I finally have a minute to sit and update this blog! Thanks for being patient! :)
On November 6 we received a phone call from Kendra at 9:30 pm. She told us she had been in an accident on the ropes course, had broken some bones in her back, had a CT scan at the ER and would be in pain for several months, would be flat on her back for a week, and she would eventually, the Drs. hoped, be okay. Wow! And a bride of three weeks to boot!
This caused some stress to us...no kidding! We carried on with our plans to move furniture the next day, praying all the while.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Furniture moving day!
Saturday is coming!! Saturday is coming!! We will be moving furniture out of the barge container and into the house!
We do not yet have a hard and fast move in and live there date; there are a few details that need to be taken care of like water filter/softener system, finish plumbing details, electrical trobleshooting (very minor) before we move in completely. But getting the furniture in will give us such a feel for our home.
I will keep you updated as we uncrate and get settled.
We do not yet have a hard and fast move in and live there date; there are a few details that need to be taken care of like water filter/softener system, finish plumbing details, electrical trobleshooting (very minor) before we move in completely. But getting the furniture in will give us such a feel for our home.
I will keep you updated as we uncrate and get settled.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Indian Summer!
We arrived in Portland, OR early Sunday morning. The kids all did so well on the flights and with long hours in the airport in ANC. I was glad I had booked a direct flight!
Our planned trip to visit friends in WA has not happened yet. All of their children were down with a cold virus and the mommies decided it was wiser not to expose the wedding party! We hope to be able to visit sometime over the week-end.
The weather has been absolutely amazing. A bit of fog in the mornings, and beautiful balmy blue skies the rest of the day. We have all enjoyed spending lots of time outside enjoying the sunshine and playing. Brad took the kids crawdad fishing! They all loved it and managed to catch one each!
Today is ropes day. The littles are very excited and all have special things they'd like to do. Dillon is looking forward to the climbing wall. Anybody surprised?!?!? :)
Kendra's friends here on the base had a bridal shower for her last night. It was fun to meet her friends and to see the special, loving, godly women my daughter is surrounded with. God has so blessed her!
Our planned trip to visit friends in WA has not happened yet. All of their children were down with a cold virus and the mommies decided it was wiser not to expose the wedding party! We hope to be able to visit sometime over the week-end.
The weather has been absolutely amazing. A bit of fog in the mornings, and beautiful balmy blue skies the rest of the day. We have all enjoyed spending lots of time outside enjoying the sunshine and playing. Brad took the kids crawdad fishing! They all loved it and managed to catch one each!
Today is ropes day. The littles are very excited and all have special things they'd like to do. Dillon is looking forward to the climbing wall. Anybody surprised?!?!? :)
Kendra's friends here on the base had a bridal shower for her last night. It was fun to meet her friends and to see the special, loving, godly women my daughter is surrounded with. God has so blessed her!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Salem, OR here we come!
We have been waiting for this day for 10 months and it is finally here! Susanna, Thomas, Dillon and I leave tomorrow for Salem to spend a couple of weeks with Kendra before her wedding. We are all SO excited! There are things we are looking forward to: McDonald's playland (nobody really wants to eat there, they just want to play!) "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" will be the first real theater movie the boys will remember being in, inexpensive gas and groceries, visits with Kendra and with dear friends, parks to play and run in, warm sunshine (just a little more Indian Summer in OR please Jesus! :)). And then there are things we are NOT looking forward to: lots of car time, traffic, driving "forever" whenever we need/want to go somewhere, stop lights, other cars, lots of people, did I mention traffic? :) Needless to say, we live a pretty quiet life here in our little bush city and the busyness of 'outside' holds little appeal.
We covet your prayers for travel safety as we make our way to the Lower-48.
We covet your prayers for travel safety as we make our way to the Lower-48.
Finally, FLOORING!
Oh my goodness! After reading the last posts about the barge and how ready our flooring expert was, I now look back and chuckle! Of course, this is Dillingham and nothing but nothing runs on the same time as elsewhere in the world. Long story short...the floors are laid and are in the process of being finished!!! Hooray! The kids and I went and peeked in the front door yesterday; the vinyl was not yet adhered to the floor, so we just looked from the porch. It was very exciting to see that the vinyl choice I had occasionally agonized over looked terrific, with no discernible seam! Thank you Lord!
The next thank you is to you our faithful praying freinds. The smoke smell in the house is no longer detectible. The side attics and floors had to be re-sprayed and that took care of the problem!
The next thank you is to you our faithful praying freinds. The smoke smell in the house is no longer detectible. The side attics and floors had to be re-sprayed and that took care of the problem!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Waiting for moose!
Hi again! Two posts in one day...wow!
Ron is hunting right now and it has been pretty hard on the kids and I for several reasons.
1) The kids are older this year and miss their Dad more than ever.
2) I don't have my 'big girls' here to help (for the first time). Alyssa is visiting Kendra in Oregon for a few weeks before her trip to Uganda on the 23rd.
3) Ron took two trips this year and has been home for one day in the last ten days-usually he has a moose by the sixth to eighth day and is home.
Dillon prayed in the car yesterday that daddy would get home last night. :( He is missing his Dad! All three kids prayed at bedtime last night for God to bring daddy home safely and soon!
He will be back no later than Wednesday, he has to return to work on Thursday, so we have the potential of a few more days without him.
Please pray these things for us (and however else God leads you!):
1) Peace in our home-we need a supernatural peace to descend on us. We are all on edge and are tending to snap at one another rather than love one another.
2) Safety for us as Ron is gone.
3) No more migraines for me! I was in the ER Thursday at noon for shots for a killer migraine. God used several of my dear friends to 'fill in' by taking the kids on a walk, cooking dinner and driving me to and from the hospital. Nevertheless the kids were worried and stressed by mom being so sick while daddy was gone.
4) Sunshine. We all feel better when it is sunny.
Thanks again for holding us up in prayer! I am so thankful for you all!
Ron is hunting right now and it has been pretty hard on the kids and I for several reasons.
1) The kids are older this year and miss their Dad more than ever.
2) I don't have my 'big girls' here to help (for the first time). Alyssa is visiting Kendra in Oregon for a few weeks before her trip to Uganda on the 23rd.
3) Ron took two trips this year and has been home for one day in the last ten days-usually he has a moose by the sixth to eighth day and is home.
Dillon prayed in the car yesterday that daddy would get home last night. :( He is missing his Dad! All three kids prayed at bedtime last night for God to bring daddy home safely and soon!
He will be back no later than Wednesday, he has to return to work on Thursday, so we have the potential of a few more days without him.
Please pray these things for us (and however else God leads you!):
1) Peace in our home-we need a supernatural peace to descend on us. We are all on edge and are tending to snap at one another rather than love one another.
2) Safety for us as Ron is gone.
3) No more migraines for me! I was in the ER Thursday at noon for shots for a killer migraine. God used several of my dear friends to 'fill in' by taking the kids on a walk, cooking dinner and driving me to and from the hospital. Nevertheless the kids were worried and stressed by mom being so sick while daddy was gone.
4) Sunshine. We all feel better when it is sunny.
Thanks again for holding us up in prayer! I am so thankful for you all!
After living in the bush for nearly ten years, I thought that seeing a barge in the Bay was pretty commonplace...until I saw the barge pulling in last night (two days late)! I was SO excited! Why? Because that barge carries my flooring, appliances and furniture! In short, nearly everything we need to make the house our home! I can hardly wait! The flooring guy is ready to go as soon as the container with the flooring in it is located. The lights are all installed, with the exception of the hanging light in the stairwell. That one somehow got turned around in Anchorage by Fed-Ex. It is supposedly on its way back here...we will see!
I would like to ask you all to pray hard for something, please...we noticed a few weeks ago that there is still the smell of smoke upstairs. When the upstairs was gutted, most of it was sprayed and sealed with Kilz, but not the side attic storage areas. Ron and I pointed out the omission to Andrew (the guy who has done the lions share of the work) and he sprayed those attics after the walls had been rebuilt, insulated and drywalled. I am not sure whether or not the roof and ceiling joists were sprayed. Anyway, it still smells like smoke from aobut the middle of the stairwell on up the stairs and into the girls rooms. Ron and Andrew discussed it and Andrew thinks the smell is from the floor where the sealant has worn off from work crews. Ron authorized him to re-spray and lay a subfloor in the upstairs portion of the house. Please pray that this will solve the problem. If it does not we are left with a really yucky possiblity of having to gut the upstairs again! Really yucky on many fronts...time, money, flying a crew in from ANC AGAIN to re-do walls, winter is coming, and I could go on and on! :) I do know one thing-God is bigger than the lingering smell of smoke in the house! Actually, I know two things-God listens to the prayers, pleading and petitions of His people! Okay, make it three- all things, circumstances and events that touch my life are filtered through His fingers of love! Thank you so much for thinking of us and praying for us throughout this time of trauma, trial and triumph! It is a privelege for me to share with you all who God IS to us and what He has done and is doing in our lives.
Foe now I rest in this truth...my furniture, appliances and flooring are on that barge!!!
I would like to ask you all to pray hard for something, please...we noticed a few weeks ago that there is still the smell of smoke upstairs. When the upstairs was gutted, most of it was sprayed and sealed with Kilz, but not the side attic storage areas. Ron and I pointed out the omission to Andrew (the guy who has done the lions share of the work) and he sprayed those attics after the walls had been rebuilt, insulated and drywalled. I am not sure whether or not the roof and ceiling joists were sprayed. Anyway, it still smells like smoke from aobut the middle of the stairwell on up the stairs and into the girls rooms. Ron and Andrew discussed it and Andrew thinks the smell is from the floor where the sealant has worn off from work crews. Ron authorized him to re-spray and lay a subfloor in the upstairs portion of the house. Please pray that this will solve the problem. If it does not we are left with a really yucky possiblity of having to gut the upstairs again! Really yucky on many fronts...time, money, flying a crew in from ANC AGAIN to re-do walls, winter is coming, and I could go on and on! :) I do know one thing-God is bigger than the lingering smell of smoke in the house! Actually, I know two things-God listens to the prayers, pleading and petitions of His people! Okay, make it three- all things, circumstances and events that touch my life are filtered through His fingers of love! Thank you so much for thinking of us and praying for us throughout this time of trauma, trial and triumph! It is a privelege for me to share with you all who God IS to us and what He has done and is doing in our lives.
Foe now I rest in this truth...my furniture, appliances and flooring are on that barge!!!
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