Tennessee to North Carolina

We started our way through Tennessee Wednesday morning. When we reached Memphis we stopped for lunch and playtime. Caden had such a big day... he made a fish face, drank lemonade, saw ducks in a fountain at the Peabody hotel, crawled around in the hotel (yes, as Toby mentioned yesterday he is crawling and moving so much it is hard to keep up with him!), and even figured out how to turn the water on and off in the bathroom! These events were all captured on film of course. Enjoy a scrapbook of our fun ... you can move the photos around with your cursor to see them better.

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Oops...I left one of the cutest videos out of the slideshow. Here Caden is turning the water on and off in the bathroom WHILE I changed his diaper...it's getting more challenging each day!


We stopped Wed. evening just East of Nashville for the night. Caden did the funniest thing when we put him to bed. We laid him down and he sat right back up! Then, sitting there, playing with his little bear blanket, he fell asleep...sitting up! It was the funniest sight.



Today we made our way through the mountains to Waynesville, NC...home of Larry and Frances Green, my aunt and uncle. It was a beautiful drive and Caden was such a great traveler! Here is a pic of Toby and he at the NC visitor center:

Well this has been a very busy day here in the Abtstra world. It all started with us packing up the car for our summer adventure thru the US of A. Well parts of the US but a good portion of it anyways. As we were doing that Caden wanted to share something with us, a new trick he has learned. I have tried to include a short snipit for you to view but it is too big of a file. I will continue to try and include it in a future post.

Well we made it to Hot Springs in about 6 hours with a few stops along the way. Having a ten month old little guy along for the ride certainly adds a bit to the travel time. Caden did awesome! Even after being locked up in his car seat after he shared with us in the morning his new trick.

Caden is now crawling! Wish I could have got the snipit posted for you, sorry.

Tonight we stay here in Hot Springs and then travel into Tennessee as far as we can get before a complete meltdown from each of us. So continue to pray for us as we move along towards Charlotte and two weeks of training.

And we're off

Tuesday morning and the car is all packed and rollin on to Charlotte for two weeks of training with SIM. There will be a ton of information packed into those two weeks so we are excited about all we will learn and all those others we will meet and get to know.

We are now on the road to our first stop in Hot Springs, R-Kansas. We are going to be staying with Alycia's aunt and uncle.

We have used a lot of Space Bags to pack all of our clothes. Nice invention, I think this is the first time we are traveling with a bit of extra space in the trunk. With all of this extra space I am now concerned that we will get to Hot Springs and see that we have forgotten something. But I am counting on the space bags for creating all of the extra space within our car.

We will update as we go so you can follow along with our travels.

Caden Dedicated

This little guy just was Dedicated this past weekend at our Church. It was a great time and had lots of Alycia's family there in attendance. In front of the Lord and his body we committed to praying for this little guy to grow to know Christ as his personal Lord and savior & raise him in a way that honors Him as well. Those in attendance have also committed to assist in leading him towards the Lord.

We would also ask you, the Abtstra Network, to be in prayer for Alycia and I as we raise this little man to one day know the Lord with a personal relationship. Pray that we love on him continually and make all the best decisions in raising him.

Pray also for Caden as he grows. For his physical health and for his health as a whole. Pray also that as he finds out more about this sinful world that he will keep his most wonderful smile and keep on laughing. His many smiles and laughs are worth everything we have to do for him that tire us out.

Happy MOM's Day dear!

We Love you!

April Newsletter

Here is our latest Newlsetter. Click on the pictures to zoom in..

March an(d) on

Wow, we have reached March in this awesome year of 08'. Where has the year gone? I know I have stated this before but it so hard to believe that as we turned the corner into 2008 two months ago the realization hit. Nigeria and our work with the Nationals within the most populated African country.

Here is a little trivia for you, Abtstra edition:

Six months ago we met someone for the first time, who is it?

Since I have you in the mind set of meeting new people I want to let you know what is now going on with TAC (Toby, Alycia and Caden). Tonight and every Saturday night during the month of March we have been invited to share our future ministry with 5 different Lifegroups (for those outside of Dallas, Lifegroups are small groups of people within the the Church that meet outside of the Church within the community).

This is a great opportunity for us to meet other members of our Church and for them to meet us and learn about our Future ministry in Nigeria. We are excited to meet so many new people during these nights and to share the Lord's vision for our family.

Please be in prayer for these nights as we seek to enlarge our Abtstra Network. We know and understand the more the Lord and his Children are behind us in our ministry how effective we can be as His hands and voice to the Nigerian people.

Thank you, our Abtstra Network we appreciate your support and prayers.

Love,

TAC