For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

L'ma'an Tzion lo echesheh. U'l'ma'an Yerushalayim lo eshkot. Ad yetzi ka no ga tzidkah. Lo echesheh.

למען ציון לא אחשׁה ולמען ירושׁלם לא אשׁקוט עד יצא כנגה צדקה וישׁועתה כלפיד יבער

Isaiah 62:1

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Sukkot 2013 - Videos

Shalom Everyone!

Here are the Sukkot videos ... there were not as many as I was expecting, but that's okay.  Enjoy!

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I mentioned about the shofar blowing in one of the previous post, but I do not think I mentioned about the silver trumpets.  Some precious friends came for part of Sukkot and the husband brought his silver trumpets.  He let everyone (who wanted to) blow them, and then he had a teaching to go along with it.
 



Here is Cadence's Mikvah.
 



Clips of us dancing.  We danced to many other songs, but I only have videos for these two.
 
Finley requested the first song to dance (Instrumental Hava Negila) ... and I can a sure you that you can be glad we did not get the whole song on video!  Hannah or Tommy found the recording that we did and it went on, and on, and on!  As much as we all loved dancing ... we were all tired of it at the end :)
 
The second song we danced to was Neshima Nigun by Shlomo Katz.


At the swimming hole!




Announcement!

One night Mr. Breland wanted to make an announcement.  He asked for Lydia, Andrea, Sharon, his daughter-in-law Mary, and Miss Latoya to come up.  ***Note*** ... We all knew that Miss Latoya, Andrea, and Sharon were pregnant, and obviously Lydia was not :).  He started out by saying, "Five of these women are the same, but one of them is different."  He asked which one was different and then why ... you can hear the rest of what was said on the video ...




This is "Clinton's Signature Shout"!  Every since he "met" Sharon ... he would break our normally "quiet" house with this signature shout!  Okay, maybe I should clarify ... our house is not at all a quiet place, but we did not normally have people going around shouting :)




 Singing.
 
Here are several different clips of us singing ... the first three where taken while we were on trailer rides, the last one was when we were walking up from the falls.  We were singing Ke'ayal which is As the Deer in Hebrew.  Click HERE to see a better recording of it.
 

 
 
And that completes Sukkot!  Shalom.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Sukkot Pictures #5

Hello!
 
Well, believe it or not ... this is the last Sukkot picture post :)  Enjoy!
 
 
Boating:
 
Samuel and Obadiah.

The guys that ran the boat lodge were out playing baseball in the parking lot, so Abba went over there to watch ... and then to bat a couple times!  I had to get a picture of it.


Hannah and Cadence.

Ruthie and Lydia.

Little Josh, Samuel, Obadiah, Miss Latoya, and Mr. Josh.

Samuel.

Sarah and Abba.

Brittney, Aliyah, Isaac, Jay, and Tommy.

Abigail, Alex, and Finley.

Abba had gone into the hotel and ordered a sandwich and onion rings to take back to Ima.  But, when he went to get back in the canoe ... he had a little trouble!

Yup ... it tipped over!  Thankfully the food did not get wet and soggy.


Ruthie and Abigail.

The children abandoned the boats and went for a swim.

Abba and Mr. Josh.

A chilly "Liddy Biddy".

Swimming:

Cadence, Lydia, and Madison.

Samuel and Josh.

Finley and Abigail.

Heading to the swimming hole.

Little Josh.

Sarah and Abigail.

Clinton and Sharon.

The children slowly got into the water ... it was cold from what I heard.

Abigail and Samuel.

Miss Latoya wanted to see how cold it was for herself ... as you can see, she retreated quickly!

Mr. Josh thought it was cold as well ... but he ended up getting in afterwards.


Abba could not decide :)  Just teasing ... he did get in.  It seemed like every person that got in regretted it though ... they all "screamed like little girls" :)

Mommy and baby ... two babies! ... one invisible :).  She found out she was pregnant a couple days before Sukkot!


Sarah, Andrea, Rohan, Miss Latoya, and Obadiah.

Lydia and Madison.

Becoming friends - Obadiah and Rohan.

A lot of people were jumping off of the rocks.

Clinton.

Mr. Josh.


Going across another swinging bridge ... they are really fun, if no one is shaking them as hard as they can!

Tommy caught Mama on the bridge and tried to get her to stay on while he shook it ... she did not want to cooperate for some reason.

Tommy finally found someone (Abigail) who would shake the bridge with him!

Cold children!


Obadiah.

Jay got this burst shot picture of Tommy jumping in!

When Andrea told me that I could put Rohan's feet in the water ... I had no idea that Rohan loved water and was going to try and dive in :)

Soccer:





Goalie Madison!











Packing and Leaving:



It's always sad shutting the last door!

Tommy's truck did a great job hauling "everything".

We all had a good laugh when we saw Justin's Bush Wacker.

And Brother Lloyd was very happy with his "new" truck!

Within the first half hour of our drive home we had a flat tire on our trailer.  Thankfully it was not really loaded down.

Shalom!