I feel like I live in the bleachers, watching the game of Pain

It is so heart wrenching to watch people I really, *really* love decide to live against God and then scrape through the consequences, bloodied and filthy.

The life of peace and calmness that He has given us brings with it the guilt of knowing that I don't deserve a single good thing.


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*Yippee* - *Woohoo* - *Hurrah* and *Yeay*!

ITS SNOWING!!!

Over and over again.

It just makes my heart happy.

The kids have been outside a good chunk of the day - Jesh just came in, always the last one to quit! As I was helping him out of his SOAKED clothes, I pulled off his snowboots and saw his cute toes staring at me. That's right: the child was wearing NO socks. ~sigh~ I swear I made him put them on the first time he went out! Who knows how long he was sockless...

I got a few cute pics of the pirate snowman that we made - I'll pretend like that was the plan, but it was mostly because we couldn't get the second eye to stay and the creativity just ran wild from there! :~D

Today's goals:

The words that come out of my mouth.

The things that I let myself think on.

The songs that I let my heart sing.



I want to make my God smile.

Have I ever linked this?

http://www.xanga.com/PintorsinHonduras

Our old blog, from when we were in Honduras.

I'm desperately trying to get my online/computer life organized today...wish me luck!

Does this make you miss summer or what?!

I've spent WAY too much time trying (once again) to figure out how to make my computer and my camera get along, still to no avail.

BUT I found this pic, and I adore it with all my heart! This is my best friend's son and horse, my "bonus boy" bouncing, with Evy and Israel in the background - yes, Israel is jumping to *another* trampoline! We love life at Byron and Lisa's!!

Something new

Wow, I haven't posted since England. That was EONS ago!! So much has happened...

I guess the biggest life-thing that's been going on is that Vicente has had 3 meetings with the County Sheriff's office to become a deputy!! Now, we haven't been hired or anything, but it's looking like a serious possibility. :~)

The long and short of it is: laying woodfloors just isn't a consistent enough job these days. We've been praying tons about what to do - we're willing to move *anywhere* and do *anything*! But this cop thing just keeps persisting. The more the Vman thinks about it, the more its something he'd love to do.

So, we'll see! He's already passed the written exam and the physical exam (no big shocker there - he was hatin it sick with a cold, and still whooped all over the other applicants, LOL!), and had the oral board interview yesterday. When he left the room they "had their eyebrowms raised and were smiling and nodding to each other". Sounds like a good thing!

Honestly, we'll be fine if this isn't what's in store for our future - but it sure is fun being on the journey!

He's gone

Vicente went to bed at 1:30 (we've never been much for packing ahead of time) and was out the door by 4am!
I'm sure this is him right now:

Our pastor came to pick him up, while I snuggled back under the covers with prayers swirling in my sleepy head.
Thank You, Lord, for creating such an amazing man.





Sadness will hit soon - I'm in the overwhelmed/overcaring-of-kids mode right now. :~)