Archive | November, 2009

China will never be the same!

25 Nov

My hubby’s trip to China! I know that they really enjoyed themselves! I visited China with my hubby a few years back and I have to say it is a life changing experience. He really wants me to go again so we shall see!

October was here and gone…

20 Nov

The birthday kiddos!October has come and gone with tons of stuff going on. We had two of our children, Daniel and Sarah both celebrate birthdays. Daniel’s was a little quieter than Sarah seeing that she was celebrating her 18th! Sarah also received her driver’s license and got the go-ahead to drive to school and back. She was beginning to wonder if her dad would be driving her to college and back, class to class. Talking about college, we went and visited Concordia and were very impressed by their campus and academic program. Now we are working on scholarships and admittance if Sarah decides to attend there.   We had the privilege of watching Christian Schnucker perform in his school play, “A Snake in the Grass” , which was very enjoyable 🙂  My hubby went to China (pictures) for 10 days with two other guys and they seemed to enjoy every minute of it. Not stretching that to the food as far as my hubby goes! We also purchased a new home over the last month so packing a few boxes and cleaning out some closets that really needed it, has been some of my extra chores. We plan on moving into our home in April or so of next year. The ladies at our church completed the first 6 weeks of our bible study, The Tabernacle by Beth Moore, which has been amazing and we have really expanded our insight and revelation. November is passing by rather quickly with the family travelling to Wichita for a few days and them my sister and her husband arrive the Friday after or 6 weeks. This is going to be a fun and busy time during this festive season.  Birthday Pictures!

News Bulletin…

2 Nov

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Sarah was inducted into the National Honor Society at Round Rock High tonight!

I am very proud of her and wish that her dad had been here to celebrate with us but I guess China was a little far at such short notice!!

Take a look at all the pictures!

October has come and gone……

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Kristen & Jeremy.

With my husband being in Chengdu, China, ministering to the underground church along with Flint and Jack, it leaves me kind of in charge around here.  Not something I really love as it does require some responsibility that I am not always confident in doing.  BUT GOD….. people see me as a confident person but no… humblyI admit that is only by the grace of God can I do anything!  Our Wild West Fall Fest was a great success at the church and I thank God for the amazing gifts the Lord has placed in my daughter, Kristen and her hubby, Jeremy, to do such great things for the Lord!  Wow, blessed – husband in China, teaching and training, kids here ministering for the Lord and me fulfilling the call of the Kingdom – I am blessed, what can I say!!!  Not without some tests along the way.  The night before the guys were leaving, my hubby goes out to shuffle vehicles so that he has the SUV ready out in the drive to zoom off to the airport at 4:45am the next morning.  Dead car!!  Not a good thing as we are not mechanics.  After placing the battery charger on the appropriate prongs, bingo, the vehicle starts the next morning.  Come to find out that someone had not closed the back hatch all the way, which promptly ran the battery down!   Not to my surprise, a few days before my hubby was to leave, our water pressure in the house becomes chronic, as in ‘none’!  He leaves it in my hands to deal with, thanks….. I was convinced that it was the water softener but was promptly told no by all advisers, it has to be a leak somewhere in the yard.  Called a plumber or two but was not convinced that one was needed especially seeing that just coming out to take a look would cost over $100.00, that I could really spend somewhere else.  I then called the city of RR and they send the water department out within 30 minutes and had the problem fixed in 3 minutes!!!  Yes, it was the water softener which still lays dead in the garage but thanks to a bypass switch that the kind gentleman from the water department told me about, we can now shower and rinse the shampoo out of our hair  – yeah, I love it when I am right 🙂