Your Hands

I am loving this song right now...

Your Hands

JJ Heller

I have unanswered prayers

I have trouble I wish wasn't there

And I have asked a thousand ways

That You would take my pain away

That You would take my pain away

I am trying to understand

How to walk this weary land

Make straight the paths that crooked lie

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

Oh Lord, before these feet of mine

When my world is shaking

Heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave Your hands

When You walked upon the Earth

You healed the broken, lost, and hurt

I know You hate to see me cry

One day You will set all things right

Yea, one day You will set all things right

When my world is shaking

Heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave Your hands

Your hands

Your hands that shape the world

Are holding me, they hold me still

Your hands that shape the world

Are holding me, they hold me still

When my world is shaking

Heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave You when...

My world is shaking

Heaven stands

When my heart is breaking

I never leave...

I never leave Your hands

Valentines

Happy Valentines Day!

Our first date... February 21, 2004

Its hard to believe how fast 6 years goes by.

I am sure I will blink and another 6 will have gone by...

I love you honey!

Timberrr

This HUGE tree fell over before we bought the house. We wrote in the offer that we wanted the seller to remove the tree. But since the house was bank owned and the listing agent was clueless to what was going on half the time, the tree was never removed. Oh well, it wasn't going to be a "deal breaker" for us.

We asked my uncle (who has a wood stove) if he would like to come chop the wood and it would be his. He took us up on the offer and this Saturday came and took it off our hands!

Here he is working hard.

The tree is gone! And the backyard feels ginormous- we still have a ton of work to do back there!

Now we have a huge pile of branches... bond fire anyone??

A weekend in Medford

Last weekend we went to Medford to celebrate my Grandma's 75th Birthday and to see Michelle and Tristan one last time before they headed back to Florida. Here are some pictures...

Grandma Lesie opening her birthday card... she was so happy because it was a musical card that sang happy birthday therefore she didn't have to hear us all sing ha ha ha.

Grandma with her kids (my Dad, Aunt Melinda, Grandma, Uncle Kurt)

Grandma with her Grandkids (Christi, Matt, Me, Michelle, Tristan, Ali, Kayla, Keith)

Oh the joys of home ownership...

We have been the house a total of 3 days now. There are still tons of boxes everywhere! We finally got the hot water up and running this morning but now the heater is broken!! Again we have only lived here 3 days!! Thankfully we paid for home warranty insurance which covered the water heater pipe being fixed and should cover the heater. But now we wait till Friday to have heat. I am hoping and praying that nothing else goes wrong :)

On a happier note I am starting to feel the baby more! This morning he was doing gymnastics I think :)

We are moved in!

Yesterday (January 23, 2010) was the big move in day! We had Russell's parents and sister come help as well as some friends so the move went pretty quickly and smoothly (thank you so much to all who helped with the move!). I am still amazed at how much stuff we have accumulated over the last 3 1/2 years! As I unpack I am trying to sort through everything so I can have a garage sale this spring and get rid of what we don't need/make room for the baby. It is quite the chore!

Here is a list of something we have already done to the house... (I am making this list so that I can look back and remember what we have done and I am going to try my hardest to keep it updated as we do things and also add pictures!)

• New front door (still needs to be painted)
• New door from the garage to the kitchen (not finished, first door was wrong kind)
• Fixed Fence
• Added peep hole to front door (so I can see out the front if someone comes to the door when I am home alone)
• Put a bigger dog door on the door from the garage to the deck for Raven
• Replaced pluming for the fridge water and ice :)
• Added a GFI outlet for TV

That is it for now, but the list of "to dos" is not complete, it seems to get longer with each passing day...

We are still waiting for hot water. We have a nice working hot water heater but the pipe coming from the wall where the hose attaches has a leak in the threads. Since it is a pretty old pipe Russ doesn't want to take any chances trying to fix it himself. We were about to call a plumber to come out an fix it but we figured out that our home warranty insurance should cover it! Now we are waiting on them because our paper work hadn't been filled with the insurance company as of Wednesday last week. Therefore they had no record that we own the house and could deny us coverage, even though we have owned the house since a week ago Friday. If it gets drawn out any further we will just pay for a plumber to come fix it. Thankfully we still have the keys to our old place and can shower there. But I cannot wait to have hot water here!

We are very excited to be all moved in! At times I still can't believe we are homeowners! I can't wait to see how we make this place our home! All the fun is just beginning :) It feels so great to be able to make changes that we like and know that we aren't just throwing our money away... because we own this house! I will post pictures soon!

Again... thanks to everyone that has helped with the move! We really do appreciate it!

AMAZING DAY!

Today was quite the day! January 15th 2010 marks the day that we found out we are having a baby BOY and we got the keys to our first house! Let the nursery planning and moving begin!