Florida!

Last Friday at 6am, Mrs. M and I began our journey to our husbands in Florida. We had spent the previous night at a hotel near the airport, which allowed us to get a couple more (blessed) hours of sleep.

Here we are on the plane. I had taken my book with me, which helped fill lots of the time. I also had a nice time talking with my mother-in-law.

Our first two nights we stayed in a condo on Perdido key, near Pensacola. Paula and Josh live in Pensacola, and we were able to spend time with them. It was beautiful! and really windy, but sunny and nice.

That's our condo in the background. Our's was on the 3rd floor on the corner on the left.

We walked a ways on the beach and looked for shells. Tim found some really cool ones.

This a broken piece of a shell. Can you believe how thick it is?

Mrs. M and I drove to Pensacola yesterday to spend time with Paula. We had a good time, and I was able to watch Camilla for a bit, while they went shopping.

time to eat some yummy mushed-banana oatmeal!!!!

Focusing on the pear puff. She's working on her fine motor skills...

it takes a lot of concentration to get it in your mouth, when you're only 8 months old!

After we drove back from Pensacola, we fixed some peanut thai curry. It was very tasty! Mrs. M made some gingerbread and whipped cream for dessert, and we all enjoyed that.

Tim is giving a presentation today and I'm hoping to walk along the beach as well as read some more of Christy by Catherine Marshall. I'm really, really enjoying this book. It's exciting and thought-provoking...

Even though it's rainy today, it's nice...may actually be better for finding shells, I don't know. The white sand reflects the sunlight and it works almost like snow in the sun!

Hope to post again before too terrible long...

Wednesday

This is my friend Crystal. We went to Ferdinand's yesterday so that she could taste and buy some cheese for her host mom, who (whom? I don't know what to do with the direct object in English. German doesn't add an 'm' ending to the direct object, and I don't know if English does it for the direct or just the indirect object...) she's going to visit over spring break.

(yes, it's cold in Pullman)

We got to see them working on the cheese. Look at those huge slabs of fresh cheese!

Just when we were walking out they started sending these slabs through a machine that broke them up into small pieces. That's a lot of cheese!

Here we are again!

I'm just going to be working on packing up for our trip south, which begins eaaarly tomorrow morning. Lord willing, my next post will be from Florida!

Florida

Yesterday (Sunday) morning at 3:20am the alarm went off. We got up, got dressed and headed over to the Marston house. Mrs. M had fixed a tasty sort of egg quiche with sausage...that was really nice of her. Then we took our dear husbands to the Spokane airport so they could travel to the far and distant land of Florida. They'll be doing some work down there,where my handsome man gets to use his amazing signal processing skills...yes.
Here are our men, maybe around 5:30am, heading off to go through security...

I really miss him! But Mrs. M and I get to fly down on Friday morning to be with them for about 9 days. I'm looking forward to it!

Today I finished reading Out of the Comfort Zone, by George Verwer, the man who founded Operation Mobilization. I didn't want to read it for the longest time, but I had told the person who had given it to me that I would, so I did. It had been lost for a while, just stored away in a box of books. But I read it and it was good. He talks about many different aspects of missions and mission mobilization.

And last but not least:

I'm drinking a glass of grapefruit juice. I like to think it's my husband's key to such healthy teeth (even though I'm pretty sure it's genetic...)

The Last Little While-

So we've been experiencing some amazingly beautiful weather lately. My dear husband took these beautiful pictures on his walk home for work a couple of weeks ago. (Note: Blogger has been making my pictures look grainy...maybe this is my fault? but I'm not doing anything differently than I have in the past...so please understand.)

Then on Friday Tim took me on a date for lunch to Ferdinands. Great ice-cream and a most excellent time with my husband. We played two person Rook...



On Saturday we were able to have family lunch, and spend some time with brother-and-sister in law and father-and-mother in law...we ate pizza and played Rook (do you sense a theme here?)...then in the later afternoon Tim changed the oil on the car. I had really good time with him.

Here's some pictures of my man changing the oil...

oil coming out...

getting ready to change the filter/screwing the first thingy back on...

(see that great ring?)

replenishing the oil supply...