Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Vacation/Furlough in Michigan

We have arrived safely back in Romania after a month at home in Michigan.  We arrived there just before Christmas so we were able to celebrate Christmas with our family and friends.


  We love giving gifts from the glass factory that we found up north, they make such beautiful things.


We celebrated Christmas many times with all of our family.



We spent lots of time with friends too, sometimes staying at their places when it worked out.


We're always amazed at how fast our friend's kids are growing!



We visited with family or friends just about every evening and also for some breakfasts and lunches.  We really enjoyed getting to see everyone and had a good time spending time with them.  Here we are eating sushi, yum!


Our friend Dori came and visited from Denver...


...So we took her to see some Michigan sights, like all the ice on the pier in Grand Haven.


Michigan really is a beautiful place!


We had great weather with very little snow right until the end which is pretty unusual for January in Michigan.  It was very nice for traveling all around like we did.



We were able to speak about what we're doing in Romania at all four of our supporting churches.  We were very encouraged by all of the people who said that they are praying for us and our ministry.  We know that this would not be possible without all of you so thank you very much!

We really enjoyed our time home and wanted to say thank you to everyone for your hospitality and kindness.  We did miss our kids in Romania though so it was time to come back and see them.  Now we're trying to get back into the swing of things and beat this jet-lag   We are looking forward to what this year has in store for us and our kids!

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