mini "vacation"

Last Friday I went with a friend to see Anita Renfrow live. She is hysterical! Then, Saturday we all went to Titusville, Fl to see the Space Shuttle launch. I will have a link in here soon for the pictures. they are kinda cool! We sat on a dock about 12 miles from the shuttle itself. We had a clear view of it and I have a telephoto lens so I was able ot get some good shots.

Shuttle Launch May 31, 2008

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We are going on a mini "vacation" today. It will be 4 days only. I am putting "" around vacation because we are staying in a condo my chiropracter owns so we have to pack every essencial we will need for 4 days. That is a lot of packing for only 4 days. Plus, Sr. monkey will be woring for 3 of the 4 days. I have to pack twice the amount of clothing for him and I will be alone with the kids in this condo for 3 of the 4 days. None of the comforts of home around me.

I guess it will be nice. I just hate leaving home. I like being in my own house and in my own bed at night.

Our friends Matt and Kelly will be there too. matt will be working with Sr. monkey. kelly and I will hang out at the pool, I guess. The kids will get restless, I know. Maybe the town of Seabring Fl will have some interesting places to visit during the day while the guys are working.

ok, time to sit and ponder on what else I might need on this mini "vacation" :)


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Been a long year

I can not beleive how long this year has been. We built a house and it was finished in December of 2006. We have been in it a year now. the housing market got so bad that sr. monkey is out trying to get bids on some big projects that we hop to get right now. he has no work this month. We hired a plumber for jobs of sr. monkey's that ended up costing us ... ready... $50,000 out of our own pocket (credit card!!) to fix all of his mistakes. We can't pay our Christian school bill and we need a miracle to pay our bills by the end of the month.

Whooo! That is a lot. not to mention that in June last year our whole church turned around for the worst. 3 of our Pastors left. sr. monkey became the Youth Director for the teens. (that was not so bad) We got the job also of picking up a group of teens every week 2 times a week for church. Which means we have to leave pretty early for church now a days. ( We only live 15 minutes away) Our School administrator was asked to leave and now we are losing a Bible teacher and the school secretery. (she is having a baby and her husband is the Bible and Gym teacher) It is bad enough we don't have any highschool teachers except one volunteer teacher who is a friend of ours. :)

We did get a new School Administrator just this week. That is really good news. I like her a lot and she will do good things with the school.

We may have to homeschool both the kids next year. The kids seem excited about it. mommy is a little apprehensive but I know we will get through it.

One of my latest (and former passions) is freezer cooking. You cook for a day and eat for a month. It is great! I am trying to see if we can get a seminar at our church for the community and our church ladies about this. I love this whole freezer thing as it saves so much money buying in bulk and only shopping one time for all my meals a month. Great! I have to admit I usually cook for 2 weeks at a time because I have not gotten to the place of 1 month yet but I will. It is cool when there is always food in the freezer and if you are rushed, that is ok, there is a meal in the freezer that just needs heating. Company is over and all you have to do is go into the freezer and grab something good. I have a few books on this that I love. I also think it is a perfect gift for a new mom or someone sick. Make a few meals to bring over, freeze them and when you get to the person's house ask them what meal they would like that night and leave that out and put the rest in thier freezer for them to heat up another time.

Now I am rambling and I have to go pick up the kids. Write more later. :)

Impossible...

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small people who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

been too long

I have not written here in awhile. It has been a busy 6 months and we are finally settled in our new house that Ken built. It is different living here in the warm weather and having no snow or even the threat of it. I am not sure if I can get used to this at all but I will have to try.

It is raining today and I like it when it rains. It reminds me of drizzly days and brings me back home for a few minutes. It was not always drizzly in NH but the winters were dreary and drizzly a lot and I need a few days in the winter when I can throw on a big sweater and a pair of jeans and go for a brisk walk on a cool crisp night. I honestly do not want to walk around here at night. It is a good neighborhood and all but even in the good neighborhoods there is lots of crime it seems. It scares me a bit. I am not used to this type of lifestyle at all.

Ok, enough with the venting.

Weeeeee're heeeeere!

We made it to ..uh...sunny(?) Florida. Ahem.

Sorry. It really was sunny when we got here but the tropical storm Alberto came roaring through here and it is kinda wet right now.

We made it, though. We had a rough start with our furniture not arriving the day it was scheduled to but it all turned out well. I have found 2 HUGE spiders already in the house and I really hate spiders. Our dog got out of the house today and when I went to look for her I got some help from an older man that thought he saw her in one of the water canals. He warned me of the gators you will find in them and that made us look for dog even harder as he thought he spotted her in one of the canals. I realized too that we have on right behind the house we are in now. (this is why the kids do not play in the back yard) We found dog in, of all places, at a house where some people from Keene, NH just moved in. I was so excited to meet them and thought it neat that they live 1 minute walking distance away from us. They had their Patriots shirts on like we did the day we arrived here too. Way too funny! dog is now home and drying off in the lanai because she got wet in the canal.

The house we are building is coming along fine. The block is up and the concrete poured through the block today. A friend from NH will be flying down here on Thursday to stay with us for a couple Weeks to help sr. monkey with the trusses. He will also get help from Jared, one of cousin and Matt's boys.

I found a doctor and will get my ultrasound done soon. I also found out my grandfather may have a gallbladder problem too. Hope he is well.

Enough for now. I have errands to run and it has stopped raining for a bit.

Until next time...

Almost...

It is almost time to move. We are slowly packing. it is the little things that seem to take the longest. I am a bit sad to leave my froends and family but excited baout what God has in store for us. We really believe that this is God's will for us and if I am happy here in NH then I know that if we move to where God wants us then we will be happy and the blessings will be greater than we know. I will visit with my weekend plane tickets my husband gave to me and we will be up in the summer and holidays. We will not be strangers. Who knows, maybe fmaily will be more inclined to come visit us in FL now that we are no longer "just down the road".

I found this cute Hawiian name thing.

Your Hawaiian Name is:

Haimi Haleigha

What's your Hawaiian Name?

Anyway, until next time...

oogle bop!

I can't believe how time flies sometimes....

The family is finally getting better after a long bought of illness. We thank the Lord that is over. Now, we need to concentrate on packing and moving. I can't believe we have less than four weeks left until we move. I am starting to get nervous about it. I am also getting a little excited about the new adventure we will be embarking on. Since I know in my heart that this is God's will then I know it will be good. This is helping me to move on with this. Things at home are a little scary with my grandparents. My grammy has cancer, B-cell lymphoma and my grandfather finds it harder and harder to breath. I want to be here for them but God knows and they are saved and I know that God will take care of them. God is sending us to Florida so I have to trust that my grandparents know that I want to be there and since I can't I will be praying for them everyday.

We head for NC soon for Jenny's graduation and that will be fun for us and the kids. We can't wait. When we get back we will have little time left to pack so we are getting a lot of the little things done now that always seem to take the longest while packing.

It is a beautiful day today and I think I may take the kids to the park after Caleb gets out of school.

"But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee"
Psalms 5:11