tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263772542011-10-16T17:20:37.605-05:00JOIN ME IN MY JOURNEY PERMEATED BY THE GRACE OF GOD. "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me." I Corinthians 15:10Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-44894973105187464322007-09-01T13:27:00.000-05:002007-09-01T13:29:08.029-05:00

I have heard this song quite often on the radio. It really makes me think everytime I hear it. Today I was thinking about the specific line that says "Bring me anything that brings you glory." I have always really liked that line, but today I realized I really haven't been living with that unselfish and God-focused attitude. The one thing that I have been fighting in my thinking alot lately has

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I highly suspect that just as Facebook has become where I frequently give updates on how I am doing, many of my past viewers ( if I ever had any) are now trafficking Facebook to find out how I am doing. I may give a better update in the near future. I was wondering if anyone who does check out my blog at all could leave me a comment on this post just to let me know that you do check it

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I left a week ago today for my two weeks summer vacation. School ended Friday, June1st. I flew out of Charlotte 8am Saturday, June 2nd. I flew into Chicago. Aunt Karla picked me up at the airport and drove me to the Chicago Metra station. I love the Metra. I took a 1 1/2 hr ride to Kenosha, WI for $5. During the week it’s $7. Sarah Perhsall picked me up in Kenosha and drove me back to her house

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I haven't posted since Spring Break, but of course, I have been busy with all kinds of things (part of why I haven't posted). One of the most exciting things that has happened recently is that Ricky has finally graduated from college with his bachelor's degree. He graduated last Saturday, May 5th. I am so proud of him. He has worked so hard, and God's grace has enabled him to complete what he

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-17910885954687547042007-04-11T16:34:00.000-05:002007-04-11T17:00:07.108-05:00

I feel like I left some things out of my first post, so I decided to cover them on a second post. First off, I wanted to mention that I was able to spend a good deal of time with my amazing sister, Andrea. It was so neat to be able to be a part of her ministry in Plainfield and at Northland. We had just all kinds of fun together.Here are some fun pictures from the weekend in Plainfield. I had

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March 30th I fly from Charlotte, NC to Green Bay, WI to spend my spring break visiting my wonderful alma mater, Northland Baptist Bible College. When I fly into Green Bay, I was able to spend some time with my cousin, Tim. Andrea's extension group drove through Gbay on their way to Plainfield, WI. Andrea and I enjoyed getting to see Tim and spend a little bit of time with him.Every weekend, a

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Cherith and I had a great time on Saturday being part of Lindsey Boehm's Team at the AHA Heart Walk.

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LINDSEY'S TEAMSaturday, March 17th, Cherith and I were part of "Lindsey Boehm's Team" in the American Heart Association Walk in downtown Greenville. It was about 3 miles. It started at the Falls Park on Reedy River. The trail went all the way down by Cleveland Park and the zoo and then looped back around the same way we came. We had an awesome team out for the Walk. Her team was able to raise

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The Citadel hosts the Mid-Winter Special Olympics State Games each March.The kids did great in their basketball skill competitions. I think it's neat how they have a platform set up for the presentation of the medals for the athletes. Amy and I had a great time playing up the "single girl" response to all the "men in uniform." Miss Perry, the LD special education teacher, asked these cadets to

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As we started out our weekend for the Mid-Winter Games in Charleston on March 2-5, we visited Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. We took the garden tour. The trees and flowers were just starting to bloom. It was beautiful. We also visited the petting zoo. We were going to take the swamp tour but we ran out of time. We had to quickly head off to see Sharks 3D at the IMAX theater.I always love

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Spring is slowly arriving here in SC. The daffodils are blooming everywhere. These are some by a tree on the side of our house. The ones that were frozen in the snow storm by the mailbox never did bloom. They look rather sad. Some trees are blooming as well. In Charleston this weekend for the Special Olympics, we went to Magnolia Plantation and walked through the gardens. It's amazing how much

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February 1st we had our "big storm." We had about an 1 1/2 to 2 inches of snow and lots of ice and slush. School was closed for a day and then a 2 hr delay in the morning on Friday. It was nice to have a day off. And for you northerners, southern storms are so dangerous because it usually is an ice storm and it is dangerous to drive in ice. Also, an ice storm can put thousands of people out of

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I haven't posted in a while. But there isn't much to report. A few things here and there have been going on. Cherith and I rearranged our bedroom and were able to actually organize it so that it has stayed pretty much clean for a few weeks running. I am excited and less stressed about all that now. There is nothing like coming into a clean room and a bed that is made...despite what teenagers

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I wanted to inform you of our new family blog that opened Saturday, January 27, 2007. It is intented to help our family keep up with each other's lives in our busy schedules. But for those who care to keep up on our crazy lives too, check it out. Here is the link, and I have also put a link on my blog to it. http://www.bigfamilyinasmallhouse.blahalife.com/

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Please remember the Boehm family especially now. Laura, Lindsey's mom, now has another loss. Laura's dad went to be with the Lord this past Sunday, January 21st. About 2 weeks after Lindsey went to be with the Lord, Mike Green was diagnosted with Pancreatic cancer that was very far progressed. He went home to be with His Lord 9 weeks later. I went to the viewing last night and the funeral is

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I just wanted to let you know that I just put a link on my blog to my class site from work. Mr. Finch is the lead teacher and so it is under his name. Check it out. There are all kinds of pics of field trips we have been on. The next fun trip we have coming up is going to the Barnum and Bailey Circus next Friday. I am so excited about that. I love free trips being a teacher.

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Hollywood's philosophy is born out of the heart of unbelievers who do all they can to promote anything but God's Word and people as the standard for relationships. We are guaranteed that they will pormote this because they are at enmity with God. The underlying philosophy of "chick flicks" does not sneak under that influence. They boldly and subtly mold the thinking of their viewers. Females,

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In the book, When God Writes Your Love Story, an older single girl was asked if she thought that God has called her to be single. Her response was, "Today He has." I have been coming back to that statement quite a bit recently. Lately, God has brought me to wrestle with the fact that I am unmarried. I have an aunt who is single and in her forties. Almost everything about her, though, would make

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I know it has been a while since I really wrote an entry to fill you all in on how I am doing. As always, I am keeping busy. School started back last Wednesday. I had a wonderful 2 week break with my family. We four older kids drove down to GA to see my uncle's families the Thur-Sat before Christmas. We were back at home Saturday since we wanted to all be together for Christmas day. It has

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Just south of Simpsonville, in the quaint town of Fountain Inn, every year most of the houses on Main Street are traditionally decorated for Christmas. They bring in horses and carriages from carriage companies in Charleston for two weeks in December. For only $6 for an adult and $3 for children ( I think that was the children's cost), you can enjoy a carriage ride down Main Street to see all

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God taught me an important lesson today through teaching the 4s and 5s children's church this morning. The philosophy for our children's ministries comes from Desiring God ministries. They deliberately keep their curriculum God-centered. We had a children's ministries meeting for all those where were going to be involved in teaching in children's ministries this quarter back at the end of

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First, I want to start of by telling Christine Hayes that I shared with Laura and Susan that you commented on my post. They had read the post themselves. Laura said that when things slow down then she will really try to get back to you. She said thank you so much. I also ran upon the Boehm's blog that have some recent pictures of the girls. http://boehmgirls.blogspot.com/There were so many things

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Caroline, Lindsey, and Cadince at Grace's Fall Picnic(more pictures from the Fall picnic are in a folder on my web album athttp://www.picasaweb.google.com/blahababe1)Not long after I started attending Grace Bible Church about a year and a half ago, Jason and Laura Boehm started attending Grace with their beautiful daughters Lindsey and Cadence. They are one of the families like my brothers and I

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I finally got my fall bulletin board put up in my classroom last week. Since it is with pumpkins and fall theme, I had to get it up before December with enough time to enjoy it. I was going to put it up at the beginning of October but didn't get everything done for it until last week. Mr. Finch is the teacher in my class. There is a picture of all eleven students in the class with a small list

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One of the highlights of the year at my church, Grace Bible, is our annual Fall Picnic. Usually it is the last weekend in October at one of our founding member's home. We just had it this last Sunday afteroon. Almost everyone from the church comes and we often friend visitors. My favorite tradition that I found out about last year and took advantage of this year was our "soup sampler" idea.

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It is amazing to see God actively cultivating contentment in my heart recently. There are so many things I would love to do and places I hope to get to in life. But right now God has me exactly where I am. He has been teaching me that that is just fine...and not just fine, but good. I haven't been gypped out of something good from him because I am not on the mission field, married, or living in

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For those of you in the north, yes this is the price that I I filled up our van with on Saturday. 12.75 gallons for $25. Praise the Lord. But that is the lowest price around. Most runs in the $1.90s.

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Me, Joanna, Mandy, and ErinThis last weekend, my church went to The Wilds in North Carolina for our bi-annual adult retreat. The highlight of my weekend was just being able spend time with some girls who I have been wanting to build a deeper friendship and bond with. The picture above is the four of us on the swing by the lake. We hung out all weekend

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For those of you who have not heard from me what actually happened with our lockdown a couple weeks ago, it ended up being a 13 year old boy from our middle school. He had an early dismissal and had gone home and changed into his camouflage. He took an air rifle up to the school grounds to meet a friend and show him his gun. When the police showed up, he got scared and ran home. He finally turned

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The school where I teach, Mauldin Middle School, was locked down at 3pm yesterday, October 5th, after a few teachers at the elementary school next door reported seeing a man in camouflage and something over his shoulder that looked like a gun at the edge of the woods behind the school. We all had to stay in our 6th period class until the police said it was okay to let us go home. They finally

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Home of the World's Largest ChildWednesday, September 27 our Special Education classes took a field trip to Columbia, SC to visit the South's largest children's museum, EdVenture. I was so fascinated with it, especially with Eddie. Eddie is 40-feet tall, weighs 35,000 pounds and is only 10 years old. In the back of him you can climb and slide through him to see what's inside your body. You can

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Ryan stayed in the VW Bug for quite a while. Even with his dad's vehicle, he always seems fascinated with wanting to drive. The kids loved the news room that they had set up. Sydney and I are sitting at the anchor desk. There were buttons at the anchor desk that you could push to transfer the camera from the anchor desk to the weather screen. Each student wanted to take their turn at sitting at

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Here are the lyrics to yet another song from the same CD from the last entry, "Valley of Vision", by Sovereign Grace Ministries. Meditate on all that God has done for us through the cross.How DeepBased on The Valley of Vision prayer “Love Lustres at Calvary”Words and Music byStephen Altrogge Verse 1 You were broken that I might be healed You were cast off that I might draw near You were

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Sovereign Grace Ministries just put out a new music CD. It is called "Valley of Vision: Songs for worship inspired by the classic book of Puritan prayers." (You can check out their site from the link on the right side of my blog.) I was listening to it on the way to school this morning. I repeated this song at least once just to really meditate on the words. Here are the lyrics. I know I needed

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I was able to share with a gathering of friends and family about my trips to China. It went so well. This is me in my traditional Yi outfit by the display that I set up. They were so curious to learn about it all. I had a bunch of pictures developed and put in albums. I even had a CD of pictures on a laptap that they were able to see a slideshow on.

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Don't get too freaked out. It happened a week ago today. I haven't been able to post pictures until today though. Last Thursday at about 2:30pm, I had just come back from the nurse's station with one of my students, and I got this horrible pain in my lower abdomen area. It happened within minutes, and I was doubled over and couldn't walk without help. The teacher in my classroom helped me up to

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While looking through coupons in the newspaper on Monday night, my mom found a coupon for haircolor. Since she knows that I find great joy in coloring mine and other people's hair, she asked me if I was interested in having the coupon. We were at a new friend's house at the time, and she was interested in coloring her hair too. So Tuesday night, Cherith, Elli, and I had a hair coloring party. The

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Me, Josh, Jesse, Mom, Dad, Andrea, Cherith, and Ricky

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Last year there was not a large group plan to go touring any place before or after we were in Chengdu. This summer, those coordinating the trip told us that they had arranged for anyone to be able to go to Beijing after we were through teaching in Chengdu for only $150 extra in cash. Out of the 150 of us, about 135 went to Beijing. Unfortunately, Justin and Nic didn't go. Justin had gone last

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I KNOW THIS ENTRY IS LONG, BUT THERE ARE GREAT TRUTHS PACKED IN IT THAT EVERYONE OF US NEEDS TO HEAR...AND I AM THE FIRST TO ADMITT IT. DO KEEP READING AND DRINK DEEPLY OF THE RICHNESS OF THE GREAT VALUE OF CHRIST SHOWN THROUGH THE GOSPEL!I would like to add a further gospel focus to my previous entry titled "Earthen Vessel Moments." God has still been chipping away at my prideful heart

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This is me and some of my crazy boys. The boys in my class were a mess and so much fun. Since we are teaching an English class, we try to give our students English names if they want one and didn't have one when they came to class. Last summer and this summer, I gave my students names of my friends and family back home. It is always fun to come home and tell your friends that there is a Chinese

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This is Team Xide (without our fearless leader, BT, since he was taking the picture). We took this picture on one of our weekend trips into the mountains. We also had some Chinese friends with us on this trip.We had to take a 10 hr. train ride southwest to get to Xide from Chengdu. This is us at the train station in Chengdu. There weren't any other foreigners at the train station when we were

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This was one of our favorite Chinese dishes. It was basically scrambled eggs with stewed tomatoes and some salt for seasoning. It was so good. Most Sichuan food is very spicy, so we were excited to find dishes that were not too spicy and a flavor we enjoyed.In Xide, the Yi people seasoned much of their food with these tiny seedy things from little bushes. They would harvest them and then lay the

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I was blessed to have Joy Joy as my roommate this summer in China. We got along so well. We would talk and share our hearts together till all hours of the night sometimes. We just had so much fun together. My team in Xide was the only group from Team China that had team members from each of the other 5 colleges with Team China. Joy is from Clearwater. Justin (the first guy in this picture) was

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1156654872455441372006-08-26T22:52:00.000-05:002006-08-27T00:01:12.523-05:00

Do you base whether you feel loved on whether people call, text message, or email you? For fun, I often say "I'm not loved" when I check my email and find that no one has emailed me. But in the past few months or so, I have come to realize that I really do think like that. When I expect to hear from a friend through one of these three forms of communication and my expectation is not met, I get

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1156455141073494882006-08-24T16:14:00.000-05:002006-08-24T20:39:30.776-05:00

I finally am posting a few pictures from China. I know you have all been waiting eagerly to see some. I felt like I was dropped into a National Geographics magazine in the city that I taught in. These people had so much character in their faces and wrinkles. I did get to see some old friends from last year. Here is Jodie, her boyfriend Tommy, Mikan and I the afternoon we went out for lunch

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1156367419682383352006-08-23T15:54:00.000-05:002006-08-23T16:10:19.700-05:00

Here are some hilarious pics that I just got from my friend's Jen and Brian. They got a new computer last winter and there is a photobooth program on it. If you don't know what that is, there is a camera on the top part of the computer monitor. There are different goofy ways that you can take your self-portrait with the camera on the monitor. It is so funny trying different angles to get a

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1155308840484044042006-08-11T09:46:00.000-05:002006-08-11T10:07:20.523-05:00

Still no pictures up but I will put some up soon. I am finally sitting here at home dorking around on the internet with the high speed connection that my family got while I was gone. I safely arrived in the Charlotte airport last night at about 5:40pm. I had no idea how crazy yesterday was going to be for airlines until I got to the airport. I had heard from my dad and Jen's mom that something

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1155066159775223632006-08-08T14:03:00.000-05:002006-08-08T14:42:39.800-05:00

I safely landed in Chicago on Wednesday morning at about 9:20am. I had to spend the night in the airport in NYC Tuesday night because our flight out of Beijing was late. We almost all missed our flights to our final destinations. I am still not home in SC yet, but I will be flying home on Thursday, August 10th. I'm spending a week with my two best friends in WI right now. I get to see my "niece

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1152581226463557262006-07-10T20:24:00.000-05:002006-07-10T20:27:06.476-05:00

Here's the latest news. Eunice called from Chengdu and said that the best way to get more news on the team is by going to www.teamchinaonline.org. Hopefully, they will be able to post soon. Right now they are not able to post much on there.Thanks

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1152122690860042562006-07-05T06:44:00.000-05:002006-07-05T13:04:50.876-05:00

By way of introduction, this is not Eunice. This is now her brother in her stead. For the time of her residence in China, I will be relaying messages onto here from her phone calls.This morning was the first of the messages. Since I was en route for my slumbering for the day, Eunice left me a voicemail. She mentioned that she arrived at O'hare safely and even early. She had no problems till she

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1151986465289327602006-07-03T22:53:00.000-05:002006-07-03T23:14:25.306-05:00

I am having serious problems with getting pictures on the computer right now, so I don't have any pictures to post...as of the beginning of this entry. I have about 30 hrs before I leave from Chicago for China, and I am so excited. I started getting nervous butterflies earlier today. I am just eager to get there. God has been teaching me a lot along the way of getting me to China lately. I had

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1151768552147293602006-07-01T10:40:00.000-05:002006-08-12T12:28:27.243-05:00

If you want to see more pictures from the weekend of the wedding you can go to my brother Josh's blog. http://www.predestinedinlove.com/Trip/

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I know that some of you have been waiting for pictures and information on my China trip. Now that the week of the wedding is all done, I can take time to post some info for you about my trip. I leave in just about a week. My flight departs from Chicago at 7:20am next Wednesday, July 5th. Today, I did the last of my shopping for the trip. I may have a few odds and ends left to get that I may think

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1151361671732064632006-06-26T17:21:00.000-05:002006-06-26T17:41:11.746-05:00

Hannah, Me, and Naomi We had all kinds of fun taking goofy pictures of ourselves all day.We had to get a picture of us four older grandchildren since we were the grandchildren who started all the adventures around my grandparent's farm in the

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1151348361042965632006-06-26T13:40:00.000-05:002006-06-26T14:02:04.990-05:00

The wedding was wonderful. Everything went perfectly. Keturah kept saying she was having so much fun all day. That is a special thing because a bride could get caught up in the many things that must be done well for the day to turn out, and she won't even be able to enjoy her day she has dreamed of since she was a little girl. It was also my sister Cherith's 15th birthday. She had a good day too

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1150842268066488432006-06-20T16:50:00.000-05:002006-06-20T17:30:31.976-05:00

I came up a week before the wedding because I wanted to be as much of a help as I could be to Keturah. Since I live in South Carolina, I have been limited in how much I could help with in the months leading up to the wedding. I did come up for my week of Spring Break in April to throw her a bridal shower and help with wedding planning. But the week of the wedding is especially crucial in all the

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1150774872812757002006-06-19T22:21:00.000-05:002006-06-19T22:45:27.036-05:00

Yesterday for Father's Day, I joined Keturah and Skip at her parent's house for lunch. My Uncle Dan cooked the steak... and it was GOOD!I'm sure this plate of food is making you hungry about now. Skip was making fun of me as I was taking pictures of the meal. I did it so that I can take pictures to China of what a typical meal in America is like and what the setting of the table is like. This

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1150734165270979372006-06-19T11:17:00.000-05:002006-06-19T11:32:40.013-05:00

I was bored last night, so I decided to have fun with the timer on my camera. It was a good time.

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1150726336782338842006-06-19T09:01:00.000-05:002006-06-19T09:13:49.326-05:00

Good Morning!!! It is a gorgeous morning here in MI. I arrived here Friday and it has been great fun. My friend, Aimee, and I left for the glorious Midwest on Thursday following my eye exam for contacts. By around 10:30am, we were off like a herd of turtles. If you didn't know already, I LOVE ROAD TRIPS ! There is so much adventure to be had by all involved....and we had our fun. We talked a lot

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1149967783893867962006-06-10T14:19:00.000-05:002006-06-12T18:42:21.086-05:00

It is getting closer and closer to the time I leave for China. The anticipation is growing every day. I know that many of you have been given this blog address for information about China. I was trying to post some more pictures of friends from China, but it wasn't working for some reason. But I will get them on soon. I did want to post a brief entry for those who may be curious about more

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1149623254269534362006-06-06T14:27:00.000-05:002006-06-10T14:08:34.556-05:00

The last few months have been challenging. Towards the beginning of the year, Stephanie, a friend from church happened to mention in a conversation that she and her husband had been thinking about renting out the apartment area they have above their "barn" that they lived in while they were building their house. She and her husband, David, had talked about offering to let my brother Ricky and I

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1148494414372565462006-05-24T13:07:00.000-05:002006-05-30T13:43:56.643-05:00

These are the latest pictures from Mikan's blog. I emailed him to find out where and when he had this race or biking trip. I haven't heard back yet, but the pictures were so awesome I just had to post them. For some original pics from his blog go to http://achazi.blogcn.com/

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1147875436969087932006-05-17T09:10:00.000-05:002006-05-24T13:06:39.310-05:00

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1147362334110102102006-05-11T10:27:00.000-05:002006-05-13T16:37:01.443-05:00

I have been 26 years old for 4 days now. My birthday was Monday and it was great. My mom was so sweet and called different friends of mine and family friends and asked them to send me a birthday card. Then she surprised me with having some of my friends over for supper. We always have a special meal we pick out for our birthdays. I had thought of friends possibly coming over but didn't really

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1146856111164543132006-05-05T13:38:00.000-05:002006-05-08T09:28:38.053-05:00

This is me and my English class in China last summer. When everyone was there, there were 31 students total. It was great to get to know them better as we did activities together after school. Alisha (on the left) was from our group from Northland. She was an assistant for two of us teacher's from Northland. She would switch off between our two classes and team teach with us. Kay (on the right)

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1146752995998886832006-05-04T09:22:00.000-05:002006-05-05T13:38:15.743-05:00

For the last 8 weeks, our two special education classes at school have gone bowling every Thursday to prepare for the Special Olympics. This weekend is the Summer Special Olympics in Columbia, SC and our group will be competing in bowling. Each Thursday trip included eating lunch at the bowling alley and each student playing two games. The first game was played with bumpers. The second game they

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1146147543734490132006-04-27T08:47:00.000-05:002006-04-27T14:14:07.473-05:00

This is my friend Mikan that I met in China last summer. He was a Chinese teacher's assistant for one of the summer English classes. My roommate, Emily, and I made friends with Mikan and his friend Cerix. A big group of us went over to Mikan's house one night for "home hotpot." We also went to the Chengdu Zoo. The day before we left I went biking with Mikan. It was so much fun out on the open

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1146071515804983542006-04-26T12:08:00.000-05:002006-04-26T13:47:01.203-05:00

The last weekend in February most of our two special education classes at Mauldin Middle went to Charleston for the Mid-Winter Special Olympics. The events took place at the Citadel. This is the picture of our athletes. If you will notice, I am the only coach in the picture. I say this is all the athletes because I noticed on the pamphlet they passed out with all the athletes and coaches names

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145968910906412502006-04-25T06:55:00.000-05:002006-04-25T07:41:50.916-05:00

I don't know about you, but I have only ridden on a motorcycle once...UNTIL LAST NIGHT. When I was 11 years old, I started my first "job." I would iron clothes for some close friends of my family, the Robersons. I had that job for about 10 years, until I went off to college. (Their daughter, Kelly, and their granddaughter, Leigh, are the ones that I stayed with in Charlotte and gave me "The

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145910392479743012006-04-24T14:44:00.000-05:002006-04-24T15:30:09.070-05:00

Our team's plans for going to China this summer are coming along just fine. I leave from Chicago July 5th and return August 3rd. I am glad I will be in America for the 4th of July. Last summer we left on the 3rd and got their on the 5th, but we didn't ever have the 4th of July because of the time change. It was so weird. As we can always expect, God has been faithful and the money is coming in

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145647687610411112006-04-21T14:06:00.000-05:002006-04-21T14:32:55.106-05:00

It has been almost 2 months since my Aunt Arlene went home to be with the Lord. Her husband, George, is my mom's brother.For those of you who didn't know about the accident, she was killed in a car accident on an icy road coming home from church up in Wisconsin. This picture is of her and I on our graduation day from college, May 8, 2004. She was the mother of three: Tara, Aaron, and Alisha.

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145559701561383522006-04-20T13:43:00.000-05:002006-04-21T07:07:07.936-05:00

It has been amazing how God gave me friends at college that I know will be some of my best friends for the rest of my life. One of them is my friend Jen Neuenschwander. We were roommates our freshman year at Northland. Since then, she has gotten married and has a beautiful daughter. This is a picture of Jen and Brian's daughter Zoey. She was born October 12th, the day after I started my job here

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145542892746934752006-04-20T09:18:00.000-05:002006-04-20T09:21:32.760-05:00

If you know me, you know that I am a thinker. But at times I find myself being easily convinced of things and not really seeing the "devil's advocate" side of the proposition. But I love a good challenge. I love when the other side is presented about an issue so that I can think it through and compare it to Scripture. I have much growing to do in this area though. As I read "The Barbarian Way",

Eunicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15979426522025258089noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26377254.post-1145350374944326432006-04-18T03:52:00.000-05:002006-04-18T03:52:54.960-05:00

I was looking forward to spring break to be able to get away and get refreshed. God has blessed me by answering that desire with time to spend with family and friends, time to think by myself, and a time to read, giving more food for thought. In the last month or so before I left for spring break, I have realized more and more how I have been getting sucked into a mindset of nagging frustration

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