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.

Here's Isaac and Molly on their day trip from their cruise. This is a live creature

They look like they're having a good time. I of course was having more fun with
5 grandkids and Mark and Marky sick.














These are Molly's parents. Bobbi and I go to
the Cove (Billy Graham's place) every Tuesday
morning to do a women's study on Hopelessness.
We usually get lunch too. They have a great chef.
It's been great getting to know Bobbi. She's been a real friend to us.
John and Bobbi have been traveling to Kenya and other
places in Africa sharing the Word and love of the Lord a couple
times a year.

Scarey sight to behold, but what a guy!!!

The many styles of Marklar. Every mother and grandmother's nightmare - hair in the eyes.
He actually took these pictures himself. He recorded Samuel today making up a song to Marklar's
guitar practice. We will see if we can get it on. You will have to see Sam's Bob Marley outfit too.

Can you see how he can relate to the people in Asheville? I can. It's hard to believe he'll be 15 soon.

More family!!

I am still having a hard time believing it, but Mike, Jo and the girls are moving here Feb 28th. Mike has had a medical discharge and they are getting out of the army and will be relocating to Asheville. They found a nice apartment until they can get to know the area and find a home to buy. I have not had so many relatives around in a long time. What a joy to grow up around cousins and for us to have some good time with the grandkids. This is at Christmas time outside of church.

Our 34th anniversary was yesterday. Marky was away on a retreat with his youth group at the Cove. We had a really nice weekend together. This picture is from our business retreat, but couldn't find another with the two of us.
We drove up to Chimney Rock. We didn't actually go up, but the drive was beautiful. We went to the little shops and had some lunch. Every time we came back to the car there was a little present on the seat, some cough drops, vase, candles, choclates, etc. Mark made it a really fun weekend. We got a gift certificate for the Olive Garden and had a great waitress and really enjoyed ourselves. We never get appetizers or wine so it was a real treat. It's hard to believe that all our kids(except Mark) are so old. I still think we're there age. Of course Mark doesn't age much with his 200 miles of riding a week. It's been a hard season, but is obvious to me that the Lord really has been active in all the changes in our lives and has a good plan for us. It will be interesting to see all that God is doing and will do.
I have been taking a Sunday School class at church on Hearing God's Voice that has really been helpful to me. A couple of tidbits: 1. Honor the flow of the Spirit. After this lesson I recieved what I think is a Bible study for the future for mom's. I know God speaks to me, but I don't always stop and pay attention. Either I dismiss it as me or I don't respond to it. (On occasion I do, but......) I began to write furiously. Now I need to do the work and give it time and prayer and God directed study. I'm looking forward to what develops. I use to have a monthly outlet of seeing the spirit move in our prison ministry where God would show up and love on the women there. This was like that, but in a new form.

Talking Deer

Well Monica has beautiful babies laughing and we have deers that talk. This is from our New Years Business Retreat. Isaac shared with us his vision for the future of Shiloh Painting and roles in it and Molly prepared a really nice spread of food and relaxation in a hot tub. It was a really nice get away for us. We even listened to some CD's on the five love languages while in the hot tub. It was good. Isaac and Mark found much to laugh about with our deer friend.

This is in our living room with our beautiful red coach Mark did a little work for with our little reindeer. It's so interesting to see all that God is doing in each of their lives. They are so unique and wonderful. It's amazing to me how God has taken such pains to make such unique people out of us, with such individual plans for our lives.