Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Augest 2011 soooooooooo many blessings...

This past month was full of blessings, David's work has been great, Iris is doing real good at school, violin and piano and is improving so fast I can not believe it!!! she just started playing violin in the orchestra at our church, besides she had the chance to play on the grand piano one Sunday because our pianist was out of town, she did a great job, I love hearing her practice and have music playing noises all over the house, she is doing good at her school and just finish the whole grade Science so now she only have three subjects to study daily in fact she is one unit from finishing History too maybe in a couple of days, then she will have only two subjects, Nellie is growing up so fast, She is going to be 6 on the Sep,14 Th she is so busy and want to clean, dust, organize, decorate and redecorate, cook, bake, sew, she is very artistic and loves painting, she is always painting something, our house is already full of so many things that she painted.
Church has been wonderful, the preaching, singing and so much. We had a sing inspiration at our church, our family did a skit on door knocking, it was so much fun, so many families sang together it was a heavenly day.
Our animals are doing well in spite of the heat waves we are having.
I am still getting lots of goat milk and I make cheese and yogurt, and I think all my females got bred this past 2 month too so we are going to have the kids in 4-5 months, still get a few eggs from our chickens every day, we have been eating lots of fruits and berries in the morning and it really gives me so much energy, the pool especially have been so much fun and relaxing for all of us and I especially love exercising in it too.
we finally got all the horse panels we needed to make the round pen and stalls for our three horses, Iris's horse was not doing good he had a problem with his hoofs so we had to have the vet over and found out he was having laminates so we started his treatment and he is doing better, I cannot wait for the weather to cool off little bit so I can start riding lessons. It will sure be easier now that we have a round pen. Nellie likes to ride but are unable to stay out a lot because of the heat.
We just got 2 squeezes of Alfalfa and Bermuda grass for our horses and goats so we are set for the winter, we keep hearing the the prices of hay and grass are going to get worse than what they already are now.
We had the August teen /parent night at our house, they all went swimming and horse back riding then Bro. Darryl did the devotions for us, Iris and I cooked a big meal so we all had a great time of fellowship, fun and feast.
We did a bunch of sewing lately, I had gone to the Goodwill store on a 50% off Saturday and bought a bunch of material and made some matching skirts.
We used to have a dear Friend that Iris Met at Paws 4 Life she was about 20 years old, a very good seamstress she was coming to our house to help us sew and we had a great time with her but she just went to collage a few day ago, we are going to miss her dearly.
I started reading Debbie Pearl's book "Created To Be His Help Meet" FOR THE 3ED TIME NOW, I love this book!!!!!!!!! It seems like I need to be reminded over and over of my role in life, living independently for so long in my twenties causes me to often get into an ungodly and selfish attitude of "me, myself, and I "and the "O poor me" junk, even though I know it is wrong and from the pits of Hell I still do it, that is why I pick up that book and read it again and again. The first time I read it 5 years ago, David noticed the change in my heart and he really liked me that way, it made me happier, it really did!!! by God's grace I will try to be what God created me to be more and more as He gives me more grace and more days to live on this earth, I am so glad God is still working on me and does not give up, He is so merciful, kind and long suffering.
Thank you God for all your blessings.

Monday, August 1, 2011

July 2011

July was a busy month, it started with having my brother's family from Denmark and my mother from San Diego Ca visiting here, while they were here we went to the Gold Field ghost town and had a blast especially going down the gold mine, then we went to the Salt River for tubing, then went to Canyon lake for Fish Fry dinner, and one early morning they all went hiking the Silly Mountain, they loved our pool and were in it every day Sara did some horse back riding with IrisGod allowed us to lead my 2 nieces 18 & 15 years old to the LORD sitting around our dinning table it was a blessing....this was the highlight of the visit. We became very close during those few days(first time we met they were 5 & 3 years old) that was eleven years ago, Iris and the girls really got along and had so much fun and laughter. On the 19th we celebrated Iris's 15th birthday, and on the 27th we celebrated David's birthday.

David's grandma went home to be with our LORD on the 25th at the age of 97, she was a very godly, virtues and very respected woman, she had a list of all her children, grand children, great grandchildren and their spouses in her Bible and she got up every morning at 5 am to read her Bible and pray for all of us, we all miss her greatly.

Church has been wonderful ....the preaching of God's word got me fired up again and made me want to win souls, and it was 4 souls that I was able to lead to the LORD during the month of July, we ended the month with a beautiful Sunday at church then had a church wide ball game and then dinner at Del Taco, we had great fruitful month.






























Sara Trying to milk our one horned goat "Sweet Penny"
The girls were crazy about anything western.
They loved holding some of our kittens
There first time eating "Pho" and first time ever drinking Root beer"

Iris and one of our baby goats.