Greetings from Mexico!

Hola todos amigos y familia!

We are having a fantastic time aboard the Diamond Princess and in Mexico! We just finished our dinner of Alaskan crab legs...all you can eat! Kenny ate plenty! :)

We spent yesterday in Puerta Vallarta and today in Mazatlan. Currently, the ship is sailing on calm seas toward Cabo San Lucas, where we will pass the day tomorrow snorkeling.

At .50 per minute, this is all for now...we will blog a long entry when we return, complete with pictures and more details. Thank you for your prayers, and thanks Mom and Dad for keeping the kids!

Thank you also Caleb Thomas for getting us this fantastic deal; it's been a great blessing and time of relaxation for us.

Love and hugs...hasta luego!

~jac and klc

Family Thanksgiving

We had a very nice Thanksgiving! Hope everyone had a special day!

We're off on our adventure tomorrow. Pray for Jill's parents and the kids too! :)

~Bon Voyage~!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We wish all of our friends and family a very blessed and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  May we remember to give thanks to God for all that He gives us!  We are truly a blessed people, and we are fortunate to live in a country where we can freely thank God and celebrate His mercies to us!

 

Enjoy your turkey!

 

~love Jill and Kenny and kids!

Bridge Cam

For anyone who is interested, you can check the live feed "bridge cam" for the cruise ship we'll be on, starting this Saturday. The link is under our "links" section. Our ship is the Diamond Princess! :)

Please pray for us while we are gone 11/25 - 12/2...that God would richly bless our time together as a couple. Also for our kids, that they would be well behaved for my parents!

More later....
~jac

Busy!

Happy Tuesday!  We are busy getting ready to leave today to head down to Southern CA for Thanksgiving!  The clothes are packed, the school books are packed and the CRUISE bags are packed!  We are pretty excited!  :)

Congratulations to our boys...Nathan, Tim and Dan all passed their color belt tests on Saturday!  Nathan and Tim are now black stripes and Dan is a green stripe.
Nathan and Tim are one level below Black Belt now, which they hope to achieve by this time next year!!

Sorry this is short, but I have to get busy so we can leave on time!  Pray for us, as we make our way down I-5 later today.

More later ~jac

One week away!

Nothing much new with us! Just our normal stuff going on around here, with piano lessons, dance class, TaeKwon-Do and such. Today Lizzy and I spent a couple of hours at Stef's house, with Jess and Jackson, and Jane and Annaliese. Lizzy enjoys being the "big kid"...her favorite thing of course, is to hold baby Rachel. :)

Tonight I'm going to our church's Women's Bible Study...so I need to go get dinner ready for my family. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Thanksgiving is ONE WEEK AWAY!

Monday...

Monday again already! We had a very nice weekend. Friday night we spent at the Betti's house for a yummy dinner with our Brentwood friends (Arnolds, Kempers, Bettis). It was a nice evening! Saturday we just hung out at home, having pancakes for breakfast, running errands and doing stuff around here. I actually go to work on my Creative Memories album for a few hours, off and on! That was a treat! Saturday night Kenny and I got to go out for a bit by ourselves, which is always a nice break. :)

Sunday we had a good day at church, and heard a sermon in the morning that was excellent! In the evening we had a guest speaker from Kenya...very interesting and good to hear him speak.

So, all in all...a good weekend! Today it's cold and chilly, so we're staying inside...until Dan's piano lesson this afternoon.

~jac

Happy Birthday!

Today is Kenny's dad's 85th birthday!

Tomorrow is Kenny's brother Brian's 40-something birthday!

Happy Birthday to both! :o)

Can it really be Friday again already?!?!

Why does time go by SO fast?? Here it is, Friday again already and another week behind us. We had a good week, and now Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away!

Wednesday we had to go on a kitty hunt. As we were pulling out of the garage for Prayer Meeting, Belle went running at full speed out of the garage. For those of you who know our cat Belle, for her to run at top speed is quite a feat b/c she is a big, fat princess cat. :) So, we stop the car, Kenny and I jump out to grab her...but she is no where to be found. After looking in the bushes for a good 10 minutes, Kenny left for Prayer Meeting with the younger three kids and Nathan and I kept looking.

Now before you think "why go to all that trouble looking for a cat...cats come back when they're hungry" keep in mind that she has no front claws. If she got into a fight, we can't afford the vet bill right now! So, my main motivation was to get that cat before some other cat picked a fight with her. To make this long story short...she finally came back about 45 minutes later, waddling down the sidewalk as if she owns the street. Silly cat! We used to have a cat named Ernie who would do the same thing...escape.

Tonight we're going to the Betti's house for dinner, with our Brentwood friends. Knowing Jane, it will be a delicious feast! And for Emile, I promise not to make a Weight Watchers dessert with disappearing cream cheese filling! :)

Have a good day!

Back from the Dentist

Lizzy and I had an excellent visit to the dentist this morning. No cavities and no other problems. Thank the Lord with us for His kind mercies. This xray is not mine. It just makes the post more interesting.

Keeping it up to date

Greetings All,

In order for a blog to be read, it must be kept up to date. Therefore, I'm keeping it up to date. Jill cut all the kids' hair, plus she'll do mine in a bit. Observe the various shades. If you're bored, you could determine the order of the haircuts by the layering of the hair on the floor. It wasn't done in age order, and remember, mine's not there.

On another note, I had the privilege of visiting San Francisco today. I should have taken a picture from my phone to share. It was a beautiful sunny day, in the 70's. And, I wasn't accosted by homeless people nor did I get a parking ticket, having spent $5.00 on parking meters.

If you squint your eyes at the picture above, you can faintly see an upside down teddy bear face, or perhaps it's a Chupacabra.

The kids!

Good Monday morning! Well, someone requested some pictures of the kids; maybe a good idea huh? They are all doing well. Nathan is 14 and in 9th grade this year. Tim is 12 and in 7th grade. They are both still taking piano lessons, and really play quite well! It's such a blessing to hear them play. They also are both hoping to be Black Belts in TaeKwon-Do by next year! Pretty cool!

Dan is 8, and in 3rd grade. He also takes piano lessons (from Stef) and is doing well. He is going to be testing for his green stripe in TaeKwon-Do soon. Elisabeth (aka Lizzy Lou) is 5, and in Kindergarten. She enjoys her dance class, where they practice tap and jazz.

The picture of Kenny, Jill and Nathan was taken at our church's 20th Anniversary Banquet last month. It was a wonderful evening to celebrate God's blessings! :o)

Now it's complete....

Greetings friends...here is my offering; more pictures from the camping trip.

Yesterday I worked on my truck all day; replaced the power steering pump so that it doesn't drip oil all over our driveway anymore. It took a long time, but it was fun. I reflected on the successful operation and thanked God for His mercy in sparing me injury - not even a bloody knuckle!

This is for Jason....

Okay Jason, here's a good fire picture just for you. From the camping trip, of course. I guess it's for Jeff too, since he took it. Katy will be impressed especially. haha

I need to get Kenny set up with his OWN name now...I'm off to figure that out!

Still testing

Now I'm testing out how to publish from my email! :o) Maybe when we go on our cruise in 21 short days, we can blog from sea!?

Meeting new friends...

Last night we had our first meeting with our Keepers of the Faith groups. This is the Christian equivalent of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. We had the girl's group meet at our house, and made beautiful journals for the girls to start to learn to journal. This is not something that comes easily to ME, but I hope to encourage this good habit in my children while they are still young. Maybe I'll start one of my own! :)

The boys met at another family's home and made marshmallow guns out of PVC pipe! It was a fun evening, and we are looking forward to getting to know these other Christian, homeschooling families!

Still trying to figure this out! :)

Okay, now we're learning how to upload a picture! This one was taken on July 4th at the Kemper's house! Happy Belated Birthday America! :o)

Test

We're trying to figure out how to do this! We aren't very computer "savvy!"