Cousins

On Saturday we had lunch at Cousin Frank's house. Cousins Becky, David, and Karen were there as well. David and Steve used to get up to lots of mischief when they were younger.
Frank made us a lovely lunch. Steve was reminded of Apple Salad (we will have to introduce it to youse when we get home!) We had a nice time catching up and remenising. You will have to ask Steve about his "I thought you was David" story!

Farm country

Here is Jacob's arm back!! We had terrible trouble finding a doctor that would take Jacob's cast off. Most of the doctors would not take a cast off unless they had put the cast on. Finally, mum found one that would do it. Jacob was glad to get his arm back. Now he needs to work on getting movement back in his wrist. Pray he gets the movement back in the next two weeks.




We can sure tell we are in farm country. It is really beautiful seeing all the farms and countryside.

On the road again!

On the road again!! We spent Friday running errands and getting Jacob's cast off his arm. We are now traveling around seeing a few relatives and some historical sight.

At Dad and Mum Sauvageot

We arrived at dad and mum Sauvageot's on Thursday the 24th of April. We got to see their red barn and Andrew and Benjamin road on their neighbor's toy tractor. It was lovely to see their place, garden, and orchard.

We ate at the Carney home (their lovely neighbors) and had a nice time of fellowship and playing games.

Throwed Rolls

On the way to Steve's mum and dad's house, we met them at a place called Lambert's Cafe (Home of the throwed roll). Pictured is Susan's chef salad, the boys country ham and Benjamin's hamburger. Dad and mum were very pleased to see us!!

Family pictures

We were blessed to be able to get family pictures with Mike and Brenda.

Frog legs!

We enjoyed tasting frog legs (a cultural experience) along with catfish and hush puppies.

In Tupelo

At Steve's brother's church, the kids joined the choir at Wildwood Baptist Church. They were pleased to have a few more voices. Steve shared about the work in Australia during the Sunday School. During the evening service, Steve preached and all the Sauvageot (Mike's family and Steve's family) sang. Steve and Jennie sang a duet and Trevor sang a solo.

We also shared at the Academy chapel service, Wednesday with the youth, and Jennie shared at the ladies Bible study.

Steve enjoyed spending some time with his brother Mike and the kids enjoyed their cousins.




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On the road to Tupelo

After breakfast at Attaway house, we hit the road toward Tupelo to see Steve's brother Mike. Well into Arkansas, Mike called and said he had some good seats at a baseball game in Memphis, Tennessee. We were about 2 hours from Memphis. Sooooooo, Steve decided we would try for the baseball game. We got suite seats (where you have a room with comfy chairs) right behind home plate. It was pretty exciting. We saw the Redbirds play the Isotopes. We ate Memphis BBQ and Ben had ice cream in a mini helmet. The game ended around 10:30 and then we drove another hour and half to Tupelo. We got there at 1:00 in the morning. Boy are we ready for a good sleep!

Leaving Texas

Up at 5:30 on Friday the 18th! Got up to pack the trailer and say goodbye to the Lanes before they had to go to work at 6:00.

We left the Lanes and headed to Steve and Bonita Attaway's house for breakfast. Mr. Attaway was Steve and Jennie's voice teacher in Bible college. We fellowshipped with them until about 10:00. Thank you to Bonita for all her hospitality--the kids were amazed at how you work.

















Ben loved their neighbors dog that came for a visit as well.




















This picture is for Gwen. We saw heaps of Dr. Pepper trucks in Texas!

This ones for Les :)

Thought you might like to see our friend Don Lane's motorbike!

Police shooting range

On the 17th April, Steve, Susan, Trevor, Andrew, Jacob, and our police friend Don Lane went to the police shooting range. They got to shoot several pistols and rifles. Jacob thought it was the greatest thing he has done so far! He thought all his Christmases had come at once!!

After they returned home, we had a Texas BBQ with the Lanes and Scotts during a Texas size thunderstorm. They were cooking hamburgers in the rain!:) It was a lovely way to spend our last night in Texas.

Visits with friends

Susan's new glasses we had to replace because her old ones kept breaking. Trevor said they were too posh for her. She just ignores him.


This is our new van and trailer that we are riding around in. We make quite an entrance!



This is Bro. Travis. We went to see Bro. and Mrs. Travis on Wednesday. They are very good friends of Steve's dad and mum. We also worked with them when we were at ACE. They were so pleased to catch up with us. They are retired now and enjoying their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bro. Travis said their schedule is: They get up when the bed ceases to be comfortable, eat when they feel hungry, and go to bed when they wake up after sleeping in their chairs for an hour or so.

This is Mrs. Travis. They were surprised at how big the kids have gotten.

We started back to the Lane's and realized that we have been away from traffic for toooooo long. We got stuck in rush hour traffic. We were trying to get back to change for prayer meeting at church. We made it back to Lane's about 6:45. Steve and the four older children raced off to church while Ben and mum stayed home for a rest.Pattia had made taco salad with fritos which we ate after church. It was beautiful.

The next day we went back to Ft. Worth and met up with Dr. and Mrs. Brooke. They were Steve's mentors when we lived in Texas. Steve worked with Stan Brooke and learned a lot about being a school principal from him. Steve also got to see their son, Joshua, who he coached in basketball. Please pray for Pat Brooke, she has come out of remission with her cancer and needs our prayer.

Dinner with Dad and Mum Huberty

On the morning of 15 April 2008, Steve paid $33 to send the form to the airlines. About 1/2 hour later the airline calls and says our bags are on their way back from Houston and will deliver them this evening!!!!! Trevor is very happy.

We went to a BBQ place called "Red Hot & Blue" with Tamra's mum and dad. The kids love the way they bring the drinks out in a glass that looks like a pitcher. They are amazed at the free refills. It was really good to catch up with the Hubertys. We went back to their house to get the bag of goodies for Tamra. While there, Benjamin got to play with some of the Huberty cousins. They were excited about meeting Catie, Emma, and Beka's friend from Australia. Benjamin tried to teach them football!

Rest Day Monday

We get to have a rest day Yeah! After our whirlwind trip to church yesterday, we are excited about having a rest. The airline now says our bags are lost and they do not know where they are!! We have to fill out a lost bag claim form and send it to head office in Phoenix. One problem is all Susan's competition sewing is in one of the lost bags! We hope we get those returned. Steve spent a loooooong time filling out all the paperwork. We have to wait until tomorrow to send it first thing!
What a drama. Trevor is not impressed!

Grace Baptist Church

One Sunday the 13th April 2008, we went to our sending church Grace Baptist Church in Flower Mound, Texas. We met up with lots of old friends and had great fellowship.

We ate lunch with the pastor and his family at a Chinese buffet. One of Steve's students from our College and Careers Sunday School Class came as well. That was a great time of catching up and remembering stories of fun times with our sunday school class.

After lunch, we had just enough time to race our things out to our good friends house Don and Pattia Lane in Hickory Creek. We chatted for a little bit then race out to the church again to get ready for the evening service.


Here is a picture of Steve with his twin brother Truong Lee. They are trying to get our power point to work properly. Also pictured is his lovely family--his youngest Alydia which stole our hearts.

Steve presented our work in Australia and all the new things we are doing there. We sang "If this is what God wants" and Trevor sang "Forgiven Again". Steve preached on Acts 8.


After church, we met friends at a place called "Culvers" for tea.

The airline still has our bags in Houston (This is day 4). We fall into bed about 11:00 PM. Boy are we tired!

Saturday 12th April 2008

We went to Six Flags Park where the kids had lots of fun riding roller coasters and eating. We left the older kids along with the Scott kids at the park while the "oldies" and Benjamin went back to the hotel and rested. While we were gone, Susan, Jacob, Daniel, and Michael got stuck on the Texas Giant roller coaster! It is the largest wooden roller coaster around. When we picked them up, Steve asked where we wanted to eat for tea. Jennie said anywhere we could get some vegetables--she was tired of fast food! So we ate at a place called Denny's where all the Sauvageot's ate breakfast food except for mum. She had a nice salad as well as chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and mixed veggies!!!!!


The airline still says our bags are in Houston. Therefore, Trevor and Dad are at Wal-Mart at 11:00 at night trying to find some church clothes for Trevor to wear tomorrow! What a nightmare.

Rangers Baseball game

The airline said our bags are still in Houston, so. . . . we had to go to Wal-Mart to buy Trevor a change of clothes. The Scott family had arranged for us to go to a Texas Rangers Baseball game. We ate cheese fries and hot dogs at the game and won a free taco when the Rangers made a run in the sixth inning. Benjamin thought it was pretty exciting to see!