We are moved in!

First let me say THANK YOU to the Hubers! Dave was so kind to help us with the move! Dana, thank you for watching Lorna so that I could tell the guys where to put things. We LOVE the apartment! There is so much storage here. We are going to leave as many things in boxes as we can. I will post some pictures as soon as I feel up to it. =)

I also would like to ask my family and friends to pray for one of our former pastors sons. His name is Micheal Skinner. He has been batteling a freekish attack after swimming at a theme park in GA. He has been on life support and is doing a little better. He is only 15 yrs old. The doctors have no idea what has caused this. Please pray for him and his family. I am believing God for a miracle!

I will keep everyone updated as I am updated. God bless!

Moving!

We move tomorrow! I have a a lot to do still. I am so excited! I went and looked at it today. It is really nice and there is a lot of storage space. We plan on leaving the majority of our things in boxes, except the essentials of course. We want it to be easy when we move again, could be in a year. Well, I have to surrender the computer to my hard working husband. He has a few papers due tonight...yucky!

Busy!

Well, it's been pretty insane the past few days. Clint finished his O'&P's test and PASSED! I have been packing as much as I can in a day w/o going mad. Of course now we may decide to wait until next Sat. to move instead of Tues. It depends on wether or not Clint can get enough done with his students this weekend. I guess I don't mind waiting a few more days. It would be nice to have extra time for packing. I am just so ready to get moved!

Praise God! I had a wonderful nights sleep the night before last. I really needed it! My friend Sunny-Brook prayed with me over the phone that I would have good sleep and God totally answered our prayers. Thank You Jesus! I was starting to get depressed. Thank you Sunny-Brook for caring and praying for me. Oh! I should mention that my Mother'n law also prayed for me over the phone, the same day! Thank you Annette!

I had a crazy-busy day today. Here is the gist of it(pulling a Dana here):

Woke-up-7:00 am

• Made Breakfast, ran out for coffee(apples currently not working), ran back home. Cleaned dishes, sorted clothes for wash. Wrote Father's Day cards, filled out medicade stuff. Loaded clothes in van, got Lorna ready. Left for post office, went to grocery store, picked-up lunch for Clint-took it to him at airport. Came back home, tried to take a brief nap. Got-up, took Lorna to Dr. Chaikin(she has a cold), picked Clint up from work, went to Pharmacy, dropped Clint off at "AS1", went home made speghetti sauce, went back to pharmacy to pick up prescription for Lorna. Got home, made pasta and the rest of the meal. Ate. Gave Lorna a bath, put her to bed, took clothes to wash, and came home cleaned up some, back to wash, put clothes in dryer and now waiting to go get them. I am officially tired! =) It's all good!

I talked with my friend Saige on the phone this evening! It was great to catch-up with her. She is staying busy too. She has a little one(Aubie) who is a few months older than Lorna(several months). She is teaching at her churches VBS. It was great that she made time to call me. We plan on keeping in touch and praying with each other about whatever. We prayed tonight and it was great! Thanks Saige!

Time for me to go now!

Couldn't Sleep

I woke around 3:30 this morning. Clint had only come to bed a little before that. After I woke up I felt really uneasy and felt like I needed to pray. I tried praying in bed but I kept having bad thoughts and felt really fearfull. When I decided to get up around 4:00 am, Lorna starting crying and coughing. I went into her room held her and prayed for her. After I put her back down, I went to the living room and started praying more. After a few minutes of praising and worshiping the Lord I finally had peace again. I went to bed and fell back to sleep after 5:00. This happens often. Especially when I plan on getting up early for some reason. Anyway, I'm glad that the peace of God is never too far away. I hope that one day I will understand why this happens so much. I only felt better after I worshiped Him and was not just praying over my deliverance or anyone else. He is WORTHY to be worshiped! =)

This morning Clint was holding Lorna in the Kitchen and while he was at the fridge she pointed to a magnet and asked," What's that?". It was so cute. After he told her she went onto several other things on the fridge asking what each one was.

Clint is taking the first part of his test today, please pray for him. Thanks!

Happy Birthday Mia!

Happy 1st. B-day to my cousins little girl!

The Gills

Please keep the Gills in your prayers. Andrew is currently in France with the Navy. Bree and the boys are living in a tent on a beach in Hawaii. Pray for strength for them while they are apart.

Missed Church

Well, we missed church today. =( Lorna woke up coughing in the middle of the night and I was up with her for a while. I guess she has a cold. I was terribly exhausted so I decided to stay home from church. Also I didn't want Lorna to get worse or make any other kids sick. Clint was going to go but saw how tired I was and stayed home so I could sleep. I REALLY appreciate him!

We still grabbed a bite out after I woke up, just to get out of the house. He is usaully stuck in the bedroom studying all day when he is home. It is nice to get out for some relaxed time. Several hours later we went to say farewell to the Thompsom's. The are moving back to Washington Monday or Tuesday. Moody reopended it's Aviation program. Mark is going to attend school there. BTW-They bought a calf with some one( bought 1/2 and had it slaughtered) it was raised free range w/o antibiotics and such...and they are trying to sell the meat they have left over from it. I think they are selling it for $3.50 a pd? I believe the Granary sell's meat there for $5.** a pd? If anyone is interested let me know by the earliest you can tomorrow. They can't take it with them on such a long trip. The money would help them out too. Just let me know.

Here are some pictures of my sister Dinah. She is sporting some new tatoo's. One is a flower on her neck. The other is a cartoon-like fish on her leg. She got the fish because it reminds her of a cartoon character we use to watch when were kids called"Small Fry".

Clint's "O's and P's" test is this week. Please pray for him to have peace and to pass. He has so much to study still. However, I know that God will get hime through this. God is so good!

I need advice. Lorna is still extremely picky with her food. We always make her atleast TRY her food, thinking she will decide it is not all that bad and eat it. However, she just spits all out. I have swatted her for it, but that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any advice? I am so frustrated about it. I know that she is not getting all the nutrients she needs. She is addicted to starches! This is what she will eat...yogurt(plain),banana's, bear mush cereal, milk, granola, mushed peas,potatoes, cracker, and chicken nuggets( frozen grocery store bag). I have tried rice, fish, hamburger, grilled chicken, and a variety of vegies. Is this good enough for her right now? I am worried about her health.

Oldies but goodies!

Pictures from home. My crazy family having a good time. Notice how my poor mom is completely unfazed! Chaos!
My mom made this quilt for Lorna! It is so cute!

(Far left: My brother Matthew, Cousin Jeremy, my sis Dinah, Me, Cousin Jacob, Cousin Joey, and my Bro Tony.)

Jammin!

Lorna loves music! Clint left some music on and Lorna discovered it! He was up really late studying.

Lorna Pics.

In this picture, where she has her hand up, she is in room-time. I am trying to establish some quite time everyday. She loves it!
The other is just a cute picture.

Talking!!!

This morning while I was preparing breakfast in the kitchen with Clint, the cutiest thing happened. I was at the sink and Clint was making coffee when we heard a little voice in triumph proclaim," Dare it is! Dare it is!". We both turned to see Lorna pointing at "Night-Night", her favorite stuffed animal. She had apparently been on a man-hunt for it. It was on the kitchen floor. She of course picked "night-Night" up right away and then left as soon as she came. It was just cute!

A few of her new words are:
"good"..."it's good?"
"Dis"...pointing.
"Dat"..pointing.
"Neigh"..." she will say this while playing with a toy horse"

She loves to pretend to read her story books. She will say things out loud that I don't understand. I know where she's at in the story because she will inflect her words the way I do when I read to her.

Yesterday, I had a last minute request from a lady in student affairs ,that I hardly know. She asked if I would watch her daughters 6 wk. old baby girl for 4 hours. Her daughter helps on a soccer teem and coudn't find anyone to watch her baby for the game yesterday. Her mom was working and her dad was too. I guess she's not married. Anyway, the way she came about my name was the nice lady at the cashier window in the business office. I hardly know any of these ladies! Well, I watched her little sweetie and everything was fine. I was in shock that the mom would leave her with someone she doesn't know. I'm glad she asked me though. Lorna was so excited and it was nice to get a taste of how things will be soon. Yeah!

Gotta run!

Links!

I lost the links I had!! Now I am having trouble putting them back! STINKY!

Bree's letter

This is a great story from Bree in Haiwii! Beautiful pics too!

Hello everyone!I cut the pictures in half from the last time and can cut them again if that would be better for everyone :) Hopefully they wont take quite as long to open. The first one shows one of the boys favorite game, Josiah can stand up on his boogie board at this point (when he is riding a wave). There is a favored turtle sun bathing spot on the way to North Shore. The second picture shows the boys first visit there. They snorkel with turtles in the water most every day but this was a new experience. The last picture is of the water falls after a rain. Our side of the Island (the windward side) has cliffs all along the center carved by falls and covered in rain forest like fauna. It is beautiful truly, just not pleasant if you have no dry retreat.Having boys keeps me young. I lost track of them the other day and figured they forgot to tell me they were going down the beach. After a while I had to run Drew back to work (a 15min round trip) and yelled and called to no avail. So I left and returned as quickly as I could only to discover I they were still not to be found. The camp ground shares the same spit of beach as the 4th recon unit. As I walked down to their end I noticed a Marine looking in the bushes like he was trying to locate something. To my horror I realized the possibility that my boys could be spying on the recons as they practice for their secret missions. Gathering my courage I asked him if he had seen two young boys. My voice startled him and for a moment he stared at me in my civilian cloths as if he was trying to figure out why I was there. He pulled himself together and quickly said no mam and walked away.Disappointed and beginning to be nervous I returned to our end of the beach. I noticed out in the bay, beyond the outer reef where the waves break and the currents pull, a tiny boat with two figures in it. It was so far away I could not make out if they were mail or female. Thinking only of my children I continued to walk when all of a sudden the hair on my arms began to tingle. I looked again as the boat drew a little nearer. Could it be? How? No it could not. I still could not make out any details at all but my heart would not let me dismiss it. Agonizingly slow, the boat approached the beach. Finally I could see the truth. There they were, two little boys in a boat out of the bay. My overwhelming relief that they were making it back was replaced with a shocking "light bulb". That boat was what the recon was looking for! Painted black for their night beach invasion simulation they had it in the bushes ready for dusk. My boys had stolen a military watercraft!I waited only long enough to see that they were going to reach the shore, the two adventurers grinning ear to ear, before I ran all the way back to the 4th recon unit's headquarters. There seems to be an unspoken rule that in order to be accepted into this unit one must be over 6 ft, perfectly fit and dashingly handsome. It was only after I entered the building, out of breath with all eyes questioningly on me that I realized I did not know what I was going to say. "My little boys took your boat out of the bushes right out from under your noses as you prepared for exercises and pulled it over 30 feet down the beach to the water, launched and made it out of the bay and back." was the humiliating unplanned speech that came blurting out. Astonishment and then mouths twitching one stepped forward and said "if it is back where we found it when we need it I guess we wont know the difference will we." "No, I guess not." I stupidly replied and without any further ado headed out to make sure my babies had made it in safe."Look, look mommy, someone threw away a perfectly good boat in the bushes! We rescued it and it works and everything!" Came the innocent and truthful exclamations as they neared the shore. With as stern a face as I could muster I ordered them to replace the boat right where they found it and bring their behinds right to the tent. "I am sorry mommy, we should have told you we were going out." came the next flood of innocent and naive responses. Not a thought of life jackets or the possibility the boat was owned (who keeps a boat in the bushes?). Well all is well that ends well and after careful explaining the sobered and slightly shocked explorers played quietly by the tent for the rest of the day.I miss you all and will right again soon, Bree

Lorna Pic's!

Here are few of Lorna. She loves playing on the porch with her toys and chalk. She also loves her babies and tries to feed them her snacks. She has a new toddler bed now. She isn't in it yet but will be soon. The beautiful quilt on the bed was made by Katie. it is so cool! It has little airplanes all over it. Thank you again Katie! She also has face paint on from the Alley fest show the other day. She was admiring her new look in the mirror.

I'm Blogging!

Hey Everybody! I am finally blogging! It feels good to be able to update friends and family again.

Well, Clint walked the graduation ceremony in May! He still has a few hours of biblical studies to finish up and one final test for his major. We will be moving off campus soon. We applied for an income based rate apartment. It is only about 3-4 minutes off campus. That's great because Clint is a full time Flight instrutor for the school and will be close to the simulator labs. He will be both at the airport and sim labs for his students. The week we are suppose to move Clint will be taking his "O's and P's" test. It is over-all about 18 hours long over two days. Please pray for him. He has so much stuff to do on top of this test. He is working hard! I am so proud of him. It is almost over! We were joking lastnight about how stressful it will be when he is done. He will have to work until 5 o'clock and then come home and do whatever we wants to do. We can't wait. =)
Lorna is almost running around. She has two more visits left with the physical theropist and she will be done. She had and orthopidic evaluation and the Dr. said she is fine. Praise God! She is growing up so fast. I am starting to do room time with her so that when the new baby is born I can have some time by myself. She cries for the first 10-15 mins and then finds something to do for the rest of the 30 minutes. It' s going to get easier for her I'm sure. She's my sweetie!!

I am already starting to look pregnant! I didn't show until 6 months with Lorna. I am only 4 months right now! Yikes! It's all good though. I am excited about moving into the new apartment. It has a washer, dryer, dish washer, garbage disposal, and 2 bathrooms! I am going to feel like royalty! I really am so happy about not having to pack up the clothes plus Lorna and a new baby to do laundry, whew! I can't wait to hold another tiny baby. God is good.

Well, I plan on posting pictures soon. Love ya'll!