Always Abounding in Joy

What a week we have had, I will start of at the beginning.

July 31, Grandma went home to be with the Lord, at 7:09 am.
July 31, My truck had a major explosion under the hood at 8:55 am, on the way to the dentist. We thought it was the manifold.
August 1, We got up early and started moving things to the "new" house. What did we find in our old house?? hmmm....a dead snake and 4 brand new kittens!! We were almost completely moved by 2 pm Friday afternoon and we even slept in the new house.
August 2, unpacked at the new house
August 3, Church and a BBQ for my nephew who is heading to Afghanistan.
August 4, CLEAN the old house
August 5, close on the old house and shed a lot of tears!!
August 6, Pick up my truck which happened to be just a spark plug the broke and shattered!! took 4 hours to replace. Then head to CT to spend the night for the funeral.
August 7, Funeral then head home in the evening.
August 8 ANNA is 6 :) wake up to severe abdominal pains, spend the day waiting for the pain to go away then finally around 9pm tell Phil I need to head to the ER.
August 9, hooked up to iv antibiotics and the kids head to my cousins surprise 3oth party Jay (my nephew) heads to Afghanistan.
August 10, come home from the hospital and collect all the kids.
August 11, get up bright and early and head to eye doctors appt. for 3 out of 6 kids which turned out to be only 2 of the kids, apparently I can not read my own writing!!! ;)

So, as you can see there have been a few things happening this week, and I only touched on the big things that stick out...there are a lot more that I will not bore you with. But the question is does anyone want a cat?? :)

So, there are a lot of prayer requests in here.
Pray for my family still grieving the loss of Grandma
My nephew Jay Pepper who is in the Air National Guard in Afghanistan
Our settling into our new home, and the people who purchased our house will settle in nicely.
My continued recovery from whatever my infection was from.
and as always our support would continue to come in and we can be heading down to Guatemala quickly.