waiting is worth it

We've been wanting a piano. Then...
"You can have our piano. All you have to do is get it out of our basement."
Which meant completely taking it apart.
It has been in that house for the last three owners. Makes me wonder how long God has been saving it for us... Makes me think He knows his plans, and He is bigger than our ideas.











It really is an adventure. Josh has been working on all different things to get it back together, looking good and working good. I think he could be a piano repairman! This is the life God gives...He provides for us, then we pour our lives out to him. What he gives us, we must put to use.

















So we are thinking of starting a buisness... In our Garage. What do you think? He can fix Pianos, and I will bring out the metronome and start teaching lessons.
or maybe not.

Josh is the MAN!

It isn't all mountains

Let your light shine, let your life shine.
These candles are beautiful, and represent so many things in our life.

They are: a candle Josh had before we were married, a candle from dearest Melissa, wedding candles, and a candle from joshua's mom.

This is our house...for now anyways


The honeymoon pictures are nice, but its not all mountains in this part of the country...

life

How to hold just a little life in your hands...
what does it mean to be real?
Where do the begginnings come from that change the end?
Bring new life, o God, to those around me.



Childlike faith holds life in hand, smiling the while. Not too worried about what should be or could be or has been. Scars heal through trust, ideas change in your love. Do something great in me. Bring healing to the broken, and restore the years the insects ate up.

Wednesday Morning

Well, All is well. I am working at a coffee shop, and it is going well. I spent some time with a young mother, and a young lady yesterday, and the three of us had a great time, and also were able to pray together. That was refreshing. Also, Joshua set up our music room, so that we can actually play, practice and worship together on drums and keyboard. It has been absolutly lovely to be able to practice together, and i am looking forward to times of worship together. Also Josh has been able to have more time to be able to help with stuff at the church. That is exciting!

Blame it on the eileen &linds

I loved their website, so i finnally have actuall gotten hooked on a blog site...those other sights weren't any fun, and no one reads them anyways. This is my last Blog this morning, I need to get to work, get stuff done before work and that sort of thing. I am just so excited to have found a blog site that i really like...thanks Eileen & lindse

This is our funky stove. Topped with Candles and a reminder to Pray...For the nations, for Kenosha/Racine, and for Ft morgan. i will pray.... till kindom come, till my days, my days are done, Say YOU'll come, YOU've me free, just say YOU'll come, You're with me.....(yeah, i changed the words a bit from the song)
This is our house....The Kitchen wall paper, well we don't know what they were thinking, but it looks ok now that we took the green bar doors down and put up the bead-door we got for our wedding.


A Jonny and Pietze engadgement photo

I have been helping Pietze alot with pre wedding stuff. First learning about being the bride, then learning about helping the bride. I think this has some spiritual aplications.
Helping her has made me really appreciate my bridesmaids ALOT! i aready did but now i REALLY do. Especially rach, & Trace. Ok, and Kenj, Meliss, and Linds....Ok everybody!!!!! but especially RACH and Trace...they had most of the really hard work. I miss all of you girls!
ALSO BRIANNA IS A brilliant lady....but then, you already knew that.... it is common knowlledge!
so Yes, i am having loads of fun helping my future sister in law, but it is also lots more work than i even knew!

... ... ~~Save your roses~~!FOR ME! ... ...
I love flowers...thanks honey

wonderful, + not so wonderful, thats life

It was Absoulutely wonderful getting to Re-know a childhood friend Ann, and seeing what God has done in her life since we last were in touch. God is so good and so faithful. This was definately a huge highlight in my trip, and in my 1st month in co.



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Then there was the Not so wonderful. Definately memorable, but not by any means a "highlight."
Good ol' green, which has been hauling back and forth to mexico with us since1991, had a flat....and that was the spare even. So we changed back to the almost-flat origional tire (the one that was almost flat so we put the spare on...yeah you get the picture).


Man, that doesn't look too good!
We drove into C. Springs, No tire shops open!! Tis sunday. Randomly we come accross a truck with a spare in the back that "looks about right." We pull over, ask them, and sure enough it fits. They find out we are missionaries...and GIVE it to us. Amazing end to an hour or so of crazyness. What a blessing to have actually found a tire for this old van.



My mom and Cheri, "flat tires on a mission trip....Well, THATS LIFE for ya"

You get the picture

more pics

SO THIS is ME, doing "STRENGTH TESTING" as we prepare to go into mexico. (And goofing off with the water bottles at our lunch rest stop...) What can i say, I think i'm pretty strong...but not Super STRONG.


The orphangage (Home) has changed so much over the last 16 years. So much of what is in this picture has changed...The Newest change is the yellow building on the right... a school building, It is amazing, and i had never seen it before. So very much has changed since the first time I came to this place...one thing is still the same. The mountains still say, "LA BIBLIA ES LA VERDAD, LE LA" meaning "The Bible is the truth, Read it."


Here we are, waiting for our first work assignment of the day.

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This is our almost fearless leader "Mr Duffield" better known as Hermano Bob. (I look a little bit like i might be related, yeah?) This is the project the guys did, roofing a church building for some brothers in a new part of town. The Guys (ok & some of the girls) worked really hard at this sight...in the hot sun, on the hot roof...They came home each night covered in something...dirt, tar paper, sand...NOT REALLY SURE what it was, but they came home every night covered in it.

This is my man, Sitting on top of a two story Church Building in Juarez. (Man he is good looking) I got to go to this sight one of the days, and I was able to talk with one of the Hermanas at the church. She was beautiful, and had beautiful children. She had a soft heart and was so thankful for us to be there and to be helping them with this building project. The pastor and his wife came to the building sight later on, but i didn't really talk with them much. My only regret, I was pulled away from the work sight due to an emegency that Joshua and I had to attend to. But the time i spend with the people of this body of believers was lovely.

Mexico pictures

these are pictures from mexico. It was a great oppertunity to take very art-zy pictures. This is a bridge over the rio grande. Its such a sight, beautiful and desolate at the same time.

This is a back view of some of the orphanage & land owned by the Home (orphanage). This bridge also happens to be the top of a school bus. The house in the backround is the home of different teachers and workers from the Home. Different groups I have been with have built different parts of that house. I have helped build the 2 by 4 skeleton, put sheet rock on the walls, and worked on it when it was a one story house.

These are pictures of Joshua and I hanging out at the home of Pastor Carlos, and his wife Socoro. Spending time with them is always a highlight of our time in Mexico. I was able to see their house for the first time. They have been working on this house for forteen years. I guess the Ft. Morgan crew helped them with the work a few years ago. Maybe next year we will go down there and spend a week or two finninshing the house up. They do finnaly live in it, but it still has a lot of work to be done. It is a nice house, but reminded me of how spoiled I am. Being in Mexico reminded me how much material stuff i really have. It is always good to remember that this present world in its form is passing away.
IT was SO good to see Carlos, Socoro, David and the Church there in Sarago...I have known these guys for at least 6 years. The Body here truly remind me of Romans 1:11-12

"I Long to see you so that I can share a spiritual blessing with you, So we can grow srong in the Lord, that both you and i may be encouraged by together by eachother in the Lord." Though these people have little, their faces are always filled with Joy.

Beautiful little girls dance to praise the Lord. Both of the Church families we are in touch with in the Juarez area are very excited about dance, and worship/praise dance teams.

Singing to the dark

the very bottom photo reminded me of a word i had about singing to those in the dark, after I myself made the choice to get up, out of my cell, and walk through the door to freedom. This is a word that I only remember from time to time but when i do, i always wonder about what it means, and exacty what the fruit will be...the fruit that will come from singing to those in the dark. Calling them out into the light into the garden where light and freedom are everywhere and where there is much fruit. Hmmm....

Catching up

.........Not just married...FINNALLY MARRIED!!!.............

This is us on our honeymoon. These are the rings to prove it, We are Married (im not josh'n ya either)
with the backround to prove we are in Estes Park.
This is me at Red Rocks. What an amazing place. I think it should be called, "God's Playdough place." Now that we live in CO, (isn't that weird and kinda funny?) maybe we can go there and spend some more time. We were only their a little bit caz we wanted to see "the cave of the winds" and we were running late.
Driving up Pike's Peak....AMAZING. What can i say!!!

This is the CO reception, Joshua and I with the Pastor and his wife from Life Fellowship. (Kelly and Ellen are their names.) Little did we know at the time, that now we would be here with them.
the Blakes....little did we know that they would be our land lords.....and next door neighbors. What a pleasant and crazy surprize!!! God is funny, and he is so unpredicatble.


So actually, there is really no documentation of last fall. Give me some time... I am trying to catch up!

first blog

So i finnally jumped on board. I have been looking at mike and Eileen's sight, and so i finnally am a blogging blogger. I have started working at a local coffee shop. So far so good. I am not as good a barista as my brother david yet, but hey, he has a lot more experience than i do. I'm catching up to him as fast as I can.
Joshua and i spent the night working on some stuff for a meeting we are going to with the elders...you know, vision stuff for the church and vision stuff for some of the youth. It was lovely to work on it together.