South Carolina!

Hey guys. Well I'm sitting here at my Aunt and Uncle's house in SC. I got up about an hour ago, checked my internet things and Ate breakfast. The trip over seas went well, most or all our planes were on time and the airline only lost one of our bags which was returned to us the next day. I am very happy to inform you that my shoes (and all the shoes of my family) have been de-yuckafied. Customs was nice enough to do that for us. So now returning from Romania I have no diseases. You can rest assured knowing their biodegradable disinfectant disinfected our shoes properly. We were met at the airport by my Aunt and Uncle and they drove us back to their house. Since then we have just been hanging out and going to Biglots, Goodwill, and Walmart. ;) (Oh and I got to see my uncle at his job [pretty cool!]). Today we get to meet our Uncle's family and hang out with them. Friday morning we leave here and are off to my Aunt's in Florida, then on to Cliff and Rahela! Well I need to give my Dad his computer back, I will keep you updated... ByE! ☺

Hanging In

Today is my family's last day in Romania, Cristi is next to me helping me with this post. "Yeah right!"-(Cristi).

Ok... anyway, we are just hanging around, and getting ready for the trip. I'm pretty much "packed." Its pretty cool there have been quite a few guests at our house and it's been fun seeing them before we leave. All the people at our house right now are Amalia, Brandusa, Laurentiu, and their baby Natanael, Matt and Petra, (they were planning to have their wedding today but it didn't work out because of paperwork problems). Amalia came from Italy for Petra and Matt's wedding, and is also getting some of her own paperwork done so that she can marry Giuseppe (an Italian guy).

Brandusa and Laurentiu got married in November of 2007 and now have a 6 month old baby boy. It's been cool to catch up with all these guys.

Right now we are going over to the church to practice worship songs for tomorrow so I need to get going also. I will try to write a post in the airport or when we get to my Aunt and Uncle's house. Thanks for reading as always. God bless you guys.

(All the grammar correctness in this post was made possible by Cristi Ionescu)

Wow, I am lazy!

Its been a while since my last post, and I really don't have a good reason why. I had plenty of things to write about, I had plenty of chances to get on here and still I didn't write anything. I'm just lazy... Hmm... is it alright if I talk about what I was thinking of writing last weekend? I guess thats a yes. Alright, Saturday ( 27th of june) started out pretty slowly at our house. Because of the long day before we all slept in a little later than usual. When we all finally got up we had Bible time then did our own things for a bit before leaving for the church building to pick cherries. After picking for a while some other people from our church came to pick some too. They had to leave and we kept picking until our containers were pretty much full. Back to the house with all the goods then the pitting marathon started! We kept pitting and pitting for a pretty long time, and went through quite a lot of cherries but never got through them all. We ended up making syrup out of the rest of them.

↑Mom and Sharon pitting away↑

Sunday was pretty normal for us, church in Ciorani (the town we live in) then church in Valenii (a city in the mountains). Church went well at both, in Ciorani I went to the study in Valenii I helped as usual with the kids. On the way back from Valenii church we stopped by a village to drop off a kid that came with us. We also got to see Brendusia and Laurensu with their baby, Natanael. It was fun to see them.

Mom, Brendusia, Laurensu, Nat., & Dad

When we got back home we found the front door once again chewed by our pregnant dog (there was another thunder storm while we were gone).

Unfortunately, it was not the last thunderstorm of the day. That night there was another, which was much more violent than the last. Hobo when insane.

↑Hobo on her way to the shower↑

↑Hobo being washed by sharon↑

The last two photos are of what remained of Hobo's dog house after the storm. She was so muddy that mom and sharon washed her cause she didn't want Hobo to have the puppies in that dirty condition. But Hobo still hasn't had them and its the 5th so I'm thinking she could have them any time. Tomorrow we leave for the beach and won't be back till probably about Saturday and after we get back I will try to write a post. My parents will be back any time so I should get going, we still have to load the van and get things ready. Thanks for reading this far into the post! :) See ya