Honduran Cessna 206 for Missionary Air Group

The paint is mostly done now. The wings are actually on, but I can't find the picture I took. More later.

Scott receives his MMS Certificate of completion!!

Yes, today Scott received his MMS certificate of completion and we are very excited about it. Today is our 19th wedding anniversary and now we have two things to celebrate when we go out tonight for dinner. :-)

As you may or may not know...the burb is back in "not working" order. Scott spent the entire holiday weekend trying to get it up and running but the breaks and the parts did not cooperate with him. He and Matthew spent one entire day there both coming home black and dirty, the next day he and Shaughn spent the day/evening there until 4:30 a.m. With it being a holiday weekend, the parts will not be in until tomorrow...7/8. So, it sits and waits. What is wrong you ask? It is the breaks. Last weekend Paul had the boys out and taking them to DQ and the breaks went out. So Scott and I met him and Scott drove the burb back home...carefully and then up to the hangar...again, carefully. Not too much fun without any breaks.

The boys and I have been trying to purge through stuff. I have made it through and got rid of about 15 totes full and 3 garbage bags out of the closet. Sounds like a lot???? It is not even the tip of the ice burg. UUGGGHHH. Since Scott has completed his service with MMS, he is free to be at home and help with the "getting ready" part and only has to go into the hangar when he wants. This will help a lot. After purging this past week and bending over into the totes, I couldn't move much for a few days. My back was KILLING me. Shaughn did the lifting of the totes but sitting there and bending over was not good. I was on high doses of ibuprofen and ice packs with tiger balm....yeah.

Matthew has started packing some stuff upstairs for me and getting it ready for the move. I have started offering different items to people for sale to start getting rid of the bigger things. Slowly but surely it will all happen.

Scott made is solo cross country this past weekend and has another one to do that is longer. A couple of night time flights and 3 hours of ground school stuff then his test. He figures about 8-10 more flight time hours total to be complete. Give or take. We are excited about this too. He has been trying to fly at least 2 times each week with one being on a Saturday with longer time.

The boys are doing good. Shaughn has put in some different job applications around town but nothing yet. Matthew did not get the ice cream job as it was a government funded job and they said we made too much money last year from our income tax return...we have to claim our rent we get from our MI house and that counts as income, even tho it goes right back out to pay the mortgage. So, he was bummed. They are all going through their stuff too and purging...I am very proud of them. They are a lot of help.

My sister had her baby last Tuesday..June 30th. Another boy, Luke Wyatt Parnell. He was 9 lbs 12 oz and 22 inches long. Yes, she had him C-section. :-) It was already scheduled due to her last pregnancy also needing one. He is healthy and beautiful. I can not wait to meet him.

Michigan Open House Completed!!!

Shaughn had such a blast yesterday at his Michigan open house. He had around 200+/- people show up to bless him. We are in awe of the folks who came out and blessed us. It was so much fun seeing everyone again and those who didn't come out...we missed you! The weather played perfectly into the plan. God held back the storm clouds and rocked us with beautiful sunny weather! The food was AWESOME...thank you Joe and Becky Suminski!!!! You guys rock!!

We have paid for a year of flickr and are in the process of posting a lot of our photos on there. Please check it out often, as we will post whenever we are at a high speed location. The link for the site is on the side of our blog here under Lazaros Photos.

We really want to say thank you to everyone who helped us get ready for and host this huge event. We could not have done it without you!!!

Thank you again!!!!

Bless you all!!
The Lazaros Bunch!

MAG's Cessna 206 from Honduras is almost ready for more colors.

Ohio Open House Completed.

I am sitting here at the hangar after a very neat time with a bunch of our Ohio friends. Scott is working on the brakes on the Suburban. The boys are outside enjoying the great weather God blessed us with today. Shaughn was very blessed today by all of the folks that stopped by.

We made it home from our MI-AK-MI trip safely and found tons of tiny bugs in our house, so we set off a bomb and after a couple of hours we went back in and found no bugs. So, all is good.

Matthew came home safely today from his aviation camp and had a blast. He flew everyday and can't stop talking about his adventure. He is sporting a tan that he received while play lots of volleyball...a farmer's tan. :-)

We are planning on heading to MI again this coming Thursday morning for our next open house...next Sat. in Hamburg, MI. We are excited to see everyone then and get to hang out with them a little.

Bless you all and thanks for stopping by.

lela and boyz~

The Graduate!!

Shaughn has received his high school diploma!! He is very excited. He has also received his class ring that he is also very excited about. He has completed everything and has done so with receiving straight A's in his classes. We are very proud of him. Way to go Shaughn!!! What a great example for his younger brothers to follow. :-)

We have arrived in Alaska and are heading to Soldotna today to begin at the CEF's CYIA kids camp. We are very excited to see what God has in store for us and pray that this trip will reveal more of His plan and desire for us.

Our flight here was good and long! God really blessed us on our way here, at our stop over in Seattle we were blessed to be able to hang out with some of our long time friends, Adair and Heather and Emerson and Noah Hinds. They picked us up from the airport about 8:30 p.m. and had a wonderful BBQ chicken dinner prepared for us and had great fellowship until about 1 a.m. and then got up at 3:30 a.m. to make it back to the airport by 4:30 a.m. What a blast. We had not seen them in about 5 years and it was so great to catch up a little and see their kids and home. Such a beautiful family!!

With little sleep on our side, we arrived in Anchorage and was met by my uncle Fred. We hung out with them and stayed with them last night. Aunt Lorraine made some wonderful stew and homemade cookies...yum! We stayed up playing games and had lots of laughs. At 10 p.m. we got ready for bed, which was odd since the sun was still shining. At 4:30-5 this morning, Scott and I woke up to the sun shining...too funny. Hard to believe that we were here literally last month and the snow was still here and now the leaves are all out and the flowers are planted and spring is in full swing, just like at home. Things really do "bust open" at spring time here. Very beautiful. As we were landing, the boys kept saying, "so this is what Alaska looks like with no snow." It was pretty cute.

We are excited about this camp time and to see what God is doing among the kids. We hope to be of service to them and not just dinner for the mosquitos. :-)

Scott went for a run this morning and just came back raving on how beautiful it is here. I am very proud of him. :-)

Please pray for us as we search for God's wisdom in making the right decision as to our future ministry. Bless you all!!!

May 4th...already

Only 20 more days until we take off from Detroit for Anchorage again. We are so excited about it. We are working hard at organizing our house and stuff and trying to purge through our junk. Do we ever have a lot of it too. Wow!! Scott is scheduled to do another cross country flight tomorrow night and has been trying to plan his flight plan for it. He is very excited to see the end getting closer and achieving his long awaited for license. He and Paul have sat down and determined that this can be accomplished by the end of the summer and are determined to do so. That does mean that he will be gone a lot from home and that means the job of purging and sorting will be mostly left up to the boys and I. Yeah. :-)

We have been busy planning Shaughn's open houses. We are having one in Ohio on June 13th and one in Michigan on June 20th. He has been working very hard to finish up his classes. We have received a cap and gown from a friend for him to borrow (he looks so cool with it on)and his diploma has arrived. His class ring has been ordered (thanks to his Grandma-ma)and will be here the end of May. He is totally geeked. Here in Ohio at our church, he is getting to participate in the honoring of Graduates on May 17th and they wear their gowns and caps during the service. On Sunday, June 7th at our home church in Michigan, BCC is honoring their graduates and Shaughn will be there to participate as well. (that is the weekend we get back from AK.) He is so blessed and excited! They will be doing a slide show of their grads so I need to get Karin some photos...(I will Karin...very soon). So much fun here in the ol'Lazaros house.

The other boys are working hard as well. They are getting excited about the future and what it may be looking like. We are meeting the Ohio director for this region this Thursday night. He is coming over to share his vision for CEF in Ohio. We are excited to hear his heart.

I still have had no word on my Bible. I am very heart broken about it. Scott and my mom both have bought me a new Bible but it is not the same. I still ask for your prayers on the recovery of it.

Scott has worked, once again, on my computer and hopefully has fixed the problem. So, hopefully I am back on and can keep you better updated. :-) Isn't technology great? ha ha

I have been busy taking Shaughn's senior pictures. We have been having tons of fun doing so. Matthew has been helping us come up with different ideas for poses and such...every clear blue-sky day, we are out taking shots. On rainy days we have even sat us a back drop and lighting for inside shots. Too much fun I say. :-)

This weekend we are expecting some friends to come for a visit. We are pretty excited about it. Rick and Kim Hulbert are suppose to come and hang out with us. Yeah!

Bless you all and see you soon!