Baby Jacob Fahmer

Baby Jacob was born with Trisomy-18. This amazing little man lived for about 138 days before Jesus called him home. On his blog, it said that he passed away at about 5:30 today. Please lift his family in prayer.

Sponberg Family

This morning while driving home from dropping the kids at school I was listening to our local Family Life Radio station. The morning crew was asking for prayers for Nicol and Greg Sponberg. For those of you who don't know, Nicol Sponberg was in the Christian music group Selah. Her and her husband had just welcomed their second son into the world in March. When she went into his room to check on him, she found that he was not breathing and was not able to be revived. All this comes about 7 weeks following the passing of Todd and Angie Smith's baby Audrey Caroline. Todd, also a founding member of Selah, is Nicol's brother. Please remember this family in prayer. You can find further information and updates on Angie's blog. Angie has posted a list of specific prayer requests.

5 Favorite Things Meme

So it seems that my sister has tagged me again. I guess it is time to disclose more of my nasty habits...

5 things...


5 Things found in my purse/bag:

1. Checkbook/wallet

2. Gum wrappers

3. Old receipts

4. Chapstick

5. Ink Pen


5 Things found in my bedroom:

1. My pillowtop bed

2. My sewing machine

3. 2 deer skulls (mounted on a nice plaque)

4. Box of clothes the kids have outgrown

5. A big box of Stampin' up stamps

5 Things I am currently into

1. Sewing

2. Helping my children learn to play soccer

3. Encouraging my husband

4. Saving money

5. Growing in the Lord

5 Things I've wanted to do:

1. See a glacier

2. Visit Alaska

3. Go on a missions trip

4. Live near my sister

5. Run a family friendly resort somewhere

The part I always struggle with in this whole tag thing is who to tag next. I know we played a round or 2 of tag a few months back, so I'm not going to re-tag those who comment here often. I am, however, tagging those who read but never comment. I know you are there somewhere, I see your dots on my map and your marks on my counter! Please play along and leave me a link! Oh, and if you don't have a blog, just list your favorite things in the comments! Now you have no exuse.

Gone Fishin'

Seems that lately the stress of life has been getting the better of us. Last Friday was no exception. As the case has been for months now, work was really slow. Steven and his employee were in the barn working on stuff after a really slow day and kind of depressed. I told Steve that it was a perfect day to go fishin'. He kind of laughed it off at first. Being the submissive wife I am....I persisted. I told him that fishin' is a great way to relieve stress and it really doesn't cost much to fish, especially when your bestest friends have a nice little lake on their property just teeming with fish waiting for us to catch them. After a few kicks in the hiney we headed off to The Oliver's for some R & R.

5 Great Things About Fishin'...

1. Brings out the Smile in Everyone

2. Everyone, both young and old can be involved...
3. Awesome Stories about the ones we landed...

4. No special outfit required...

5. Great times with great friends...

...and 6... (I know it was only supposed to be a list of 5), no one really remembers much about the beginning of the day Friday...just the awesome time we had while we were fishin'.