Video

I compiled some video's from our trip into one video.  Sadly our hard drive broke half way through the trip so all the video is from the last half of our trip.  I tried to upload a high quality version on you tube but I couldn't get them to extend the length limit so here's the best I could do:)

Trip to Israel from Paul Brendemuhl on Vimeo.

Visiting Friends

We've spent the next week traveling all around the states visiting friends.

We spent the first night at the Hayes in Georgia.

 Then we spent the next night in Tennessee at Natalie's house.

We spent Shabbat at the Hood's in Tennessee.  The Hood's have 15 kids with 11 living at home so that was a lot of fun.  The little boys had fun on the tree swing.

The older kids played a crazy game of killer uno.

We spent Sunday night at the Hershey's home in Missouri.  It was Deborah's 16th birthday and Mr. and Mrs. Hershey had a beautiful cake waiting for her.

Granddad's 100th Birthday

December 2nd was my Great Granddad's 100th birthday.

Even though he's a hundred he still feeds the dog everyday and drives his golf cart to get the mail.

  We had a party for him on the 3rd.

My Uncle David and his family.

Granddad and his two sons.

Granddad with three of his grandkids.  Mom is pretending to have her arm around Aunt Carole, who couldn't be there:)

And their spouses.

Four generations.

Grandma and Grandpa Rogers

We spent a couple weeks in North Carolina at my Grandma and Grandpa Rogers house.

Grandma was always in the kitchen cooking and Grandpa cooked breakfast for us every morning.

The little kids were having fun dressing up in old wigs.

Grandma and Grandpa's new dog, Maisey, was a very popular dog while we were there.

The cat and her are good friends.

The boys spent a lot of time working on Grandpa's train set and after a few trips to the train store had it running.

Dad and the boys (and our tree climber Anna) spent a lot of time trimming trees.

It was my cousin, Brittany's, birthday while we were there.

She had her birthday party at a roller skating rink, which was a lot of fun.

We spent a night making cookies with our cousins.

Sarah had a lot of fun riding on Grandpa's horses and mules.

Our friends the Warrens came down to visit us while we were there so we saddled up the horses and mules and went for a ride.

How many people does it take to saddle up a horse?

Will had great trouble staying on his horse:)  Long story...

Sukkot

This post is a little out of place but I just found these pictures.  I mentioned it a little bit in a earlier post, but Sukkot is a week long celebration that is one of God's appointed celebrations in the Bible.  In the Bible it says the first and last days are days of rest and that you are supposed to live in boothes for the whole week.  It is celebrated by everyone in Israel and is a lot of fun. 

All the girls had their "booth" on the upstairs balcony.  We just put all our cots outside and put palm branches over them.  It was kinda cold. 

It was one big slumber party:)

Most of the people in our group stayed in the vineyard and made boothes in between the rows.  We spent a few evenings with them and one night they had all the instruments out and we had fun singing around the campfire.