Yay! A Social Life!

Hubers, Plattners, and Blake are great company

BUT...

Its nice to see and visit other friends in person too:)

open house for people to come visit Ionda while he

is around central IL

lunch, catch up, and a hair cut with Wendy & Ella
Always good times and lots of laughs with Lisa and Sarah!

Coffee and catch up with Kristy while we are both around central IL

There were more friends and visits in there but I didn't have my

camera with me. I have LOVED every social event so far:)

WooHoo for a social life! If only for a few weeks:)

So Far...

I have LOVED being able to join in on the normal everyday life of my family

Getting to hang out with Jax and then taking grandma out for her birthday
Getting to sit in the stands like a proud fan as my brother coaches basketball

In this picture Jax and I both look like we are ready for bed

but we had fun together at the basketball game:)

Let the fun continue!

Tis the season

With only a week left I started making Christmas cookies as those whom usually receive plates of them had started asking me about them to make sure I hadn't forgotten that they needed to be made before I leave for the states.

So the dough was made and cut out
Cookies were baked and frosted

or just baked and a sweetie was added

I am now thankful to say that I have all my Christmas plates

ready and sitting in the fridge to hopefully hand out as soon

as the rain stops.

Blessings

I thought this was cute

If you have ever visited this wonderful country (real Jamaica not resort Jamaica) as you

drive around you commonly see animals whose owners tie them up alongside the road

during the day to eat then come collect them later and take them home. As I opened the library

for play time after school one of the boys came to me asking for the

donkey and I told him to go look in the toy box. Later as I noticed this (pictured above)

Jessimar had found his donkey and tied him up while he went to play (the donkey sat like this for about 2 hours) then after play time came back to collect him and take him home

(put him back in the toy box). To Funny!

My favorite signs to see!

"Erin.... Today I opened my heart and

accepted Jesus as my Savior!!!"

Praise Jesus for Great Days Like This:)

Praising Jesus For 15 Years

Last Friday Plattners, Blake and I drove to MoBay for a weekend away.

We arrived Friday evening got supper at pork pit YUM! Then to the

Toby Resort to watch the boys play in the pool.

Saturday I had the most AMAZING day sitting on the beach.

The day was perfect and so RELAXING!

Sunday we went to CCCD MoBay to attend their

15th Anniversary Special Service

It started with a scripture reading
Greetings from Mr. Kerr-Jarrett
(his parents donated the land to build the school)

A song from hands in praise

The Amazing and SO POWERFUL Lifehouse Everything skit

Ms. Russel (MoBay Principal) and Mr. Reid (her right hand man)

The MoBay staff singing praises

I LOVE watching Jodian sing. She sings (signs) with her entire heart

and with NO shame. Here she is signing "Your Excellent Jesus Your Excellent"

while the staff sings behind her

(Jodian has partial hearing)

Pastor Damion finished the service by sharing with us from God's word.

I was helping to voice for this part of the service and was not able to take pictures

and focus on voicing at the same time so no pictures of that:)

Praise Jesus for Great weekends away and for 15 years of ministry

for the MoBay school