Wednesday, March 04, 2009

PRAHA MISSION TRIP

Ok, so I went to Prague 2-18 thru 2-22 to take part in an IFES (that is IV in Europe) along with Matt and Valerie Beasley, old friends and IMB missionaries. Below are pictures from the trip:
Below is a picture of me and going counter-clockwise Matt, Valerie, and Whitney


Here is Tom, the IFES leader, and his fiance, Daniella:




During the day the students went skiiing on one of the local slopes in the western region of Karlovy Vary, which is right on the boarder with Germany. Check out the snow!




Some mountain pics:





This is the village of Jakimov where we stayed for the retreat:




Here are some pics of me on the town. Random thumb alert:







Double thumb!


Here is me with a group of students at the retreat. I forget the names, but the girl in the center (blonde hair) is Hanka from the south of Czech Republic near the Austrian border, sitting to her right is Valerie and then Marushka.



Name escapes me, but another college student:



This dude slept next to me, and I mean to say, RIGHT next to me. Good bro, named Vetak (not sure of spelling, but pronounced Vee-tech):



Two awsome college students, Rut and Pavel. Rut works for the Canadian government in Praha and Pavel is a pastor's son and works at a bank. Both are part of the IFES Bible study, and Pavel might come to study abroad at UT, which would be cool:



Matt and Valerie:




The local slope in Jakimov is very inexpensive and so we went snowboarding with some students. I think the lift ticket cost $10 US! Notice the steepness of the slope and the town in the distance. It was Matt's first time snowboarding, and he did very well:



Tuesday, March 03, 2009

NEW YORK and RHODE ISLAND

New York, New York is a place I have always wanted to go to! This last month Adam had to travel for business to upstate New York and I was able to travel with him. We had so much fun!


New York from the car!


Times Square


First Meal in New York - We chose Indian - YUMMY!

From New York we drove to Rhode Island the first night and stayed in a hotel in Pawtucket. My Great Aunt Alyce and some of here children live in the area so we were able to see her in Lincoln along with two of her daughters, Jeannie and Ally on Sunday.
Holly and Aunt Alyce
Jeannie, Holly, Aunt Alyce and Ally

Holly, Aunt Alyce and Adam

Following an amazing breakfast with family, we worshipped at Hosanna Family Church of Pawtucket. Adam met Pastor Tory MacDonald and his wife, AnnMarie, last summer and they graciously invited Adam to preach. We loved fellowshipping with them and our only regret is that since it was raining we don't have any pictures of the church or this blessed church family. For more info see their website at http://www.hosannafamily.com/

From Rhode Island we drove to Schroon Lake, New York in the evening. The drive was fun except for one short part where we hit a little snow storm. Thankfully it was not too bad!

Adam woked an event in Schroon Lake at the Word of Life Institue and here are some pictures from Schroon...lots and lots of snow!

Maple Leaf Motel

Word of Life Buildings

Schroon Lake

An example of a house at Schroon Lake
After the event was over we decided to drive north to Lake Placid where the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics were held. It was really neat to see the sites there. We had to drive on this tiny road and couldn't believe the whole world traveled to Lake Placid for the Olympics. What a neat town!These ski jumps are so impresive in person and we couldn't believe people
actually ski down these things!

Site of the 1980 Miracle on Ice Event where the US men's ice hockey team
beat the USSR team







Some cities have mall walkers but in Lake Placid they have Ice Hockey Rink Walkers!

Dinner in Lake Placid


Monday, December 22, 2008

No Dad...

We were driving home tonight and Cosie exclaimed in extreme drama 3-year-old fashion, "I'm so hungry...I didn't eat all day!"

Adam: "Oh really, what was that huge cookie I just gave you at Barnes and Nobles?"

Cosie: "No Dad, that is sugar!"

Friday, December 19, 2008

A Long Time Coming

WOW! I can't believe Christmas is next week and my last post was in July - TERRIBLE! But I have had an excuse......MORNING SICKNESS! Oh yes, what a blessing that we are expecting, but I was sick for 20 weeks and just couldn't do very much. I decided to get back on the blogspot and hopefully I will be able to keep up until the baby is born in April! We are 24 weeks along and we are having another boy. Here are some pictures over the last six months:



NOVEMBER










OCTOBER

Our Church camping trip in Glen Rose, TX










Just having fun with a box!

Oh boy....well we had a man from our church come and help us start a garden (pictures will follow on another post) and while we were outside receiving instructions Charlie was sleeping and Cosie was inside watching a video. Cosie came outside for a while and then was bored so I told her to go watch her video and rest. I felt this gnawing, as mother's do, and went to check in on her when I found her utterly flooding the bathroom while taking a "sink bath" as she called it. She had taken off all her clothes, plugged the sink up and turned the water on FULL BLAST!!! Water was EVERYWHERE!!! Oh yeah! Gotta love their ingenuity!


Just too sweet...taken before church one Sunday!











Holly's mom, Debby (Grammy), came to visit for her Birthday

and we all went to the State Fair in Dallas






We didn't get enough funnel cake at the fair so Grammy

decided to make Holly a birthday funnel cake!


Grammy got to see Cosie at her gymnastics class




















More fun with Grammy...riding the mini-train!






A visit to the local Bounce House with Grammy and Mommy







SEPTEMBER

I guess we didn't do much this month as Holly was really sick! Not many pictures!


Cosie had the great idea to switch jammies!



More gymnastics


AUGUST



Fun at the little city water park!