http://patti.themccallums.org Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:42:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How can we not get excited about celebrating the true reason for Christmas. So, when I heard the local town of Euharlee was having a parade of floats, I decided to round up some nativity characters. It was a God thing how everything came together in such a short amount of time. I ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/12/01/christmas-navity-float-in-cartersville-headlines/ [gallery] Traveling 7,000 miles, we have seen some new sites that I photographed.  Enjoy them. http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/10/01/recent-favorite-photos/ Children grow up so quickly.  Grandchildren grow up even faster!!!  Here are some recents photos of our blessings!! http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/10/01/blessed-with-grandchildren/ [gallery]Wes and I recently wanted to use up a free weekend car rental.  So we went to rent a car for a trip south.  We we got to the rental place, the lady informed us that she only had one car left and we would have to take it. http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/10/01/gods-sense-of-humor-or-blessing/ This July we attended our annual Grant reunion - descendants of Ralph and Estella.  We had a great time again and thank our hosts.  Special celebration was for Harold Grant's 80th birthday. If you want to see more pictures, make a comment to such and I will send you a link ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/10/01/grant-reunion-ralph-and-estella/ In June, my dad received his high school diploma as a veteran at 80 years of age. He was supposed to walk through the line with all the high school students from Kingston, but ended up in the hospital. So, he received it at the school board meeting. ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/08/06/wolfgangs-diploma/ We were blessed to once again attend General Conference of the Wesleyan Church this time in Orlando. Joann Lyon was elected the new General Superintendant. I have attached a few of my photos from the weeks events. I have uploaded all my photos from Festival of Missions at picasaweb.google.com/shokanwesleyan/GeneralConferenceOfTheWesleyanChurch08 Please ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/06/16/general-conference-2008-of-the-wesleyan-church/ We were able to spend time with our growing families over the holidays. Though many of us were sick with the colds going around we had a wonderful time together. Enjoy the photos. We celebrated Wolfgang's 80th birthday (Jan 31st) a few weeks early. img_3145.jpg img_3215.jpg img_3367.jpg img_3419.jpg img_3231.jpg img_3153.jpg (I have a new ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/01/14/we-are-so-blessed/ It was a real joy to have the kids here for the holiday. We had two real snow storms and so our grandkids and the three dogs got a real taste of snow. At first they really didn't like it at all. But here is a photo ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/01/13/davids-first-big-snow/ I was yard saling and bought a set of dishes. I thought they would be a good item to sell on ebay. But it seems that they are very rare. Any one out there have any interest in these lovely dishes? Pattern is Virginia #7622 of ... http://patti.themccallums.org/2008/01/13/unusual-dishes/