tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198071482024-03-13T17:42:07.182-03:00Blumes in BrasilBlume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-15608664525382398632014-12-16T20:34:00.000-02:002014-12-16T20:34:48.702-02:00Birthday BoyThis Dork (the one on the left) had a birthday on the 1st of December.<br />
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December is one of our busiest months of the year with ministry, end of school year activities and lots of Christmas cookie sales going on. All of these things kept us from doing our tradition of a birthday blog. We aren't going to let the day go even though we are a couple of weeks late.<br />
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Here you go Stevo.<br />
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Quigs: "Happy Birthday. I like you when you yell like you did at the Chicago Fire game. I like you fighting with me. I hope you have a baby. I love you. That's all."<br />
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Anderson: "Stephen you are awesome! I'm so glad I got to see you at Wheaton and for all the fun times we had there. You are the best brother-in-law I've ever had and probably the only one I'll ever have. I love you and happy birthday!"<br />
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Vivi: HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE O!!!!! Let me just say that that certificate of achievement should not have gone to anyone else cause you are awesome!! you always make me laugh and are always doing goofy stuff with me. I'm so glad that you are married to bronwyn and are now a part of my family! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH or for us cause we are the cool kids ILYSMA<br />
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Garrett: Happy Birthday Stephen! Hope you had a great birthday. You are awesome dude! WHERE IS RACHEL.. Love you bro<br />
P.S: Still waiting to be an uncle<br />
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Ans: "Happy belated birthday Stephen! I miss you so much!!! (I really really do). I am so thankful we got to hang out a ton last year, that was definitely one of my favorite parts of Sophomore year. Thank you for being a great role model and someone I can always turn to for advice. I always really like hearing your opinion on things and also laughing at everything you do. I can't wait to see you so so so soon!!!!! LOVE YOU!"<br />
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Will (we took advantage of him being here): "Happy birthday Stephen."<br />
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Benay: Happy (super late) Birthday, Stephen! I am so happy that you are part of our family. Thanks for being so easy going and fun. Thanks for making us all laugh, especially Bronwyn. I know this past year has been awesome, but stressful too. Hope 2015 is the best year yet. Love you!!!<br />
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Me: "Hope you had a great birthday in your new city. Very thankful to have you in our family. You are a blessing to B and to us. We love your goofy, fun ways and I love how you have fun with all of our kids when we are together. They really love being with you. Thanks for taking care of B and being a great role model for the rest of the punks in our house. Sorry we missed your day but hope you enjoy your late birthday blog. We love you."<br />
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Happy late Birthday Stephen!<br />
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-48910339024924096822014-10-18T17:20:00.001-03:002014-10-18T17:20:47.068-03:00Birthday BoyToday this little chunky dude has a birthday.<br />
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He's the big brother now and he looks like this:<br />
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<br /><br />Everyone knows by now what we do on birthdays. Here we go:<br /><br />Gi: " Happy birthday garrett!! I like playing soccer with you and wrestling with you! I love you!"<br /><br />Canderson: "Garrett happy birthday buddy! I love you and i can't believe you are 18! Have an awesome birthday!"<br /><br />Vivi: "HEY G-MAN HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I know we fight a lot but i love you a lot! Sooooo much! Have a great day! And i will beat you at bowling so prepare yourself."<br /><br />Ans: "Happy birthday G-dawwwwg! I love hanging out with you and watching movies and cracking up. I really miss you a lot when Im in college and I wish you could come to ACU so we could hang out for a year before I graduate! But it's ok i know you have to go be big soccer star somewhere else.... whatever. I hope you like your birthday today and I am so glad I get to be here!!! You are one of my best friends and Im ready to watch that funny movie tonight hahah!"<br /><br />B: "Hey Quariti!!! Happy birthday!!! I'm so glad I get to be with you on your birthday this year. You are so sweet and cool, and I'm so glad I get to be your sister. I love you so much! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DORK!!! It's too bad I can still take you out."<br /><br />Stevo: "Garrett, Happy birthday brother. Sometimes I forget that you are younger than me because I look up to you in so many ways. You have a sterling heart. I am praying for you as you negotiate some possibly big transitions coming up! The unknown is scary, but I am so excited to see where God places you next. Live it up today, you are now an ADULT. A MAN. I love you brother, happy 18."<br /><br />Girlfriend: Happy Birthday, Garrett! I want to apologize for stuffing you into the little bunny outfit (above). You look like you just loved every minute of wearing that! I am so proud of you and can't wait to see all the neat things that God has prepared for your future. You have a wonderful, servant, humble and generous heart and tons of talents. You are a great big brother and son. Thank you for being so good and for setting a great example for your younger brothers to follow. I love you so much. Love, Mom<br /><br />Me: "I can't believe you are 18. I'm very proud of you and the man you've become. I love the example you are to your friends. I love the way you take care of your mom and brothers/sisters. I especially love the way you are growing your own faith in Jesus. You are owning it and not borrowing it from other people. Praying for your future and I know the Lord will put you in the perfect place for you to do His will. I also love the fact that you are 18 and I can still pound you! Sorry about that one. Have an awesome day! I love you. <br /><br /><br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-44900099370666589322014-10-10T18:06:00.000-03:002014-10-10T18:06:15.755-03:00Children's DayKids day is a day of the year to honor children. I never heard of it until we moved to Brasil but I found out recently that even the US celebrates it. It's the second Sunday in June.<br />
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In Brasil it's always the 12th of October. The week of Kids day our schools celebrate every day by doing something different.<br />
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Yesterday was dress up day at Gi's school.<br />
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I think it's safe to say the boys LOVE superhero's and the girls are kind of fond of Princesses.<br />
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Gi had a great time.<br />
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Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-75896554947782764142014-09-27T10:57:00.000-03:002014-09-27T10:57:00.195-03:00The Birthday-Part 3Since we moved to Brasil in 2002 my mom has been pretty amazing at sending us packages on special days like birthdays, Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc. <div>
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She has sent things before that never made it to our house. She usually has to send it 2-3 weeks before the date and we still usually don't receive it until 2 weeks after the date and she keeps blessing us with packages. </div>
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It usually costs her more to mail the package than it does to buy the contents inside and yet she keeps blessing us with something fun to open. </div>
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The latest recipient was Gi. He got a box for his birthday and he was super excited. Lots of good stuff inside like candy and pop tarts and even a Batman shirt. He's a superhero freak. </div>
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Here are some pics of the box opening day and some pop tart eating time. Thanks Grandmommy!!!</div>
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-11156735905419050072014-09-22T20:46:00.001-03:002014-09-22T20:46:22.288-03:00The Birthday-Part 2So Gi's real birthday finally arrived. He only had two requests. The first was to eat at Paulinho and Karen's and the second was to invite Felipe and Lorenzo to eat with us and to play at our house later.<br />
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The day started with some mom crepes on the special day plate.<br />
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Then he went to school and had a great time celebrating with his buds.<br />
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Then it was off to Paulinho and Karen's for our traditional birthday celebration. Paulinho, as usual, got Giovanni a birthday gift.<br />
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Felipe and Lorenzo went home and then we had a little family party.<br />
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First the cookie birthday cake.....<br />
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He loved the presents from his brothers and sisters.......<br />
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.......as well as his grandparents.<br />
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Since he got so much soccer gear he had to try out some new moves......<br />
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All the soccer presents caused a one on one game to break out in the hall with Anderson which led to, as has happened about 20 times over the last 10 years with 3 soccer loving/playing boys, a broken light fixture. It happens.<br />
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Gi had an amazing day.<br />
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-67612157823417637532014-09-21T09:20:00.002-03:002014-09-21T09:20:51.083-03:00<i>It is God's will that your good lives should silence those who make foolish accusations against you. </i><br />
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1 Peter 2:15Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-65976614783272574582014-09-18T17:31:00.001-03:002014-09-18T17:31:14.392-03:00The Birthday-Part 1I've been trying to get back to blogging a bit. I admit that I haven't had much motivation to keep it going but I was thinking the other day how our kids, that now live in the United States, like to see pics of little brothers and sisters so I'm going to try to do better for them.<br />
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So this post is mainly for B and Stephen (since Ans was here), who had to go back home and missed the day, and also for grandparents who miss out on a whole lot of stuff.<br />
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Since Ans is amazing with little kids and she really wanted to be a part of Gi's birthday we decided to move his celebration up about a month, before Ans went back to college, so she could be a part of it and be the kids fun time coordinator. The Aggies were still here and they were a huge blessing, like always, in the way they helped with everything. They took pictures (thanks Tanner), helped set up, helped make the decorations/party gifts, carried stuff and played with the kids. We actually had lots of fun time coordinators. </div>
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Anderson and I weren't able to be there because I was taking care of him while he was on his barf-a-thon tour 2014. He got a bad virus and threw up 24 times in 20 hours. How do I know this? He was counting each time he threw up. Paramedic had to come to our house to give him an IV, sick for 5 days, threw up at least once a day for 4 days and eventually gave it, but much lesser versions, to Giovanni and myself. It was lots of fun. </div>
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If you know Gi then you know he is a superhero FREAK. He loves them. He is a superhero and he even made up his own superhero name when he was about 3. One day a week his school has bring a toy day. He always brings superheros. Always. So we made his party be all about superheros because that's, obviously, what he wanted. The cupcakes, the gifts for the guests, the plates, the cake and even the kids became superheros. It was pretty cool. My girlfriend has an amazing gift of creativity and turning what the kids want for their parties into realities. I love that.<br />
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Even though not all the guests were good guys......<br />
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-19035798456627654492014-09-17T06:19:00.000-03:002014-09-17T14:05:16.736-03:00Intentional Living<div style="font-size: 16px;">
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Here is a verse that jumped out at me: <i>"Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay." </i>1 Peter 4:9</span></div>
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It immediately made me think of my best friend from high school. His name is Tim and he and his wife Michelle do amazing kingdom work for the Lord. They live so intentionally for the kingdom. It always encourages me.</span></div>
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We get their ministry update emails and we got one from Tim this week. He shared about how God is moving, growing and changing their ministry and then he shared this in the last paragraph of the email:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i>"Meanwhile, back home, Michelle is moving in a young couple who moved from California about a month ago. They were homeless, 9 months pregnant, caring for their one year old, and using all their money on an old hotel. We are taking them in until she recovers from the baby’s arrival by scheduled c-section. Another ministry in town has a transitional mobile home that will be available in October."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is how they live their lives and it reminded me of the verse above. I know this couple and I know how they live. They would be the first to tell you they aren't perfect. They would probably be embarrassed if they knew I was writing this about them right now. And I love that about them. They are humble kingdom workers who, in the power of Jesus' name, are attacking and destroying enemy strongholds. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And right now they are cheerfully sharing their home and their lives with someone who needed a meal and a place to stay at exactly the time they needed it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Their actions reminded me of another verse about the importance of being a blessing to strangers. Hebrews 13:1 says, <i>"Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Whether we are entertaining angels or humans is not even the question. Being Jesus to those in need, whoever they are and wherever they come from, is the reason we do it and it's why we do it cheerfully. It doesn't matter how much or how little we have because we are to share those things and show hospitality to those who have need. And if in the process of being hospitable to everyone we get to host angels in our homes how cool is that? </span></div>
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Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-32449696691685841472014-09-14T04:22:00.001-03:002014-09-14T04:22:37.858-03:00Jesus said that <i>all</i> our behavior, whether good or bad, flows out of our hearts. So our behavior always reflects what is at our core, the true beliefs of our hearts. No matter what we <i>say</i> we believe, our hearts and our actions express what we <i>really</i> believe.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anderson: "GIOOOOOOOO!!! happy birthday buddy! i can't believe you are <span style="color: red;">6 years old!!!</span> i can't wait till you get to go to dohms next year with me! I LOVE YOU and HAVE AN AWESOME BIRTHDAY!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Carys: "SQUIIIIIIIGS HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! i can't believe you are six now thats so crazy! you are soooo awesome and cool and a great dancer. You are the sweetest little boy i know, you are always ready to play with me and thats flipping awesome! i love you so much! happy birthday buddy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Garrett: "Happy Birthday dude!! I hope you have an awesome Bday!! You are super cool and an awesome soccer player just like Neymar! I love you bro!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ans: "Happy Birthday little buddy!!!! I miss you so much! I can't wait to see you in December! Then can we finish our alphabet book together??? I love you so much and hope you have THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER. Eat lots of ice cream and cake and dress up as a superhero!!!!!!! Call me so we can talk and I will sing you a happy birthday song in a silly voice! I love you!!!!!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">B: "Happy Birthday Quigs!!! I was so excited when you were born and I got to have another little brother. You're pretty cool!!! I love you and I miss you soooo much! I hope you have a super great day and that Mom and Dad and Quariti and Keka and Kanderson do whatever you want for you because it's your birthday!!! Parabens, ta? Um beijo, ta? Love you!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Stephen: "Little Bro, You are in charge today so make everyone do what you say. Show them who is boss. You are too cool. Try not to grow up very fast. I hope you have a perfect day having fun and scoring goals on Anderson. I love you! Happy bdayyyyyy!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Girlfriend: "I love you Giovanni. Thank you for your sweet hugs and kisses and for always holding my hand. I am so proud of you and can't believe how much you are growing up! Keep being the smart, funny, crazy boy that you are and remember to always love and obey God. Hope you have a great and happy birthday! I love you!!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Me: "I'm so happy that today is your birthday! You are one cool six year old. I love how you play soccer in the hall every day with Anderson. You are getting so good! I can't wait to go to your games when you and Anderson play for A.C. Milan and you are their goalie! That's going to be so cool! I love how you go in Garrett's room and hang out and play with him for a long time. I love hearing you guys having fun together. I love how we hold hands everywhere we go. You are my six year old bud. I love how you go to bed by yourself and sleep in your bed all night. You are so big! I'm glad Felipe and Lorenzo are getting to come home with you today and get to go to Paulinho's with us. Paulinho LOVES it when we have our birthdays at his restaurant. It's going to be awesome. Thanks for being awesome! Happy Birthday Quigs! I love you!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy Birthday Gi! We love you!!!!</span>Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-18157840392148350632014-08-31T20:36:00.003-03:002014-08-31T20:36:48.132-03:00Be blessed.<br />
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Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-14097407779713755052014-06-14T21:09:00.002-03:002014-06-14T21:09:35.838-03:00Hino NacionalBrasil played the opening game of the World Cup on Thursday.<br />
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Before the game started both national anthems were played. In Portuguese we call it the "Hino Nacional."<br />
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For time reasons FIFA doesn't allow playing all of the anthems before the games. Some are pretty long so FIFA just plays a part.<br />
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They played a part of ours and then stopped. This is what happened next:<br />
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You can say our country is a little pumped up right now and national pride is pretty high at game time. We love it.Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-15627071367953997132014-06-13T20:16:00.001-03:002014-06-13T20:16:30.089-03:00World CupIt's World Cup time and it's on our mind a lot during the day.<br />
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We love the World Cup and we love Brasil!Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-74282729270058405012014-05-21T09:49:00.000-03:002014-05-21T13:40:49.470-03:00FamilyI've been thinking a lot lately about family.<br />
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If you are a follower of this blog then you know that God blessed me with an airline ticket to go to B and Stephen's recent graduation from college. God continues to bless our family with everything we need and we thank Him for those blessings.<br />
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On my recent trip I spent about a week in Texas. B and Stephen graciously opened their home to me and let me stay with them in the middle of all the graduation/moving chaos. We had fun.<br />
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Not only did I get to hang out with our 3 college kids but their friends as well.<br />
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I also got to be with my mom on Mother's Day for the first time in 12 years. She and my dad made the 11 hour drive to Texas to be a part of the graduation.<br />
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While we were together Stephen's parents and my parents blessed the rest of us with meals.<br />
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The last night we spent in Abilene my parents blessed me and B with a place to stay as Stephen had left the city to move all their furniture/stuff from their apartment to his parents city 4 hours away.<br />
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Although my time there was brief I soaked up being around my blood family. Family that we don't get to be around much anymore. I was blessed and it made me look forward to eternity together.<br />
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Towards the end of my visit our plans changed a bit. I changed my flight out from Dallas instead of Abilene. It turned out to be a blessing because I got to drive the first 3+ hours of the 11 hour trip for my parents and allowed my dad to rest a bit as his back was bothering him.<br />
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My plans changed on a Saturday night and on Sunday morning we were on our way to Dallas. The problem was we, B and me, didn't have a place to stay for the next couple of nights. I wasn't worried. Why? Because we have family in Dallas. Not the blood kind but the Jesus family kind.<br />
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Before we left Abilene, B and I went to visit Daryl and Rebekah. They are friends of ours from when we lived there 13 years ago. I can't tell you how much they mean to us. They always have an open house for us. I was going to stay the last couple of nights with them in Abilene but when my plans changed I called Daryl to explain. He understood completely. They are easy friends. By that I mean they are mature and understanding and loving and funny. We went by their house to see them briefly before we left. We laughed, hugged and goofed on each other. Just the way we like it. This picture is a perfect representation of who they are.<br />
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As we left Abilene I called my old college roommate, Andy, to see if we could crash at their place in Dallas. When we visit the states every 2 years Andy and his family allow us to make their home our home. They are so good to us and make us feel so welcomed. I wasn't able to reach him. It was Mother's Day and they were, I found out later, busy with those activities and away from their phone.<br />
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As B and I treated my mom to an awesome Mother's Day lunch at Wendy's (I know, I know) we talked about who to call next. We were an hour outside of Dallas with no place to stay and big bags in the trunk of my parents car. They wouldn't say it but we knew they were in a rush and needed to get back to their home which was another 7+ hours away.<br />
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We were debating between calling our ex-teammates John/Sam or Sascha/Jennifer. We asked ourselves who we would be less of a burden to. We knew both would graciously open their homes. Our dilemma on who to call was because Sascha and Jennifer have two small girls at home and Jennifer is pregnant with twins. The day before I arrived in the states we received an email from John asking for prayers for Sam's mom who was just placed into hospice care. So you can see why we were thinking about not wanting to burden either of these families in their already stressful times.<br />
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I decided to call the Terry family. I got Sascha first. He was driving and quickly handed the phone to Jennifer. I began to explain what our situation was and before I could finish she said, "You are staying with us right?" There was joy in her response and it touched my heart. We were at their place an hour later. In an hour we were unloading our stuff in their house.<br />
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They shared beds, food and even their car with us for the two days we were together. Even though they had to go to their jobs and we didn't get to spend tons of time together we were greatly blessed by them. When I left to go to the airport Jennifer told me that their house is always open. She and Sascha thanked us for staying with them. We arrived last minute at their house and they thanked us for doing so. Who does that? God's family does that. Sascha took me to the airport where we laughed and goofed around some more.<br />
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I got home last week. A couple of days ago I called John to see how they were doing and how Sam's mom is doing. I then told him we were in Dallas and the whole process of why we didn't reach out to them. He understood but let me know that nothing would keep them from wanting us to stay with them. In his subtle way he let me know he was disappointed in me for not calling. In the middle of their family stuff they wanted us to be with them. His response touched my heart.<br />
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Why do I share all this? Is our family so awesome that everyone wants us to stay with them? Uh no. If you know us then you know the answer is no.<br />
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I share all this because we are part of Jesus' family with the Zellers, the Thomas', the Jewells, the Terrys, Justin, Jennifer, Will, the Cases and, thankfully, our blood family. We all know people that have blood family members that don't follow Jesus. Thankfully our blood family is our Jesus family too.<br />
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All of the people I mentioned would do anything for our family. I've known that for a long time but somehow over the last few days God has really impressed on my heart what these guys mean to me/us.<br />
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Blood family can be so good but there is nothing better than God's family. It's eternal, it starts here and together we are bringing His kingdom to earth.<br />
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Here we are with the Jewells and the Terrys a couple of months ago. Family.<br />
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-17646896875177914182014-05-13T09:13:00.000-03:002014-05-13T09:16:32.517-03:00For My GirlfriendYou asked for graduation pics of your kids. Here you go.<br />
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Nursing specific ceremony on Thursday night:<br />
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Friday Graduation practice:<br />
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Graduation Saturday:<br />
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Wish you could have been with us but I'm thankful God provided a way for one of us to be here. It's been an amazing week with the punks.<br />
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Can't wait to see you soon!!!Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-36921694427406296832014-05-09T17:14:00.000-03:002014-05-09T19:59:45.539-03:00Graduation Week-The SurpriseGod blessed us with a last minute plane ticket to surprise B and Stephen for their graduation. I called Ans two weeks ago to let her know I was coming. I told her I wanted to keep it a surprise. We hatched a plan on how and when to surprise them. She only let a handful of people know that I would be coming.<br />
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Will picked me up at the airport Wednesday afternoon and we went to meet Ans, Jennifer and Justin, who were in on it as well, and B and Stephen at a restaurant. We got there and Will went in while I waited a couple of minutes to come in alone.<br />
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Ans did a great job of doing a fake interview to keep B and Stephen focused on her instead of the door. She did great. It was pretty awesome.<br />
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So, family back in Brasil, thanks for letting me come and do this (especially you girlfriend who is a single parent for a few days during the busiest cookie sales time of the year). It has been an amazing blessing for me. Wish you guys could be here with me! I love you and I'll see you in a few days.<br />
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Here is your video of when I arrived.<br />
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We wish we could be there with them but it just isn't possible.<br />
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So we will have to congratulate them from 6,000 miles away.<br />
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So Congratulation Dorks!!!
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They are perfect for each other don't you think?<br />
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(Credit for this blog post is shared with Asia Todd. Nice job Asia! You nailed them.)Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-47960836029750387632014-05-03T06:55:00.001-03:002014-05-03T06:55:31.896-03:00ThursdayDid I mention it was a little bit windy when we visited the rehab farm on Thursday?
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I know it's hard to see, because the wind was shaking the camera so badly, but in the middle of the video you can see Anderson, Lucas and Brinquedo (the dog) playing in a hole as they try to get some protection because the wind was throwing dirt and stinging legs.<br />
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The rehab farm sits on a hill with a big open field in front of it so there is no protection from the wind and days like this aren't uncommon.<br />
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It wasn't that bad on Thursday because it was still a little warm but imagine what a wind like that will feel like in a couple of months when the temperature gets in the 30's and 40's. It isn't fun for the men who live there. Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-45080509913857505552014-05-02T05:44:00.000-03:002014-05-02T05:44:01.183-03:00Labor DayYesterday was Brasilian Labor Day.<br />
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Most everything was closed in the city. That included schools. So our family, minus Carys who had to stay home and study for tests and plus Lucas, Anderson's best friend, decided to spend the day at the rehab farm with our brothers. On the way we picked up Anderson, who left the farm in March, and his girlfriend Cris.<br />
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We all had a blessed day.<br />
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<br />Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-59638309559279636912014-05-01T07:03:00.000-03:002014-05-01T07:03:00.531-03:00BrunoEvery week Garrett and I go to the rehab farm.<br />
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As soon as we get there Garrett gets out of the car and finds Bruno.<br />
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Here they are together.<br />
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They are inseparable until it's time for us to leave. They laugh together, shovel manure together, load/unload hay, laugh, cook and clean.<br />
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Did I mention they also laugh a lot?<br />
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They are impacting each others lives for Jesus in a way that I'm not sure either of them realize. And I love it.Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-48852438089924406582014-04-30T09:21:00.002-03:002014-04-30T09:21:26.349-03:00For BB,<br />
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You asked to go old school. Here is your first one. Enjoy.<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/H3q-gL9HN84?rel=0" width="420"></iframe>Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-37214133197544941182014-04-29T03:51:00.000-03:002014-04-29T13:35:50.703-03:00Coolest Video EVER!Girls/Stephen/Michael/Jenna,<br />
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Anderson said this was the coolest video EVER. (Tanya, you have moved way up on his cool list for sharing this with us! Don't worry though, I'll have a talk with him to tell him the truth about your coolness.)</div>
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I have to admit it's pretty cool and should get you ready for the Cup. </div>
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Blume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-92016332256559174222014-04-27T15:44:00.000-03:002014-04-27T15:44:00.621-03:00I MAKE THE OPPORTUNITIESNever doubt. Have no fear. Watch the faintest tremor of fear, and stop all work, everything, and rest before Me until you are joyful and strong again.<br />
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Deal in the same way with all tired feelings. I was weary too, when on Earth, and I separated Myself from My disciples, and sat and rested on the well. Rested---and then it was that the Samaritan woman was helped.<br />
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I had to teach renewal of Sprit---force rest of body to My disciples. I had to teach them that ceaseless activity was no part of My Father's plan.<br />
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When Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me," he did not mean that he was to do all things and then rely on Me to find strength. He meant that for all I told him to do he could rely on My supplying the strength.<br />
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My Work in the world has been hindered by work, work, work. Many a tireless, nervous body has driven a spirit. The spirit should be the master always, and just simply and naturally use the body as need should arise. Rest in Me.<br />
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Do not <i>seek</i> to work for Me. Never make opportunities. Live with Me and for Me. I do the work and I make the opportunities.<br />
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From <b>God Calling</b> by A. J. RussellBlume Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08009326371377840880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19807148.post-47940895610367223532014-04-26T13:35:00.001-03:002014-04-26T14:21:28.393-03:0047 Days to GoHey Girls/Stephen/Michael/Jenna,<br />
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It's almost here. You ready?
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