Blessings to all of you! We hope you're all doing well and staying warm! Florida has been absolutely beautiful. We're enjoying some lovely sunshine and warm temps. We're staying part of this week and next at the King family ranch. I'm very very spoiled with wifi, sunshine and a swimming pool all right outside the bus.

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the water with the Zapadenkos, who we also had the privilege of staying with earlier this week.




Getting ready to cast off...er, push. Whatever.




Out on the open water....following the big boat (the one I was in), since their little boat couldn't keep us with us.







We moved down to the river and caught two fish...we spent a long time trying to catch more with the net....alas...the fish got smart on us!!

One of the not so smart fishies.






The mom's also when out and had some fun in the boat later.

Well, I guess that's all the pictures for now. We're singing twice this weekend though it is not listed on the website. (Some computer trouble for Bonnie...) So...thanks for all your prayers for our health. Vincent recovered from throwing up the day before yesterday but still isn't healthy. Hannah and Daniel and really stuffed up. Dad has been able to walk around, but his back has been giving him a fair amount of trouble. God is good though and has sustained us. God bless you all!!

OK! I'm blogging and look, it hasn't even been week!! Yay for me. : P Here are a few shots from the church on Sunday night. Carissa took them for us. We've been staying with her family and we've been having a great time!














God bless you all!

I have lots of other pictures to post from CA but I'm skipping ahead and going to post a few from Springville, the most northern part of CA we visited.









We sang in that house. : )








This is a shot of us with our new friends who went out for a walk on beautiful morning!



Edit: Sorry. I left that picture out accidentally!

I have more pictures which I hope to get up soon but we're visiting with so many friends and relatives it's hard to make time to sit down...have a great weekend every one!

Wow. I have to pinch myself. I have a connection and a few hours with a laptop full of pictures! Is this happening for real?! :D We have been having such a busy schedule between visiting folks and traveling, and being sick. I’m now getting to sit down to upload and write!

We entered CA and headed straight for the Greer’s house. I will direct you to their blog for a few posts about our visit.

Our visit to the beach was beautiful! The water was totally freezing and cold but beautiful just the same. I opted to ride a bike back home (7 miles) instead of waiting for the sun to go down over the water. Looking back, yeah, I could have planned better! This was the only opportunity for sunset photos over the water the whole trip.

Anyway, a few shots while the sun was still up.



Two Greers and some of the MacDonalds who walked the pier.



They had some surfing competition going on...



Mikki and Hannah playing in the sand....from the looks of them they DID go in the water. Brrr!!



Cute little pelican which liked to snap at people. : P

There were some just happy to sit there, while we edged closer and closer and ended up trying to push Vincent into them. :)





Matthew enjoying the day!



Was it the salt air or the salt water???



.... :D



It didn't seem to hurt mom or dad any. :)
(credit to T.J. for the photo)

The bike ride home was kinda long...but we made it before night set in.



Thus ends our ocean adventure in Oceanside, CA. :)

Here are some photos!! Finally! I know...this connection is super fast and even though it's rather late here and I need sleep to recover from this cold I've decided to blog. :D




Part of our 10 mile hike in Phoenix, Arizona.



More hike.



One of my favorites of the day.

Our first concert in CA.




We did two sets, one for each service and only about 20 minutes each. The audience was warm and welcoming and we had a great time!







We estimate 800 cd were given out Sunday morning, which is a record for us!

Check out more pictures here!

God bless you all!

I just looked at our last post. You should all feel free to beat me with a wet noodle for not doing better about keeping up with the blog!! We are certainly not in Texas anymore! We arrived in beautiful, sunny California on Friday. We had a few adventures between Texas and California but I don't have the pictures or blog post I wrote up in front of me. I hope to have some pictures up soon but for now check out this post of our friends.

God bless you all!