Thankful for a Fridge!

Thanking God for a new, working fridge!!! Eating only things we could keep in the freezer wasn't so bad... ice cream, lasagna, taquitos, frozen chicken... but fresh food is such a blessing!

Bright Lights Conference

All the girls attended part of a solid, excellent, Bright Lights conference with some friends! Sooo encouraging.

Thanking the Lord for friends pursuing godliness.

A group of girls from Heritage!

A Trip to Cracker Barrel

A huge "thank you!" to a kind member of the congregation for this special treat to Cracker Barrel!

We love the rockers out front!

A heated game of checkers.

Smile!

Root Beer!

 The food was delicious, the family-time was giggly, and we had a wonderful time!

Celebration at the Park

Pearl had her first day of dog training class Saturday, and to celebrate that and her birthday we met some friends and relatives at a park for some ice cream and frisbee!!! Make sure to go read about the class at Pearl's blog mydoggyfriend.wordpress.com!

FSDS Service Dog Training class

The celebratory group!

Adorable nephew makes an adorable selfie!<3

Frisbee!

Ice Cream!

 Super grateful for friends, family, ice cream, and God's love. What are you thankful for this week?

By Our Favorite Pastor-- A Sermon Series

Listen to this sermon series on the Upper Room Discourse by our favorite pastor! <3

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
If Anyone Loves Me...
God's Wonderful Plan for Your Life 
The Counsel of His Will

This Goofy Family

Maricopa County Summer Reading Program + Glendale Library Summer Reading Program= LOTS and LOTS of reading!

Silly doggy thinks the baby pool is for her! <3 

Kate's writing hideout behind the couch

Dollhouse people out to dry after a dunk in the pool. (113 degree weather nowadays!) 

Yup, a tarped Foosball table. Glorious surprise thunderstorms keep us on our toes! :)

"Shhh!" A surprise birthday party for a friend was awesome fun! It was so hard to keep 47 people quiet while the birthday-girl was upstairs sewing with her friend, and we were decorating downstairs. Imagine all the held back laughter! ; )

Goofy Bea! 

After a scrumptious pot-luck dinner, games commenced--including dressing up bible times... 

and Guesstures! (a.k.a charades) 

Thanks to some awesome friends who lent us their minivan while our 15 passenger was out of commission.

Thrift stores!!! 

Sweet, happy-go-lucky pup!

Doctor's office

Talking on the phone with scrumptious--I mean, adorable--nephews!! 

 Silly selfies on the way to church...

 And on the way home. :P (See? It's our van! Yay!! Thanks so much, Mr. W, for fixing it!!!) 

 Little soap makers!

Kate's beautiful creations.

A tent made out of sheets appeared across the gap between the couch back and the window to the sun room.

 

Ella decided its luscious comfy-ness was made especially for her darling highness! 

 
Aunt Lori gave us a puppet theater!!! (Thank you, Auntie! We love it!)

And that about sums up what the Willisters have been up to! 

Never Too Old for Slides

After a gigantic water balloon fight we all decided to walk down to the park to dry off and toss a softball around! 

Under Cover of Darkness

Our wonderful boys are outside just now, fixing the brakes by lamplight. 

Three cheers for Dad and Paul! 

 

Food, Family, Friends, and a Yard Sale

A quick recap of the month of November.

Thanksgiving at Aunt and Uncle's:

Which of course includes football. Watching football, that is. ;)

 Yeah, you might just be a hick if you can't figure out how to use the whipped cream. :P

It was great to be able to spend our Thanksgiving meal with family after so many years. 

We said goodbye to two very special families. On direction from God, our church sent out the M family as missionaries for the Lord to a tiny town in Mexico. It was a bitter-sweet goodbye.

Pastor M sharing a little with the congregation about the people there in Mexico and what his family's goals in reaching out to them are.

 The father and three of his daughters singing a beautiful song together

Praying over them as we sent them off. We miss you, guys!!

The second hard goodbye was to our best friends from Oregon who visited down here for a month. We've known them for a very long time and highly enjoyed getting to hang out together again. So sad when their stay ended. :( 

Ever since we were really young our families and personalities have just clicked, and we've built many priceless memories together. 

 ...Including silly ones. :)

 We walked to the park so the guys could play basketball like in the old days, and everyone else had fun playing, taking pictures together in the cool lighting, and catching up after so many months. 

 The girlies. :)

And of course you've got to take pictures of your toes with the awesome lighting!! 

And of course, whenever these two are in the same vicinity (for more than two hours) a war always breaks out. Axis and Allies, a board game depicting the second world war between the world powers. Sadly, there wasn't the kind of time they needed to resolve their differences before we had to leave, but there's always another chance. :) :) :)

Can't wait to be with you goofy people again!!

We attended a super wonderful wedding of two longtime childhood friends!! Praise the Lord!

Yard Sale!!

 Wow! Hold your breath everybody, and pray!!! :P

And that was our November! Looking forward to what God brings our way during 2016!