A great Day

Last week was kind of a strange week for our family. Caleb went to Youth Camp and hence my babysitter was gone so...we had Daniel go spend the week with Chris's mom in Lebanon, OH. A ten year old in a retirement community for a week! Wrap your head around that! I lectured him for days about moving slowly around wheelchairs and walkers and speaking up when talking to the people. They all just love him because whether they can hear him or not, he loves to talk to anyone of them.


Well, all that said, it means Chris and I had the house to ourselves. I worked most of the time, but on Friday I didn't have to work. Chris's airplane was in S. Carolina getting some work done on it and he needed to rent a car and drive down there and fly it back.



Friday morning we left at 6:30am and headed down interstate 77. I have never driven on that interstate that I know of. It was beautiful. For 10 hours it was beautiful.

Road weary, ready for air travel

Everything is running smoothly.

The Heavens declare the Glory of God.

This was the view most of the way home. Causes my heart to lift in praise!

The trip home took one and a half hours. It was smooth! We were able to get home, make connections with Caleb's ride home from Youth Camp and sleep in our own bed that night! I just love living in this century!

Merry Christmas

I knew you were going to ask what I am doing for the 4th of July Holiday. Well, I am making Chirstmas stocking for our "Christmas in July" drive for our Missionaries. I have always wanted to try this. Well now I have my chance. I spent this morning making stockings for each person. I was only able to get 12 done with the kit that I had. My friend Elaine has the other kit. I am thankful to have her help!

So, with the warm winds blowing in through the window, and the sounds of lawn mowers and children playing outside, I am gluing and pasting fun-foam stockings together.

Day Off

Today was a day off work for me. I worked quite hard here at home and then off to the pool with the boys for an hour. That was so fun. My kids swim well, so I just turned on the iPod and lay back to sleep in the sun for a few. It was great.

One thing of note...Our house was shown today to a return couple. They saw it Monday and wanted to come back today. Please, Pleae pray that they just feel as though they can not live without that house. We really need them to take it off our hands.

Later..Blessings to you my friends.

Kidz Adventure 2008

Bible Bowl Questions

Boys Craft time. (They made airplanes)

Chiann

Rachel

Heidi

Daniel

Wow, have we ever had fun this week. I took Daniel and 3 other girls Chiann, Rachel and Heidi, from our church to Kidz Adventure 2008. It was a kids camp held on our own Beulah Grove Camp Grounds. There were 55 kids there and we had great fun! This camp is put on by Appalachia Youth Ministries. This ministry is headed by Bro. Mac (McCrary) and his son Bro. Ray McCrary. They do a wonderful job. It was a camp for kids 7 - 11 years old. What brave souls to take on kids of that age!

I was asked to be one of the camp medical personnel so I was there in that capacity. Another girl from our church, Yvonne Miller, a mom of one of the other kids that went, was there with us also. We also enjoyed being with some of our friends from Franklin.

Fallen But Not Forgotten

Some of you may know that our church gave one of our own to pay the price for our freedom. Spc. Kyle P. Norris was killed in action in Iraq on May 23, 2008. He and his family have attended our church for many years.

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS01

Our church, along with the Norris Family has been through a long 2 weeks from the time the news came until we were able to have closure! This was quite an experience for our family. The US Army did a great job of honoring Kyle.

I took some pictures. I wish I knew how to put up an album like some of you do, but I don't at this time.

The Flag drapped coffin

One very hot boy. This was our first day of really feeling like summer!

Salutes from every discipline! The Bikers for Jesus, Sheriff, Zanesville Police, Army, Navy...

The Bike Parade

Our tax dollars at work! The Sheriff had to jump the Army van because they could not get it going, while we all waited in the scorching hot sun! They never did get the van to go and had to move it out of the line so the procession could go.

Some of us just love the uniform! Go Army!

There were other good looking men there too!! My own of course! Caleb helped with parking detail.

Other Noteworthy Items

I just wanted to show off my new favorite toy. I've had it for about a month. I just love it. It's my phone, PDA, and internet. Thank you Verizion! I started out with a Blackberry Pearl. That is a cute little phone, but there were some of the features that I didn't like and so I returned it for this Palm Treo. I love technology!!

Finally!

I finally made connections and got my camera back from Middletown! That took some doing. Like the planets had to line up just right and the weather and all....but whew! It's here.

The new thing in our house is Caleb's Xbox 360. About a month ago he ordered one off from Ebay. We waited patiently for it to arrive. When the UPS truck showed up, he delivered an empty box. Tampered with and only bubble wrap inside. Chris and I were both at work and Caleb and Daniel were home alone. The disappointment was real and deep.

We are in the process of a dispute with all kinds of people, seller and UPS and all. We decided to let Caleb take money out of his saving account and go ahead and purchase an Xbox from Best Buy while we go through the dispute process. So now we have a very happy boy who is doing his best to get his school work done each day so he can spend time on his Xbox 360.