Brent's 10 Year Reunion

Brent's 10 year high school reunion was August 1! A lot sure has happened in 10 years!
We had a good time. It was fun to meet some of friends pals in high school. Some of them I already know, so we had some good hang out time!

Kenyan Stories

This is my sister-in-law, April. I love her.

She just returned from Kenya.

She went with the organization: 410bridge

She LOVED it!

Here are few things she had to say about it (for a full note you may visit her on facebook):

It is only day 2 of being in Kenya and day 4 of the trip and so far I have already:

-experienced the joy of travelling for 40 hours

-seen a fight in an african airport (SCARY)

-seen Air Force One land in Ghana

-run over a thief in the streets of Nairobi

-met children that have more joy and love than I have ever experienced

-gotten real hugs and tangibly felt love through the hand hold of an orphan name Unice

-experienced Heaven in an unlikely place

-eaten a rib from an unknown animal

-seen God praised in a new way

-had my hair braided by Kenyan children - twice

-seen a chicken offering auctioned off in a church

-walked the 3 km journey to a 100 foot rock ravine where they sent their children to get water

-prayed with a family who just lost their son, which turned into a huge celebration

-seen giraffes on the side of the road......and it's only day two.

This place has captured my heart.

Day 3:

-danced into the community by a group of Kenyan women,

-helped dig a base for the water project
-got my arms and face painted at the worksite

-stood in the rain and prayed

-drank coffee in the home of one of the community members and learned about Kenyan "relationships"

-had a very extensive conversation about my accent

Things just keep getting better.

Day 4:
-taught children the story of Noah's ark and did a craft

-worked in the project for awhile, then sat with the women

-played banya with the women and jumped rope with them

-bought a machette

-had a Kenyan tell us one of our men was strong like chuck norris

How can this get any better?

During the last few days:

-went to a Kenyan funeral

-went a real safari - twice

-got kissed by a grosssss giraffe!

-had my first market experience and almost had a nervous break down if it weren't for the help of james

-experienced the terror of Nairobi after dark

-ate 5 pieces of the best pizza i've ever had....in a kenyan gas station?

Headed home, sad sad day.

The children climbed up and down this

with 7 gallon jugs of water on their backs,

4 times a day......barefoot.

This means "small and beautiful".

It could be important later. :)

Wedding # 12

Brent performed wedding number 12 on Saturday. Ben and Ashley. It was a great wedding ceremony. The reception was also very nice. Afterward the newlyweds, the wedding party, parents, and a few other family and friends went to the bride's parent's house and enjoyed a luau, complete with a wiffle ball game! Thanks for letting us be apart of your day, Ben and Ashely!

You may be wondering, what are Brent and Marianne doing?

Here is our summer:

VBS was last week
Wedding last Saturday
We go to Texas for a short 2 1/2 days for a wedding this weekend
Church picnic Sunday
Leave for youth camp Monday
Mission week the first week of July
Baby Charleigh Reese Colee will be born - this is Britt and Drew's baby girl.
Then MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE we will be able to start our home study!!! :)
We go to World Changers in July as well!
And Chris and Christy are coming 4 days after we return!!!! I am totally stoked about this!

So in short, I will see you in August! haha! Just kidding. I will try to blog a bit here and there.
Enjoy the summertime!

Delayed Summer

Well I have procrastinated long enough! Here are the pictures from the our week in Alabama in July. We left on July 3 and surprised our families on July 4th! We spent the week seeing our families and playing with our nephews. At the end of week, July 12, our friends, Michael and Alexis were married! Brent was the best man in the wedding. We left on July 12 and spent the night in Mississippi with David, Rachelle and their children! We got home on July 13!

Road Trip!

I like sailboats!

Yeah, that hurts the pocket book! Right after this our gas gauge went crazy, I guess it couldn't believe the price of gas either!! haha!

Yep, it does exist.

These are our sweet nephews!

Grayson, who is 4 (with brent's dad)

Ryder, who is 11 months

Destin, who is 9 months

The Wedding!

Speegle and Brent

Speegle and Alexis

End of the summer packing! We moved out of our apartment the week of July 31. We now live with Kent and Jane! It looks like we won't be living with them for much longer though!