India!!

I'm baaacckk. Just kidding - beating a dead horse at this point.

It's official! I'm going to Tammy's in India this November!! I am SUPER excited. I am going with one other girl from SSI my age who has kids. We have been getting to know each other and she is the COOLEST! Once again, another stay-at-home mom who works - such an oxy-moron but so true. We have tons in common - we even knew some of the same people at UGA at the same time. We pretty much determined we must have danced around each other at parties and stuff and simply never met. Isn't life funny? I'll be gone for the week of Thanksgiving but my wonderful, loving, supportive, God-fearing husband says 'Go for it!'. What's a week with lots of turkey anyway, right?

We're gearing up for a big couple of weeks with lots of visitors! Cannot wait! My folks are coming for a few days this week. Then the Bill TAnner's are coming to play starting this weekend. CANNOT wait!! Pray for all of us living in the same house!! Then my best friend from high school is coming with her kiddos for a few days to join one of our roommates from college and her extended family who will be here! SHEW! I'll be blogging again in a couple of weeks.

We had a huge 'water' day yesterday on the Intercoastal waterway with our interns. It was awesome. I've never been behind a boat in the ocean - you expect salt in your mouth when going to the beach - but it shocked me when I jumped in behind the boat!! There was salt in that water! I was expecting lake water. There were probably alligators and sharks too, but I tried not to think about it.

My boys got to tube for the first time (in the Atlantic, mind you!). They loved it. Eli insisted he wasn't scared but that's not what his face said during the ride! The driver's version of 'drive slow for the 4 year old' was very suspect. Asa loved it. Asa took the 20 foot jump from the dock into the water. I was yelling for Jesus the whole time. He was pretty proud b/c it's what the 'big kids' were doing. Eli opted out of that activity.

We've had TONS of response from the job opening at our church. Please be praying. We have 2-3 forerunners that we will be interviewing in person over the next couple of weeks.

I think we will be in Marietta the first weekend in August - look for us at church!

Mark's only got a few more Sunday nights left for The GP summer. Once it got going, it flew by. Mac came and sang this past week and David Nasser spoke. They are both amazing and good friends to come support Mark and The GP. Thanks Mac & David!! The Tanner's will get to come and experience it all this week!

Work is going well - steady and busy. I'm sure you were all wondering. We missed camp terribly. I think it made us very homesick last week. We tried not to think about it but that was impossible. We kept up on the blog. It sounds like it was AMAZING. God's amazing. Y'all are amazing. Can we come home yet? Wait. Did I say that outloud?

I love you guys. You da best.