beautiful skies.

These pictures are for my dear friend Kathleen. She is a missionary in Haiti right now and she loves skies. The skies have been full of God's glory here recently and I wanted to try to share them with you. The pictures don't really do justice, but they will have to do. So Kathleen, these are for you. I love you and miss you dearly.

We had a false alarm with the turtle nest last night. We thought that the nest had been sinking in from the turtles, so we sounded the alarm and got everyone out there. We sat around waiting in anticipation for hours, but nothing happened. We're not really sure where the mix up happened, but we had fun waiting, singing, playing games, etc. We ended up taking one hour turtle patrol shifts until 2:30am, until we gave up and called it a night. Lets just say, it was a rough morning. According to the official Turtle Patrol, a few of the turtles hatched on Sunday night and we missed it again, they are going in tomorrow morning to dig up the nest and do the inventory. So it looks like I'll just have to try again in the future, but I can't say I didn't try. Plus, there is a possibility of a live birth when they dig up the nest, so my hopes are still high.

We had a great time this past weekend. We played out on the water all day Saturday, starting with a morning kayak to an abandoned shrimp boat, then we went out sailing after lunch. It was great because the waves were pretty big. We sailed over to the sand bar where a sailboat had gotten stuck on the sand. The Coast Guard came in and checked it out, but everyone had already left the boat. Then we went back out kayaking to an island and walked around and did some bird watching. The island is protected for birds because it is home to so many endagered and threatened species. We saw over 1,000 pelicans!! Crazy. We also got a chance to see lots of rare birds. We walked over to the beach on the ocean side and found tons of sand dollars...whole! It was like a dream come true. We found a Bobcat on our property, and later we saw a deer chase the cat away. Oh, I also forgot to mention that I played tennis with the boys and beat them 6-0 and 6-1:). Anyway, it was a great weekend along with a great church service on Sunday.

Hope you are all well, I love and miss you!