Wonderful 4th

I'm sure you all have heard that we had a wonderful time over the weekend. Butch/Scott and Tammy were great host & hostess. The meals were great and went off without a hitch. Tina and Corie did a great job with breakfast. The one hitch was that so few of us knew about Tammy's new allergy which is nuts. It has just developed over the past few years and she doesn't broadcast it. So Sheri brought snacks with lots of nuts in them. It still was okay because I would have eaten way more than I did. The pinocle tournament was great...with the "old" woman winning.... again. When will you ever learn?? It was so great to have nearly the whole family together. But I will never be satisfied till we are ALL there at one time. It just isn't right when there is a missing element. So now we all start planning for next year. We were invited to stay at a family's home that has a spare queen sized bed....Maybe Papa and I will just take them up on it... And today we are getting a much needed rain. They don't need it up north of us and are getting it anyway. But we are loving it. We are through with Disaster Relief for a while. It is too wet to start the rebuild and we need to get some stuff done around here...
We love you all.

VBS week

This is VBS week, so things are really busy around here. We are doing Game Day Central which based on a sports theme. Right up my alley. But when you live 19 miles away, it gets very hectic. And then our state Disaster Relief director calls and wants Papa to go out on a callout for the next two days. You know him, he'll be leaving this afternoon at 2:30 and be back Saturday, but he isn't coming home. There is a HAM radio overnight thing on Sat., so he's going to that. So, I get to be the director for VBS and do the missions study also for the next two nights. Then we get to get ready to go to Berea for the 4th. I can hardly wait. Wish you all could come. It is going to be so wonderful. Love you all.

Twilly and Itsy Bitsy

Pictures

Here is a sample of what it looks like at the kitchen as we prepare meals to be taken out by Red Cross.

disaster relief/ the kitchen

Finally home

We got home yesterday after 10 days helping disaster victims in Indiana. We started in Franklin and ended up in Terre Haute. Papa/Dad/Jimmy went around and evaluated the situation to find people to help. I stayed at the church that hosted us and helped with the feeding unit. Boy, is that a lot of work. And the Red Cross sent mostly frozen food to be cooked. Usually they send canned food that just needs heated. When you are cooking for 1200-1700 meals, it takes a while to just heat canned food, but frozen is a whole different thing. The cooks were getting up at 3:30 to have it ready for the ERV's. ERV stands for Emergency Recovery Vehicle. They are the box trucks that Red Cross uses to take the meals around to victims. We came home yesterday, but they will be feeding until Saturday. Our rule is that we can only stay out 10 days...good rule! Now I have two days to get ready for VBS. We have our block party on Sat. and start on Sunday. We will be so ready for the trip to Berea for the 4th and seeing all of you wonderful people.