Sorry it has been a couple of weeks. Our life kind of got put on pause the past two weeks as we had 3 weddings & 2 graduations of dear friends! and then closed on our house on May 17th! Then spent a week trying to fix it up :) Support has kind of slowed down, which has been somewhat discouraging. I have been praying for $1000 a month to come in by the end of May, and we are not close to that mark. I totally believe God can do it, and know that if it is in His will, than He will do it... but we are supposed to pray big, and specifically right? So right now (and for the past several months) I am processing my emotions of praying specifically... then when God says no- how I react. I think I am going to try to read a book on prayer this summer. If anyone has any suggestions I will take them :) Kenny's girlfriend Brenda had this verse as her facebook status a few days ago: Romans 12:12 "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer." I have read Romans before, probably more than a couple of times, and yet it is amazing how such a great verse can go unnoticed, and how the Spirit will use Scripture at different times to speak to us where we are NOW. Right now I rejoice in the hope of God finishing our support, I am trusting Him for patience and choosing that, believing that we are right where He wants us TODAY, and praying often. God's Word is alive and He does use it to speak to us. I am so thankful for it. Meditate on this verse, and I challenge you to see how you can rejoice in hope today, I pray that you can walk in patience in your struggles, and that you will have a heart to pray, God is so in love with you and takes great pleasure in you (thanks for that reminder Elizabeth).
Well I am going to post in a few days, some craft projects I have been working on. But without further ado, here are some pics of the house! As always we want to know how we can be praying for you.
Nic
Here is the Kitchen Before (Note how very UNcluttered it is... moving is messy!) :)
Kitchen After- but not finished. The header above the cabinets is a lighter yellow "Pale Daffodil", the main walls are brighter "Wildflower Honey". Putting the refrigerator in sure makes the kitchen seem smaller!
What you didn't know :
There was not a water hook-up for the fridge so Danny hooked up a water line and ran it under the floor boards of
the cabinets from the water line in the sink so that we could have a functioning ice-maker and filtered water!
This is my favorite part! I wish I had taken a "before picture of the laundry room. We didn't realize when we made an offer on the house that the laundry room only has room for 1 unit to fit in there...AND the hookup for the dryer was out in the garage. So Danny, MY MAN, spent over 6 hours (probably more) in the attic re-routing the electrical wiring for the dryer (because it has to have a special plug), then cutting the drywall and fitting a perfect electrical outlet, after dropping the wiring down through the wall, from the attic floor, hooking it up PERFECTLY and then cutting a dryer vent hole also PERFECTLY. Regan came over and lifted our new dryer onto the washer AND NOW we have both units in the SAME laundry room, and it is just PERFECT! Thank you sweetie! (and also thank you $8000 tax credit for our new stackable washer and dryer hehe)! Oh and I also painted it in "wildflower honey"
Guest room, I had just started taping the edges, so that we could start painting!
Guest room finished in "avacado".
Only one wall in the entire house still had wall paper on it. So we spent the first night stripping the wall paper off... never again.
This is the finished hallway, also in "avacado"
Addison (our niece) and Todd stopped by for a visit! Addison is helping paint the ugly wall while giving me her "cheese" face.
Master bedroom Before, well actually painting was in progress.
Master bedroom After! In "mountain ridge".
