hello peeps! how ya'll doin'?!! a particularly LARGE greeting wrapped in tremendous amounts of love to ant, caroline, ben, baby, si w, fran, steve, joy, isla, gee, mark, han and helen.

so we've arrived and the weather has been changable - there was an amazing storm last night - some of the lightning made the sky light up in neon pink! i was driving during some of it in the awesome jeep/SUV that has been hired for us and i was really reminded of the power of God and his creativeness. a bit like when eminem weilded a chain saw in one of his performances - so dangerous and yet so safe (or maybe not!).

last night i was at a stamping party with shelly and delanie (andy and i are staying with john and shelly berryhill and their kids) which was cool. i have ordered some creative bastilling stuff so hopefully i'll be back into making cards and stuff soon - i need encouragement cos i think i lost a bit of confidence somewhere along the line.

today we're off out to a ranch to put up a large tent - the description makes it sound like a marquee, and we're also going to build a bonfire. this is all for the event on friday night - some kind of party where we all get together to meet and make merriment.

our sleeping is still a bit screwed up - i woke up at 6.15am today which is not pleasant and the night before i slept from 9.15pm til 8.30am with a few wakes in the middle - please pray for our sleeping so we can slip effortlessly into the texan way of life. God, it's good to be back here - just missing you all loads as well.