One Year Marriage Anniversary

Dear Family and Friends,

Can you believe it? We have been married for one complete year. No words can express

our love for each other. We love being married and learning new things each day about each other. We are not "I", we are "We." in everything we do. We always try to dress up in the same

colors each day. It is our way that bonds us together and makes us be one in our relationship of marriage.

On our special day we wore white. We went for a beautiful ride to Rancho Seco and exchanged our gifts of love to each other. I made red corsages for Ron and Me to wear. As we passed the gate into the park the lady said, " Where are you youngers going in your dressed up clothes?" We gave her a great big thank you and grinned at each other. We sat on a bench with 2 ducks in front of this romantic clear day. Ron pulled out his gift and I couldn't believe it. It was a license plate frame that says, "RON AND LENA" "FOREVER IN CHRIST"

It brought tears of joy and love to my heart. He also bought me a butterfly necklace.

We love butterflies. I gave my beloved a beautiful anniversary card topped with a kiss and a

Love plaque. I sang a song " The Most Beautiful Rose", but the words I sang in the song

were everything my Beloved Ron as taught me since we have known each other. We held hands and looked into our eyes and could see our true depth of spiritual love the Lord has given us.

We thank our Heavenly Father and his son Jesus every day for the gifts he has given us. We are

his gifts to each other. Taking time to listen and talk to each other really helps us in our marriage.

We were invited to Mel and D'lare's wedding on our anniversary day too.. It was at the Catheral center downtown across the Capital in Sacramento. It was a lovely outside wedding. It brought tears to my eyes to see Mel's son's in the wedding. They have all grown up so much. What a beautiful day. Thomas joined us as we celebrated this blessed day with them together.

Family Life

On May 24th Vanessa ,our granddaughter ,graduated from High School. It was a great celebration for all of us, including Junior, Fabie and our grandsons from Texas. We had a wonderful time enjoying each others company. We had dinner together at BJ'S Restaurant and than attended the graduation ceremony. Afterwards we went to a yogurt shop, and than went bowling.

The next day we took family pictures and had a surprise pre-graduation party for our son Thomas. He will graduate next December from Sac. State College. The highlight of the party for Thomas was our grandson Jalen break dancing. He never gets tired and just smiles and smiles. Smiles run in our family. Another highlight was letting Thomas know what we have learned from him in life. It was touching and amazing what each of us shared with him. What touched my heart was when Andy ,our ex-son-in-law said, that he sees the interaction that Thomas has with Alyssa and the interaction that Junior also has with his boys. He was looking at me and it meant alot. In this day and age so many parents never share these family skills. As a parents we must interact and demonstrate what a loving family shares with each other.We each have a gift to contribute to the family God has given us. To be safe and really cared about within the family is so important. Showing love at all times and being there for each other. God has truly shown us this.

We also sat down and started to talk about our family reunion within the next two years. We are getting everyones ideas. As we share with each other our family will learn to grow in love with Christ leading us. We want to stay in touch with with each other. God has shown us this in many ways. I learn more and more each day what a blessing it is to have each other.

We are reaching out to all of our family and friends and want you to know that we love being married to each other. We are learning from each other and continue to enjoy the spiritual love that God has for us. Ron makes me laugh and I make him laugh too. Our ministry continues to grow and we are blessed to do God's work. He has used us many times over. We give him all the glory and honor.

Married 5 months and celebrating Valentine's day

Hi family and friends,

Every day is Valentine's day for Ron and I. We are learning so many things about life as a

blessed married couple. I love my husband so much and he is so thoughtful and considerate in

every way a husband can be with God leading us to do his work.

We have been praying every night for our family and friends and have seen great miracles come about.When we pray, we know God brings us closer together and blesses us with his mighty power from the Spirit.

We now have a prayer family with our immediate children Sandy, Judy, Junior and Thomas,

their spouses and our grandchildren. They send us their prayer requests and each week we

support them by praying for their prayers. It brings God's true love that

our Jesus wants us to do for each other. In this life we need to receive love from our heavenly

Father and serve him by praying as a family that he has given us. By doing this our spiritual family will stay united with each other with God's mighty love. What a miracle this is to always be there for each other. Three of our children live in other states, so we really can stay connected this way. We always want to be a part of our children's life and set an example we are always there for them. We are planning to have a family reunion in 2011. Every two to three

years we will get together. We will plan lots of fun activities and enjoy each other to bring more

family unity that God wants us to have with each other.

Ron and I are still working on pictures from the wedding. We want to thank everyone

for all the pictures they took at the wedding like Maria, Erin, Lynda and Heddi. They made

us dvd's too. We have the best family and friends anyone could have.

Our "Jesus without Borders" ministry is going strong. We have touched many people lives doing it. We continue to make gift bags for the homeless. Judy our daughter has sent us

gloves and we will be loading up the bags with them. What a worthwhile reward it is to give

a gift bag and see their eyes light up. The other day a man named Dan saw the socks in the

bag and he was so happy. He showed us his shoes with no socks and was so humble to have

just some socks. What joy it brings to our hearts to see when people really are grateful.

In Christ's Love,

Ron & Lena