My Garden

I know I haven't been blogging much recently. I've got plenty of things keeping me busy. Just one of those things is my garden! This is the first year I did a garden and I guess you could say I started out with a pretty good sized one. Lets see, I planted about 6 cucumber plants (a few seedless plants and a few regular), 8 tomato plants (four plum and four beefsteaks), four bell pepper plants, 3 Jalapeno pepper plants, 2 habanero pepper plants, meadow mint tea, 6 basil plants, parsley and oregano. Here are a few pictures I took back in July when my garden was just starting to grow. The bush on the right is mom Friedrich's blueberry bush.



This is the view from the other side of the garden:


My little herb corner:


I transplanted just a few (maybe about 10) tea plants from my parents house and look how fast they grew:


This is a picture from today, I can't believe how everything is growing so big!


Quite a difference huh?! I had to stake up all my pepper plants except the habaneros, because each one fell over at some point from the weight of all the peppers growing on them.

My cucumbers are currently growing like crazy! For the last three days straight I've gotten 5 a day and before that it was more like 2 or 3 a day. Needless to say we've been eating so many cucumbers I think we might turn green!

Jon's Jalapeno peppers also took off a week or so ago. They are slowing down a little now but he's already gotten a few quart sized bags full of them - some of which I froze, some Jon made into a super-spicy-hot pepper spread, and some he just fries or grills to eat with whatever we're having for dinner.

The rabbits keep eating most of my tomatoes that turn red - which luckily hasn't been many so far - so tomorrow I'm going out to buy chicken wire to put around the garden so they can't get in. I'm hoping to make tomato sauce so I can't have all my tomatoes being eaten!

Earlier this week I cut down almost all my basil to make pesto sauce for freezing. There's already more basil growing! A few weeks ago I also cut some to dry for filling my spice jar. I guess 6 basil plants was a little too much :).

Ok, this post about my garden is getting pretty long but if you'll bare with me I have one more thing to tell about. In the early days of my gardening this year there were about 4 or 5 trees growing right outside the one corner of my garden. Some of the trees were as tall as our house so unfortunately they were providing way too much shade for my plants - which all needed full sunlight. So my wonderful husband cut them down for me one Saturday. Here are some pictures:

He secured each tree with straps before sawing so that when they fell they wouldn't fall on top of my garden:




Some of the smaller trees he drug away but there were also a few that were really heavy so he used his mom's car to drag them off:


What a difference that made in my garden! I'm so thankful for Jon's help and his willingness to do all that work for me! I would never have been able to do it without him.

Amazing Transformation

Jon just sent me an email with before and after images of a picture he touched up at work. The "after" result was so amazingly different than the original picture that I just had to post them so you could all see. This is just one type of thing Jon does at his job:

Original picture of the house:


After Jon finished touching it up:


Isn't he good??!!! hehe Alright, that's all. Just wanted to brag a bit :).

Independence Day!

We had a party yesterday to celebrate the 4th of July. Here are just a few pictures:

The guys played bocce ball for a long time. They went all the way around the yard.


Kassia, Shawna and I sat in the hot tub while the guys played bocce ball, then we sat outside the pool and watched the guys swimming - the big pool was too cold for us :)



Jon broke the diving board... it was on it's last let anyway. Everytime one of the guys would jump off it we could hear a crack - I'm suprised it didn't break sooner than it did.


We had lots of yummy food. Jon grilled up chicken, hot dogs and shrimp.

At the end of the night we did fireworks. Here's two good pics of them. Shawna is holding a roman candle that shoots out balls of colorful fireworks. Jon's just about to throw the one he has in his hand.



It was a muggy overcast day but we managed to have a lot of fun anyway :). Happy belated Independance day everyone!

Update

Since I haven't been posting very regularly I thought I'd give just a general update of what's been going on in our lives these last few months.

That's one of Jon's newest motorized toys. He bought it back in April I believe. He has always wanted a motorcycle and this one was a really good deal so we decided he could get it. I was ok with the idea, but every time he rides it I say a prayer for safety and then anxiously wait for him to return. I don't think he plans to keep it too long - he just wanted to have the experience of owning and riding a motorcycle :). I'd like to get a ride or two on it before he sells it too. He's got to get his license first though. The motorcycle has actually come in handy lately since the transmission in Jon's car went bad a few weeks ago. Sometimes Jon will ride his motorcycle to work (on days I really need my car) the rest of the days he just takes my car to work. Needless to say I've been spending A LOT of time at home since Jon's car turned unusable.

Jon's still working at Sheffield Furniture - it's been 5 months now since he started there. It's work, but he enjoys it and is much more comfortable now with what he's doing. He finished re-doing the first of a number of websites he's responsible for. Click the link below the picture to go to the website he created and see what he's been up to. I think it's really great! He's in the middle of re-doing another website right now at work.

Sheffield Furniture

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As for me, I've been enjoying my time at home a lot. I've been trying out all kinds of new recipes and finding ones we really like. I've been doing little projects all around the house that I've wanted to do for a while. This spring I planted a garden too so that's been occupying a good chunk of my time. I'll have pictures of it soon.

Well, that's all I can think of right now. Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Two Years Later!

Yesterday was our second anniversary! Sometimes it seems like it was just yesterday that we got married - other times I think of all we've done and been through together in these last two years and it seems like forever! Either way I never regret saying yes when Jon asked me to marry him! :) I grow more in love with him every day. I cherish his love and care for me and it never gets old.

Two weeks ago, yesterday, we found out we were expecting our first baby. We were so excited (especially me, but Jon was excited too)! Then, just one week later, I had an early miscarriage. Though that was very possibly the hardest thing I've ever gone through, we are trusting God that He has a plan in all of this and that He will bless us with another baby very soon. Jon has been a wonderful source of encouragement and strength for me through the tough times and I'm so thankful for him!

Anyway, yesterday for our anniversary we kept things pretty simple. We both had chiropractor appointments soon after Jon got home from work so we went there. After that we spent the rest of the night together, just enjoying each others company. We drove in and around the parking lot of the church where we got married and reminised the memories that flooded our minds. Then we went down to Plymouth Meeting mall and walked around shopping for a while until our reservation at PF Chang's right next door. PF Chang's is one of our favorite restarunts, they have delicious Asian-Fusion food and we like to eat their occationally. After dinner we came home for the night. It was nice just relaxing together and talking a lot. Our nights are usually rush, rush, rush and always filled with something or other, so it was really nice to celebrate by taking it easy.

Happy Birthday Dear Jon, Happy Birthday to You!

For any that don't already know, Jon's 22nd birthday was last Friday, May 30th! Jon took off work for his birthday so we could have a long weekend down in Ocean City with his family. We headed down Thursday night when Jon got home from work and the first thing we did, as soon as we got there, was hop in the car with Jon's parents to go to the Budakan restaurant in Atlantic City. That's where Jon picked to go for his birthday dinner.

Friday - Jon's actual birthday - his cousins Stephen & Matt and their friend Wayne, flew in from Oklahoma and we picked them up from the airport. After dinner that night we celebrated with ice cream cake and desserts.



We stayed in Ocean City till Sunday this past weekend. The weekend before that we started off by going to Wildwood Friday night to stay with my parents and Kelsey & Alayna - who had been vacationing there for a week. Then Saturday we all drove to Ocean City to stay with Jon's family who was just getting there that day. My parents stayed till Sunday night with us, and Jon and I stayed till Monday night. Needless to say, we've been doing a lot of driving back and forth down to the shore and back the last few weekends. But we're home for a while now.

Last night we celebrated Jon's birthday with my family at my parents house. I made Jon a second birthday cake and my mom made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Yummy!


Sadly for Jon, I think now all his birthday celebrations are over :(. Oh well, next year will be here before we know it.

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OH MY WORD! I'm soo embarassed to finially get back on here. April & May have come and gone and I haven't posted a single thing! It has been busy but not so busy that I don't have time to blog if I'd just sit down and do it! I've just been putting it off because I know I need to write and post pictures from our cruise and that will take a while. So, I'm just skipping that and maybe I'll get back to it, or maybe I won't - who knows. But I can't just keep going on and not posting anything :).

So anyway, I'll be back again!

Drums

A few Saturday's ago Jon and I babysat our little friends Hailey, Justin and Sydney Herr. We were also having company over that night so I was busy in the kitchen for a lot of the time preparing dinner and dessert. This left Jon to be the one watching the kids most the time so he got them started playing rock band. They all loved it. All three of them took turns playing the drums but Justin was by far most excited and interested in it. He was hallarious to watch too. Here's pictures of Hailey and Sydney and then a video of Justin. The faces he makes still make be laugh and I've watched it a lot. :)

Chicken Enchiladas

I know, I know, everyone is waiting for pictures from the cruise...sorry! You'll have to wait just a little longer. I've got about 3,000 pictures to sort through and pick from and I've been keeping busy, so I haven't gotten a chance yet. I will though, I promise.

For now, here's a yummy recipe for you to experiment with. Jon said to say he REALLY likes this meal :)

Chicken Enchiladas

INGREDIENTS
~ 2 cups shredded, cooked chicken
~ 1 can cream of chicken soup
~ 1/2 cup sour cream
~ 2 Tbsp. butter
~ 1/2 cup chopped onions
~ 1 tsp. Chili powder
~ 1 can (4oz) chopped green chilis
~ 8 flour tortillas
~ 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. In small bowl stir soup and sour cream until well blended.

3. In 2 quart sauce pan over medium-heat, melt butter and cook onions with chili powder until onions are tender, stirring often. Stir in chicken, chilis and 2 tablespoons of the soup mixture. Remove from heat.

4. Spread about 1/4 cup of chicken mixture along center of each tortilla. Fold sides over filling and place seam-side-down in greased 9x13 baking dish. Spread remaining soup mixture over enchiladas. Cover with foil and bake 15 minutes.

5. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake uncovered an additional 5 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly.

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I serve my enchiladas with a side of Spanish rice which I make from a quick and easy Lipton or Rice-A-Roni packet. In the picture the red decor on the food is Jon's hot sauce - which he adds to everything he eats.

Cruising...

Tomorrow we're off for our week long cruise! I'm finally feeling somewhat relaxed after a whole day of packing, cleaning and preparing! And now it's time for bed! :)

Jon and I drove Brian & Sarah to the airport this afternoon so they could fly down to Miami tonight. They'll be meeting us on the boat tomorrow. Nate & Shawna will be meeting us here around 7:30 tomorrow morning and then Jon's dad will be driving us to the airport. We have a non-stop flight to Miami and we're praying that everything goes smoothly with no delays! We have at least a 2 hour buffer so even if our plane gets delayed a little we'll still be ok - but it would make for a much more stressful morning.

We're so excited to be getting away for a whole week with each other and friends, plus visiting 3 new islands! We're stopping at Nassau, Bahamas, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. Neither of us have been to St. Thomas or St. Maarten and only Jon has been to Bahamas. We've got some fun things planned for on the islands as well: snorkeling, para sailing, riding 4-wheelers and seeing lots of beautiful views!

I'm sure we'll have all kinds of fun pictures to show when we return! Here's one to hold you over... this is the ship we'll be on for the next 7 days:



Bon Voyage!

Simply Lasagna

I made this lasagna recipe the other night when we had a bunch of friends over and it was pretty yummy so I thought I'd share it. You make it with uncooked noodles which cook while it's baking - that was easy:

Ingredients:

~ 1 lb. ground beef (I used ground chicken)
~ 1 egg, beaten
~ 2 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
~ 1 container (15 oz.) Ricotta Cheese
~ 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided
~ 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped (I didn't have fresh so I just shook in some dried parsley)
~ 1 jar (26 oz.) spaghetti sauce
~ 1 cup water
~ 12 lasagna noodles, uncooked

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown meat in large skillet on medium-high heat. Meanwhile, mix egg, 1 1/4 cups of the mozzarella cheese, the ricotta cheese, 1/4 cup of the Parmesan cheese and the parsley until well blended; set aside.

2. Drain meat; return to skillet. Stir in spaghetti sauce. Add water to empty sauce jar; cover with lid and shake well. Add to meat mixture; stir until well blended.

3. Spread 1 cup of the sauce onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking dish; top with layers of 3 lasagna noodles, one-third of the ricotta cheese mixture and 1 cup of the sauce. Repeat layers twice. Top with remaining 3 noodles and the remaining meat sauce. Sprinkle with remaining 1 1/4 cups mozzarella cheese and remaining 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Cover with greased foil.

4. Bake 45 min. Remove foil; bake an additional 15 min. or until heated through. Let stand 15 min. before cutting to serve.

Makes 12 servings, 1 piece each.

My adjustments:

~ I used at least 4 more noodles than they said - I'm not sure what kind of 13x9 pans they were talking about but 3 noodles just wasn't filling my pan and I like a lot of noodles.

~ When it was all done it seemed just a bit dry so I think next time I'll use more sauce and maybe a little more cheese.

Enjoy!

Birthday Surprises!

I can't believe I turn 23 today!! That is scarry - time goes by so fast! I'm getting old...LOL :)

Jon woke me up early this morning with kisses...he then sat me up in bed to see a bouquet of pretty pink roses on our dresser with gifts and a little, pink, handmade coupon book from him. We didn't have much time together since Jon had to get ready and leave for work, but I got to open my gifts and read all my coupons - they were really cute! After Jon left for work I walked into the bedroom to find a single rose on my pillow with a little note from Jon. On the bottom of the note it said "8/12" (meaning: 8 of 12). Throughout the morning I found 11 more little notes in various places - each with a single rose next to it. All the notes were very sweet and cute. Here are a few to give you an idea:

I found this one in one of our food cabinets: "Thanks for going grocery shopping and using coupons that save us money and get us lots of good food"

This one was in my bucket of cleaning supplies: "Thanks for all the cleaning you do in our house to keep it a wonderful place to live in"

This one was in the oven: "Thanks for all the baking you do in here, whether it's bread, cookies or stromboli its always yummy"

And in the chest freezer: "Thanks for keeping this stocked with food and for the yummy apple sauce that you made"

This one was in our medicine cabinet: "Thanks for the way you keep this stocked with everything I would need if I got sick"

And this one was in the linen closet: "Thanks for always keeping this full of neatly folded clean towels"

There were 6 more similar notes. I was smiling/crying all morning :). I have the most amazing, caring, sweet husband in the world! I always thank God for him when I pray and I am so blessed to have him!

Here's a picture of all my flowers, my coupon book and my little notes:

Tonight I think we're going out for dinner and then to a jewlery store in Philly for me to pick something out. That should be fun as well. :)

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In other news around here, I had a lot of fun on my scrapbooking retreat a few weeks ago. I was working on our Everyday Life album which holds pictures starting from right after our honeymoon. When I got to the retreat I was ready to start on pictures from January of last year and I got all the way through our vacation to Germany which was in March of last year. I know it doesn't seem like a lot but we took a TON of pictures in Germany so that took a while. Sarah and I also got some pretty good deals during the three trips we made to the outlets right next door :).

Our cruise is coming up in less than two weeks! We leave on February 24th and return March 2nd. Jon and I are both really looking forward to the time away - Jon especially is now that he's working full time :).

Speaking of Jon's job, things have been going really well for him. He started back on January 28th so he's now half-way through his third week there. His first few weeks have been a lot of learning and getting familiar with the company. He is in charge of all website design, maintenance and promotion - which is no small task considering the company has 5 different websites and they want all of them re-done! He will also be doing general graphic design and he's in charge of all e-mail marketing. I know there's other things he is responsible for too but I can't think of what they are right now. He even has his own office with a window - which I think is really cool! :) He is on salary pay so he was able to set his own hours of 8-4 Monday-Friday. He's sometimes there a little bit after 4:00 though. Sheffield seems like a really good company to work for and Jon is liking his new job.

As for me... I've been busy as usual, although if you ask me what I do all day I probably won't be able to give you a very good answer. The days just seem to fly by! I'm still very much enjoying being able cook nice meals almost every night and slowly catching up on my seemingly endless lists of things I want to or need to do. :)

On that note - I should get back to doing something. I have fresh fruit to cut up and laundry to do! :)

Scrapbooking

Well, tomorrow morning I'm off for a weekend scrapbooking retreat. I've sorted my pictures, printed them out and packed my bags. Last year was my first year to go to this retreat and I hope to make it an annual event. I'll be picking up my friend Sarah tomorrow morning, then we'll drive up to Gettysburg, PA to the hotel where we stay. We scrapbook in a big conference room at the hotel and conveniently, right in the same parking lot, is as an outlet mall! There's got to be at least 20 - 30 ladies that attend the retreat. I'm looking forward to spending time with Sarah, doing some shopping and getting a lot done in my albums. We come home Sunday afternoon.

In other news around here, we've book a cruise for the end of February. We'll be going with Nate & Shawna and Brian & Sarah. Jon and I are really looking forward to this cruise. It should be lots of fun being on vacation with a few friends. Jon's been spending a good amount of time researching everything there is to do at each of our stops. We're stopping at Nassau, Bahamas; St. Maarten and St. Thomas.

A Job for my Love

As of about an hour ago...Jon has a job in his field!!! He received a call this morning from the owner of the company he had his last interview with, who offered him a Job starting as soon as Jon can start. The company is Sheffield Furniture and is based in Phoenixville. Here's their website in case you want to check it out: www.sheffieldfurniture.com

From what Jon knows the company actually owns 5 other big furniture companies and is looking to buy a sixth. They advertise in all different magazines and are looking to start TV ads. Jon will be creating a lot of those advertisements as well as re-doing and up keeping the websites of all 5 companies. There is one other graphic designer that works there, who will be working with Jon.

We are very thankful to God for providing this job for Jon. I was just praying really hard this morning that Jon would find a job soon - and I know it was not just a coincidence that Jon received the call just a few hours later. Our God is an awesome God and He loves to answer our prayers when we come with a dependence and faith in Him and a desire for His will in our lives.

Thank you to all of you who have also been praying for Jon and I throughout Jon's job search. We're looking forward to the future.

Job Search Update

Not this past Thursday, but the one before that Jon had the opportunity to meet with a man who owns a big technology company. This man goes to the church that our church was planted out of - that's how Jon got connected with him. When he headed to the meeting Jon wasn't sure what to expect. He was thinking he would get some advice on his job search and ask some questions, possibly even leave with an internship. What he came away with was some of that and much more. He doesn't have an internship - that was a miss-communication, but he is much more clear about what he should be doing. The man was very kind but also very open and honest. He looked over Jon's resume & portfolio site and gave him some pointers and ideas on what to do different. He also went a little deeper and spoke into other areas of Jon's life. Jon said it was definatly God speaking through this man.

Just a few days after that meeting Jon got a call from a company that he applied at. He had an interview with them this past Thursday. The interview went extremely well according to Jon. The people seemed to be very personable and friendly and they liked Jon's portfolio a lot. He will know in about 2 weeks if he got the job or a second interview. We're not getting our hopes up but Jon said he would really like that Job, so we are praying. If he doesn't get the job though, then it wasn't God's will and we won't be upset.

So that's the latest news on Jon's job search.

New Year's Eve

For new years eve we had a group of 11 of our friends over to bring in the new year with us. One of the things Jon got for Christmas was a game called Rock Band. Up to 4 people can play the game: 1 singer, 1 drummer, and then two either bass or guitar players. We spent nearly the entire night playing this game and everyone was having fun the whole time! I can't believe we didn't get tired of it. We'd just take turns and it wasn't too bad. It was hillarious at some points when certain people (I won't mention any names haha) were singing. Here are a few pictures:





We turned off Rock Band in time to watch the last few minutes of the ball dropping, toast the new year and then go outside to light off fireworks. Some of the guys (including my fire loving husband) were outside lighting off fireworks till almost 1:00am!

It was a great night.

Christmas 2007

I know, I know, Christmas and New Year's have come and gone and I haven't posted anything - so much has been happening. Christmas Eve and Christmas day were completely packed for us. The morning of Christmas eve we continued our tradition of driving out to Shady Maple Smorgasboard in Lancaster, for breakfast with a group of our friends from church. Over the years the group has grown quite a bit - to the point where this year we had about 80 people there!

Of all the gifts I received, my favorite was one I received from my love. It's a big picture collage with 21 different 4x6 photo openings. But he didn't only buy me the frame (which I wanted to go over our big couch in the living room)...what made the gift so special is that he spent hours finding 21 pictures of us from throughout the years, then he touched each of them up and edited them to look good and printed them out and arranged them in the frame. I love it!!! Here's a picture of me with my gift:

Here are a few more pictures from Christmas:

Christmas Eve at my parents

At mom & dad Friedrich's on Christmas Day

Grandma Bea & pop-pop's on Christmas Day

That is all the cousins on my mom's side (minus Nate & Shawna who had to leave early) plus the girl with the curly hair is my cousin Luke's girlfriend.

To make things less confusing I'm gonna blog about New Year's in a seperate post.

Delicious Recipe

I made this recipe a while ago and Jon really liked it. It has a lot of flavor - which is how Jon likes his food. I liked it as well so I thought I'd share it.

Chicken with Bacon, Rosemary & Lemon

~ 5 slices of bacon, chopped
~ 1/4 cup flour
~ 4 chicken breasts
~ Salt & Pepper
~ 1 Tbsp. butter
~ 4 garlic cloves
~ 1 tsp. rosemary, ground
~ 1/8 tsp. ground red pepper
~ 1 cup chicken broth
~ 2 Tbsp. lemon juice

Fry bacon over med-high heat until crisp then transfer to a plate lined with paper towels. Spoon off all but 2 tablespoons of the grease.

Season chicken with salt and pepper, dredge in flour and shake to remove excess.

Add butter to bacon grease and melt.

Cook chicken on med-high heat until browned on both sides. Transfer chicken to plate and cover with foil.

Reduce heat to medium and add garlic, rosemary & ground red pepper. Cook about 2 minutes until garlic is browned and crisp. Add broth and lemon juice. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 4 minutes.

Return chicken and bacon to the pan and simmer, turning chicken a few times, until sauce is thick and glossy - 2 to 3 minutes.

Serve over white rice.

Sleeping on the Job...

Yesterday Jon and I brought Sydney Herr home with us after church to take a nap at our house, then hang out with us until the Christmas concert that our church held last night. Brian & Sarah were both either in the concert or running sound, so they needed to be there early. After Sydney woke up from her nap I was still in the kitchen making cookies - you'd think all I do these days is bake cookies - so Jon was helping out by keeping an eye on Sydney and playing with her. After a while I had a break where there was nothing I needed to be in the kitchen for, so I went into the living room to see what they were up to. Here's what I discovered:





Haha!!! I quietly got the camera and snapped the picture and then started laughing. :)Looks like Jon's the one that needed a nap.

Alright, I need to get wrapping gifts and baking MORE cookies!! So far this year I've made White Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Crinkles, Peanutbutter Blossoms, Chocolate-dipped Shortbread and sugar cookies. Tonight I'm making Snickerdoodles and rolling and cutting out the dough that's in the refrigerator to make Christmas cut-out cookies. My favorite are the Chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies. I'm not sure where the recepie originally came from, but I got it from my mom. Here it is incase you want to try them:

Cookies:

2 cups flour
1 cup margarine (soft) - margarine works better than butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips until well blended. Add chocolate chips and mix into dough. Roll into thin logs 3-4 inches long and bake 10-12 minutes at 350degrees.

Frosting:

3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 Tbsp. Crisco (vegetable oil works well too)

Melt ingredients over very hot water in double broiler. Dip one end of each cookie in the chocolate and lay on wax paper on a flat cookie sheet. Cool cookies in fridge for at least 1 hour to set chocolate before storing.

Enjoy!

The latest...

So, since last time I blogged what all has happened? November 30th was my mom's birthday so I had a little luncheon in her honor. It was just for family so I invited my sisters, Mom-mom, Grandma Bea, Jon's mom, and Shawna and her mom. Everything went well! Here are just a few pictures:




We are still praying and in search of a job for Jon - things are looking up though. In the past week he's been in contact with career services from his school frequently and they're looking for a Job for him. He also posted his resume and information on craigs list and got a call from a staffing agency that has a possible job opportunity for him - he met with a lady from there last Friday. And Wednesday he got a call from an independant company (we're not sure where they saw his info) saying they have a possible opening for him. So we're praying that one of these Job's is what God has planned - but who knows. In the meantime Jon's been working at the Inn again, expoditing for the holiday season. He works Monday - Friday for lunch and Monday & Wednesday for dinner.

With both of us working the schedule is crazy busy again. Not quite as busy as when I was working full time though.

Tuesday night Jon's mom took both Jon and I to this different kind of chiropractor that she goes to occationally. He's one who focuses specifically on your top two vertabre which he believes have an impact on the whole rest of your spine. We went because his mom and I thought that maybe chiropractic work could help with the mini siesure-like things he gets ocationally when he stands up from a sitting position. It basically causes him loose control of the entire right side of his body for a few seconds and his hand and face sorta clench up. This guy we went to thinks that its very possible that a nerve or something is pinched and that could be causing what happens to Jon. So he did some adjustments to Jon's neck the other night. Time will tell if what the chiropractor did helped because Jon doesn't get these siesures every day, but so far he hasn't gotten any. We're praying they are gone.

Last night we had Dwayne and Rachel over for dinner. It was nice catching up with them since we haven't seen them in a while. After dinner the 3 other couples from our "old" couples group came over - Nate & Shawna, Brian & Sarah and Ian & Ashley. We had a great time socializing and then we turned on the Wii and play some Wii sports and Monkeyball - both fun interactive games for groups.

Tonight we have our young marrieds discipleship group at Brian and Sarah's and then afterward we're going to see the movie "I am Legend" with a few other couples from church. I guess it'll be a late night :). At least we have nothing major to do tomorrow so we can sleep in and have a nice relaxing Saturday.

Well, I think that's the catch-up. I really need to get better at posting more regularly.