Tuesday, February 17, 2009

We are back...

....in FREEZING, cold Indiana! And we are all more than ready to go back to Florida! LOL! Seriously, I am sitting here in layered clothing and wondering when the heat will kick back on! Brrr! We left south Florida Wed. morning and drove around 9 hours to the panhandle of Florida called Pensacola. We were able to stay with our family there and see more family that came down from South Carolina as well! We all enjoyed visiting with everyone! I have lots of pics but do not have them downloaded yet! While we were gone, Benjamin turned 7 on the 14th! He is our Valentine's surprise baby! He was a month early when I went into labor after being on bedrest for 9 weeks! Ben was also breech and my dr. had to do an emergency c-section at 11:30 Valentine's night! So we call him our Valentine's surprise! Since we were at G-pa and G-ma Dunn's, he got a family birthday party with them, us and his cousin, Sammy. He recieved a Cars cake and chose barbecued chicken, corn casserole, mac-n-cheese, and spinach for his birthday dinner! G-ma Dunn was so sweet to fix it all for us and it was delicious! Thanks G-ma! Ben and the other kids had fun eating cake and playing together. And he also enjoyed his presents of $$ from Uncle Charlie and Aunt Jennifer and Cars toys from G-pa and G-ma Dunn. He recieved more $$ from Great G-pa George and Great-G-ma Irene and spent that earlier on Hot Wheels! We really enjoyed seeing everyone and want to say a BIG Thank-you for everything! We love you all!
Last night we went to G-pa and G-ma Hirschy's house for another birthday party! The menu was Chicken Cacciatore, noodles, cheesy potatoe casserole, fresh veggie plate with salad and DQ icecream birthday cake! Another yummy meal! G-ma had the table decorated and streamers put up and Ben was so anxious to open his presents! Uncle Mark and Aunt Rachel were there and we enjoyed visiting with them too! They bought Ben a cool remote-controlled truck that he loves! He is playing with it right now on his break! Ben got more $$, a CARS t-shirt that lights up, a fun toyset for the bathtub and some bead toys from the girls. Another fun party with family!
We really enjoyed our last 2 weeks in sunny, warm Florida! We are still planning on moving to South Florida as soon as God sells our place! We have had some more people interested and are hoping to be able to show it soon! Going to Florida confirmed to Danny and I that we are going the way that God is leading and we must wait on His perfect timing! God showed and revealed exciting things to us concerning our future and we want to be His willing servants to help build His kingdom!

Becca made some good frends at camp. Tenae,
Grace and Kaitlynn.
Ben made friends with Esteben Lopez, but his family left
before I could get pics of the two of the them!( Cindy, if you are reading this, we really enjoyed meeting your family! Wish I would have thought to get pics! Hope to see you again! We will be praying for you as you pray about pastoring in Mexico...)

Our kids in the Hobe Sound cafeteria. This
table and chair set made to look like pencils
was so cute!
Becca and Tanae saying goodbye! They had a lot of fun together!

Pensacola Pictures:

Visiting with great g-parents, George and Irene

Doing schoolwork in G-pa and G-ma Dunn's
dining room.

Abby and G-pa snuggled and watched movies.


Cousin's playdough party.....
Sammy is a cutiepie!
More pics later......

3 comments:

Quakenbush's said...

Looks like you all had a great time! Isn't it awesome when God confirms that you are on the right track? We will be praying about your house selling.
~Tasha

Lisa said...

Hey Liz,
Thanks for the encouraging words about homeschooling. I was feeling in need of some encouragement. It looks like you guys had a wonderful time in FL. I'm hoping your place here sells soon. Be careful though, you never know when a crazy woman with 7 kids in a van might stop by :-).

Maggie said...

Glad you all had a nice trip! Love your new background...could the trip to Florida have inspired that? ha...have a great week!