Jul 27, 2011

Angry Birds...Wordless Wednesday

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Oh where oh where are the Leslies?

So we're on our way to a little town just north of St. Augustine, Florida for yet another meeting. We're actually having a wonderful time reporting to our supporting churches and even meeting some new folks along the way.



I figured it out;
We will be gone a total of 98 days on this trip and on day 18 on our way to E. Palatka, 2 hours into our 6 hour journey I got bored.



I did the math and this 98 day trip is going to take us 5548 miles across this country of ours. All the way from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, N. Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and then back into Texas.



Those 5000 miles are gonna cost around $1,544. Wow, I knew it was a long trip but that's ridiculous! Anyhow, we're well on our way, and God has met all our needs along the way, He's so good!

I really miss Cody and I dreamed about Croatia last night. As blessed as we are to get to travel and see wonderful folks and sights, I think I'm getting ready to call it quits for this furlough. A couple more months to go, and we'll be headed home.

Anyhow, I thought I would share my van-work with ya. We'll be sleeping here in Florida and heading to Savannah tomorrow.

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Location:Somewhere on Interstate 10 in Florida

Happy 16th Josh!

I can't believe we are celebrating Josh's 16th birthday already. It seems like yesterday he was running around naked through the house. Well not actually naked but we sure couldn't keep clothes on that kid. He was forever without at least one shoe and sock.
Anyhow, Josh is 16 now and I just wish I could turn back the clock for a few moments and hold little Joshy one more time. I know I can't so here are 16 things I love about the Josh we are blessed to have now.

1. Joshua is very smart.
2. He loves Jesus.
3. He is a hoot in a crazy sorta way.
4. He loves his brother and sister.
5. He is always ready to stand against the crowd if need be.
6. He is a positive kid.
7. Josh is very forgiving.
8. He makes friends very easily.
9. He loves his mother.
10. He has beautiful hazel/brown eyes.
11. Joshua is very good at math.
12. He's creative.
13. Joshua has a very tender heart.
14. He is a gentleman and always opens the door for his mother.
15. Joshua writes great books.
16. Joshua trusted Jesus at youth camp this year and he was very proud of that.

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Jul 23, 2011

Trip through Cajun Country

We took a little trip through Cajun country and got to take in a few of the local sites. 
 We passed up this gourmet eatery, little too rich for our tastes. :0)
 We went to the gator farm in Louisiana and got to ride one of those bad boys. Okay not really but it's about as close as I want to be to one of those unless it has two handles on it. 
 Gator food!
 Hey and there were plenty to go around too. 
Feeding time was something to behold and pretty terrifying too. 



 Can you say BIG?

 Hannah and Joshua all dressed up. 
 Hannah got a bit too close. 

More gator food. 

Anyhow we had a nice time in Cajun Country. We enjoyed seeing friends at Union Baptist Church in Florine and were pleasantly surprised that Evangelist Jim Brown is the pastor there now. Had a great time of fellowship. 



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Jul 22, 2011

BEAMS

We were so blessed to get to stop by Gulf Port, MS and check out the BEAMS Bible Ministry
BEAMS is an incredible ministry supplying Bibles to missionaries around the world. 
Beams is a wonderful ministry in the fact that it is a ministry to missionaries and not a business. Many times Bible ministries make the missionaries come up with a large part of the funds but BEAMS is a ministry that is free to the missionary. 
 We stayed in one of BEAMS hotel rooms on the grounds. It was so nice and praise the Lord for air conditioning; it's hot down here in Mississippi and especially after all the rains lately. 

 BEAMS warehouse
Hannah and Johnny packing French Bibles.
 Joshua busy doing his part too. 
 Bro. Joel, Filipino missionary to Cambodia and Caleb Carr trying to hide behind a Revival Fires paper. 

 Just some of the Bibles waiting to be shipped out to missionaries around the world. 
Almost 900,000 Bibles shipped around the world for the glory of God. 

If you don't already support a good Bible ministry, BEAMS is the one!!
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Jul 19, 2011

A little piece of paradise

We have been gone on this 3 month trip for 9 days. Last night Johnny and I figured out that in 9 days we have slept in 7 cities in 4 states. No wonder I'm so pooped.


We are in Alabama, staying on top of a hill in Paradise. We're staying in a very nice mobile home out in the middle of nowhere. It's so pretty and green. It's quiet! It's been so long since we've been anywhere quiet. I miss the quiet. We're really enjoying being out here and the peace is a huge blessing.


We even had a homemade breakfast of eggs, toast and bacon this morning. Wow I forgot how good home cooked food tastes.





Josh and Hannah watching the cows and making sure the bill isn't charging behind me.


Many thanks to Walker Springs Road Baptist Church for allowing us to stay out here and have he time to be refreshed.

We're gonna be on this trip till the middle of October when we make it back to Texas in time to pack up the container with Bibles, Gypsy Christmas items and our things. November 29th we fly out for Croatia.

I'll be posting from the road often, so I'll post next from hot Florida.

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Location:Grove Hill, Alabama

Jul 17, 2011

English my foot!

You know the debate about Spanish speakers in America is nothing new. Yes, they should learn English but I suggest that those country folk in Mississippi should think about learning English too.

We were at McDonalds and Johnny was ordering a McFlurry and the cute girl behind the counter looked at Johnny and asked him if he wanted snake eyes. Johnny looked at her in confusion, snake eyes he asked. She looked at him and said, snake eyes. Johnny looked at her and apologized and did his best to assure her that we weren't trying to play a game with her. So okay maybe snake eyes is a new Micky Ds thing. Finally after much confusion and the cute girl getting a bit bothered we figured it out, snake eyes was in fact "snake size". Wow, we did it, we figured it out.

Fursevni, that's what she said next and the game began again. We managed to translate this word much faster now that we knew we needed to and handed her the $4.79 she had asked for.

Well I bedder get da young' uns warshed and ready to go to the chuch house. Just thought dat you'd tank dat dis was funy.

(No offense meant toward y'all who are blessed to come from the emerald green paradise that is Mississippi. Hey we Texans have our own set
of problems with English so don't think I'm pinkin on y'all.)

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Location:Mississippi

Happy Birthday Hannah

We celebrated Hannah's 14th birthday on the 8th of July. I can't believe Hannah is 14, she's our baby and she's 14. WOW!

In celebration of Hannah's 14th birthday, here are 14 things I love about Hannah. 
1. She's funny.
2. She's always ready to be friendly.
3. She's never boring. 
4. She loves to a capacity that very few can.
5. She is very tender hearted. 
6. She's a hugger. 
7. She's forever ready to forgive others. 
8. She's has blue eyes like her Daddy.
9. She doesn't have to be loved by someone for her to love them. 
10. She loves children. 
11. She has a desire to reach the deaf of Croatia for Christ. 
12. She is a really good artist and paints me pictures. 
13. She loves to cook.
14. Hannah loves her Savior with all her heart!

Happy birthday Hannah, we sure love you!!


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Jul 15, 2011

20 years and counting.

God has been so good to us over the last 20 years. I can't even believe that we have already been together for 20 years. Are you kidding, 20 years? When I think of couples who have been together 20 years I always think that they're really old to have been together for 20 years, but I've changed my mind. 

Johnny surprised me with a dream road trip. We started out picking up our rent car at the airport and oh my goodness!!! My favorite care in the world is a 67 Camero and the new ones look a lot like the old ones so I love the new ones. Anyhow, this was our rental for our little road trip. He's so sweet!
I couldn't believe all the men that would stop and check out the car and little children who oohed and ahhed over it. It was nice for a week!
Then we headed to a cabin on the Ozarks, it was heaven. 




We had such a great time at the cabin, it was so peaceful and restful. 
We visited Hot Springs twice and got to do some looking around. It's nice and quaint. 
We did get to see the worst rated high school in the US, or at least it was the one that graduated Bill Clinton.
We rode the DUCKS and it was really nice. They went onto Lake Hamilton and it was so pretty. The poor lady infront of us had no idea that the DUCK was amphibious; she couldn't swim and was a little freaked out especially when it started to rain out on the lake. 
We went to a beautiful woodland garden on lake Hamilton. Garvan Garden is a lovely place to visit and the walk was so relaxing. 

I love this bridge, so pretty. 


Johnny, feeding the goldfish. 




We loved the chapel in the woods. the really great thing about this place is that it was air conditioned!


The mountain tower was great too, it was amazing how far you could see on this thing. 



After we left Hot Springs we headed to Branson, Mo by way of the back roads. The Camero is awesome and can pass another car so fast you can't look over fast enough to see who's driving. 
At a mountain overlook, lovely! 

Yes, I did let Johnny drive a few times!
We had a great time in Branson at Silver Dollar City.  What a great family oriented place. Actually it was strange because the music playing over the speakers was Gospel. Wow! 
There were tons of artisans and it was so neat to see them working. 


Branson in general was a really neat place and very family oriented. I was amazed that I didn't see one bad place on the main strip. This Ripley's place was cool. 


They go a bit overboard on the themed eateries. :0)
The best thing was the Titanic museum. Yes that is a building. It was so great and really worth a peak if you head that way. 

Well we are well on our way to our 21st anniversary and we already have an idea for our 25th. Think we'll take a look-see at Alaska. 
I'm blessed beyond words. I am married to my best friend and he still gives makes my tummy weak when he kisses me. Doesn't get much better than that!
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