One Year Anniversary!

A year ago yesterday, Friday May 16th, was our final moving in day! To celebrate, praise our gracious Lord and thank all the people who came and helped us we had a lovely evening of fellowship with our old and new friends as we played games, talked, shared a delicious meal and sang around the campfire as the stars came out last night! God has been so merciful and gracious to us and we can not thank Him enough for blessing us with this property and all our wonderful friends!
Here are some pictures, that barely give a glimpse, of our blessed evening!



Church family and neighbors

Josiah, decked out in his farmer outfit playing hockey with Cade.

The chef!


The whole group gathering for prayer



Thank you to everyone who brought food!



Will and Josiah



Country friends/neighbors



Our dear friends, the Whites from down in Dearborn. We go way back with them!





What a sweet picture! Christianna and Yesenia


The beautiful sunset.

Singing praises to our Savior. What a precious time, singing old hymns, choruses and hearing the young children lift their sweet voices to Jesus!
To God be all the glory!

The latest and greatest at Lily Spring Gardens!

Finishing up on the landscaping job...

Josiah working...

...and having fun!

Our helpful tractor driver with our nifty dump trailer!

And with just a few more added plants we are all set and surrounded with beautiful Gardens!

This lovely Fuchsia adds the perfect touch.

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Can you see it? Now that's some camouflage!

Josiah loves frogs and was quite happy to find this

little tree frog on some log discs that were on the deck.

Check out the yellow legs! You can't see them unless he moves or you do this! =)

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The beauty of God's creation!

Lily of the Valley

frosted dandelion fluff

Thyme leaf Speedwell

The beautiful sky Thursday night!

The LORD is good to all,

and His tender mercies are over all His works.

All Your works shall praise You, O LORD,

and Your saints shall bless You.

They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,

and talk of Your power,

to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,

and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.

Psalm 145:9-12

Asia Study

Last Monday Tuesday and Wednesday our family took a tour through certain countries of Asia. The “youngest three” Josh, Christianna and Josiah had just finished studying the Asian continent and took us through it via reports pictures and meals.

On Monday we stopped in Mongolia, Christianna’s country and learned about the land and its historical figures. The next day Josh took us through South Korea, (convenient that’s the country where John is;) and we tried our hand at eating with chopsticks.

Grace said that you nearly starved before you got a bite to your mouth.

The meal consisted of chicken, rice (the sticky kind) and corn, which was the absolutely hardest to eat.

Our final stop was India, here we got to eat with our hands. Great fun!

This is "Naan" a special Indian bread. Everyone thought it was very tasty.

Josiah had a wonderful time making Indian Ice cream (and eating it=). It was very interesting learning about all the different countries there cultures lifestyle government and spiritual state.

We need to pray for the people of India that they might see the foolishness of the Hindu caste system and turn to the One who created all men in "one blood". We need to pray that God would burden peoples hearts to become missionaries to Mongolia, to show the people that their simplicity and care for nature is not good enough, and that they must serve the Creator not the creation, and we need to praise God for the Christian's in South Korea (it is said that South Korea sends out the more missionaries than any other country) and pray that he would continue to strengthen His church there.

Greenfield Village

Yesterday Faith, Grace and Christianna were blessed with the opportunity to go to Greenfield Village with our friends the Brysons! We haven't been there for several years so it was nice to be back and see some of our favorite places and just enjoy the village atmosphere. The sun was bright and hot the whole time, with not a cloud in the sky, so we came back a little toasted but otherwise it was a comfortable visit. As always we were not able to see everything in just one days time and besides that, our feet could not have taken any more walking but we did stop at quite a few places and enjoyed a train ride around the whole place.

So without any further ado, here are some of the pictures that Grace was able to take of our day at The Henry Ford Greenfield Village. Enjoy!

It's lambing season!

The famous clock!

Waving to the train







Blowing some steam

The Wright family home




Through the covered bridge




Adorable duckling






On our way out we stopped for a chat with mama duck.