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My Blog has a NEW look

May 3, 2012 by     6 Comments    Posted under: Blogroll, Family

As you can see I have a NEW appearance to my blog thanks to the skills and time our son-in-law Neil shared with me. He has been a wealth of information and is extremely patience in his teaching this ‘old dog to learn new tricks’. I hope these new tricks  will become salient and I can move on to learn even more from him.

Each on one of our kids has so many talents and attributes and John and I appreciate these in Neil:

  • He is willing to share his knowledge & skill
  • He is a continual learner
  • He’s patient
  • It’s a good teacher
  • Good father
  • Serving & loving husband
  • Humble
  • Hard worker/diligent.
  • Godly man
  • He’s very fun to be around!

I thank God for  Neil  as I know all of our family does.

A Visit from Mom & Sue

Apr 19, 2010 by     No Comments    Posted under: Blogroll, Family, Spain

Here are some photos of the visit from our family. They will actually leave tomorrow morning. The Lord has blessed us with this visit.

Our 3 weeks in Virginia & North Dakota

Aug 24, 2009 by     9 Comments    Posted under: Family

Here are some photos of our time in the USA. We’re glad we were able to go and visit and help out the family.

Paella with family…Life is good

Apr 30, 2009 by     4 Comments    Posted under: Blogroll

bobbie & Paella paella Joe vanita &john Joe, vanita & Paella

John’s brother Joe and sister-in-law, Vanita came to visit us in Spain this past week. As I mentioned in our last prayer letter, this marks the 1st time EVER that one of John’s siblings has come to visit us while overseas (23 years!) What fun we had with them! Here we are in the village garage, making a paella. This one was called a paella mixta because it had both chicken & seafood. You can get a bigger view of the photos by running  your cursor over the photo and clicking. Paella is the #1 recipe I use for that wonderful herb: saffron, which is the most expensive spice in the world. Needless to say, it is much cheaper to buy here in paellalandia. I have an entire recipe book for just paellas, and they are yummy!

Photos of our family

Mar 9, 2009 by     6 Comments    Posted under: blessings, Blogroll, Family, Spain

Here are some more photos of the recent visit from Greg, Abigail and Preston. Jesseka and 2 year old William stayed home in Chicago. Please click on the photo to enlarge it.

We are very thankful to the Lord for the blessings of family.

Family Times

May 19, 2008 by     2 Comments    Posted under: Blogroll, Family

We were sent some photos of some of our kids and grands and we wanted to share them with you. They were sent to us by Rebekah and Dave and we are thankful that these 3 couples had time together as a family. It really blesses us. Click on the photo for a larger view.

Dave and Audrey Joel and Jesse the 7 DeVos kids Dave and Rebekah Bettenahusens and DeVos\' Bobbie and Jess

Who is this? Hint: He is the newest member of our family…

Apr 23, 2008 by     2 Comments    Posted under: Blogroll, Family


Isn’t this a sweet little guy? Nathanial Gish is the newest member of our family and married to our Jerusha last October. I was very thankful that Nathanials Mom sent me this baby photo and I’m happy to share it with you. He and Jerusha live and work in Chicago, IL.