Doing good in heaven

So it's been a long time since I've updated. A really long time. What have we been up to? Well, Jaylen has started first grade (which thankfully he likes so far), and Trevor is starting preschool in a few days. We had fun at the fair, took a trip down to Seattle to take in the Pacific Science Center, joined the fun at the Nydam family reunion, visited with my sister, Wendy and her family, took the trailer over to Winthrop to camp with my brother and sister and their families, and to Idaho to Silverwood Theme Park. Yes, it's been a fun summer. We didn't really get summer weather till August, so it went really quick! And just last weekend we took the trailer over to Moses Lake for the weekend. The guys got to go 4-wheeling in the dunes, and we rented a 3-seater quad thing that the kids could go on too. Pretty fun.

So where did I come up with the title? Well, that would be complements of Trevor. See, he's only 4, but he sure knows that there is someone missing in our family. A couple of weeks ago, he wanted to pray for our baby, and I told him our baby is in heaven so we don't really need to pray that our baby is doing good (and we talked a little about heaven). So instead he prayed, "Thank you that our baby is doing good in heaven." He talks about our baby quite often. I sure hope the Lord blesses our family with another baby. :)

Now for one of the reasons I haven't blogged in a while. My friend and faithful blog follower, Rebecca, is now doing good in heaven too. She battled cancer for 3 years. We mostly communicated through our blogs, commenting on most of each other's posts. We hadn't actually talked in years (she lives in Iowa) but I would always think of Becca when writing my posts, because she was one person I knew would be reading them. :) You see, Becca was so influential in my walk with Jesus. She was my counselor at Box T camp when I was 16, and then we counseled together for two years. People say, "What would Jesus do?" I would sometimes think, "What would Becca do?" Her love for the Lord was so apparent. She had an amazing talent with her violin. She could play so beautifully - and she did for our wedding. We used to play together, her with her violin, and me at the piano. I miss those times, now especially. Towards the end, Becca was so sick. You can read her blog here: http://beccarankin.blogspot.com/ . What a comfort to know that she is breathing deeply, living with her Savior. She was married and had 2 little girls, just younger than our 2 boys. I think of her family and pray for them often. I guess I like to think that maybe Becca is holding our little babies we didn't get to hold. And I can't wait to see them all someday!