Pastor Paul continued!

Fundraisers

I know that it is 8 months away before my next mission trip to Haiti but I really need to start thinking about it and raising money.

Does anyone have any good fundraising ideas??!! I would love to hear from those out there that may have done this or really anyone. I will have to send out some letters but I really do not want to send one to someone that has already very graciously donated to me. I would love to do my own Avon fundraiser but not sure how that would work out.

These are the last of the pictures. I know you are are reading this backwards but it was easier for me!!! LOL

The kids slept most of the way home. They were so good on the way home.

Diane and Tori!!!

We feel so blessed that we were able to go on this trip to visit
the Livesays and meet some new friends. I am so sad that I did not get pictures of a wonderful
woman named Karla that we met. She is from Illinois and it was fun hanging out with her too. She has
two beautiful daughters from Haiti and we were blessed to get to meet her!!! Thank you to the Livesays
for letting us crash their party!!!! Diane and Tori we had a ton of fun with you guys and are so glad you
could go with us!!!!

Troy holding his "scabies Cake"

Nate and Lydia

Brenda and Lydia

Okay Troy hung himself with this picture. We actually left our Camera at
the church and Troy kindly brought it back for us. However as a lot of people know
I love trying to get goofy pictures of Troy. Well he took this himself thinking he would
be funny. However it kind of backfired on him because he then realized that I would indeed
post this picture!!! Here ya go Troy!!!

Britt and Britt's Grandma! This is Tara's mom!
Britt came back to our hotel and opened up her cards and gifts with us! It was a fun time!!

Britt!

Paige!!

Tara's dad

Is she cute or what!!!!!!!!!!

These were taken during Britt's graduation Ceremony. There were lots of tears shed.
Britt is an amazing young woman and you can see God has His hand on her!!!!
We have come to love her very much and cannot see where God takes her in the next 10 years!!!
this is Britt's uncle doing the "commencement"

Minnesota trip con.....

I know you will all be reading this backwards but its too hard to figure out what can first last and so forth so I am just going to start here.

We thought that this picture was comical. The church used to be called "Joy Free" it is now new joy! Look at what the sign says!! LOL

Here is a picture of the church that the Livesays attend. It is very nice and cozy!

We were helping set up tables. These two pictures are kind of neat. I was setting up desserts on the centerpiece and the sun was shining right on it.

Minnesota

We saw some beautiful rock formations in Wisconsin! I didn't realize that it was such a pretty state.
We crossed the bridge below coming into Minnesota. I had also taken a picture of the sign as we passed it but of course my camera chose that moment to shut down.

We are having a great time so far. Diane and Tori went to visit Ikea and we took the kids and spent the day in the pool and at Cabela's which is right down the street. I did get pictures of that but I will have to upload them later.

We talked to Troy and Phoebe and Hope are sick. Pray that they are well for tomorrow. We are very excited. Troy and Tara are coming to get us around 8:30 in the morning and then we get to go help set up for Britt's graduation!! Cool!!!

We finally left at around 4:30pm yesterday. We had a very smooth drive and we made it to the Wisconsin Dells around 11:30pm!
We stopped at this Super 8 motel. It was very nice and VERY cheap!!

The kid's sleeping arrangments the first night!!

The kids actually did very well in the car on the long drive!
The crazy thing is that for some reason we realized that there was
was someone that kept following us everywhere we went! :) We couldn't
seem to shake them at all. You can see the car in this picture! The strange thing
is that they are right next door to us in the hotel room too???

We our 1st ever Trunk or treat last night at our church!!
It was such a fun night and I was happy that so many people cam out for this!!
this first picture is of Caleb and you can see Heather in the back ground. I regret to tell you all that somehow the rest of my children pretty much escaped being in pictures!! However enjoy some of the pictures I got from the night!!!

Heather and Katie are doing puppet team this year
they had so much fun!! Katie is the puppet in the yellow scarf
Heather helped with the haunted house in the background! The
message was "fear not"!! It was very cute!!

This is my friend Melissa from Church!!

More trunk or treating pictures!!