Friday Favorite Foto

FINALLY - VACATION PICTURES

I tried my hand at making a movie this time. Our trip was great, fabulous, wonderful, refreshing, inspiring, overwhelming, marvelous, extrodinary, and oh so much more! I will write more about our experiences later, but for now PICTURES!

My how time flies

I know it has been awhile since we have posted and sent pictures, so this may be a long one!

We were pleasently suprised by a knock at our door a few days ago and opened to find the postman and a large box. We were so excited to see what was inside. AH! the flavors of home! The Reeces cups have been a big hit as we have shared them with neighbors who have never tasted this fine delicacy. WIth chocolate chips and marshmellows we can now have cookies and rice krispy treats - YUMMY! (thanks Nana)


Our language lessons are coming along rather well as you can see by our new reading material. HAHA!


Over the last weekend we were able to travel north to with some other colleagues to visit a few churches in the area we will eventually be working in. While driving down the road we spotted this tower and had to stop for a picture. Anybody in East TN recognize this? It was too crazy!!!


Here is a video of our trip. Look closely, some of you may recognize places in the pictures from Porto.

Make a Smilebox photobook

Our Day at Cascais

Tuesday we took a 30 minute train ride to the beautiful city of Cascais. It is right on the water and a huge tourist and surfing area. One M couple on our team is working with the surfers in the area. They, along with one of our J-girls, showed us around the quaint little city and the seaside as well. The views were amazing. The waves were crashing so hard that it sounded like thunder at times. I told them that I had a new place to add on my list of favorite places. It is nice to know in just 30 minutes we can be out of the city and in this beautiful place. I told them they would not have to twist my arm for us to come back. Below are some of the pictures we took along the way. They can not do the beauty of this place justice.

Tomorrow we take an open-top bus tour of the city. The boys are so excited. Look for more pictures to come and hopefully a video tour of our apartment. (If I can figure the camera out.)

Happy Trails

3 more days. It is hard to believe that in 3 more days we will be on our way to Portugal. We have had a wonderful time with family and the last few dasy have been busy. We wanted to share some of the highlights with you.

Yes, our last few days have been full - haircuts, packing, college basketball games, packing, eating out at our favorite places, packing, playing ball at the YMCA and of course, packing. We will also be sharing with 2 churches on Sunday before leaving from Charlotte around noon on Monday (thank goodness it is not an early flight). We are almost packed - 13 bags, 4 carry-ons and one guitar to be exact. What an adventure that has been. We started with 10 bags and have made numerous "last trips" to Walmart. I think the greeter knows us by name now! Hopefully won't have to return anytime soon.

Please pray for us as we travel and that us and all our luggage will arrive safely. This is the first time the boys have ever flown and I think they are excited, but a little nervous too. We also still have good-byes to say. Pray that we will survive it all and be ready to hit the ground running.

The View From Here

We continue to be very busy, but emersed in the Word as never before. God is opening windows to His word that are growing us in so many ways. I wanted to share some pictures of the world around us here in VA. As the leaves have changed ove the last few days, the forest around us has been ablaze with the Lord's beauty.

Sunset view from our back door.



Micah has been taking a photography workshop in school this week and these are a few a his favorites. Can you guess what the last one is?