Summer wedding

Here's Andy and his beautiful bride. They met at college. We got to see Tina and John, all Sandy's family, and all the other Klepac kids it was fun for us. We pray God's blessings on this union.

Andy's wedding

I just found a whole stash of great pics from my nephew Andy's wedding this
summer. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding. We took Grace and of course Marky with us.
Grace doesn't like getting her picture taken, but I was happy to see a picture with the two of us.

Thanks be given

Here's th whole gang. You can see our whole dining room too.
To the left is a big sliding glass door. Straight ahead the kids
are looking into the kitchen. To the right is the living room.
It is truly a blessing to have 7 beautiful grandkids with two
more on the way. Grace and Faith and I are really glad
it's two more girls. The boys really outnumber us.
The cups you see we made so the kids would have something to drink
in when they're over (that won't be so easy to spill)
They have the Bible meanings of all their great names and some original
artwork on them.

Thanksgiving in our new home

I am always quite amazed at how much time has
passed since my last blog. I wish I was quicker about it.
This of course is Samuel, 4 and Faith just turned 7.
They are great buddies. They always think it's very
special to use great grandmas china. We fit everyone in,
all twelve of us by adding a few more stools to the bar.

Judah fishing

Here's Judah, fishing away. He caught something right away, Trout?

Time in the moutains

Mark and Judah, our oldest grandson took a day to hike, fish, and enjoy the beauty of North Carolina Mountains. Judah fell twice and got stung by a hornet!!, but other than that they both had a very good day.

Visitors to the new house

Our friends the Stewarts from Ohio came by for a fun weekend. This is our new house. We had just moved in. Karen Knopp and Peggy Sopenski had just left a few days before. I guess I'd moaned enough about not having friends that the Lord thought He'd send me a few!! Thanks Lord. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the girls visit. There's nothing like friends who have known you since before your boss was born???

Shiloh painters

Thought you might like to see a picture of some of our guys. Mark sure loves the guys who work for Shiloh. We are in our new office now. I was going to give you some pics of the house, but someone broke into Isaac truck and stole his camera.

All together, a miracle!!

Well none of the pictures have us all smiling or looking in the same direction, but that's pretty typical of us. We tend to smile and move in different directions at different times, but it sure good to stand next to each other anyway.

The other Old Klepac's going home from Andy's wedding

More cousins come to play

Fishing at Family Picnic

Some more cousin love with Faith and Abram.

Fun Family Picnic

Marklar caught one with Becky's approval. Fun day at the Family picnic.

4th of July at the Sullivan's

Here's all of us having a feast for the fourth at Sullivan's. Molly's parents
they were kind enough to host all of us. The two boys you don't know
are John and Bobbi's other two grandsons Patrick and Conner.

Romanian visitors

Marklar is a fine lad.
This is our visit with Joel, Monica, Abram,
and Simeon We actually had all 6 kids,
4 spouse kids, 7 grandkids and one nephew and of course Mark and I. halleluia.
We've been trying to do this for a few years now.

New grandbaby

The lastest news is that Isaac's family has begun the process to
adopt a little girl, she'll be younger than Samuel from Ethiopia.
Molly has been working non stop on paper work. It's incredible how
much there is to do. So we need to move out soon, though they claim
it would be good if we stayed. So remember to pray for our house to sell and
the next home God has for us.

Time for Birthdays!!

Believe or not Samuel is 4 years old now. May is a big birthday month for us, Marklar turned 15, Mark turned I think 39, John Gilliam74?, and Bob Maki, big 60, and of course Samuel.

Klepac Baptisms

Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I've written. I've got a lot of catching up to do. This is Marklar getting baptized. Tom Camacho, associate pastor, and Mark's friend. He's been disciplining Mark in evangelism. They go once a week downtown to share with people. Scott Luper is in the back, he's on the board and a good friend to our family. He and his wife minister to the large hispanic population in our area. That's my baby? Isaac on the right. Mark and I were on the banks. IT was an interesting place to get to, but a place with a lot of great history.

This is Eli, my grandson, Isaac's second son. When Judah and Eli heard about Mark wanting to be baptized they asked a lot of questions and wanted to be baptized also. It's wonderful how family works and allows us to encourage each other. It's so good for Mark to be by his older brother and his nephews and neices.

And then there's Judah. The angels were rejoicing. We had refreshments served afterwards and got to hear some great mission stories and history.