Finally Pictures

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Hard wood floors in most of house. There are some updates of course that we'd eventually like to do. The bathroom is the first room. Wall paper is also going to be coming down in most if not all the rooms, or we'll texture on top of it and paint.

Nothing New

I guess it's been a while since I've blogged. A week I guess. I enjoy reading everyone else's so much that I check them everyday to see if they've got something new but mine stays the same. Oh well. We don't have internet at home right now, so I have to check them at school. I need to take my comp. home so I can put on my camera program to add some pics because it's really boring if you don't post any pics.

We've been in our cute home now for almost a month! And I've already locked myself out twice! Needless to say I've found a way in, so if I can, so can everyone else. Of course the first time was in the morning on the way out to the car to work. I forgot my keys inside and all of the 5 exterior doors we have were locked. So i had to jimmy the screen and push up the window I knew was unlocked and shimmy in and hang my big butt out the front window on the street. Thankfully it was at 7am and no one was really around. I shimmied in and gracefully did a front roll off the ledge. I would later have to do this again after i was fooling with the keys to the dead bolt and it didn't unlock. Once again I found myself doing my "gymnast" thing and getting in my house. Yes, I will put a key outside once I take the time to figure out where all the keys we got go.

Hunting season is in full swing and Jason has gone elk hunting 3 times now and saw one but it was too far away and getting late. He did shoot at a big mule deer and hit it in the front feet. His friend Rick that he was with shot it and killed it, so Jason gave the deer to him since he killed it. It wouldn't have been a rack and story he would have been proud to share anyone. "You shot that deer?" "Well, I didn't shoot it but it's a big deer." No, that doesn't work. So he's going again this weekend with someone else and hopefully they'll see more bulls or bucks.
I kind of like it when he goes because then I can have the house to myself and do what I want to do or just veg. Vegging is good. Must get the scrapbooks out and work on those. I'm soooooo far behind, I'll never get caught up.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Okay, so the title is a little late to all the Canadians but I was able to celebrate the Canadian holiday this weekend with my parents. They missed it with my grandparents but I decided since they were missing it and it was Thanksgiving, that we would have our own. It was nice to do it with family and we had a good time together. Not to mention the awesome food we made along with our 14 lb turkey which Jason and I are still eating leftovers (really we don't mind, it's way too good to pass up). Mom and Dad wanted to see our new home which I think they liked. Even the small bed they slept on together wasn't too bad or so they say.

We took them to Billings on Saturday for some shopping. The Canadian dollar is worth more than the American so they got their money's worth. They had even gone to Grand Forks the weekend before for some shopping. Jason and I were the lucky recipients of this shopping trip though. We had made the comment how we wanted to get a new dining set because our chairs are really loose and wobbly. They said they wanted to buy us a new set. Off to Billings we went. We've both kind of been liking the newest style of the counter height tables and chairs, so that's kind of what we were looking at. We found a set at Ashley's that was nice and for a good price. And right next to it was the leather couch and loveseat we've been dreaming about and wanting to buy. We pointed it out to mom and dad and we asked the price. It was on sale along with the loveseat and a new area rug. They couldn't pass up the deal and decided to also buy it for us. It was like Christmas! So we'll get it all in November. We also got some birthday and easter money from my grandparents. So to add to our new house and new furniture, (Faith you'll be happy to note you don't have to eat on my blue dishes anymore) I bought the white square corelle dishes. They're huge. I didn't think about the size or the square shape until I put it in the microwave and the table almost didn't turn, but it works.

We met up with Jason's family and all went for dinner. Sunday we slept in and leisurely got the turkey and dinner ready. Went to Cody for a drive and Walmart and played the new DVD Clue game. I think we all had a good weekend. I even had Monday off due to Columbus day, so I took off to Billings to exchange a robe and got my new dishes. It was nice to go by myself because I could where I wanted to go and dawdle if I wanted to and not have someone asking me to hurry up.

We're Home! Thanks Ron and Faith!

We've moved and we're settled! Praise God! It's been a busy weekend but a good weekend. We have some great friends in Ron and Faith Kingston, who gave up their Friday to help us pack up, move and unpack. We owe them huge. They were the only ones who showed up to help us. Needless to say, Jason and Ron are both feeling the pains of all the heavy furniture, boxes and my piano. I had to work Friday till noon and they all packed up 2 horse trailers, trucks. Faith cleaned the rest of the house I didn't get to. She then helped me organize my kitchen while the guys set up beds and furniture.
Our house feels like ours, like a home should feel. Pictures to come hopefully. It's so cute but does need a little bit of cosmetic work. New lights, trim, doors, tear down wallpaper and paint. Stuff we can do room by room. Tucker loves his new fenced backyard. There is a squirrel that plays in the trees and he sits there and waits for it to probably try and pounce on it one day. I think he may be a bit confused about the house because he follows us everywhere we go or he lays on his blanket in our room. He is a great dog though. He hardly barks unlike every other dog in town and our neighbor's little "kick me" dog who won't shut up when we're outside. We can hear the emergency alarm for the ambulance, firetrucks etc and it's quite funny to hear the neighborhood dogs start howling to the siren. It reminds me of 101 Dalmations.

September has flown by for us. It's hard to believe but this Friday we move into our first home of our own! I can't wait till everything is there and ready and I can start decorating and painting.

As far as chruch is going, it's honestly been a struggle for us both to do the worship. Last night was talked to Pastor Tim about it. He's also noticed that we've been struggling. This is the 3rd time that Jason has tried to lead others in worship for different pastors and it's always been a struggle. We know that we are both supposed to be in music because we've both been given words about music and worship but we've been thinking that maybe it's not supposed to be a corporate thing. Tim talked to Pastor Roger from Victory this week about us and they both want us to find where our ministries are at and not to go in circles. Tim has released us from the worship so we can find where we each fit, whether it be at Victory or New Life. My heart still pulls me to Victory because it's family and it's been home for the past 4 years. We're not looking for a perfect church because there is no such thing and both have their struggles right now. Moving to Powell now makes sense to go to New Life but we're not sure. Tim needs more mature Christians to help him because New Life has a lot of baby Christians. So I don't know what our future holds in this area of our lives. Prayers are always welcomed.

What A Weekend! It's a novel!

I don't even know where to start with this one. Thursday was our 4th anniversary! Where has the time gone? We went to the Rib and Chop House and stuffed ourselves with steak and a delicious dessert.

The reason this weekend was so busy was that Jason had invited, a while ago, a man by the name of Ray Hughes to come and speak to our new church New Life in Powell and Victory Fellowship in Cody where we used to go.
Ray has been on a Summer of love tour this summer with about 300 young people, traveling from Nashville to San Francisco. They stopped in other places to play and minister and take back from the spirit rhealm, what took place 40 years ago during the hippie summer of love. There's a whole lot more to it than that but anyways, he is really gifted in music, has a music school in Nashville, prophetic and brought a phenominal band with him. We hosted all 12 of them friday night for a barbecue and had one of the guys stay with us. He and Jason just hit it right off. His name was Brad Tretola. Phenomenal guitar player. He would blow us away. This is him. Super nice guy. We became quick friends.

These guys and girls were a lot of fun. But you wouldn't know unless you talked to them that alot of them have played or toured with some big Christian music artists. For example, Rebecca St.James, Salvador, and Jeff Deyo . The girl playing banjo is Ricky Skaggs' daughter Molly.

We had them in Powell and the worship they brought was awesome. Fresh songs for us and prophetic encouraging words for the region. They had kind of a blue grass feel or sound but it was really a mix. Ray is from Kentucky so he speaks with a drawl and is a so funny. He told us his testimony of becoming saved and saving almost his whole high school during the Jesus movement. It was really great. They packed up and we moved to Cody, only to have communication fall apart in the group and the arguments started. We stuck around because we had to take Brad back to our place. They finally got their differences resolved around 1am and proceeded to do their sound check for Sunday morning.


We took Brad for breakfast and went to church. The power of God was in that place. The worship was better than the night before. Things had changed for the better in the group giving them a better ability to minister and worship. It was so awesome! They were singing and giving phophetic words as they sang. Ray gave some words for this church and the region again which was so encouraging to many. Things being broken and new life coming, men rising up into new positions of authority. What was really overwhelming for us, Joel one of the guys, had a prophetic word about worship for us that just blew us away because we've been struggling with it, but he didn't know it. Jason had only told Brad and he was with us all the time. We both just were crying and can't wait to see what's going to happen. Then to top it off, Brad gave Jason his Martin guitar. Jason has always wanted one and loved playing Ray's that Brad had with him. But Brad had his own as well and gave it to Jason. He told me with tears in his eyes what had just happened. We were so blessed today! God is so awesome! Words can't even describe how we're feeling or what really happened.
God Showed Himself to Many today.

One step closer

The owner's of the cute little house we fell in love with, has accepted our offer of buying it! We're very excited and hopeful that this deal won't fall through like the last one. Sunday after church, we drove around the area and really liked it. There is an elementary school on the other side of the hospital, which the new wing i think will be right in front of the house and a park near by as well, so there is lots of room for Tucker to run and play fetch. The area is really nice and quiet and we're only 2 blocks away from our pastor and his family. Jason is wanting to get some bikes and tootle around town. What's nice is Powell is a flat town unlike hilly Cody. People from Winkler know what i'm talking about. Biking will definitely be easier. Hopefully telling this news won't "jinx" the deal.