Family Fall Fun!

Everything is finally in full color! YAY. If there was anything that I was excited about living in Pineville, this is it. The beautiful fall colors. The weather has been really goergous the past few days, so we have just been soaking in all the beautiful weather.

We took the boys on a corn maze on Sunday. They had so much fun! Lots of hay climbing!

Awe!

I love how this picture turned out!

So pretty!

During the week we went up Pine Mountain and took a picnic! It was so much fun!

Big Brother wanted to push Nicholas on the swing! It was great, it gave us a little break!

They had a blast!

Yummy chicken!

In celebration of all the beautiful fall weather, I made some yummy pumpkin cookies.

I tried to make some cute fall leaves and pumpkins, but it didn't work out to well. Oh well, the rest of em' was still good!

YUMMO!

HAPPY FALL!

My Cup Overflows!!!

Hey Guys! I am so excited to tell you all that I have been offered a new job!!

YAY moment #1: I get to quit McDonalds ~ best part... no more 2:30 AM alarm clocks waking me up!

YAY moment #2: It's with Home Federal Bank and guess what I'm doing??..... TRAINING!!! And not just Training, I'll be designing the entire Training Department!!!! Oh My!!! Can you believe it?!?!? I'm like Devon 3 years ago!

I'm a little nervous about it. Huge undertake. Huge step up. Am I ready? Are my leadership skills ready to go for this? Is my confidence there?

I'm also really excited! Much better pay.... so now that God provided for us to catch up, we'll now be able to stay caught up! YAY! Thank You Jesus!! :)

I start Monday. I'll let you all know how it goes!

CYA!

Miracles Just Happen....

PRAISE GOD!!!!!

I want you all to know that we have an amazing God, who provides in ways that no one else can, who comforts like no other, who gives complete peace even when all around you is crashing down.

People have told me that the honesty that I share in this blog is moving, inspiring, and encouraging. Good. My prayer is that through this blog, God may convict, stir up new passions, call His followers into actions, and face their fears. I will always strive to hold nothing back. To have courage, and boldness, so that people- my family, my friends, the ones I love- will be saved or drawn closer to Him.

This post - I hold nothing back.

We're three months behind on the truck. Receiving numerous phone calls a day from Chrysler wanting their money. Dan has yet been able to find work, and I'm making minimum wage at McDonalds on top of not even working a full 80 hours. Friday night we got a phone call from Dan's brother, Justin - who's renting our house in Shelbyville - and a repo truck was in the drive way there to pick up the truck. Never have we struggled this much financially. Never. In the past, when I would say "We're broke" it meant we couldn't go out to dinner or lunch with friends. (Awe, how I miss those days!) We've never been behind on payments. Late maybe, but never behind.

We knew repo was coming. And believe me, Dan and I have been in constant prayer about it. Wondering...."Maybe this is God's way of lifting some of our financial burden. To just take it away."

But we've also wondered the following as well.... "What if a repo on our records will prevent us for future college scholarships or grants. What if it would hurt us from adopting our little girl from China in six years?"

We didn't know what to think. So then the prayers changed..... "God whatever Your will is, let it be. And give us a heart of acceptance and peace. You know the future. You know if the outcome will hurt us or not. Lord, whatever Your will, let it be done."

I read in 2 Timothy, that "you should be content with the food and clothing that you have." That's it. It didn't say anything about vehicles, or even housing. Just to be content with food and clothing. That brought so much peace to me. So even when all was falling around us, I still had a complete sense of peace.

I am so excited to tell you this next part!!!

Sunday night we recieve a phone call from Gene Mitchell. We've know Gene for several years. He is the head deacon at Beechridge Baptist Church (Mine and Dan's child-hood church).

They took up a love offering for me and dan on Sunday night!!!!!! They collected 1,636.00!!! We needed 1,079.00 to catch the truck up! Tell me God is not amazing!!!!!!

He is so gracious! We in no way deserve this from Him. He just totally provided huge for us! He is so awesome!

It's not easy going through some of these struggles, but I absolutely am falling in love with Him all over again. I love how He is teaching us to fully trust and rely on Him. We would have never needed to learn how to truely rely on Him if we were still in Shelbyville making the money we were. You don't realize how much you need Him until you truely have to rely on Him for EVERYTHING. And it does, it makes you get your first love back. You can't help but praise Him more, worship Him more, and just follow Him more. He is molding and shaping us like never before.

There's a pastor who used to say, "When you feel like you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on!" Man, are we holdin'! He is pushing us, almost to the end, and then when you think all is over, He reaches over and pulls you up before you fall. We're tieing our knots and holding on!

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us."

~Romans 5:1-5

I love these two songs, they have been my praise to Him while I've been here so far.

Everybody falls sometimes
Gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think it’s more than you can take
But you are stronger,
stronger than you know
Don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining
You gotta face the clouds
To find the silver lining

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
It’s just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
When they decide to take that step Out on the water
It’ll be alright
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do

Overcome the odds
You don't have a chance (That’s what faith can do)
When the world says you can’t
It’ll tell you that you can!

I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do That's what faith can do!

Even if you fall sometimes You will have the strength to rise


Before the world was made
before you spoke it to be
You were the King of Kings
yeah you were, yeah you were
And now you’re reigning
stillenthroned above all things
Angels and saints cry out
we join them as we sing

Glory to God,
Glory to God
Glory to God, Forever

Creator God you gave me breath so I could praise
Your great and matchless name
all my days, all my days
So let my whole life be a blazing offering
A life that shouts and sings the greatness of the King

Take my life and let it be
All for you and for your glory
Take my life and let it be yours

All Praise and Glory to our Great God!!! Thank you Jesus!!

Check it out!!

I am sooo very excited about this! Last night at the Women's night, it was Craft Night. I chose to try chroche! It was a two hour session, and the first hour I had just about given up. But I am stubborned-will, and determined to figure things out that I can't / don't get - those who know me well, know this about me - I'm just a nerd like that, I guess! So anywho, the first hour I'm using my fingernails to get this yarn to loop through this small hook thingie, and I'm wondering how in the world this could be relaxing to anyone?!?! ~Marquita! I'm becoming more tense and frustrated as I go along.

Finally after a good hour of fighting with this thing, I catch on! And wha-la!! Check it out!

I'm making a scarf!

I'll be sure to show the final product!!

NnNoOoO!!!

Ok, so I've been working on updating some pics on the blog for a good hour now (it takes forever to download the pictures).

I was working on the post "Good Times", my last weekend in Shelbyville with Mary's Personal Shower and the Jeremy Camp Concert. Some how or another, while moving the pictures around, I deleted just about the entire post. Everything about the concert is gone! The songs I posted and everything. I'm so MAD! If anyone can help me retrieve this, that would be great! (Dev, Mickey, any ideas?) Please help!

Anywho, kind of random, but here are some fun, cool pics from the Jeremy Camp concert from August. Enjoy!

Mr Jeremy Camp!

Some fun pics that Hannah took!

:o

The smelly, stincky animals in the barn after the concert... Pewwe!

Some things I remember from the original post:

I remember talking about what a great weekend it was. I think it may have been our last weekend at home, or close to it, before moving to Pineville. That Friday night was Mary's Shower, which was fun, then Sunday was the Jeremy Camp Concert. My closest sisters in Christ; Mary, Lisa, Hannah and myself all went out to Olive Garden for dinner (YUMMO!) ~None of our hubbies are real fond of OG so we all jumped on the opportunity to eat there! Afterwards, it was off to the concert.

I remember a really awesome message that Jeremy Camp spoke, (which I posted in the original post, but now I can't remember exactly what it was about.) I do remember that he was talking about him and his wife just miscarring a child, and how his faith is getting him through it right now.

It was really cool, at the end of the concert, how all of us girls had some time to just talk, and pour into one of our sisters. She had apparently felt some conviction about something, and she came to us with it. It was such an amazing feeling to just pour into her and love on her. It sparked a new passion in me to possibly start up women's retreats or conferences or something! It was just awesome!

I particularly remember really liking two of the songs that he sang:

Walk by Faith

Will I believe you when you say

Your hand will guide my every way

Will I receive the words You say

Every moment of every day

Well I will walk by faith

Even when I cannot see

because this broken road

Prepares Your will for me

Help me to RID my endless fears

You`ve been so faithful for all my years

With the one breath You make me new

Your grace covers all I do

yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah, ya

well i will walk by faith

even when i cannot see

because this broken road

prepares your will for me

Well I`m broken- but I still see Your face

Well You`ve spoken- pouring Your words of grace

Well I will walk by faith

Even when I cannot see

Well because this broken road

Prepares Your will for me (Repeat)

Well I will walk by faith

Even when I cannot see

Well because this broken road

Prepares Your will for me

Hallelujah, hallelu

I will walk by faith, I will walk by faith,

I will walk by faith I will walk by faith,

I will walk by faith,I will walk by faith

I will walk by faith, I will walk by faith,

I will walk by faith I will walk by faith I will walk,

I will walk FaithI will walk, I will walk by faith

I Still Believe

Scattered words and empty thoughts

Seem to pour from my heart

I`ve never felt so torn before

Seems I don`t know where to start

But its now that I feel your grace fall like rain

From every fingertip washing away my pain

I still believe in your faithfulness

I still believe in your truth

I still believe in your holy word

Even when I don`t see,

I still believe

Though the questions still fog up my mind

With promises I still seem to bear

Even when answers slowly unwind

It`s my heart I see you prepare

But its now, that I feel, your grace fall like rain

From every fingertip washing away my pain

I still believe in your faithfulness

I still believe in your truth

I still believe in your holy word

Even when I don`t see, I still believe

Well the only place I can go is into your arms

Where I throw to you my feeble prayers

well in brokenness

I can see that this was your will for me

Help me to know that you are near

I still believe in your faithfulness

I still believe in your truth

I still believe in your holy word

Even when I don`t see, I still believe I still believe

Ohhh, I still believe, I still believe

Another Visit!

This past Saturday, my parents came down for a short visit! It was great to see them! We of course took them on our favorite trail, took them to the Pinnacle Point, and we all had some pizza at the Hut! Good times! Be sure of this... if you ever pay us a visit, you can bet that we'll take you on our favorite trail and take you to the Pinnacle Point! It's amazing!!

October 4th

Today is our 6 year Wedding Anniversary! YAY! It was an amazing day. Of course, we're dead broke as ever, so we just enjoyed our day together at home. (I'm finding though that these days as our lives have slowed down, I am falling in love with the quality and the quantity of time that we have as a family)
We started the day going to church, then home for a nice lunch together (we were planning on a picnic, but it was rained out), then we were trying to watch our wedding video and showing it to the kiddos for the first time, but we couldn't get it to play for what ever reason, then that night we made home-made carmal apples together as a family! It was so fun! I have a ton of pics to download! Can't wait for you all to see them!
Can you believe I've been married for 6 years! And to a Poe for that matter!!! Na, I wouldn't change a thing! My husband is the best! The way God is working in his life is a motivation for me! And through Dan, God is teaching me so much!
Love ya babe! Happy Anniversary~!

Zachary preparing the apples.

He did a great job!

Zachary helping me dip the apples in the caramel

Making good progress

Here comes Nickel Tucker to help out!

PITIFUL!

The caramel wouldn't stay on for nothin'!

But no worries... still all smiles!

Chowin' Down!

Be Our Guests!!!

YAY! We've had our first guests since we have been residents of good ol' Pineville!! Dan's parents and younger brothers came down on Saturday and stayed the night and went home Sunday evening (well it's been a week ago now, since the time I'm blogging - totally slacking).

It was so fun! I was quite the home maker! I made a ton of cookies, a big dinner, we took them on a hike-twice, and they joined us for church on Sunday morning! It was really nice having some company from home!

School Lunch

About a week ago, Zachary had Grandparent's Lunch at his school. Since all of his grandparents live at least 2 1/2 hours away, we decided that Dan would go, in fear that poor Zachary would be the only one without anyone there to have lunch with him.
Oh the joy on his face, Dan says, was so fun to watch! There were actually a few other students from Clear Creek who were there with their kids that day as well. Zachary had a blast with daddy having lunch at his school with him! Dan says the food was "lovely"!