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Brian, my brother, Tim, and a team of mostly high school seniors left early this morning for a mission trip to the Bahamas. It's funny, everyone's first reaction is "rough life," but if you have actually been there and seen the real deal I'm sure you would say it's a great place for VBS and homes to be built. Abby woke me in the middle of the night last night. When I got up I thought Brian was still in bed and was so excited I would get to see him and give him a hug before he left to meet everyone at the church at 4am. I got back and realized he wasn't there, just a pile of twisted sheets. Ah man, I was so bummed, I had my hopes all up. I looked at the clock and it was 4:30am. Oh well, it gave me time to pray for the team. Brian's parent's will be here this week to play with Abby and either distract me from Brian being gone or make me think about him more. It will be fun to spend time with them.

The team went to my parent's house for a day out. Everyone went to the beach, including Abigail. Uncle Tim and Abby had matching shirts, it was too cute not to get a pic.




































Meet Bentley. He is my parent's dog.






















I know what you are thinking... This dog is ugly and disgusting, why do you have a picture of him on your blog? Well, he may be very gross, going grey, a drooler, overweight, big eyed and crooked toothed, but seriously, he is the sweetest, happiest dog you will ever meet! He absolutely loves life! His tail wags all the time, even in his sleep, faster than you can imagine. He loves going for walks and will find every mud puddle to lay in. He is getting old and it's more and more difficult for him to get around. I remember when we first got him. I was a junior in high school, in bed sleeping. All of the sudden I wake up to a little puppy standing on me licking me in the face. My parent's picked my sister up from school and she had seen Benny in a pet store. She twisted their fingers to get them to check him out and once they saw him they were all hooked. He came home with them. He was actually a gift for my dad since he was having health problems, mom and Esther thought he would be a stress reliever. I don't know if the puppy actually relieved stress then, but he definitely does now. I love this dog and he is a true member of the Blankenship family.
Honestly, I took this picture because I was frustrated that my camera was still not working properly and I'm taking the time to post about it because I'm procrastinating cleaning my house.