Israel 9-09

These are just a few of the pictures Rod took while in Israel. He took a total of 2800 pictures!

The Dead Sea

The Upper Room where the Last Supper was shared.



The Pinnacle where Satan brought Christ to tempt him into honoring him by showing him the world.



A 2000 year old olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane that still bears olives.


The Garden of Gethsemane where Christ and his disciples often went to rest and pray.

Standing in a church that resembled a teardrop (Christ cried over Jerusalem), Rod took this picture of the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount. These are some of the homes in Jerusalem behind the dome.

These are the Eastern Gates (Golden Gates) where Christ will reenter Jerusalem upon His return. In front of the gates is the largest graveyard in the world dating back to the 1st century B.C.

Temple Mount

This is the Valley of Elah where David fought Goliath. Rod and I walked in the dry river bed where David found the smooth round stones for his slingshot that he killed Goliath with. We gathered stones for the g-kids.

This is the rock on which JC prepared dinner [fish] for the apostles.

Bell Caves - where limestone was quaried and where Christians hid from the Palestinians. We sang songs that echo'd in here and that sounded like angels singing....made me cry.

Abrahams well in Beersheba.

Wailing Wall-notice the prayers in the cracks in the wall. People would push thier prayer notes into the cracks in the wall.

Wailing wall on the male's side. Every 6 months a special person sweeps the wall clean placing all the prayer notes in a special bag that gets buried on the Mount of Olives. This was an unusally quiet time at the wall!

Rod coming out of King Hezikiah's flooded tunnel in the Kidron Valley.

Rod getting baptized in the Jordan River.

Here I am getting baptized too in the town of Yardent in the Jordan River.

In En Gedi, near these falls was the cave where David hid from King Saul. Saul came into the cave to "relieve himself" and David cut the corner of his robe off instead of killing him.

The town of Korazim (the city of Woe). The corner stone (the peak) Jesus spoke about in regards to holding everything together.

This is at the Chruch of the Holy Seplurcer where Jesus' body was taken down from the cross, cleaned and annointed with oil.

The Dead Sea at dusk.

Dead Sea Scrolls found in this cave over the town of Jericho (Qumran) that validates what is written in scripture.

I'm standing on Mount Precipice just outside of Nazareth.

This is where God told Gideon that He only wanted 300 men to fight against thousands. God told Gideon to take his men down to the pond to get a drink, those who lapped up the water like a dog where sent home and those who used their hands like a cup where choosen.

Jerusalem Cross-the large cross represents the center of Israel, the 5 crosses resemble the number of wounds that Jesus had and how christianity was spread around the world.

Golgatha-the site of Jesus's crufication.

Noni & Papa Short visit Omaha 8-09

Noni & Papa watching the golf tourament. The 6th hole is right in back of our home. You can see the green in the background. They would clap, cheer the players on and the golfers would wave back and laugh. They sat out there for 3 hours...no kidding!

Ohhhh cocktail hour! : } Every afternoon at about 4:30pm, we'd gather on our front patio, sit and talk about our day [with wine and snacks of course].

Noni held a class in making Biscotti's one rainy Saturday afternoon. Marjean and I loved it. We made vanilla/pistacchio and maple/pecan biscotti's. Ummmmm!!

Papa working for his ride : } He's helping Rod attach the pull to help get the plane out of the hangar. We went for a sunset flight....beautiful!

My 2 very special guys! : }

Noni's first ride EVER in a sports car. She's so tiny! Reminds me of Noni Ciaccio.

Our friend, Kevin Herrmann, was visiting and brought out his hidden talent of bar tending. Fun!

Noni, early in the morning, rewriting her phone book. Alwasy something to do. NEVER bored!

Papa earning his keep! He had the job of walking over to get the mail everyday and I'd hear, "But I on acation!" hahaha

Noni and Papa walking around the Old Market remeberingwhen we lived down there. They loved it!

Retirement Home in Loveland, CO

This is our new retirement home in Loveland, CO that we will go to in 4 years. It's a patio home and all the outside will be maintained for us.

We love the landscape with all the boulders and flowers. Look at the colors!

This is the view off the deck outside the great room off the kitchen. It's Horseshoe Lake and it's full to capacity. That's common ground out to the fence that separates the green grass from the brown grass.

This is the view of Longs Peak in the front of the house. It had just stopped raining at the time of this picture.

Here's the kitchen with an island we can eat at. The Breakfast nook is through the doorway on the right. The back splash is all brick.

This is the view standing in the foyer looking into the great room on the right and dining room on the left. The stair railing leads to the finished walkout basement.

This is what we see when we come down the stairs and stand in the family room. The hall leads to 2 bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. The room on the left is for exercising or it could be a game room or maybe even a theater room if we closed off the hall doorway : }

This is the downstairs family room that leads out onto a patio that's under the deck. To the left of this room is dad's office.

Well that's it! Just to give you all an idea of where we will be moving in 4 years. Back to our beloved CO in an area that we are very familiar with. A very comforting feeling. AND there is plenty of room for visitors!!!! Love you all <3>

Noni, GG&Papa Short's Texas trip - 7/09

Aliana is ready for the sunshine. It's amazing how she fusses when outside until her mom puts the glasses on her. She keeps them on!

Noni being attacked by the boys while playing with Ali on the floor. I LOVE it, as if you couldn't tell!! : }

Ahhh... papa reading to Alex and Tony before nap time. They were really listening to him tell the story.

Out to dinner at Salt Lick BBQ Restaurant.

Daddy with his daughter. Mark is doing very well and is without any MS symptoms. Thank you, Lord!

Amy playing with Ali on the floor. She is so responsive. Smiles, LOTS of cooing, kicking and waving her arms. She is also reaching out to grab toys and hair and jewlery : }

Papa repairing the ottoman. Of course, the boys ran to get their tools to help.

Papa playing with Ali. She warmed up to GG and Papa very quickly as did the boys.

Alex and Tony showing Papa their new swing set and slide. Papa didn't stay outside very long. The average daily temp here is around 102 - 104...WHEW!!!

Goofing around in the kitchen while GG shows Amy how she cooks a quick zugu [sp] and pasta

Papa and Amy pushing the boys on the swings. Their backyard really looks like a park. Beautiful!

GG getting to know Ali, who is now 4 1/2 months old. It sure didn't take too long : }

GG telling Ali good night before her nap.

Oh this is what I wanted.....a 4 Generation picture. Awesome!!

Ali was unable to fall asleep. So I volunteered to rock her and out she went. LOVED IT!!