Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear friends and family,
We just wanted to wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving. May your day be filled with greatfulness, family, laughter, love and FOOD. :) Amidst the fun, food and fellowship, let us not forgt to thank God for His many blessings in our lives.

I'd like to hear a shout out from all the Hoss Cartwright fans out there.

~Adam

HELP!

This coming Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) we are having a Staff Thanksgiving Supper. I have signed up for several things, one of which is a favorite dish. Favorite dish? It's not like I've been cooking forever for these things... how am I supposed to know what a favorite dish would be??? No one else had signed up for it, so I thought surely I could come up with something. I signed up for it intending to ask my mom what to do for it (still probably will), but I am hoping that some of you may have ideas of things that are quick and delicious. With Thanksgiving being an American holiday, most of Cayman doesn't celebrate it. Thus, we have school and get out at 3:00. I usually do the bus run with Adam and we don't get home until a little after 4. The dinner is at 6, so I don't have a ton of time....what should I do???

Roadhouse Grill

Mandy & Beverly

Ron being himself!

me and Ms. Samms

ACE Educator's Convention

Bellaire Bilmont, Clearwater, Florida

Becky, Beverly & Mandy enjoying the opening session

Becky, Ron, Ms. Blake, Ms. Samms and Adam

A trip to the good ol' USA

I felt like a teenager again - taking pictures in Walmart - but what can you expect, I hadn't seen a Walmart in 3 months!

This is Adam after our FIRST trip to Walmart!

A good day at the outlets

A fitting ending...it was an awesome "down-home" restaurant!

Enjoy!

So cute!

This is my favorite... :)

I'm NOT a proud aunt or anything...

Allison Brooke Burley

This is my new beautiful niece. She was born yesterday morning at 7:45 AM. She weighed in at 7 lbs 6 oz. She is 20 in. long. My sister is doing very well. We are all glad for a healthy baby. I can't wait to go home December 16 and hold that little bundle of joy!!! Congratulations Greg, Steph, Ryan, Evan and Kaitlynn!

(sorry for the pic quality...more will come later)

Just a Beautiful Caribbean Day...

7 mile beach

And yes, the water is THAT blue!

Just one of the blessings of working with youth!

We received this beautiful card a little over a week ago from one of our core families. The Rodriguez family has 4 girls. Briana and Brenna are in our youth group. Briela is in my class. Bralea is in preschool, so we haven't really gotten to know her quite yet. They are a wonderful family. Bro. Helbert is the one that really made it possible to have our youth building wall built. Thank you Bro. & Sis. Rodriguez and family. We love and appreciate you, too!

Fall...

You don't need much else to get you in the mood for fall!

It wasn't until about 2 weeks ago that I really got in the mood to pull out my decorations for the fall. Back home the weather begins to change, as do the leaves and that is what causes me to pull them out at home. I stopped over to the yankee candle store and bought 2 candles. They were buy one get one half! Anyway, it only took a little time of burning those and I was ready! These pics don't do justice, but this gives you a glimpse of fall at my house! Notice the door welcome sign isn't on the door. I had it there at first, but it fell off so I decided to bring it inside the front door. Plus, I was afraid that the sun might fade it... :)

The wall is finished! And by now even the scaffolding and the wheelbarrow are out of the way. The screens are in the windows and the door is locked. Exciting! As no one comments on my wall update posts, I assume no one is interested, but this will be the last wall post for a while. At least until we begin painting. Donations are now being accepted, so if you would like to give just leave a comment on here with your credit card number. Of course it's secure.... do you think I'm a crook?

We are doing a stay-awake-a-thon next month, after we get back from Florida (educator's convention). If you've never done a stay-awake-a-thon, you should think about it. It's an easy way to raise a lot of money. They've never done one down here, so hopefully it will be a huge success and millions of dollars will be raised.

I'm rambling so I will now stop. I think my medicine is catching up to me... or perhaps the lack thereof.

Blessings,
Adam

Here is Brady. This shot was taken through his classroom window, thus the haziness. He is a junior high student, so he suffers daily under the tutelage of my mother. He is taking some sort of a test on the computer... I was walking by the classroom and saw him so I took the chance to get a pic. Brady is great - all the way around. He's a lot of fun to be around and is extremely bright. Any of you who come down here will have to get to know him.

Last night at Plugged In (our Wednesday night youth Bible study), the topic was Jesus as Servant. We thought of ways we could serve using things such as a vacuum cleaner, windex, paper towels, etc. They were eager to voice ideas... but then I put all of the ideas in a basket and each row of students pulled one idea out. It was then time to complete the act of service - in the high school classroom and in the computer room. Brady was by far the most vocal participant. He vehemently (with a big grin on his face) refused to help, as his row pulled vacuuming. After some coercing, he ended up vacuuming for all of 2 minutes. It was great!

Here is a picture of the wall of the new youth building. They got the windows installed yesterday, and are finishing up around the windows today. I'm not sure what all they're planning on doing today, but hopefully the job will be done by the weekend. Or at least by next week. I thought it was interesting to view the method of putting in windows. I don't know much about this type of thing... I've replaced windows but have never built a concrete wall and then fixed the openings to fit windows. It's quite a process... it took them all day yesterday to get the windows in and they are still working around the windows on the inside today.

Anyways, I just found these things interesting. By the way, the board across the top of the window will be taken off, and the hole inbetween the windows is for the 13,800btu air conditioner (thank the Lord!). God is good.