tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331209922024-03-08T06:00:52.246+02:00The Mormance MixMatt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-44440266363330338642013-08-21T11:46:00.003+03:002013-08-21T11:46:55.345+03:00Family OutingThis summer Matt and I discovered the Arboretum, about a 40 minute drive from our city. This place has THE BEST play structures for kids I've found in all of Slovenia. (Safe play structures were something I took for granted when we lived in the States.) It was a bit of a drive, but oh so worth it! The day we spent in this beautiful park breathed life into my spirit. <br />
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Our good friend Carolynn getting baptized in Lake Bled.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-48968405120175819852013-07-22T01:04:00.000+03:002013-07-22T01:04:22.093+03:00An update on two of my favorite guys!Hmmm. . . I just went to check on our blog and noticed that the last two posts never published. Not sure how that happened. Anyhow, here is one that I wrote a while ago. . . Interesting because just yesterday I made another paper chain with the girls for Matt's time up at Križ. <br />
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How funny - my last blog entry was talking about the paper chain I made with the girls when Matt went on an intern recruiting trip several months back. . . funny because early this morning he left for the Ukraine and then will be heading to Poland and then the Czech Republic for the interns Amazing Race and then training. I spent the afternoon with the girls making their paper chains for the 10 days he will be gone. <br />
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Click <a href="http://www.josiahventure.com/" target="_blank">here</a> to learn more about JV's summer intern program. That's what Matt will helping with this next week and a half. I was planning on going up to the Czech Republic with the kids (and bringing one of our college students as a babysitter) so that I could be a part of the training. But two of our three kiddos are sick - and one of those two (Alex) is a mess. So Matt and I decided it would be best for our kids to have some time at home, resting and getting some focused time from mom. I'm bummed to miss out on this time with the interns, but I'm at peace with it because I know this is what our kids need right now.<br />
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And because every blog post should have a cute photo, I'll leave you with this shot of Matt and Alex a couple weeks ago (when Alex was feeling much better - trust me you wouldn't want to see his photos from today, pour little guy). <br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This is most likely referring to the time when Socialism/Communism Regime came into power here in Slovenia and somewhere between 100,000 - 130,000 people were slaughtered in an estimated 600 mass grave sites. <a href="http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/documents/OTJRRP4Cernic.pdf">Click here to read more.</a> Many of the resistance to the communists were democratic Christians.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">There is good chance that whoever wrote this had some bad experiences with the church and is reacting to the hypocrisy and brokenness they see. But there is also a spiritual reality at work here too. The Bible talks about it in </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">2 Corinthians 2:14-16. It says,</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-58028898472856300982012-11-13T16:05:00.001+02:002012-11-13T16:05:10.123+02:00Today's the day . . .Today is day #12 of Matt being gone (he was on an intern recruiting trip for JV). For two little girls who don't have a great sense of time, it can feel like daddy might never. come. home. <div>
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Something I started this past summer was having the girls make paper chains on the first day that he is gone (camps, Kriz etc.) On the inside of each ring is a number (how many days left until he comes back) and something we can pray for daddy on that day. Here is where we started 12 days ago:<div>
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Well, today is an exciting day because Daddy is coming home! Here they are now. </div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-33059429820298844322012-10-19T22:59:00.005+03:002012-10-19T23:03:18.848+03:00Little MammaMaia is in a "baby phase." She is usually carrying around a doll (or two), or pushing her little stroller, or telling me that "Babee Awesh cay-in'!" (if I'm not responding quickly enough to Alex's fussing). <br />
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Two purses, a stroller, a backpack and a baby in a car seat. </div>
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Life as a boy . . . with two older sisters.</div>
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"<i>You know</i>," I said, "<i>There is coming a day when you would give anything to have an opportunity like this again.</i>"<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">once they made the decision</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">to fall . . .</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">assurance,</span></div>
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</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-59364324786143014922012-08-14T22:59:00.001+03:002012-08-14T22:59:59.138+03:00Having my parents here to help with our kids during Kriz was . . . incredible . . . at so many different levels.<br />
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* It freed me up to really be able to enter in to my times of teaching at mentoring at Kriz.<br />
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* It was the first time they have been able to visit us during our 4 years of living in Europe (2 years here and 2 years in Lithuania)<br />
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* It was the first time they got to meet their grandson, Alex.<br />
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* It gave me many great moments of "downtime" with them. So often when we visit them in the States we only have 4 or 5 days to spend with them at a time, and we work hard to squeeze a whole lot of special times in. (They live in Washington, about 2 1/2 hours from where we used to live in Portland.)<br />
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Oh how very thankful I am for their visit here!</div>
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10 Years ago today I married my best friend. </div>
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I knew I was marrying a good man, but Matt is so much <b><i>more</i></b> than I even knew back then.</div>
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More thoughtful.</div>
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More like Jesus than I even knew.</div>
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I love you sweetheart!</div>
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I look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries with you!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Gracious Father, I slept well last night but I awoke restless, fitful, and anxious. I know you tell me not to be anxious about anything (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Phil. 4.6" data-version="" href="http://biblia.com/bible/Phil.%204.6" style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Phil. 4:6</a>), but I am. Sunrise has yet to happen, yet I’m already looking forward to moonrise. Thank you for freeing me from the pressure of pretending otherwise. At least I’m not anxious about surprising, embarrassing, or disappointing you. The gospel has taken care of that old bondage and slavery.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> What’s going on inside of me? There’s really nothing enormous looming on the horizon; no one major crisis is staring me down; there’s no boulder I’m assigned to push up a hill like Sisyphus. It’s just one of those Mondays I find myself looking at seventeen little backpacks of needs, issues, and hurting hearts lined up at my front door, waiting to be picked up as I head into the week.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> So what will I do with my restless, anxious feelings? Father, I would surely despair if I didn’t really believe you care for us, your children. That would be the one unbearable burden. But please help me know what anxiety casting actually looks like today and this whole week. Help me live this day at the pace of grace—no faster or slower.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Of these things I’m certain: you’re not calling me to be the fourth member of the Trinity; I’m not the whole body of Christ; you do promise sufficient grace; you will give wisdom to those who ask; and your strength is made perfect in weakness—in my weakness.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> Show me which of the seventeen little backpacks I’m to pick up first. Which ones don’t really have my name on them at all? Which ones will just have to wait? Today is a good day for me to remember the words of my spiritual father, Jack Miller, “A sign of your maturity in the gospel will be seen in terms of who you’re willing to disappoint.” Free me from the dread of disappointing people, Father.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> As you’ve promised, please send your transcendent peace to guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Phil. 4.7" data-version="" href="http://biblia.com/bible/Phil.%204.7" style="cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Phil. 4:7</a>). So very Amen I pray, in Jesus’ trustworthy and treasured name.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-8019688363266679882012-06-21T01:18:00.003+03:002012-06-21T01:18:57.962+03:00Father's DayI keep staring at this photo. <br />
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When I married Matt I knew I was marrying an incredible man. But I had no idea just how amazing he is. Watching how he fathers these three kids makes me fall in love with him all over again!<br />
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This is the "book" Eliana made for Matt for Father's Day.</div>
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Matt reading his book.</div>
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Matt, you truly are "above and beyond anything I ever hoped or imagined!" </div>
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I am so very thankful that I get to do life with you!</div>
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The night before I went into the hospital for my c-section we had our last meeting with our Bible Read-Through group.</div>
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What better way to celebrate than with a BBQ?!</div>
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From the left: Alex, Me, Ana, Petra, Mana, Judita</div>
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(Please ignore my lopsided tummy :-)</div>
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After dinner we had them get out their reflection sheets. </div>
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(Each week we all wrote down one thing that stood out to us, that we felt the Lord was putting on our hearts.</div>
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After looking over our reflection sheets we each wrote down on another piece of paper 2 - 5 things/themes/verses that impacted us the most.</div>
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Then we handed out these plants and gave them a piece of chalk.</div>
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We each wrote on the outside of our pot the theme or verse that had impacted us the most of all. . .</div>
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. . . In chalk so that we could change what was written on the pot as the Lord keeps speaking to us through the Word.<br />
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This night was by far one of our most precious times in Slovenia so far!</div>
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(And again - please ignore my lopsided belly :-)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-71332765662195590312012-06-20T18:49:00.001+03:002012-06-20T18:49:21.066+03:00Twinsies<div style="text-align: center;">
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They are just so crazy cute in matching outfits. </div>
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I know they won't be up for it much longer, so I'll dress them matching outfits while I can.</div>
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Oh how I love dressing my little girls!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-76003958763634198952012-05-19T00:11:00.001+03:002012-05-19T02:09:31.641+03:00He's here<div style="text-align: center;">
On Wednesday May 16th at 10:00am (UTC+1) in Ljubljana, Slovenia... </div>
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Alexander Kyle Mormance was born!! </div>
Weighing in at 7 pounds and 7 oz and 20 inches long with a very "large head" as the nurse who was measuring him said. Good thing for Sharon, and him I guess, he was born via c-section.<br />
The name Alexander means "defender of mankind" and was my great grandpa's name and Sharon's dad's middle name. Also, Alex is the name of one of the students we love dearly here in Slovenia. So it seemed fitting on all accounts.<br />
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Here are a few photos of our little dude.<br />
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Now close your eyes and picture me standing on a majestic cliff somewhere in Africa as I hold him high in the air as the beginning from the "circle of life" from Lion King plays in the background.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-59819488286994462372012-04-27T15:49:00.000+03:002012-04-27T15:49:24.805+03:00Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Matt's parents have been have been on a quick European tour.</div>
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we've had a chance to get to spend some great time with them!</div>
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Thank you so much for visiting us Lenny & Sharon, aka Papa & Mimi.</div>
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(Yes, her name is "Sharon" too. :-)</div>
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More photos coming soon, but we are heading out to our church retreat in about 20 minutes, </div>
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so I've gotta make this blog brief.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-54101496435356347052012-04-17T01:21:00.001+03:002012-04-17T12:25:17.938+03:00She's growing up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I found her like this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It didn't take me long to figure out where those black marks had come from</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">. . . my mascara.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, I did what any good mom would do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I scolded her for getting in to my make-up making sure she knew that my make-up was off limits for her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then I told her not to go anywhere . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">. . . I needed to go get my camera.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So after I put Maia down for her nap, I pulled out my foot spa </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and treated Eliana to her first pedicure.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think the smile on her face says it all.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, our little girl is growing up!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33120992.post-43808356148664527422012-04-17T01:14:00.000+03:002012-04-17T01:14:20.185+03:00I sure love that guy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matt recently took some of our students out for a game of paintball. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(JV Slovenia already has the gear and Matt found a location they could use for free - score!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Some of the students looking quite friendly at the beginning of the day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> By the end of they day they had the "tough" look down.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The whole crew minus Matt (who is taking the shot).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">#1 Not a bad shot actually . . .but it goes downhill from here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfIsocZesZedfiBben6YQMVDOfQiuUFD1AbPkf_jVLZKkwkwXcP2QSWqxSHS3C_nKQMNeyy17zu-zdylmLBSEBT46RE2vZ3fjmCZ2Wesw0ha0OL8UTw5rOz4Umj3YvTXKzPGdCZg/s1600/IMG_3516.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfIsocZesZedfiBben6YQMVDOfQiuUFD1AbPkf_jVLZKkwkwXcP2QSWqxSHS3C_nKQMNeyy17zu-zdylmLBSEBT46RE2vZ3fjmCZ2Wesw0ha0OL8UTw5rOz4Umj3YvTXKzPGdCZg/s320/IMG_3516.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #2 Cropping - yeah. Need to work on that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRppN7rds4c_Ii2tFqaluZwULUmnSoYhTSmvfchHpRRWgQ2Z4Ze5rMyFQgIvuBRFwEFVBt4eCgoR5Uxet4QQix9jdelAySBJGuNP_KyWxETtN1BCSsxlXC9nYHjniINvh8JrefTg/s1600/IMG_3522.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRppN7rds4c_Ii2tFqaluZwULUmnSoYhTSmvfchHpRRWgQ2Z4Ze5rMyFQgIvuBRFwEFVBt4eCgoR5Uxet4QQix9jdelAySBJGuNP_KyWxETtN1BCSsxlXC9nYHjniINvh8JrefTg/s320/IMG_3522.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #3 Maia had some paparazzi.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxAQpqwv50pTb4cJfGwUtR2wiOOl5mGIAMesy5R-5Qu_hoij5aYkQiy7RKqDsZO5U9LoFm8QNlG-srv9YvSC_dBTF7MKN73YMwsBwTMyrk7om-HFjd7kkV7GsGCMWSNmW2QYWiQ/s1600/IMG_3523.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOxAQpqwv50pTb4cJfGwUtR2wiOOl5mGIAMesy5R-5Qu_hoij5aYkQiy7RKqDsZO5U9LoFm8QNlG-srv9YvSC_dBTF7MKN73YMwsBwTMyrk7om-HFjd7kkV7GsGCMWSNmW2QYWiQ/s320/IMG_3523.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #4 Um . . . is that a pull-up in her hand??</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRKglCLdVfLEIHGpgRT9aTCm0f19TWks-16KqXk1k0VqS41Jqfo0ouoCt46BLShWbeCOGvuID1Vkmg4_gEHbhek-72K7DEcebGNcvFhZADjDadRFFzTbyMbTWxQtSPUckW8t-qA/s1600/IMG_3533.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRKglCLdVfLEIHGpgRT9aTCm0f19TWks-16KqXk1k0VqS41Jqfo0ouoCt46BLShWbeCOGvuID1Vkmg4_gEHbhek-72K7DEcebGNcvFhZADjDadRFFzTbyMbTWxQtSPUckW8t-qA/s320/IMG_3533.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">#5 This shot definitely was not taken by someone taller than 2 1/2 feet tall!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UOj7XQ6S1xrHzi2FEAfET2HsD0QN_pDZn76pucM0ex0h6Js3sBQ3Nt5gGS55IzYvQoFbCfsI0q5V1pnqJwlbyTprfQfmpQEe_XI-Moh15-g3dvdSAJSQMGVrQD9egsbvluKwwQ/s1600/IMG_3537.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5UOj7XQ6S1xrHzi2FEAfET2HsD0QN_pDZn76pucM0ex0h6Js3sBQ3Nt5gGS55IzYvQoFbCfsI0q5V1pnqJwlbyTprfQfmpQEe_XI-Moh15-g3dvdSAJSQMGVrQD9egsbvluKwwQ/s320/IMG_3537.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #6 Final shot - I laughed when I first saw it . . .and then realized this photo shoot could have had a very bad ending. Just glad that my phone didn't get dropped in the toilet!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCc_g_nmMgC1V_TAPHBYcWrRFYhRFRq54se0LeFzkPehG24jNJ_cpeSDNlz2h-KKKNJoq29-3ovXaGVIxNhTNNg49W5IKjR7qMVaaGba0XCN8wbS5gcR6Pkt9zOwpNXaaR7SYdA/s1600/IMG_3541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrCc_g_nmMgC1V_TAPHBYcWrRFYhRFRq54se0LeFzkPehG24jNJ_cpeSDNlz2h-KKKNJoq29-3ovXaGVIxNhTNNg49W5IKjR7qMVaaGba0XCN8wbS5gcR6Pkt9zOwpNXaaR7SYdA/s320/IMG_3541.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Matt & Sharon Mormance in Ljubljana, Slovenia serving with Josiah Venture.</div>Matt & Sharon Mormancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12309188224956884633noreply@blogger.com2