People

Five weeks, four states, 24 hours in planes, 50 hours in cars in the states, seeing over 100 + people! Yikes we are blessed...and pretty tired. Before I left I told the kids that we have two hands. One is China...the other the USA. We are blessed to have two homes. Both hands help us do what we need to do. But the hands are not the same. We need to understand and love both hands and use them together for what God has for our family. So we had a lot of fun learning about our USA hands!!!

Holidays. At Joab's Mom we had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Complete with all the goodies (and Christmas cookies) and morsels we can not get at home. Thank you! My Mom also celebrated: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter with us. We also got May Baskets, 4th of July fire works and could of made V-day cookies if there was time. My favorite of all the August Holidays was "Together Birthday". We invited friends over and had one huge B-day party. But the best part you got to pick what age you wanted to be. I was 16, Asa picked 25, Miriam was 6, my Grandma was 56, my Mom 37! It was so fun. The above picture is from the party.

On the water with Aunt Kay. We caught nothing but had fun.

Joab with sister Anna. We sure missed Minneapolis and living there with Anna....

In Chicago with Laura and her boys. Had a great morning contemplating life on the pier.

My Mom watched the kids so we could have a few days in Chicago for our anniversary. Here my new bearded husband is (and it grew in sort of red! How cool is that?) at a great Mexican place.

Dieter and Miriam in Mpls.

Pitcher kids with my kids in Mpls. What a blast they had together!

My new nephew Daniel James! He is sooo cute. And I miss him already. He was the hardest person to say good bye to! He is 5 months and already weighs more than my kids did a one year!

I used to spend part of my summers growing up on my grandparents farm. Before my Grandpa Tweedy got cancer we worked on building this fence together. I had not been back since and wanted to take some pictures of it. Sure miss him.

Took the kids and went north to Wisconsin to visit pretty much the best family there! The Kelly's. My kids got to just play and play...and Megan and I got to just talk and talk. A perfect combo (Tim also played the banjo and that was fun too!).

Three generations of Tweedy Woman.

After Joab left, the kids and I spent about 20 hours together visiting people on the road. They did just great. So blessed to have these global road warriors on my team!

My parents land where they hope to build a home. Here we are on earth day planting seeds.

Nei Nei and Papa with kids.

Went to the Minneapolis Sculpture Gardens with our dear friends the Staebells. Always not enough time with people you love. Fun to get our kids together - they play we get to talk!

Joab with his Dad. Had a blast at water parks (forgot camera) and just hanging out in the backyard with Joab's family!

David and Martha. The best couple to come out of Colombia in a long time.

Again cute D.J with Elly and Fred.

My day of being the only In Law are over! Here is the complete "second string" as I call it. I can not tell you how great it is to have other people out there trying to love (and understand) the Meyers :). I love you all.

Fred- in white in Elly's financee

Dieter - in red Anna's boyfriend

Martha-in blue David's wife


So there you have it! I took so many pics, so hard to just put a few up! We had a great time. We love and miss you all.

See below post for more! Em