"HOME"

Of all the signs we saw on the road this one seemed to have more brilliant colors, and a louder "Welcome" then all the others.

We realized on our trip that "home" is where we are, together. Staying with my parents is only a temporary thing, but a good time we get to be close to my family. My brother lives just at the end of the street and my sister is two hours away outside Charlotte. Ezekiel is really enjoying the time he gets to spend with Dawson (his cousin). They sure enjoy wrestling together. We really would have liked to move right to Compass Aviation, one hour north of us, but our monthly support level is still below 50%. We are currently at 37% monthly support, and trusting God to bring us up the rest of the way. My parent's trailer is working as a pretty nice "home" for the time being, and we are very happy for it. It's a whole lot bitter than our van! We arrived here Nov. 17th late at night and crashed into bed with the releiving feeling of not having to travel any more. Thanksgiving was wonderful and very tasty! My mom makes some really good stuff, and my wife has adapted to our new, hopefully temporary, way of eating no wheat. With more food than we could all eat even if we tried, we enjoyed our time of fellowship together as a family. Christmas isn't far away now and we all are getting excited. Zeke likes to look at the tree when all the lights are shining brightly. I wish I could help him understand the real meaning of Christmas now, but I know that will come soon. We are so thankful for all of your prayers and support along our trip!! It was very fruitful, very adventuresome, and very fun. Looking ahead and remaining faithful to get to Compass Aviation as soon as possible we are planning another trip, but his time only the East Coast will see our faces. With many lessons learned from our West Coast trip we plan on continuing our travels some time in February. May you all have a blessed Christmas filled with the Joy God meant for it to hold for us. Merry Christmas.

Ohio

With only one stop left before we would stop traveling, Ohio was the next destination.

We had Bethany's Grandpa to visit and some friends of my family we had not seen since England.

We were able to visit the National Museum of the Air Force! Zeke had a blast pointing out all the airplanes. I had a blast too trying to explain why each aircraft was so cool. Zeke had his first in-cockpit training from his daddy. =-) Yup, Zeke dressed up for us. One of my favorite airplanes, the P-38 Lightning a really cool plane. With our quick stop over with and a sigh of relief that our next stop was the end for a while we set off down the road for Greenville, SC.

Michigan at last!

On the road again but this time it would be back to Michigan over three months after we left.

Ezekiel sure had been a trouper for this entire trip. At the beginning of it he could travel for about 4-5 hours at a time, but by the end he thought any amount of time strapped into his car seat was too long. We were very blessed by this little boy the entire trip.

We would look back many times along our way to see this peaceful little face of our son, pretty cute.

We were very glad that he could sleep in the van.

While we knew it would only be a week or so we were very glad to get to Michigan again to see our sending church and many friends. During our time there we were able to spend almost a week with some good friends, share the events of our trip with the church, and visit so many folks. Praise the Lord we had only one van problem for the entire trip and that happened while in MI. The Gas tank started to leak, and with all the visits planned with folks I really had no time to fix it myself. God provided the money, the place, and time to get it done within our stay there. It was really nice! We said good bye again to the folks at church, and set out for SC. The end is in sight!