Friday, May 22, 2009

A friends pictures...

Elyse is our neighbor and fellow student. She takes beautiful pictures and is sharing them on a blog. So, if you are curious what our part of Australia looks like this time of year, check it out...

http://elysianeyes.blogspot.com/



I love this time of year. I love fall. God is so great, His creation is so beautiful. I get such a bittersweet felling though, as the last of the leaves fall.

Tania

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

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In case you have been keeping your eye out for pictures, we updated the family album link with some pics from Mother's Day. What a wonderful refreshing day! > > > The link is over to the right =)



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Friday, May 8, 2009

It has been a while!

Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages
Houghton and Jim at the board working out their grammar homework...


Hello all!

It has been a busy few weeks. We have had visitors the last two weekends in a row. First was BMW general director, Paul Seger, and his wife Joan. They came to share some things with us and generally just be an encouragement. Then last week our area director and his wife came (they have asked us not to post names on the 'net due to work in restricted areas). We are back into the regular swing of things now, you know... classes, homework, and more classes. It was nice to have visitors and we were blessed by their encouragement, especially in the area of prayer.

The kids have been doing 'inter-school sport' and having lots of fun doing it. Josh qualified to represent the school at the district cross-country event. He and his friends have been spending a couple hours after school every day in 'training'.

Grace is trying out for the school play which will be put on in September, 'The Wizard of Oz'. As a young girl of 13, drama is right up her alley. =)

Oh, and, as many of you already know, we recently celebrated Gracie's 13th birthday. Thank you to those of you that took time to share a special note of encouragement with her. I had a friend take pictures of the party and I hope to get a few minutes to get them uploaded for you to see this weekend.

Well, before this gets toooo long I should wrap it up. One last piece of awesome news though... we had been secretly praying for the use of a car and the Lord has provided!!! We are so grateful! Not only that we now have wheels, but also for the laughter that it provides... If you guys have ever wondered how small of a car Jim could fit into... we have learned the answer. Just wait, I will get a picture of that up soon too. Seriously, we are just happy to have the freedom to be able to run to the store when we need to and to maybe get to see a little more of the area while we are here.

OK, signing off for now.

Tania for the crew


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