Trip Journal - Thursday to Sunday

Okay, I'm finally getting around to writing about our wonderful trip! We had an amazing time, and God blessed us so much with good health and safe travels!

Thursday and Friday we drove all. day. long. And dad did it all! Wow! Isn't he amazing?! 22 hours is a LONG time when you're sitting in a vehicle! We were so glad to finally arrive at our friend's house on Friday night, and we enjoyed a couple days of relaxing before going into our hectic festival schedule. :-) The H. Family was SO VERY hospitable and kind. All of us enjoyed spending time with them! Here's a view from their screened-in porch - Texas is a beautiful state!

The kids all had a blast swimming in the pool and hot tub. The weather was so warm to us northerners and we enjoyed the experience of swimming outside in October! Those of you who live in ND/MN know that while we were in TX there were some terrible storms up here (including lots of snow for some people).
L-R: Daniel, Mark, Lydia, Megan, Kelly, (FRONT) Caleb, David and Ethan.

Kelly jumping in!

And Daniel!

Lydia had fun trying out the zip line on the cool "tree" house that they built in their backyard! Watch out for scorpions! :-)

 

Kelly, Megan, Lydia

Daniel, Caleb, and Mark

Mom and dad were grateful to visit with friends and relax in the warm weather out by the pool.

 

Mom and Mrs. H. We've known the H. family for 17 years and we met when they lived up here in Fargo.

Kelly, Mr. H. (Erik), Mrs. H. (Karen), Megan, Mark, and sleepy David :-)

Thank you guys for a wonderful time! We were so happy to see you, and we pray that God blesses you for your hospitality!

GIVEAWAY!

Shining in Her Corner is finally completed! I am so excited to do my first giveaway of one copy of this documentary! Here's what you have to do to enter:

IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED ONCE, leave a comment on my blog telling me something God has done in your life recently.
IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TWICE, write about this giveaway on your blog (with a link to this post) and leave a comment here with the link to your blog.

You can visit http://www.gloryandgrace.com/daystarproductions.htm to find about more about this documentary and DayStar Productions (you can go under "Store" to purchase a copy). To God be the glory!!

The winner will be randomly chosen on Sunday, November 14th.

Yes, I'm Alive!

I'm sorry I haven't updated in such a long time!! As some of you may know, the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival and Academy were going on last week, so my family and I took a road trip to the great state of Texas!! It was a 22 hour drive one way - we left on October 21st and came back on November 2nd. It was a wonderful, very memorable trip, and I have over 500 pictures to pick from to show you what we did!! We are so thankful that God blessed us with health and safe travels. Everything was awesome and I have SO much to share! But for now . . . I'll just give you a teaser picture and I'll say that you'll have to wait a couple more days before I have time for another post!! And besides posting about the academy/festival, I am going to do a special giveaway soon so keep an eye out for that! :-)

Leave me a comment if you think you know who this is standing in the middle of this picture. :-)

Our Adventures at the Acorn Lake Bed and Breakfast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visit www.detroitlakes.com/acornlake to find out more about this great B&B! :-)

Quick Documentary Update

Shining in Her Corner - The Story of Amy Vest and Loving the Lord Ministries is almost finished! I know on the trailer I said it would be done in September, but I still am working on finishing up a few things, and I'm having several technical difficulties (very frustrating -so please pray!), so it will be a couple more weeks until it's done. But I hope to have it up for pre-order on my website soon! Soli Deo Gloria!

A Friend . . .

 . . . loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. . . and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Proverbs 17:17 and 18:24


Aaron and Ethan!

Update

Here's a random update of things our family has been up to lately! But first, I want to ask you to pray for a young man (the son of some friends of ours) who is around Caleb's age, and was seriously injured in a rollerblading/car accident last week. His name is Landon Hochstetler, and you can visit his CaringBridge website here. Amazingly, with God's help, his dad talked to the man who caused the accident and forgave him. Landon is now in a coma and in very critical condition, and needs prayers especially for his brain, which has been swelling very bad.

A few days ago, we gave our yellow lab, Daisy, away. We decided it was the best thing to do for our family, but it was still sad to see her go! Thankfully, she went to a very, very good home, and the family actually owns one of her puppies from a previous litter! So we were glad for that.

I found out last week that Shining in Her Corner was not accepted as a semi-finalist in this year's San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival. While I was disappointed, it is God's movie, not mine. It looks like there was a lot of great documentaries this year!! You can view the semi-finalists HERE. I hope to have Shining in Her Corner available for sale on my website in just a couple weeks!

This year, we've gotten lots and lots of squash and pumpkin from the garden! YUM! We've all worked together to clear weeds, pick produce, and load up (or . . . ride in?) the trailer! :-)

 

Well, I hope you all have a great weekend!! Videos from the music festival coming sometime in the near future, hopefully. :-)