We hope YOU had a Happy Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

We enjoyed a LOT of food on the fine china and crystal.
(Here's one of the food tables. We forgot to take many pictures at lunch - guess we were too busy eating!)

Then, Mike and Phillip threw the football while the ladies looked at the "Black Friday" sale papers.

Then, football and NAPTIME

Catch up Post

Mike was able to go to Northern California and Portland, Oregon for a Forestry conference with NC State. He was gone for a week. During the first part of the trip, he went camping in Northern California with 4 other guys from his forestry classes to see the Redwoods and Crater Lake. Then the last half, they attended the Forestry conference in Portland. Here are a few picturs of the trip.





How big do you think this tree was?


Can you see Mike? Can you believe it was THAT big?!?

Sunset over the Ocean

Crater Lake

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POLLY!!

Today is Polly's birthday. The big 0-3! We love having her as a part of our life and can't imagine life without her...although we would have a lot more room in our bed and less Frosty Paws in the freezer! For those of you without dogs, Frosty Paws is ice cream for dogs. Happy Birthday Polly!



Polly LOVES Frosty Paws!

Videos from Dinner with the Gainors

For those of you who have ever downloaded videos to your BLOG, you will appreciate! WOW!

Dinner with the Gainors

On Thursday night, the Gainors stopped by for dinner. We are sure glad they are back in the States and we were able to visit with them. The Gainors lived in Slovakia for 2 years. You may remember that Mike and I visited them in November. They are moving to Bluffton, SC to work with Crosspoint Church to plant churches in the Bluffton/Hilton Head area. Here are a few pictures.

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Cool Passage

I came across this on the September 17 devotion in Streams in the Desert which is a daily devotional book.

1 Samuel 3:18 “It is the Lord: let Him do what seemeth Him good.”

Nothing else but seeing God in everything will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only instruments for accomplishing His tender and wise purposes towards us, and we shall even find ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessings they bring us. Nothing else will completely put an end to all murmuring or rebelling thoughts. – H.W. Smith

This reminds me of the verses in James 1:2-4. "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perserverance. Perserverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

Catch up Time

Nothing really new to report but I see that it has been 2 weeks since the last post and I hate it when I keep checking people's blogs and they haven't updated theirs!

Mike is back in school and working on Saturdays with NCSU Forestry at the university owned forests. This is a work/study program so he gets to use his forestry skills and prepare for future work. He is looking forward to graduating next year.

Miriam is back in the ladies Monday night Bible study at church and doing Beth Moore's study of Daniel. (It is really good!)

This past weekend, we got together with Mike's family and had a good time in GREAT weather! I love these Fall days when it is in the 70s during the day and 50s at night.

The Miller family has had a few birthdays recently:
David started it out on the 4th, followed by Dad on the 11th, and then Bec on the 16th.

Happy Birthday!!