Family Vacation

We had a great time just taking a break. I had checked the weather before we left but I guess the forcast changed. The first night we had a great time making smores and watching the fire. The next day we went fishing. Greg caught quite a few fish. On Friday Greg's parents and brother and sister-in-law joined us. We were able to still have a fire and such that night. We went fishing in the morning and from noon on it rained and rained and rained. We were not prepared for the cold. We only each had one sweatshirt and the kids each had a jacket. So anyway our camping adventure was still fun and we had a good time with our family. Next time though, we will have lots of warm clothes.

Piece of Cake???

Recently one of the couples in our church celebrated there 25th wedding anniversary. Praise the Lord. There family had a suprise party for them. I asked if I could do anything to help and they responded that I could make a cake that was some what weddingish. Well sometimes I get these great ideas and sometimes not so great ideas. I decided I was going to go all the way and just make a wedding cake. Now you see the only cakes I have ever made have been the kids birthday cakes. So now realizing I have a lot of work to do I went to talk to my mom who works in a bakery/deli. She has never made a decorated cake either. She offered her help anyhow. This kind lady by God's grace gave me some great advice in the cake decorating isle. I also had a crash course in rose making and so did my mom. Well as you can see it wasn't a complete disaster and actually it was fun. My only piece of advice is you need more than 2 hours to decorate a cake. So anyway, was my idea great? At the time I was not thinking so. But now that everything turned out and the cake actually did make it to the party, it wasn't such a bad idea.
And by the way, Thanks mom, I love you!!

Another Good-Bye

As many of you know we have been very close to Phil and Tiffany for the past almost 3 years. Our apartments for the past year have been back to back and we spent a lot of time with them. The Lord has seen fit to seperate our live through great distance. Phil and Tiffany went to Florida this past month. We went to say good-bye and help a bit with packing. Our kids litterally think they are family. In fact when we went to take a picture of all of us Alyssa said "we need another family picture." We will miss them terribly but we do have this awesome internet to keep in touch. So anyhow, here is our last day with our great friends. Hopefully sometime soon we can see each other agian.

Good o'l pals

Phil and John

Phil and Alyssa

The Whole Gang