Tuesday, November 11, 2008
some pics from my life ~Danny
Joel has ups...
Daryl is flexible...
Nick is intense...
Joel still has ups
Joel and Danny...
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Update
So summer is winding down, but the busyness of our lives is certainly not. School started up again down here so that is changing our youth ministry, we're trying to get back in the habit of visiting the kids at school during lunch and Danny has been very busy planning some events for this fall. We've definitely been facing some obstacles though. Youth group is now on Friday nights which doesn't seem to be a popular night to be at church, kids would much rather be out at the movies with friends. Also, the schools are enforcing some stricter policies about coming in to visit, we need to fill out paperwork and have background checks and all kinds of stuff that we weren't facing this past spring. But we know God is good and we know He has called us to love these kids. And we're having fun.
Since I last posted, we've painted some more rooms in the house (only like 5 more rooms to go), we finally got a dining room table (not that we've bought any chairs for it yet), and we celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversery. This is a picture of us at Shelter Cove in Hilton Head.
In other news, the store manager at Pier 1 left, his last day was this past Thursday. We were all really sad to see him go because he was a great manager, but he's moving on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately that means that the rest of us managers are having to pick up the slack until they send us a new store manager. So I plan to spend way too much time at Pier 1 in the next few weeks, I'm not looking forward to it. That also leaves me little to no time to search for a new job, which I still do want to do.
Pray for strength and energy for us both during this busy time of our lives!
Since I last posted, we've painted some more rooms in the house (only like 5 more rooms to go), we finally got a dining room table (not that we've bought any chairs for it yet), and we celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversery. This is a picture of us at Shelter Cove in Hilton Head.
In other news, the store manager at Pier 1 left, his last day was this past Thursday. We were all really sad to see him go because he was a great manager, but he's moving on to bigger and better things. Unfortunately that means that the rest of us managers are having to pick up the slack until they send us a new store manager. So I plan to spend way too much time at Pier 1 in the next few weeks, I'm not looking forward to it. That also leaves me little to no time to search for a new job, which I still do want to do. Pray for strength and energy for us both during this busy time of our lives!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
REALLY REALLY Long Time, No Post
And you thought we were slacking on our blog before! Well we're back and hopefully we'll get back to being consistent about blogging again.
Since we last posted we've had a visit from Danny's parents, a trip to VA to see both of our families and a then a visit from my parents. So I'm just going to post some pictures I've taken over the past couple of months and hopefully you'll feel caught up on life!
Here's me and my favorite brother Joe hanging out in Charlottesville. I think he's really excited about his new sunglasses :)
And my favorite niece Isabel roasting marshmallows at Lake Anna
Nephews, getting so big!
Me and Danny out to dinner on my birthday (Mama and Daddy were there too)
Mama and Daddy out with us in Hilton Head
R.I.P. Mary's Orchid, April 2008- July 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Long Time, No Post
We know we've been bad. Some of you even stopped asking when we were going to post again, like you had given up on our blog. But don't give up!!! We've been busy and not really able to sit down and write out thoughts. Not that things have really settled down at all, but I sometimes get a little more downtime than Danny and thought I'd fill everyone in on life.
We just had a great little visit from Mom and Dad Gonzalez. They arrived on Monday night and just left this morning. It was a great time we had to show them a little bit more of Bluffton as we know it, tour Savannah and have some good long conversations about life, which Danny and I realized we don't get a lot of down here. Aside from talking to each other, we don't have people we can just really talk with, like deep talks. So it was great. We look forward to more visits :) And just to entice you, here is a picture of our newly painted guest room complete with a brand new ceiling fan installed by my wonderfully handy husband. (The room is not as small as it looks, my camera just doesn't have wide angle capabilities.)
Two rooms down and only about 8 more to paint.
Now that all the kids are out of school, we've both been using our "spare" time to spend some more time out with the kids getting to know them. Here's a pic of some girls I took shopping one afternoon. We had a great time, but I am definitely not a 13 year old girl anymore so it was a little exhausting.
Also, I am again job searching. I am still working as an assistant manager at Pier 1, but I am realizing that retail is really not a good long term job for me. Come the holidays, I'll be lucky if I can get one day off. And that would make a visit to VA for Thanksgiving or Christmas pretty much impossible. So I think I want to find something that is not quite so demanding in that way. Plus, since I often close the store I am at work until 9:30 or 10 at night, so I feel like I am missing out on a lot. I am hoping to find something part time with day time hours, so be praying for God to provide.
We love you all and miss you and hope you're staying cool in this heat. It's been like 90 to 100 degrees everyday down here!!
We just had a great little visit from Mom and Dad Gonzalez. They arrived on Monday night and just left this morning. It was a great time we had to show them a little bit more of Bluffton as we know it, tour Savannah and have some good long conversations about life, which Danny and I realized we don't get a lot of down here. Aside from talking to each other, we don't have people we can just really talk with, like deep talks. So it was great. We look forward to more visits :) And just to entice you, here is a picture of our newly painted guest room complete with a brand new ceiling fan installed by my wonderfully handy husband. (The room is not as small as it looks, my camera just doesn't have wide angle capabilities.)
Two rooms down and only about 8 more to paint.
Now that all the kids are out of school, we've both been using our "spare" time to spend some more time out with the kids getting to know them. Here's a pic of some girls I took shopping one afternoon. We had a great time, but I am definitely not a 13 year old girl anymore so it was a little exhausting.
Also, I am again job searching. I am still working as an assistant manager at Pier 1, but I am realizing that retail is really not a good long term job for me. Come the holidays, I'll be lucky if I can get one day off. And that would make a visit to VA for Thanksgiving or Christmas pretty much impossible. So I think I want to find something that is not quite so demanding in that way. Plus, since I often close the store I am at work until 9:30 or 10 at night, so I feel like I am missing out on a lot. I am hoping to find something part time with day time hours, so be praying for God to provide.
We love you all and miss you and hope you're staying cool in this heat. It's been like 90 to 100 degrees everyday down here!!
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