We had a great time this past weekend as we traveled with the whole family to Iowa with the Silent Messengers group the girls are in. We all thought it was a bit surreal (?sp) to have our Baldwin friends in our Des Moines setting. Kinda like a dream where you have different parts of your life mix together but you know that it is really not possible. It was so good to see family and friends at Crossroads, Heartland Reformed and even at Pella Christian High School's Chapel.
Thanks to all who were able to come and see us and the Silent Messengers group. Alyssa, or shall I say Drew, thanks for the baby wipes....we never did find the ones we thought we had with and I'm sure the girls would not have wanted to grab lunch at the mall with their makeup on. Doyle, thanks again for being our photographer, the pictures turned out great. See how many faces you recognize in the picture above :o) Also, thanks for the offers to have a more comfortable nights sleep in a bed......even though we couldn't take you up on it this time, we do appreciate it!
Hey, by the way, check out the memory stone for Doetze. Right now Wes has it. But in case you haven't heard the story - here it is in a nutshell. Linda Booth - (friend) Rallied several Baldwin friends of our kids to buy a memory tree (in this case a snow crabapple)- from Hackert Tree Farm. We didn't know where to plant a tree so we talked with Pella hospital. In God's timing they were planting.... get this - sno crabs. So Wes picked up the tree and worked with the hospital to plant it. We assume that it is planted - In the mean time the local funeral director here in Baldwin (Mike O'Connell), suggested that a field stone would be a nice memorial marker. Out of the goodness of his heart he found several stones, from which we picked one, called the local monument company here and at his expense had them engrave this stone with the inscription that you see. We finally delivered it and hope by this summer to take a picture of the tree and stone together. Isn't that cool?
We had a great time this past weekend as we traveled with the whole family to Iowa with the Silent Messengers group the girls are in. We all thought it was a bit surreal (?sp) to have our Baldwin friends in our Des Moines setting. Kinda like a dream where you have different parts of your life mix together but you know that it is really not possible. It was so good to see family and friends at Crossroads, Heartland Reformed and even at Pella Christian High School's Chapel. 
Hey, by the way, check out the memory stone for Doetze. Right now Wes has it. But in case you haven't heard the story - here it is in a nutshell. Linda Booth - (friend) Rallied several Baldwin friends of our kids to buy a memory tree (in this case a snow crabapple)- from Hackert Tree Farm. We didn't know where to plant a tree so we talked with Pella hospital. In God's timing they were planting.... get this - sno crabs. So Wes picked up the tree and worked with the hospital to plant it. We assume that it is planted - In the mean time the local funeral director here in Baldwin (Mike O'Connell), suggested that a field stone would be a nice memorial marker. Out of the goodness of his heart he found several stones, from which we picked one, called the local monument company here and at his expense had them engrave this stone with the inscription that you see. We finally delivered it and hope by this summer to take a picture of the tree and stone together. Isn't that cool?
3 comments:
The message of the silent messengers was powerful! So nice to see the gospel presented from a different view point, but the message is the same. We saw it twice and notice something different each time.
The stone was nice. I do miss Heit. It will be nice to see where the stone and tree is planted at the hospital. I think everyone will wonder what "Pake" means when they walk by. Susie
Wes said he really liked the message as well- brougth tears to his eyes it was so powerful. I would love to at least see more pics, sorry I had to miss it. -Arlys
Didn't get to see the silent messengers. Maybe you can come to California and do it here?!!
Stone looks great! I miss Heit also...... had a dream about him the other night. I was upstairs and looked out the window and the corn was overflowing big time! I yelled to get someone attention but they couldn't hear me. So I ran down the stairs yelling Heit, HEIT!!! I knew before I hit the bottom step that he was gone. Dreams are strange. Anne
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