as the last 3 weeks have been crazy busy and the next 4 will be even more so, just wanted to share some special pictures that capture this last month.
we stopped in Minnesota en route to my Mom's, and enjoyed not only going to church, but also tagging along with FBC Worthington's annual summer outing to the water park.
We have already missed many friends in Minnesota. I'd like to go public with Jessica's promise to come visit us in Africa soon. You can hold her to it!
the world is blessed by generous, hospitable people like our friends and partners Wally and Susan Johnson. Thank you for letting us stay with you, staying up half the night to talk to me, and then taking care of my kids the next morning!!
Some of the fun things to always experience at Grandma and Grandpa Bob's, at the oh-so-beautiful, private, very nearly luxurious ;-) place they call home : Gibi Lake
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| Archery lessons |
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| swimming |
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| boating |
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| Chip (french fry) eating. As I always say, Kenora had food trucks before they were cool. Of course, they only served french fries. but really, that's enough, right? Hannah finally embraced the vinegar. Maybe there's some Canadian in them after all! |
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| Tubing. |
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| time with great grandma "Nana" |
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| breakin' it down on the beach |
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| catching crawfish |
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| birthday parties. hannah had 3 cousins and 2 new friends come join her, and grandpa bob made a fish pond, where all the kids took turns fishing for prizes. |
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| popsicle eating |
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| minnow catching |
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| Blueberry pancakes. blueberry pie. blueberry jam. and pain old blueberries. this was a special birthday breakfast for me, actually, and lara was able to make it up for a few days as well! |
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| puppy play time for my animal lover |
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| silly time with Auntie Lara |
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| relaxing on the beach |
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| or, when its a little chilly, relaxing under towels! |
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| sister time! |
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| kayaking |
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| being so worn out you fall asleep during supper and sleep through a very loud rendition of Dancing Queen, and even louder thunderstorm, and bonfire with smores. |
Thank you, mom and Bob, for a really special visit! The kids really are good travelers. On the way home, Hannah asked how much farther, and I told her 5 hours. "Only 5 hours? That's so short!" Thats my girl ;-)
We will be leaving this house day after tomorrow, and staying with family while we participate in VBS at our church the following week. Then we will head to NC, spend some time with family for a few weeks, make a trip up to Virginia, and then get settled at JAARS just in time to start pre field technical orientation on September 2. We are very excited. Including our Canada trip, we will be sleeping in approximately 14 beds over 6 weeks. I am thankful its summer, it makes the packing/traveling/keeping the kids distracted so much easier! We have a commissioning service tomorrow and lunch at church, then we start vbs on the same day we're supposed to be moving out, so i didn't want to leave the packing till last minute. (because i guess it is already last minute.) So we have the clothes that fit in a suitcase and the toys that fit in a backpack and the car. The kids are pretty good about not getting bored; they went outside and made a garage band, except in the front yard. Drums out of bricks, microphones out of sticks, and a keyboard. They were playing for passers by.
It has also been immensely helpful, as usual, to have some family nearby! They can bring a birthday cake over when I have no chance to do that myself!
There are many many things we love so much about Kansas. We will miss you.
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