Free family vacation!

Our family spent 5 wonderful days in Phuket for free! This ministry from America came to Thailand and paid for 150 missionaries to vacation for free. The ministry paid for three days and Clinton's mother paid for an extra two days!! The ministry is called Hospitality Network. They go to different countries every year and offer free vations for missionaries. Here are some of the pictures from our trip. We had a very relaxing time with the family. Bang
Boys hanging out at a small waterfall in one of the pools.
Colton was sick so he's reading a book and sucking on a sucker
Some of you say you want to see some pictures of me............so here you go.

2007 Family pictures

Thanksgiving Day

This was the first time in the history of our family(17 years) that we spent Thanksgiving alone. At first I thought I was going to be really sad, but then I decided to be happy that at least I had my three sons and a wonderful husband to spend it with. I really wanted to make this as special as I could since we would be spending it alone...........sooooo I asked the boys what we could do to make it very memorable. They said, "Mom, let's have seafood!" With no quetions asked, Clinton and I went to the market and bought some fresh crabs, shrimp and a whole fish. We came home and Clinton prepared the crabs and fish and I cooked fettuccini alfredo with grilled shrimp. It was an awesome dinner and one the boys said that would always remember!! Here's the handsome men
This was Clinton's plate. He likes to get all the meat out of his crabs, something he learned from his mother, and eat it all at one time. His plate was a master piece!!
I also made some spiced pecans, thanks to Granny who provided us with pecans and the recipe and a pecan cheesecake pie. They were good!!!

Here are a couple of "after" the Thanksgiving meal pictures. I thought some of you might want to know what we did after we ate.............
This picture was supposed to be in with the actual meal pictures.......... oops

Chase Tanner is playing cards... his favorite past time. Colton strumming on the guitar
Daddy and Bang hanging out together

More Cambodian pictures

These are more pictures from the Cambodian outreach. You can read more about in the blog post below. Here's Hannah and I praying for a lady. Clinton, the boys, and John praying for the sick.
There was a tremendous response to the invitation. There was about 30 people who came forward for salvation and healing!!!!
John Blake praying for the sick. Chase Tanner was in the back praying too.

Outreach to Cambodian workers

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We had the privilege to go to a rubber tree plantation and show the Jesus film to a group of Cambodians who work and live on the plantion. There hearts were very open and we saw some give their hearts to Jesus. We saw a few people get healed too. These men are watching Clinton and the boys as they set up for the film. We showed in in Thai because we didn't have the film in the Khemr language yet. However, a good amount of them understand Thai. Clinton setting up the projector. You can see their houses in the background
Clinton preaching the Gospel in Thai and the young boy is translating in Khemr.
These men came forward to give their lives to Jesus, and they want to be delivered from smoking. Clinton is praying for them.
Hannah and I are praying for a lady who works in the rubber plant. She sufferes from terrible sickness that causes her to throw up while she's working. She also has trouble with her bones hurting. We prayed in the name of Jesus for her to be healed.

Long awaited kitchen pictures

Here's the back door and the spot where the stove will be. Right now there's no roof at all. It's just open
Clinton and the boys building beams.
Frame for the roof
Sink and stove added. The laminate you see is plastic laminate that we rolled out.
Here's another view. As you can see the back is open. But it's better that way...... i have a breeze. : ) The coat hangers you see there at the top left, is where I hang out my laundry. And the little room that the sink is up against, is where my washer is.

Library

This will be the library/office. This room is directly to the left of the living room. The only seperation is the sofa.

Here we are all moved in. You can see the brown sofa which seperates the two room. These beautiful bookcases, my wonderful husband and sons built. Our other house had much more room so we had many bookshelves all over the house, but with the space being much more liminted, we had to come up with an idea to get them all in one place. If we were to have bought bookshelves it would have cost around $290, but they built them for only $75! And there really pretty too.

View from the front door

Here's a view of the house front to back. I'm standing at the front door taking this picture. That's the back door that you see in the background, where my kitchen is located. Also notice how grungy the walls are.........the ceiling has been removed because it was infested with termintes.
This is a shot after the ceiling is put in and the walls are painted. The floors still haven't been done yet. Looking much better, what do you think?
Here we are all moved in. This is the same angle I was at before.
This is the other part of the living room, that i couldn't get from that angle. It's small but it sure is cozy!

Before and after pics

Well this is the guest bathroom. It was a mess! Notice the nasty hand prints all over the outside of the wall.......This isthe new bathroom after the hard work of Clinton and the boys. On the left side of the shower curtain is where they take a shower. So the toilet does get wet, but that's okay... it dries.

After pictures

The new view of the front of the house. Can you believe it?!? I'm in total amazement!
Brian watering the grass that they just laid. Mee Kiaw's in the back with a broom. She's been helping do a lot of stuff around the house. She helped lay grass, level the dirt, pick up trash and other stuff.
They boys putting up the chicken wire to keep the dogs out and the kids in. : )
Here's On, Saaw and Bang eathing coconut meat from our tree.
Naomi giving a hand with the fence.

Before pictures

Here's the front view of the house the day that we started working on it. As you can see it's filled with overgrown brush and trash! It took three days just to get it manageable.
This is the view of our yard looking out our front door. The yard is very long. It's a breathtaking view. You can't see the tops of the coconut trees but we have three large coconut trees that shade the yard.
This is the extent of our house. This is a view looking from the front door. The door in the back is the back door. The little room on the right side is the restroom. The door you see on the left is our room and there's another room connected to our room, that's the boys room............welcome to village life. : )
This is the restroom. It was a total mess. I'll be putting up some after pictres.
Here's Clinton after 5 hours of tearing out the ceiling. The ceiling was infested with termites. so they had to pull the whole thing out and build a new one.