Lana's Ashes

I obviously lack the skills to get a good panoramic photo with my borrowed iPhone, but this poor attempt will give readers some idea of the specialness of yesterday's ceremony in which we finally fulfilled my late wife's request to have her ashes spread in the woods behind our old church in Gainesville, Florida... plans are to erect a gazebo on the site by the first week in October.

All Five Kids!!

Rare have been the occasions in which all five of our 'kids' have been with us; Saturday's event brought them, our grandson Josh and all but Bonnie's husband, Andrew, in the category of "significant others"!

Site Prep

Rick employed the right equipment for clearing the area where we plan to put up the gazebo (the first week in October), and the crew pictured below along with Mary Alice Dennis spread the mulch...

The ceremony is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Saturday, July 25th on the prayer trail in the northwest corner of the Westside Baptist Church property at 10000 West Newberry Road... join us if you are in the area!!

Honoring a Request

My (Greg's) first wife, Lana, requested that her ashes be spread in the flowers around a gazebo off the prayer trail at our home church in Gainesville, Florida...

Since she left this earth April 9, 2008, the fulfillment of that request is long overdue, but this is the week!  We plan to clear the site and clean up the trail in preparation for a short ceremony July 25th!

Back in the U-S

Yes, we are back in Florida, blessed to have a house from which to base our three month transition from China to Nicaragua.

Pictured having dinner with 60% of our "kids" in Jacksonville!

Nest Empty (Again)!

It had been five-and-a-half months since these two were together (the day Anna left for her semester in Seville)... Grace and I sure have enjoyed having Tim (and our youngest) with us here in China the past month...
Will should be back in Jax by now too... we took him to the airport yesterday morning.  Grace and I have two more days of goodbyes and packing, and will be back in Jacksonville Monday night!