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> We love getting State-line photos.  We put the camera on top of a trashcan and set the timer for this one. It was hard to get the lighting right.  Better luck next time maybe. Some of the rest-stops in Missouri were really nice.  This place had an indoor rest area, full staff, playground, clean […]

> We woke up to another light dusting of snow. It continued to snow for the next 2-3 hours so we put the MPV in 4-wheel-drive and took it slow. Not true for the trucks though. Those big simi’s just plow away at 80mph as if the conditions were perfect. We enjoyed our hashbrowns smothered and covered at […]

> Nicole wanted to send out a few postcards this morning. We stopped for an hour at the Dinosaur Museum in New Mexico. We all get our shoes muddy every time we stop for our state line photos. We ate good ‘ol fashioned Texas style BBQ in Amarillo. Our PODS arrived safely at NTBI today. […]

> The kids (and their parents) enjoyed waking up to a 1″ dusting  of fresh powder. About 5 miles off the I-40 we stopped to see the meteor Crater. We wondered if our PODS was on this truck?  I think we creeped out the poor driver because we took so many pictures and kept passing […]

> Our route to Wisconsin We plan to take 6 days to drive the 2,204 miles to Wisconsin.  The average drive time is 6-7 hours per day. With stops we’ll be on the road about 8-9 hours a day.   Hesperia CA, to Flagstaff AZ (December 28) 392 mi – 6 hours 12 mins Flagstaff […]

> (Our tree 6 days before Christmas) My first tendency is to say, “it’s not the same!” As I look around my home, I see an empty living room, usually warm and cozy with lights, a tree, stockings hung by the fire and a winter Christmas village on my mantel. Our tree (the one thing […]

> The following is an e-mail written to the staff of our home church.  Specifics have been generalized to protect the privacy of others.  Dear Staff, Hope you are all doing well.  We sure miss you all already.  We’ll be leaving the desert in 3 days, and leaving the state in 11 days. We’ve had […]

>I have to admit that it was a little scary and surreal voluntarily resigning from a job I love during an economic meltdown.  My last day was November 30.  I never would have done that if I didn’t believe that God wanted us to move in this direction.  It took a great deal of letting […]

>There’s a part of me that loves my comfort zone.  Any comfort zone.  I like to know what I’m doing, how I’m going to do it, where the ability and resources are going to come from.  I like to know what’s expected of me, what I can expect from others, and what consequences will surface […]

>Check it!!! A new apartment (dorm room) with a sink just became available!!! Kristi and I realized how blessed we are to have 3 sinks and 2 bathrooms in our current home when we first heard the news that our apartment we were supposed to move into at NTBI had neither.  I wondered about the […]