Flowers

Here are some images of the different flowers that are blooming around our place!

Lily Springs is thriving by the grace of God!

A Daisy/Lily bouquet I made.

Mom's mothers day rose

Sweet peas!! This is the first year we have ever tired to grow sweet peas and really like how the turned out growing up our fence! This really isn't the best picture of them, they are much fuller now and sport about 9 different colors!

Our Hostas along the side of the deck are blooming nicely.

We are never going to buy greenhouse grown Alyssum again! Home grown get so much bigger and fuller and simply smell gorgeous! Faith also started these cute little pansies from seed too.

Sweet honey smelling Alyssum

Growing only from a small base, they spread into bushes of white and purple flowers!

To add to all of our orange lilies that gave us our name, some friends gave us some of these special yellow variety to add to our landscape.

And of course I couldn't live without my daisies so here they are, brought from the other house, in the corner bed of our property.

Birthday Celebrations during the Storm

Wednesday was the day late celebration of Mom and Aunt Carmen's birthday.

The cake was a joint effort. Christianna made it, I (Grace) whipped up the icing and Christianna and Josiah decorated it.

In blew Carmen and Tim and G&G on the wings of the storm that was billowing over us, poring down gallons of rain and a pelting of hail.

The wind was pretty strong too and this is what the back end of the garden looked like after it stopped raining! Check out the corn row on the far side! =O

Josiah, always finding some sort of aquatic creature to befriend.

We were going to have a cookout dinner on our big deck but because of the storm our large garage worked nicely!

Inside we were nice and dry, grilling up delicious chicken kabobs, while outside the storm raged on, thankfully blowing from the north so we could have the garage doors open the whole time!

Birthday girls!

Sorry Tia, I just had to put this one on!

We got Aunt Carmen and Uncle Tim to try our "favorite" sunglasses on!

This is one of mom's gifts. A levitating globe!

Pretty amazing! Magnetically suspended, it is sure to attract a "world" of comments! =)

Happy birthday Mom and Aunt Carmen! May God bless you with many more!

More Pictures

Tuesday evening we enjoyed the blessed fellowship with friends from Church and their son and his family who are starting a Church down in Georgia. Sorry I didn't take that many pictures and unfortunately I accidentally deleted one of their little girl. Anyways...we had a wonderful and uplifting time together and thank the Lord for these brothers and sisters in Christ!


Little Josiah in the sand box


The sports boys! Cade and Josh throwing a ball around.


Noah and Lincoln playing dress up. =)


The two Josiahs!

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible,

to God who alone is wise,

be honor and glory forever and ever.

Amen.

I Timothy 1:17

Latest Happenings

Last Wednesday we stopped by the fair (some of us girls had been judges the weekend before)to see all the animals and say hi to some friends.






Now thats one BIG turtle!


Aww! Cute little goat!


Safari animals


The famous little piggy races! I remember watching those when I was very little!


Thursday was another Softball game. The games are getting more exciting as we go, God is keeping us humble, and blessing our efforts by letting us win every one!


Go Josh!!


This little friendly guy was found at the baseball field.


Friday afternoon we headed over to Aunty Carmen and Uncle Tim's to have dinner with them and Grandpa and Grandma who had just flown in from Florida the day before.



It was good to see them and hope to be able to spend more time together throughout their stay here.


Pretty roses


The soon to be birthday girls!


Josiah's hot dog...lovely isn't it? =p

...More pictures to come! This week is sure to be full of them!

Update from John

Dear Friends and Family,
The Lord has taught me many things over the last three months and I continue to grow and mature through his leadings. This last week here in Korea was one of mighty ups and downs emotionally and mentally but I believe God is using all this to make me a better man.

So that said I have some good news and some bad news for all of you back in the homeland.

First the good news. God was gracious and I have succesfully passed all 5 of my initial CLEP tests. Thank you to all of you for your prayers for that. It was really encouaging how God worked out the testing schedule despite initial difficulties and then gave me the mental capacity to pass all the tests.

Now for the Bad news. After much prayer and seeking advice and counsel from loved ones I have decided per my bosses request to remain here in S. Korea for an additional 3 months. My new home date is not finalized yet but will be some time mid October. I will deeply miss the opportunities to see all of you as we had planned but will try to merely delay those plans and still visit with you all in October. My main duties as before will be program development as before but also at least for the rest of July I will be teaching 4 days a week both a online class with some 6 grade students and also my teaching duties with the kindergarten class have been increased to 4 days instead of 1. I will be continuing taking CLEP tests and aquiring my degree. Hopefully I will be able to get around a little more now that I am a little more used to things here.

My best wishes to all of you and I will try to do a little better job with updates over the next three months.
Take care and God bless you all.

Sincerely
John Sauve

Farm sittin'

A few weeks ago we were asked to "farm sit" for the couple who we get eggs from. It was a fun experience and made us even more anxious to have our own chickens some day!




Inside the chicken coop.






Farmer boy and the chicken


An ivy covered window in the barn


This little guy was not very happy with us being there, but was brave enough to come out on the rocks and yell at us!


The beautiful Perennial garden




Faith with one of the fancy chickens


This little lady wanted to explore the farm and not stay in her pen! We finally got her headed in the right direction, though not quite at the right level. She is sitting on the coop roof in this picture.