The aliens have landed . . . .

memories of summer

Fun with the James'

Nanna?

We were SO blessed to have Nanna Johnston and Uncle Marcol and Aunt Bevie visit us last week. We had a wonderful time with each of them, and have many special memories of things we were able to do~


Here is one of my favorite memories~Nanna swimming! She surprised us all and jumped into the pool, fully clothed. She is such a character!


The girls' faces are priceless~Nanna is in the water?!!!!


We have such a cool Grandma~


Had to include a picture of how HAPPY we are to be together~

Picking peaches

Our new friends, the Brookshire's, invited us along on their annual trek to pick peaches~who could resist an invitation for fresh peaches?


The peaches were excellent, and we were able to sample them before buying. Alas, the orchards were closed for the day, but we bought up a large supply to bring home to each of our families.

Daniel entertained us for the entire car ride with jokes from his Braille joke book. What a funny guy!


Love the sign~

A new home~

When the Mayflower truck pulled up to our new home last month, we smiled. Here at last, after two years of having all our household goods in storage, we were about to settle in with all our "old" things. What would we discover?




The first thing we discovered was a whole plethora of Tulsa Bible church helpers. Many people came to clean, organize, unpack, and help carry our boxes in. We couldn't believe the help.




Andrew has discovered a good use for our left over boxes~


But it gets better~

Here is a group of people from the church who came and trimmed all our trees and bushes! And to make it more impressive, they did it in over 100 degree temperatures!




We are getting there~


p.s. Here is a picture of TBC~as the moving truck pulled up to deliver a desk to Jim's office. Just a partial picture~Sorry!


Jim's office~


More later~

Good Books

There are a lot of missionary biographies out there to read to children~here is one of my favorites:



A set of 5 is available for boys or girls~the rest in the series we have include:

Ten Girls who used their Talents
Ten Girls who didn't Give In
Ten Girls who made History
Ten Girls who made a Difference

Published by Christian Focus Publications

Good Reading!

Polar bear plunge!

Our family has some funny little traditions.

Andrew found the raisin in his oatmeal this morning. Jim asked him what special thing should happen today because he discovered the "prized" raisin. His suggestion?

His daddy take a dip in the lake.



He strongly suggested that the children join him~(my excuse being I was holding a camera)~but there was a bit of resistance~


Way to go brave Daddy!


A lot colder than one would like~perhaps because the lake was still frozen two weeks ago~


The children bravely followed~




Run away, Andrew, Run. It's cold!


And all for a raisin.


Way to go you guys!