Icy Roads

Last night,Bro. Danny and Sis. Kristen asked if Jonathan and I wanted to go see a movie with them and our niece. On our way home we thought the roads were fine, everyone (we thought) was going the normal speed, and it didn't seem icy. As we got of the freeway we stopped at a light, and when we started to go forward the car didn't want to turn, so we were headed towards the ditch! Somehow Bro. Danny managed to get the car stopped on the side of the road, thinking we had a flat tire (there was a really loud metal noise at we turned). As they got out of the car, the whole road was absolutely covered in ice! As we started to move again (going only about 20mph) we were sliding everywhere on the road. The car was driving sideways off and on. It was really scary, there were huge ditches on the side of the road that we could slip into, so Sis. Kristen immediately said, 'let's pray guys'. After we all prayed, we passed people that had crashed into the huge ditch, and as we got there an ambulance was coming. I really don't know how we didn't get in an accident when we were on the freeway going 60mph..God surely watched over us. Thank the Lord we didn't end up in the ditch like alot of people. I can't even imagine how Abigail (my 3 year old niece) would've handled that.
Oh yeah, and Sis. Mandy, Abigail's mom, was driving last night too, and had been also going 60mph, and at one point lost a little control over her car, but she thankfully made it home safe and called us to tell us to drive slow.
Anyways, it just makes me thankful again that God has once again watched over me and the brethren on the icy roads, and thankful it didn't end up the same way it did last time.

A walk in the rain

Not quite sure where the green smoke came from,but that was one of the night settings on the camera. Kinda nifty.

Dad decided he wanted to go on a walk with everyone in the rain tonight. It was pretty cold, but after all the power walking that we did, we got all warmed up. Here are a few pictures that I got to take on the walk. Worked out great because I wanted to try out a few settings on the camera, and the boys were having a great time posing for me. ;D :

Timothy

Timothy and Russell. Looks kinda like fire beside them.Timothy and Russell with what looks like a shooting firework. <3

New Skirt

Yay, I finally finished the other jean skirt! This time it's made out of a pair of jean shorts! My sister-in-law helped me get it all cut out and get things all set for me to sew and mom helped me figure out which pieces went together and how to get it to come out the way it did! Looks kinda interesting, huh? Anyways, I'm glad I finally got it done! That was the last jean skirt project that I wanted to get done. Hooray for me! =D

My Family on Christmas

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! We had a nice relaxing and enjoyable time with everyone. This year my second oldest brother, Thomas, and his wife and little boy weren't able to come Christmas morning, that's why you don't see them in the picture above. But they were able to come later that night for our traditional Christmas breakfast (Eggs Benedict)! Here are some pictures of Christmas morning, and Christmas night that I got to take with my new digital camera!:

Mandy and AbigailTimothy II with his new toy vacuum!!Baby James and his Auntie Kristen

I know it's not a whole lot of pictures, but I was trying to figure everything out on the camera. ;D

Anyways! I've got some news! I know most of you probably go onto the Church forum, but to those of you who don't: "Last night, after church, Sis. Eileen came up to Sis. Dayna and was just filled with the Spirit. She asked Sis. Dayna if she could come over and pray for Brittany, Sis. Dayna said, "of course!" Sis. Eileen got there and prayed for Brittany and Brittany woke up and said, "I'm hungry!". Dayna said they scrambled to get her some food so fast! They got her some broccoli and cheese sauce and she was able to eat about 5 teaspoons. Then, at about 3:00 am, Brittany seemed agitated in bed and was wimpering. Dayna asked her if she was hurting and Brittany said, "no". Dayna asked her if she was having bad dreams and she said, "yes", and "Momma, pray". So, Dayna got Dave and they prayed for her and they just felt like the adversary, since he couldn't get her one way, was trying to get her another way. After they prayed, Brittany went back to sleep until about 7:00 am. Then she woke up again; so they scrambled an egg so that it was real soft. Brittany ate about 2/3 of that egg! Can you believe it Brethren! It's so unusual for Brittany to even wake up that early, she usually doesn't start stirring until early afternoon! Also, when Dave and Dayna had Brittany in the wheelchair, taking her in to the bathroom, they both saw Brittany trying to move her foot on the little foot holder of the wheelchair! These things are so encouraging, especially after two days of very little movement and not much eating at all. So, we are cautiously optimistic...and continuing!"

That's what was written on the Forum. Just so thankful for that news. Last night I was talking to a friend of mine and Brittany's and she had remembered that Brittany was real sick last time I talked to her (which was about 1 or 2 months ago) and asked about how Britt was doing. Of course I didn't want to lie to her about how things were going, but I didn't want to worry her alot either. She's really all for going to the doctors and can't see why Brittany would "do this to herself". It kind of was a sad conversation. After explaining why Brittany chose to not go to the doctors, she asked my how can people that are in so much pain be so selfish to not go to the doctors. Selfish because we won't go to the doctors to get healed for our family that has to take care of them. I was just able to explain to her that we are all putting our faith in God with this, just as much as Brittany is. Yeah, it might be hard to watch a loved one hurt, but God hears our prayers, and will take care of us if we have faith. She just said that maybe SHE didn't have enough faith in God that he could heal someone like that. It just made me sad that she doesn't get it. She was pretty upset about the whole conversation(or maybe the right word is she was worried), but at the end just told me to tell Brittany and her family that she loves them and will be keeping them in her prayers. It'll be an interesting conversation when Brittany is all better and the girl is able to hear everything God did for Brittany. I'll leave that one for Brittany to tell if she wants. It just makes me thankful that we have brethren who love us and a family(and brethren) that's willing to take care of us like Sis. Dayna and Bro. Dave are taking care of Sis. Brittany.
And by the way: none of this was me saying going to the doctors is a bad thing. Everyone has different views on it and each individual can decide for themselves what they want to do concerning doctors.

A little testimony

Last night I got a call in the middle of the 'young peoples' visit that Sis. Dayna wanted me to come over and brush Brittany's hair and be with her for awhile after they had cleaned her up a bit. I was pretty excited because I wanted to go see her all day, but I'd been going over there almost everyday to check on Brittany, and thought they probably wouldn't want to see me again! But anyways, on my way over to see Brittany, I had remembered a prophecy I had gotten a couple years ago that God would answer my little and my big prayers, so prayed that I could just see her wake up for just a second because the last few people that had gone over there had seen her open her eyes a bit and communicate with them,saying 'uh-huh' and 'uh-uh' to their questions.
So anyways, when I got there she was totally out, so I just brushed her hair, and continued to pray that she'd move or something so that I knew she knew I was there with her. After her hair was all brushed and put up, I sat down next to her bed and just talked her like I would if she were awake. In the middle of talking to her, I got a text message, and when I get a text message it makes this really loud noise saying 'Whoo-hoo alright! I just got a text message!" and that had her moving a little, so I ran over to get her a drink of juice and after she drank some, she opened her eyes and looked at me and squeezed my hand softly!! I just about cried! Feels like I have seen those eyes in a long time! It seemed like it was taking all her strength just to open her eyes to look at me, but she did it for just a few seconds.
After that she kept on swallowing like she wanted a drink, so I was able to get a few gulps of water in her, and she answered my questions when I asked her stuff, just saying uh-huh and uh-uh.
So Anyways, that was just awesome to me that God did that for me. Even if it was just a few seconds, that's all I needed to see. Just needed to know my Brittany was still in there somewhere, and knew I was in the room with her.

Baby Jesus

A friend from the Indiana Church sent me this today, got a little chuckle out of it:

" It was the day AFTER Christmas at the Church in Michigan. The pastor of the churchwas looking at the manger scene, when he noticed baby Jesus missing from the cradle. He immediately turned and went outside and saw a little boy with a red wagon walking down the street. In the wagon,was the figure of baby Jesus. The Pastor walked up to the boy and asked,"son, where did you get that baby Jesus that's in your wagon?" The little boy replied, "I got him from the church."
"And why did you take him?" asked the pastor. The little boy replied, "Well, about a week before Christmas, I prayed and told Jesus if he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas, that I'd give him a ride in it!"

P.S. Not a whole lot new with Sis. Brittany. Went and saw her tonight and she was still sleeping, but she drank a little bit of soup that we blended up for her. So they were going to keep trying to feed her that when we left. So hopefully she was able to get enough in her tonight and keep it in her. Still needs the prayers.

Sickness

As most of you know, my friend, Sis. Brittany, is not doing too great health wise. I'm really not too sure what's going on, but her stomach is in a lot of pain. It's been hurting her for a couple months now, and I was thinking it was getting ALOT better because I wasn't hearing a whole lot of what was going on with her. But on Monday we got a call late at night to pray for her because she got really bad, and was fainting and throwing up a lot. I guess it really didn't hit me how serious this was until mom and dad came home from praying for her, and told me all that she was going through. I went and saw her last night, and all she could really say was my name in a whisper. She's just really weak and can hardly keep a conversation going or look at you. My heart is so sick for her. I wish I could take it all away, I hate seeing that she's in pain! I feel so useless, and not knowing how in the world I can help her when I'm with her. I know all I can really do is just pray for her, but it's just hard to sit and watch. And nights are when it seems like the pain is worse for her. But she's able to sleep whenever she passes out, which is (sad to say) a good thing because that's when she has relief from the pain from what I hear...
Anyways, please just keep her in your prayers. I know you probably all are. Love you lots Brittany!