Home Again

After almost 3 weeks on the road we are finally "home" in Pennsylvania. It feels good to spread out, do laundry and get back to some much needed studying. (I'm sure my children would NOT agree with me about that third item) You know how us ladies like to have routine in our lives! In less than 5 weeks we will be heading back to Chile and we are very much looking forward to that. In the mean time, we are enjoying the days that we have left here with our church family knowing that we will soon have to say good-bye, again.

I had all kinds of pictures to share with you but once again tragedy strikes our computer world and all of my pictures were downloaded into a computer that has burned up!! So, this will be another pictureless report of our family. You'll have to use your imagination as I relate some of the things that have happened in our family.............
1. On Monday, Joshua turned 3!!
2. Garry has been going to the dentist everytime we are back in the area for some much needed dental work. He's been "crowned"!
3. Three new churches have taken us on for support.
4. I was able to "reconnect" with an old college friend of mine.
5. We were able to spend a day with my aunt and uncle in Atlanta, GA. I had not seen a cousin of mine for 15 years.
6. My grandparents were voted the Valentine's Day King and Queen in their nursing home.
7. My son Andrew has a new blogspot. findtheefaithul.blogspot.com
8. My sister will complete 2 years of marriage on my son Timothy's birthday.
9. My kids FINALLY got to play in the snow. It was so icey when we got home they made an igloo instead of a snow man!!
10. We were able to meet a lot of special people on this last trip out. Many of which have sacrificed financially to help us as we are here in the States.

Our home church is finishing up missions month and my husband will be preaching this Sunday night and next Wednesday. Andrew will be singing a special for the first time here in our home church. On March 3 we will head out to the midwest to visit my family and have a couple more meetings. We are thankful to the Lord for his traveling mercies. We missed all the snowstorms (sometimes within 24 hours) and the van has run great! Thanks to all of you that are praying for us! Until the next posting......................

On The Road

Hello! Sorry that hasn't been anything to read lately. We are out on the road and have been spent more time in the van than out of it. We have been in several new churches and one in St.Marys, GA took us on!! We've done some other fun things and will be seeing some old friends so I should have lots of pictures to share soon!! Don't give up on me yet!! Please pray for us as we have another week of traveling before we get back to our home church. Hasta luego!!

I Made A Mistake

Please help! I accidently deleted a message from Steve Lindsey and if he would be so kind as to send it to me again along with the message that he sent, I would really appreciate it!! So sorry!!

Happy Birthday Hannah!!

We officially have a "TENager in the house! My little girl is growing up!! We are thankful for the daughter the Lord has given us and pray that she will soon be saved and grow up to serve the Lord. In the meantime we look forward to training and teaching her until that time comes. We love you Hannah!

Here is Hannah with a few of her friends and 2 brothers.

Hannah is a soccer girl!!

We had chili and cornbread and carrot sticks for supper.

She's also a "horsey" girl and mom did her best at making a "horsey"cake.

It "Squalled" Today!!

Yep!! You heard me! It "squalled" right here in Emmaus, PA TODAY! I am a Midwest girl and I had never in my life heard of a snow squall or had seen one until today. It was a beautiful, sunny morning and around 10:00 E.T. the temperature dropped, the wind kicked up, the clouds got dark and gray and the sky let loose! For 30 minutes it snowed like blizzard conditions. As quickly as it started, it stopped. The sun came out and an hour or 2 later you would have never known that it had snowed because everything was melted away. I had some great pictures but the computer that has the pictures in it decided to die AFTER the pictures were downloaded. My kids have not seen snow for 4 years. (Joshua has never touched it.) So we made the most of those 30 minutes. It packed just right and made great snowballs!! It can "squall" anytime it wants to!

I've Been Tagged

a: available or single: Available to my husband
b: best friend: my husband Garry
c: cake or pie: all of the above
d: day or night person: definitely day
e: eggs or cereal: eggs and bacon
f: favorite food: umm.... pizza, empanadas
g: gummy bears or gummy worms: gummy bears
h: hometown: Dwight, IL
i: indulgence: chocolate, choclate, choclate
j: January or February: January
k: kids and names: Andrew, Hannah, Timmy, Joshua
l: life is not complete without....: the Lord!!
m: marriage date: July 19, 1988
n: number of siblings: 2 (1 great brother, 1 beautiful sister)
o: oranges or apples: apple pie, apple streudel, caramel apples
p: phobias: the esclator
q: quick to think or quick to speak: a little of both
r: reasons to smile: my husband and my kids
s: season: (depends on what continent I'm living on) fall and winter
t: tag 3 or 4 people: whoever reads this!!!
u: unknown fact about me: computer illiterate
v: veggies I don't like: slimey asparagus
w: worst habit: worrying too much
x: xtra special memory: getting saved!
y: yellow or????: purple and green
z: Zest or Dove: Dove

Now YOU'VE been tagged!!!

Home Again!!

After 3 weeks of visiting family and friends for the holidays, meetings and 5 days straight of driving we are back to our mission house "home" in Pennsylvania. We certainly enjoyed all the good fellowship, food, fun, food and more fellowship and food, etc. (You get the idea here.) A special thanks to my mom for her patience and willingness to have all 6 of us in her apartment for 3 weeks, to my sister Betty for being my "technical support" as I learn the art of blogging, and to all the pastors and pastors wives that we have met along the way that have been an encouragement and blessing to us. In the meantime, my father-in-law is doing great, and the works in Chile are moving forward. We will continue to travel and are asking the Lord for ten new supporting churches before we return the end of March. The Lord has already blessed and gave us one new one for which we are very thankful. No pictures this time because my helper is at winter camp and I haven't learned how to do that just yet! That's the next thing to learn. Thank you for all your prayers. Until the next posting.......