Summer Fun #1

Random Kid Stuff

Spring break fun

John opened his first banana by himself today... rather than asking me... NOTE TO SELF: keep bananas up higher. He also used a red marker to give himself a "hickey" on his neck and paint his nails

Amie's 4th Birthday.m4v

Prayer

Stolen from Jason's blog: We won’t be able to purchase the house we were attempting to buy. We are now in need of a rental post-haste. Please pray for us: that God will provide a house quickly, but mostly that we will continue to trust in Him, even though things are suddenly very uncertain.

Snowy snowy snow.

Thank you LORD for snow on May 22nd, so I can finish off my soup ingredients.

Our new house

Our New house Click here

Happy Easter

Photos from our trips

Snow, power and boo boos.

We have had snow for a week now. Four feet total. A neighboring town has 10 feet and still no power since Wednesday. We have been without power several times... but not constantly!

On Tuesday, Abbie's fingers were crushed in a school door accident. Her friend who shut the door was devastated. Here are some LOVELY pictures!

And a little snippet about the snow... note the azalea bush in the background blowing away!

Moving again.

Moving again. 8th residence in our 10 years of marriage. Johns 4th in his 22 months of life... 5th if you count in utero. ~TIRED~

We are blessed to have a parsonage to move into.

So maybe I will start blogging again... someday.

Scared

For over 4 years, my husband and I have been carrying a sign. (It isn't a real sign) It says "Church". It even has a nice 4x4 beam... ready to plant it somewhere. 4 years ago we were brought to this town, given a church building and started digging a hole for our sign on the corner of 4th and Delwood.

It seemed like the perfect place. There was a free house, a free church building and a few workers. It looked like the perfect place to put our sign. For a long time we tried to dig a hole right there on the corner... adjusting for things like rocks and roots.

Those rocks and roots ended up being more than we could handle.

One rock was found after a year of struggling... a pedophile in the leadership of the previous church! The pedophile had been sentenced for several life terms and the church split, the people of Westwood ran the pastor out of town.

Roots were more difficult... Previous pastors had informed the locals that drinking, smoking, rock music and dying your hair are all sins to repent for...

So while digging post holes, carrying our sign.... we have been carrying the weight of this building and the previous churches who met here.

Then there is the muck... Digging hasn't been in the best of circumstances. We came up with the fear of failure. We were told that we would never make it, we were ruining our children, Westwood isn't worth it... Then there was my parents ugly divorce, my aunt died in my car while I was driving, then the house fire, then learning we were GROSSLY under insured. AND the moving and moving and moving!

We have tried moving the digging to other places with various minor results...

Now after a full scale attack (We put a flyer on every doorknob in the main part in town) we have received little response.

We are pulling back... retreating.

We are now a Saturday night bible study.


Tomorrow morning (Sunday) we will not be digging.


I am afraid.

I have been digging for so long. I don't know how to NOT dig. I feel adrift.

Did I not look up to the sign giver and check for directions?
Did we fail?

I should have looked up more.
We have not failed.

Satan is still on the attack...
There is still much to do.
We don't know where we will be digging...
But for now, it will be at our new location... on Saturday nights.

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Music Mondays

summer photos

It's been a summer... vacations were hard, car air conditioning stopped working, John was bitten by a dog, Amie dislocated her elbow and had limited use of her arm for 4 days... When does school start?

Westwood August 2009

Music Monday

Happy 4th of July