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Our trip to Turkey including Ephesus.

Great Theater (seats over 25,000)

Paul spent over three years in Ephesus preaching the Gospel. He delivered a sermon condemning pagan worship in this theater.

And according to Acts (19:23-41), the theater was the site of the “riot of the silversmiths” in which those who made silver figures of Artemis rioted because Paul’s preaching was bad for business.

More pics from our trips with David’s momma

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More fam pics

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Molly update

Some of ya’ll may know already that my sister Molly is preggers and due in August. Well she has just been put on bed rest due to gestational hypertension.  yuck.  She has been posting updates regularly on her blog so check it out….cool ultrasounds pics are there too!!  Keep her in your prayers. 

Kids

Mad travels

Wow…it has been a long time since I have posted anything out here. Glad to be back after a hiatus of having Charley and traveling like mad fools with David’s mom. Dayna arrived about a week after Charley was born and left 2 weeks ago. My parents arrived a day after she left and have been here for the past 2 weeks. My Dad left this morning though. sniff sniff. My Mom will be here for another two. Anyways, here are highlights from the past 2 months!

> C-sec recovery went well although the first 2 weeks after were pretty painful. Luckily I was able to find the stamina to go with the fam and Dayna to Sydney for a couple of days. Pics from the trip are here.

> After Sydney we hung out in Canberra for a week and then got wild ideas of doing some more traveling. We planned and left for the Great Barrier Reef all in one day! We drove back to Sydney and flew to Cairns for 4 days of heaven. The area kinda reminded me of Hawaii but much less commercialized and with many more creature features (crocs, sea snakes, blue octupus, cone fish, box jellies).

> David scuba dived and got nipped in the hand by Nemo’s Dad…David is hooked and wants more scuba.

 

> Because of my recent c-sec I wasn’t able to scuba but the rest of us saw the reef from a semi-sub. Amazing!

> Went to the Daintree Rainforest and Cape Tribulation. I desperately wanted to see a saltwater croc in the wild but didn’t see any.

> All of the beaches had croc nets up including the one out the front door of our beach apt (last minute hotel deals are the shaniznit!)

> Because we booked last minute flights back to Sydney we were only able to get a flight arriving at 10:30 PM. That would have been ok but we had to jump in the car back to Canberra because David had booked flights out to Melbourne from Canberra the next morning. After getting lost in Sydney and then driving in massive night fog we didn’t arrive home until 3 AM. We stayed up most of the night packing and then got back onto a plane a couple hours later. Can’t tell you how wacked out that was.

> At first glance Melbourne reminded me of a typical US city however, once you got down to street level it was a whole different story. I think it is one of my most favorite cities…incredibly artsy, thousands of cafes and restaurants (Melb has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the world), loads of unique shopping, little inner city back alley bars, shops and cafes, fantastic museums, bayside beaches, clean…awesome.

> David, me, Dayna, Logan and Charley all stayed in our friend Ray’s 1 bdrm apt for 6 days….we got to know each other very well! Modesty went out the door. ha ha!

> Drove down the Great Ocean Road…walked through a serene rainforest, had a wild koala encounter (wow!), watched super surfers surf Bells Beach (where Patrick Swayze surfed the “perfect wave” in Point Break) and saw the 12 Apostles.

> We came home and dropped dead from tiredness….can’t believe we did what we did while I was supposed to be recovering and with 2 kids!!! Would do it all over again if I could.

BIG GAME NEWS: Roogoo on da street and ready for purchase

David’s brother’s game is alive and kicking so if you have an XBOX 360 download it pronto.  What are the peoples saying about it?  Click here for more. 

She is awake

Charley has been opening her eyes more often so Dayna (David’s momma) was able to get some shots of her. Check out the photos here.

Terrifyingly addictive: Roogoo

Scott’s (David’s bro) game, Roogoo, is getting rave reviews by folks up at the NY Comic Con confrc. Check out their article here.

Charley Pt. 2

Hey everybody! I finally have been cheery enough to get some pics up of Charley and the fam on our first outing (some of the pics were taken by David’s mom…yeah she is here!). I am feeling better every day although I am not 100% yet. Charley is great and has been the best baby so far but I might chalk that up to the jaundice. Check out the photos here. More updates later!!!