Brazil

Chad and I had the privilege of traveling with a mission team from our church to Brazil this summer. We had a great time leading basketball camps and getting the word out about a church plant in the area. We worked with AMAZING missionaries and are thankful God allowed us to be a part of such a special week. Here are some pictures of our adventure!

The local church leaders signed the note on the house below the last day we were there and plan to fix it up for the pastor in the area as well as use it as a ministry site. They were so excited about having a space to use for their new church/leader.
Ron and Alana Greenwich are the awesome missionaries in Brazil that led our trip. They have been there 26 years and plan to stay four more until their retirement. They live out the Great Commission each and every day. (It is rumored that Alana is called Lottie Moon by other missionaries in Brazil - and yes, she is that cool!)

Our hotel for the week.


Back home in Jackson, Abigail attended Camp Gladney for the week and was spoiled rotten by Coach and Nana. She did great without us and never missed a beat. This Mommy probably had a much harder time with the separation than she did. Thanks Coach and Nana for taking care of Little Bit!

Lake Trip 2010

We took our annual lake trip with the Hunsberger family the week of July 4th at Lake Oconee in Georgia. What a difference a year makes! Below is a picture of Abigail in her life jacket last year at the lake...

And here she is this year at the lake in that same life jacket!

We had a great time and were blessed with really good weather too. Abigail enjoyed the playground,

swimming in the pool,


spending time with her older cousins,
coloring,
driving the boat,
and all the time she got to spend with family.






We look forward to this trip every year and are so thankful to the Cuenin family for allowing us to use their lake house. What a blessing they are to our family!

Summer Fun!

Summer is racing by and we are having a great time. Abigail has enjoyed time with all of her cousins. Here are pictures from the past few weeks to sum it all up.

Visiting the McWane Center for the first time.

Abigail thoroughly enjoys her afternoon snack of chocolate cookies.

Joshua is a good sport letting Abigail hug all over him.

We beat the heat at the indoor playground in Chick-fil-A

Playing in the water also keeps us cool.

My first watermelon!

Playing ball with Coach.

Recap

Here is a quick recap of our crazy lives the past few weeks in bullet points and pictures!

• Abigail is growing like a weed! She is 18 months old, going on fourteen.

• Chad graduated with his Master of Divinity degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Go Daddy! He opted out of walking at graduation and instead had a celebration with family to mark the occasion. Sadly, this is one of the only pictures I took the entire weekend family was here in Jackson. It's of Abigail and Joshua looking over Coach and Nana's fence at their neighbor's dog. I'd like to issue a public apology to Coach and Nana's neighbors on behalf of Joshua and Abigail. They are sorry for tormenting your dog that weekend. They are slightly obsessed with "woof woofs."

• We've moved.....again. All glory to God for selling our house in Birmingham and blessing us with the perfect home for our family in Brandon. Coach and Nana deserve an award (not to mention some peace and quiet) for letting us live with them for the last six months. Wow, they made our transition to Mississippi so smooth. We closed on both houses and moved our belongings the last week of May (major reason for the lack of blog posts recently).

• Our new house has a great back yard that came with a sandbox! This is good news and bad. The good news is that the new house came with a sandbox! The bad news is that we can no longer go in the backyard without covering ourselves from head to toe with sand and tracking it in the house. We are learning to be selective about backyard play time.

Abigail was a little unsure of the sand to begin with.

She and Joshua (who was here for Memorial Day weekend) both initially preferred to play outside of the box.

Joshua brought the sand to him,
while Abigail was happy scooping sand without getting messy.
Hesitation with the sand quickly turned into adoration and both jumped right in. Abigail even likes to lay down in it from time to time (makes for a great bath time).
She no longer minds getting messy and is even okay with having sand all over her face,
and in other areas that aren't as comfortable.

• In other news, Abigail is IN LOVE with her accessories. She is rarely seen these days without a combination of her purse, bracelets (all 15 of them), and sunglasses. We are in BIG TROUBLE!

That's our lives recently in a nutshell. Thanks for stopping by....hugs from Abigail!