Allen
Favorite Bible character… Joseph

Life verse…  Psalms 199:11 "Your Word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path."

I’m happiest when…  I'm hanging out with Charlotte and when I'm worshiping.

My iPod top-five… Take 6, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Glad, Philips Craig and Dean, Christmas Music

Favorite Book (besides the Bible)… Jimmy or The List by Robert Whitlow

Proudest moment…  Holding any of my children for the first time.

If I could, I’d…  Have a year to spend traveling to different places in the US in one of those really nice RV things. (with Charlotte of course)

My perfect day would be…  Hanging out with Charlotte with no agenda or time schedule.

My favorite childhood memory…  First time I saw over a foot of snow when we visited friends in Ohio and I got to sled for what seemed like hours on a hill that seemd like a mountain. (Charlotte says I have to say that I have not read her answers before putting mine, I guess she talked about the snow too.)

In my free time, I… It's been so long I don't remember

My favorite TV show is…  Dick Van Dyke Show, Stargate, Star Trek

Three people I would love to share a meal with… Heidi Baker, Bill Johnson, Charlotte said an astronaut person, but I got to have lunch with Dr. Kathy Sullivan once (she's the first woman to walk in space)...  third person would be any Air Force One pilot.

If I was given $1000 of ‘fun’ money, I would…  Take Charlotte on a hot air balloon trip, she says that doesn't sound like fun.

Nicest complement I ever got was…  My dad commented on my craftmanship in the house my family has been building.

Best ‘clunker’ I ever owned…  A lot to choose from ,but best one was my first car,  a 1973 Austin Marina I inherited from my sister because it was too unreliable for a young single girl.  I thought it was cool because it had an MGB engine, but it did not have the cool MGB convertible sports car body -- it looked more like a Pinto.  It did not have reverse, so I had to park it so I could always pull forward, or push it out of the parking space and then drive away.  It also smoked bad enough my best friend's father made the statement, "I never have to add oil to my car as long as I follow you around."  I've never seen another Austin Marina since.  My dad and I eventually rebuilt the engine and transmission and it was a pretty nice car until I wrecked it.

My favorite vacation location… Sedona, Arizona.  So far, only spent an afternoon there but am determined to go back for a longer visit

Charlotte
Favorite Bible character…Seriously? Was that singular? Wow…I find myself relating to so many different Bible characters—different ones, at different times, and for different reasons—that many of them feel like old friends. But, I guess I’ll choose Daniel—I love that he guarded his heart so vehemently against defilement and compromise. I am always challenged by the part of his life story where—despite the law against it—he prayed, not in secret, but as he always had, with his windows wide open. I want a pure, bold heart like his.

Life verse…I don’t think I have one—or just one…more like a lot of verses that have carried me through various chapters of life. But okay…let’s see…there are a few that seem to resurface over and over…and so I’ll chose from one of those. In ministry and as a mother of four, my heart has always been to, not just make right choices or decisions, but to make wise ones. So, I think I’ll say the promise from James 1:5… “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

I’m happiest when…I’m with my family—any or all of them.

my iPod top-five list…Keep saying I’m gonna get me one—maybe for my birthday or Christmas this year. If I had one all loaded up, my top plays would probably include: Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, some old school Sawyer Brown and Dan Fogelberg…and…ohhh…What to choose? What to choose? Maybe Kutless’ Strong Tower album.

Favorite Book (besides the Bible)…uhhh…I’m a reader…and there is that pesky singular in the set-up again. I could fill an entire page with books that I absolutely love. But okay, I think maybe as close as I’m gonna get on this one is to give you my favorite fiction writer—Robert Whitlow.

Proudest moment…Well, of course, there is my wedding day and the days each of my 4 children were born…but when, as it talks about in Proverbs 31:28, those children and that husband rise up and call you blessed or speak praise over you, it really is even better. I am so blessed and humbled to have a family that esteems me well and I am hard pressed to mention just one of the many moments they have honored me with their words and deeds. But, without diminishing any of the other moments…I once found out that one of my children’s professors asked the class what one person they admired most in the world. When he called on my son, his answer was, ‘my mom’. Still makes my eyes well up with tears to think about that today.

If I could, I’d…be a size 8

My perfect day would be…(Surprise, surprise…) spent with my family—just hanging out, playing games, and enjoying one another.

My favorite childhood memory…Wow…lots of those too. But, certainly way up there…was one of the Christmases we spent at my grandma’s in Kentucky. I grew up in Houston, Texas so when we had an honest to goodness white Christmas—complete with 4 or 5 inches of snow, sledding, snow angles, and building an entire snow family—plus the popcorn and hot chocolate in front of the gas stove, when we came in for the evening, with, (no lie,) “White Christmas” playing on grandma’s black and white television (my brother loved getting to listen to my sister and I sing the “Sisters” song all the way back home)—it certainly qualified as a wonderful memory maker.

In my free time, I…I’m sorry…’free time’? Could someone pass me the lexicon please…Just kidding…I guess we do have an occasional bout of ‘free time’…during which you’d likely find me reading, sewing, playing cards or games with some of my family, or perhaps veggin’ in front of an old movie.

My favorite TV show is…Well…we haven’t had television in over 5 years now…anything we watch is via DVD. But, we do have lots of TV on DVD and nothing touches the classics—Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Cosby, Andy Griffith… Drum roll please…and the winner of the Charlotte’s choice award is…The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Three people I would love to share a meal with…Okay, I guess we’re going for people I haven’t actually shared a meal with here…so…I guess I’d say, any three of these four--Beth Moore, Bill Johnson, Robert Whitlow, and Heidi Baker.

If I was given $1000 of ‘fun’ money, I would…Take a trip to with Allen to someplace we’ve never been but keep saying we’d like to go—maybe Montana. He’s playing this game too…so if we combined our money, we could probably get that far.

Nicest complement—I’ve gotten some very nice ones over the years…but one that I am especially fond of came back in the day when I was a pretty wicked softball player. At one of our church picnics, I and a couple of other gals, were allowed to round out the teams when the men were getting up a game. I was having an especially ‘on’ day, and overheard one of the newer men at our church comment to the pastor, “That girl can play ball! …She’s got one arm like a vacuum cleaner and the other like a cannon.” Nice! (I wonder if I’ll get my arm back when we get our glorified bodies.)

Best ‘clunker’ I’ve ever owned…We had a old black pick-up for awhile that Allen and the boys were going to fix up—had a lot of…potential. But, while waiting to see its potential realized…its ‘potential’ slowly dwindled into oblivion. The bed continued to rust through…a BB gun shattered the back window…can’t remember what broke the front windshield—but it completely shattered and fell out… And yet, as we were clearing our property for where our home now sits, that truck was a priceless commodity for hauling brush, tossing logs into, and entertaining the kids when their attention span for work had expired (they loved driving it around the property with the windshield wipers flapping even though there was no windshield for them to wipe.) Of course, we did have to keep a can of carburetor cleaner in the front seat that we could use under the hood any time we wanted to start her…and we did have to share the cab with a couple of field mice that had claimed it as their home… but she kept right on truckin’ (pun intended) during those 5 or 6 months of being our work horse.

favorite vacation location…I’ll take the mountains any day.