News

Okay I have a few comments on the current news I have been seeing on TV. (my opinion)

1. Condoleezza will be a good secretary of state. Props to the president for putting the first african american female in that position. I’m still pointing out that Kerry never had an african american as any of his staffers. action speaks louder…

2. Scott Petereson- The Jury probably made a good decision, however the cheering crowd was sick. It’s lose lose even with the prosecution winning. It is sad, no cheers should be made. And booing his parents was really beyond understanding. My goodness this whole thing has got to really hurt them.

3. That british aide worker in Iraq that was kidnapped got murdered. Those people are so sick. Why are there still people that don’t realize that they need to be dealt with.

4. Congrats to the democrats… looks like they are choosing a party leader with some values. He is even pro-life. Maybe they are finally getting the hint that most of America does not relate to far left agenda.

Okay… other than that.

I have loved being home with my sweet family. Saturday we all just hung out… so nice. At night Relevant had it’s open house party for their new office. I will post some photos as soon as I figure out why my iphoto is erasing pictures.

Sunday I helped with a shower for my friend Caroline. Kristy hosted it and it was a tea party. It was so cute! I’m glad Jaden will be born soon so Owen and he can hang. At night we met a nice couple with a little girl when we were out to eat the other night. They moved here hours earlier. I gave her my number and hope she calls since they don’t know anyone here.

Monday night we had our couples bible study. That has been such a blessing. I really like the girls in it a lot. AND we eat together every week. I’m so thankful.

A friend was in town tonight and we were able to grab dinner with her.

Did I mention the weather here is perfect. God bless states with out winter!

Dad is recovering at home now. Keep him and Susan in your prayers.

Owen Has A BLOG!

I have forced Owen to have his own blog… we are however waiting for JJ to succome to the pressure of bloggin. Click here to check up on the little guy.

PS dad is doing great. He came home from the hospital today :):):)

PPS anyone want to tell me how you put a link in your blog post?

What Comes Out

I have been pondering something that isn’t an entirely new thought in my Christian walk- but rather an applicable one right now. It is funny how when something is suddenly applicable to your Christian walk it goes from being memorized words/ concepts in your mind to the beginning of changes in your heart. I’m not saying I have never learned levels of this before, I’m sure I have. But it’s getting deeper I suppose… or I’m at least convicted that it needs to.

I have been really stressed out lately. You know having a lot of “those days” in a row. On top of that I’m exhausted. Drained. Then adding bad news around every corner… tiring. Yesterday, (or maybe the day before that,) was a day I really just wanted to have no responsibilities and the ability to go in a sound-proof room (with pads) to scream and throw things. But with sweet Owen at my side there was no time for a fit like this. Problem is, I have been feeling this way on several occasions lately. Like a spoiled disturbed teen-ager. I thought I moved beyond this??? YEARS AGO? So what is going on?

If you have been in a healthy church long enough you have probably been told before that circumstances don’t create you, they reveal you. Who you are when the Sh*& hits the fan (okay they didn’t use those words in church) is who you really are. How you react to things tells you a lot about yourself. This was re-iterated the other night by a friend who was talking about martial arts. He said that in training they tell you what you practice everyday will be the moves you use on the street when you are confronted. (only he said it better) He didn’t know he was speaking words of conviction to me.

It seems I really haven’t been digging in the word as much as I should, I am in it, but not enough. At this point (it’s not like I got saved yesterday) I really can’t afford to not be literally meditating on the Word, A LOT. It’s that whole adults eating baby food concept. If my time with the Lord is not deep- I’m going to pay for it- not from Him, but by lacking the blessing of Christ’s character and strength to deal with life. So when I have been hit, then hit and hit… I freak out. The words coming out of my mouth in the car aren’t scriptures.

Anyway, all this honesty to say I’m now accountable to go deeper. For myself, For my husband (who has to deal with me :)) and for my sweet boy who is going to absorb a lot from me since we are together all the time.

God is good to bring these things to light. Thanks God.

Homeward Bound

Thanks so much for all the prayers. My dad has really turned a corner. Yesterday they did a shock type thing to get his heart back in time. If that hadn’t worked they were going to put a pace-maker in. IT WORKED THOUGH! So no pace-maker. My dad’s spirits are so up. I called him last night and could hear it so clearly in his voice. He actually may even come home tomorrow too! Praise God. Now they will need prayers to go through the at home part of recovery. Pray for Susan’s strength and patience. And for dad a quicker than expected recovery.

I’m leaving for Florida tomorrow. I am so glad to be here in Ohio and see my family and a couple friends. But I’m so homesick for my husband. Poor little ozone needs his daddy and for life to get a little more “normal” if there is such a thing. I feel like he has been on airplanes his entire little life. I’m pretty beat. I also can’t wait to ditch the weather here and be back in tshirts. Ahhh the sun

Thanks again for the prayers.

A New Look

Yes, I changd my site’s appearance.

I’m feeling pink, but what’s new.

Daddy’s Heart Part 2

Okay an update on my dad, I will try to keep this brief, but I’m not so good at that.

On monday we had a scare with his heart rate dropping drastically… 4 beats a minute. They ended up attaching an external pacemaker and had to watch him to see if they needed to surgically put one in his body. His heart rate went back up and it seems the slow down was a reaction to one of his medicines. So it was good news to not have to do that.

He has been in atrial fibulation for a long time now though… so they are really trying to fix that. It isn’t super abnormal after a surgery like this, but it still needs to be regulated. They put him on some medicine for it today to try and get the heartbeat regular (the AF makes is irregular) but as of yet it hasn’t gone away. The dr. mentioned that tomorrow they may need to put him under and shock it into a rhythm. We are praying that he doesn’t have to do that. IT wouldn’t be a horrible thing, I just don’t want to see him go through anything more right now.

Susan has been spending the night at the hospital. Last night dad woke up really disoriented. He didn’t know where he was and why he was so bound up. He tried to get the sides off his bead and get out of bed. Thank God Susan was there and calmed him down and called for help.

Some encouraging things…

1. my friend meridith’s mom (who out of past experience I have learned that she really does have impressions from the Lord, and is so sweet and humble about it) she had prayed for my dad and saw a picture of him with angels all around in the hospital- she said to tell us that she has peace everything is going to be okay.

2. my husband was praying on the way to work and felt strongly that we need to be listening to worship. Then our friend Summer that works with them said she was praying for us and felt we really needed to be playing worship music. Pretty crazy - just that they both felt that without discussing it or anything. So I borrowed my aunts cd player and brought it to the hospital.

3. This is a much much bigger story but too long for blog. But something happened with the newest dr. visiting my dad. She is actually a dr. my dad had heard of a long time ago who had come up with a new procedure he was interested in. It ended up not being necc. for him because he was already going to have open heart surgery so another one made sense. He had been convinced that she would have something to do with finishing this all up… and was confused when she ended up not being involved. When I visited him today she showed up. And she is the one that is going to lasso control of this AF situation. When she left he cried tears of Joy because he had a strong feeling she was going to be involved- so it was confirmation to him.

It strikes me that what may be the special breath from God encouragement to someone else is different than what may be the encouragement that works for another person. To my dad this was like a break through. God knows him (as he knows all of us) so deeply. He knows his thoughts concerns heartaches hopes. God knew what he needed and for some reason seeing this dr. was it. He has been so down and discouraged and it just meant so much to see faith and joy in his eyes. It really was a break through.

on a wierd note- Ohio really is a strange place at the moment. I can’t describe it. Just so many weird things. I can just FEEL it! I have heard of so many friends here whose parents are sick and other things going on. I feel like I’m running into bad news here constantly. But God is in control and that is what matters. We know who wins in the end. But if I can have an abstract prayer request… Please pray for this area in general and my friends in general. Just feel like there is some massive attack going on. BUT what the enemy means for harm God uses for good.

If you actually got through this long blog. bravo. I have so much more going on in this head… but it is most important to me to write about my father right now. Thanks for all your prayers and sorry I am not sending out all the details in an email and made you visit my blog

specail thanks just have to go out too.

thanks meridith for helping me with owen last night on a moment’s notice

thanks john m. for making us a great steak dinner… mmmmm.

everyone for their prayers emails and calls

The President, The Vote, and ahhhh the Beach

Okay I gotta go back in time several days. But our trip to the Bush Rally was a blast! I didn’t have a clue we would be so close to him. We were literally 20 feet away at most. 5 of those feet being an empty walkway that he walked through. It was really surreal. I thought he would look fake all made up, but he looked exactly like he does on t.v. The whole day was fun. We went we some new friends- between us all their were 3 babies and one toddler so we designed little onsies (brandi’s idea) for them to wear. Owen’s was modeled off the 1980s CHOOSE LIFE tees underneath which said VOTE BUSH. The others said, PROLIFE BABY, BABIES 4 BUSH, and BUSH RULES KERRY DROOLS. We all just hung out on the baseball field while we awaited the President. THEN when he did come it was quite a production. First helocopters were circling and we could see secret service type snipers on the rooftops. Then this very official person comes (there is silence in the crowd) and puts the presidential seal on the podium. Then there was some young kid whose official job is to put his notebook on the podium. They act like spies while they’re doing this- so funny. Then of course the crowd goes wild when he finally gets there. (we were tired of lame country bands opening up :)) While he was speaking all the sudden this guy only a few people away from us yells “Where does the buck stop Mr. President” I thought, that doesn’t sound right. But when i looked over in the direction of the voice it was some small man who was holding embracing his wife while listening… that was weird. So the President continues and mentions our “enemies” and the lady yells WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES MR PRESIDENT. The president mentions Osama Bin Laden and the man yells WHERE IS BIN LADEN MR PRESIDENT. Now it was seeming freaky. The President breaks from his speaking and our friend greg that is even bigger than jeff starts screaming at him to leave. So tons of people started screaming and pushing toward him. I was worried for owen so I tried to push Jeff back (he was holding him) From out of absolutely NO WHERE secret service are all over him and he was gone. That was wild. Anyway… so many more details… but it was just wonderful. And now he has 4 more years to show America just how wonderful and finsh the things he has started. :):):)

The Beach was fun. Jeff and I love it so much. HOwever beach with infant is work Owen was scared by the roaring little waves coming in so he cried a lot. He was actually having a bad day in general Poor little guy. We’ll try again though.

We have new photo posts up with pics from the rally and from the beach.