Category: family fun
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November and December updates
In November, Zion got to play in the IUS orchestra. He was pretty excited about that. He was nervous but did a great job. There were a couple of different “friendsgiving” get togethers as well as our family Thanksgiving. Those were a lot of fun. December quickly arrived and suddenly we were planning for Christmas.…
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A Wedding, A Birthday Party and A Get Away
October was a very busy month for us. To start things off, my cousin’s oldest daughter got married. It was small, but very sweet and beautiful. Congratulations to Fiona and Gabriel. A couple of weeks later, Glorianna threw a surprise party for her good friend, Leah, who turned 16. That was a lot of fun.…
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Still Waters Home Camp 2021
Since Still Waters wasn’t able to have in person camp again this year, Bro Joseph send everyone supplies to have a home camp like they did last year. This year’s theme was “Stimulation by Revelation”. We had fun doing crafts and watching the fun videos on the website. The camping supplies that were included in…
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The Last of Summer and Our Anniversary
Rounding up the last bit of summer… We got some peaches from the Peach Truck in July. This was the first time we had ever done this and it was amazing. We will be doing this again. Yummy Peach Cobbler August came and went, and with it our 21st Anniversary. We didn’t do anything fancy…
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Azariah’s Graduation Part 2
Friday, July 9, YFHG had their yearly homeschool graduation ceremony. The theme this year was “Journey with Christ”. Everything was very well done and the ceremony was nice. Each of the kids wrote a testimony of what Still Waters had done for them. Azariah’s was about the day he received the Holy Ghost. These three…
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Texas Youth Meetings
Back in the middle of May (the weekend of Azariah’s birthday), we all headed to Texas for some youth meetings. Trevor got invited to be part of the event, so the whole family went this time. We had a great time fellowshipping with the believers there and getting to know them a lot better. Trevor…
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January, February and March update
We got our biggest snow at the end of January. The kids had fun sledding with friends and playing in the yard. Glorianna made Phibby a house out of a big cardboard box. He loved it until it caved in from all the snow. We had a good mix of snow and ice. We had…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 6 – Animal Kingdom, Round 2 and Final Thoughts
Saturday, January 16 – Today we went back to Animal Kingdom. We road the Animal Safari Ride again and got to see more animals and enjoyed walking around looking at more cool sights. We got to see a father giraffe teaching his son how to neck fight. That was pretty cool. We got to see…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 5 – Hollywood Studies Round 2
Friday, January 15 – When we got our tickets, we had a buy 4 days and get 2 free. So now that we had seen all 4 parks we decided to revisit our favorites. Today we went back to Hollywood Studios so we could enjoy some of the Star Wars rides again. That was so…
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Florida/Disney Trip – Part 4 – Animal Kingdom
Thursday, January 14 – Animal Kingdom What an awesome park. We really enjoyed this one and road some amazing rides. There was a really cool Chirstmas Tree at the entrance of the park. The “tree of life” is really cool. It’s in the middle of the park and it has all kinds of animals carved…