Up Close and Personal

Today for family day we got up close to some the fish and birds that are here near the islands.

These pictures were all taken at a museum we visited. The kids enjoyed pushing some buttons that would make some lights light up and show them where the different islands we on a map, some info about the islands, etc. Here are all of the kids inside of the museum beside the map of all the islands and showing the depth of the ocean around the islands. Some are over 3000 meters.

Just some updates

Here is the picture of Tyler on the airplane sleeping that I said I would post. He was so very tired.








Alexis started school on Tuesday, July 22nd. She has been bugging me to start her in kindergarten. I kept telling her after I got back from the states we would start school and she didn't let me forget either. I wasn't even home a day and she was asking when she was starting school. So we have been learning the letter "i" and it's sound. She seems to enjoy it so far, but it has been only a couple of days. Here is a picture of her before starting school.

Tanner was wanting to start school also, I wasn't planning on starting the boys until August 5th, but needless to say Tanner started today. The older boys do not want to start school again so I know I won't have any problems having them wait until August. Please pray for us during this school year.

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.