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Thursday, 21 May 2009

for those of you who have waited patiently....

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Obituary

FAIRFIELD - Neil Darin Birky, 26, of Fairfield, a business owner, died Saturday of injuries received in a road grader accident between Fairfield and Vaughn.
Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. today at Fairfield Community Hall. His funeral is 10 a.m. Wednesday at New Life Assembly of God Church in Choteau, with burial in the Fairfield Mennonite Church Cemetery under the direction of Gorder Funeral Home of Choteau.
Neil was born Nov. 25, 1982 in Lebanon, Ore., the son of Kenneth Dale and Lois Esther (Smucker) Birky. He was married to Starla Rodes on April 14, 2007, in Goshen, Ind.
Neil owned and operated Pro Auto and Exhaust in Vaughn.
He is survived by his wife, Starla (Rodes) Birky of Fairfield; a daughter, Jessi Birky of Fairfield; his parents, Kenneth and Lois Birky of Halsey, Ore.; a sister: Lisa Birky of Halsey; brothers, Kevin Birky of Elida, Ohio, Keith Birky of Brownsville, Ore., and Eric Birky of Halsey; his maternal grandmother Anna Smucker of Halsey; and paternal grandmother Priscilla Birky of Halsey.
Memorials are suggested to the Neil Birky Memorial Fund, 1st National Bank, Fairfield, MT.
Condolences may be posted online at www.mem.com and/or www.gftribune.com/obituaries.

-published in the Great Falls Tribune

Monday, 27 April 2009

Please Pray for my family, especially me dear sister Starla, her lil girl Jessi and her unborn baby... Starla's husband was killed in an accident Saturday evenin. He had been back at the property they just bought grading the lane to get it ready for gravel and on his way back goin up a steep incline somethin happened that no is definitely sure of, either the grader ran out of gas or he couldn't get it in gear, no one knows for sure but in rolled back down the incline flippin 3/4 a full flip pinnin him. Starla feels he was killed instantly and did not have to struggle which we are all thankful for. We all will miss him greatly but we know he was ready to die and will be in heaven to meet us someday. There's alot of great big unknowns right so please pray for her as she makes these great big adjustments and that we can all be a good support to her. Me and Glen left yesterday morning with Brad's and their family and drove straight thru arriving about 9:00 this morning. The funeral plans are in the process of being finalized but the funeral is being planned for Wed. morning.
I don't have a current family picture of them but here is one from Christmas of 2007

here is a small article about the accident - http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009904260309

Monday, 17 November 2008

"God always knows just what we need, He can turn everything around unexpectedly. When we give it our all and think its over and done, He makes a way when there just wasn't one."
"Life is Great and Gettin' Better..."
- Jeff and Sheri Easter

... longer post coming later...

Saturday, 27 September 2008

just a thought:
"why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"

Tuesday, 02 September 2008

another aventure in tam's life

A Trip Down The Wabash River
here's a few pictures to tell ya a lil about our trip...
saturday morning 6 of us and all our gear pulled out of our drive with our train...
... heading for the wabash river in lafayette...
... by 11:30 ol' yeller was in the water and ready to sail...
... the first view of the river....
... since the water level was low the first part of the trip we hit bottom quite often which ment at least a few of us had to bail off and pull us the pontoon through the shallow stuff...
... slave leon and slave master glen...
... our depth finder russ...
...sara enjoying lunch on the river...
... one of the many bridges we went under...
... about 6:30 we found a beach area along the river and set up camp for the evenin...
... theres nothin quite compared to sleeping under the stars...
... ol' yeller and jr settled in for the night...
... this picture hardly even comes close to graspin the beautiful sunrise sunday mornin...
... after breakfast we loaded back up and were heading down the river by bout 8:30...
.. sara doin what she does best...
... russ playing around on the jet ski...
... its good to have a mechanic along that can keep their balance to float and work at the same time..
... the cooling line (i think i know what i'm talkin about here) got plugged with sand from running the jet ski in water that was a lil too shallow... fortunately they were able to fix the problem...
... and some more beautiful scenery (minus the fishing pole :) along the way...
... very flexible marnell...
... i've heard stories of fish jumping into ppl's boats but never really believed em til this trip... it wasn't too far into the trip when we first started seeing em jump out of the water but the further we got the more "darin" they got... until on decided sara looked a lil bored...
... and he came sailing over the edge and we're not sure how this all happened but sara was standin on top of the storage box and this huge carp was in her chair!! ... i'll just say every time a fish jumped, srar jumped also!!
... it was a lil later sunday even til we stopped because we needed to reach a certain point so we could meet up with norrell...
... cleanin up the campsite before hittin the river again by 9...
... another mode of find the depth to know which side of the island to go on...
... one of the few captains...
...we reach terre haute about 3 monday afternoon...
... loadin up ol' yeller...
... the train all put back together and ready to head back home...
... our last view of the river :(
... and the first view of our next trip : )
... once we finally got everythin loaded up the stinky (i'm sure we had to stink) river rats headed for home... after an interesting trip we made it home bout 9 and got everythin unpacked and took a long hot shower that felt wonderful... i headed to bed to oversleep the this mornin :(
... anyways... it was an adventure that was well worth while even though we really didn't have much of a clue about what we were doin and i'd go back and do it again if i had the chance.
... a few tidbits from the trip:
    - if you have too many 13 mil. wrenches, just through a few in the river
    - you crack your knuckles cause theres air in em
    - blowing your nose can have more than one meaning
    - it's kinda fun bein rednecks
    - swappin ppl from the boat to the jet ski can be done while both are still movin
    - if your phone doesn't work, dump salt in it... it just might revive it
... more may be added later but i'm too tired to think right now, so i hope you've got a glimpse (barely a glimpse) of the fun we had... well i've got to get my laundry out of the dryer and i'm heading to bed!!!

Tuesday, 08 July 2008

In Loving Memory of
"Grandpa"
Marcus W. Ramer
August 25,1932 - July 3, 2008
The man that I called Grandpa Ramer, lived just a mile up the road from me all my life and many of my growing up days were spent at Grandpa's house. Grandpa was mechanic and worked from his shop at home so I have many memories of spending time watching him work, playing in his shop while he was working, asking many questions about how things work (which didn't make much sense to this lil girl at the time), going with him to pick up parts, and many, many more memories. He never said much but he always took time for me and anyone else. Grandma & Grandpa had a huge heart for other people and most of my growing up years I remember them sharing their home and love with at least one foster child. 15 years ago he was diagnosed with parkinsons disease and he slowly he became a "different" Grandpa that I loved. One of the best "later in life" memories I have with gGrandpa was that we both liked the new VW Bugs and would always ask me when I was gonna buy one. I knew a someone who had one and one Saturday afternoon I was able to borrow it and take Grandpa for a ride. He was so tickled! My only regret is that I didn't do it sooner when he woulda been able to take it for a drive. It was hard to watch him slowly go downhill especially when I would come home from South Carolina to visit. It was hard to see the Grandpa that used to be very active sit in his chair very figity and restless from the toll the disease was taking on his body. My mom and here sisters dedicated a day every week from their schedule to spend the day helping Grandma care for Grandpa and towards the end every other night mom would drive that "extra mile" to help put him to bed because Grandma could no longer do it herself. June 22nd Grandpa suffered a stroke which took his eye sight, swallowing, voice and left arm movement. The next 10 days he lay calm and relaxed in his bed and most of those days you could still get a big smile from him. It was sad to watch him slowly slip away but you knew that he was going to a much better place and will have a new body thats not disease stricken. July 3rd he peacefully slipped away to his Heavenly home. Theres a hole in the family and in my heart that will never be filled again until we get to Heaven.

39 Roses from the 39 Grandchildren

Thursday, 12 June 2008

What Your Flip Flops Say About You

You are super laid back and peaceful. Not much disturbs you.
You're content with what you have in life, and you can't stand feeling worked up.

A lot of good things tend to come your way in life...
You're not too busy or stressed to let an opportunity pass you by.

Your ideal warm weather place: Hawaii

The Flip Flop Test

You Are A Blue Girl

Relationships and feelings are the most important things to you.
You are empathetic and accepting - and good at avoiding conflict.
If someone close to you is in pain, it makes you hurt as well.
You try to heal the ones you love with your kind and open heart.

What Color Girl Are You?

Friday, 06 June 2008

ol tami is an aunt again....

Jessi Renee
was born June 6th to
Starla & Neil
all the way out in Montana!

Monday, 05 May 2008

and time for more adventures with tam...
the second weekend in april i took my julie martin and her two children with me to south carolina. it was the perfect time to go because all the dogwoods and many other flowers were in full bloom. it fun seeing all the pretty flowers but spending time with friends was even better!

angie and iona - it was great hanging out with you gals again : ) when i need a good laugh i got a few good video clips to watch ; ) lunch at the sandwhich shop then hanging out at the thrift store with you gals was great!
waneta came and joined us friday evening in time to enjoy chinese by the waterfall at chau ram and some good girl chat at townhouse. thanks again for sharing "your story" with us ang. saturday morning iona made us yummy breakfast before we headed to the botanical gardens on the clemson campus. it was so pretty!

on the way back from the garden we got ice cream at the sandwich shop in seneca and took some to the girls working at the seneca store. we has enough time to watch the best parts of runaway bride before waneta had to head back to north carolina.   saturday eveing me, iona, & angie went to jen's house for a yummy (minus the steamed brocoli) supper. brenten wasn't home so we had some good girl time and LOTS of laughs. i could post some pictures but i treasure my friendship with these gals : ) sunday after an awesome lunch at richard & becky's we went back to the gardens to take some more pictures before i had to head back north. it was a short but very good weekend! can't wait to hang out with you gals again!
... back to indiana.... then next weekend there was a volleyball tournament that people from my youth group were part of 2 seperate teams. i didn't play but i was there to cheer them on and capture some of the excitement. i had alot of pictures so i narrowed it down to just a few to post.

... the teams didn't make it too far but i think they had fun playing anyways.
not too much other exciting things have been happening but with all the spring flowers coming around... well... this girl has too much fun with her camera

its kinda fun taking pictures of grass and dandilions (and messing around with then in photoshop is fun too) - don't want to know what everyone thought that went by while i was laying out in the yard with my camera : )
yesterday afternoon i walked the millrace in goshen and got abunch more pictures of the beautiful spring flowers

last night on the way home i finally got to do something i've wanted to do for awhile...

... take pictures of the courthouse in goshen after dark!   when i get in my picture moods i think my sisters disown me but sara so graciously stopped to let me do it. (think she felt guilty cause she didn't stop to let me take a picture of a barn with the beautiful sunset)
... and now today... i was at tonya's for awhile playin with rylan & bethany outside

lil rylan is enjoying his popsicle while ornery sister bethany is...

... playing with the worms they dug for bait to go fishing!!   she's quite the girl!!
anyways... i'll be hanging around northern indiana til may 16th when i head to daviess county to hang out with kim & lynita!! can't wait!!!   until next time... keep dreaming big dreams!!