Well, I normally try to blog about every 2 or 3 days, but right now I'm only able to blog about once a week. Between traveling, and going thrift storing to find things for our home, keeping the laundry done up, packing, and repacking and unloading and re-loading the van, etc....
I'm meeting myself coming and going. =) Our deputation is going well, Thank you for praying for us.
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~About 2 months ago, when I talked to Melinda about coming to Alabama, we planned to go thrift storing while we were together, for she has some great prices at her thrift stores. So on Saturday after we surprised Bryanna at her party on Friday night, March 22nd, we girls went shopping, while the "boys" (and their Dad's) rode go-carts. How fun!~
~Jesus gave us some good deals at the thrift stores, and Melinda shared some clothes that her girls had worn, so we were able to get our family all "clothed and ready" for Deputation. =) We girls had a lot of fun shopping together.~
~Besides shopping together, we also ate together and had a lot of fun visiting with Donald and Melinda, Aunt Jan, and Donald's parents from AK.~
~Here we are singing in our service, at the Fogelman's church in Jasper. Thank you, Brittany, for taking our picture. =) ~
~Phillip really enjoyed visiting with Donald and Mr Ed. Mr. Ed was a HUGE help to us. Our clothing rod in our van broke, and he welded us a new one!!! What a blessing!~
~ Here is Kimberly Skyping Natalie in Colombia going down the road.~
~Our Sunday evening service was in Pell City. Pell City Camp is the camp where I grew up. I hadn't been back on that camp grounds since I was expecting Kimberly. A lot of nice changes since then. =) Here I am with my dean of Women from GBS, Sis. Brown.~
~The Heather I met and Kimberly played a special for that night's service.~
~Here I am with my good friend Melinda. She was great with child. We left Monday and they had their baby boy on Wednesday. =) Congratulations, Donald and Melinda!!~
~Sunday evening we had a yummy snack at their house.~
~Kimberly and Bryanna~
~All our kids together.~
~Kimberly and Bryanna made cookies together.~
~It was so nice to see my "Aunt" Jan again. (Aunt Jan is a sister to my A. Linda, so we've just always called her "Aunt Jan."~
~Then we headed to have a service in TN, and to see my Grandmother (GG). Here is Kimberly doing GG's hair.~
~Kimberly and GG.~
~Our good friend Mr. Jim Hobbs came to our TN service.~
~My sweet cousin Esther and I.~
~Little Mary wore clear out.~
~Yummy food fixed by Aunt Carole and Grandmother.~
~This man gave Noah and Elijah matching leather cowboy coats.~
~The TN service (a combined service with other churches) gave us a pounding of clothes hangers! We were needing hangers, and now we have H.A.N.G.E.R.S.!!~
~We went with U. Dan and A. Carole to Gracie's restaurant and had some cook food.~
~This was the Saturday before Easter. I put on one of Phillip's work shirts to keep me "clean among the dust" and went down into our basement and was digging in my china and crystal that had been packed away for years.
Sorry, I got mixed up and said last post, that it had been "12 1/2 years" since we packed up our things to go to the mission field.
My tired mind must have added the year 2004 to 8 1/2 years and I accidentally wrote 12 1/2 years. It's only been 8 1/2 years since we packed our dishes and went on Deputation and then to the mission field.
So you can imagine that...I'm having so much fun unpacking my things and PLAYING HOUSE!!~
~While we were home for Easter Sarah and her cousin Darla got to go to a Tea party birthday party together.~
THANK YOU for your prayers!! I'm so TIRED that I'm wondering if my family will miss me if I don't get into the van when we leave for our service in N.C. on Tuesday. Hee! Hee! =D
