Dan

The hardest thing to cope with is death, sometimes it comes slowly and you prepare for it, and sometimes it comes when you least except it. either way its hard to understand the reasons. When i first came to Olivet i had a few girl friends that i could always turn too no matter what Brooke Soulia was one of those girls. Dan walker has been her boyfriend for the past couple years and so Mike and I have gotten to know both of them better. Both of these people are awesome people who love the Lord. Tuesday night in his sleep Dan passed away. He was working at an adventure camp in Colorado at the time. He went to Olivet and played football and just graduated this last may. Brooke has been working in India this summer on a missions trip and is flying back for the funeral on Saturday. They arent sure yet the cause of death, They will know by the end of the day. Dan was just 22 years old. I'm still a little in shock at the whole situation but we know he's in heaven right now praising the Lord. Please be in prayer for the Walker family along with Brooke as this is going to be a hard couple of days. God has a reason for everything so just pray that God's Glory be seen in his death. He was a really awesome guy and we are blessed to have gotten to know him.

Teeth Issues

Summer is more than half over, and we still have a lot of stuff to still get done!!!! Almost 2 weeks ago I decided to go to the dentist because i havent gone since last summer and also because we have insurance with Boeing! I knew going in that i already had a small chipped tooth but it ended up that i had three bad teeth on the same side of my mouth!!! so i got three temp crowns put on the same day! and i was in soo much pain. well for the next week i was undergoing horrible pain always waking up at night and taking a lot of pain killers. sunday night of the first week i woke up in the middle of the night and i couldnt take the pain any longer! i had taken pills an hour ago and now the pain was horrible and i was crying on our bathroom floor i woke up mike at 2:30 he tried to make me feel better but it wasnt helping we decided to go to walmart and try to find something to help ease the pain. We picked up some oragel and some stronger pain killers and got back home around 3:00am it was a long night, and we were both tired the next day, i also went back to the dentist the next day! They fixed my bite and so now two weeks later i am finally starting to feel like myself again.
This last weekend we headed down to Kansas City to spend the weekend with Aaron Lori Olivia and Owen We hung out, went to some garage sales, worked on the new house and spent some quality time together, We had a great weekend. we brought the kids back to stay at nana's house for the week and i gave owen and olivia some M&Ms and in the back seat i hear owen say "yellow, blue .... I got the primary colors! Red, Yellow and Blue!!!" It was so funny ! and they also knew the secondary colors also! Smart kids! gotta love em! Its been a busy summer so far and we still have a lot of fun stuff coming up along with our one year anniversary!