Past few days

Happy Birthday, Candace!! She's 6 today!



The 23rd: Instead of sitting around at the McMillans doing nothing, I got to go to art class with Anna. Yayness! I'll post what we drew when I can get ahold of a scanner. Seeing our old house was weird... then we visited some old neighbors and went to an Arab family's house. I spent most of that time drawing.



The 24th: In the morning the Bennet's brought Einstein bagels for breakfast (yummy... I ate 2 1/2, plus a bunch of MASSIVE strawberries - the small ones were huge!). After they left I practiced my guitar for a while, played the piano, and watched part of Little House on the Pararie (Season 3). Dad, Nate, and Candace got home from somewhere, and we all watched Charlotte's Web as a family. The one with Dakota Fanning - it was good. In the evening we went to the Cherry's for dinner. I borrowed the first Underland Chronicles (Gregor the Overlander, The Prophecy of Bane) from them, and I've already finished the first one. I love them! They may seem a bit young, but they're still reaaaaaaaally good.



Today: Mom went to get her liscense renewed, and I watched more Little House, then read some. We went over to the Sauve's (www.9soladeogloria.blogspot.com), bringing them a meal of cheese bread and zatar, along with the spinach pies, meat pies, and some other sort of pies. Mrs. Sauve showed us around the house, and Christianna, Grace, Cait, and I were playing with their Chinchillas for a while. After lunch, we went out front and pulled weeds and did other gardening for a while. It was fun helping them, and we've also not done any gardening for a long time - I've trimmed our bushes and straightened the front yard before, but not any actual gardening. After the Sauves, we came back to the Swifts (where we're staying), and then headed off to the Simnowitz's. Nate played with Matthew and Michael while Candace tagged along, and I watched Jonathan for a while, and then read and drew some (I got a pretty good one done - of Matthias in my book).


(Edit - that was yesterday, we had to run out of the door for the Simnowitzs... today Cait and Daddy are driving up to Alma for the Alma Highland Games, and I'm going over to Emily's for a while, and Naomi and Micaiah are going to be there... what a day for rain.)


Over'n'out,
Kilo-Yankee

MI and God's Grace

Wish I could stick a quote from Princess bride (the book) right here, but I can't think of any good ones, so I won't.
Anyways, we're in Michigan now, but almost weren't. We got to the airport, and my dad had left his bag in the rental car - his bag that had all our tickets, his laptop, etc. Thankfully, we got it back pretty quickly - the rental place found it and sent it on the next bus out. Then, in security, we found out my mom's ID has expired. We didn't have her passport, birth certificate or anything with us, so she had to go back to check-in and get something done with her boarding pass.
The whole time we were fretting we'd miss our flight somehow... but then we found out we had gotten to the airport 2 hours early - our flight left at 2:40, not 12:40 - my dad had screwed up times for getting there and leaving. So we had been there at 10:40.
We sat around and played mau for a while, ate lunch, and then got on the plane... it went smoothly... then we got to Denver, and had a 20 minute connection - we were in Denver for about 2 minutes. Out of the plane - onto the next, buckle up, leave. We weren't sure that our luggage had made it - praise God, it had!!!!!!

God is great, sing his praise

Fill the earth, fill the heavens...

Yesterday we went over to the pastor of our Arabic Churches house and played with their 3 kids - Faith, Grace, and Ibrahim. They were all adorable - Faith is only 5, Grace is 2, and Ibrahim is 1. After that we left for the A's, which was LOADS of fun. At first Dayna, Cait, and I were talking, then we ate, and after dessert Darren brought out the larps. So Nate, Danny, Darren, and I larped for a while. Danny, who's done some fencing, and I tried to fence with the larps, but they (although smaller than ours) were a bit too heavy. It was fun, though, I haven't larped someone of about equal skill in a loooong time - so it was a long fight. In our second duel, though, I backed into a rose bush, so my left arm is covered in scratches. okay, it was covered in scratches, only 3 stayed. Then we put the larps away and went to the park, where we played tag for a while. I got blisters on my hand from doing the monkey bars so much, and slipped a whole lot on this one bridge that was broken, and then just as we were about to leave, I made the wrong choice and turned the wrong way and I got stuck up on something you go under, hanging by my hand... so I have a big scratch from that.. all on my left side. As usual.

Anywho, today we're going to the McM's, and then to our old house.

Probably not quite as fun as yesterday, but not every day can be that fun...

Over'n'out

Kilo-Yankee

Welcome to NY...

This was on Friday:
Welcome to New York, mate.

Everything on Emirates went fine - we got our luggage checked fine, got through security fine, and the flight went fine. (Food was yummy - 'cept breakfast was weird.... - and we watched 4 movies - I watched Night at the Museum, Miss Potter, Flicka, and PotC1. Mucho fun.)

But we land at JFK airport, an hour late, with an hour to make our connection. We get through customs and passport check easily... get our luggage.... and this is where the trouble starts.
To sum it up, I hate JFK airport.We missed our flight because of the way the terminals for Delta are, and the next flight out was overbooked. So now we're at Holiday Inn overnight and most of today. It was fun, though - so far we've played mau and signs as a family.

I started reading Quo Vadis. It's reaaaaaaaaaaaaally good so far. I've hit a breakthrough in my writing as well.

Prayer requests:
1. No-stress.... patience with each other, etc.
2. That our flight today wouldn't get delayed or anything and that everything would go smoothly and that we'd get to Washington safely. And a praise that we've gotten safely this far.

Over'n'out
Kilo-Yankee


Now we're in WA...
Saturday I finished writing Part 2 of my story (yay!). The cousins all came over and we played Capture the Flag, and Hannah and I watched Little Women. Today we went to Church and then celebrated Nate's birthday over Brunch. When the K's get here we'll do gifts and then we'll to Candace's birthday.

Tomorrow we fly to MI.

Ky

Testing... just testing to make sure the email to blogger works.

Had a wonderful night on the beach with my Well Group... we danced around at the edge of the water for a little while, then sat down and read some inspiring Bible verses, sang some songs, and prayed. On the way back to the C's we got Ice cream and then at the C's, I looked at skirt patterns.
Then I had to say farewells... especially one to Sharon... their family is heading back to the states to live... hopefully - Lord willing - only temporarily.
Keep them in your prayers.

Over'n'out
Ky

(next post - from the states!)

He has shown thee, O man, what is good and what the Lord requires of thee. To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. ~Micah 6:8~

One Passion! Livin' For HIM

'Cuz she's so cute...

Candace and I had a bit of fun yesterday...

I dressed her up in all sorts of stuff and took pictures.

She was supposed to be "sleeping"... couldn't stop laughing, though.

Ride 'em cowboy!

Those aren't all of them, there are about 20 or so, but those are the ones I think are the best.

It's hard to believe she's almost six - I still remember when she was born... I woke up to a baby crying and thought she had been born at home, when really it was a good friend of the family's little boy, because she was babysitting us. I remember making carrot muffins and a banner; taking the muffins to the hospital.
Ah, memories....

Kyleigh

Stop and Think.

It's long, but it's well worth it.

"I will not run on a Sunday."

Yesterday we watched "Chariots of Fire." And, as after most movies, it left me thinking. I don't run, and I'll most likely never make it to news in fencing. But even still - Eric Liddell said "I won't run on a Sunday," and respected God's law. I've actually already had that problem with fencing. All the tournaments are on Fridays. And, in Dubai, the weekend is Friday-Saturday, and we have Church on Friday. So I've had to say no to all the tournaments so far.
But what about you? What would you have said?

Kilo-Yankee