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| I just now saw that it has been awhile since I have last written. I apologize. Alot has happened since I wrote last. We bought a house in Webb City, resigning ourselves to the fact that we will be here for at least 7 more years. It is okay and I know that this is training time and healing time and we need all of both of those that we can get. God is good and He will always prevail. I have tried some new things and been successful. My walk with the Lord is stronger and more intimate than it has ever been. I miss my friends terribly that live in other states. Scott and I are having one of the best years of our marriage in every area. My kids are growing up too fast and getting into alot of stuff they shouldn't. Kelsey is in 5th grade and Laney in 1st. Marley will start kindergarten next fall. I am so blessed to have these children. God gave Scott a word a couple months ago about the number 7. And that we are now complete and our family is perfect, just what He wants us to be. Good news for us, no more babies! I am not sure I could take much more. I only survive what I have now because I know Jesus and rely on him. If I wasn't saved I might have a heart attack. We took Gage to the emergency room last Sat. night because he was climbing on the bookshelves in the girls' room and fell off, cutting under his right arm deep enough to need 7 stitches. He cried when it happened, but then talked the whole way to the hospital, to the doctors and nurses, really anyone who would listen. He kept telling people,"I will not climb on the bookshelves again!". He's something else.
Scott is still doing alot of side work. He has been contacted by the Joplin Ministerial Alliance to make a website for them, as well as some other churches in our district. I am so proud of him. He does such great work and works so hard to provide for our family. I am blessed.
I was interested, and still am, in becoming a doula. I really would like to be like a labor and delivery coach for women and this is the closest thing I have found. Sadly, that position is not liked very well by the doctors in this area. So, I am just waiting and praying. We still feel strongly about church planting and have big dreams there. I really just need a clear direction of where God wants me. And though my personality wants to know RIGHT NOW, I really feel okay about not knowing. God will reveal it to me when the time is right. Until then I will continue on where I feel lead and hope that I am preparing for what is to come.
I love you all and miss you. Please write soon!
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| HARVEST IMPACT IS OVER!!!! Praise the Lord, Hallelujah! I love the work, but when they call it an intensives week, that doesn't just mean the classes are intense! It went really well and we had about 35 students for the week. I don't know how many we had on Sat. This summer is going by so fast. School will start in just a few weeks. Kelsey will be in 5th grade-- Middle school! I can't believe she is that old. I can't believe I am that old! Yes, this is the year I hit the big 3-0. But I find comfort in knowing a few things, (1) Scott turns 30 before me, (2) I was told your singing voice improves after 30, (3) My mom is turning 50, and that sounds alot older than 30! No offense to those friends of mine who are 50 or older!  We are trying to potty train Gage. There really are no words to describe my feelings about this. He apparently likes it, but has some trouble remembering to go completely while in there. So we either make many trips or there is an accident. Connor refuses to even sit on the potty, so who knows what will come of that. I hope you all are doing well, update me!
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| We are all such slackers! No one has written for awhile. I know we are very busy. It seems like there is always something. Right now we are preparing for the Harvest Impact Conference. The intensives are July 25-29 and then Tommy Tenney will be here again on the 29th. We will have classes on Sat. too. Busy, busy, busy. But I love it. This kind of prep work is what I love. And then to see the finished produsct come off so well and the Lord to be glorified is amazing. I hope all of you are doing well. I would love to hear from SOMEBODY, ANYBODY!
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| I am so excited! Kelsey comes home on Saturday! She has been gone for 5 weeks and we have all missed her so much! She will only be here 2 weeks and then go back to her dad's for 4 weeks, but I am still thankful for tha time. We are planning on going to Branson and having a little family vacation. My mom, Scott's mom and my brother and sister-in-law are coming too. I think it will be great! We have been so busy, but are excited about what we are doing and where we are going! We still have so much we want to do this summer. Every weekend is busy! Continue praying for our friends Jeremy and Christina Gall. They desperatly want to come back here, but need a job to come to and money to move. I think they would move without the job if they had the money to move! They are really wanting back here! And we want them back!
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| My babies are growing up! Gage turned 3 on Friday and Connor turned 2 on Saturday. I can't believe that they are turning into little men! Gage will be in kindergarten in 2 short years! They are so different from one another too. I miss that infant stage. My kids were all so good and even when they were fussy, it was a very complete feeling knowing they wanted me and no one else would do. I don't want another baby, but I do want to baby sit a little baby. Isn't that crazy? Connor is almost talking in complete sentences and Gage, well Gage could talk any adult under the table! And they are soooo cute! I am scared about raising boys. I was once a girl, but I don't know what boys think or feel. Scott,of course, is my source, but he is not here with them all day. I want them to grow into strong, loving, christian men, who know how to care for a woman and know that chivalry is not dead! Wow, I could go on with that! But I won't!
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