Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Our Sweet ending to our vacation with the MacDonald Family Singers...a.k.a.--Laurie and Professor Victor and family! :) :)

Have you heard of the MacDonald Family Singers?? They are such a blessing to us!

 

Here is their website! Check it out! http://www.macdonaldfamilysingers.com/index.php 

Grace's family has enjoyed seeing them in Alabama when they winter there.  We heard them in concert at Rumney Bible Conference at the end of June. Then they were playing the very next night in the next town over from us so we went again. We really connected with them.  They don't charge for their concerts and their cd's are free and so is their music online, too! They are such a sweet family. We got talking about some things, and we happened to mention that we were headed on vacation near by to them in July, and they invited us to come and spend a night at their home and they would show us their gardens and fellowship with us. What a blessing!!!!!! Of course we said..."Oh yes!! We'd love to come!"

Here are a few shots from our time with them at their home in Orange, MA!

we had a great time even having homemade soft serve icecream with everyone!


A peek at our camp site!

#66!




The MacDonald family does the Back to Eden gardening system that we've just started! Professor Victor gave us a tour of his gardens! Wow!






Look at the size of those cabbages!



A family who doesn't watch TV--they've been given 2 VERY large tv's recently! They love to use them for ministry in viewing gospel type videos!

Grace got a real treat! Laurie MacDonald (The Mom) is an awesome piano player. She gave Grace some pointers and has even told Grace she'd love to record Grace's original song:  Amazing Love on their next cd! Wow!!





We had such a wonderful time at their home.  We did family devotions with them in the morning and we even had the blessing of singing some praise songs with them! Wow! We even got to go to a local thrift store with them where their daughter volunteers each day.  It was a great time of fellowship and fun! Thank you!!

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

2 More Vacation Stops....Such a Blessing!

Faithful Friends are a Rare Treasure
Proverbs 18:24 ...a real friend sticks closer than a brother. (NLT)

We are soooo blessed with our friends from the Lord. God has been absolutely wonderful to us in this way. God knew that we weren't able to book our favorite campsite at Pawtuckaway this year. God knew just what we needed and that we needed to be with friends and family and to fellowship in Him.

Our camping trip continued with a weekend stop at our dear friends the Kosior's home. We found our stay at the Kosior Kampground to be filled with fun and sweet, sweet, fellowship. The amenities included wonderful meals together, homemade icecream, pick your own raspberries and blueberries, trampoline fun, volleyball, music on Saturday night by Hope Filled Harmony (our girls), and the Kosior family singers! (they were great!) and home church on Sunday, too.

We rate our stay there with 5 stars! It's another one site campground, and it was wonderful! Thank you soooo much our dear friends in the Lord! 

Jon and Caleb check out the campsite!

Rosie picks raspberries! That was her favorite part of the campground!


Daniel and Edward have fun on the trampoline!


"Want a raspberry?"



"Well...I don't want to give you one, though! I LOVE them!"








Edward just loves Daniel! He is such a great "big brother" to him!




Caleb and Jon are such kindred spirits! They had a great time!


Madelyn loved seeing Hannah! She's been pen pals with her all this year!





B.Y.O.M. (bring your own mug) and enjoy hot chocolate every morning!




Saturday evening we had a great time of music and fellowship!


We also enjoyed home made coffee icecream! Yum!







Then Sunday morning we "joined" awnings and ahd our church service outside! It was awesome!
 Thank you Kosior family! We had such a blessed time with you! We love you!

stay tuned for our next stop...at the MacDonald family home in Orange, MA!...to be continued!