Our weekend

In the interest of keeping this blog going, I am posting again even though I still don't have any new pictures to upload. I lost my old camera in San Francisco while we were in Chinatown. I don't know if I set it down (which doesn't seem likely) or if someone snagged it out of my purse, but either way it is gone. The camera wasn't working properly and I'd been saying I was going to get a new one, so losing the camera wasn't so upsetting. However, there were some great pictures of the kids in SF on the camera, and I was disappointed to lose those.


Anyway... I got a new camera in California as my early birthday present. I absolutely love it! It is easy to use and takes great pictures. I haven't uploaded the software to my laptop yet, so I can't upload pictures from the camera to the laptop to the blog. I will get to this soon.


We had a fun day yesterday at the annual dog show in Bandon. The dogs are so beautiful and so well groomed, and we thought it was particularly nice to pet so many dogs and have NO doggy smell on our hands! A whippet took Best in Show, in case you were curious.

Today after church we rushed home for a quick lunch, then returned to the church to load up the church van with some of the youth group and head to Coos Bay. Our local Pregnancy Resource center was holding their annual Walk for Life, and our youth group volunteered to help serve food. Actually Julianne initiated this by talking to the center and then recruiting the helpers. The kids had a great time and their service was much appreciated. Caleb and Elisa came along, and after finishing his burger, Caleb asked if he could help too. They had him wash his hands and they put him to work. Brad and I were encouraged to see our kids growing up and serving on their own.

Tonight we returned to church for the presentation by the team that recently returned from a missions trip to Mexico. Following the presentation was a dessert potluck, which provided lots of incentive for Caleb and Elisa to sit through the presentation without asking to leave. :-)