Anniversary Trip

Our parents have been married for 25 years!! We gave them their gift last Christmas. Their gift was...... A trip to the.......

  Philippians!!! ;) That's where they met and lived for their first year together. They hadn't been back for 24 years. Us kids announced to them at Christmas last year and they got to plan it. ;) They prayed, planed, and decided to go in Oct. Jenel also decided to join them on this trip. (She was paying for most the trip anyways and has always wanted to go.) They didn't just want to go for "fun", so while they were there they went to a Bible dedication and joined a team for the last two weeks there. God gave them a Fantastic trip and blessed them. They also got to bless people. It was a wonderful trip.
                                                          At the Airport ready to go.

                                                                      In a hotel.

                             Jenel and Hannah (who went with the team.) went on a zip-line. :)

                                                        Doesn't that look like fun? :)

                                          Jenel and Hannah riding back up to the top. :) 

                                                                   Mom and Dad

                Oh yeah! Farm land! :)                                                    

                                             All three of them at the Bible dedication. :)

Now while they were having fun, we were at home taring up the carpet in our family room. ;) (Which was fun) While they were gone for three weeks Nate (older brother) and I were in charge. Nate was working, which put me in charge of the kids, school, food, and transportation. God taught me a lot in the three weeks.  Hope you have a wonderful day!

Barn Party

Our church youth group hosted a barn party as a outreach this last month. It was a blast!
                                             The stage were we sang and gave testimony's.

                                                                          Food. =)

                                                               Hannah and Susanna. :)

                    The cow pies for the cow pie toss. =) Oh yeah! It was Great! I was in charge of it. :)
                                                    Our youth pastor truly knows me. :)

                                                    Where you had to toss the cow pies. ;)

                         Me.                                (Our friend took these)                        Susanna.

                                                                             Fall!

                                                                  Mare and Abby! =)

                                         You can't have a barn party without line dancing. :)

I had a blast! Well, I'm trying to catch up with myself. :) So much going on at our house right now. ;) Post about our floors, a Big trip, and Birthdays coming soon. :)

Prickly Par Jam

One day Nate came home from work and announced that he was going to go pick prickly pars. There is a lady in our town that has a bunch. Nate picked four gal. and then made jam jelly. It taste really great.
                                                                   Nate the chief. :)

                                                                    Mare his sidekick.

                                         Prickly pars. They don't call them prickly for nothing.

                                                                      Mushing them.

              Draining them into another pot. You just use the juice, which is why it is jelly not jam.

                                                                       The juice.

                                                     I Love the color! Although it is pink.

                                                                      Mare again. ;)

                                                                Nate with his jelly.  

                                         Honestly it is super delicious. =) I enjoy eating it.

Belize Trip

It has been two months, since Marylynn and I set out for our cousins house with Mom and Christina. We traveled all day and then stayed at their house. Mom and Christina stayed one day and then traveled home. Mare and I stayed three days till we left with them for Belize. :) We had to be at the church at 4 am. :) We had two flights and then we stayed the night in TX. The next morning we flew to Belize City. Once we got there we got on a bus and drove to the camp where we were going to stay. We built a cabin, bunkbeds for the cabin and did a VBS.
Here is a general schedule of what we did every day.
Breakfast was between 7-8:30. VBS was at 9 and we would be back at camp at 12. We had lunch and then work on the cabin or bunkbeds. :) At 7 we would have dinner and then a team meeting. Bed time was whenever. ;) WARNING!!!! There are a ton of photos. ;)
                                                  This is all but two of the girls that went.

                                    Mare and cousin Abby. ;) They cooked most of our meals.

                                                           Where we stayed.

                                                       Us at market at 4:30 in the morning!

They have the Best fruit ever! Oh, do you see the Avocado? It's on the far left. The one cut up is One avocado!! They are huge!

                                                              The start of the cabin.

                   Yep that's me up there. :) We had to paint the top by leaning over the side. ;)

                               We decided to paint the cabin the color of our team shirts.

                                                                 It's done!!!!! :)

                                                Mare and I working on the bunkbeds.

                                                           They have Huge bugs there.

                                                     Mare and I at a Mayan rune.

                                            Mare and cousins Liz in a cave.

                                             Me on a boat in the middle of the ocean. :)

                      We got to go to the beach on the last day and we went snorkeling!!!! I Love it!

                                Our team! It was a wonderful trip. God blessed us so much.