Figuring it Out??

Hi All,

Here is video from our Africa trip taken by Spencer (Hope you don't mind Spencer, I loved it) This is Spencer with the Masai warriors, Wilson and Nabala. They were awesome and went every where with us. I have a lot respect for these men. We wish we would have taken video from our trip, but we are glad there were a few video cameras there. The first part is of Spencer and Darrin being transported by U-haul to get on the airplane. Funny! Enjoy! I am still figuring all this blog stuff out, ie; how to download videos from U-tube and what not. So be patient. Thanks!

More Africa!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7q-U5TRAfI

New Blog!

Hey everyone,
I have just created a new blog for my real estate. For more information on what's happening in the lovely world of buying and selling houses, go to http://milliesrealestate.blogspot.com/. I hope you find this blog useful. I will update it every few days or so.
Last night, after I had stayed up surfing the Internet, I couldn't sleep. So I laid in bed and just let my thoughts wonder. I was thinking about service and love and how I could apply it to real estate. I suddenly had an idea. What if I got by office together and had Realtor service day? What if we went on a Realtor Service scavenger hunt, doing little things for people, like washing a window, or vacuuming or mopping their floor? I got so excited about this idea I really couldn't sleep! I have done this activity with achievement day girls and it was one of my favorite activities! I don't know, maybe people will think we are weird. Let me know what you think.

Africa!!

What an amazing experience! I wish I could pack you all up and take you back there. These pictures are of when we first arrived at one of the schools. We were mobbed by children. You can see as we had barely gotten out of the truck they came running to greet and hug us. Jumbo! (Hello) Most of them could say "What is your name?" And understood simple phrases, like "how are you?" (Habari) and you would respond with "muzuri san," (very fine). We stayed at the school for a couple of hours, just playing and talking to the kids and looking at their classrooms and their work. They teach them English starting in primary school, plus they know their tribal language, like Masai or Kipsiki, and then they teach them Swahili, which is the universal Kenyan language. The sweater you see them wearing are school uniforms. For most of them, it's the only clothes they have. Most of them were barefoot. They don't have any shoes. I felt really bad because I kept stepping on their toes with my hiking boots. But they didn't seem to mind.

They like to touch our hair and skin and hold our hands and follow us around. When Lynn would go to take their picture, they would all jump in front of him and then run to see their picture behind the lens and giggle. We have many pictures and experiences we would like to share with you all, so I will post more when I have time. Lynn took over 1500 pictures, so if you have a couple of hours, come on over and we would be happy to re-live those experiences with you!

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Halloween 2007

Here are the pictures of Halloween! O.K. I'm a little behind, with Christmas coming up, I thought I better update. This picture is of Sydney and her neighborhood friends. Ian was scared of spider man, who is his friend, Jase, so he is not in this picture. He was "shaking" on the couch. We had a hard time getting Ian into his cute lion costume that day, but once he saw his sister getting her costume on and we wiggled him into his costume and Lynn took him to a few doors to get candy, he didn't care so much. He loved trick or treat'n! All of the pumkins on the porch, we grew in our garden this summer! We grew a great big one, and lots of little ones. It was fun, but they took up the whole garden. The cornstalks also came from our garden. We didn't get as much corn as we did last year, but we were a little late in planting it.

Lynn's Deer Hunt

Lynn's deer hunt was a success! On the last day and almost on the last possible moment he shot his big buck! On the second day of his hunt, he shot a big buck, the first shot knocked him down, but then the buck got up and ran over the hill. Lynn thought he would just wait 20 minutes or so and then go look for him. Well, 20 minutes later, Lynn walked over the hill and no deer. He looked a long time and then he went and got his dogs and looked some more. But they couldn't find him. So three days later, Lynn was still looking and hunting for his deer. Here are his proud pictures! He is having him mounted on a pedestal, I guess so he can move him around from room to room, (or from Larry's office's room to room).

We are all doing well, and keeping busy. Ian had a fever last week for a couple of days, but he is doing fine now. Here are the pictures of Lynn's deer. Enjoy! Love Ya ALL! Millie