Our Time with the Myers

Staying over night in a hotel

UH OH! The van broke down...but we were back in business soon!
The children on the jungle gym...I mean bunk bed!
Putting on sunblock for Sea WorldPretty girls...inside Sea World

Well, we're back home...we got in on Monday evening. Our time with the Myers was a lot of fun (but WAY too short!). We left Clovis Thursday evening and stayed in Lubbock overnight...the next morning we continued on...only to have our van break down in Comanche TX! But that didn't stop us for long...we were back on the road in a couple of hours...(thank God we were in a decent size town during business hours!) So we finally arrived at the Myers house...it is so BEAUTIFUL...and Elizabeth had a FABULOUS dinner prepared for us! We visited for a little while, but everyone was pretty exhausted, and anticipated getting up early the next morning, so we all headed off to bed. The next day we went to San Antonio and met up with Jonathon's dad at IHOP for breakfast...(it was really nice to meet his dad!). Then we were off to Sea World! We had so much fun...it is much bigger and there was more to do than I had anticipated. We went to two of the Shamu shows (the last one of the evening was awesome!), and a boat show...went on a few rides, and had dinner...it was an exhausting day, but we didn't care because we were with the Myers again! The next day (which was Father's Day) we went to their new church...it is currently being held in an Arts Academy building...and everyone was so friendly and welcoming. What's even more exciting is that we got to see Clara be baptized...and boy, does she have a set of lungs...the Pastor said she had broke his record, so we took that to mean that no one else had cried up until Clara...way to go Clara! And then we enjoyed a crab, shrimp and steak dinner and some strawberry shortcake for desert. We spent the rest of the evening visiting some more and watching Voyager (which Larry robbed them of!). The next morning we took off around 9am, and the tears were flowing! But we hope to see them again come August, when Jonathon gets a 4 day weekend! (They'll be coming here this time).

Catching a Butterfly!

We're Off to See the Myers!

Hi all!
I just wanted to update everyone on what's going on with us...Larry will be home from class soon, and then we will be heading toward the Myers house in Killeen, TX! We won't get there tonight though, it's about a 9 hour drive, we just thought we would knock out a couple of hours, making tomorrows day a little more bearable. We plan on going to Sea World on Saturday, which we're all really looking forward to, because none of us have ever been there. And we'll be spending Father's Day there, going to the Myers' new church...and then we'll be heading back home on Monday. It's going to be a very quick trip, but we're just really happy that we will get to spend SOME time with them, and be able to see their new house and church. So check back some time next week to see some pictures from our trip!

Week of June 1/June 7 (08)

Ashley's Missing Tooth

Lunch at Macaroni Grill & Group picture at the museum
Hi all! Just wanted to share how our week went...it was a fairly busy one, and it's only going to get busier (fun busy!) with lots of different things. We host a Bible study at our home on Monday nights...this Monday we just had a "game-night", meaning Dari (the person who teaches our study) didn't have anything prepared. Lol! On Tu./Th. & Fr. nights Larry has classes, so the girls and I keep ourselves busy by going to the park or for walks or just watching movies. Ashley lost another tooth on Tuesday (this is her 3rd one), it's her first on the top...she was so excited, she thought that she just had a piece of something that she was eating in her mouth, and she took it out and set it next to her plate...until she went to the bathroom and saw that her tooth was missing! Ashley also has her piano lessons Wednesday afternoons during the months of June/July, we go back to her regular schedule of it being on Saturdays in August. And on Saturday we had a treat...we got to go to Albuquerque with Larry and his Old Testament class to visit the Museum of Archiology and Biblical history. It was a lot of fun...we had lunch at the Macaroni Grill there and then went to the museum.

Garage Sales!

Garage sale finds! My patio chair cushions and Ashley's scooter!

One of my favorite things to do is to go to garage sales! I was able to go yesterday, and it was even more fun because I was accompanied by a friend from church. I usually set out with specific items in mind, and yesterday I did really well. I was in search of two patio chair cushions, (these are $40 each at the stores) and a scooter for my oldest daughter (she has wanted one ever since our Colorado Springs trip and she rode someone else's). Well, I found my chair covers, they are like new, for $5 a piece! And I found a $60-$70 scooter for $10 (they wanted $15, but I talked them down). In addition to those finds, I bought several Disney movies, misc. items for my children, a nice wooden bassinet for my youngest daughter, a very large cookbook, and some books for the girls. It was a great garage saleing day!