SURPRISE!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

I flew to Washington to surprise my Dad for his 70th birthday. It was quite the eventful trip. I arrived in Seattle around 10:45 p.m. on Friday. My luggage, however, didn't arrive until 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. We were supposed to leave for Yakima at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday...so we went through the whole "do we just leave now and just buy everything I need, or do we just wait." We decided to wait. The birthday/Christmas party didn't start until 6:30 p.m. and since my Dad didn't even know I was there, we just went back to the airport (after talking with someone from American Airlines, which invloved a few tears) and I got my suitcase as it came on to the carousel. Then I booked it out to the car before Ellen had to circle the airport again. Phew...then we were on our way.

Here we are an Snoqualamie Pass while Tom got a gallon of Pepsi :) Look at all that SNOW!!!

Here's me and Winona. It's good to know my long arms come in handy for picture taking :)

Here is my Aunt Shirley and my Momma, it was quite the feat to get this picture, my mom kept talking so we ended up with numerous pictures of her in mid conversation :)

My Uncle Doug & Aunt Shirley

Can we just take a normal picture? Oh...this is normal :)

Mom and Ellen dancing before the wonderful DJ started...OYE!!!
Michael did not get the "rhythm" gene. Here he is doing his asthma inhaler dance!Here's my Dad eating some of his birthday cake :)
OK, I hope you laugh at this picture as hard as we do. I mean we about can't breathe everytime we see this picture. Donald was taking this for us and so he's looking at the screen, then all of the sudden he looks up at us over the camera, and I knew exactly what he was doing...the other sisters didn't...sad that the youngest sibling is the smartest :)
Mom & Dad dancing up a storm.
This is my second cousin Janet K and her hubby Mac. She used to teach me dance lessons when I was little.
Here we are attempting to take a family picture. First of all...that's Ellen in the middle, and she's standing straight up...still can barely see her. Donald looks like he's about to grab that candle, and we don't even want to know what he's going to do with it. Focus People!!!!
This is more like it!

Christmas Program

" Christmas at Bethlehem Gulch"

The boys had their Christmas program last week, it was super cute. I just love to watch kids perform. You just never know what's going to happen :)

Here's Zeke in his spot.

It was hard to get this picture of Price, he was hidden by some other kids during most of the program from where we were sitting. You'd think on the front row that you'd be able to see a little better.

Here's Zeke singin' away :) Bobby leaned over during the program and said "he's just like his Momma" :) Precious...
With Mom
With Dad

Building a New Church!

Villa Oaks Baptist Church had it's ground breaking service today. The weather wasn't the greatest but God was just showering his blessings on us. Here are a few pictures of the mornings events.

This picture is of us with Mrs. Hale. Her husband Dr. Clinton Hale was the founder of Villa Baptist Church and Baptist Academy. She's a wonderful Godly woman and she's just as cute as can be :) And you've gotta love her hard hat...I wanna know where we can get one :)

Here's Pastor Willis doin' some diggin'! He just learned how to run this a few days ago :) He's a quick learner!!
This is some of the Deacons and Pastor putting some muscle behind those shovels.
We are so excited to see what God is going to do at our new property. We're praying that the school will be moving not far behind.