tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47440196917541421872025-02-19T14:15:51.565-05:00...to live would be an awfully big adventure...katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-10766523490148250022014-07-17T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-17T09:00:05.856-04:00

Good morning! This post is the sixth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here! Camel ride on the beach (as seen from our dive boat) - such a quintessential Egypt photo! Last time we were heading for the third and final dive of the day, being escorted by a school of dolphins! (Yes, that does sound like a fairy

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Hello and Happy Tuesday! Hope you all are doing well! We've had several posts about our Sharm el-Sheikh trip recently, and there's some more to that story to come; however, I wanted to fill you in on our most recent adventure! We had a really fun, spontaneous getaway over Fourth of July weekend! For the week or so leading up to the Fourth, we had talked about going somewhere, done some

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Good morning! This post is the fifth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here! Part four ended with us learning about the Thistlegorm wreck. Although we didn't get to dive there on this trip to Sharm, the rest of our diving adventures were pretty exciting, so let's get back to them! My journal entries pick up

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Hello! You have arrived on the fourth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here! The third post covered our first and second days' dives, and boy, were they pretty epic! Our very first dive, the one that started it all, was in Cozumel, Mexico. Then we got our Open Water PADI Certification during a trip to Croatia,

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Hello again! You've landed on the third post in a series about our 2012 trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt! To start back at the beginning, click here! At the end of the second post, we had caught the dive company's shuttle to our first day of diving! The reason we had come to Sharm El Sheikh at all was to go SCUBA diving in the Red Sea. A gentleman that we met at Disneyland Paris had told us that

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Welcome back! This post is the second in a series of posts about our 2012 trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt! To start back at the beginning, click here! At the end of the last journal entry, Austin was on the phone with hotels.com. Again. And I had just discovered ants in our hotel room! I didn't get a chance to update the journal again until the next evening: Friday 29 June 2012 17:46 Wow! Long

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We are interrupting your regularly scheduled programming for today's holiday post! If you're here to read the next installment of the Sharm El Sheikh adventure, please check back tomorrow! image credit This is one of my favorite holidays! I love everything about it! The food, the fireworks, the day off from work, the fun festivities with loved ones! But most of all, I love the reminder of the

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Hello everyone! Today I'll start telling the story of our incredible trip to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt! image credit My journal for this trip was one of the most detailed I have ever kept, and I was so thankful to have all of the memories recorded! This was mainly a diving trip for us, so many of my journal entries read like a dive log. If that's not your cup of tea, don't worry! There are a

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I've been digging through the archives! So many pictures and memories! And I promised you travel adventures, so here it is... The Trip That Started It All ~ Cozumel, Mexico ~ March 2009 (That may be a bit of an unfair title since our first international trip together (the one that planted the seeds of a passion for missions in our hearts) was a summer missions trip to France with a group from

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Okay, so I am seriously crushing on the idea of Tiny Living! image credit If you are unfamiliar with the movement, you can read about it here or here or here or here, and this is a great documentary about it (I think we watched the documentary on Netflix). image credit In a nutshell, "tiny living" just means living in a far-smaller-than-average home (most of the tiny houses I've seen examples

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) Click here to read Part 1! Click here to read Part 2! Click here to read Part 3! Click here to read Part 4! Click here to read Part 5! Welcome back! If you're just joining us, please use the links above to read parts one through five. When last we left our intrepid travelers, we were enjoying our final breakfast in Italy! Since

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I have been a part of a church since before I was born. (Literally, I was an in-utero church member, no kidding!) I love Jesus, I love the Bible, and up until recently I could have honestly said that I love church. My husband and I met at Bible college. We were missionaries overseas for more than four years. We moved back across the ocean (at no small expense to ourselves and our supporters)

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) Click here to read Part 1! Click here to read Part 2! Click here to read Part 3! Click here to read Part 4! Welcome back! If you're just joining us, please use the links above to read parts one through four. When last we left our intrepid travelers, we were standing on the sidewalk outside the Toyota dealership in Genoa,

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) Click here to read Part 1! Click here to read Part 2! Click here to read Part 3! Welcome back! If you're just joining us, please use the links above to read parts one, two, and three. Monday morning, Presidents' Day, we got up, checked out of the hotel, and enjoyed a final, delightful breakfast at the Caffe Della Poste. Before

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Hello blog world! I realize that I totally left you hanging on the "Italy PDA" story, and I'm sorry about that! I Promise to finish it, and the ending really is worth coming back for! image credit So much has happened and continues to happen here in our little corner of the world, and I seem to continually find myself in the Place of having too much to say and being overwhelmed by all that I

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) Click here to read Part 1! Click here to read Part 2! Welcome back! If you're just joining us, please use the links above to read part one and two. Sunday morning, we got up and walked to Cafe Della Poste (quite possibly our favorite Chiavari find) for the sweet nectar that is Italian cappuccino and amazing brioche! (Crema e

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) Click here to read Part 1! Welcome back! If you're just joining us, please use the link above to read part one. First thing Saturday morning (this was Saturday, February 16, 2013), we got up and struck out to find the perfect Italian breakfast: cappuccino and brioche! We found a cute little coffee shop a few steps from our hotel,

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PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;) (Disclaimer: These stories will be coming to you in no particular order. I'm telling this one now because it happened just over a year ago, and my Timehop reminded me about it, so I decided to start here!) So, I promised adventure stories, and this one's a doozie!!! Last February, we were living in Lupburg, Germany. Austin was the

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So, the obvious thing to say when you haven't posted to your blog for over a year is "so much has happened!" And it's really true! The last time I posted we were living in a rented apartment Germany, working with Club Beyond, just the two of us, loving Jesus and Europe and life and each other. The last thirteen months have been stuffed with CHANGE and full of NEW! (Although the loving Jesus

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Since I tell all of our travel stories in no real order, I thought I'd link to them all here, in case you're OCD and would like to read them in order ;) 2008 September Branson, Missouri, USARoad trip for our One-Year Anniversary 2009 March Cozumel, Mexico 2010 2011 2012 June Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Part 1 Part 2 July Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 2013 February Chiavari, Italy Part

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My mom wrote the following for a Christmas Tea at a church in Colorado Springs, but I thought it was appropriate as a first thought for the New Year. Thanks, Mom!   EXPECTATIONS by Teri Faulkner This year I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations. And Christmas brings lots of expectations. One of our favorite traditions is cranberry ice and I expect to eat it at every family

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I grew up in a family with a lot of traditions. Thanksgiving is really the beginning of the Christmas season for us. Starting with the annual watching of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning. Thanksgiving itself was always a day full of food, family, and football - much like every other American family. Ever. The day after Thanksgiving, we decorate for Christmas, eat

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(To see the full-size image, click here) So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds

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This Christmas carol is swiftly becoming one of my favorites, and I love this version by Steven Curtis Chapman! I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men. I thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along the unbroken song Of peace on earth, good will to men.

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For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

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