A Fishing Story and Blessings

We had a pretty good weekend.  Saturday we didn't do much of anything but Sunday was Church and then afterwards we went to my mom's so her and her fiance' could take the boys fishing :).  We all went (even Hubby who is not really into fishing LOL).  I pretty much just helped the boys fish.  Hubby I think just enjoyed watching us LOL.  Chord caught his first two fish ever and Jarod also caught two!  They were just small little blue gills but boy did it make Chord excited LOL!!

He was casting his rod like an old pro and hooked those two fish with his own skill LOL.  I will have to get the pics scanned or have my mom (she took the pics with her camera. I forgot mine ugh) email them to me to share on here.  Chord thought fishing was the best thing ever LOL.  He had a blast!!

Jarod on the other hand got a little board.  He doesn't sit still for long so he was off doing his own thing most of the time.  He did enjoy giving me the worms to put on the hooks though LOL.  It's so funny because just last year he wouldn't touch any bug or creepy crawly with a ten foot pole LOL.  Just a year later and he's held many of bugs and creepy crawlies (except spiders LOL) and thinks it's fun!!  Go figure.  Chord on the other hand still doesn't like to touch them LOL.  I don't think he's really scared of them.  I think it's just he doesn't want to feel them crawling on him LOL.  All in all the fishing trip was a blast!!!

Anyway today one of our Pastors had his wife call and invite us all out for dinner.  So hubby, the boys and I went and met our Pastor and his wife at Church and then we drove to a Pizza Parlor.  It was a nice time.  I love talking with them and hanging out.  Anyway they know of hubby not having a job right now and how well it's been really tough on us financially.  I know I don't talk much about it here but it has been rough.  (I know God will get us through so it's not something I try and dwell on).  Anyway (Sorry got off track) out of their own personal money gave us some money to help us along!

This wasn't church money but from them personally!!  I am in tears just typing this because I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful Church family that one of our Pastor's and his family would do that for us!!  It was so unexpected. 

See our Church is a pretty big Church but yet it's still such a close church! Our Pastor's know everyone by name and manage to talk to everyone!  They invite people out to lunch or dinner or whatever just to fellowship with people!    I have never been to a church that was like this before!  Especially one so big!! 

I just have to say our family is so blessed!!  I know we are going through a hard time with the unknowing if and when Harlow will get a job.  Granted Harlow will be starting school in Jan. but he has to go full time (in order for Michigan Works to pay for it all) so he won't be working and we will be living off  of unemployment(Well TRA which is like unemployment after the unemployment) for at least a year. Which is a struggle (Sorry veered off again LOL) but we have been so blessed from family, our Church.  I tell you I know we couldn't get through this with out God working His miracles with us!!  Every time we start to wonder what we are going to do something happens and we make it through.  We are truly blessed!!

Well I guess I have babbled on long enough.  Once again a post got longer than what I was intending LOL.  I hope everyone had a great weekend!!! 

Sorry didn't blog last night. Wednesday's is church day so we didn't get home till after nine P.M. So I was just too tired to blog LOL. We had a visiting Pastor come and visit us. He is headed to Hatti today. It was a good time. He really didn't do a sermon per say but more of just talking to us about what he's doing. He goes to countries (like Jamaica and now Hatti) and preaches the Word to those who may have never heard it. He was telling us a story that one time he had this one guy following him and trying to kill him, a radical Muslim, well he (the Pastor) was preaching and this man heard him and ended up on his knees crying. When the Pastor asked what he was there for (he knew who it was) the man looks up ad said. "I have never heard of God's love before."! The man was saved right then and there! How awesome is that?!

Anyway today we went to the Zoo with the MOMS Club. We actually got there before anyone else and we went through the whole Zoo before we met up with them LOL. So we went through it again LOL. It was a good time and the boy's loved having their friends there. What was really funny though is that even though I have been a part of MOMS Club since 2005 few of the other moms have ever met my husband. He just doesn't go out much and he just not as much of a social person as I am. Sure he has friends but he sticks to the ones mostly he grew up with. Where as I grew-up moving all the time so it's easy for me to make new friends quickly. So I had to tell my friends, "See I do have a husband." LOL. My one friend said. "You must have rented him for the day." LOL. Poor guy was the only man there LOL. One of the other mom's husband was there but he was on a field trip with their other daughters class. He did stop by though. It is actually like a 2nd or 3rd cousin of my hubby. They went to school together too so they caught up a little before he had to go. So it was a good time had by all. I really didn't get a lot of pics of the boy's (bad mom) I got some good pics of some of the animals though LOL. They were very cooperative LOL. Here are some pic's of our time there!

Boy's are tall for their age but next to this Polar Bear they look tiny LOL.

Polar Bear(hard to see sorry. The babies were in the water. They don't look little any more LOL)

This was too cute the giraffe was looking at the Guinea bird LOL.

Sharks(Harlow's Fav.)

Boy's were playing with their friends here(not pictured)

I have more pics but these are the best ones. I hope you enjoyed looking at them :D.

Yesterday it seemed like I just didn't get a chance to get on here. We did school work and then we went outside for a while. It wasn't as nice out as it has been though but hey at least no snow right? LOL. At 7pm we were at Church. The boy's didn't get to bed till after 9 P.M. The boy's bedtime is usually 8 P.M. They seem to have better attitudes when they go to bed at this time. They wake-up regardless of what time they go to bed though at 7 a.m. so they need that extra sleep. They didn't have any attitude problems today though. So it's ok once in a while to break bedtime LOL.

One of our Pastors prayed over us about Harlow getting a job. I really love our church. It's on the bigger side but I have never felt left out or alone. You know how some places (not a Church per say but places in general) if it's a bigger place with lots of people you almost feel like you are the odd one out? Before we found this Church that's how I felt at other Churches I had visited02 before. It really felt like coming home. We started going there in 2002 and then in 2004 we had stopped going for two years because Harlow was working midnights(he worked Sunday Nights too). Not that it's an excuse but it happened. Then we went back Easter of last year and I never felt judged but welcomed back like the Prodigal Son :D. I guess I would be more a Prodigal daughter though huh? LOL. I always look forward to going and what's even more awesome is the boy's love going to!

Anyway today was Create and Play with the MOMS Club. We made butterfly's with coffee filters, markers, pipe cleaners and a spray bottle. Take a couple of coffee filters and have the kids color all over them with the markers (many different colors) then (this is the messy part LOL) take the spray bottle and spray water all over the coffee filters. Let them dry and then pinch them together in the middle and and put the two filter's together. Next wrap a pipe cleaner around them. Making sure you have both ends folded together (facing each other). Also make sure to leave a the two ends together and when they make the antenna's and curl them. You can also put a magnet on them too if you'd like. Everyone had fun making this craft LOL. We also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar. My partner in it read another book (not butterfly related) and we danced to some music! It was a good time.

Right now I am watching qualifying for NASCAR'S Sprint Cup. We are Jr. fans LOL. I hope (and of course hubby does LOL) he does well this race! Ok I am done rambling for now LOL. I hope everyone had a good day!!

I know, I know I have been MIA again LOL. It's been a busy four day's or so. Thursday we did Create and Play and it was a lot of fun! Kids even got to play in shaving cream LOL.

By the time all was said and done they were both covered in shaving cream LOL. I should have gotten a good picture of that LOL. Oh well I am sure we will have more fun with that another time LOL. The rest of the day just seemed to fly by and I didn't get a chance to blog.

Friday, We got our taxes back so we got a new Jeep! Ok well it's not new but new to us LOL. It's a 1998 not a 97' that I thought it was before LOL. It's really nice. I haven't had a chance to take a pic of it. Hopefully I can soon and show you all LOL. It had a crack in the windshield but that's about all that is wrong with it and we got the replaced today (Monday) So Friday was really busy with running around and getting the Jeep all legal. So again I didn't get a chance to blog.

Saturday, I went grocery shopping and then we went shopping. We got the boy's each a pair of new pants since they some how manage to get holes in their knees in a least two other pairs of pants LOL. Boy's I tell you (at least mine) are rough on pants and socks ugh! I also got some ink for my printer and some Valentines Day cards for the boy's for their Valentines Day party on Wednesday at a homeschool group. Later that night I also went through and ordered the boy's (well mostly Chord since Jarod will just use Chord's stuff from previous years) curriculum for next year. I forgot to get a couple of other things though so I will order the rest after we get what's coming.

Sunday, we went to Church of course and enjoyed the service. Not a lot of people were there though because of the really icy cold weather! Boy was it freezing out! After Church we went to lunch with one of our Pastor's and his family. We went to Tiffany's Pizza. We spent a couple hours just chatting with them. It was a good time. They had a couple of their teenage kids with them. They were really great kids too. The older teenage boy even included the boy's in the conversations and of course they talked about Lego's LOL. After that we came home and stayed in doors because of the cold weather LOL. Day's like that I wish we could just hibernate but then I have said that before LOL.

Today, we didn't do much either even though it wasn't as cold as it was yesterday it was still pretty cold. Harlow woke-up early to get the windshield replaced and then head to work. We did get schooling done though and I got stuff around for tomorrow since it is laundry day! Hubby is going to take us tomorrow though because it's supposed to be really icy tomorrow and he would rather drive us and I would feel better about it too I think. I have to meet a friend of mine there too because I have to return a Science experiment book to her. She has to use it for something she is doing with her daughters preschool or something.

So that is what I have been up to the last four day's. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Saturday,