This is going to be a very long post! My BIL, Josh Gieseler, was voted in as the next pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Turner, Maine. My sister, Rachel and I flew to Apache Junction to help our sister start the packing process.
Wednesday, October 22 - Wednesday, October 29
My very early morning flight. I decided to get a strawberry smoothie and boy was it what I needed.
Right away, we got to work. First we decided what meals to have what days. I found this recipe in Rhoda's cookbook.
We then began posting things on Offer Up.
Then it was off to their Wednesday evening service for their missions conference. Melanie and Luke sang.
Luke is in the glasses in the back row.
Melanie is in the center is the salmon colored top.
The next morning, we picked up Rachel from the airport. We had grilled cheese and tomato soup for lunch while we worked.
Lots of work going through things of what to keep, donate or throw away.
Rhoda is a keeper and had stuff all the way back to her childhood.
Old youth conference brochures.
Of course, lots of old photos! Me, Addie, Autumn and ?
Addie, Rhoda and Jordan
Jordan, Autumn and Addie
China someone gave her before she was married.
Lots of books from the past.
Her kids' baby crib.
Her old Ohio State lamp.
Autumn and I
Me and my three oldest kids
Our family
My kids' old snow pants from Addie to Summer which Rhoda still had!
Rhoda's old Dominoes hat from when she worked at Dominoes Pizza as a teenager.
The doggies waiting for me.
A watch - Jack Hyles.
When sisters get tickled, you can't stop! Oh the memories!!
Now this crying laughing spell will be another memory! It is truly only memories sisters can make!
Pretty sunset. I think this was the night we took the bikes for a ride around the neighborhood. So fun!
More old memories in photos.
The three couples at Josh and Rhoda's wedding.
Papa Holt and Addie
Dad and Mom Holt
Dad and Mom Holt renewing their vows
Rachel and Addie
Three sisters :)
Our engagement in Chicago
Boy did we look goofy. LOL! Wearing dumb skirts in the winter with bulky layers underneath to try to keep warm in freezing Chicago. You looked and felt awful.
Us three, Addie, Grandma Holt and Wilma
Valentine banquet
Another banquet
An old friend, Cheryl
The three brother-in-laws
Young us
Thanksgivings long ago
We were just babies
Christmas at our little Cedar Lake apartment
Dinner with the family in our apartment
Josh and Rhoda doing a Zoom call with Calvary Baptist Church after the church voted them in as pastor.
Luke and Melanie listening in
Congratulations to my sister and brother-in-law - pastor and pastor's wife of Calvary Baptist Church in Turner, Maine!
The brothers-in-law being silly - Lake Tahoe.
What a special memory! That was so fun! I wish it was still around.
Naked baby Addie! Ha!
Dad and Mom Holt
Labor Day I believe while we were still dating
Probably a Pastor's School
Bus kid days - good memories
Me and Rhoda
Family photo somewhere
The three sisters
Melanie and I on Sunday
Thanksgiving or Christmas
A shower of some kind? With Grandma Holt and cousin Heather
Harvest Days at Hyles-Anderson College
Pretty sunset
Middle sisters are trouble
Sunset and mountains
Sunday night church. Their whole family plays for the service.
Rhoda's pillowcase from her childhood!
Linen closet emptied!
Sorting into piles
Going through the TV entertainment stand.
Treating ourselves
Luke is driving us!
Watching Melanie playing volleyball.
Rhoda sharing OLD letters from people in our childhood lives.
Me and Teddy
On our last day, we went out for lunch at a place called Sister's Cafe. :)
They put photos of sisters on their wall!
No one from Florida had put a pin in their map! I was the first one.
The owner's daughter took this picture for us to put on their wall. :)
This was all the stuff we got to (there was probably more after we left) that Rhoda did not want to keep and decided to put in her garage sale!
A job well done! Last time for us to see her MIL's home there in AZ.
We went to Soda Rush for a drink.
We worked hard this week.
Miss Quest
Garage and attic boxed up and labeled.
On my very early flight heading home.
Downtown Chicago. I had a layover in Detroit. :/
Lake Michigan is so large!
Fall color in Michigan.
Back to Florida! What a week!
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