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Friday, September 5, 2008

Damages to the Church

We are thankful there were not damages to the church building its self. We did have around 6 trees fall and 2 trees that were broken in half. Michael and Brandond quickly started cutting up the big tree that fell right in front of our parking lot. We have a lot of clean up ahead of us, but again we are so thankful there was no damage to the church building.

Starting to Clean up the Damage

While the guys cut up the big tree, I hauled branches to the side of the road

Clean Up Day Two

My job for the morning was to sweep up the parking lot!

Michael cutting down one of the trees that was broken in half

Brandon cutting down one of the other trees that was broken in half

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Update

We picked Sherry up from the airport and we saw military people all over the place...they are getting ready!

These are our hurricane essentials...Baby wipes, pop tarts, M&M's and Skittles! Welcome to Louisiana Sherry!

Preparing for Gustov!

We went around town today to get some water and a couple of supplies for the hurricane. As you can see the stores are starting to prepare as well! I will be keeping everyone posted as long as we have electricity

Girls Night Out!

Last night Heather, Dominique and I went out to dinner for Dominique's upcoming birthday. We went to Carabba's for Dinner and Chili's for dessert.

Since Heather had just bought this white shirt, she wore a bib so she would not get any food on it. I told her it blended in well and no one really noticed!

Dominique got Chicken Parmesian

I got Chicken Parmesian also!

Happy 2nd Birthday Buster!

Buster just turned two this week! We do not have any kids so Buster is our baby!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Blogging Vacation for the Summer

Sorry I have not posted in a while. We have been very busy and our internet was having a few issues. I am finally back and I promise to keep up with the blog. As you can see from below, we have been busy. In the last two months we have moved to Lafayette, bought a new truck and recieved a new church building!

Country Girl in the Big City!

We moved this past weekend. In true Southern Louisiana fashion, we had a huge thunderstorm in the afternoon. Our whole parkinglot was flooded. We could tell that the drain was clogged with lots of leaves and sticks. While everyone was moving stuff into our apartment, I decided to go unclog the drain.

If you look close you can see how high the water actually was by my pants. Once I got the drain cleared it went down pretty fast. I was like a little hometown hero...people kept honking at me and cheering for me!

Yuck! There were a lot of leaves and sticks blocking the drain!

Michael's New Truck

Michael traded in his Dodge Ram for a Izuzu truck. The difference in gas mileage is so awesome! We are thankful for our friend Jeff who works for a Dodge dealership, he got Michael a great deal. This is our very first car we have owned that is brand new.

Jehovah Jireh

We have the most amazing news. As most of you know our churh Acadian Baptist Church has been meeting in a store front and we have been praying earnestly for a new building we could grow in. God answered those prayers two weeks ago by GIVING us a building for our church to meet in. This building is only 9 years old and they owe nothing on it, it is completly paid for! The former paster of this church came to our church on a Sunday evening and at the end of the service he talked with Brandon and told him he felt like the Holy Spirit was leading him to deed the building over to Acadian Baptist Church! We had our first Sunday in the new building this past Sunday, we had 82 people there! God is so good! We have decided to change our name to Covenant Baptist Church since the name of the old church was Covenent Christian Fellowship Bible Church. We thought the old memebers would appreciate us keeping some of thier name. Sorry I have not posted sooner, our internet has been down.