Timber Team Trip to Pawley's Island

Darol had work in Georgetown, SC.  The family was able to go along and stay in Pawley's Island. 

The water was way too cold for the adults to get in it, but the children didn't seem to mind.





It was also a nice trip in that it gave Donna some time to see a friend and a cousin who live in that area.

Timber Wallclimbers

Don't have much to say other than the children like to climb the doorways.

I guess this is a homemade Crossfit exercise that they have created!

Sky Top Apples and Hendersonville Apple Festival

We made our almost annual trip to Sky Top Apple Orchard and stayed the weekend with Pops and Mimi, Darol's parents.  The children enjoy the time picking our own apples.

We went early in the year, so they didn't have our favorite types of apples ready to pick (Cameo and Pink Lady), but they did have the next best thing on hand - apple donuts!  :-)

Here's a smile to say "thanks for the time off from school to do this!"

The whole weekend was part of a festival in Hendersonville. 

Donna, and all the children except Levi took part in a road race.  Jonathan won the 1 mile fun run - his first win ever in a race.  Good job, JET!

Elizabeth had a good race and finished around 5th place, 

  with Benjamin right behind her.

Abigail even made it the whole way without stopping.

Good Times with Wally

It all started with a near catastrophe one day when we were dragging Donna's parents' trailer hitched to our van.  Darol did not put it in our correctly so it wrenched loose about 2 miles from our house.  We made an immediate stop on the side of the road to check the situation. 

Donna met the owner of the home in whose yard we had stopped.  It belonged to a 92 year old man named Wally Massey, and his wife Sue.  They let us leave the trailer with them for a few days untiil we could get things fixed. 

That was the beginning of a wonderful year of ministry by our family, mainly by Donna, to this precious couple.  The children did yard work for them, Donna took them meals and helped with household organization and we grew close to them.  Sue has since died, and Wally has had to move to the home of a brother-in-law in DC.  Donna helped a lot with his move and organizing that.  We love Wally and miss him very much.