Happy New Year

A new year is starting in a few hours and I don't have any specific resolutions. All the things I could put down are pretty much lifetime goals for me so I just like to thank the Lord and celebrate with my family. I have so very much to be thankful for! As I enter this new year I'm going to do it with all the determination and commitment I can YET try as hard as I might, I know it is impossible without the Lord! So I guess I do have a resolution. My only resolution is to seek Him more than ever and leave everything in His hands. That should pretty much take care of it all. :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Merry Christmas

It's Christmas Eve and the house is abuzz with activity for this evening and tomorrow. I've got almost everything done! Gio is off at noon today (yey!) and he'll be here helping. He has worked 10 days straight so we haven't gotten to do any Christmas things together.
In Chile, the people celebrate Christmas late Christmas Eve. My family always celebrates Christmas morning so it works out well. I'm really loving the holidays this year with my children. They love all the decorations, baking, music.
Because of the snow I wasn't able to get much of my Christmas baking done and then I haven't been able to deliver anything that I did make. I've missed not visiting people. So to all the people that I didn't get to see, Merry Christmas and God Bless Us Everyone!!! (I mean that seriously) :)

Happy Birthday to Me

Well, today is my birthday. My 28th birthday. There's nothing too monumental about this age and nothing monumental happened today. :) It wasn't anybody's fault, except nature's. We live on Tiger Mt. and the road from our house to the main road is pretty much impossible with all the snow and ice right now. It snowed and snowed today! It was beautiful though!
I also woke up in the middle of the night with a swollen, tight throat and burning sinuses. I didn't feel like doing anything except sleeping and dragging around. Well, the holiday are here and I'm loving it this year with all my kiddos so a couple days of being down are just fine with me!

My husband commented a couple days ago that I have no pictures of myself on the blog. This is the only recent one where I'm looking at the camera, and don't have baby food all over my shirt. Since this blog is about me I'll burry my pride and actually put one on.

Happy Birthday Marcel

This blog is a couple days late but we were swamped so better late then never! Marcel turned 6 years old on the 5th. Wow! The dozens of people who tell you to "Enjoy them now because they grow so fast" were right. Marcel is definitely not grown but I can see how quickly it is going. He's changing so much! He used to love pushing Thomas the train around last year and now he's putting huge Lego sets together all by himself. He's reading, writing, adding....

Well, enough of my woes! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCELLA THE FELLA ! YOU ARE A CONSTANT JOY AND YOU MAKE LIFE WONDERFUL!!!

Thank you Lord!!

A couple days ago Giovanni dropped his car off at a mechanics. It had been shaking for a little while then started randomly dying. He got a call from the mechanic the next day telling him ALL that was wrong. He told Gio that he was extremely lucky because there was a gas leak and the car could have burst into flames at any minute. I thought about that a lot the next day and I have thanked God so many times for keeping him safe!

Joy To The Children

Marcel will be singing in our church's children's choir the 5th and 6th and the 12th through the 14th. The program is called "Joy to the children" and it's about George Mueller which is an awesome true story! It's different from all the typical Christmas programs. If you're looking for a great, FREE, event to take your family to, come see this.
Details can be found at
http://www.joytothechildren2008.com/