Huge Praise!

As of yesterday

Chelsea is fully funded for her mission trip.

That means God has provided 

so generously

and in very unexpected ways

all the way along.

The photos in this post are of Chelsea and some of her
many friends from work.
She is going to miss them....a LOT.

We are so pleased with all of the work 

Chelsea herself has done to save

the money she earned.  

I cannot tell you how many times I've

urged her to purchase a top or skirt

she loves only

for her to walk away with a higher

purpose in mind.

Even so, 

 she could not have saved 

the $10,000 needed on her own.

This is a big week for our girl as it is her 

last week of work and then on Saturday 

she will have her 18th birthday.

We'll celebrate the 4th of July with 

my brother Allan and my Sister in law, Bev.

We are all looking forward to seeing them!

Pretty soon we will go to the bank and 

place our order for some Australian Dollars. 

How cool it that?

We'll place our order and 

it will come in about a week.

We are happy (for us) that the American 

Dollar has gained strength on the Australian Dollar

in the past few weeks. 

Cuties.  Chelsea, Kim and Emily

We are also very blessed that our Moms are

going to take Chelsea out to her flight from 

Los Angeles.

They will tour a bit in Seattle before taking Chelsea 

to a late night flight from L.A.

Then Chels will fly 14 hours straight and totally miss

a day to arrive in Australia on an early morning.

WOW.

Chelsea and Sarah....

We expect that there will be others in her program 

on that flight.

Hopefully they will get to meet and start the process

of becoming acquainted.

This is all big and scary for the mama.

But God has provided in so many ways we 

couldn't have imagined that it makes it easier...not easy...

to trust that Chelsea will be o.k.

I'm so thankful for the technology that will keep us in touch.

This old fashioned girl with a track phone

might have to get a smart phone 

to be available for Face Time.

Just maybe.

We'll see.

I don't know if I'll be around the blog a lot 

or a little this week.

Either way, 

YOU have a super 4th of July.

P.S.  Here is a post Chelsea wrote in the wee hours this morning.