New Hairstyles

How do you like all my hairstyles?

Emily Goes Green!!

Emily Dedicated to the Lord!

Pink is my colour!

Here's looking at you, Kid!

I may have pianist fingers but these are swimmers feet!

Peekaboo!!

Hello Grandma and Grandpa!!

More Emily Grace

Did we mention that we have a new baby girl named Emily Grace Sauvageot? Have we shown you pictures yet? Well, just in case you missed her, here she goes again!!!!

First Sunday

Emily had to go shopping on Saturday the 16th so that she would have a nice warm dress to wear for her first time going to church! Mum said she could not wear a sleeper for her first Sunday in church. It was quite an experience to find a warm dress since most of the shops have brought out their spring/summer clothes. The Lord provided just the right dress for her to wear.







There was a long line of people wanting to have a hold of our precious bundle. She has brought a lot of joy to our hearts and to the hearts of our church family!












She even got leggings and wore the shoes grandma sent!

Holding Dad's hands

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Our little rose bud!

The day Emily Grace was born, our rose bush decided to bloom. What a perfect rose it produced.
Emily and Benjamin adore each other. Benjamin thinks she is pretty special.

Emily Grace and some friends.

Emily loves her thumb!








Here she is with her good friends and "cousins" Catie, Emma, and Beka. They all love her to death:)



Roseanne says to Susan "Eat your heart out, Susan." She is trying to get all the holding of Emily before Susan gets home.

Emily with Aunt Tamra giving off that lovely new baby smell.













A nice quiet moment with mum. I think they adore each other!

Emily with three of the brothers!

Jacob was pretty excited about being first to hold Emily


Ben thinks she is the berries! When he held her, Emily just gazed up at her in awe. After Ben gave her back, he told mum that he thought Emily liked him best! The day we came home from the hospital, Ben came into our bedroom and whispered that he was practicing being a big boy now--since Monday. Now that he was the big brother, he needed to become that big boy.















Andrew was pretty excited about his chance at holding Emily.

All the boys were excited about having the chance to spend time with Emily Grace before her big sister and biggest brother get home from America. They check on her as soon as they get home from school and as soon as they get up in the morning.

Emily with Dad and Mum!

Emily with Dad! I think they like each other a little bit :)


















Emily with Mum! She doesn't look too happy to be out in this cold world, but mum is very happy!

Emily Grace Sauvageot

We are pleased to announce the birth of our sixth child, Emily Grace Sauvageot. Emily was born yesterday, Monday, 11 August 2008 at 4:20 pm. Mum and Bub are both doing well at home now. She is a beautiful baby girl (who happens to look a lot like Dad!) Thanks for your prayers and thoughts during the pregnancy. Praise the Lord with us!!!

Emily was 8 lb 7 oz and 20.5 inches long at birth.

Riverboat

After our tour of the Arch, we took a river boat ride on the Mississippe River. The boat was called the Tom Sawyer. The Mississippi River is a huge and fast moving river.

The Arch

On Thursday 22nd May, we took a tour of the St. Louis Arch. It was a real rainy day, but at least it was clear and not foggy.














Here we are waiting to go up to the top of the arch.









Hannah in the very small car going up to the top.


















Here we are at the top!

Arriving in St. Louis again

Because we left Thompsonville late, we did not have time to stop for lunch. So by the time we got to St. Louis, the team was very ready to eat tea.

We found a place called Bandana BBQ. Everyone seemed to really enjoyed their tea.

We had some neat conversations with the waitress there. We sang to her and she gave everyone a bandana for a souvenier.

Ben decided to try his hand at being as cowboy!

Thompsonville to St. Louis

Thought you might like to see some of the garden outside Dad and Mum Sauvageot's house.

The team had about three days to rest up and practice for convention. They also got to do a little shopping and play some basketball.

They got to experience Taco Bell, Sonic and American hot dog!















The boys seem to be enjoying themselves! (even in the car).

On Wednesday, a friend of Steve's from school (who he had not seen in over 20 years) came to see us for the morning. Randy and his wife Lisa spent the morning remembering things that happened in Arkansas when Steve and Randy were in their teens. Randy sings for the Blackwood Brother's Quartet. The kids heard some funny stories about Steve's growing up. We ended up leaving a little late and had to rush to our next appointment.

We were invited to share at a little ACE school in Willisville on the way to St. Louis. They had made a slice in the shape of America that said, "Welcome Aussie Friends to the USA".

Sunday 18th May 2008

We all had the privilege of sharing with the good folks at Unity Freewill Baptist Church. Bro. and sister Carney were gracious enough to have us come and share. We started the introduction with singing, "G'day, g'day". The whole group sang "Open Our Eyes, Lord". Hannah played her clarinet

John Furnivall did a poem about David and Goliath


Steve shared about the work in Hervey Bay. The Carney's and their church were the first to support our work in Austalia. They also came out about 1998 to share with our staff and pick up their son Rusty who had been with us for 6 months.
We had a great quartet sing "It is Well".

Neil and Michelle got special recognition for the wedding anniversary.


All the team ended up joining the choir!

After the morning service, they had a lovely lunch for all to share. The team got to try some real southern dishes and experience some southern hospitality and fellowship.

We also had the opportunity to share in the evening service. We shared the one act play, ensemble, and the quartet sang again.

After church, we congregated at Grans (Bro. Carney's mother) for supper. There is a lot of fun at Grans house.

Aussies are arriving!

On Friday 16th of May, The Aussie team from Hervey Bay Christian Academy were supposed to arrive in St. Louis. But.......somehow they got delayed in New Zealand and did not arrive in time to make their connection in San Francisco. Much to their disappointment, they could not make it to St. Louis until Saturday and would miss the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game!

Well, someone had to make the game so. . . .the Sauvageot family suffered through and watched a very exciting game. We had to rush out of the ball park in the 10th inning to make it to the airport in time. The Cardinals won in the 1oth inning with a walk off home run.

We rushed to the airport to make it in time to pick up our aussie friends. Steve and dad waited by the cars parked on the curbside while the rest of us went in to greet the team. Well. . . .the plane was an hour late. They finally arrived a bit weary and worn. It was really great to see some familiar faces and hear some great talking.

We had about an hour and half to reach Thompsonville, Illinois. We stopped at the church for a quick practice. Here we got a picture of the weary team! They were all excited about finally being in the USA>