The Ordination of Rev. Schoof - October 27th, 2013

In October Maranatha received another minister from the LORD. 

This was the second time in my life I have seen the laying on of hands.  

I missed it with brother Wes because I was nine months pregnant with Ethan :(.  

There are no words to describe this event.  To say it is beautiful is too simple yet full of complete truth at the same time.  

This was exciting because Will was included as one of the elders.  You can see him better in the first picture above. Aleana was the official church photographer so that's why I have these nice pictures :).   

Elder Struik reading the subscription form to Rev. Schoof .  He also read a charge to the congregation that was 

responded to with a loud "We do"! 

Shaking hands afterwards. 

Here is the crowd for the Welcome Evening. 

Children's choir singing - Matthew and Peter are on the side. 

We sang "Joy in the Morning" and we hit all the high Gs at the end - it was exhilarating!!! 

Me, doing a presentation from the Thursday Morning Bible Study. 

Kresha Faber doing a solo - I missed the performance as Madilyn had to be nursed and put to bed. 

Will was the MC. 

Rev. Schoof thanking everyone. 

We love the Schoofs already and we are so thankful to the LORD for answering our prayers and sending us a shephard.  What a blessing!!!  Every time we give up a minister, He blesses us again and shows us His love. 

To say spirits were high is an understatement. 

Funny story - I'm in this picture and I didn't even recognize myself.  I thought "I wonder who that lady is - she looks a little like me, maybe a bit older".  Isn't that hilarious????  I'm the lady in back on the left.  Age??? Well, she feels alot younger than she looks obviously!!! 

You know you're wanted when...

 

 Tonight at dinner Nadia came up to my chair and stood there for a few minutes awaiting a time to climb into my lap. Eventually, I guess she got sick of waiting for me to get the hint and she said to me 
"Mommy, are you available for me?"  
"Yes!! Of course I am available for you - come here!!  Did anyone else hear what Nadia just said?  She wanted to know if I was 'available'!"  
She was rather confused as I hugged her close and everyone laughed.  I hope we didn't hurt her feelings.  
We just thought that it was such a grown up word for a just three year old!!!  

Campbell Valley Park - Thanksgiving 2013

Peter's Riding His Bike!! and thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving Pies

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater...

decided he wanted to bake pumpkin pie with his pumpkin from his field trip. 

Love that orange!! 

Because our home is certifiable gluten-free - these pies were as well.  

He was VERY happy to be finally making his pumpkin into pie. 

This blog looks like he made them all by himself but he had help - Aleana was this tutor.  

What a nice sister!!! 

Oh yes, and the pie was delicious!!! 

Blessings in Disguise

Can keeping up a blog actually teach you anything? I believe it can!!  Looking at my activity on here in the last year shows me several things.  1) Having a newborn takes up alot of  time!!  2) Using flicker to up load photos was really not worth the time.  I was starting to question my blog and the purpose of it.  As I have read, alot of bloggers go through this.

In the past month we have had a problem with Internet Explorer on our computer.  It's a weird situation where all the blogs are stuck on one day.   Because of #1 above I do not check my regular blogs as often as I used to and would like to.  So it took me about a month to realize that it was not just coincidental that EVERYONE was not blogging for the whole month.  It wasn't until I went to the news one day to keep up with the happenings in the world that I clued in.  Hay!! It is not possible that the news stays the same as two weeks ago is it??? Nahhhh, I didn't think so.

Long story short.  Some problems end up being blessings.  I have now discovered the amazing abilities Google Chrome has over Explorer.  The number one ability is that it can download pictures for me onto my blog no problem!!!  So maybe this sounds really pathetic to you techies out there.  Maybe I should have used Chrome a LONG time ago - I don't really know.

Lately, I have discovered that I don't know alot ESPECIALLY when it comes to keeping up with technology and teens.  My teens teach me so much that it humbles me - almost every day I learn new tech talk like: twerking (look that one up, I'm not sure why it exists), Hash-tag (really?? - makes sense but sounds odd) and Amazon drones (scary - what if something falls on your head??!!) . I'm okay with them knowing more stuff like that than me.  I'm going to have to be.  It is the way it is.  I guess I could be more on top of things and be a more "cooler" Mom but that's not me for a hundred different reasons.  In a way it connects us as they take me by the hand and express their knowledge to me, and at the same time I am a little nostalgic and sad about it because gone are the days when in their eyes I knew everything.  I was the ultimate vending machine of wisdom.  I'm not in a total depression about it - thankfully, I have other little ones that still need this ol' machine.  The teenagers do too - even though they would never admit it.  Smile :) - being a Mom is a blessing, and it's a great career because you can never complain that your life is static and boring.

Conclusion?  You may be hearing more from me - Baby is getting older and pictures are downloading faster. Things are changing and change can be a good thing.  Even if it doesn't make sense at the time.
God is good with things like that.  

I'd hash tag these two any day!!!