Flying...

Hello Everyone!

Well, I will use the overly-used saying again...better late than never! Well over a month ago on my 17th birthday, a man that Daddy works with took us up in his plane (pictured above). It was soooo neat! None of us have been up since we flew from Germany to the U.S. and Micah and Lydia did not remember flying at all. It was also Tina's first time up! We had a great time (except for when I got...sick in the plane ;). We were able to see Dothan, our house and allot of places that we have been to a million times but were unable to tell where they were because it looks so different from the air!
Thank you to Mr. M for taking us and thank you Daddy for letting us go live the "Greek's Dream". (The story with the Greek's dream...when I was little and Daddy would leave for work, if he was flying that day, I would say "have fun living the Greek's dream, Daddy!" So...it was fun to do it and see things the way Dad does all the time!)
Here are a few of the pictures. I know that we have more somewhere, but they were not on my camera. So...maybe I will have to do a part 2 when/if I get them.
Christ be with you all!
Anna for the Pendletons

Ps. We tried to find Cloud 9, but there was no one to give us directions up there.

Emily and "our pilot", Mr. Kevin, just before we took off! Lydia and I are sitting in the back squeezing eachother's hands! (I am scared of heights...and Lydia was just...squeezing my hand. ;)

Do we look like we know what we are doing? Because we don't!!! lol?

And there is Dothan!

This was one of my favorite shots

Look! There is our house! It was so funny to see the horses from way up there!

And here is the group that went flying...alive and well! :) We all had a wonderful time and are thankful for the chance to live the Greek's dream!

A trip to the Parkers

Momma, Micah, Lydia, Abby, Naomi and I just spent the week with Momma's twin sister's family. We always LOVE spending time with the Parkers! We did several fun things...besides the wonderful time just hanging out!

God is so good to give us the Parkers for not only friends, but family!!!!!

Here are a few pictures of what we did. The pictures were taken on my camera so I did not get pictures of everything...sorry, but if Sarah sends me some of her pix (hint) I will try to do another post. ;-D

Christ be with you!
Anna for the Pendletons

Her majesty, Sadie on the way!

It rained (I just LOVE pointing out the obvious!)

One of the best friends a girl ever had...oh, I am talking about Sarah. ;)

"Ant" (long story with the spelling) Connie and momma went out several times and during one of those occasions, the three musketeers made everyone lunch and served it in the roomage, in restaurant style.

What a trio!!! I adore these kids!

Ah, yes! There is this really neat show called Cupcake Wars on Foodnetwork and one of the ladies who was in the show opened a shop near the Parkers. Tante (Aunt Connie) took us three older girls out and we each got a cupcake...they were soooo good and it was neat meeting the ladies who worked there.

"Sisters (and cousin), Sisters (and cousin) there were never such devoted sisters (and cousin)." :)

My dear Mark!!!!!! He is so much fun to play with. :) Especially when you are outnumbered three to one (by three un-named miniature people) on a trampoline with NO way to escape!

We went to the zoo on our last day!!!!! Here is everyone (or almost) heading in.

These birds almost looked like they could talk!

We loved seeing the momma and her baby. Accutally, the baby does not really belong to the momma. She is an adopted mother. I think that is so cute! The momma monkey is 42 years old!!!!

OH! And there were Baby meerkats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were soooo cute! I got about 30 pix of the meerkats, but had to choose just one and though it is not the best, it has the baby and momma together. :)

Mitchel, Micah, Lydia and I went to the reptile house. Mitch and Micah were my heroes and warned me when there was a tarantula . *shudder*. :) Thanks guys!

These Iguanas were super neat! They were really active this time and I got this one eating!

Mitch's favorite is the Lorakeet feeding area. It was so neat to have three or four birds land on you. Naomi was realy popular with the birds. ;)

Don't know why this picture is so small, but here is Sarah and Sadie. :) Love you girl (Sarah)! ;)

And as sad as we were to have to leave a day early due to the weather, it was so beautiful to arrive home to my favorite tree in bloom!

Momma... :)

At 4:30 pm all of the kids meet Momma in the kitchen to get dinner ready. She was making the pizza and I noticed the hat that she had on!!! I loved it...Momma, making dinner for her family and wearing the NRA hat. :) (She had it on when she was working with the horses and didn't take it off when she came in.)
We all love our mom! :)
Christ be with you,
Anna for the Pendletons

Guess who is going to be a big brother in about... 9 months!?

Praise the Lord! We are sooooo excited! Our dear Tina is expecting! She is due sometime in September or October. We love our Bugs so much and are rejoicing at knowing that we will have another one in less than a year!!!

Christ be with you!
Anna for the Pendletons

Pendleton Family Photo 2011

We had a wonderful visit with our brother, Joel and sister-in-law, Virginia, who are expecting their first child in April :), at the end of December 2010. We were blessed to have four full days with them. During that time we went horseback riding, shooting, ice skating and to Bass Pro. Shops! And, we were finally able to get all of the Pendleton family in one picture! Something Momma has wanted for quite some time. :)
We pray for more happy visits with Joel, Virginia and baby when he/she comes! :)
Christ be with you,
Anna for the family

Jake's Graduation and R.N. "Pinning"!!

The Jake Pendleton Family celebrates the fruit of hard work and diligence! Jake graduated from college and received his R.N. degree! Jake has even been promoted to "Charge Nurse" before he graduated! Friends and family attended the graduation ceremony where Jake had the honor and privilege of giving the benediction for the graduation. Jake gave a bold and eloquent prayer glorifying God and in the name of Jesus Christ in which Marty Juve commented "That sure wasn't a secular or politically-correct prayer!" Following the graduation ceremony we had a reception where we heard testimony from Karen O'Brien of how Jake ministered to her Mom before she passed away recently as well as their whole family. We have heard several other testimonies of how God is using Jake for His glory to minister to the hurting as well as their families. We are thankful that God is using Jake and that Jake is seeking to be a servant in God's name.

Dad handing Jake "The Baton" in recognition that Jake is a Christian man who is faithfully running the race! (see photo below) Dad commended Jake for demonstrating Christian manhood in his personal life, his family, and in his vocation and the world.

Jake giving recognition to the two most important women in his life! He gave an honary R.N. pin to Tina for being a wife who continually encouraged him and was a supportive help-meet during the long hours of work and study! He also gave Mom an honary R.N. pin for home-schooling him academically from K through 12 and especially "Character First" training! ;D

A very proud and happy Mom presented Jake with a heart-felt poem she wrote titled "Listening on the Inside." Along with the poem, she presented Jake a very nice stethescope with his name engraved on it.

"The Baton" hanging on the wall in the Jacob Pendleton home. It has the Scripture references of Psalm 128 and 1 COR 9:24

The really cool cake that Emily made!

Narnia Exhibition

My dear, dear friend and cousin Sarah and I both really enjoy C.S. Lewis and one of his most popular series is the Chronicles of Narnia. Sarah and I were both excited when we heard that the exhibition that has allot of the props/costumes from the new movies along with several of C.S. Lewis' things was going to be in Huntsville Al! Our dads were both so sweet and we met at the Space and Rocket Center where the exhibition is right now. Unfortunately, Disney would not allow pix inside the exhibits, but we got a couple outside it. The exhibits were sooooo neat!
Thanks so much Daddy and Uncle Chuck for taking us!
Christ be with you all,
Anna for the Pendletons