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As I promised, I will try to post at least once a week. (I was a few days off) The last 2 days of vacation included a wonderful Friday in which we flew kites at Jockey's Ridge Park which is a natural sand dune. It was beautiful. There is no way a machine could have created this awesome display that God's hands carved and placed the sand. We flew kites for over an hour. It was great! All you had to do was let go of the kite and away it went. No running full speed for a mile to get the kite up. We then went to the Lost Colony village on Roanoke Island. We walked around and went into another lighthouse. We spent Saturday morning in the pool and went to the ocean for the last time in the afternoon. It was cold as a storm was moving in. We had great weather the entire week. We left at the right time as it rained Saturday evening and for a good 5-6 hours of our drive on Sunday.

We made it back home safely after a 14 our drive last Sunday. We had a wonderful time. The time off from work was much needed. I felt refreshed, although I was not ready to go back to work. I could have used a few more days off. I was however, ready to come home. The outer banks were great and I hope to go back and spend another week there. But there is something about home that I'm always ready to return to. Even though our whole family was together I was eager to pull in our driveway and walk through our doors and sleep in our bed. The key word in the last sentence being our. Something about that which the Lord has given my family, our home. God has entrusted us and blessed us with a beautiful home. We can go and stay in a bigger, more expensive home for a week, and while it was nice, it was not ours. I have felt this way about all 5 houses Tracy and I have lived in. We often take for granted what the Lord provides us with wanting more than we need or deserve. God is so good to us and we need to be thankful for our homes and all that He blesses us with. We are part of His master plan of life and He places us where we need to be to carry out His will.

By the way, as I predicted there were a lot of weeds waiting to be pulled. Collin and I have gotten most of them taken care of. He (Collin) has been a big help in the garden this year.

Vacation

Well I know that I haven't posted in quite a while. I will try to post at least once a week in the future. My family and I left last Saturday, June 26th for the Outer Banks. We stopped in Greensboro, NC, and spent the evening with my wife's aunt, uncle and cousin. We arose Sunday morning and visited Providence OPC and had a nice worship with them. I have always wanted to attend a church as we passed through a town. We continued on our way after church and arrived to our beautiful beach house around 7:oo PM. Tracy and I headed to the store and picked up some groceries for the week.



The week has been very relaxing. We have spent several days at the beach riding the waves and collecting shells. We took a day trip to Ocracoke Island. This was really neat. We drove our van on to a ferry and sailed 6 miles to the island. We met up with one of Tracy's blogging friends and toured a lighthouse with her.



We ate out one evening at a local restaurant called Barefoot Bernies. This was a real treat that we had planned. You see the owner is a huge Steelers fan and we just had to go due to that fact. We were decked out in our Steeler best. We did get to meet the owner and talked with him about the Steeler's chances for the upcoming season. It has amazed me as to how many Pennsylvania plates we have seen out here.



Our plans for the last two days are to spend one of them back at the ocean and one at a park flying kites and a village of a lost colony. We will head back for home Sunday morning. We will have to miss a week of worship as the drive will take about 12 hours.



Vacation is great and I have really enjoyed the time off from work. It has been great seeing all of God's creation out here. We truly do serve an awesome God. I am looking forward to getting back home and checking out the garden. I am quite sure that things will have grown alot. Including the weeds that will be waiting for me to pull them out.