McClain Family Blog: picture post

1 Corinthians 3:4-9

"For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men?

What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building."

1 Corinthians 3:4-9

Thursday, June 5, 2008

picture post

I've been meaning to post pictures for quite some time...so here are a ton to browse through :) These are all from our trip to the states...

ENJOY!!!

The first placed we traveled after landing in IL and staying with the Fine's was to Michigan to see our friends Doug and Karen Vaughn. We all ended up staying in a hotel with a swimming pool and it was so great for the kids to have a pool to swim in! The little kids and the big kids enjoyed it!!! :)

We ate lunch with the Vaughn's before saying goodbye at TGIFriday's! YUMMY!

Here is Uncle Sam and Isabelle :)

The kids...

Brooke and Sam

Our visit with with our friend, Katie in Kentucky. We ate some great pie and ice cream and had fun catching up with her :)

We celebrated Ethan's 8th birthday in the states and our long time friends, Craig and Jenny, treated Ethan to a party at Chuckee Cheese. We had a great time. Both sets of our parents were there as well as my brother and his fiancee and both of our nieces. All Ethan wanted for his birthday was to spend it with Rob and were are glad he was able to do this!

One of the best parts of the trip was by far being with our parents. My mom was off basically the whole trip and it was GREAT!!! to be with her so much! It was time well spent for all the grandparents with the grandkids!

On our way back from our trip to TN, we stopped at the lincoln Museum with Ethan. He really wanted to do this and it was a fun afternoon for us. The girls were with my parents on this trip because they were not feeling well, so it was really great quality time with just Ethan. He loves history and especially Abe Lincoln and George Washington, so this was something he really enjoyed!

What a blessing to be able to meet Sam's fiancee Laura and her daughter- our new niece (!) Kaya! We had so much fun with her and she is so sweet! Matt got in some QT with her and Ethan!

The kids absolutely LOVED being able to play outside so much! We do not have a yard here so it was such a treat for them to have wide open spaces to play in! Audrey LOVED the tire swing at Uncle Sam's!