This is the blog for Gavin and Carrie Jones and family. We live in Papua New Guinea and are working to see lives transformed by the living Word of God through Bible translation. Gavin is a helicopter pilot. Carrie, who has her degree in Public Health, works in the lab at our busy rural clinic. Our son, Isaac, was born in 2004 and our quintuplets, Will, David, Marcie, Seth, and Grace, were born in 2012.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. The you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all you heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:3-6

Friday, May 23, 2014

Off to California tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 12:40 Central time we are scheduled to depart for Sacramento.  All of us.  Carrie's parents, Neal and Jane are coming along to help us herd the kids.  It is almost a three and a half hour flight, so it will likely be interesting, to say the least.  Though that amount of time is a fraction of the flight we'll be taking over the Pacific in a few weeks, it's still plenty of time to "affect" other passengers.  If you want to track our flight progress, click here.

Though we expect it will be a trying time in some ways, we pray the Lord will calm all the kids and allow them to get through it with good sleep and quiet play.  Thankfully, the flight is more or less during their nap time, but an airliner is a far cry from a crib, no pun intended.  Please pray that we and the kids will all handle the trip well.

As a peace offering, we've put together some goodie bags for our fellow passengers.  We printed up a bunch of "explanation" sheets telling people about the quints, our family photo, a pair of earplugs, and two homemade chocolate chip cookies.  If Carrie's cookies don't win them over then they are a hard case indeed. :)  (She is literally known internationally for her amazing chocolate chip cookies!)

Megan was a big help in wrapping all the goodie bags for the passengers.

When we arrive in California, it's a two hour drive to my parents' house where we'll settle in for the week.  This will be the first chance for many of my family members and friends to meet the quints.  Some of them met Grace and Seth when we were out there last summer, but Will, David, and Marcie are newbies to the West Coast.

It is sure to be a fun and busy week, and it all comes to a smashing end with my cousin and best friend's wedding!  Carrie has not met the bride-to-be, so that will be fun as well.  The logistics with the babies have been many with the ceremony a few hours away, but we hope we have things covered.


Now for some pictures from today.

It started out with Seth reading the morning news in his easy swing:




While Will and Marcie washed dishes (and had a bath at the same time, more or less):




Grace, meanwhile, needed some comfort from her daddy after a hard fall:



Later on, they all piled in to the car for a play date with some friends:



It was a good day.

Our next post should be from California!  Thanks for praying for the trip!

8 comments:

  1. Something that I would like you to do is to go through all the pictures of your whole family and post the best on the side of your blog...ones that we who love you can click on and see the progress throughout the months/years, from birth to present time. I've often looked for good ones, but it is hard to search the whole blog to find them. I loved the one in the Texas bluebonnets, but I can't find it now. Can you do this on the way to PNG? Perhaps not, but think about it when you have "free time" :)

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    1. That's a great idea! What you can do in the meantime is re-watch (or watch for the first time) the slideshows we've posted. There are three, I think. I think if you go to the search box, top right side of the page, you can enter "slideshow" and the posts should pop up. The bluebonnet photos will come up if you type in "bluebonnet" in the search, I'm pretty sure. I'll go try it for myself. . . Thanks for caring and praying and loving us! Carrie

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  2. That's it, from now on Gavin is writing the blog. He does SUCH a good job!! :) Love you, babe! - Carrie

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  3. praying you have a great trip. Will pray for you during the flight!!

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  4. I am just 3 hours from Sacramento! Any chance you are planning to make it to the Fresno/Clovis area? Have a wonderful trip and I love love love the goodie bag idea! Please do let us know how that is received. All the best to you all.

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    1. We are going to be in Merced for most of the week. We are having an Open House for people to meet the kids tomorrow at my parents' house. I'd rather not give out the address here, so if you email me I can send the address and time.

      Gavin

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  5. Just caught this post...hope the trip was totally "UN" eventful and you are all settling in nicely......have fun!

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