our summer vacation, part two

After being in Virginia with our families for a few days, we travelled to Raleigh, NC to visit our dearest friends! Against the advice of our friends, we drove by our old house (we really went more to visit our neighbors than to see our house). I just have to post the before/after shots. We were a bit disappointed in the care given the lawn and flowers after we moved out. Many of the flowers we had there were passed to us from friends and family... not sure if they'll make it another year. We did get to see our neighbors, the Berningers, who had a box of toys out for Nathanael to play with and sent us off with cookies... yumm! We woke our other neighbors up on Sat morning and the kids played in the yard for a while before we headed to Ms Tommie's house for lunch.

Feb 2009, putting the house on the market

August 2009, after a scorching summer

Ms Tommie

After lunch Daddy went biking with some friends while Mommy went shopping with Gretchen. Included in our shopping adventure was a milkshake from Chick-Fil-A and a short trip to Target!! After a long day, we went to Gary and Debbie's house to rest before dinner at Grace. Our Grace family has been so encouraging to us over the last few months! They hosted a cookout for us to visit with our friends. We had a great time visiting with everyone! Sunday we were able to visit with more friends and had lunch before heading to SC. The highlight of my (Allison) NC trip was a CD of original Daniel Tomyn songs combined with sheet music for my favorite one, which we also sang during the worship service on Sunday!! Thanks Daniel!! Nathanael's favorite time was playing with trucks and cargo at Gary and Debbie's house! Daddy enjoyed Kyle's teaching and preaching on Sunday and being encouraged by his friends at Grace! What a blessing our Grace and Seminary friends are to us!!

Brian and Carlos

(another former OMVer who is also a church planter)

Nathanael and Debbie

some of our sweet Grace friends