Thursday, July 15, 2004
Check out my fotopage!
Well time is starting to get away from me again so I figured I better post something now. It will be short, but here is what has been going on!
Alicia has been returned home to us safely from the Ukraine where she was on her mission trip! Jordan has also gone to and returned from her preteen camp to Zephyr Baptist Encampment in Sandia, Tx! Both had a great time! Thanks and Praise to Yahweh for bringing them home safely. We still need to pray for the safety and trip home for Ashley and Jena who are away in AZ on a mission trip and will be home on the 18th! So keep them, as well as the rest of their group in your prayers. I also finally got a fotopage so I hope you will check it out! LAURA'S FOTOPAGE
Well I really don't have any other exciting news to report so I will end here. Well actually I have 2 noteworthy things to mention: The twins will be 19 in 3 days and then I will have celebrated 20 years of marriage on the 20th! Hopefully I will get to post again soon but VBS is coming up too so I don't know if I will get a chance to blog, but I will try!
Take care bloggers! Have a glorious day!
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Alicia has been returned home to us safely from the Ukraine where she was on her mission trip! Jordan has also gone to and returned from her preteen camp to Zephyr Baptist Encampment in Sandia, Tx! Both had a great time! Thanks and Praise to Yahweh for bringing them home safely. We still need to pray for the safety and trip home for Ashley and Jena who are away in AZ on a mission trip and will be home on the 18th! So keep them, as well as the rest of their group in your prayers. I also finally got a fotopage so I hope you will check it out! LAURA'S FOTOPAGE
Well I really don't have any other exciting news to report so I will end here. Well actually I have 2 noteworthy things to mention: The twins will be 19 in 3 days and then I will have celebrated 20 years of marriage on the 20th! Hopefully I will get to post again soon but VBS is coming up too so I don't know if I will get a chance to blog, but I will try!
Take care bloggers! Have a glorious day!
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Happy 4th Of July!
Howdy Peeps! I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July weekend! I know mine was great! I got to spend it with friends and family in one of my all time favorite places in the whole world! It was at Camp Alzafar. (Shriner's campground) My grandpa is a Shriner and so he has a cabin and I also have an Uncle with a cabin too! (located right behind my grandpa's)! I have been going out there as long as I have been alive. I have a lot of fun childhood memories (as well as newer ones) that have to do with that place! Now that I am a mom I have been bringing my children out there to make memories of their own! Just as I hope that when they have children they can share it with their own children. Basically it is a Shriner's campground with a pool, playground, tennis courts, pavilion, all seated at the top of a cliff overlooking the guadalupe river which part of it runs through the camp! My great-grandfather was one of the founding fathers of the campground so he was either the first or second to get his choice of where to put his cabin! The location he chose was right smack in the middle of everything! Our cabin has the best access to everything. Due to floods over a few years, where the river swelled so high that it went up over the cliff up into the cabins, there used to be a really neat pathway with steps going down to the riverbanks which had many a great stone for skippin' on the river! Now the path is blocked by hundred year old trees that were once along the banks of the river. Actually there wasn't even a bank this time to stand on due to all the recent rains we have been having lately. The water was up over the bottom of the ramp that normally would take you down onto the bank. Although it was a great level for tubing! The brave ones that went were able to go twice since it was only a 25 minute float! Usually it is like about 45 minutes to an hour or something like that. Anyways, once a month they have a big dance at the camp with a DJ and all. It's always a fun filled day! Well they always have the dance for July on the Saturday closest to the 4th so it usually draws a big crowd! It's so much fun watching everybody of all ages dancing in the big pavilion! I remember when I was little the dance was so different. The little kids weren't allowed to stay till midnight back then. (The dance probably didn't last til midnight back then either). Also the dancing was a little different. They had a live band instead of a DJ. The men and women would dress up in their square dancing clothes and they would do square dancing and the polka, etc. It was so neat watching the grownups dance. Me and my siblings would sneak over to the dance and hide behind the picnic tables and watch. (one advantage to having the best cabin location!) They all thought we were fast asleep. The ladies had bright colored dresses that were full at the bottom that flowed when they danced. It was neat. It is still fun now. Just different. My kids are actually allowed to get out there and dance which is great to see! I know we always wanted to get out there and dance because we could see and hear the grownups having fun across the way at the pavilion! You see as a kid the front part of our cabin was a screened-in porch that me & my sister's slept out on in the roll away beds & cots. (Now it is all enclosed.) A lot of our summer vacations as a child were spent there. The playground is still (for the most part) is all original. It is an old iron playground that is solid! It originally had a little train that went around the playground and along the edge of the cliff till there was an accident. It happened before I was born. And the camp folklore (yes there is a lot) is that the train fell off the cliff and someone died. Turns out that it did come off the tracks by the cliff and a lady fell out and broke her leg or something. They just decided to get rid of the train after that, although the depot (A covered bench) is still there. There is also my sister's favorite thing, a maypole. There used to be 2 but the chains always seem to break off of the little one. She always calls herself queen of the maypole, but two Joshes de-throned her. (meanies) But she did pretty good considering she was twice their age! And little josh (as she called him) looked like he was hurting. The other josh was her son in-law who wasn't gonna let her win just so he can rub it in! I guess next time we will have to see which josh can hold out the longest? Well before this post turns into a novela, I will end it here. Maybe I will continue my next post with some more reflections of my camp memories! Check out megan's fotopage in the next couple of days and she should have pics up from camp! Last thing - it was great to see some of you fellow bloggers out there. One of the greatest things about being at camp is sharing it with great people! Take care!
And one more thing -
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And the rains fall soft upon your fields.
And, until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
(traditional gaelic blessing)
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And one more thing -
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And the rains fall soft upon your fields.
And, until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
(traditional gaelic blessing)
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