{"id":1749,"date":"2011-06-21T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2011-06-21T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:42:49","slug":"and-theyre-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1749","title":{"rendered":"And, they&#8217;re off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My alarm went off at 5am.  Yawn.  <\/p>\n<p>We were out the door by 5:50, and pulling into the church at 6am.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/5855951703\/\" title=\"DSC_3592 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5152\/5855951703_657c60b2be.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_3592\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbey, Payton, and Ethan left for their Testify Youth Choir tour today&#8230;they&#8217;ll be in Orlando for about a week, doing concerts and a little sightseeing.  They&#8217;ll be singing at a youth detention center, Wet and Wild amusement part, a church in St. Augustine, and a home for terminally ill children.  <\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re very excited and admittedly a little nervous.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/5855953453\/\" title=\"DSC_3598 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2660\/5855953453_bae45f7d19.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_3598\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Payton&#8217;s family group&#8230;his &#8220;dad&#8221; passed out mustaches for everyone.  Perfect for Payton.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thankful there are so many strong Christian adults taking care of my kids.  Each kid is in a small group with 1 tour mom or dad.  Makes those headcounts much easier to handle, and gives the kids a stand-in parent to help whenever they need it.  I can breathe easier because of that.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/5855952533\/\" title=\"DSC_3596 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5159\/5855952533_36ebbf6a20.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"DSC_3596\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boys, being the youngest, also have quite a few big brothers to watch out for them.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70803758@N00\/5856509708\/\" title=\"DSC_3603 by marleyec1998, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5117\/5856509708_9a6e7cdd35.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"DSC_3603\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Praying that my kids stay safe, of course.  But, even more so, praying that God uses them as He sees fit, to further His kingdom and for his glory.  <\/p>\n<p>We miss you already!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alarm went off at 5am. Yawn. We were out the door by 5:50, and pulling into the church at 6am. Abbey, Payton, and Ethan left for their Testify Youth Choir tour today&#8230;they&#8217;ll be in Orlando for about a week, doing concerts and a little sightseeing. They&#8217;ll be singing at a youth detention center, Wet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,43,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbey","category-ethan","category-kid-activities","category-payton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}