We LOVE to get mail!

Jaycee and Jackson received a care package today in the mail from their Nana and Papa! Oh what fun it is to watch Jaycee rip through to see what is inside. Jaycee of course so happy to find that there were stickers, LOTS of stickers and a water paint book of her own. Those are 2 of her most favorite things to do when she visits Nana and Papa's house! So needless to say, we have already done lots of stickers and have painted 2 pictures! She also got some Valentine tattoos which she as 2 on her body at the moment. She kept asking for more, but I told her she had to wait! I have gotten some pics of the kids with the stuff animals they received. I have captured my most favorite picture of the kids together thus far in their lives! You will know when you see it!

Here's a Faith Builder for you!

Once again Jackson has been up tonight. This time making it until 3 a.m. before he needed to let off some energy. So mom came into the room and said that she would take him. Well, I could hear him cry at different times so I decided to get up as well. So mom stayed up with me and shared these 2 testimonies of 2 different couples from our church. Mom and Jackson are off to sleep, but I am wide awake with more faith and renewed strength in my Heavenly Father. So here are some faith building stories for you.

The first couple have attended our church for as long as I can remember. They have 2 teenage kids. They are very active in our church, in fact the lady is amazing. She has taken care of several women in our church who had illnesses. She would take them to all of their doctors appointments, she made sure they had food and their houses were clean. She totally went above and beyond. This family has struggled finiancally for quite some time now. They have been faithful to the church, they have been faithful in tithing, and they have continued to server God no matter what. The man a few weeks ago was contacted about some land that he owned. This is the kicker the man wasn't even aware that this land was his.(I think it was probably left to him by family but his brother knew and didn't tell him) So the man was like okay. Just this past week an oil company has contacted him and they want to buy the 750 acres from him. They told him they would pay him $3 million dollars for the land. They said if he sold the land to them they would hand him a check for the full amount that day! Praise you Jesus. This is a couple who have been faithful for so many years! Yes, they have an abundance of blessings stored up in heaven for them, but God has opened the flood gates for them and is showing them His favor. They weren't even aware that they had land a few weeks ago much less that an oil company would want it! That is just amazing! That is God! It has nothing do to will the money, it has everything to do with their faithfulness and obedience to God. What a mighty God we serve.

The next couple are an older couple. The wife has been sick for quite some time. She is a diabetic. Recently, her husband had lost his job. So they have no insurance and no money coming in. The wife had been feeling really bad, but was just afraid to go to the doctor b/c she didn't know how they would afford the bills. So anyways, her daughters told her go it will be taken care of. So they went and ended up putting her in the hospital for a few days. Well, an organization had heard about their situation and have come along side of them and have PAID FOR EVERY BILL! The bills were over $100,000! The couple hasn't had to pay a dime. So when she was released from the hospital they had give her 4 prescriptions that she needed to take. Well, she had 2 of them but not the others. So her husband went to their regular pharmacy and said I don't have the money to pay for this and I don't know when I will, but my wife needs these pills. The lady that was working said well, my dad past away about a week ago, the husband said I am so sorry to hear that. The lady said its okay, but I'll be back in a moment. When she came back she had the medicine the man needed. She still had her dad's medicine and it was the same thing the wife needed. The lady said they are going to reimburse me for all of the medicine for my dad, so you take this and give it to your wife. The gentlemen was battling a cold and she said here you take this for yourself. You don't owe me anything. It was $800 worth of medicine! How awesome is our God. Opening doors for this couple to show them how much he LOVES them and that he CARES for them. God is so good!

Both of these testimonies of God showing up in people's everyday lives has touched me. Has given me new hope, renewed strength, and is just a reminder that God does care about my family. That I just have to keep pressing into Him. Lately, I have just been so down b/c I am like God do you hear me? Through these testimonies God is saying Yes, Dana I hear you. Just stay faithful to me. Allow me to be in control of every circumstance. Your time is coming! Thank you Jesus for your wonderful timing, thank you for blessing these 2 couples' lives! Thank you Jesus for where we are! I am thankful that we have a roof over our head, we have food on the table and we have clothes on our back! Bless my parents for taking us in, b/c they sure didn't have to! Thank you for our health. Thank you that Byron can provide for his family! Thank you that I am able to stay at home! Thank you Thank you Thank you Jesus for your unconditional love, your forgiveness, and for new grace and mercy every day! Thank you for sending your son to die on the cross for this world! I pray God that you will use this family any and every way to serve your Kingdom! Thank you Jesus!

Sleep who needs it?

Well, this is the second night that I have not been able to sleep due to a little boy who thinks he needs to be playing! Tonight, my little girl decided she needed to be up as well. Craziness I tell you! Jackson is teething! So he has been running a little bit of fever. Yesterday, all I did when he was awake was hold him. I couldn't put him down at all. He did sleep quite a bit, but that's b/c he didn't sleep that much the night before. Its hard b/c him and Jaycee share the same room. If he was in his own room I would tend to his needs and then let him cry it out. He is a happy boy just roaming around in my mom and dad's office. Jaycee is sitting in the chair watching Fox and the Hound. So hopefully, before too long we will head off to bed. Maybe they will sleep in for me!

Not a lot has been going on for us. Jackson got his first boo-boo on Sunday. He fell and hit the metal frame of the bed right between his eyes! Thank you Jesus that it didn't split it. It just brought a little blood to the surface. His nose was bruised but it has already faded. He cried pretty good from that! It took me a little bit to settle the little boy down.

Hope everyone had a great night of rest! Hopefully, a great night of rest is in store for me tonight!

You will be moved and touched!

This is short, but its to pass along information. As many of you know that Phil and Amanda have adopted children from Ghana. Their are several other families from North County Christ the King that are adopting too. The Diacogiannis family just arrived to meet their 3 new children. If you go to http://nondairyqueen31.blogspot.com/ this blogsite you can watch the meeting of the mom and dad and their 3 new children. Its breaktaking to watch! All I can say is its amazing when you see God's unconditional love flowing! I have watched it twice already and the tears are still flowing down my face! You will never be the same! All praise and glory and honor be to you Lord!

Fun times with Jaycee and Jackson

Disappointments!

My heart is aching right now. The real estate business is definitely not for me. You have no control over anything. You just have to wait. Its like the last stretch of being pregnant and you play the waiting game to see when you go into labor. You have no control or say when that baby is ready come. The plus to labor is that the baby will come, it can't stay inside forever. Will our house ever sell? It has to! What other option do we have? I know it will, but its very hard on me. As I type I just have tears streaming down my face. I don't understand! Of course, to some extent I am bias about our house in Noosack. I think its by far the best house on Jackson Court. Especially, out of the house's that are for sale. People are just not wanting to make an offer.

Our realtor informed us of many things today. Its definitely a strange market right now. The couple that I posted earlier about that had contacted a friend of ours about home insurance is not at this point going to offer on our home. They plan to offer on the one like ours across the street. So our realtor asked why that house over ours and they said b/c its a little bit bigger. So our realtor went to do some measuring of his own. The only difference is the kitchen/dining area is 18in. wider than our house! They haven't made an offer yet, so maybe they will change their mind and offer on ours. Maybe they won't be able to agree on a contract with the builder. Its still frustrating! Then an older lady from Sumas was once interested in ours, but her grandaughter thought the 2 extra rooms in ours were too small. So she is now making a low ball offer on a house in Everson. I guess that is what she does. She has all the money, but doesn't really want to pay for anything. Which, we probably don't want an offer from her! Then the couple that have looked at our place 4 times, their realtor can't get a hold of them. Its like they don't even exist anymore. Then the couple that was friends of our realtor, had liked our house the best, has now decided to stay in Eastern Wash. and he is going to be a stay at home Dad.

This is the crazy one, our realtor had another house listed and had a contract on it. An easy great contact, it came time to close and the buyers are nowhere to be found. The buyer's realtor even went to their home and everything was packed up and gone! So how bazaar is that? So we will just continue to wait so more!

Please, pray for me and all of us! Not that Byron isn't concerned, but I don't think that men carry the same worries as us women. Its truly wearing on me! So please pray for strength and peace.

Oklahoma had snow, yesterday!

Yes, we did! Obviously, not enough to do anything with it! After it stopped, the only place that had any signs of it snowing, were on roofs of homes! Jaycee thought it was pretty cool! She stood at the window watching it come down! The crazy thing is I think its suppose to be really warm today. That's Oklahoma for you!

Another week has past, we still have heard nothing on our house in Nooksack. So crazy! Maybe with the Government cutting interest rates again, maybe that will put a fire under the people that have been looking at our place. Earlier this week, we thought we had something. A friend of mine had a couple call in to get a home insurance quote for our house. They made the comment they wanted to close by March 1st. Our realtor hasn't heard anything, but we hope that maybe they are just getting everything they need in order and they offer today! That would be music to our ears!

There isn't a lot going on around here. The kids and I just hang out all day playing. They play pretty well together. If Jaycee has had enough of Jackson, then she goes to her room and closes the door. Lately, I have been checking on her more frequently. She has been getting into stuff she shouldn't. Yesterday, I went in her room. That room holds all of mom's wrapping paper. So Jaycee had 3 rolls out and had found the tape as well. So she had one roll that had tape all over it! Its just so funny, how they know its something they shouldn't be doing and they do it anyways. I open the door, and she jumps a mile high! It never bothers her if she is playing with her stuff and I come in the room. I just wonder what goes through their mind. Does she really think I am not going to know what she did? Just so funny!

Well, I think that is about it! Not much else is going on! Looking forward to the Super Bowl on Sunday! Our small group from church is having a big party. So that should be lots of fun. Pray that Jaycee will do well with all the kids. Their are some girls from the church that baby-sit all the kids. The kids actually stay at the church and play while we have our group. Jaycee has already found her a buddy in Maddie Lemley. She is our associate pastor's daughter. She is 12. Jaycee adores her! So she is going to be there, so I think Jaycee will be fine. She also already knows several of the kids from church. Our church isn't that big, so she sees the kids every Sun. and Wed. I am going to keep Jackson with me. I don't think he would do too well for that long. He would start looking for me! Well, have a great weekend!