Laura arrived home safe and sound from Argentina at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday night. She figures that she and her friend Natalie had traveled for 30 hours by the time they got home using plane, van and car. She said the trip was "perfect". Everyone got along fine and everyone worked very hard. The people in Argentina were in tears when the team left. They said that they are leary having college students come down and "help" them, but that they would have the group from Maranatha again because they worked so hard and the Lord really blessed their efforts. A great testimony I would say.
The girls were full of stories and we (Natalie's Mom got here about the same time they did) got to bed about 1:30 p.m. Natalie and her Mom left here the next morning. Keith and the younger girls arrived home from Virginia later in the afternoon. They and Josh, Mary and Matthew had gone to visit great grandma in Virginia for the Memorial Day weekend. I waited at home for Laura to get here. I didn't want her coming home to an empty house. Besides, there wouldn't have been room for me at grandma's house anyway and someone had to feed the animals here at home.
We had a cookout Monday evening. The weather was suppose to get bad but we never got it which was a good thing considering it was part of the storm system that caused the killer tornadoes out west.
We are trying to get the house ready for Bek's graduation party at the end of the month. There is always so much work to do for these things. It is good to fix things up though. If we didn't have a major event every one or two years, the once and awhile things would never get fixed. We always seem to get caught up in the day to day maintenance and overlook the big things. Could it be because it costs money? :)
The younger girls have been complaining that we never go on family vacations. I try to tell them that when they were little we went all different places. When the kids started college, vacations just seemed to take a backseat. It was just a natural progression for us, but the girls feel short changed. They travel alot for sports and missions trips and I try to tell them that those are their vacations now. They weren't exactly satisfied with that, but I gue$$ it will have to do for now.
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It's great to hear that Laura had an awesomely perfect trip to Argentina and that the Lord richly blessed. What a wonderful testimony the group left behind them.
It's great that most of the family got to go on alittle visit over Memorial Day weekend and were still back b4 the weekend was over to spend some with you and Laura!
In all the years that I was home with my parents, we went on vacation twice. One was "camping" in the middle of the desert in TX, us kids did not enjoy it at all. It was quite terrible. lol The only other time, we went to Copan, Honduras and visited the Mayan Ruins, etc. I really enjoyed it, but it was only 3 days. One day travel to get there, one day sight-seeing, and the other day was travel home. I wish it had been a little longer, but it was enjoyable.
Hope ya'll get a nice vacation soon.
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