Life-Changing Events

July 26th marks our 14th wedding anniversary! My, how time flies! It seems like we were just making all of the plans, saying our vows, and heading off to Jamaica. We have a tradition of watching our wedding video every year. (It may be cheesy to some of you, but we like it!) It's something that the girls even look forward to. You don't realize how much you've changed until you look back at yourself. The early 90s were a lot like the late 80s... enough said. Still, it's not all about us. Our flower girls are all in college now. Many of our loved ones have moved on to a better place. Some folks are a bit grayer these days. A lot has certainly happened during the past 14 years.

Hot off the press!!! The Weidenfelds are moving. That's right. We found a new home just the other day, kinda out-of-the-blue. After some debating about adding on to our existing home and getting some estimates, we decided we should see what else was available out there. We looked at several beautiful homes that had many different features, but hadn't found the right one, yet. We weren't in any hurry. "If it's meant to be, it will happen. It's in God's hands." Then, one that we had looked at and liked, but was out of our price range, was drastically reduced. We went to see it again and decided on the spot that this should be our next (and hopefully, final) home.

Our home for the past 5 years is now officially "for sale." We have seen a steady flow of people each day looking at our home since it went on the market. Our realtor told us to be ready to leave within 15 minutes of every phone call from an agent. Kinda makes it hard to relax and get anything done, but we're dealing with it since we're anxious to get ours sold.

With all of that said, it looks like we should be able to start moving in within the next month or so. We will be sending out our new address once we are settled. In the meantime, you can keep up with the latest Weidenfeld News right here on the web. (Our new house is pictured above.)

We survived "Kids' Camp!!!"

The Weidenfeld ladies just returned from five days up in the San Bernardino mountains. Our church, Green Valley Christian Center, participates in a Christian camp for kids aged 8-12 every summer. This year, both Hannah and Eva wanted to go, but they were a lil' nervous about being away from Mom and Dad for so long. Well, okay...Mom and Dad were also a wee bit anxious about having our babies away from us for five whole days! So, Mom signed up to go along as a counselor.

We left on the morning of Monday, July 11th. Our church had about 75 children attend. We had a pretty easy drive to San Bernardino, and then it came....the hour-long trek to the top of the mountain. It was nauseating, scary, and steep. But we made it in one piece!

The camp is called Pinecrest Christian Conference Center. It was built in the 1950's but has been renovated and modernized somewhat. Several other churches also attended the same week we were there. Our church was the only one from out of state. In total, there were about 250 kids at camp.

We were all kept busy each day, with breakfast starting at 7:45 and lights out at 9:45. We had anticipated cooler evenings, but it was pretty much hot the whole time. Our days were filled with small group Bible studies each morning, an a.m. chapel service, all of the usual "camp activites" (such as fishing, archery, swimming, hiking, laser tag, skateboarding, crafts, drama, and so on....), an evening service, and plenty of free time. There was a family of missionaries from Costa Rica that spoke at each evening service. They were quite motivating and very entertaining!

After checkout Friday morning, we loaded back onto the buses and headed for home. Again, the trip back down the mountain was nauseating, scary, and steep. The second bus (the one we weren't on) lost its air conditioning around Barstow. Another bus had to meet us in Primm so that a switch could be made. We were all very thankful to be on the bus we were on! The temperature outside was 119 degreees! That's the desert for you.

By 5:45 p.m. we pulled into the church parking lot and were greeted by a mob of excited/worried parents. After all of the good-bye's and can't-wait-till-next-year's, we saw Rob in the distance and ran to him. The girls and I were so happy to be home! We had made it! We actually survived our first-ever experience away at camp.

Welcome to our site!

The big news is our new web site! This will be a place where family and friends can "keep up with the Weidenfelds" - read blogs, view photos, watch video clips, and keep in touch with us. Patti will update the news page somewhat regularly, but the most current information will probably be in the individual "blogs" - a term, if you're unfamiliar, that refers to a "web log" or a type of online diary. Well, hope you enjoy the site, and if there are any problems or issues, please let us know so we can fix them!