The boys used it as a stable, the girls a house.

 

 




 
 

 

Tom and Stan get a little time to talk to one another. . .

what a good dad Stan has. . .what a good son Tom has.

They are both blessed.

 

 

Stan with baby Emily Jane. . .she was glad to be in

her daddy's arms, outside with the other kids.

In the background you can see little Kimmie Jo.

 

 

The kids just didn't want to quit playing.

It was really neat that day because all the kids, young and old,

played together.  The older kids let the little kids play

hide and seek on their perspective teams. . .and just rope. . .high jump. . .

and corn hole toss. . .etc.

They climbed all over the play set too..

 

 

Later that evening we lit up a fire in a huge old cast-iron kettle and

sat around talking while the kids played.

Here Chad was getting things started. . .

Doug helped the kids makes s/mores. . .Yum. . .Yum.

 

 

 

And here's our little frontier girl, Laura Jean. . .she wore he hat a lot of the day.

That’s all folks. . .There was so much activity, so much fun and games going on that

we just didn’t think about taking more pictures.  Doug may have some I don’t have.

 

"Dear Lord, I want to thank you from my heart for another year of freedom in our country. . .freedom to give thanks openly to you for all the blessings of life.

Thank you Lord for giving us this property to host events.

Thank you for giving us family and friends who want to share the day with us.

Thank you for the love that can be felt running all through the house/shop,

out in the yard, around the tables. . .it isn't something that everyone has at their

family dinners.

Lord, thank you for all the loads of food we once again had on the table.

It seems like everyone here wants to do "their share" of blessing others.

I am so blessed!

Thank you for all the many years of Thanksgivings, just like this one today

that I spent at my Pappy and Granny Bare's home. . . Or with my

Grandma and Grampa Banks. . .

Or at my own parents home when their folks were too old and tired to

continue having things at their home.

We are Family. . .family with so much love we can even give it to others who

come by. . .with so much happiness we won't lose anything by sharing it with you. . .

God you have blessed us with the things in life that really matter most

and it our duty and our pleasure to bless others.

Your Child, krp"