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It’s been a long time

Sorry guys, I tend to blog in waves. A lot has been going on here lately. I just got done with book rush which wasn’t fun (don’t get me started). I have started my second semester in the MBA program at GWU. This semester I’m taking on the hardest class I believe I’ll have to take (Finance). I believe there’s a reason it’s an F word. So far it’s going ok, I’m taking it in class on Thursday nights from 6-9 (not fun after a long day at work). Luckily my friend Cary is taking it with me so she is helping me through. We decided to take the harder classes first to get them out of the way. I hope that plan works. Justin’s granny was in the hospital a little bit ago. Now she is home and they’ve redone the house to allow her to use her wheelchair. She is one tough cookie and we love her so much!

Now, if you’ve read Justin’s blog entry, then you know that he is in Kentucky this week. He was supposed to come home today originally but had to postpone his arrival until tomorrow due to some work issues. I’m glad now that he had to wait because of this weather. I heard on the news that a lot of the flights today were delayed or canceled. Hopefully he will have better luck tomorrow. I’m so excited. This is the longest we’ve been apart. I can’t wait to hug him and squeeze him and kiss him hehe. I’ll try not to make a big scene hehe.

I love you honey! Be careful tomorrow. I’ll be waiting for you…if I don’t get lost hehe.

2/1/2007 by family life love 0

Special Visit

This week we had a very special house guest. I wouldn’t call him a guest really, but family. Matt came to visit us for a few days. It has been so fun. I wish Megan could have come but maybe she will get to come for a visit soon (hint hint hehe). It was so nice for Justin to have another guy around for a change and for all of us to have fun and joke around. Thanks for coming Matt! 🙂

On another note, I would like to wish Stacey and David belated birthday wishes. I have been quite slack on my posts. Stacey’s 21st Birthday was on the 23rd and David’s was on the 27th. I love you guys!

12/29/2006 by family life 2

Free Fallin’

Yay! Everyone…I have successfully completed my first semester of Grad School. So far I have only received one grade and that was an A in Business Law. I am still awaiting my grade in Operations Management but considering that I just handed in the final last night around 10 or so, I’ll give him a little more time haha. I’m so excited to be done for awhile so I can get back to real life. I haven’t even started thinking about Christmas yet. I guess that will be this week.

I know that everyone has a busy December month leading up to Christmas so I hope everyone has a great time and don’t forget the real reason for Christmas. It always helps me to put things in perspective.

12/12/2006 by life 3

Revival

I’m going to take just a moment to plug an advertisement here. Starting this Sunday evening at 6pm, we will have a three day revival at church featuring Clayton King. He is an awesome evangelist speaker. Some of you have heard his preaching before via tape. I am so excited. The revival goes through Tuesday night (Monday and Tuesday night at 7pm) Nursery is even provided. If you are in the neighborhood stop on by. It’s going to be an awesome time of worship. I have nursery duty on Monday but hopefully Justin will be recording the services.

11/9/2006 by family life love 0

Almost time

Please pray for Justin and I for we have shopped and have done laundry but tonight our main task is to pack for the trip. Please pray specifically that everything will fit in our bags, that we will not forget anything important, and that our bags will be within the weight limit of 50 pounds each. Thank you so much! We couldn’t be doing this without the many prayers lifted up for us.

If things get hectic like I’m sure they will and I do not get a chance to get back online before we leave. We love you all and will miss you. We already cannot wait to return and share our experiences. For those of you that are great prayers, here is a list of the names of people going: Natalie, Jeremy, Matt, Justin, Bonnie, Phillip, Margie, Janice, and Joy. Other names of missionaries and fellow Russian Christians are: Holly, Mark, Lori, Brad, Vica, Genady, Sasha, Mischa, Ben, Drew, Mark, and the Russian Grandmothers (babushkas).

Thank you so much! Be good while we are gone!

10/3/2006 by General life 2

Wow…Just Wow

I cannot even begin to describe to you about last night’s Commissioning Service for our Moscow Mission Team. Especially in times like that, I can’t fathom how someone cannot believe in God. Our team met at 3:30pm at the church to pack our supplies. We each are allowed two bags to check. One bag is for our clothes and personal supplies, the other is for supplies we are bringing to Moscow. We knew we had a weight limit of 50 pounds per bag and a lot of supplies to go in each. God answered our prayers to make sure everything fit. Almost each bag weighed 49.6 pounds.

A little while ago we were worried we would not have enough money to pay for our lodging while there. God answered another prayer by providing the money through two (a couple) of His faithful servants that graciously gave us the exact amount we needed.

Last night we had over 150 people attend the service. I haven’t truly worshipped like that in quite awhile. There wasn’t a dry eye in the place. We each were asked to have a prayer partner for our trip. Last night they surprised us and each came to the front and said a few words about us along with scripture and then prayed for us in front of the whole church. Our youngest team member was the first to go. Her stepdad got up to speak (her prayer partner was her grandmother but she lives in Michigan and couldn’t make it). The first thing that got me going was that he said, “Natalie is my daughter” (not stepdaughter but daughter). It was so touching and sweet. My prayer partner is a lady named June Crotts from our church. I can’t tell you how much she has meant to me. I can really feel her prayers. We have even gotten together to pray and I can’t even describe the feelings I get. I really do believe that through her prayers as well as many others that I am now totally well. I was worried for awhile that I wouldn’t get better in time.

We’ve had people tell us they will pray for us at different times of the day. Justin’s Grandparents are going to pray for us so that at 7am Russian time we can wake up knowing we’ve been prayed for to start a new day. I told Justin last night that although we still have TONS to do before we leave on Thursday, there is no way that we should worry or stress one bit because God has already showed us so much and I know He will take care of us.

While we are away, I’m not sure yet how Lori (missionary) will keep things updated for everyone here but if you are interested you can keep a check at their blog site http://stameys.blogspot.com/

Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts and love. I can’t wait to go and serve the Lord. God always shows me so much and even though I think it’s me that is going to serve, I am often the one that gets the serving. God is so good!

Thank you to all that came to the service. You mean so much to us.

And one last thing that has been a huge answer to prayer…Justin’s cousin Chad, and wife Faith have been waiting to adopt a child for quite some time now. We added them to our prayer list at church when they found out that they could possibly be getting a child within 48 hours. They found out they were not selected which was heartbreaking for everyone. When our Pastor asked Justin if they should keep them on the list he said yes and not long after that we have found out that they are going to get a baby boy in about 10 days!!!! Praise God! They may not have gotten the first child that they were waiting for but God had a plan and He knew this new baby was coming that needs Chad and Faith to be his parents.

10/2/2006 by family General life love 0

Trip Approaching

As many of you know, our church mission trip to Moscow, Russia is soon approaching. We have less than a week until we will be on an airplane. This is our last weekend to prepare for the trip. Our Commissioning service is this Sunday night at 6pm. If any of you are in the area you are more than welcome to come. I know the choir will be singing some really inspirational songs and there may be a slide show of pictures from Moscow as well.

I have finally finished my school work so that I can now focus on packing for the trip and doing many loads of laundry. Thank you all so much for your continued prayers. We certainly appreciate them. Please continue to pray that we will have a safe trip and that we will be able to serve the Lord to the best of our abilities while in Moscow. Also, that God will watch over our families and loved ones while away.

Have a great weekend!

9/29/2006 by family life love 0

TGIF

I managed to make myself take Thursday and today off of work. I was a little worried about how I might react to all the medications the doc gave me. I have 5 different things to take. One is an inhaler that makes me shake and warm all over (every 4-6 hours). Another is a weird thing that pokes holes in a pill and then I breathe the powder from the pill into my lungs (once a day). Then I have to take an antibiotic twice a day and a cough suppresant (every 4-6 hours). The cough suppresant has hydrocodine in it. It makes me sick and dizzy. I try not to take it as often if I can help it. I don’t know what I’ll do when I get back to work and have to take all this stuff still. I also have to take an herbal pill to make sure I don’t get another fun infection from the antibiotics.

Today is Friday and I’m excited because Erin and Walker are coming to visit and so are my parents and a friend, Betty from New Jersey. It will be the usual quick visit but I’ll take anything I can get. Then Justin and I are headed to Erin’s neck of the woods to present our trip to Russia to her youth group. They have been kind enough to help us collect some items which we are going to bring with us. It’s going to be a busy weekend while on drugs but hopefully a good one. I hope you all have a great weekend as well. Pray for Justin…he’s been sneezing this morning and “not being sick” so I hope he doesn’t come down with something.

9/8/2006 by family life 2

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