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1.24.2010
Sonya turns 50!
My mother-in-law turned 50 this month. So we threw a surprise party for her at our house! The whole family came! We all had a great time! Mini-burgers, cake, dancing, even Pin-the-Tail on the Donkey!
1.10.2010
New Year
I am so glad that it is finally 2010. 2009 could not end soon enough! :)
I realized I haven't blogged in almost 2 months! You may have even given up on ever hearing from me again! ha! November and December were very busy months. I pretty sure I didn't sit down until New Years Day!
We had a good time with our families over Christmas. We took the youth to Gatlinburg for the Scott Dawson winter youth conference. It was very good this year. The kids really enjoyed it - or at least they seemed to! :) I hardly have any pictures of any thing with Christmas or the youth trip. Sometimes I get too worried about getting a picture and I don't enjoy the moment or the time. So this year, I just decided to enjoy everything and not worry about getting a good picture.
Life's a little bit crazy right now, okay, a little, I'm sorry - it's a lot crazy! In fact I have been pretty bummed about 5 or 6 things going on in life right now. So the other night I had to sit down and list all the good things in my life - which do out weigh the not so good, confusing things in life. :)
One fun thing that is going on is that Brent and I are taking dancing lessons starting this week! We got them for our parents for Christmas and so we are going to take too! It's only 6 weeks - ballroom and latin. My parents preferred the ballroom lessons and Brent's parents preferred the latin lessons - so Brent and I decided to take both so that we could be with each set of parents. It should be fun. Of course you can sign up for session 2 when this first 6 weeks is up, so we'll see how it goes! We took lessons for a few weeks while we were in Texas and really enjoyed it.
I found this note on one of my friend's website - I really liked it.
“casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel that He cares for us. Christian, do not dishonor your faith by always wearing a brow of care. Come and cast your burden on your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight that you Father would not feel. What seems to be a crushing burden to you would be like a little dust on the scale to Him. Nothing is so sweet as to “Lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.” … What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of divine care! With a little oil in the cruse and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why do you need to worry? Can you trust Him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens; He has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul; be done with fretful care, and leave all your concerns in the hands of a gracious God.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
Hope you are enjoying the new year!
I realized I haven't blogged in almost 2 months! You may have even given up on ever hearing from me again! ha! November and December were very busy months. I pretty sure I didn't sit down until New Years Day!
We had a good time with our families over Christmas. We took the youth to Gatlinburg for the Scott Dawson winter youth conference. It was very good this year. The kids really enjoyed it - or at least they seemed to! :) I hardly have any pictures of any thing with Christmas or the youth trip. Sometimes I get too worried about getting a picture and I don't enjoy the moment or the time. So this year, I just decided to enjoy everything and not worry about getting a good picture.
Life's a little bit crazy right now, okay, a little, I'm sorry - it's a lot crazy! In fact I have been pretty bummed about 5 or 6 things going on in life right now. So the other night I had to sit down and list all the good things in my life - which do out weigh the not so good, confusing things in life. :)
One fun thing that is going on is that Brent and I are taking dancing lessons starting this week! We got them for our parents for Christmas and so we are going to take too! It's only 6 weeks - ballroom and latin. My parents preferred the ballroom lessons and Brent's parents preferred the latin lessons - so Brent and I decided to take both so that we could be with each set of parents. It should be fun. Of course you can sign up for session 2 when this first 6 weeks is up, so we'll see how it goes! We took lessons for a few weeks while we were in Texas and really enjoyed it.
I found this note on one of my friend's website - I really liked it.
“casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel that He cares for us. Christian, do not dishonor your faith by always wearing a brow of care. Come and cast your burden on your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight that you Father would not feel. What seems to be a crushing burden to you would be like a little dust on the scale to Him. Nothing is so sweet as to “Lie passive in God’s hands, and know no will but His.” … What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of divine care! With a little oil in the cruse and a handful of meal in the barrel, Elijah outlived the famine, and you will do the same. If God cares for you, why do you need to worry? Can you trust Him for your soul, and not for your body? He has never refused to bear your burdens; He has never fainted under their weight. Come, then, soul; be done with fretful care, and leave all your concerns in the hands of a gracious God.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
Hope you are enjoying the new year!
11.29.2009
Destin turns 2
My brother's baby turned 2 in November. Below is the cake Britt made and Destin blowing out the candles - as best he could! HA!
Destin's train set from his mom and dad.
Daddy and Destin
Destin's train set from his mom and dad.
Daddy and Destin
11.23.2009
Brent builds a fence
This is Brent adding on to the fence!
Here are the last pictures of Hurley and Cody together. :(
Here are the last pictures of Hurley and Cody together. :(
11.22.2009
What did we do in October?
We went to a costume birthday party for two guys in our church who were turning 50. It was a fun night!
Brent was very proud of his red-neck wrestling costume!
Ashes had an Apple Dipping Party! I got the idea from my friend Sandra! It was so fun!
I love these girls - they are so much fun!
Shannon's apple had everything on it. This is her trying to eat it! :)
Brent was very proud of his red-neck wrestling costume!
Ashes had an Apple Dipping Party! I got the idea from my friend Sandra! It was so fun!
We had a blast! We also talked about how God wants us to be warrior princesses for Him.
I love these girls - they are so much fun!
Shannon's apple had everything on it. This is her trying to eat it! :)
For those who don't know - Ashes is a girl's Bible study we do at church.
We had Fall Bon-fire
at the Angle's house.
at the Angle's house.
We went to Youth Quake.
The pictures tell it all.
Cold, wet, and crowded! Yet a bit fun! :)
October was pretty busy! (plus I left my camera at mom's or Britt's and I did not get it back till yesterday.)
11.15.2009
Video at the bottom
Brent went to Houston this weekend to NEHBC where our friend Tim is the youth minister. The video at the bottom of the page is a highlight of the weekend, from Tim's blog. Check out Tim's blog and the great ministry he and his wife, Sharon are apart of!
So I had to put the video at the bottom of the page b/c I can't figure out how to put it in a normal post. Sorry.
So I had to put the video at the bottom of the page b/c I can't figure out how to put it in a normal post. Sorry.
11.08.2009
Orphan Sunday
Today is National Orphan Day! And Brent was asked to preach - well not because it was this day, it just happend to be that MJ was out of town. But I thought it was a neat circumstance. :)
I think God makes cool details happen like that.
Also we finished our fund-raiser of selling Boston Butts for our adoption. It was so great! Our goal was to sell 100! I knew it could happen, I was just wondering if it would, and IT DID!!! YAY PRAISE THE LORD!!
Actually, the cut off was 96 because of the way we had to cook them, but some people gave more than just the price we set for the boston butt, so we raised as much as if we had sold 100 and maybe a few more! We are so excited! We can almost pay for our entire home study! This is a great encouragment to us! Especially since the last fund-raiser was a wash - literally too -haha -it rained that day. We almost wanted to give up on everything and move back to Texas!!
But perhaps it did not go well because we had not yet changed our adoption back to Peru.
We are so excited about adopting from Peru. It's so right. I just know it!
We have future fund-raisers planned for January - April. Please pray for the Lord to prompt people to give. We cannot do this without the Lord or without others giving for a sweet child in Peru! But God never starts something that He does not finish, so I just have to be patient - which really stinks. I'm no good at being patient.
But back to Orphan Sunday. His Voice for Sudan is a non-profit that our friends Vernon and Amber have been blessed to start some orphanages there.
Here are the links for their sites:
http://www.vimeo.com/1875783 - this is a great video that Amber made.
http://www.hisvoiceforsudan.com/-this has all the info you need about Vernon and Amber's non-profit, plus videos and pictures.
http://www.hisvoiceforsudan.blogspot.com/-this is their running blog. It is fun and current!
I think God makes cool details happen like that.
Also we finished our fund-raiser of selling Boston Butts for our adoption. It was so great! Our goal was to sell 100! I knew it could happen, I was just wondering if it would, and IT DID!!! YAY PRAISE THE LORD!!
Actually, the cut off was 96 because of the way we had to cook them, but some people gave more than just the price we set for the boston butt, so we raised as much as if we had sold 100 and maybe a few more! We are so excited! We can almost pay for our entire home study! This is a great encouragment to us! Especially since the last fund-raiser was a wash - literally too -haha -it rained that day. We almost wanted to give up on everything and move back to Texas!!
But perhaps it did not go well because we had not yet changed our adoption back to Peru.
We are so excited about adopting from Peru. It's so right. I just know it!
We have future fund-raisers planned for January - April. Please pray for the Lord to prompt people to give. We cannot do this without the Lord or without others giving for a sweet child in Peru! But God never starts something that He does not finish, so I just have to be patient - which really stinks. I'm no good at being patient.
But back to Orphan Sunday. His Voice for Sudan is a non-profit that our friends Vernon and Amber have been blessed to start some orphanages there.
Here are the links for their sites:
http://www.vimeo.com/1875783 - this is a great video that Amber made.
http://www.hisvoiceforsudan.com/-this has all the info you need about Vernon and Amber's non-profit, plus videos and pictures.
http://www.hisvoiceforsudan.blogspot.com/-this is their running blog. It is fun and current!
These past two weeks.......
Brent did a funeral this week. Very sad.
Matthew 11:28-30: "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
The week really did not get much better in the fact that someone shot our puppy, Hurley. Point blank, in the face. His whole right side of his face was gone. In broad daylight. At the stop sign by our house, Brent was outside with them. We know it was one of our neighbors. Which one is a mystery. But neither of our neighbors like us. I think the feeling is mutual. Poor Hurley. He was not even a year old. So sweet and friendly. Loved to play chase and tug-of-war and run crazy around the house with Cody and toss a ball in the air. Cody did live. He came streaking back to the house after the shot was fired. Brent had to take Hurley off and get rid of him all by himself. I was at work. That night Cody curled up in our closet and only came out once to go outside and then straight back to the closet. We took him to the vet the next day. He had small pieces of shrapnel in him. But he got a bath there and is much better. All though it is sad, because Cody keeps looking for Hurley to come home.
We've been doing a Bible study on Anger in our sunday school class. And it has come at a good time. Probably because of me. Obviously shooting our dog made me very angry, but there are other situations in recent weeks that just make me so angry too, so apparently I need to learn to deal with my anger! :) There are three different ways people handle their anger by Stewing, Spewing and Solver. I'm a spewer and Brent is more a stewer! HA! What a combination! But it is a really good study.
Maybe next week will be better.
Matthew 11:28-30: "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
The week really did not get much better in the fact that someone shot our puppy, Hurley. Point blank, in the face. His whole right side of his face was gone. In broad daylight. At the stop sign by our house, Brent was outside with them. We know it was one of our neighbors. Which one is a mystery. But neither of our neighbors like us. I think the feeling is mutual. Poor Hurley. He was not even a year old. So sweet and friendly. Loved to play chase and tug-of-war and run crazy around the house with Cody and toss a ball in the air. Cody did live. He came streaking back to the house after the shot was fired. Brent had to take Hurley off and get rid of him all by himself. I was at work. That night Cody curled up in our closet and only came out once to go outside and then straight back to the closet. We took him to the vet the next day. He had small pieces of shrapnel in him. But he got a bath there and is much better. All though it is sad, because Cody keeps looking for Hurley to come home.
We've been doing a Bible study on Anger in our sunday school class. And it has come at a good time. Probably because of me. Obviously shooting our dog made me very angry, but there are other situations in recent weeks that just make me so angry too, so apparently I need to learn to deal with my anger! :) There are three different ways people handle their anger by Stewing, Spewing and Solver. I'm a spewer and Brent is more a stewer! HA! What a combination! But it is a really good study.
Maybe next week will be better.
10.18.2009
New this month:
We decided (finally) to head back to Peru for our adoption.
Brent's mammow is getting married today.
I am reading Job in my time with the Lord. It's interesting.
Brent's mammow is getting married today.
I am reading Job in my time with the Lord. It's interesting.
10.11.2009
Earlier this month......
Ryder turned 2. He received ducks for his birthday from Brent and April. Seriously. Brent even made a duck house!
We had our 5 year anniversary. Now about that. When I was younger - I mean as in a teenager, I thought that when you had been married for 5 years that that was a very long time - in today's world it actually is a long time, but I apparently thought that you had a job or jobs that paid a lot of money and you could take a "second honeymoon" or travel to a very fancy place such as Hawaii, Europe if you were really lucky. I have no idea from who or where I got that idea, but it is so not true in our life. So our very fancy place turned out to be Nashville. We returned to the scene of the crime - the Parthanon on Vanderbilts' campus - this where Brent proposed 
to me. It was a bit crazy in Nashville. There was a came at Vandy later that day and the Celebration of Cultures festival was going on. It was pretty interesting. We had good time walking around the park and seeing the different cultures. We ate lunch at place Brent discovered when he and Tim went to Nashville for a youth minister's c
onference.We will finish our homestudy on Tuesday! WHAT?!?! That's exciting! But there are probably going to be some changes in our adoption. The Lord has been doing somethings and I've been thinking and Brent and I have been talking. So we will see on Tuesday. Just pray. I am not the best deciphering what to do. I am as James describes as "a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." But I'm pretty confident in these changes. So updates will come!
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