Thanks Bunches for stopping by!
Well, we have traveled LOTS of miles since I blogged last!
God has been so good to us!!
He kept His hand on us over thousands of miles,
spared us from hitting at least 3 deer who played "Chicken with us" in the middle of the road,
Blessed us with His wonderful Sweet Presence during the 10 camp in Mitchell, SD,
Gave Noah a wonderful 3 day Senior Trip (We packed an awful LOT into those 3 days)
And gave the kids a great youth camp at IHYC.
I surely don't won't to take up your whole afternoon with a long blog post, but I have been promising to post pics from IHC, so here are the fun pics from IHC, Elijah's 15th birthday, Mother's Day, Noah's Graduation, Revival, and being with the Boardmans on the way up to Mitchell, SD for that 10 day camp.
(I will post those Mitchell Camp pics soon, Lord willing.)
So, let's grab a glass of iced coffee or iced tea, and let's begin. :)
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First off, I must tell that June 30th, was these lovebird's 62nd Wedding Anniversary!!! They are madly in love with Each other and Jesus!!! I love them bunches and oodles and Thank the Lord that I get to have them as my parents! Their example of loving Jesus and each other has been foundational in my life!!
(Moma will be 81 years old on July 10th, and No she does NOT dye her hair. :-)
God gave us a wonderful IHC in
Gatlinburg 2023!!
I wrote this little poem on the way to IHC!
Guess What?!
It's Time for IHC!!!
Are you as Excited as Me?
The time where we Worship God Together...
And I greet everyone, and they greet Heather. :-)
How Great to be a part of God's Family!
Praising Jesus, getting ready for Eternity!
Come Holy Spirit, we Need You!
WE WELCOME YOU into Everything we Do!
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IHC was filled with God's Sweet Presence. Sometimes I would be crying so hard and just have to stand to my feet and praise Jesus. God is so Awesome and it was so Amazing to just soak up His Presence!
Of Course, IHC, is also about Christian Fellowship! It was so nice to be with Family and Friends that Love Jesus as well!
~Noah with his friends Austin and Kelton.~
~Ms. Nellie brought us these yummy Heavenly Hash chocolate eggs from Louisiana!~
~Abigail and Mary with their big sister Sarah.~
~Elijah and Levi~
~We missionaries went out together.~
~Van, my big Brother Andrew, and I~
~Shanda and I~
~RaeQuelle and Sarah~
~Rhonda and I~
~Uncle Dan and I~
~Our niece Darla and us.~
~Brother-in-laws: Daryl and Phillip~
~Bro. Joseph Smith, Chris and Constance, and Phillip and I.~
~Mary and her friends.~
~The 3 Heathers~
~Our Adorable Great Niece Eva~
~Kelsey, Abigail, and Macie~
~Friends~
~Cousins~
~Kelly, Sarah, and I~
~Julianna, Ashlea, and I.
My sweet friends...from way back in AZ days when they were still teens, and Kimberly and Sarah were like 3 and newborn.
Oh, the good times we have had together! J & Ashlea use to come stay at our house in AZ and we would HIT THE TRHIFT STORES! Not much has changed! We can still make a mean Thrift store run, and find all the wonderful deals! I still pray about things that I am wanting to find before I go shopping, either for me, or for my Phillip or for our kids, and often Jesus answers my prayer and meets that need/want.~
~The McDowells took us out to eat. We had more fun than probably should be allowed. :-D
We laughed A LOT that night.~
~ADORBS~
~My Friends and I.~
~And some "photo bombers" :-D
~Uncle Carson and Aunt Linda~
~Uncle Dan and Uncle Carson~
~Cousin Taylor and Abigail~
~Sweet Ms. Nellie and Abigail~
~After Church on Wednesday night, I invited Clarissa Lyon and her family, Julianna and hers, Ashlea and hers, Sis. Bryant, Sis. Arnold, David Spivey and his family, and other people along the way to eat a snack at our hotel room.
I spread all the snacks all on the bed, and called it our "Bed Spread." :-)
We had so much fun eating together and laughing together! ~
~Cousin Bryan and Abigail. Abigail Loves him to pieces!~
~Our fellow missionary and good friend Susan Carter spoke. The Lord helped her. ~
~Kid's Choir~
~It was so fun to be with my sister Laura, and my niece Natasha, and her adorable Eva!!~
~Our Pastor and Grammy~
~Spiveys and us hung out on Friday.~
~I was so Glad that Jesus helped Dad Sankey be able to read all the way through the Roll call of the States and some countries at IHC!!! He has some physical ailments and it was a MIRACLE that he was able to stand up there and talk for that long!!~
~Our Kids in an IHC video~
~After IHC, It was great to have the McDowells spend the night with us on their way to a service.~
~We love this couple and their kiddos to pieces.~
~After IHC we went and spent some fun days with Josh and Sarah!~
~So fun to go and hear Shanda Speak at the Women of Worth in Indianapolis.
Bethany and all of us.
~Farmer Phillip got some sheep.~
~MY FUN MOTHER'S DAY!~
Kimberly and Sarah made a yummy meal and had us all over to celebrate Mother's Day!!
So sweet and YUMMY!!!~
~My nice gifts from Church~
~For Mother's Day we got to worship and be with My Dear Moma, Daddy, Scott, Brittany, and Adorable Natalie, and our Dear friends Rodney and Penny Alexander and their boys.
God came in our church service and afterwards Penny made such a delicious meal, and we so enjoyed being together.
~Adorable Little Natalie and Abigail.~
~It was so fun to be with Daddy and Moma and Brittany and her family!~
~Elijah turned 15 on Mother's Day. Sweet Penny made him a delicious chocolate Cake!!~~The boys had a guitar recital.~
On Mother's Day evening we went over to be with Dad and Mom Dickinson.
On Monday we celebrated Elijah's birthday.
~Elijah, and his cousin Ava and his sister Abigail. We cannot believe that Elijah is 15! We love him to pieces!!!~~Noah graduated with Christian Home Educators of Ohio on Saturday, May 27th, in Mt. Vernon, OHIO.~
~Abigail surprised Noah and got this little "Congrats Grad" shirt for her bear to wear.~
~Here come Noah~
~Phillip and I got to hand him his diploma!!~
~There were 44 Graduates~~It was so nice to meet another Holiness Homeschool young man at the graduation. I cannot remember his first name, but his last name is Knight.~
~Kimberly and Sarah reenacting the pic below that they took when Noah was just 10 months or so.~
~He looks thrilled~
~Kimberly and Sarah graduated from CHEO as well. After their graduations we took them to this same Mexican Restaurant. #traditions
~We were so sad that my parents could not join us for Noah's graduation.
My Daddy had a bad cold.
We also missed Mom D. who was not feeling up to coming.
We were glad that Grandpa D. could come.~
~WEEKEND REVIVAL~
~The Weekend of Noah's Graduation, we sang for a revival at the Afton Wesleyan Church. Bro. Daniel Stetler was the Evangelist.
The Lord really met with us and gave us a good Revival. Sunday Morning's Service went until 1:30 with several seeking God at the Altar!!! Thank you, Jesus, for meeting with us!!
It was so nice to be with our Dear friends the Jim Benders and the Fairchilds.
Sadly, I didn't get any pictures with the Benders.~
On the way up to Mitchell, we stayed with our dear friends Steve and Luann Boardman.
We had a wonderful day and a half with them!!!
~It is always Wonderful to Coffee at Luann's house! And she is a fabulous cook as well!~
~We were so happy to see that Bethany was home!!~
~So fun seeing Sito and Matt as well!~
~Luann loaned me her socks that say, "If you can read this, bring me coffee." :-)
~Sweet Sito~
~Dear Matt reading to the girls~
~On Wednesday night we worshipped with Joshua and Shanda Davis and their dear Church.~
Like I mentioned above, God gave us a Wonderful 10 day camp in Mitchell, SD! God's presence was so close in our early morning prayer meetings, and in the morning and night services. Lots of seekers at the Altar, lots of Victories Won for Jesus!!!
He gave us such sweet times of fellowship with our Dear friends, and allowed us to meet new friends as well. Our kids really enjoyed being with the young people there in Mitchell. I will try to post pics from that Camp and Noah's Senior Trip soon.
~Heather~
