Busy Days

Well, with Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas soon approaching we have quite a schedule to fufill, so here's what's been going on...

We had Thanksgiving at our house with parents, grandparents, and brothers.

We shopped the day after Thansgiving with all of our children :)

The day after the day after Thanksgiving we went to the movies compliments of Southwire.

Sunday, we went to church and out to lunch with my Dad and Grandparents.

Today we are finishing up decorating for Christmas, and Darrian is leaving to play ball in Tennessee.

Friday December 4th  is my sunday school class Christmas tea.

Saturay December 5th is the Sanders Christmas at Donnie and Janices.

Sunday December 6th is the women's gift exchange at Providence (4:30)  AND the kids Christmas play at school (6:30).

Wednesday December 9th is the kids Christmas program at church in the gym (6:30)

Thursday December 10th  is my birthday!!

Wednesday December 16th is the youth video scavenger hunt at church, FUN!

Thursday December 17th is our small group Christmas party at the Clark's.

Friday December 18th is the kids school Christmas party at Mr. Gatti's.

Thursday December 24th is family communion at church.

Then, after we do all of our family Christmas get-togethers.....we leave the 26th to visit more family and friends.....see ya after the New Year!

UGH

Yes, Ugh- I don't have much else to say at this moment.  After e-mailing the embassy in Haiti and contacting the Adoption Agency, we have had no luck finding out when the DNA test will be scheduled.  For those of you who don't know-this is basically the last thing needed to seal this deal and they're taking their sweet time getting it done.  Of course I have 3 other kiddos here keeping me very busy as usual.  Jadeyn and I had a mom/daughter day out on Monday in Owensboro.  We went to Red Lobster for lunch and hit the mall.  She helped me pick out a coat, I have needed it due to the cold weather this week.  We went to Wal-Mart and she picked out a little something for being so good. :)  Shaylen and I will be going out sometime over the weekend for his mom date and Darrian will be playing basketball out of town.  Hopefully we will have some adoption information soon but for now.......we wait.

The Big Quilt Giveaway

This year is Providence Baptist Church's (my home church) 100th year.  The church has had a year of celebration in honor of this big year.  They collected quilt pieces from the church family members and a lady from the church made a quilt to give away during homecoming.  As we arrived a greeter gave everyone a "chance" at the quilt, kiddos and all.  I would guess around 200 or so chances were in that box.  They had special music, a time of recognition for members, guest speakers, etc.  Right at the end was the big quilt giveaway.  Joy, a lady from church went up and held the box of chances out for Brother Shane to pick the winner.  She took it back and shook it some more for good measure...then he took out a name.  Steven DeWitt!!  We couldn't believe it, Steven won the quilt.  I think some of the ladies would've liked to taken it away from him, one even offered him money for it, but he made it out safely-quilt in hand.  We have the quilt stored in the closet until we decide exactly what we need to do with it.  Do we keep it out?-do we put it up?  We're not sure......

Poor Marley.....

Last Tuesday our yellow lab Marley got hit by a golf cart (of all things). It messed his leg up pretty bad. The vet had to sedate him and stitch his leg and he spent 6 nights at the vet $$$$ So last night was his first night back home and he was supposed to stay inside, well that didn't work out so well. At 2:45 this morning he starts whining so Steven gets up and takes him out, by 3:15 he has still not settled down, I could hear him messing around on the linoleum in the living room-banging the big cone on his head around. Yes that is funny-but not so much at 3 in the morning-as say 3 in the afternoon. So Steven took him out and tied him on the porch where he couldn't go anywhere and I guess he went back to sleep, or at least I did! He is supposed to have his bandage changed tomorrow and his stitches out in a week-it's almost like having another kid!

Help Us Find Clarity....!?!

Life is full of decisions. From very small meaningless ones to very big meaningful ones. As some of you may know Steven and I have begun what we thought was our new home back home -close to the grandparents, where I grew up. We put the house we live in now up for sale over 2 years ago-yes over 2 years ago. To this day we haven't even had an offer made on it. Shortly after putting our house up for sale we began the basics at the farm. Building spot leveled-check, septic tank-check, driveway-check, house plans-check. The kids are so excited, well they were, now we are all starting to wonder where this going....right now nowhere. All the building spot seems to be good for at this point is a parking spot for an old Ford Ranger. Our prayers for quite some time have been for clarity. And so far we have none. We really want to do the right thing though it seems we have no direction at all. I feel the need to be close to my grandparents during these days, I still have a lot to learn from them. Here at our present home we have a great church family, they are more like just family, the kids go to a great Christian school, and we are content. That is until we visit the farm where we planned to move, or my home church (like we did last Sunday for homecoming-where by the way we have another great church family), or when I go to doctor appointments with my grandparents that remind me of how I need to be closer to them. Then we start to ache to be back there. So as you may see clearly the only thing we see clearly is the fact that we are confused, very confused, and in need of some clarity. I'm writing this post just to ask all who stumble across it to pray for us and for God to give us direction. We are accepting words of wisdom, no begging for them actually. But if you could just say a prayer for us we would be very grateful. Thanks

Home from Branson..

Well we are home. We had a long trip to Branson on Monday. We arrived around 7:45 and found a pizza buffet because we were hungry. After pizza we checked in to the condo and got settled. On Wednesday we went to Lamberts Cafe for a late lunch and then to the Sight and Sound Theatre to see Noah the Musical. It was really good. Thursday was our big shopping day and then Friday we traveled home. The girls did a 5 session bible study called Girl Talk. It was really good, for the adults as well I think. It was about our words. Back at home Shay and Jadeyn stayed between a friend and a grandma. On Friday Steven was off so they along with Andrew and Eliza went to Louisville to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and then to a Tim Hawkins show. I think we all had a good week. Tiring though. Hopefully we can get rested up this weekend!

Busy Saturday

Steven and the boy are off to paintball today at Diamond Lake with some boys from church- so you know what that means. Yep, it's me and the girls today. We have a pretty busy day today. First we're off for biscuits and gravy at Little Daves (yes you heard us right Steven and Shaylen Little Daves it is). Sorry you couldn't be here.. Then, well my gas light is on in the Expedition so I should probably take care of that. Then we have to let carpet cleaners in for a business I clean for, then (sorry girls) flu shots at 9:45. While strategically avoidng the HUGE Hwy. 60 yard sale mess we will then head to the church and finish cleaning and fill the baptistry for a baptism tomorrow. After that we will come back home and clean OUR house, and pack for a few days away. Darrian and I are going to Branson with the youth girls from church (which is way funner than paintball with the boys by the way). So we have a very busy day.... better get started.