Volleyball!

Tomorrow is our first game! I'm so excited! We took team pictures this morning. Varsity has the crazy neon socks! Can you find me up there?

I'm still working on those Dominican Republic posts! They're coming!

The Dominican Republic

I put a video together of the missions trip we took last week. Over the next few weeks I’ll do individual posts with pictures about what we did there, but if you just want a summary, here it is. :)

(If you'd like to view it in a bigger window, click on the video once it starts playing and it will take you to the Youtube page for it.)

Josh VS. The Fish

Josh worked on this fish for about 45 minutes! It’s the biggest he’s ever caught: 33 inches long!

Construction Again on Happy Hill!

Grandma and Grandpa L started building their house! Hopefully they will be down here by Christmas. Their house in IN is for sale, and had a showing today! Please pray that they are able to sell their house fairly quickly.

I can’t wait to have both sets of grandparents living so close!

Lake Watauga

The last night our family was here, we all piled in our cars and drove to Lake Watauga! My Uncle Rick and Aunt Jeri have friends who own a small home on the lake. They have a beautiful deck attached to it. We’ve been there once before, and it was so fun to hang out there again!

The kids had fun fishing with nets and poles. Josh especially loved it-not just because he already loves fishing! More on that later.

It was also my parent’s anniversary! Aren’t they a cute couple? :)

The owner of the house took us out on his boat, and we got to go water skiing!

There’s mom! She’s great at water skiing, even though she hadn’t done it in a long time. She used to live with Uncle Rick and Aunt Jeri, and they went water skiing all the time during the summer!

Dad was pretty good at it too, but he did entertain us with some big falls. ;)

I even tried it! It was my very first time, so it took a few tries for me to get up, but once I did I stayed up for about five minutes! It was super fun.

When we got back from water skiing we just had fun hanging out and making s’mores.

There’s Ashton, one of my many second cousins. :)

There’s there whole family! Mom’s cousin, Chip, his wife Ginny, and their two kids, Luke and Ashton.

Ashton’s so sweet. :)

Uncle Rick, Aunt Jeri, Grandma F, and Grandpa F. Uncle Rick and Grandpa are brothers. They are so funny together!

I loved having all this family here! It was a blast. Hopefully we can visit them in Texas soon!

Missions

Today we leave on our missions trip to the Dominican Republic! We will be gone one week and will spend our time down there volunteering in schools and churches and spending time with the people down there. Please pray for our whole family while we are there. Pray that we will have good attitudes, that we will all stay healthy, and that we will be able to make an impact on the people for Christ.

I won’t have internet while we there, so I’ve scheduled a few posts, including this one, to post while we’re gone. When we return, I’m sure I’ll have plenty of pictures to post!

Adios!

Waterfalls with Family: Part 2!

When the rest of my mom’s family got here, we had to show them some Tennessee beauty too! We took them to Blue Hole, a group of waterfalls that we have been to before and we love!

There are three different connected waterfalls at this spot, but this one is my favorite!

You can go behind the waterfall into this little cave.

Another waterfall is below this one. There’s a pool to swim in, if you’re brave enough to face the freezing water!

This was taken from the bottom pool. There’s Matt, Jodi, and Sophia!

Here’s the bottom waterfall! That’s Ashton on the right.

Emma loved climbing over all the rocks. :)

There’s Josh, of course wearing his hat!

Mollie wasn’t too sure about that cold water…

All of the kids loved their taste of Tennessee! And I loved being back at a waterfall I love. :)

Up next: Lake Watauga!