Hi Ho Hi Ho......

I'm back to work. I took a 9 month sabbatical. I work 2 days a week (Tuesday & Thursday). Tuesday Katylynn stays with her Grandma Jeanette, Thursdays, Daddy.

So far I like it. It is a great balance of Katylynn & social interaction (which I was missing terribly).

I'm kinda holding the position for another person. She doesn't graduate from college until May, so I will be working until then.

It is a good way to spend the winter months. Then, summer will be here again. YAY! I just love summer.

So yeah, that's the big news.

Running against an Olympian

Yeah you read that right. I just realized this morning that in high school I ran against Amy Yoder, Now Amy Begley. She was so fast, well is. Every time we ran against East Noble, we prayed that Amy wouldn't be running our event. If she did, we knew the best place we could get was 2nd.

In high school, we would always say, you know someday she'll be in the olympics. Well, she is. She ran and placed 26th. Amazing that she ran in the Olympics. Read more about her race here.

So cool & crazy.

Trip to the Ft Wayne Zoo

update on Corey

Sherri just called the church and said that he woke up. He is responding
coherently and is answering questions by blinking his eyes. At the
moment, there seems to be no brain damage! They are going to be taking
out the ventilator.

I Love the Olympics

This is just one reason why I love them so much.

Check it out Here.

Corey Ellis

As most of you know, a 16 year old boy from our youth group had a seizure in a hot tub on Friday night. He was under the water for 2 minutes. He was airlifted to Fort Wayne.

To read more about the story and leave an encouraging note for the family, please go to
www.caringbridge.org/visit/coreyellis

Please join me in praying for Corey.

My Husband is Funny

Check out one of his latest posts here.

One Year Ago

A year ago this past week Derry and I were contemplating a very important next step. We had received a phone call from a friend saying there was a teenage girl they knew who was looking to place her unborn child up for adoption. He wanted to throw it our way to let us process it.

We both weren't very sure about adoption for our next step. We pretty much ruled it out. Then a year ago I had a revelation..."We've gone through all of this heartache and struggle with not having a child of our own, why not at least check it out."

So I told Derry and it made sense to him as well. We decided to give this family a call.

Even though I was extremely nervous and freaked out of my mind, I called the mother of this teenage girl. Immediately my heart broke for this young girl in the tough decision she had to make. I couldn't imagine how confusing it had to be for her.

Once I got off the phone with her mother, I knew that God had chosen this baby girl to be raised in our home.

Sure over the next couple of months, I had many doubts. Mostly they were fears because I didn't want to be hurt and disappointed. I had 6 years of that and my heart just couldn't take much more. Fortunately, that didn't happen. We were chosen to raise this little one.

WHAT A CHEESE!

So, many thanks go out.

God, thanks for speaking so loudly to me that day at the lake. My life is forever changed.

Thanks to Katlynn's birthmom for choosing life and choosing us.

Thanks to the many who have prayed for years with us for a baby.

Life is so cool! God is so cool!