"Bee Afraid"

On Monday, Abigail found a bee (alive) inside the bathroom. Without saying anything to us she gathered her supplies: goggles, oven mitt, tea towel, and plastic cup and took care of the problem. It was only when I spotted her walking through our flat with her bee fighting gear on that she told me what she was doing. What a brave girl! What creativity!

Contagious Update

Well, unfortunately I had to come home early from our Youth Conference, 'Contagious'. Dean's mum was not well enough to look after the children. So, Dean drove me home on Tuesday afternoon to relieve his mum. The kids and I ended up having a great time together despite the weather not cooperating. God is good and gives us what we need when we need it. Dean had a great week at the conference and was blessed by the teaching he sat under, as well as the studies he led during the week.

Contagious

Well, Dean and I are off to Contagious in the morning. Contagious is a youth Bible Conference that runs for a week. We will be taking 2 of our youths and joining about 150 other teenagers from all over the UK, between the ages of 14-19 to study the Resurrection for a week. There are about 30 leaders that make up a great team, and we all have a fantastic time. We study in small groups in the morning, split into two groups for 'seminars' from 10-1, break for lunch and some fun, then we all meet up again for 'the big preach' in the evening. It's hard work, and pretty tiring, but we all come away having learned a lot about God, His Word, and ourselves.
Please pray for us as we leave our 3 blessings behind. Dean's parents will be looking after them for us and we are very thankful to them for supporting us in the ministry this way.
Don't know if I'll be able to blog until we get back next Sunday afternoon.

Thank You, Connie!!!!

We want to say a big THANK YOU to our friend Connie who sent us some goodies from the USA.
We had pancakes for dinner the night the package arrived! Aleah has now discovered the delicious new taste of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and she loves it. Thanks, Connie...what a treat!

Unfinshed story

I know, I still have to finish the creationfest story...I'll get there soon, I hope!

The tooth is out!

Samuel's tooth has finally come out! We were on a road trip on Saturday and he was trying to eat an apple, because I said it would help his tooth. He started complaining that his tooth was hurting a bit. A friend of ours who was with us sitting next to Sam told him that all we needed was some tissue to get a good grip on the tooth and it would come out. So, we found some tissue and our friend Leanne pulled the tooth out! There was very little blood, which was fortunate because Samuel does not like the sight of blood. He was very happy that his tooth was out and that the 'tooth fairy' was going to bring him 1p!!! Boy, was he surprised when he woke up the next morning and the 'tooth fairy' had actually put £1 under his pillow!!!! The tooth next to it is loose now, and I think that it might actually come out a lot faster than the first one!

CREATIONFEST '07

We're back from Creationfest '07. We had a blast! The camping was the roughest bit of camping I have ever done, but we still survived. In the end we had 34 people with us, including 3 children under 10, the youngest of which was a 2 year old. (No, we did not take Aleah with us...she was saved the chaos by Dean's parents.)
We loaded up to mini-buses and and our van with people and camping gear by 10:30am Friday (8/3) and arrived in Woolacombe, Devon around 3:45pm. It was then 'all hands on deck' to set up all the tents and start the dinner arrangements. We were camped on a beautiful HILLSIDE farm with the bare essentials: 2 showers per gender (for the whole campsite), and about 7 port-a-loos on a hill! Let the fun times roll!!!
The festival itself was great! Lots of things for everybody to do, seminars, concerts, bouncy castles, kids club etc. It rained Friday night and all morning on Saturday. Not a heavy rain, more like being inside a big cloud rain. It brightened up around midday on Saturday and by the time RU went on stage it was beautiful. The team drew a big crowd and looking around many people were moved by their message, including some of the youth we had with us. One of the girls with us dedicated her life to Christ that afternoon! Praise the Lord! We had a lovely time around the campfire introducing yet even more English people to the great American S'mores!!
Sunday was a beautiful sunny day so we decided to hit the beach! It seems as if everybody in the UK had the same idea, because it was packed!!! I have never in my life seen a beach and sea as crowded as the one we were at on Sunday! There were surfers, body boarders, skim boarders, and swimmers everywhere! I felt sorry for the lifeguards, because you couldn't see 2 feet in between everybody. The team had to go back to the Festival for a show at 5 so half of us headed back to get showered and the rest stayed at the beach for a little while longer.
Around this time I had developed a pretty bad headache and was really hoping for some rest out of the sun, but due to their only being 2 showers and a time limit on getting back to the Festival, I was unable to get that rest. (I had also forgotten to eat or drink properly, looking after so many people.) When I got to the Festival with the team I had developed a migraine due to dehydration, but I couldn't leave the kids until Dean showed up with the rest of our group. In the end Dean found me exactly at the point I burst into tears and exclaiming that I was not feeling well. He then had to drop everything to take me to the paramedic's station where I stayed for the next hour vomiting in between them trying to stuff food and water in my face. Dean was eventually able to get me back to our tent so I could sleep it off. The fun doesn't stop there....I just have to go now, it's late and I have to pack a picnic lunch for our day trip tomorrow.
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