Hey everyone! I know many of my friends and family have felt kept in the dark this summer! My daily blogging came to a screeching hault after our big move from Alabama to Louisiana! I am so sorry to leave everyone hanging! We have been without internet access and to be perfectly honest, BUSY!! But, I am determined to catch everyone up on our lives and share the latest pictures of our little sweet pea!
Our summer has been crazy, to say the least! But we are hanging in there! We have been living in Hammond praying and trying to figure out what we are supposed to be doing! This summer has flown by it seems and throughout it all, we really feel that God is calling us to step it up and plant a church!! Scary, exciting, overwhelmed....were just a few of the emotions I had about this idea at first! But now I'm full of anticipation and am fully confident that "We can do ALL things through Christ who gives us strength!" God is usually really good about just opening the perfect doors for us and telling us exactly where to go, but this time He has really been stretching our faith and everything has not been "handed down to us on a silver platter" if you will. However, GOD HAS PROVIDED EVERYTHING WE HAVE NEEDED!!! He sold our house in Alabama and exactly the perfect time! He has provided unexpected checks just when we thought we couldn't pay the bills! He has given us perfect health and with no insurance coverage at hand, that really is a blessing!! So I share all this with you to simply say that God is in control! Even though we can't see Him in front of us, we know that He is right beside us! So now our biggest life question is not what we are going to do but where does He want us to do it? We have been praying about several areas in South Louisiana and we are waiting to see where Matt can land a job! I will start teaching music lessons at the first of October again but Matt has applied for several different bank positions and has not heard back from any of them! Please pray we hear something soon! The game plan is to work a job with good hours and have the weekends free so we can work on our church stuff. We have to raise $30,000 before we can launch our church! We plan to launch in Aug. or Sep. of 2010. So please keep us in your prayers!!
So enough about us! I'm sure you are all dying to hear about what Amelia is up to these days! She is 16 months old now and walking...or should I say running... all over the place!! She has a mouth full of teeth and chatter!! This girl could talk to a wall! She has developed a unique little language we like to call Amelese! Some of her latest tricks are counting to 3, she can point to her nose and say "nouse" aka nose, she can give a high five, and she knows all the hand motions to "Itsy, bitsy, spider"!!! She just discovered zippers and is fascinated with them! Luggage, purses, make-up bags...anything that has a zipper she could sit and play with for hours!! I can't believe how fast they grow! She has been our comic relief through much of this stressful time of transition! Here are some recent pictures of her! We will be posting some video of her soon so check back often!
