Everthing Under The Son: July 2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Happy Anniversary July 12,2008

Happy Anniversary!! Happy Anniversary!! Happy Anniversary!!! Happy Anniversary!!! Yes you are seeing double pictures and I wanted to make double sure you knew it!!! We had the most wonderful wonderful Anniversary!!!!!! At the Top you see Raymond and I with our FIVE YEAR OLD CAKE TOPPER and cake wire of the bride and groom Raymond made and the happiest girl in the world!!! ME SUSAN!!! We had the most wonderful Anniversary day we sat around and reminisced and looked at photos and our scrapbook. NEXT!!!!! SUPRISE SUPRISE SUPRISE!!!!Our Precious Friend Deb and the other nurses and Residents at Autumwood Thu us a Anniversary Party!!!! Deb and others there keep an eye on our website and Deb told everone and Deb made a WONDERFUL YUMMIE cake and our other friend Nancy and the residents designed a card for us!!!! Everyone signed it too!!! Both the cake and the card were made with such love!!! We are soooo blessed!!! Thank You!!! What a wonderful 5th Anniversary Memory for us!!!! I am the luckiest woman ithe world!!!!! God Bless you!!! We love you all!!

Raymond picked the roses out of the rose garden he planted for me for our anniversary!!!

Port Austin Farmers Market Kids Day

Here is Depner Farms Peppie The Chicklett, John and Hector The Holstein at the Port Austin Farmers Market. John and his sweet wife are 2 of the very busy organizers of this event!!!! There is something here for everyone!!!! They even have Horse Drawn Wagon rides thru Port Austin FOR FREE at this event!!!!! This is our 4th year we have attended this wonderful event!!!! It is a MUST GO TO!!!

Spring Event -Embracing Our Earth IV -Part 2

Here we are at Embracing Our Earth IV at Laker High School April 26, 2008. First Notice the wonderful suit Raymond has on and the cool hat I have on!! All together all the paper Raymond recycled and the tuxedo I sewed it took us together collectively 40 hours. To the left we are with our Dear Dear Friend Bill Diller. He is pretty photo shy but we managed to get him to pose for this photo.

Next the lower photo is us with State Representative Terry Brown.

We even "sorta" got Representative Brown to do the chicken dance with us.?? Kinda. :<) To the right is the group Tropical Mix we had the privilege to play and sing with!!! We had a blast dancing with them too with their steal drums!!! Thet Loved to sing and dance about The Lord so it was even better yet!!!!!!!!!!

Spring Event: Embracing Our Earth IV --Part 1

Here is Raymond holding up one of the 7 bags of paper we were given by a d

ear freind. He ground the paper in a blender and made it into pulp and squeezed and squished and SMUSHED the water out as you can see in these photos getting ready for our first Spring Event we were invited to sing at called:"Embracing our Earth IV" at Laker High School April 25, 2008. What a wondeful event it was it made us very concious of how much we waste and don't re-use and don't recycle. It hs changed our lives!!!! We had wasted the precious gifts God gave u but not any more!!!! With this paper I sewed a Paper Tuxcedo and a Top Hat for Raymond and Raymond made 3 base ball type hats one for me to wear one to give the friend who gave us all the paper and one just for fun!!! We were very blessed to be asked to this event. It was a real NEW WAY OF Life Opener!!

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“WHO ARE ‘THE BUGGS”
We are a Christian couple and have been married for almost six years.(July 12th, 2003) Raymond was a special education teacher for ten years and had to take a disability retirement in 2000. Susan was working for hospice and at a Doctors Office and had Encephalitis that took her out of the workforce also.

Raymond: “My Pastor invited me to go with him to the Long Term Care Unit in Harbor Beach. He held a Bible study with the residents on Wednesdays, and asked if I would come and play and sing with him.” (He also plays guitar)
(Raymond) “I had never volunteered in a nursing home setting before. After the Bible study, I sat down with several residents and sang “campfire songs” with them. (She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain, Yankee Doodle, etc.) I really felt drawn to them and scheduled myself to return again the next week.

LET THE SINGING BEGIN!
After a while, I began to look for new music as the “campfire” program was beginning to get, well… boring. (To me that is) I had a friend, Richard Roberts, who played banjo, and invited him along on an occasion. Richard introduced me to a wealth of music from the early 20th century, 1900’s, ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s. We played together for about a year before Susan joined us.
Richard, Susan and I sing on a regular basis at two facilities in Harbor Beach. We perform at the Long Term Care Unit and Harbor House (an assisted living facility).
Susan prepares and arranges the music for the performances as well as the props and costumes.

Susan: “We have never looked at our performances as concerts, but rather events. Our intent is to bring joy to people and get them singing. We use a ‘sing-a-long’ format with trivia and stories to liven things up. Great Friends and "Mentors" Art and Rita Glaza who also sing in the “nursing home circuit” told us that, “You gotta make them laugh.” Their heart is to love people and make them have a great day and fun memories and make them laugh!!They are in their "Golden Years and Still, making folks laugh!!"

Several years ago Raymond, created sing-a-long books that we use during our programs. There are over two hundred songs. We sing hymns, patriotic songs, holiday music, children’s songs, songs of America and the world as well as campfire songs.

There is great debate as to who invited Susan to join us. Richard claims he was responsible bringing Susan and I together. However it happened, I’m grateful because Susan is now my wife.

“EVERYTHING UNDER THE SON”

“Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything.” Ephesians 5:19

Susan and I felt that the Lord wanted us to reach out to a larger community with our sing along format. We sing at many different facilities and various events in the Huron County region. Although Richard does sing with us on occasion at some events, “Everything Under the Son” is just Susan and I.

We chose Ephesians 5:19 as a statement for our ministry. We pray that we bring merriment and the message of Jesus Christ though our programs. We decided that “Everything Under the Son” was an appropriate title for our duet, seeing how we will sing almost, everything under the sun, for the Son.

Susan and I have been performing together for about eight years, and six of those eight as “Everything Under the Son”.

Everthing Under The Son

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Happy Anniversary July 12,2008

Port Austin Farmers Market Kids Day

Spring Event -Embracing Our Earth IV -Part 2

Spring Event: Embracing Our Earth IV --Part 1

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