Not really ready for school

School will be here so soon, though I am super excited I don’t think I am ready just yet! How about another month? The kids will not care. With school comes the students and with the students more work, more drama, more everything…I guess you have to take the good with the bad. Oh God we pray for these kids!

Red Lobster with Friends

OK so I really like bargains! We got a ‘coupon/gift card’ for Red lobster. It was $10 off any purchase of $10 or more. (Catch we had to use our discover card, not a big deal) So we decided to go out to dinner with Nathan and Erika since we had not seen them for a while. Josh suggested we go to Red lobster since we had the coupon. Well in the news paper there was a coupon for $4 off 2 dinners. So I grabbed that and the $10 off and we headed out. Josh and I split a Shrimp dinner and both had water, so we gave Nathan and Erika the $4 off coupon. We paid $9 for our dinner that makes me happy. But anyway it was really nice to get to have dinner with Nathan and Erika both of our lives are pretty busy. Erika has a bunch of wedding booked she is doing the photography (link) Nathan works with the youth at their church and school is starting soon so they will be getting even busier.

That lovely word

Possible job/another no – I feel like I am getting use to the NO.  Even though the drama was much higher this time. We all took the test and I passed along with the lady that trained me. We passed the interviews but she had a higher score. So she got the job seems simple enough right? You would think but the ladies who did not pass the test made accusations that they fixed the test so I would pass, and that it was unfair. The hard part about all of this is that I did not want the job, I really want something closer to home. I applied because the pay increase would at least cover some of the gas expense. I just pray there is something closer for me sooner than later because some days I am not sure if I can go another day like this. But God provides and He sustains me. 

1 2 3

2 sisters oh wait 3 sister are prego!

1.     Lisa (sister #2 in order from oldest to youngest) Super excited! She is due sometime in January…this means I may be sharing a Birthday with someone! This will be child number 5 for my sister and her husband, Ben has 2(1 boy 1 girl) and Lisa has 2(1 boy 1 girl) …this baby will break the tie!

2.     Tracy (sister #3) I found out she was prego 3minutes after I found out about Lisa LOL. She is due end of February or beginning of March. Tracy and Mark have Ella she will be 1 in September so these two will have their hands full.

3.     Brittany (sister #6 – the youngest) She is due March/April. This will be her first and she is still living out of state.

Lots of babies will be her soon! But don’t worry we are still planning on waiting…JP will tell you we still have 7 years…that’s what he thinks J

Fried Green Tomatoes

Warning if you have not seen the movie it may make you cry. I attended the Women’s movie night at Miamisburg Church. It was a lot of fun (I was the youngest there but it works) we had dinner and then watched Fried Green Tomatoes. After the movie we talked about friendship and how important it is. God has blessed me with wonderful friends some that live close and some that live further away. Sometimes I forget how much I truly value these wonderful women in my life. I think we all can get so caught up in our own life that we forget to invest in others. I am very thankful for last night and it has pushed me to refresh some of those relationships that have been neglected.

            Fun little quiz from the dinner coming soon:

VBS/PowerPlant

 Bring on the Munchkins! I was really bummed that I was going to have to miss VBS again. But we are so happy to have the team from Alabama here to help. The team is younger but God can and will do great things.

Habakkuk 3:18

 “Yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation” 

June Update

Well summer is reaching it’s midpoint here at the Bridge. The water bottles are stacked waiting for new labels. This year the guys were able to get  duringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringduringwater and vitamin water these bottles will be used durring move in. Wow August is almost here and still so much to do!

We just finished our Back Yard Bible Club, God is so awesome we were able to see over 40 kids this week. Coming up in July is our Vacation Bible School: July 19-23. We can’t wait for our PowerPlant team (a mission team of high schoolers that assist church plants) They will be helping lead the lessons, music, activities and possibly labeling water bottles.

Please pray for our students that are on mission over the summer we have students working at summer camps, Serving nationally internationally, and serving locally. Please also be in prayer as we continue to plan for our August mission trip to Wisconsin. We will be working with a church planter and helping with launch. Thank you for your prayers and support!

Madison, Wi � The Bridge Church

Madison, Wi � The Bridge Church

Still Waiting

So the Job Posting have gone down and now I sit and wait... The posting in Cbus will be a bit since one of the ladies applying is going out of town for 3 weeks! Good news for me. The other I have hear nothing and I am getting antsy But God is in control!

It is Official…

We are going to East Asia!!!! Deciding was the easy part now we have to plan and keep praying!!! We are very excited! With the new job and my vacation time we really feel that this is the time, God will provide for us. We are planning on saving to pay for part of the trip and working to raise support through letters and fundraising events. If you are interested in giving or will to commit to partnering with us in prayer feel free to leave a comment and I will provide more information

Dinner Party!!

I am a planner this is true. Now that we have been living with Granny for a bit I thought it would be fun to have a little dinner party to catch up with all the couples we have not seen in a while. We invited Chad and Whitney, Nathan and Erika, Ricky and Christina, Phil and Sarah and Donovan and Jenny (Christina’s sister) It was lots of fun. We had plenty of food! I made wonderful Strawberry BBQ. Love the recipe. After dinner the guys headed down stairs and the girls chilled upstairs, we played Quelf…such a great random game. The guys played Monopoly.

            But the best part of the whole evening was before the guest arrived. Josh and I cut the veggies, boiled the corn and prepped the other things. I sired the chicken on the stove top and then put them into a preheated oven…that was ice cold! The oven had been on for at least 30 minutes and nothing no heat, nothing. I was really nervous because the stove top was working so I went and got Josh. He turned the breaker off then on.  Nothing, Great I broke Granny’s stove. So I walk into the living room and ask “is there a trip to your oven?” she said “no” then proceeds to the kitchen…well there is a trick…see the oven is so old that there is a manual button, if the manual is not on then the oven only works by timers, oh my, but it works now!