9.28.2009

Camping at the Niangua River

So every year we have a family campout at our church. This year we went to the Niangua River. We had so much fun!

That little blur is my brother, Christian...

Matt on the rope swing...

The Fourth Annual Providence Community Church Family Camp out/Float Trip!!! YAY!!

Elisabeth, Emily S., Alicia, and I (later joined by Sadie) had our own raft... We kept on running into trees...

Derek and Katie, looking very professional in their canoe. :)

Matt letting the others pull him in an inter-tube.

Mr. and Mrs. L., Kelsey, Sadie, and Steven...



Josh and Sadie singing and dancing around the campfire


FIRE!!! Obviously, the fire wasn't really doing that, but that is just how my camera captured it.

Mariah and Olivia trying to stay out of the water... It was really cold. Like hypothermia cold...

Kelsey, looking beautiful even while on a camping trip...

I had to get in the water. I had fallen in (accidentally) already, so I got all the way under... *brrr*

Emily, Nathan, and Alicia sitting on a log

Nicholas and Steven... So CUTE!!

9.24.2009

Florida

Here are the last of our vacation pics. Sorry it took so long...















I suppose this deserves a little bit of explanation. I was in my room and I desided to open up my windows. This is what I found... yep. A lizard skeleton. I just about came out of my skin... no pun intended. Yeah. So that pretty much freaked me out...





The last of the Mexico pics...

Matthew and Josh gazing at the advertizment for the $300 sunglasses...

Mike really liked the Fruit Loops...

Lydie and Matthew...

Lydie and all the boys...

DM (Dennis Michael), Matthew and Josh L.

DM, Naomi (and the boys' hands)

Matthew, DM, and Josh

Tom, Coco, Pattie, and Afiwa

Our whole group... with a Hello Kitty Pinata.


9.18.2009

Mexico quotes

So, I have more pictures to post from Mexico because I took a billion pictures... okay that is a bit of an exaggeration, but still... Until then, here are all of the quotes that Elisabeth and I collected in our "Quote Book". A lot of these are from the Canadians. So, if you are from my church and you don't recognize the name, it is one of our French-Canadian brothers and sisters. I'll post more pictures of them in a bit...


Mexico Quotes


“Where are the sunglasses?”
~ Dad

“I belong on the short mission bus”
~Dad

“How many of you cannot speak English?”
~ Naomi

“That-That is SWEAT.”
~Me

“I have Hannah Montana lip-gloss. I know you’re jealous.”
~ Coco

“I’m not a bad missionary…just a bad packer.”
~ Naomi

“I look like some stupid tourist.”
~ Naomi

“With rollers-a-rolling…” ~ Sadie (singing)
“…and painters-a…paintering!” ~ Coco (singing)

“Hey Chuck…we need Duct-tape!”
~ DM

“Come party with the green Jesus!”
~ Naomi (in Spanish)

“I used to do yo’ mama jokes…then I turned five.”
~ Coco

“Josh! You are awesome!”
~DM

“I read about other people’s lives…but I don’t really care.”
~ DM

“Don’t you have the fear of God in you?”
~ Mike

“Oh my gosh you guys, how embarrassing. We wore the same shirt!”
~ Coco

“I love you, my fluffy rabbit.”
~DM (in a letter in French)

“I taught the kids how to say booger in English!”
~ Naomi

“If I spoke Spanish, I would know what that meant.”
~ Ben

“Everyone who knows what I’m saying…do it.”
~ Dad

“Ok…I’ll be the good-guy, you’ll be Obama.”
~ Keith

“B-P-G…Butter, Peanut, Jelly!”
~ Antonio

“Why does your mom have a facebook, but not you?”
~Lydie

“We understand each other, even when we don’t make sense.”
~Me and Elisabeth

“Skin shouldn’t move”
~Ben

“Just so you know…I’m wearing underwear.”
~ Kaleb

“Hey everybody…its Pete!”
~ The boys

“I feel like we should hold hands, sway back and forth and sing, ‘friends are friends forever.’”
~ Dad

“Ah…young love!”
~ Coco

“’Sucre’ is sweet in French. But ‘sweet’ doesn’t mean the same thing in French. You say ‘Sucre dude’ and people say ‘you suck.’”
~ DM

“He [John Cooper] looks like someone who smokes a whole pack of cigarettes each day.”
~ DM

“It’s a wheelbarrow without a wheel… I guess it’s just a barrow.”
~Little Michael

“Just call my Michael Angelo.”
~ Mr. G

“Thanks for being the American Coco.”
~ Tom

“I’m not even mono-lingual…”
~ Keith

“Did you just say Canadians are more compact?”
~Me

“How far do you live from the Eiffel Tower?”
~ Mr. G (to the French Canadians...)

“I had to go fishing twice.”
~ Mr. G (you don't even want to know what he went fishing for...)

“How are you, Naomi?”
“I’m okay… But Keith is sweaty.”
~ Naomi

“I would cover myself with honey and run naked through a swarm of bees for a Klondike bar.”
~ Shuman

“That was NOT chicken… That was cat.”
~Sadie

“White-American-girl-spending-to-much-time-with-French-Canadians-missionaries-SAY WHAT?”
~Elisabeth (to me) :)

“Do you like air?”
~Ben

“Think happy thoughts…. Rainbows… butterflies… unicorns… grapenuts!”
~Naomi

9.08.2009

Mexico




"Butter... Peanut... Jelly!" ~Antonio aka Junior
Antonio is from the Canadian church. He could speak very little English. So, when we were making sandwiches for lunch one day, this is what Antonio labeled it as...

Aww... Carlos!































We had to stuff the holes in a wall full of Styrofoam so that we could smear cement over it.



We also repainted the pastor's new home, which was conveniently right above the church.

This was at the church on our day off. We went and served the church by basically having a small concert-like worship service and giving the people in the community food.