Indiana Trip

Stephen and I had a wonderful vacation in Indiana. For our anniversary, we took a 2 day trip to Indianapolis where we stayed at Crown Plaza Hotel which was originally an old union train station. Some of the hotel rooms were located within a train itself inside the hotel-which was very neat. Sightseeing was fun, food was fabulous. We have to tell you of our famous tiramisu-when we ordered our tiramisu at a local Italian restaurant, they brought it out in a large bowl with a commercial serving spoon-this tiramisu was a desert of champions-would have fed a whole army.

After Indianapolis, we visited our friends from college-Joel and Suzanne Starns. Actually Suzanne is a matchmaker who tried to set Stephen and I many years ago.....Joel is a chiropractor and Suzanne is an occupational therapists I had to take a picture in front of Dr. Joel's office sign. White staying with Starns, we went hiking and celebrated Joel's birthday with two delicious pies....

After visiting with Starns, we traveled to Berne, IN where we stayed with our Granpa and Grandma Sprunger. Grandparents have a beautiful home on a large piece of land with a fountain in the back yard-I loved it! One day we visited town of Berne which has a large Swiss and Amish cultural influence. I loved the Amish bakery-we got to taste a delicious Amish apple pie. During the visit, I also got to meet several of the close relatives....Please note a shoe store pictures-named after Sprungers...Wow!

It was truly an amazing trip! We loved every minute of it.....even the 12 hour car drive....

Wilson-post Vietnam

Young Wilson....

Wilson's Party

What a honor to host a passing away party for Wilson! His wish was to have his friends and family come together and celebrate his life....About 75 guests attended the party this Saturday evening honoring Wilson's life. Our friends, Temple and Cathy, prepared fabulous food. Many guests were asking for their business cards thinking they were caterers, but I had to repeatedly say that they were simply my dear friends. Some even thought their catering company name was "Just friends" . Anyways.....Stephen did a breathtaking job on flowers, arrangements, and set up.
So many special people were here. Gil and Jane Ann and Wehners shared a special connection with us since there were here with us holding Wilson's hand when he was taking his last breath. All Wilson's home health nurses and his dear cook were celebrating with us and remembering crazy days we had with Wilson. A year ago, Ms. Janet had to come at 5AM to help me with Wilson's IV infusion line, Lynn who weakly checked on him and made him laugh with her laud laughter and giggle, Martha-Wilson swore that nobody could bath him as good as Martha (you see she followed a two bucket rule-soap with one and rinse with another-not many new LPN graduates did that per Wilson). Cookie was Wilson's cook-we love her, we cried and laughed with her.
Weather was simply beautiful-warm, with Charlestonian breeze....I just sensed that God was smiling down on us and showing us his favor through allowing us to have a such a wonderful and beautiful day. We thank the Lord for helping us be a light to Wilson's friends-so may times I was able to mention God in this picture...I trust that some picked up on it and pondered on it.....
People stayed for a long time and we got to see the video that I made of Wilson....I felt that reconnected us as a group and refocused us on the theme of the party-Celebrating Wilson's life.....
So many dear friends of Wilson were unable to make it to the party-especially Adele and David very dear friends of his from Croatia whom we have fallen in love with.....

Spoleto 2007

Stephen and I had a marvelous opportunity to attend Swan Lake ballet during Spoleto Festival in Charleston. It was simply breathtaking to see Nina dance-her arms are truly without any joints or ligaments. It was somewhat emotional for me to watch ballet since it brought memories of me as a little girl going to Tbilisi Opera Theatre with my mom to see Nina. I also go to tell one of my classmates, Jannie, about Georgian ballet visiting US. Since Jennie's grandmother was a musician who immigrated from Georgia several years ago, Jennie decided to buy tickets for Nina's performace of Swan Lake in NYC Metropolitan Theatre. Her Grandmother got to visit with Nina behind the curtains and she simply had a fabulous time. Not to mention, Jenni's granda is only 96 yrs old.....

Anna's Best Friends from MUSC

These are my best friends and sisters in Christ from my PA class. Emily was the leader of our Bible study group where we grew and learned from each other. Temple and I attend church together-she is an awesome cook. Angie-oh poor girl-we always pick on her since she is shortest of us all and so much fun to tease. Haley-she is just a doll baby and she should be awarded a perseverance award since she planned her whole wedding in between our semesters. Well, all of us are married and have wonderful husbands who have been so supportive through out schooling. When we all get together we have so much fun-we laugh and cry together. I am missing them all so much already. Only Temple, Emily, and I are still in Charleston. Haley lives in Atlanta where she will be working at the family medicine practice, and Angie will be in Gafney, SC where she will be a pediatric PA. Temple will be working at the same hospital as I am doing gastroenterology hospital consults, while Emily will be inspecting lots of skins disease ( she will be a dermatology PA). I am blessed to have gotten to know these wonderful women. I will never forget when they all suprised me and came over and brought a delicious meal for us right after Wilson's passing away. They brought laughter and joy into a house where there was sadness and lots of crying.....Well, I better stop and get back to my studying for my boards which are on Saturday!

Our Niece Is Born

Margaret Sophia Sprunger was born today in New Hampshire
Proud parents are Philip and Sarah Sprunger
Baby weighed 7 lb and 4oz and measured 20 and 1/4 inches
We cannot wait to see her and cuddle her!

oh, we forgot all about Zuka!

Zuka is our sweet cockapoo puppie who loves to be loved...He taps the door bell and rings it in order for us to know that he wants to go outside...SO cute!

Stephen's Ambitions

Currently, Stephen is free lancing to explore the event planning industry. God has opened the door for him to freelance with a very experienced event planner named Doris King that does private events. Last week Stephen was able to freelance with Planning the Globe, a corporate event planning company that does events all over the world, which is why he went to Las Vegas. In his free time, Stephen is planning events for clients of his own, and just recently coordinating a new Hospitality Ministry within Citadel Square Baptist Church.

Charleston Radiologists-Anna's Workplace

God has provided a wonderful job for Anna. She will be starting working as an interventional radiology physician assistant for Charleston Radiologists group in September after getting her state license and passing the national boards.

Anna's Graduation

Anna was graduated by the MUSC with Master's Degree in Physician Assistant Studies on August 17th. Mom and Dad Sprunger and Hope joined us for the celebration. For suprise, Stephen took the whole family on the private yacht ride along Charleston intercostal waters.

Welcome

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