Paityn's 1st Birthday

For Paityn's first birthday Brittany gave her a Princess party.  It was so cute Paityn was dressed like a Princess.  Then she gave all of the girls princess things to take home with them.

Fun at the Mall

Brittany, Shauntae, Rochelle, and myself went to the mall and took the kids on the carousel and let them ride the train.  They had so much fun the only bad thing is they didn't want to get off anything. ha ha

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Pumpkin Patch

Every year we go to the pumpkin patch with the grandchildren.  It is so fun to see how excited they are.  When choosing pumpkins they choose the biggest ones that they can carry.  Then they go home and start carving.  I miss Devin this year carving me a fancy pumpkin, that's okay we used the kids instead which were really cute.

Devin's e mail

The next day was Monday and we received a letter from Devin. ( So glad, most of the phillippines have no power). in his area they received the heavy rain and the wind, no destruction. Devin sent some pictures of him standing out in the middle of the typhoon with his arms out and one of a tree blowing. He said the pictures look worse than it really was, but I don't think trees lie. Ha ha Devin and his companion made 72hour kits for the people before the storm came and they helped them evacuate to safer places. My heart goes out to all of the people in the philippines that have lost families and have no where to go. we are praying for them everyday.

Hurricane yolanda

Devin has been in the Philippines now for about a month. since he has been there they have had a 7.2 earth quake and a Super Typhoon. It was listed as a category 5, the largest typhoon ever recoded in history. We didn't hear from him for a few days so we didn't know how bad his area was. On Sunday I checked the e mail and the welfare missionaries wrote us saying that he was okay and they sent us pictures of devin with the other missionaries that share his apartment. Tears welled up in my eyes knowing that our prayers had been answered. I couldn't wait to get to church to tell cal!!

The Train

We had the train at our house so we gave the grandchildren a ride.  Also Jeff and Kathie Marsh, and Darryl and Linda Macbeth's grandchildren came over and had some rides.  It was a lot of fun spending a Sunday with family and friends.

Devin's Farewell

Devin's farewell went really well.  He did a great job on his talk.  The after church we came home and had dinner for everyone.  Family and friends whoever wanted food.  I didn't realize he had so many friends!  That was exciting to see.  Here's a few pics of the food party.