Home again

We are home once again. Tyler and I arrived safely back to the islands on Tuesday and have hit the road running so to speak. I have been busy with the every day things of life plus some. Tyler had a good time at youth camp. He enjoyed listening to the speaker and watching the skits, etc. He was also able to spend some time with family and friends.

I enjoyed Walmart and many other stores I was able to go to. I wish I would have thought about it while there, then i would have taken a picture of Walmart. Oh well, guess you all know what that store looks like.

We were also able to eat out. Tyler wanted McDonald's and I wanted Japanese. We were able to eat at both places. yum!! I even tried to bring some McDonalds' and Arby's home for Tim and the kids, but someone stole my small cooler with those items in it. So Tim and the kids were a little disappointed, they were looking forward to eating those.

I'm glad to be back home with my family. It was so nice to see them again. I have missed the ocean. Today we went across the road and did some fishing for awhile. A big shark (Tim thinks) broke his line, a very big line with leaders on it. Snapped in right in to, wish he could have caught that. Shark is so good!!!

I don't have any pictures of youth camp. Tyler did not take the digital camera, only a regular 35 millimeter one. I do have a picture of Tyler sleeping on the airplane. I will try to post that later on, he was very tired from many late nights.

Thank you to all for your prayers, God helped us during that time.

Headed to the states

Tyler and I are scheduled to fly to North Carolina tomorrow afternoon. While there he will be attending youth camp. Please pray for us as we travel, etc. So I will probably not be back on here until we get back in a couple of weeks.

Island Food

Today we made our first real island food. Tim brought some conch back from Grand Turk yesterday. So tonight we fried up some conch fritters. Very good!! (in case you don't know what a conch is, look at an earlier blog about conch). Just a word of caution - do not eat to many at once. It will make your stomach hurt, but they are so good!! It is like when you are frying up some zucchini and keep eating it and by the time you sit down at the table to eat you are no longer hungry, this is the same with conch fritters. We just keep eating them as soon as they are done cooking. We are hoping to get some more conch soon. Come and see us, maybe we will fry up some conch for you.

Play doh

The kids are enjoying the play doh. The TLC team stopped by here on their way to Grand Turk. They will be working on the church over there and then coming back to Provo for a few days at the end of the month. The team brought us a suitcase full of items. Among it was some play doh. The kids love play doh. Here Alexis made an elephant (look hard - the orange that sticks out at the top is the nose, there are also two eyes and a mouth at the bottom). Trevor made a frog. I think it turned out very nice. Thanks so much to the team members for bringing us the nice gifts. It felt like Christmas opening up the items.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!

We have been away from the states for awhile, so SURPRISE!! We have another addition to our family. We brought our little bundle of joy home yesterday. We are having a lot of fun watching her. She sleeps most of the time, but when awake the kids really enjoy having her around.


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So would you like to meet her?



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Her name is Cheetah. We are in the process of potty training her already. She is doing well at it, thankfully. Here she is.

It's been awhile

Well, It's been awhile since I've blogged. We have been pretty busy. During the summer time I seem to be even busier than during school. I'm not sure why, but I think I get more accomplished during school. So I keeping teasing the kids about starting school up again. Tim had a serious eye infection, the van has still been run down. Thank the Lord Tim's eye seems to be doing better. The bright sun still bothers his eyes at times though.

Tim has been working on the van. It has been broke down for awhile. We had to wait on a part to come in from the states. That took about 2 weeks. He got the part put on and the van still wouldn't run. So he had to dig around for awhile and found out that the crank shaft is broke and the timing was off. So right now he has the van put back together and it is running, not running real well, but at least we can make it to town and get things we need. Hopefully the van will last for a while longer.

Here is a picture of Tanner. He climbs up the frame in the doorway to the kitchen and then crosses his hands, and supports himself with his legs. He thinks he is something to be able to do this.

God's Artwork

Here are some awesome pictures of God's artwork. These were taken tonight if front of our house. It was beautiful to see these clouds, lighting, water, feel the breeze, etc. We serve a wonderful Savior.











This is James Dean. He was fishing. Took a picture of him with the boat he built in the background.