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Posted By Jacque on June 22, 2008
Ok, so several of you knew, and many of you probably surmised that we were on vacation for the past two weeks. Yes, we traveled all of 5,ooo+ miles over the past two weeks, and met and visited four blogger families as well as family in Louisiana and New Mexico that we haven’t seen in years, some up to 17 years!
It was a long trip, and we are happy to be off the road, but I woulda’ stayed if I could have!! I wish we could have stayed in LA longer and visited with Grandpa and Aunts and Uncles, but maybe we will see them again soon! A week was not long enough to stay with my mom and my sister and Adrian, either.
Be looking for updates on all of our blogs of all of our adventures and our 3,000+ photos!!
We were blessed to meet:
Dawn and her great family
Brooke and her parents and sisters
Josephine Lirette and her daughters, Jordan and Sarah, and Sandy and her children. We didn’t get to meet Celeste, but we wish we could have!
Sprittibee and her hubby(unfortunately for only about five minutes) and her little munchkins.
Chickie, Sbees momma
I can’t count Heather, Chickie, Kaden and Morgan as ‘meeting’, since we already got to meet them in April, but it was fun seeing them again! And, I’m gonna need that corn recipe, too. 
It was a blessing to meet all of these dear friends. We were humbled and blessed to meet and pray with the Lirette family. If you haven’t met them online yet, please go over and read Josephine’s story. And pray for them. They are a dear family. I am sad right now thinking about leaving them, and I so wish I could just go over right now and sit in her living room with her or weed her garden with her.
Thank you to each and everyone of you, my friends. It was a time we will never forget.
I am bummed I didn’t get to post for Caleb’s Birthday or Matt’s. You can read the birthday tributes here:
I am also behind on my Saturday Psalm and Praise Meme and Rosa of Linden Castle discussion at HSB Literary Club, for which I truly apologize!
Today, June 22nd, is my grandmother’s birthday, mom’s mom. The anniversary of her death was on Friday, the 20th, which was also Matt’s birthday. Times slips by so quickly… don’t waste a moment of it. I need to have that drilled into my head sometimes.
blessings!
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I am sooooo bummed we all couldn’t come down to see you guys!
I am, however, planning to go visit some of my mom’s friends in Goshen Indiana in August (if I can afford it :/ ) maybe I can stop by then? ;D
Love
Julia
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Are you kidding me? Of course you are welcome here! Always!
I wish we could have driven all the way up to your corner of the woods and met you all! I am so bummed too.
love, MrsD
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Oh that was such a great trip. Exhausting, but great. Now we can wait a couple more years before we do anything like it again! lol.
I miss Grandma and Aunt Jen though! A whole lot!
Thanks for taking on that amazing vacation Mama!
I love you!
Amanda
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Love the family picture. maybe it would be a good one for the photo frame I sent!
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I think it would be a GREAT! photo for the frame!
One thing I noticed at everyone’s houses we visited was all of the family photos they have on the walls. I have to admit that we have very few… :O
I am going to do a collage of thos “Cowboy Caleb” photos though and hang them in their room. And I will be adding and printing off more photos and hanging them in frames too.
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Ahh, so glad you had a good time…so bummed that you couldn’t come see us, but I understand why it didn’t happen this time….With God’s help, we will meet someday, hopefully not too far in the future!!
Hope I get to talk to you soon!!
Love & Hugs!!!
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We loved, loved, loved having you, although I’m sure non-bloggers think we’re both a little crazy: you for staying with people you’ve never met and us for having you.
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(((((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))))))))))))) We sure missed you all!!!!
I *LOVE* the family photo!!!!!
I’m looking forward to reading about your adventures!
Welcome Back!!!
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You have an absolute beautiful family! What a blessing to be able to travel together– and to have a little help from such wonderful young ladies in the back there.
I am completely bummed that I did not get to see y’all, but Lord willing, we’ll meet one of these days.
And that picture of Caleb in the red cowboy hat and that expression on his face is PRICELESS! I love it!!!
Get some rest and try to recover from all those crazy miles. It’s nice to travel and see friends and have adventures, but there really is no place like home sweet home.
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Marsha-
We WILL be going back there, and we WILL be meeting you!!
I could not believe that of the only two days we could meet you, you were having oodles of people over!
We thought of you as we drove by, though!
I am going to get Caleb’s Cowboy pictures printed off and framed for his room. I bought a Cowboy~Western set from my sister/Home Interiors, and I can’t wait to put it all together!
HUGS my friend!
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I miss you all,
Grandma Starr
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Ok, I don’t know how that happened, but I still miss you all
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LOL MOM!!!
I must have been logged in at your Shoppe!
That is so funny!
We miss you too, no matter who you are signed in as!!
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Hi Jacque,
It was wonderful getting to meet you all. I am so sorry I was not the best of hostess. I am thankful that The Lord allowed the visit. It’s been a hard couple of weeks. I guess it’s okay now for my girls to post pictures of your family visiting. love to you all,
Josephine
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You were a SUPER hostess. You all were. We LOVED staying there, and HATED leaving you all!!
I know Alabama isn’t on our way to return out west, but I hope and pray there will be another day soon we can give each other a great big hug!
It is FINE!! if the girls post pictures now.
I love you Sister. I am praying for you. You email me if you ever want to. Truly. Do it. I love you dear friend.
HUGS
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That’s a great photo of you all, Mrs Dixon! You must have had a fantastgreat time! How did you manage eight kids (well, Amanda and Jocelyn don’t really count as kids) in your van and keep it clean? We have four kids and our car is a disgrace after a week of car traveling… with major stops! When Daniel was four, we traveled around Australia, and when we came home, we found a little surprise… a pile of fluff picked out from his ‘cuddly’!! It was so funny – from then on, his cuddly’s just been a bit of skin!
Luli’s car seat — I love it!
Love,
Jess
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Haha Jessica!
I do love that photo too. Amanda has some good ones I need to snatch, too!
We cleaned the van each time we stayed somewhere, and twice in Las Cruces!! It is near impossible to keep everything neat and packed in a “moving house” for a week, but, you do your best!
We had to clean it. I can’t imagine if we hadn’t!
I love Lucy’s car seat too! Isn’t it cute!
That is so cute about your brother’s cuddly.
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I was very happy to know you all made it home safely ….but I was very sad that you are at home and not here
I love you all soooooo much….ugh
Aunt_Jen
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Yes, as I said, I am glad to be off the road…. not sure I am glad to be home though. It isn’t the same as it was before we left.
It’s weird.
Miss you too sis!
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Oooh, I would so love to go on a trip like that! It looks like you all had a blast. I love all of the pictures.
I am glad you are all back now. Don’t worry about being behind on the HSB literary club book. I haven’t even started the book, and then I lost it. Yikes! I feel bad right about now.
Have a very bright, very cheerful day!
Miss Eyebright
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The corn recipe will be coming sometime soon to Gathering Manna.
http://www.gatheringmanna.blogspot.com
We hope you’ll be back soon to TX!
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All I can say is that corn dish better be coming soon, less I say die from want of it!
Seriously I love that stuff and really really want some!
Amanda
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Amen to that! LOVED the corn recipe Heather!
You may just have to bring some up here iffen you don’t post it soon!
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