August 21, 2012
Ryan and the other Ryan finished the shed today! Hooray! Micah and I worked on the 5th grade room a little, and I finally organized his room too. And we went for ice cream tonight. Micah had a new favorite word…lovely! He uses it sarcastically though. Like I say “It’s time for bed” and he says “lovely” and rolls his eyes. If he didn’t laugh right after and think it was hilarious it would be bad, but it’s super finny actually!
– Emily
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August 20, 2012
More cleaning and organizing, and more working on the shed for Ryan….back to work i suppose.
– Emily
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August 19, 2012
We went out on the canoe again today. I caught a starfish! It was giant and six-legged! It was nice to be back to church today too!
– Emily
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August 18, 2012
Ryan has been working hard on the shed, and it’s almost finished! I cleaned and organized more today. Mice, bugs, and mold took over our house while I was gone. At one point I opened the moldy cabinet and a lizard and a mouse were in there! Yeah!
– Emily
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August 16, 2012
Well, its good to be home, but I pretty much spent most of my day cleaning and putting things away. I am tuckered! We did however get to go out in our canoe! We went to the Caribbean side and went to “Pirate Island.” (we named it that) and we explored caves and saw lots of pretty fish, and lots of lion fish! Micah swam in the water too and freaked out when he through he saw a crab….I mean FREAKED OUT!!!! You would have thought he was dying! He eventually pulled himself together though and we had lots of fun, complete with licorice! It was fun family time!
– Emily
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August 17, 2012
More cleaning today….blah
– Emily
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August 12-15, 2012
These have been long days of driving! I am so thankful for my dad who made the drive with Micah and I to Florida. We stayed two nights in hotels, and Micah got to swim with my dad, which was a highlight for him! He learned how to swim on his back and side! It was fun to watch them swim together! And we went to Red Lobster on the last night too, and the lady that worded there pulled out one of the live lobsters for Micah to see, then she dropped it accidentally and MIcah screamed at the top of his lungs and curled up into a ball. Half of the restaurant was laughing and the other half I’m sure was wondering who was dying. It was really funny! I couldn’t have made the drive ad taken care of everything in Florida without my dad! We had to drop our van off at G&G and get a rental to go back to Fort Pierce to MFI, and G&G was hectic as always. But the Lord took great care of us again! Everything got taken care of and we made it back to MFI to stay the night in their missions house and fly out in the morning. I loved flying with MFI! We got to take supplies, and the plane ride was smooth and fun! It was sad to say goodbye to my dad though, and the rest of my family too! It especially broke my heart to see Micah saying goodbye to everyone and seeing him so sad when we left. He misses everyone already! But he was really excited to see his daddy for sure!!!! He ran up with a big hug when he saw him at the airport! It’s good to be home!
– Emily
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August 10-11, 2012
These have been our last few days in Ohio. Friday Micah got to spend some time at Katiera’s house with the kids, which is a favorite place for him. And I got to go to lunch with Aunt Barb. And Saturday everyone came over to mom and dad’s. Kari and Jimmy drove up to see us too, and Micah just loved playing with her!!!!! He cried and cried when she left! We had a fun day though on our last day.
– Emily
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August 5-9, 2012
After a long drive, Micah, my mom, and I made it to Wisconsin! My mom was a great help and fun to have along! We had lots of fun in Wisconsin! I already wrote about it in an article though so I don’t want to repeat too much. Micah had lots of fun playing with MiMi and PaPa! I love that he loves to go there and see them! It’s a special place! Micah had tons of fun on the tractor, fishing, boating, wrestling with PaPa, making cookies with MiMi, flying airplanes, swimming in Lake Emily, going to the cabin, and even more! We packed a lot of fun into three days!!! I’m glad we got to make the trip!
– Emily
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August 4, 2012
Today was my parents’ Sunday School picnic. They were excited to get to take Micah because last year they didn’t get to take him, and we were excited too! We had lots of fun. Micah’s cousins got to go too so they had fun playing together and getting into trouble together. Micah got to swim for a while in the big pool, but then they came and said you couldn’t wear swimmy arms so he had to go into the kiddie pool. He was pretty upset, but before he knew it he was having the time of his life in the kiddie pool too. I really like the people in the Sunday School Class. They are wonderful people! We got to play the bean bag toss game, I forget what it’s called, and my team lost, but I really like playing that game! I think we should make ourselves one!
– Emily
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