Thanksgiving

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We went to South Carolina to see Paulo & Juliana and the girls for Thanksgiving. Our God-daughter was Baptised on Wednesday, so we were able to be at the church for her special night! The weekend was wonderful, packed with lots of playing NERTS, snuggles with the girls, Black Friday Shopping (all night--we got home at 7:30 am) and so much fun. I wish I could have packed all four of them in the car and brought them back to Florida!! We also got to see Pedro and Juliana (Paulo's brother and sister in law). It's extra fun when we can all get together.

The miles between us seem long. It was so hard to drive away on Saturday. I'm glad we have Skype and other forms of media to keep us in touch, but it is not the same as being there. So glad we got to spend Thanksgiving together!!

Happenings around here

I'm not sure when things got so busy. Two weeks ago Jordan & I flew into StL to see my family in IL. What a blast! We had a great weekend!!! It was all too apparent as we flew out that Monday that I essentially don't feel like anywhere is home. (A byproduct of transition.) I was glad to be back in FL with Lance, but this is not yet "home" in a true sense of the word. I still feel like I'm on vacation. :)

I never realized how busy the holidays get for a pastoral family!! There's hanging of the greens, get-togethers, cantadas, kids' programs...all so fun, but our weekends are packed until January!! I worry about Lance as he works extra hours trying to get ahead on sermons to be off some for Thanksgiving and Christmas. He's also had a funeral and wedding thrown in...just for added variety.

Jordan is keeping ME busy! Daily band, home schooling, youth group, "play dates", band auditions, band outings, cantada rehearsal and tonight we are going to the midnight showing of the Harry Potter 7th Movie-part 1. WHEW!! No wonder I'm so tired!!

While in Highland I was asked what my duties are as a pastor's wife...ummm...everything other than what the pastor does. Hee hee! I keep the house running so he can keep the church running...yup! There's no specific job description...although, I don't think he has one either!

So, if posts are slim the next several weeks, be graceful with me. It's going to be a busy season!!

Fall Festival

Our church had their Fall Festival yesterday. They didn't have it last year because of the economy and were very excited to be able to offer the festival again. It is FREE to the community and I think we had about 200 people show up! We had an inflatable slide/bouncy, cake walk, hotdogs, nachos, pie the pastor, pumpkin bowling, photo ops, a police car & firetruck, and 4-5 other games...for FREE!! (Well, admission was a canned good & we collected about 150# of food!!)

I was so proud of our church for their efforts and hard work. You don't put on a festival this big for nothing. So far, we have one family that may start coming to church because they think the pastor is really a good guy for enduring the "pie the pastor" and the other church members are very nice. Another family came to the church today and said they think they'll start coming; that yesterday was a lot of fun! OUTREACH...no Bible banging, no yelling in the streets...fun, laughter, love & service. That's OUTREACH!! Good job, St. Paul (& Pastor Lance)! I've got buttons popping today!!! :)

(BTW--these are pics from the local newspaper of Jordan "pie-ing" her dad.)