10/13/23
Our church had an international fair:
They asked the Young Men and Young Women to present a dance representing USA. We danced to “Cotton Eye Joe”
Mom did it with us!
The Young Women prepared an extra dance to “Party In The USA”!:
“Star ships were meant to fly..”
“Turn on the radio…”
It was So Much Fun!
10/10/23
This time we got a mama cat and her kittens:
Mama cat was super sweet.
She is a bobtail cat with super-long legs!
Her adorable kittens! Although they put holes in the curtains and the couch covers.
10/08/23
Mom asked Facebook for roads that had a tree canopy for pictures and we got a hot tip on a beautiful location just outside of town on a back road. We have a camera, tripod, and a clicker button so we take our own pictures:
9/30/23
We are so grateful for our friends the Lowerys who we have been sharing a session of conference together for many years. It was our turn to have them in our home for the first session of General Conference.
The kittens were a big hit!
The settled down for the first session of conference.
Of course we had a smorgasbord for the occasion:
For the afternoon session of Conference we invited the Araques to join us again. Luna was so excited to see her friends!
We also celebrated Franklin’s birthday!
A homemade card adds a nice touch:
Time to relax with Luna and our foster kitten who is trying to befriend Luna and now Franklin.
Happy Birthday Franklin!
9/25/23
We have been having lots of fun fostering kittens from the Humane Society:
They are just barely starting on regular food so we are supplimenting with bottle feeding:
Dad even got in on the feedings:
After the feedings they are knocked out!
Except this one who still wants to cuddle:
They sleep a lot:
They are very happy to get to know Luna, who incidentally is not happen to get to know them!
More naps:
Luna is being such a good girl!
Time to wash the kitten hair off her:
Napping until Luna gets back:
9/15/23
We decided on a family fun outing to a women’s college soccer game.
University of Florida Vs. University of Missouri
Let’s Go Gators!!
We lost 2-3 but it was still a good game:
09/13/23
We went to a local park that had obstacle course equipment:
Rachel queen!
You got this Lily!
Going up:
Teamwork!
They were very supportive:
No one made this almost impossible leap to the monkey bars but Rachel gave it a shot:
Lizzy’s making her way across with unease:
Good old monkey bars:
Rachel’s crushing this one:
BF’s Lizzy and Lily:
Who wants a frozen icee treat!?
That was an awesome youth activity!
09/09/23
On Saturday we headed back to the Big Bend area for more hurricane clean-up:
the second house was the next door neighbors:
Lizzy got into some poison oak! Her leg was hurting really bad. We doctored her up and she was ready to get back to work:
Rest break:
Still smiling:
We had quite a crew at this location:
Off to the next..a farm:
The animals were happy to be fed (extra) by Lizzy:
Lizzy guy became besties with Lizzy pretty fast:
They actually had a clean up crew come by yesterday so we headed to our next site:
Dad was back on the chainsaw.
Dad cut and we pulled:
And pulled!
This was our hard working team at the last site:
09/11/23
We made the TV news!:
09/06/23
Every Wednesday we get to go to a church activity with our friends. Today we had a lesson on photography taught by Daisy Engebretson. She is taking photography in school and is excited to teach us some things that she’s learned.
09/02/23
Although Gainesville, Florida didn’t get hit by the hurricane the big bend area got a direct hit. The Gainesville Florida Stake were assigned to go help out in Steinhatchee, Florida. Mom, Dad, and Lizzy headed out to serve:
We stopped at the meeting place to pick up our assignments:
We went to our first assignment and started right in to work:
We finished the first job and headed to the next:
Dad is teaching Lizzy how to safely use a chainsaw!
Lizzy found a snake!
09/03/23
We went to church for just the sacrament and then headed right out to the big bend area for more clean-up:
The second house was much more challenging:
Location number three:
09/04/23
On Monday Mom and Dad stayed home to go back to work but Lizzy went back with some ward members to continue to help with the hurricane clean-up. Your amazing Lizzy!