First Week of September!

 15th Annual "Turning Hearts Celebration" at our friends' beautiful farm in Iowa!

 Crosby. Tractor driver. Yes! :)

Sweet attentive audience listened to Daddy talk on business and working together as a family.
We did a mini-concert (humbling...as these sweet farm friends are serious musicians!!) ate too much ice cream, met folks from all over, played football and so enjoyed a happy day of fellowship.
Can't you just picture all that? But wait!
We have 3 family phones and 3 family cameras. We took 3 pictures. Total.
Let the wailing commence. :) 

Totally packed week of events in KS, MO, AR, OK....and then back to IA. 

Love opportunities to show AGENDA in old theaters! This one was in Wichita, Kansas.

Downtown Wichita was full of street people with minds completely 
wrecked by drugs. We gave this man a tract after our event and 
he tried to steal (!) the maple syrup we were bringing our host.
Thankful for Charlie and his commanding presence. :)
He is incredibly gifted with homeless folks.

Three cheers for laundromats! 
Our lavender scented trash bags have been hauled into questionable neighborhoods across the land.

One of these days that bus is going to roll down the highway with a Bowers brother on top!!

Weeknight Bible Study in Kansas City.

Crosby generally gets the brother hand-me-downs in the boot department. 
Since little pink boots are an only an option for so long, 
we stopped at Kleinshmidt's to track some down with Daddy!

Charlie was very happy to meet this truck driver who was training for deer season 
and let him test his bow!

Happy little gathering of patriots and popcorn in Mansfield, OH.

Ended up in a major flash flood. We were extremely thankful the Lord kept the 
water out of the generator and got us out of town!

All lined up for polishing on Sunday morning. We ditched real shoes a long time ago but have 
gone through more jeans and boots than ever before on this trip!

Daddy preaching on Nehemiah "Rebuilding the Wall." We love this talk.

 Crosby's favorite bodyguard and her favorite new dress from a sweet little friend.

Sometimes we all just crash! Additional nappers elsewhere. :)

Carver squeezed in a hunting lesson on our way out of IA.

Late night pow-wow in our Wal-Mart parking spot and reminder to Carolina and Mama: 

"Pray with your eyes closed but not while crossing the Walmart parking lot at 9 am!" 

The Lord was good to protect our most distracted that day!

Oh my, my. Clearly we are WAY too at home in this well utilized mechanic shop!

Very special afternoon with great Aunt Mary in Lafayette, IN. 
She is Poppy's big sister, and at almost 97, she is young and sharp as ever! 
We sang for her church service and were so very blessed by "Great is Thy Faithfulness" 
and several other songs we all got to sing together.    

Homeschool headquarters for MO had amazing tables of free materials. 
Somebody hauled this to the bus where Charlie decided to...hmmm....balance his busy life? Ha! What a hoot.

Happy stop at our favorite farm in TN, and one of many creatures collected by the littles.
Yes. That frog is on someone's finger! :)

Adventure hiking!

So lovely! 
So thankful for these days and weeks full of the Lord's goodness and grace.