James Hamilton Park

This park was within walking distance of our house in Scotland. It was so beautiful! There were tons of birds, a walking trail, playground stuff, and lots of water activities, like canoes, sailboats, etc.
This is the loch at the park...the girls did ride the boats one day with their friend Olivia.
A family actually lives in this!
I love this picture of Annye!
One of the fun things at the playpark section.

Champions

Calderwood is definitely a growing congregation, and the number of children involved has grown significantly over the past few years. Champions is an evening ministry for children. We were privileged to participate in their final session before their break for the summer holiday.Maddie playing with the parachute.
Mary Beth teaching.
Jeff and Annye playing around afterwards!

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

One day in Glasgow, we went to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery (I didn't notice it also said museum until we got home...but it was quite evident once inside). It was huge! There were so many amazing exhibits throughout...we spent hours there, but you could easily do that many times over! We ended up rushing through just so we could feel like we got a glimpse of it all...it was amazing! And free!
The actual building was a work of art...both inside and out!

There were so many amazing paintings

There were lots of hands-on activities for the girls.

There was a bit of everything in this place!

Chris and Brittney's Wedding

Chris and Brittney are part of our small group and are on the South Asia team with me (both last year and this year). They are such a sweet Christian couple and we were excited to celebrate their marriage with them!

A visit with the Burmese

One of our top priorities when we got home was to go see our Burmese friends. Looking at my Scotland pictures.

I was excited to see my friend that had moved back.

I got to meet a new family that had recently arrived.

We've been busy this week helping the families fill out school paperwork. You should have seen Caroline and me on Thursday night at a picnic table with paperwork for 11 different children on a windy night! It was an adventure! Can you believe I didn't take a camera!?

Leslie and Zach's wedding

We were home less than 24 hours before we headed to Mayfield for Leslie and Zach's wedding. Lesiie is Jeff's niece. Everything was beautiful and it was great visiting with his family. Jeff with Zach and Leslie...he performed the ceremony.

The Carlisle clan

Our Carlisle clan. After helping with some of the clean-up, we headed back to his sister's house and crashed so hard that we didn't later hear Jeff's brother-in-law knocking on the door because he was locked out...oops! Sorry Ronnie!

Trouble Getting Home

During our 4 hour layover in Pittsburgh, we saw flight after flight get cancelled due to storms. Our 10:10 p.m. flight met the same fate. There were no hotel rooms available, so we, along with tons of other travelers spent the night at the airport. At least the girls got some sleep!

After hours of work, Jeff secured us tickets on the 10:10 p.m. flight the following evening, which would have put us in Bowling Green in the wee hours of the morning on the day of his niece's wedding rehearsal...which Jeff was leading...which was in Mayfield. Thankfully our stand-by status on an earlier flight turned into spots on a plane, so we were able to get home, sleep a few hours, repack (our luggage didn't make it home until Friday morning), and head to Mayfield just in time to go straight to the rehearsal!
Jeff trying to get a hotel room.The girls crashing at the airport.
Maddie made a friend, which helped her pass the time.

Going Away Party

Thanks to all of your prayers, we were able to spend the evening laughing instead of crying. We made some special friendships over the past 5 weeks, and it was nice to have one more night together. Here are a few pictures:

I'll put the rest of the pictures on Facebook!