Pictures

Today While Liberty made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies {which were scrumptious}  Emma attempted to make a homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte with the Espresso machine bought for $1.00 at a yard sale {delightfully yummy} and Jubilee watched her three younger brothers wrestle with daddy again today {Our newest little guy is lovin’ the wrestlin’ with Daddy…

Their Shop

Isn’t it crazy how no matter the age, life repeats itself? Your kids and mine, the big ones once little, the present littles and any future littles at one time or other, go through a season of “sales”. In fact we have been laughing reminiscing with the bride-to-be and Molly about  some of the things…

Ruby Loved It All

 The Ruby-girlfriend love, love, loved celebrating Emmy’s birthday…. She loved when Elizabeth and Liberty were rockin’ the jumps off the cement tables… Ruby loved the sound of the waterfalls …and eating our breakfast we had made in the exact spot we have done our annual breakfast in Letchworth State park for 36 years now… {Different…

Emma Joy

Yesterday was a really special day for our family as we celebrated Emma’s 19th birthday. Last year on July 22nd Karl lay in a coma and we did not know what the outcome would be. It was a very difficult day to celebrate her 18th birthday. {Picture taken in Uganda when Emma and I were…

Texas, Oklahoma & Missouri

The hotel in Amarillo was wonderful.  Kind of funny that after leaving I got a message from a bloggy friend who said that she had gotten a text message from a friend traveling who had sat next to a family at breakfast at the hotel she was staying at.  She said that the family had…

If You See Our Van…

This family of 14, well, actually just eleven Cross country will surely soon be a-headin’ Oh, and the dogs, there will be two Couldn’t leave them behind or they’d be blue. Not exactly sure of the proposed route, But if you should see our big ol’ crazy van,   please don’t hesitate to give us…

Thursday’s Report

I keep forgetting to mention that Dw is updating {as often as possible} the International Voice of the Orphan blog with stories from Uganda. For the last two days the team has been working on the basketball court for the orphan street boys now living in a home.  Many of you made that possible –…

Speaking of Weddings….

Speaking of weddings… Last week when we were in Colorado for Autumn’s bridal shower,  Dw had the privilege of doing a wedding for a sweet young orphan loving couple named Jessie and Courtney. They had been to Uganda on a GO Team with Emmy and Dw and Jessie  actually proposed on that trip!  He got…