Fall Break part 3 Newport Beach/Balboa

Walking down the pier towards Ruby's for lunch
Lunch at Ruby's at the end of the pier
Kids putting together their cars that came with their lunch
Hannah working hard at hers see the ocean in the back it was such a great view
I went outside on the pier and took a picture looking in at my family
It was such a beautiful day in Newport
my cute kiddos
see they do love each other
I miss the beach, there is Ruby's out at the end of the pier
Fun with dad
Brian trying to out run the water
he was kind enough to pose for a picture
I miss the beach it's so beautiful
Another fun filled day of fall break


We spent the day at Newport Beach and lunching at Ruby's on the pier we had so much fun
(I wish we had the beach in Arizona.)

Fall Break part 2 Seaport Village

A day at Seaport Village
Smile!
It was a very pretty hot day

can you tell which ones are my kids
Enjoying the beauty of San Diego
Looking through a telescope at the ship
Daddy helping Joshua see through the telescope
Aaron & I



We spent the morning at Seaport Village walking around and enjoying more of San Diego. It was very hot this day so we left here around lunch time and went to McDonalds in Del Mar the kids place of choice to eat, then back to OC to clean up and go to church for dinner and Awana.

Fall Break part 1 Sea World

Joshua didn't want his picture taken can you tell
Checking out the penguins
You are never too old to be pushed in a stroller
looking at the baluga whale
So sweet they are
They sat in the soak zone of the dolphin show and Joshua got wet the most
Underneath this wall of water are Brian & Aaron at the Shamu show me and the kids sat up high
Seaworld was all decorated for Halloween
Cute kids

Aaron loves Elmo
Are we cute or what?
We had lots of fun
they whirled and twirled
A full moon over Atlantis at Sea World time to go home

We got up early Tuesday morning and headed to Sea World with Aaron & the kids it was a very fun day. We loved getting time with Aaron.

Womans Retreat

Getting everyones cell numbers before we take off
Julie & Lori
Getting ready to pray before we left
Kim painted our backdrop and was our MC for the weekend
Hanging out together

Linda & Janice ran our boutique
Cindy & Amy listen as Lori teaches


We had a great weekend growing together in God's love. We had great teaching, hilarious skits, beautiful boutique, spirit filled afterglow, great songs for worship and lots of fellowship. God did some great things that weekend and lives have been forever changed. The enemy fought hard to disrupt our time together but the Lord put him in his place. I can't wait to see what next year holds. My word this year was "Affection " I am looking forward to studying my word. Thank you Lord for a great weekend together.

The Angels in heaven are rejoicing

At 1:50am this morning my sweet friend took her last breath here on earth and her first in heaven. The heavens were rejoicing for today was Donna's graduation day. Today there were many tears of sadness & joy shed for Donna she is an amazing mother, wife, daughter and friend. We will miss her more than words can say. I had the privilege of making her family dinner tonight, what a joy they were to be around they ministered to me more than I did to them. Her children smiling because mommy was with Jesus and not sick anymore. The Holy Spirit was so in that home today there was total peace there. Donna you were an amazing woman of God, your love for him was evident in all you did. I am honored to have had the chance to know you and call you my friend. I am going to miss you so much but I will see you again one day.

Please Pray for Our Retreat

Lori Eggenburg our Speaker
The woman's ministry team

Please keep our womans retreat, our Speaker Lori Eggenburg, our woman's leadership team and all the ladies who will be attending this year in your prayers this weekend. Also if you could pray for Janice and I we are both not feeling well. Thank you for your prayers I can't wait to get back and post all the amazing things God did over the weekend.

Sunday was a good day in sports

The Bears beat the Lions and are now in 1st place

The Steelers beat the Jaguars and are still in 1st place
The Angels beat Boston and if they can win tonight they can go home and can clinch their division

And to top it off Calvary Chapel Coed Softball team won a very hard faught softball game and are now 2-1

Prayer Please

This is what one does when they are sick
They watch High School Musical 2
Believe it or not he has strep and has a fever

Well we just got back from the doctor and my little guy has Strep, swollen glands and his tonsils are swollen and along with this comes a fever and a sore throat. Now I know he doesn't look sick but he is so please pray for him and that the rest of us don't get it. I am going on retreat next weekend and I am singing all weekend please pray I don't get it. I spoke to Joshua's teacher today and she said that the table of kids that Joshua sits with at school are all out today with strep 5 kids from the same class. (you see his teacher had strep last week) Joshua has been not acting like himself lately and even slept 13 1/2 hours the other night now we know why his body was trying to fight it off. So until tomorrow morning Joshua is contagious. According to the doctor you are not contagious after 24 hours of antibiotics. Thank you all for your prayers for Joshua and the rest of us.