A Vacation...

Last week we had the opportunity to visit my family in Indiana. We were only able to stay for five days as Josh had to get back to the farm. It was a blessing to be able to get away and visit family and friends.

On Friday we went to the Indianapolis Zoo...

Saturday we all headed toward Chicago, IL to meet friends of my parents ~ the Paine family. We stayed for one night at their beautiful home. They were very hospitable!

Sunday morning Josh and I felt especially encouraged and challenged by listening to Dr. Paine and from the testimonies and blessings that were shared.

I am so thankful that my parents desired for us to meet this dear family.

We were very sad to leave my mom, dad and siblings on Tuesday afternoon to head back home. We feel so blessed and are very thankful for the many friendships that we have.

I was dreading out trip home and was expecting it to be long and boring. Well, it was long. (What should have taken 7 hrs. turned into 9 1/2 hrs.) I can't say that it was all that boring though. We had some exciting adventures along the way.

We left Indy in the middle of a severe storm ~ which didn't make for a nice start.

Somewhere near Columbus, OH we heard a loud bang. Josh realized right away that we had a flat tire. He pulled along the side of the road and had the spare on in 15 minutes.

He wasn't sure if the spare would get us all the way home, so we started searching for a place to get our tire replaced.

To make a long story short... we stopped at a few different repair shops and finally found one that would put a used tire on our van. And of all places! It was this little dumpy shack with two guys that looked like they just got out of jail. 45 minutes later we were on our way home again!

The Lord has been so good to us though. We are so thankful that we were able to take a family vacation.

We are thankful for Josh's family too, especially his sister, Liz for doing most of Josh's farm work while we were away. We couldn't have went without them. =)