Diagnosis

Dear friends & family,

So many of you have prayed for me over the years with my bouts of health issues, well, God is truly good and the journey, the long at times hard and painful journey has come to an end. As we presumed when I stopped eating all wheat, barley and rye products about 1.5 years ago, I have a condition know as Celiac. It is the cause behind my upset stomach, grand-mal seizures, migraines and various other symptoms.

There isn’t a cure other than the Great Physician removing it. It has opened my eyes about the condition and I really want to get the word out in the community that it is real. It’s not a joke. In fact the Mayo Clinic has a website that says this in regards to Celiac and it’s prevalence in society, “Approximately 3 million Americans are affected by celiac disease (about 1 in 100 people), making it almost as prevalent as type 1 diabetes.” Did you know this?? Every day I learn more and am hopeful that with more awareness people can find out if this is the reason behind their own Leukemia or their mom’s Rheumatoid Arthritis........

Here are some good websites if you want to read more on it:


http://www.mayoclinic.org/celiac-disease/


http://www.celiac.com/


http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/


Thank you all again for all the years of support and prayer, I am truly a very blessed girl.

hi there lovlies. sorry it's been so many months since we've been on here. no excuses... but we're back :D

so we went up to julian, ca. 2 weekends ago and jess just feel in love with the place. the weather was perfect but the ride was a little hard on jess's tummy. no surprise though, she gets carsick all the time. we got lots of things made with julian apples like cider, dried apples slices, and even apple taffy. well, i guess the last one isn't made from julian apples but we can pretend.

One Year in SD!

Well, well, well, we’ve just had our 1 year anniversary of living here in San Diego. On Monday the 4th we crossed the 1 year mark. We can’t believe that it’s come up that quickly. We’ve lived at some really “interesting” homes. One was like taking our lives into our own hands between the drug deals going down and neighbors being arrested feet from our front door to living with a 10 person family that consisted of 8 boys. We’ve had a few jobs too but you know what: one thing has been consistent the entire time: God’s support and love! He has taught us both so much about dependence on Him, seeking Him, the importance of having scripture tucking away in your heart and praising Him in everything.

We truly love San Diego and it is home for both of us now. We’ve began attending church at Horizon Christian Fellowship in Clairemont lead by Mike MacIntosh and we’re still on the hunt for a small group and we know that God will bring one forward for us to join in His timing.

God's Country

**This was a blog from a few weeks ago that never got published***

Ben and I arrived here in Colorado on Friday night and have been in love with it out here ever since. It's gorgeous! Every square inch is just breath-taking. Every few minutes the weather seems to change it's mind and keep us on our toes. Being on vacation out here we've gotten to see so many different sides of Colorado and enjoy all of it. From Glen Eyrie's castle, Pike's Peak, New Life Church and the groovy hippie towns of Manitou and Idaho Springs. We've had a few great roadtrips that have brought us through the most peaceful and enchanted places I've ever seen. Like yesterday on our way back from whitewater rafting, which was SICK and I wanna go again for sure!! I'm looking foward to seeing my sister and her hubby tomorrow.

We made it

The move went really well, all in thanks to Jesus and Ben's family. Ben and I were up at 6am the morning of the move to get a good head start. I picked up the cousins and we headed off to pickup the couch that my RAD coworker Rhonda had let us store in her garage the last (2) weeks. (Thank you girly). From there we went to the storage unit and began packing the truck. We filled it up pretty good and thank goodness Charlie was there with the mini-van because we filled it up too! (Yeah needless to say I spent most of Sunday getting rid of boxes worth of stuff we no longer need.) But with the added help of the good ol' Costa Verde shopping carts we were able to move relatively pain-free. The guys had some really good times though racing the carts down the hallways :) Lily arrived and lent a helping hand unpacking and getting things situated and Dave stopped by to help move some more heavy stuff upstairs for us. (the picture above is from our patio facing looking onto Regents towards Nobel)

All in all we feel pretty settled in even though we still need to get a bookshelf and some kind of a storage unit for our files/computer stuff...oh and a dining room table, we're looking into getting one of those to that sits 4 comfortably but doesn't take up to much room. We're definitely going for the simple/clutter-free look at this apt. It's just such a pretty apt that it really speaks for itself.

A *.:SPECIAL:.* thank you Charlie ( Ben's dad), Nic (Ben's brother), Caleb & Gabe ( Ben's cousins), Lily (Ben's sister) and David (a super cool friend) for all your time effort and energy spent moving us on Saturday.

For more pics please go to:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=1qeazpzx.asaqjf4h&x=0&y=-q252yd&localeid=en_US

the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak

So a few weeks ago, maybe even months ago Ben and I were talking about when were going to be moving next. I felt is heavy on my heart that the Lord was asking me to just depend on Him to bring people that can help us with the move. I've been pretty strong about it up until just recently. This last week I've been stressing out about it. It's even been messing with my stomach :( Silly, I know but it's just where I'm at I guess. I just want things to go smooth and even though I sent out a bulletin asking if anyone could help-- I felt awkward about sending it. That verse " the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak" is SO true. I want to follow Him but I justify going around what He says :( Makes me sad but I know He has grace on me and so I need to have grace on myself. Gosh I'm being super vulnerable right now (BIG breathe). Well, we shall see what happens over the next 24 hours...

START THE CAR!!!!