Home Sweet Home

At last we made it safely home. I will say it is good to be in my own bed and in my own tub. We are very thankful for the Lord's traveling mercies. Monday, Aug. 25th I started school. We have been setting up our classroom and making homevisits. I have really enjoyed the week. I will admit, I enjoy being busy!! I have slipped back into a routine. This includes walking once, hopefull twice a day, and reading my Bible each morning. Routine really settles me. I am reading and studing in Romans. Watch out Chaun - ha and I am starting a paper where I mark off each chapter of the Bible I read. Will see how long it takes me to read it through. Fall is coming and I love that. Much to be thankful for.

Snaps of Jonathan

It is really hard to get a photo of Jonathan because he looks away whenever you go to snap the picture. I would rather play with him, than take his picture. He is really getting big and still loves balls and now cars and trucks. He was tons of fun and I do believe he is getting close to talking. I felt like both he and Josiah knew us. Maybe it is just wishful thinking, I am not sure.

On to Louisville

Then it was on to Louisville, the new home of Becky and Chaun. Louisville was beautiful to drive into at night. The lights were fantastic. It was so good to see Becky and Chaun and Jonathan. Here we are on a fun outing at the park.

God speed Dave, Anita, Emily, Alise, Luke and Natalie as you make Chicago your new home.

We spent an afternoon at the beach. We all loved the waves that day.

Emily made Cinnamon rolls for us one morning.

The fountain at night.

Here we are doing Chicago at night. What a beautiful city. At this place their is water for all to play in. The kids had a wonderful time and the grown up enjoyed watching them and enjoying the beautiful evening. (Millennium Park)

Chicago Part 2

Then it was on to the second part of our Chicago, visitning our son and his family who only several days ago moved into Chicago. Since they had been spending all their time unpacking we decided it was now time for a little fun. Here is a picture of the kids at the "Lincoln Park Zoo". We spent the morning there with Dave and the kids. We all really enjoyed it. Sadly Anita had to work, but she caught up with us later.

Scenes from Chicago

Bahai Temple

Chicago

Then it was off to Chicago to spend a couple of days with Matt and Unity. We always enjoy so much doing the city with them. Chicago is still our favorite city.

Birthday Party

We got to celebtate Josiah's 1st birthday with Josiah, and his Grandma Lenz and his great Grandma and Grandpa Lenz. What a fun night we had. We were sad that Grandpa Lenz couldn't come. Here you see that Josiah thought his cake was yummy.

Josiah's birthday

A tractor from Grandpa.

Josiah

In Milwaukee, lives Josiah. We had so much fun with him. We miss you little guy.

In Milwaukee

Tuesday night after getting Dave and his family and their stuff safely in the apartment we went to Sarah and Eric's for a few days. We don't get to Milwaukee too often so we were anxious to spend some time there. Following are some pictures from that visit.

Here comes the stuff

The space quickly became filled with the families stuff. Praise the Lord the apartment was a little larger than we had anticipated. After several hard days of work by Dave and Anita it began to look like a small version of home. More pictures and stories on Dave's blog - www.Theostercamps.blogspot.com

Dave's apartment - ready and waiting

Larry cleaning away

Dave's home from the outside

Ostercamps On The Move

Larry and I have been on the road the last two weeks. Our mission was to see each of our four children, two of them in new homes. We left home on Monday, August 11th and traveled to Rockford, Ill. We spent the night there. Tuesday we woke up slowly and then headed to Chicago where later that day our son and his family were due to arrive. Dave is relocating his family of six so he can attend seminary. We got there in plenty of time to clean thier apartment so it would be ready for them to move in. We had fun doing this project together.

TRUST AND OBEY

I have been thinking about the area of trust lately. Sometimes I feel like I am trusting God but when I analyze the situation I realize I basically knew how things would turn out. That is most likely not trust at all. To me trust is when you have absolutely no idea how something will turn out and you go for it anyway. I am a person that likes to have at least a backup plan. I am struggling with trust in the following areas: Larry and I's health as we grow older, going to Cambodia, wondering how much longer I can work at my job, wondering what we will do when we leave Meriden, what if we can't continue to work and how is Dave going to go to seminary and keep his family alive and well. I have no control over these things, no insurance plan. I must trust God.

The biggest experience I can remember in trusting is when we moved to Meriden. That was a great time because we saw God up close and personable. Looking at it that way, these latter years of life should be among our best. I am asking God to help me trust and then obey.