tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47440196917541421872024-03-14T00:35:19.207-04:00the great adventure...to live would be an awfully big adventure...katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-10766523490148250022014-07-17T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-17T09:00:05.856-04:00Sharm El Sheikh ~ Diving Wrap UpGood morning! This post is the sixth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here!
Camel ride on the beach (as seen from our dive boat) - such a quintessential Egypt photo!
Last time we were heading for the third and final dive of the day, being escorted by a school of dolphins! (Yes, that does sound like a fairy katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-41847235041005552192014-07-15T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-16T02:17:47.519-04:00Holiday Weekend Spontaneity Hello and Happy Tuesday! Hope you all are doing well!
We've had several posts about our Sharm el-Sheikh trip recently, and there's some more to that story to come; however, I wanted to fill you in on our most recent adventure! We had a really fun, spontaneous getaway over Fourth of July weekend!
For the week or so leading up to the Fourth, we had talked about going somewhere, done some katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-19063012578544179522014-07-13T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-16T02:20:46.447-04:00Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt ~ Tiran & DolphinsGood morning! This post is the fifth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here!
Part four ended with us learning about the Thistlegorm wreck. Although we didn't get to dive there on this trip to Sharm, the rest of our diving adventures were pretty exciting, so let's get back to them!
My journal entries pick up katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-57276483906293197942014-07-11T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-16T02:17:34.762-04:00Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt ~ Snorkeling, Reading, & Wreck DivesHello! You have arrived on the fourth in a series of posts about our incredible trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2012! To start over at the beginning, click here!
The third post covered our first and second days' dives, and boy, were they pretty epic! Our very first dive, the one that started it all, was in Cozumel, Mexico. Then we got our Open Water PADI Certification during a trip to Croatia,katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-37083215849174570842014-07-07T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-14T14:22:21.484-04:00Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt ~ Deep Blue AdventuresHello again! You've landed on the third post in a series about our 2012 trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt! To start back at the beginning, click here!
At the end of the second post, we had caught the dive company's shuttle to our first day of diving! The reason we had come to Sharm El Sheikh at all was to go SCUBA diving in the Red Sea. A gentleman that we met at Disneyland Paris had told us that katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-76040069183099216782014-07-05T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-14T13:34:31.390-04:00Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt ~ Relocation and True BeginningWelcome back! This post is the second in a series of posts about our 2012 trip to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt! To start back at the beginning, click here!
At the end of the last journal entry, Austin was on the phone with hotels.com. Again. And I had just discovered ants in our hotel room! I didn't get a chance to update the journal again until the next evening:
Friday 29 June 2012
17:46
Wow! Longkatylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-80455267602916389102014-07-04T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-04T12:08:18.836-04:00Happy Independence Day!We are interrupting your regularly scheduled programming for today's holiday post! If you're here to read the next installment of the Sharm El Sheikh adventure, please check back tomorrow!
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This is one of my favorite holidays! I love everything about it! The food, the fireworks, the day off from work, the fun festivities with loved ones! But most of all, I love the reminder of the katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-90369444555590807682014-07-02T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-16T02:17:03.939-04:00Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt ~ Arrival and DissapointmentHello everyone!
Today I'll start telling the story of our incredible trip to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt!
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My journal for this trip was one of the most detailed I have ever kept, and I was so thankful to have all of the memories recorded! This was mainly a diving trip for us, so many of my journal entries read like a dive log. If that's not your cup of tea, don't worry! There are a katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-83024348133553431362014-06-30T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-07T03:30:49.619-04:00Cozumel MemoriesI've been digging through the archives! So many pictures and memories! And I promised you travel adventures, so here it is...
The Trip That Started It All ~ Cozumel, Mexico ~ March 2009
(That may be a bit of an unfair title since our first international trip together (the one that planted the seeds of a passion for missions in our hearts) was a summer missions trip to France with a group from katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-91623516542672233112014-06-27T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-27T09:12:33.323-04:00Tiny Living and Why It's Awesome!!!Okay, so I am seriously crushing on the idea of Tiny Living!
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If you are unfamiliar with the movement, you can read about it here or here or here or here, and this is a great documentary about it (I think we watched the documentary on Netflix).
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In a nutshell, "tiny living" just means living in a far-smaller-than-average home (most of the tiny houses I've seen exampleskatylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-80434705168939922222014-06-26T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-07T03:33:31.872-04:00Italy PDA - Part 6PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
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When last we left our intrepid travelers, we were enjoying our final breakfast in Italy! Since katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-34482896987523140412014-06-20T20:24:00.000-04:002014-06-20T23:14:55.532-04:00Breaking the silence . . . I have been a part of a church since before I was born. (Literally, I was an in-utero church member, no kidding!) I love Jesus, I love the Bible, and up until recently I could have honestly said that I love church.
My husband and I met at Bible college. We were missionaries overseas for more than four years. We moved back across the ocean (at no small expense to ourselves and our supporters) katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-21863189757362168532014-06-13T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-07T03:33:19.442-04:00Italy PDA - Part 5PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
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When last we left our intrepid travelers, we were standing on the sidewalk outside the Toyota dealership in Genoa, katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-27981241077856415352014-06-08T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-07T03:33:05.000-04:00Italy PDA - Part 4PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
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Monday morning, Presidents' Day, we got up, checked out of the hotel, and enjoyed a final, delightful breakfast at the Caffe Della Poste. Before katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0Genoa, Italy44.4056499 8.946255999999948544.2242779 8.6235324999999481 44.5870219 9.2689794999999489tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-8097217725910800862014-06-07T17:40:00.000-04:002014-06-07T21:30:30.858-04:00On Perfectionism, Platitudes, and Prettiness.Hello blog world!
I realize that I totally left you hanging on the "Italy PDA" story, and I'm sorry about that! I Promise to finish it, and the ending really is worth coming back for!
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So much has happened and continues to happen here in our little corner of the world, and I seem to continually find myself in the Place of having too much to say and being overwhelmed by all that I katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-39579991482820113072014-03-01T09:00:00.000-05:002014-07-07T03:31:52.683-04:00Italy PDA - Part 3PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
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Sunday morning, we got up and walked to Cafe Della Poste (quite possibly our favorite Chiavari find) for the sweet nectar that is Italian cappuccino and amazing brioche! (Crema e katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-40404616565340669402014-02-27T09:00:00.000-05:002014-07-07T03:31:38.846-04:00Italy PDA - Part 2PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
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First thing Saturday morning (this was Saturday, February 16, 2013), we got up and struck out to find the perfect Italian breakfast: cappuccino and brioche! We found a cute little coffee shop a few steps from our hotel, katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-92024728986267709432014-02-25T08:00:00.000-05:002014-07-07T03:31:23.858-04:00Italy PDA - Part 1PDA stands for President's Day Adventures, in this case. ;)
(Disclaimer: These stories will be coming to you in no particular order. I'm telling this one now because it happened just over a year ago, and my Timehop reminded me about it, so I decided to start here!)
So, I promised adventure stories, and this one's a doozie!!!
Last February, we were living in Lupburg, Germany. Austin was the katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-25876613943100321662014-02-19T22:42:00.001-05:002014-07-02T11:53:35.779-04:00Catching up . . .So, the obvious thing to say when you haven't posted to your blog for over a year is "so much has happened!"
And it's really true!
The last time I posted we were living in a rented apartment Germany, working with Club Beyond, just the two of us, loving Jesus and Europe and life and each other.
The last thirteen months have been stuffed with CHANGE and full of NEW! (Although the loving Jesuskatylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-42953279771980103572014-01-01T09:30:00.000-05:002014-07-16T02:15:51.237-04:00Chronological Travel ListSince I tell all of our travel stories in no real order, I thought I'd link to them all here, in case you're OCD and would like to read them in order ;)
2008
September
Branson, Missouri, USARoad trip for our One-Year Anniversary
2009
March
Cozumel, Mexico
2010
2011
2012
June
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Part 1
Part 2
July
Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
2013
February
Chiavari, Italy
Partkatylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-74683709088074547762013-01-01T09:00:00.000-05:002014-02-19T16:26:22.634-05:00ExpectationsMy mom wrote the following for a Christmas Tea at a church in Colorado Springs, but I thought it was appropriate as a first thought for the New Year. Thanks, Mom!
EXPECTATIONS
by Teri Faulkner
This year I’ve been thinking a lot about expectations.
And Christmas brings lots of expectations. One of our favorite traditions is cranberry ice and I expect to eat it at every family katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-19499780038305624472012-12-24T06:00:00.000-05:002012-12-26T10:35:31.859-05:00Christmas TraditionsI grew up in a family with a lot of traditions.
Thanksgiving is really the beginning of the Christmas season for us. Starting with the annual watching of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning. Thanksgiving itself was always a day full of food, family, and football - much like every other American family. Ever.
The day after Thanksgiving, we decorate for Christmas, eat katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-86567021418656645552012-12-22T06:07:00.000-05:002012-12-22T06:07:00.612-05:00The first missionaries . . .
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So they hurried off and found
Mary and Joseph, and the baby,
who was lying in the manger.
When they had seen him,
they spread the word concerning
what had been told them about
this child, and all who heard it
were amazed at what the shepherds
said to them.
But Mary treasured up all these
things and pondered them in
her heart.
The shepherds katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-61973899039412472352012-12-21T15:00:00.000-05:002012-12-21T15:00:04.325-05:00"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"This Christmas carol is swiftly becoming one of my favorites, and I love this version by Steven Curtis Chapman!
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4744019691754142187.post-65689620706797837552012-12-20T07:00:00.000-05:002012-12-20T07:00:04.507-05:00". . . a child is born . . ."
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6katylinvwhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09248951104776233083noreply@blogger.com0