Well..it has been a long time...

As the title goes..it has been a long time since I have actually posted any updates about the family, but it seems as if I never have enough time. I don't know how I do it, work a full-time job, take care of the 3 kids, school stuff for Brenten, the list goes on and on I am ready for a break! My job has been very trying at times here lately and I sometimes just want to throw in the towel and stay home, but then I think what will I do all day at home. I know, be busy with the kids, spend entirely too much time on the computer, not that I don't do that already. HaHa.

Brenten is over half-way through his first year of school and seems to be doing really well. He made the honor roll for 1st and 2nd quarter, I wonder where he got his smarts from? Not his dad!!! Benjamen will be 3 next month, and I think that we are in the terrible 2's..going into the torturous 3's..Lord please help us. Brooklynn is almost 6 months old..and is turning over both directions and trying to roll around the floor to get to something that has caught her attention. We have all fared pretty good this winter without catching the flu or some horrible bug, but it seems as if the kids all have a cough and stuffy nose now, but what is winter without that. I am ready for spring..the cold, snow and ice is getting to me. I don't understand how it can be 55 one day and then the next it is 15, snowing, raining and sleeting all in a matter of hours. It just amazes me!

I have uploaded a slide show of some pics of the kids over the past few months. Enjoy!

Some words for thought.....

Malachi 3:3 says:

"And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver. As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: "He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver." She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time thesilver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyeson the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames,
it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, "How do you know when the silver is fully
refined?" He smiled at her and answered, "Oh, that's easy --
when I see my image in it."




If today you are feeling the heat of the fire,
remember that God has his eye on you and will keep
watching you until He sees His image in you.

Pass this on....this very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them. And, whatever they're going through, they'll be a better person in the end.