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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Missions Impact Weekend & Prayer Conference

Here's what we've been up to this past week.

Last week (Tues-Sunday) was Missions Impact Weekend, and we were able to have some missionaries going to Japan be with us for various activities and services at church. One of those activities was an ultimate frisbee & hot dog cookout.

Monday (yesterday) and today, José and I went to the Central Distict (with the CMA) 's prayer retreat. Here's a picture of us on Lake Erie (YES, it borders Canada). It was beautiful on Monday, but cold and windy on Tuesday (though still beautiful)!

Friday, October 17, 2008

A Great-Lakes Region Celebration

We've been hearing about a holiday coming up on Saturday (tomorrow). It seems to be similar to "Friendship Day" which is celebrated in Paraguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala and other Latin American countries. Here's what I found:


Sweetest Day 2008



When: Third Saturday in October

Now here is a day dedicated just for your sweetie. It exists as an opportunity for you to recognize that sweet and special someone. It doesn’t matter who that person is, or what their relation to you. They just have to be "sweet" in order to get a little recognition.

Herbert Birch Kingston, a Cleveland, Ohio philanthropist and candy company employee started Sweetest Day. He wanted to bring happiness to orphans, shut-ins and under-privileged. His intent was to show these people that they were not forgotten. In 1922, he started this holiday by giving candy and small gifts. He often used movie stars to distribute the gifts.

The popularity of this holiday quickly spread. Today, is celebrated with loved ones and friends.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

The Colors of Fall in Northeastern Ohio

Well, after an entire week (last week) using the heat, this week we've had a heat wave, and it's been nice to enjoy the changing leaves in short-sleeved shirts. Here's a little of what we've been seeing:
Looking North from our Kitchen Window.



From the Porch looking toward the South.

Sofía always enjoying being outside!



Ohio does pretty well with leaf-changing. We do miss the mountains, but are especially glad to have some changing leaves up here in the north/mid-west.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Pondering paint colors




Well, as winter approaches (it is already fall in full-swing up here in Ohio), we're trying to figure out which colors will make us feel warm and happy during the 5-6 months of grey skies and cold.

For the kitchen we're going with a yellow (it was blue--see previous pictures if you want to visualize it).


For the entrance way, hallway& living room, a neutral/light yellow tone so that we can continue to change the decor without being stuck.

And for our room, a grey-blue shade that's dark-ish (we are also going to add dark curtains conducive to sleeping as we live right beside a main road and our bedroom is closest to the road).

For the office/guest room/everything else room (and traditionally it has been the children's room) a brighter, fun, yellow and tangerine striped look. We'll see how this turns out. Hopefully not like a circus, but more like a fun, modern, but peaceful and warm place to hang out and read or exercise.

We're still trying to think of creative options for the bathroom, it has a wallpaper type backsplash all around the bottom half of the walls, so we need to try and combine with that or paint over it... Any suggestions would be fun to hear. We'll send pictures room by room. Though it may be a while before we finish things up.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

A Dead Raccoon.

Well, this morning, Sofía, our cute little 7 pound min-pin, found a dead raccoon. Since she was on her leash, she didn't get close to it, THANKFULLY! But we were left to figure out what to do with a dead raccoon. We have wonderful landlords, whom we love, and the guy who keeps up the place (ours included)--we love him too!. We gave Jack a call this morning. I found his response really funny-- I told him we had a dead raccoon, what should we do, and he said " That's great! I put out some poison in the barn!" Anyway, it was taken care of before I could get my camera (I'm telling you, he's great!), but it was pretty funny and we were relieved.

I'll be doing more posts more frequently. Life just got full all of the sudden, but I will do blurbs on different activities we're involved in, and include pictures when possible. Thanks for reading.