We Have a Castle Too

With all of the beautiful mountains surrounding us, it seems a little unfair that Allbertville also has a pretty sweet castle right here in the hills south of town. We took a little hike up the hill yesterday, enjoyed the view, but found that the castle was closed for renovations. Please don't tell the Albertville Police Department, but Brett is planning one of his classic forays into areas with supposedly restricted access...we've said too much already...

Here is one of the pics we took. April likes this one the best because we're all looking at the camera....
...but this one is Brett's personal favorite...

The View From Our Bedroom Window

The clouds rolled in late yesterday afternoon, providing us with this beautiful snapshot out our bedroom window. We love waking up to the mountains, eating with the mountains in the background, walking to the store with mountains all around...basically we just love it here! School starts in a week, so that will change things a little (OK, alot), but one thing that won't change is the mountains. Except in a few months they'll be covered in snow...

Sendoff Sunday post is forthcoming, but we need some people to send us pictures!!!

Welcome to Albertville!

Over the next several days, we will be posting pictures of our adventures in our home for the next 4 months of Albertville, France. We have been here only 2 days, but we have already had some rich cultural experiences. By "rich", we mean funny and/or embarressing!!! Here is the first pic. It's of Brett and Caden walking around town. Those beautiful mountains, the French Alps, surround us on every side. Albertville is a city that is easily walked or biked, and we look forward to living in such an amazing place, even if it is for just a short time...

A Special Blessing

We spent Sunday night with one of the homegroups from GracePointe. They made a quilt for us that contained the symbol our team uses showing an outline of Africa with a cross in the middle and a loop around Africa depicting that God's love will encircle the continent. That would have been enough...but they had prayer knots sewn onto the cross. They took the quilt to church and as people tied the knots, a prayer was said on our behalf. We have a list of everyone that tied a knot. There are over 365 knots. That's more than one prayer for each day of the year. Now that's love!