The hardcore fellowshippers then went to the Fournier's house to finish off the night with singing and more fellowship! 

Mr. Kaiser and Choncho, the singing dog.
When Mr. Kaiser sang the dog would throw it's head back and howl to her heart's delight! The humorous and rather ironic part though is that all day she won't make a sound but as soon as she hears singing she joins right in!

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 Stephanie IMing her friend sitting across from her and Tabitha and Amanda smiling! 

Wonderful ladies! Every last one of them! 

Lol

 Mr. and Mrs. Stearns
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 The choir of angel voices

The choir of ....not...so...angel voices.....lol

The...manly voices! Yeah.........

 Blest the man that fears Jehovah,
Walking ever in his ways,
By your toil you shall be prospered
And be happy all your days.

In your wife you shall have gladness,
She shall fill your home with good,
Happy in her loving service
And the joys of motherhood.

Joyful children, sons and daughters,
Shall about your table meet,
Olive plants, in strength and beauty,
Full of hope and promise sweet.

Lo, on him that fears Jehovah
Shall this blessedness attend,
For Jehovah out of Zion
Shall to you his blessing send

You shall see God's kingdom prosper
All your days, till life shall cease,
On your people Lord be peace.

We love you Stearns and are going to miss you so very much! You've been a blessing to us and I'm so glad that the Lord allowed us to have you as a part of our church family for the the time that He did! We're just going to have to go visit you! :) Love you guys! 

Tia Ruth and Vavo and Vavoa for Breakfsat

Back in February we had Dad's parents and his sister, our aunt Ruth, over for a waffle brunch!
Last Christmas Auntie Ruth giving us a waffle maker so we decided to have her over so she could taste our waffles made in the waffle maker that she gave us!

Freshly made maple syrup, tapped from our sugar maples out front.

 Mmmmmm...looks so good! Sausage, wheat waffles and cottage cheese with real maple syrup, that we tapped ourselves.

Hannah loves sausage!

Aunt Ruth, she loved the breakfast!

Felicity and Chariti were such great helpers!
They were up at 6am to start the wheat waffle making process.

It was so nice to have them over! Thank you again Auntie Ruth for giving us the waffle maker!

Dad's Birthday

 A few pictures of Dad's birthday.

For Dad's birthday this year we decided to make a special cake for him! 
Stephanie made a chocolate/peanut butter zebra cake, filled and covered in chocolate ganache.
It was so yummy!

 "How do people make it through life without sisters?"

Yeah, they're pretty funny!

Happy birthday to youuuu
Happy birthday to youuuu...
Happy birthday Dad!

Time to blow out the candle

 A slice of the zebra print

Inside the cake looked really neat!

Thanks for stopping by!

Visiting the Millers

Back in February we went up to Maine with the Kaisers for Mr. Miller's Mom's funeral.
We were so touched and blessed by the Miller's sweetness and hospitality! We love you guys!

Ruthie's birthday had just past so we brought her a belated birthday gift

Laughing, the Miller's are such a great family! 

We got her a turntable and some muffin cups
I think she likes it! :) 

Mom and Mrs. Miller :) 

Sweet ladies 

Aunt Beth

I think they were looking at Samuel's new logo design or one of his creations....obviously it was quite interesting! 

Mr. Kaiser intent on his business and cute little Joel

Chloe 

Right before we left we snapped some pictures with Sylvie, I'm so glad she stopped by! 

On the way home, Tyler was watching the football game on his Dad's iPhone so we watched it with him and then right at the end at the last 5 minutes of the game, when the scores were sooooo close we stopped at a Dunkin Donuts to get some toasted almond coffee and we finished watching the game! 

That was *the most stressful* game of football I have ever watched!!! lol Even Mrs. Kaiser was getting into it! 

The entire world stops to see if what's his name was within the boundaries when his foot touched the ground...

He was out of bounds! Nooooo!!!!! 

Sufficiently depressed and sure that their life has ended Mom and Tyler sink into despair... lol

 (No, not really, a football game is a pretty sad reason to sink into despair.)

That was actually a fun game to watch! The interestingness of the game and Mom and Tyler's excitement made it fun! 

We love you Kaisers! 

Felicity's 11th Birthday

Well, after three weeks of spring cleaning in the house we've decided to pick up blogging again! So we'll be doing a blog-a-thon of posts from now until we're caught up so that you can see all the things our family has been up too. It's been a great month or so since we've posted of seeing the Lord strengthen relationships, both in our family and our church, drawing us closer to Him and to each other.


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It's Felicity's birthday!

Felicity turned 11 years old today and according to custom, we went out for breakfast.

She chose to go to Vinny's. 

A small, yet delightful and family friendly restaurant right up the street from our house
When we were finished eating the proprietor, Vinny, came out to meet and talk to us for a little bit. He complimented how well our family was behaved and then said "If your ever looking for a job we have a great family environment!" We told him that we're preparing to be a wife and mother etc. but I don't think he really understood us. Lol! That was the first time Stephanie and Tabitha had been offered a job before! 

Back at home we had ice cream cake (it's a Mello favorite) :)

What a handsome little guy!
(He couldn't wait to dig in! :)

Adapting to the Culture...Or Not - Voddie Baucham ~ Great Message For Today!

Our last Sunday in Maine

What a cutie!

Emily and Stephanie enjoying some fellowship over the meal.

Mom, Aunt Beth and the Chick ladies, it's always such a pleasure to spend time with you ladies!!! 

♥

Momma :) 

Talking and meeting new friends

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Sunday afternoon we went to the Denny's concert

Princess Abigail

Marshall looks so cute playing up there next to his auntie and daddy.

Marshall

Hannah and Abigail :)

Dueling Siblings and Josiah 

Seth on his mandolin 

The Denny Quartet 
I am going home to heaven some sweet day! 

Amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord that this is true!!!

Ruthie made a cake while we were up there so that Mom and Stephanie could teach her how to frost and decorate it. 

Cutting the creation, always a sad event...

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So that was our last Sunday in Maine, this past January visiting the Barton's, and a very nice day it was! We enjoyed some wonderful fellowship, discussions and laughter! Truly the Lord is very gracious to give us good friends!