There have been many changes in our household due to daddy/husband having a pretty severe shoulder injury making it very difficult to travel with our store. So we started making natural care products to sell and such. As well as selling Lilla Rose hair accessories, and Plexus products. So our goal is to focus more on these items and to help you all get what you need!!

Lilla Rose makes putting your hair up very simple! I love using it and it has helped keep my headaches at bay due to not using hairpins anymore!!! They release a new Flexi every month and it is only available that month!

And the wonderful plexus products that have helped so many people to feel better! It has helped me to be able to have great relief from the horrible candida yeast itching that I was dealing with for so long! It is helping our daughter that was always eating and always craving sugar to not crave it so often! That is such a blessing!

The products that have been a blessing to many people as they regain their health back and what they may possibly help you!!


Heidi

I have been mia for a very long time. SO much has happened in the past year! In September a year ago my husband was injured while on vacation. He has had 4 surgeries with surgery #5 and 6 happening this winter! He will be having a shoulder replacement in about 6-7 weeks or less. So there have been many dr appointments and such. He has not been able to work since then so things are very tight for us! But God is good! Pray for us!

We aren’t doing so much with fabrics and such as much anymore. We are getting into the natural products these days. We make and sell Deodorants, herbal salves, soy candles and wax melts as well as promoting Plexus natural products that help heal your body and Lilla Rose hair accessories! We hope you will take the time to check out our stuff!

Heidi

We got to enjoy so many fresh fruits and veggies! That was so nice. There are lots of these little fruit stands along the roads!

This 2nd picture was a bridge across to the fruit stand!

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Enjoy! More pictures and posts to come!
Heidi

Its been a very different year for our family, In February we left to go to Belize to visit my husbands family for 8 weeks. I will be posting pictures on here as time allows. We arrived in Belize on March 3, Going from very cold weather to very warm weather was quite a change. Our children had never been there and we didn’t tell any of our family we were coming!So it was a big surprise! We had lots of fun with it all!

Scenery pictures..

Meeting Family

Making Friends!

We were so glad to get home in May, But it was very cold after being used to 85 degrees and above for 2 months. But it was good to get home and get things done like plant garden, plant mums, Gerhard going back to work and such, But it was so good to be home again!

In September we once again went to Homeschool Family camp. What was supposed to be a wonderful week ended rather abruptly when Gerhard had an accident at the lake landing him in the hospital on Tuesday. He went through 2 surgeries in just a couple days. It has been a very long haul, But Thankfully God is seeing us through. He goes through yet another surgery in about 7 weeks. We have a fundraiser set up for Gerhard to get us through the next 18 months or so! The link is: http://www.gofundme.com/gerhardsinjuryfund

I also started selling Lilla Rose Hair Flexi’s in September after Gerhard’s accident. My website is: www.lillarose.biz/HeidisVariety

In November we started making candles for more income,The last few weeks we have been making pillar candles for my Brothers wedding this next weekend!

More Pictures and posts to come.
Heidi

So sorry to miss the last couple days, but life has a way of changing things!

So we will continue with our recap of the last year!

Making applesauce in the camper..

Family Time















We did have some fun times mixed in there!
To be continued!
Heidi

A few more highlights of our past year! We started an etsy storeand it is doing ok! The link is: www.etsy.com/shop/HeidisVarietyStore We are excited to see what God will do through that this year. We have all natural body care (deodorants, Salves And lip balms) as well as Dog bone pillows for your neck in the car or bed, Baked potato bags for baking potatoes in the microwave, Some fabrics and some skirts!

In September we closed on our house and worked furiously to get it finished out in good time. I don’t ever want to do that again! It was a lot of work! On October 14 we moved out of the house into a camper! That was the experience of a lifetime! Living in a camper in WI in October and November! We lived in there 5 weeks and 1 day! It was so cold most of the time! ANd a few times it was 45* or less when we got up in the mornings!

Within a couple weeks of moving out we started building a small house for us to live in. It is less than half the size we moved out of but that is ok! We got the shell up, insulation sprayed in and doors on and moved in the next day! In a day or 2 I’ll post pictures. We have now lived in here very unfinished for 6 weeks now. But we decided we won’t move into the upstairs till the bedrooms were ready! And we are now ready to mud 2 bedrooms and the third is almost ready! We are so excited!

Another major highlight of our year is Home school Family Camp every September!
Tug-O-War!




Horse Riding



Fun with Kittens!

Sweet

Family

We Love family camp and have already registered for this coming September!

We also did Farmers Market most of the summer! Our Booth!

To be continued tomorrow!
Heidi

What a year this past year has been! I hardly know how and what I should say that it will come out like it should! It has been a year of many struggles, emotions, unsure moments, hurts, wondering how everything was going to turn out and even some fun times! It was a time of severe financial struggles, feeling so alone in so many ways, But God has been there even when it felt he wasn’t near…

This is only one of the beautiful sights we saw in Florida during our almost 3 month stay there! That was probably one of the main highlights of our year! Spending time in Florida! We love the warm weather so much!

This is a painting that was being done on a wall at the park by an Amish lady as we were getting ready to leave! It is beautifully done!

We got home in mid March to lots of cold, snow and ice! We felt like we were freezing all the time. We went home early as we thought we had our house sold. We had a signed offer, pending the funds come through! It went 3 months and still no funds, and things weren’t going well so we decided that since we were out of contract that we were going to start showing it again and within a couple days we had a phone call asking if they could come see our house that evening… We said yes and we had an offer the next morning, by the end of the week we had a signed offer. And so the journey began again and we were a bit apprehensive about it all. We also had a lot of work ahead of us that had to be done by October! We totally finished out our house and moved out by October 14! We thought that it was going to be less stressful, but it ended up being very stressful for our whole family.

Couples night.

Our homeschool group did a Mother/daughter tea in April! That was a highlight for us!

We went Camping in June! A first for our family and enjoyed it. It would have been much better if the mosquitoes would have stayed away!

Making Mountain pies over the fire!

IT was Fathers Day weekend so they did things for the Fathers!

Older children reading verses to the dad’s!

We did put a garden in and that was a stress reliever for us! We had a lot of fun and enjoyed lots of fresh veggies all fall! It was the first garden in about 7 years! We did a lot of canning amidst the other work we had to do! But it was fun!

Friday Game nights! Something our children look forward to every week!

Time with friends! Making Memories!






Yummy Food!

More Friends

More to come tomorrow! Happy New Year!

One of my favorites of the day!

Yummy food!

More Food!

Playing Phase 10! We had a blast this afternoon!

I hope you all had a very Lovely Sunday as we did!

Thanks to Melodies coffee addiction!

May you all have a beautiful night and a beautiful day as you awake refreshed!

Thanks to A Godly Woman Daily!

Blessings, Heidi

Day 1, April 3 Canning dry beans!

Day 1 April 3 Ready to remove from canner!

Day 1 April 3 Finished job!

Day 2 April 4 Washing and packing hundreds of pints and quart jars into totes to keep clean!

Day 3 April 5 Homeschool Group game night!

Day 4 April 6 Relabeling all deodorants with better labels!

Day 4 April 6 Each box represents a different scent of deodorant They are ready to be shown to store owners and or shipped to whoever wants some!

My favorite is the Mocha and the King coffee mixed, But didn’t have pictures at the moment!

Just an encouragement for you all! Thanks t Warriors of God via Facebook!

Thanks to Melodies coffee addiction on Facebook!

I Love helping people and when I was young I always wanted to be a nurse or midwife! Sometimes I wish I had gone on to school before I married, But never had the opportunity. Since I am a mother I am a nurse for my own children. But I do still do desire to be a nurse someday when my children are grown, Our oldest has said that she also wants to be a nurse someday! I would still Love to be a midwife. I never had the experience I wanted when I had my children and have a deep desire to be at a birth someday! Maybe someday! It may only ever happen if I become a midwife or OB nurse. Not sure how well that will all work out with all the new stuff coming in with the new health care, and how it will be so hard to practice as a Christian nurse and doctor. But it is in God’s hands. He knows my desire! If it is his will then he will provide the finances and everything else it takes.