Up and Running Again

I just wanted to let all of you know that I am blogging on my personal blog again. I am currently on an internship in Nairobi, Kenya. I am blogging as much as possible, probably wont be everyday, but this is the best way to see what I am up to. My blog site is davidwarsing.blogspot.com

Come visit me and leave comments, I want to hear what people think of my adventures.

Other email addresses needed

Hey if you know emails of any relatives, would you forward them to me, either here on this blog or at my email: martha@sfasbury.org

I'm not sure that this is working the way I intended, but am still trying.

We're back

Back from vacation in Mexico. Great to get away, to just read and lay around and eat and sleep. What a life! Will be headed out from Mpls to SF today and back to work tomorrow. We went with Jess and Doug, and two of their friends, Matt and Wendy. It is quite different to go with the adult children rather than the days of dependent children. Ken and I did not stay up for one show, they start at 9:45 and we're tired by then, but when the kids were young, we went to every show! Content to lay on the beach and drift off rather than playing bocce ball or volleyball (like I ever did! I guess I did one time). One time when it was just Ken and me on vacation, we took meringue and salsa dance lessons, and I *almost* got it down.

It was terribly cool and cloudy in Mexico. But we still got sun. Went to ChichenItza to view the Mayan ruins. This is the first time back since before my Jess died. I was okay going. The spirits of the past still visit me but not sometimes, and this was one of them.

Got all my books read for school but no papers written. I'll have to set aside some time and begin drafting them while the material I read is still fresh.

Will send a picture when I get one.

Welcome Rick (and Rachel) Kindschi

Community_Impact is Rick Kindschi. Welcome. Rick is my nephew, Becky's son, who lives in Wisconsin. Great to have you here Rick!

Moving to a new Apartment

Well my roommate and I haven't been getting along so I will be moving to another location. I'll be moving in with some of my friends from another school. This will be cheaper and a lot more fun. Can't wait to get moved out. Should happen here in the next 2 weeks.

Vacation

I hope that there will be posts other than mine to this blog. I hope that this will be a way to stay in touch with family any time during the day or night. The blog is only for family, it's private not public. So hopefully, when I return from vacation on the 17th of January, there will be lots of posts for me to read. I may have a chance to log on to the internet at the hotel, but I'm not sure.

Ken and I are headed to Playa del Carmen, just south of Cancun. Ken's daughter, Jess and her husband, Doug, two of their friends and Ken and I will be spending some time at Sandos Hotel Eco. I hope to get all my seminary books read and papers started while there, but at least I will do that in the sun :-)

We have had snow galore here. It's deep and for two days now the schools have been closed. Very unusual.

Take care everyone, and as I say, hope to be able to read lots of new posts!

Need email addresses for Family Members

In order to invite family to this blog, I need an email address. So, if there's not someone here you would expect, send me their email address and I will invite them.

I have invited but not heard from

Ken Brandt, his family: sister Diane, brother Wendell, and I don't have an email for his brother Jeffrey.

Ken's extended family: need emails

My family and extended family: Jamie, Jess (need email), Chris, my sister Becky, Debby, Rick (need email), Heidi.

Hello and Welcome the Four of You

Welcome Kevin and Linda Hebert, Beth Gault and David Warsing, and Russell Brandt to the blog!
Allow me to introduce you to each other.

Linda Hebert is Ken Brandt's older sister.
Kevin Hebert of course if her husband.
The Heberts live in Tea, SD; which is just south of Sioux Falls, SD.

Beth Gault is Martha Brandt's sister-in-law. She is married to my brother, Frank.
Frank and Beth live in Houston, TX.Her author name is almostold1.

David Warsing is Martha Brandt's son. He is in graduate school at the University of Washington-Seattle and is engaged to Michelle Erickson.

Russell Brandt is Ken's younger brother. He is married to Candy and lives in Aberdeen, SD (3 hours north and slightly west of Sioux Falls). His author name is russb.

Sandos Caracol Eco Resort & Spa

This is where Ken and I are staying next week. Looks absolutely gorgeous. I'll be studying and writing papers for July seminary classes. In the warmth. In the sun.
Go online to check it out at (copy and paste the following URL)
http://www.sandoshotels.com/en/playa-del-carmen-hotel-sandos-caracol-spa-resort.html

Michelle's sister who lives in the chicago area was recently married. You'll see David on the far left corner and Michelle right in front of him.

David and Michelle wedding plans

This is what I know to date on David's planned wedding.
Afternoon of Saturday, September 4, 2010 in Sioux Falls, SD

Fiance is Michelle Erickson who is a senior at Univ of Sioux Falls
That's where David met her, in college.
She is a SD resident, lives in a town called Valley Springs, about 15 minutes east of us (closer to the Minnesota border). She is graduating with her undergraduate in May 2010.

They will reside in Seattle, Washington while David completes his graduate work at University of Washington.

Family Blogs

I have a blog, Blessed to be a Blessing
and David has a blog, Servants and Warriors.
Let's all the blogs the family may have, okay?

How to become a member

I'll email you, or you email me, and I will send you instructions.

Essentially it seems that blogger requires me to email an invitation to you. You will be asked to open a google account, and I think that's it. We shall see.

Martha's Family Blogsite

Well, I think this may work better than the Facebook site that I thought would work to keep in touch with family. I didn't like the FB so well because it would not email me notifications when anyone posted, requiring me to actually go to that FB site each time I wanted to see if anyone was talking.

I think this site will be more user-friendly and still some private. Only those who are related to me will be able to post, so when we talk about family stuff, the whole world should not be able to see it.

You can poste on the site, you can comment to posts, and get notifications, I think.