8-10-03 Mary Wrote:

Well Hello All,

It has come to my turn and I am glad this works on Sundays because here I am all packed and ready to leave on vacation after church today at 2:00, and I still have time to write. Yea !! We will be at Chincoteague, Va for the next several days with friends. Between the 3 families I think we have14 children. We all need the break from our normal routine and summer jobs. Aaron continues to work for the Gehmans, doing 40 hours a week. David has had an assortment of work this summer but has spent the last several weeks at Windy Springs Farm ( Moods) throwing hay, picking beans, tomatoes, egg plant from the garden, and unloading corn from Lancaster for their roadstand. In the beginning of the summer David wanted a job, Paul told him to pray about it and we did also, well he has cut grass for a family, thrown haybales, rotatilled a garden and has even done some minor mechanical work on a friends car, Wow how GOD ANSWERS PRAYER. Nathan works for some friends of ours in Perkasie so he rides with Paul to and from work. He is building decoders for computerized model trains, lots of little intricate work. Samuel has unloaded several (about 10) wagon loads of hay across the street with help from brothers, friends, dad and mom. I have been babysitting again this summer for Hannah(10) and Rachel(6) Seidel, so that helps give Samuel something to do, I'm glad I don't need to do that job alone. Paul continues to labor at Draper-DBS in Perkasie, we never know what kind of story he will come home with. Over the last several years he has seen supervisors come and go but his job keeps going.

As another school year rolls around we have some exciting things planned, my favorite will be our study of lighthouses and doing the NJ Challenge to visit all 12 lighthouses in one weekend.

Our family continues to sing together and we have a busy schedule till Christmas, maybe I can get the schedule to Al to put on our Website and oh by the way if you want a picture on the site just call Al, I did and oh my what a picture I got. This Saturday August 16, we will be part of a festival behind the Sellersville Firehouse for a fund raiser for a church to add on an elevator addition. It goes from noon till dusk and we get 2 - 1/2 hour spots. There will be 5-6 other groups. Well I have been told I wrote a book but I hope no one is bored. If so delete and I will be gone.

I want to finish by saying, over the last several years our family has seen many changes and that is just where we are at and we are not finished with changes but I am so thankful that God never changes, he is always close by and working in ways we cannot comprehend. God is so good!!!