We consider it an honor to be able to share life with you...whoever YOU are...family, old friends, new friends, people who have just "found" us, people who have known us all of our lives, people who live here on the ship with us, people on the other side of the ocean....whoever YOU are, we're grateful that you care enough about us to keep up with us through our blog.
We wanted to share some of our pictures from the airport/journey back to the ship last week...some of them are intimate, some are silly....all are us...living this life God has called us to live. Saying good-bye wasn't easy....but it's worth it - He is worth it. "He is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration." - david platt
Atlanta
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| Beautiful crowd of family who came to see us off |
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| Aunt Amy with her nieces and nephews! |
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| Caroline, Amy & Emma |
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| Yaya, Caroline & Grandaddy |
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| Lunch! |
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| Yaya & Caroline |
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| Yaya & Eli |
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| Sometimes you've just got to be silly to keep from being too sad |
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| Big Jim/Papa/Dianna's Daddy & Dianna |
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| Papa & Grandaddy...no doubt love & wise words are being shared |
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| Saying good-bye was especially hard for Eli. He's got such a tender heart. |
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| One last hug |
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| Amy & Emma |
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| We made it through security (after having a nerf gun confiscated (that's another story for another day) and losing caroline's jacket)(we think it was left in the bathroom pre-security...)Waiting in Atlanta for flight numero uno. |
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| New Game: Pillow Bumping |
Side note: we don't make our children sit still and be quiet in the terminal while we are waiting to board the plane (we don't allow them to run around like wild chickens either...but they are allowed to be up and active)...I (dianna) always wonder if the people around us are like "oh no...crazy kids on this flight...." My hope is that they are always delightfully surprised by their calm, sitting selves on the flights (cause that's what they are)(or at least what they have been on every flight thus far).
Welcome to Miami
In Miami our flight got delayed....in the midst of the hours of delay, Emma ended up with the camera. The following (until Madrid) were all taken by her - her 3 year old, entertained, satisfied self.
Side note: Nick is awesome at silly faces.
We made it to Madrid
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| pizza picnic in the Hostal Coronales where we spent the night since the delay caused us to miss our third flight (the picture on instagram is much better!) |
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| Back in the Madrid Airport Monday morning |
Gran Canaria!
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| Watching for the luggage to come through is one of their favorite things. |
Back on the Africa Mercy
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| Welcomed by sweet signs on the door! |
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| The Cash Kids (and other kids!) playing with the balloons Matt & Sarah blew up for us. Lots of laughter and screaming filled our cabin... |
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| Flowers & Chocolate...lovely gifts from thoughtful, generous friends. |
So we left Columbus a week ago and have had a good week of traveling, moving (down the hall!!)(more on that later!), going to the park (twice), working (nick), and trying to get our clocks readjusted to this time zone.
Right now (literally!) we're sailing to Tenerife. We left Gran Canaria around 10 this morning (after a 7:30 drill to muster every and take roll)...we should be in Tenerife in a few hours. The ship will be docked there this coming week and then we're set to sail to the Congo next Saturday, July 27.
Looking forward to what God has in store for us this week....and the next...
Surely there will be more to come.
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