I'm back!

Trip across the country= tons of pictures, millions of stories, gazillions of memories

We had a blast! I'll have to post pictures 1 post at a time because, like I said, I've got tons!

I've been putting off writing on the blog for a long time. (We actually moved into our house on the 4th.) Now I finally decided it was time to start posting again. I will not be giving you a journal entry of every day on our trip, (Impossible!) but I will try to tell you a little bit about the 'Great Journey of the Luke family' in our trusty Emerald Dragonfly (a.k.a. Emma...a.k.a......our van)

More posts and pictures to come............soon!

Hi from Buffalo!

Today we're in Buffalo NY. We're going to go to Niagara falls today!!!! I'll be sure to post pictures as soon as I can, but right now I'm in a hotel using a free computer.
So far we've been to Northern VA, Richmond, VA, Dingman's Ferry, PA, Boston, MA, Rochester, NY , and now we're in Buffalo!!!!

g2g

UNfaithfully

"I'm foreeverrr yourrrs...Unfaithfully..."

from 'Faithfully' by Journey with a little addition of my own

I have had so many opportunities to post, but I just never got around to it. I didn't even put on pics from our trip to Spain and Portugal. ("What trip to Spain and Portugal?" you're probably asking.) Anyway..I don't have a ton of time to write, but I will put a few pictures on here.

Elena

P.S. I'm moving on Friday so I probably won't post for a while..at least not any pictures.

Below is: Nastia and Mei mei in the car, Charlie, Jacinta, and my cousins, Taye and Kylie, My cousin Brody, and Mariana and Jacinta on a rock by the river at Lourdes.

I'm not her religion teacher!

I was saying goodnight to Jacinta (a.k.a. Choo choo) one night last week when she announced that she had been watching a movie. (The girls had been watching Jesus of Nazareth)

She went on to say, "Mary had a baby, and then she was just so tired that she fell asleep!"

I asked:"What was the baby's name?"

Choo choo, very decidedly: "Pocahontas."

Me, choking slightly: "Pocahontas?"

Choo choo: "Well his name was Pocahontas, but then they named him Jesus."

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Little headaches, little heartaches

Little griefs of every day,

Little trials and vexations,

How they throng around our way!

One great cross, immense and heavy,

So it seems to our weak will,

Might be borne with resignation,
But these many small ones kill,

Yet all life is formed o small things,

Little leaves, make up the trees,

Man tiny drops of water

Blending, make the mighty seas.

Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,

But for love of Jesus bear all

In the silence of our soul.

Asking Him for grace sufficient

To sustain us through each loss,

And to treasure each small offering

As a splinter from His Cross.

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Soccer!

The soccer season has finally started!!!!

Pictures from day 2

Left (L-R) Andrew, Maddie, and Jack of the Poofie hat in the doorway to mine and Maddie's room in Spiekeroog.

Above to the right (L-R) Andrew, Nora, Jack, and Maddie on the spinning thing at the park we played at.

Below to the left is what we like to call the 'Dead Marshes.' The Spiekeroogians refer to it as the Mud flats.

Above to the right are the dunes, hummocks, hills, bluffs..whatever you want to call them..near the beach. I forgot to mention in the above post that we went wading in the North Sea in March! It was freezing!!!