Well, we are in the new house, and getting settled in nicely! Oh how I love having everything all on one floor!!! So easy to clean! :)
And now it is time to start to pack up and get ready for CIT. We will be leaving on September 7 for 5 weeks. We are looking forward to seeing what we will be doing and learning while we are there. The kids are thrilled to be going to NC and seeing how different things are there. I love to read through the materials that we received to see what we are going to be doing while we are there. I was never a student it is a little intimidating to see what we are doing but also very exciting to see what we will be learning!
We said goodbye to our friends Steve and Becky Diem this past Sunday. They are now in Costa Rica for language school for the next year. How happy we are for them that they are there!
That is all for now! short and sweet just wanted to let you know where we were!!
We are packing AGAIN!!
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.
Bernice "Becky" Knudsen February 11, 1916 - July 31, 2008
This morning my Grandmother went home to be with the Lord. What a glorious day for her!
Her health has been failing for quite a while and we thought that she was not going to make it back in March. She pulled through, then 7 weeks ago she fell and broke her hip. Not a good thing for someone who is 92 years old. She had surgery to pin her hip in place so that she was not in so much pain then went to rehab for a few weeks. She came home July 9 from rehab and was well....being Grandma. :) She started failing quickly in the past week and a half slipped into a coma and we waited and watched all week, praying the Lord would take her home. Everyone was able to say good-bye to her. The kids would go in and visit with her laughing and giggling in her room which she loved to hear. It was also very hard for a few of them to watch her, but a good thing to watch and see how peacefully she died.
We are heading to CT next week for her funeral. Please pray for the family and others that will be there who will be hearing about the Lord, please pray that their hearts will be open to hear what is being shared. Most of my family are believers and it will be a wonderful celebration of her life.
Good-bye Grandma you will be missed! I love you...
