Updates!!! :)

Well I know I have been kinda lax in blogging. I am sorry : ( Well I little update on things. First with the girls. Ally got an ear infection toward the beginning of November and went through 3 does of 3 different antibiotics. She just finished the last set about a week ago. She seems to be doing fine but we will see. Not much for Kyndal going on. Still crazy, LOL.

Well for me. I has recent eye appt and an appt with my neurologist this week. We dicided to start on a Medicine call Diamox. It a kind of water pill that will reduce the fliud behind the eye, in the brain and the fluid that the spinal cord is make. So that what we are doing. Now we are just praying for no side affects from the med. It has a 1 in 100 change for kidney stones. So pray for none of those.

Last night witht the freezing rain we lost power at around midnight. Luckely we have a generator that powers the furnace, water pump, lights in the kitchen, microwave, and the fridge. So we have been very lucky. Since we heat with wood we have stayed warm. Its a little darker than normal but kinda fun. There is a power outlet by the breaker box that we plugged an exstention cord into and are now about to watch a movie. So we have TV. :) I don't think that really counts for roughing it. If anyone wants to come get a warm shower and you wan make it up our hill, come on!! :) I took some pic of our road when we went out this afternoon. I will put them up later. Even though it sucks it was kinda pretty outside. :) There were about 4 power lines down on one of our roads.

Anyway, hopefully I will stay up now. I was doing so well too. I am a slacker I know. LOL Well I'm off to watch Horton

Greater Impact a Joyous Ouch.

Greater Impact is the name of the GCC building campaign. Last night we had a commitment dinner. The food was great. :) But that's not what it was all about. The past couple of sermon series, have really been speaking to us. I think the best place to start would be the sermon on living with less. There are so many things we have that we don't need and could defiantly live without. Some of those things are debts that we don't need and if we got rid of them we could put that money to better use. I have always wanted to be able to bless people in different ways but have always felt held back because of budget reasons. So Jake and I have really been trying to get rid of the unnecessary things. We are right now in the process of getting rid of our van, oh how I hate to say that. I love our van, it is sooooo perfect for us. But you know it is an unnecessary debt. That we could live without. The money that we pay each month to out van note could go to a much better use.
Then we move on to the Greater Impact. Were we have been asked to make a 3 year commitment to give to the building fund. We have been challenged to pray and ask God what he would have us give. Big or small. I think the best way I have heard it put was from the speaker last night. He was talking about a campaign that they were asked to do for there church and how there were talking about there giving being a sacrifice. So said he was asking his 2 sons what the word sacrifice means to them in one word. His oldest, type "A" son he called him, said "Ouch". His youngest, type "Z", said "Joy". When he asked his type "Z" son why he said Joy he said because the sacrifice would be for Jesus and it would bring Joy to him. So he said they came to the conclusion that sacrifice was a Joyous Ouch. Which is so right. Giving the amount we would like to give or that God is telling us to give would defiantly stretch us and make us fully trust in god to provide for us. There is no way we could do it without putting our faith in him to provide. 3 years is a long time to make a financial commitment when you don't even know what the future is going to bring. But all we need to do is trust God that he knows what he is doing and that he will not let us go hungry or homeless.
I feel like I have done a bit or rambling, and it may not all make since to some of you. But then again I really hope it does and that it speaks to you.

A Greater Impact from Grace Capital Church on Vimeo.

Birthday Party Pics!!

About to dig it, but still not to sure what to do.

Every child need to take a pic with there birthday cake. Just ignore the spot that Jake messed up when he was taking the cover off. :)

LOL Major cake over load.

I lOVE this one. I made her her own cake from the leftover sides.

Peeking in.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLY!!!

Ok so we had a little birthday party for Ally this past Sunday. She will be 1 on Thursday. Wow the year has totally flown by. I knew it would go fast but come on give me some more time. :) So I took her outside after we got home from church and took a few pics. What I could by myself. She had a really good time. Eating cake, lol. She has been having a little runny nose and runny eyes since Thursday. I just thought it was a cold or allergies, since we all have them. So Monday Jake took her to the Dr. to get it checked out. Come to find out, she has a doubt ear infection. The Dr. said that she couldn't even believe that she was still sitting there smiling. I guess we have super tough girls. :) so hopefully she will be feeling alot better on her actual birthday and I can get some pics that don't have red puffy eyes. So here are some good ones that I took.

FALL

Some fall pics of our place!


Well Last week we finally found the right 4x4 vehicle. We got a 2000 Ford Explorer. Its nice and drives great. I still need to detail it but other than that its perfect. We are still praying about giving up our van so we can get out of debt. Jake is really wanting to be debt free and really our van is the only thing we have right now. We wanna give it up and save some money to buy another 4x4 family vehicle. So we just keep praying about!!

Matching Dresses

My mom had dresses made for the girls, in Patriot colors. Kyndal's is too short for her but maybe with some legging it will work. But still really cute!!

Kyndal Horseback Riding Pics!!