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

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!

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.