Lindsay

If you haven't looked at Lindsay Downham's blog, you must! Lindsay is one of my best friends and is living in Haiti for TWO years! She has a generous and loving heart with a desire to serve as a missionary.

Lindsay took it upon herself to find someone who works in the missions field in Haiti, build a relationship with them and then find work for her to do there. She's teaching English to adults, helping women learn fundamentals to being self-sufficient, teaching and caring for underprivileged children and so much more. I think her role is continually changing and developing as she continues her stint there.

Many churches and groups stateside have been collecting shoes to send to Lindsay over the past few months. It was an effort organized by the Groves to bless children Lindsay encounters who cannot afford shoes. What a thought-- no shoes!

Doesn't this picture just speak volumes and pull at your heartstrings? Lindsay was on my heart this morning, so I wanted to share her work with you. Please team with us in prayer for her continually over the next year and a half.

Bowling, Anyone?

We had a Campbell & Co. family night to get everyone together after my parents returned from Mexico and before my mom left for Florida for six weeks. It was quite the entertaining evening! First of all, we met in Anderson! For everyone besides the Fergusons, this isn't the ideal location, but it was half way between the college girls and the grown ups. hehe.


We went out to dinner, hit up the sweet bowling lanes for some good family competition and then topped it off with DQ to feed my craving.


Mike & Me showing our nice faces















My mom & dad















Abby, Rachel and me with our "Strike" poses

















The Campbell & Co. clan.... it's growing! The newest face is Rachie's new beau, Shaun! He's a trooper to put up with us.

















If anyone dares to take on Mike & me, we're quite the bowlers! and we're fun, too!

February fun

February! We're already to February.... I cannot believe it!

Mike passed his Series 66 test this month, which was an amazing achievement! Three guys he works with took it earlier in the day, and only one of them passed it. So, Mike's wonderfully thankful to be done studying for a while!

Following the tough testing was the SUPER BOWL!!! What an awesome weekend. I'm sure everyone else shares our joy that the Colts WON!!!!!!!!!! We had a blast at Damon's with a few couples from our small group. Mike and I played card games starting at 1:30 while holding our table for the rest of the group. A little heated competition between spouses is always fun.

Then the Colts smoked the Bears. WOOHOOOOO! Here's a fun shot of our group:















I've had a few events this month and am currently looking out over the ocean on South Beach Miami. It's for work, once again, but it is beautiful! I'm hosting a hospitality suite Tues-Thurs, and Thursday evening is our reception at the Casa Casuarina, better known as the Versace Mansion. Rollin' with the big timers I am! I hope to have some good pictures of the mansion this year--- last year I hadn't figured out my camera, yet.

Regardless, right now the entire city of Indianapolis is snowed in, and I went out at 9am in my capris and tank top to enjoy the sun. I could go for a snow day, though, to sleep in and hang out with my hubby!

I will return soon, and I promise to be better about keeping up with this. Hopefully work will settle down post-Miami!

Give us a buzz...... our schedules are settling down, and who wants that?? We have a 21st birthday party for Rachel, a family wedding, and a weekend ski trip on tap in the next month, but we'd love to see you too! (Especially those of you out of the country who we miss terribly)

Much love to you! xoxo

January with the Macks!

January was quite the whirlwind for us! We thought the holidays would end and life would settle down, but not in January!! It was so much fun, though.....





New Year's Eve was spent with two other Jones couples at our home. We made a fancy filet mignon dinner, complete with shrimp cocktail appetizers and plenty of wine. After that, we entertained ourselves with games for the rest of the evening. (Never a bad time for game playing!) This picture, although not a fun party picture, is my favorite. It's our beautiful new china place setting that we served dinner on. I'm such a girl!

















After New Years, we had the exciting countdown of the Colts season! For the AFC Championship game, we had a prime spot downtown Indianapolis with the rest of Indianapolis cheering on the Colts. After the awesome win, we ran around the streets of downtown in the drizzle and cold screaming, chanting and celebrating the victory. Fans were running up and down the sidewalks, streets and driving with people coming out of all windows of their vehicles. It was AWESOME! Here's our picture with the hot off the presses Colts win in print:

If you had x-ray vision, you could see our super fan Colts gear, but instead check out those excited smiles. :)

Following the Colts game, I spent 5 days in Las Vegas working at the World of Concrete Convention. I know, I know--- exciting stuff. It wasn't really vacation material, but it did let Mike test out his bachelor skills. He tells everyone that when he'd get hungry, he couldn't figure out why dinner wasn't sitting on the table. Well, his freezer was well-stocked, and while I was eating amazing dinners on the company dollar, he managed on frozen pizzas, chicken meals and jimmy dean breakfasts. We're not really cut out for long periods of time apart!

Long time, no see!

We're baaaaack! So sorry for the long hiatus from blogging. Work has been crazy, so I haven't had the luxury of blogging/e-mail time as usual. Of course, I don't want to spend my home time online, either, so poor blogger was neglected.

What's new with the Macks? First, Christmas was wonderful! It was a whirlwind of family, traveling and celebrations. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from Christmas:

Hailey, our beautiful niece and me in our Christmas pajamas!

Mike being sweet with Hailey Eve :

(We can't publish Mike in his Christmas pajamas--ha!)

Our stockings hung with care:

Mike and I had a wonderful Christmas celebration. It happened a few days after Christmas, but it was nice. Prior to that, we were in Connersville, Butler and Greenfield within three days and then Kokomo the weekend after.

Now on to the next month of blogging I missed! (See next post)