On my own

Today i am on my own. This morning we took Tim to the airport. He is in Grand Turk. He has to take care of some paperwork for the mission. I'm not sure how long he will be gone. He may be back tomorrow or the next day or the next. Just not sure how long it will take. So today it has been just me and the kids. We did school and tried to do up a couple of loads of laundry, but it has been raining off and on all day. My towels are still not dry out on the line. They will stay there over night and hopefully get dry tomorrow.

Tanner and Alexis like to play in the sand. here they are in front of the house building up a pile of sand.


Here is the view from my front porch. I get to see this every morning when I wake up. Isn't it beautiful , even with the stormy weather? This land across the road use to be full of trees and shrubbery. The church had this cleared off to make a parking lot. it helps a lot of the wind come off of the ocean and into our house now.

Another prayer request

One of my best friends just told me that her father-in-law has pancreatic cancer. please pray for him. He is not saved and that is the main concern right now for her and her family. They want to see him saved most of all and then for God to heal him if it is His will.

thanks.

Scrapbook page

i don't normally post pages from my scrapbooks because I am not that good at them,but I thought this one turned out fairly nice. It is one of the pages from when we led a TLC team to the Amazon in 2006. So as you can see I am very behind in my pictures. This one goes in my vacation (trips) album. I enjoy scrapbooking, it is a good stress release for me. I don't have very much time to work on it, but Saturday I took a few hours to myself and work on a few pages. So to the fellow bloggers that enjoy scrapbooking you will like this post. The pictures are a little hard to see because I couldn't get a real good upclose picture of it. Also the picture on the bottom of the first page looks funny because of the lighting.

Prayer Request

To all of our family and friends. We have an urgent prayer need that we need God's help and leadership in. Please pray with us so that we will totally know God's will in this.

Thanks a lot!

the Hole

Today we visited the hole. This is a giant sinkhole that use to be an underground cavern. The ceiling of this collapsed creating a crater. It measures forty feet across and eighty feet down. it was neat to see, but had to be very careful with the little ones to make sure they did not fall in.


Here is what we walk up to. No rails or anything. Just a huge drop.



Looking over the edge tothe water below.

Trevor and Alexis beside the hole.

More house pictures

Here are some more pictures of the house. I thank my mother in law for sending my blog to my parents who do not have a computer. This will help my parents see a bit of our house here.



Here is one of the walls in the living room by the love seat.


Here are a few of the decorations on some shelves.



We repainted the kitchen right before Thanksgiving and it turned out wonderful. It use to be a yellowish white color with a rose trim and cabinets. WE painted the upper walls a light white and the bottom a dark red. As I said it turned out real nice. I love my kitchen now!

Excuse the messy book shelf. It seems as though everything gets piled on here.

Another wall in the kitchen. There use to be a window here, but when we added on the bedroom for the older boys we had to close this is. Tim put shelves in and made a nice place for a few knicknacks.

Another kitchen wall.

Updating the house

We have been working on painting different rooms in the house. The house here has not been painted in probably 15 years or longer. So as you can imagine things were looking pretty rough around here. We have painted the living room and a kind lady in the church gave us a gift certificate for a designing place here. With that we bought new curtains and a floor lamp for the living room. They look very nice.






Our new curtains.




The floor lamp.







We have also painted the bathroom. This use to be a type of yellow color. It is now a pretty blue. My things match this blue color better.




WE have also painted the kitchen and I will try to post pictures of those later after I take them. We still have a few rooms that need attention and as we get those finished I will post pictures of them.