Hello Family- We hope that everyone is doing well. Christmas was
alot of fun and now we are back to everyday. It was really cold
up here today so the girls decided to go on a walk in the house.
They had a lot of fun. We hope you are all doing well.

24 JAN AND BEYOND!!!

One more week behind us. This week we worked at Elberton and had our first negative audit. We have to redo about 800 documents because we did not have the focus on the camera set right
Okay so we decided to be brave and change the camera height to accomadate more view of the document and having not done it before did not get the correct focus. OH BOY> we have now learned the hard way how to do it. Tony Rielly to the rescue, our supervisor. He came out on Friday and helped us reset it. Good thing. So we decided to be better safe than sorry and will redo not only the two folders but the other documents we had already done and not sent also. So next week will be rework time. A little deperssing but a good lesson for us to learn.
Today is a lazy day, we went to the gym (boy do we need it) and exercised and of course on the way my cute Paul said lets go to waffle house (a southern restaurant) so we did. It was okay coming out we decided we need to eat better and to not eat out as much. Sometimes it is hard when you are not here.
We have been taking our lunch out to work, but when we spend the night like we did this week we ate out. We went to a place called Richards, it cost us $23.00 for hamburger steak (short for hamburger without the bun) So we will try to be more frugle next time. then again what do you when you don't have anything to do ??? Eat!!

I have been pretty sad after hearing that Bryan and Shauna were moving to Argentina, however news - they will not be moving -n the company is doing a restructuring and will have them stay here for a while longer. Okay with me but the kids were sad.
I still think they will get an opportunity at a later time. So we are sorry they are not going but glad at the same time. Thankful in this time that all of our children have jobs and we all have our health.

Nice day today, 60 here, we like it. Guess I will sign off for now and go do laundry, not all fun for working missionaries.
Life is wonderful.1 Samuel 16:7 For the Lord seeth not as man seeth' for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. He knows what we do not. We can only follow him.

Feb 8th Okay I have had the draft for awhile so I best finish what I started. Thanks Michelle for the cute pictures, and Amber for your updates on your blog. It has been great to have you all post to it.

We have had some great weeks imaging the documents are getting better and we are getting efficient as all is in one style now. At least for awhile. We have been quite busy so I have been writing in my journal instead of bloging it. Sorry.

We had Jeff and Kris come visit us the past weekend it was GREAT!. We had a marathon day on Saturday going to the Aquarium, The coca cola factory, cyclorama (about the war of Atlanta) and to Stone Mt. We left after breakfast at their hotel at 9:00 and did not get home until 9:00. It is a good thing they were on their way to Puerto Rico so they can get some rest.
We really enjoyed the visit with them it was good to catch up on all the family news.

We celebrated our 42nd anniversary on the 27th by going to Applebees with Tom and Bonnie and it was a good visit. Dad and Tom both have great points of view so they can talk up a storm. They are good people.
Today we had a linger longer after ward conference it was the first time I have attended one we had soup and salad it was very good. We have some great people in our ward.

Sundays are a little quiet (not a little a lot) When the weather is good we can walk otherwise it is walk the halls, read or just watch each other and read. today is one of the quiet days, where the halls may just be in order.
I am going to start doing some of our family history I will need to email Keith Cragun as there are none of my dads family is in the PAF yet or at least I can't find them so the search begins. Well best I begin my walk so love to all. MOM Please keep posting, Becky what is going on in sports, music etc, shauna how are all doing. Thanks Amber for your posts. Daina what about you!!!!! Michelle thanks for the cute pictures of the girls dad wants to know where is the car???

Next Michelle has a birthday and Abi is coming up . Have a good week all!!!

WOW Jan 18th

Here it is Jan 18th and the month is almost over. And what a month it has been.
We are finally getting imaging done in Elberton. It has felt great. We decided if we have to drive out there on two consecutive days that we would just spend the night and not push ourselves. We have been staying at a Econolodge which serves breakfast so it has worked out great and the price is right. If we book it through Choice hotels it saves us $10 a night so it has been good.
The temple has been closed for the past week and will be closed this week also. We worked there cleaning one day so we were able to get some good time out in Elberton. Bryan and Shauna flew into Atlanta on their way home from looking for a home in Argentina. Yep that is right Argentina. He has been offered an Executive position over South america and has accepted it. They will be leaving here fast because they want the kids to start school this next quarter in Buenos Aires. So they will leave on the 28th of January. Wow what a whirlwind they are experiencing. The good thing is they will be able to fly home twice a year When they have winter there we have summer and so forth it gives Paul and I somerwhere to go visit in the winter months when we return home.

Life is crazy. But we remain blessed. Bryan and Shauna will have some wonderful experiences and learn more about our world. It can't be all bad. We will miss the kids running over to visit on the spur but we know they will be returning home after 3 years or less so it is good. I guess you could say that Rob and Becky paved the way to show that you can do a lot of different things if you accept the challenge.

The month of February is coming up and we have two birthdays . Michelle is on the 13th and Abi is on the 25th.

The family is having family home evening tomight at Rob and Beckys house it will be the last to share with Bryan and Shauna. Katelyn will sure miss Logan as we all will and the other kids to. Maybe it won't be quite as hard to see them go as we are not there!!!!! One never knows.Thank goodness for the camera on our computer it has helped us see everyone and not get to homesick. Have a great week be sure to add what is going on in the family so we can all see. Love all

Well here it is Jan 4 2009, another year behind us. The holiday was quite different this year as we were not with family. We have a new family here in Atlanta, we went over to Brother and Sister Sharps home for Christmas Eve. They have a lovely home that was decorated with lots of nativity scenes. It was very nice and she was a very gracious lady. On Christmas day we opened our presents from our kids, thanks for the nice sweat suit, scriptures for dad and the wonderful photo album. You made our day.
We had breakfast with the other missionaries here strawberry waffles and blueberry pancakes with all the trimmings. Later in the afternoon we had ham sandwiches with all the fixins and watched a very touching movie called the Christmas shoes.
One of the sisters read a bulletin from home and I thought it had a very great idea. One of the sisters in her ward said that they discussed with their children how we need to keep the spirit of Christmas and they could do it by following this simple rule. The children would get the following for Christmas: Something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read. If we would all follow those simple rules wouldn't Christmas be much simpler??
On New years eve we went over the the Hendersons, they work in the temple, they had a real southern dinner, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, deviled eggs, and lots and lots of pecans, sugared pecans, pecan pies, Cinnamon pecans and plain pecans he bought about 300 lbs and he shells them by hand. He has a little crusher then just shells them. talk about patient. Well we are doing fine, I can't believe that 4 months has passed and we are good.
Still waiting for the equipment to be replaced in
Elberton but hope it will be here this week. Moving onward ever onward.!!!!!

New Year