Good Bye Old Friend...

We did receive notice today in the mail, Jason is no longer the pastor of First Baptist Church. They let him go because they felt he had "become a liability to the general welfare of the church." We have until January 31st to be out of the parsonage. Thankfully, we have dear friends in this area that are helping us in all aspects of this transition...M & T, G have a home that is for sale that we are going to be able to move into. Praise the Lord for a roof over our heads!

Unfortunately the lose of a home and some income isn't the only thing we will be grieving. The home that is offered to us doesn't allow dogs. I had listed the dogs figuring that we were going to have to move on short notice and today I had to say good bye to my first baby, Meshach. We brought him home on April fools day of 2004...just 1 1/2 pounds, such a tiny little one he was. Our neighbors at the time thought he was a gopher! He has been an AWESOME loyal friend to us through good and bad and it breaks my heart that through this tough time we cannot be there for him. I am okay with the home he went to, he will be loved and spoiled, but it just hurts. Meshach has listen to me cry over so many things, particularly over the adoption process (before kids) and he was beside me trough each of our 4 miscarriages. I even would 'sneak' him into bed with me while recovering from them.

He will be missed!

My Puppies...

Last Thursday Malachi & Nevaeh went to their new home to be with their new Mommy. I took some pictures before she arrived to pick them up...
This is Malachi, he is so adorable and I just hate the fact that I had to say good bye to him. But after much prayer (and my husband informing me it was needed) I placed adds on Kijiji.com for these two and Nema Jaylee.
Due to the extra work that goes into planning and preparing meals for Ethan, me being asked to apply & applying to be on the board of directors of the Northern Hills Pregnancy Care Center in town, and the idea that we are very serious about one Ethan is adopted or Ada Grace turns two (whichever comes first) adopting at least one more time, Jason just thought that raising doggies was something that I should reserve for my retired years!
Action shot, they were fighting over the same rawhide...silly puppies!
I feel terrible, I really wanted to keep Nevaeh (formerly known as Belle) because she was such a lady and I had already decided she was Ada Grace's dog. However, Ethan couldn't be happier, he has never been too fond of any of my dogs!
She was also just absolutely beautiful!


We still need a home for Nema Jaylee...if know of anyone that wants a Doxie...send them our way!

I will miss these guys...but they went to the same home and will be spoiled by far. The couple that "adopted" them are retired and he has claimed Malachi and she has claimed Navaeh and she has started a scrapbook for both of them!

Malachi

In all of the business of yesterday, we brought Malachi home and he is the cutest little boy daschund in the world! You will have to take my word for it as I have no time to take pictures today.
Will get you all some VERY CUTE pictures soon...I promise!

Final Random Pictures from Christmas East River

A playing with the soccer ball at my cousin Micah and his wife Gretchen's house. View their blog here. Micah, Gretta, and Princess are in the background.
Long time family friend, Glen, joined us on Christmas Eve. As you can see C took to him very quickly!
  Isn't little Molly Jo just too cute!

This is Princess putting on a show at Micah and Gretchens house.
Rere, my wonderful brother, and his bride Christy.
  Princess is always excited to see Grandpa and Grandma (hint hint...our door is always open!)
 Sunshine and Micah's house. He was using Grandpa as a jungle gym!

The proud parents!

Here are the proud parents of our beautiful puppies!
Nema Jaylee
Meshach

Puppies

All of the puppies have both their eyes open, not all of them completely, but open none the less!

Puppies!!!

I just had to share with everyone! Jason told me last night that I get to keep one of my puppies! I have not decided if I am keeping Buzz (the boy) or one of the girls (Beauty, Belle, and Bambi)

I am going to wait a little while and see who (Nema Jaylee or Meshach) they start looking like.

On the update side of things.

Beauty is almost double the size of the other puppies now, which I think is funny. She must be going to take after her dad who while he isn't a very big dog, had a bigger body stature that Nema Jaylee.

Belle's right eye is starting to open. All of the other puppies eyes are still sealed completely, but it could be any day now. Today they are 10 days old.

I do think that they are starting to hear a little, I am unsure how to tell when their ears have opened up, but some noises are seeming to startle them some.

My Dude...

On Saturday while we were at Jason's family Christmas, Dude passed away. I miss my Dude! The other four puppies are doing very well! Mommy (Nema) too!

Quick Update!

Dude just found his Mama on his own for the first time and actually was sucking!!!!! We are very excited, most of you know that I never give up on the underdog....I am a Vikings fan you know!

Heehee, anyway, I do hope he makes it, he is still my favorite.
The other 4 had their dewclaws removed today and are still doing very well. Dude is about half the size of the others, but I had been feeding him evaporated milk with some sugar (energy boost for strength) and hopefully it was enough to pull him through and now he will grow, grow, grow!

We are bringing Nema and the puppies with us for Christmas...make arrangements to come to the farm so that you can see them!


ALSO REMEMBER ETHAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE FARM ON SUNDAY FROM 2-4. CAKE, ICE CREAM, & PUNCH....IT IS A COME AND GO PARTY, COME WHEN YOU CAN, AND GO WHEN YOU NEED! YOU ARE ALL INVITED AS WE CELEBRATE ETHAN'S ONE YEAR OF LIFE!!!

Nema & Puppies

Mama and puppies are doing very well. Well, 4 of the 5 are doing well.

There are 2 boys and 3 girls. My favorite puppy (as usual) is very weak and I am not sure that he is going to pull through. He hasn't been eating nearly as much as he should, and will not drink from an eye dropper. I have started calling him, "Dude." You can see him in the post from yesterday, 3rd picture, and he is the one at the top most of the picture, brown with darker spots. He is the only one that was spotted all over like his Mama. The other boy is Buzz (brown with a wide white necklace~he does have a few spots on his back), and the 3 girls are Beauty (the dark one), Belle (Brown with a skinny white necklace), and Bambi(brown all over)! The 4 B's are doing very well and already growing! I have spent much time by their side in the last 24 hours, and plan do spend as much time and possible with them today. Of course I have to start packing as we will be leaving either tomorrow night or EARLY Friday morning.

They're Here!!!

This morning in stead of being woke up with a kiss from my husband, it was a cold nose from a puppy!

Nema had her puppies sometime in the night. Jason said they were still wet when he found thme. She seems to be doing very well with them.
As best as I can tell, she has 2 boys and 3 girls. I haven't touched them too much at this point, but we have one darker one, one dapple one, and three brown ones (two with white necklaces!)
She must not have had any trouble, all puppies seem healthy and she cleaned them off very well.
Nema is back to her skinny self, and Meshach is wondering what all then noise is about!

Kids

This was Sunshine's first meeting with Nema, our very hyper Doxie. As you can see, he didn't think much of it!
 Princess generally loves the dogs, but she wasn't sure about them in the house with her! Sunshine is keeping his eye on Nema Jaylee, just to be sure that she isn't going to try to lick him again. (She did!)

  Sunday night after church we invited the two newest families in the church over for pizza, it was funny watching us "train" from the church to the house. There were 13 kids and six adults, the first people made it to the house as the last of us were leaving the church, one steady line of people!

It was alot of fun....we are so excited to see what God is doing!

Merry Christmas!!!

I think we will have more than gifts under the tree at Christmas.
Our Doxie, Nema Jaylee, is getting very fat and showing signs of life in her belly!

Here's the proud Papa!
Our Pom Meshach!
He's pretty cute too!

We are not sure when the puppies are coming, but I would guess sometime this month by the way that Nema Jaylee looks, if you know anyone that would like a domerainian sometime late January or February....you know who to call!

Third post, no pics!!!

Well all, I am sorry to say that I have no new pictures for you to see at this time. Though we do have two extras staying with us for about a week. They are very sweet chidlren, and we look forward to the week ahead. I also look forward to capturing their smiles sooner rather than later! Hopefully for tomorrows post there will be pictures. I am aiming to get some of the pooches on here as well. I think they may be feeling left out! Have a great day!

The best husband ever!

As I anticipate our 5th anniversary coming in just 9 more days, I reflect on the past 4 years. My husband is a wonderful, devoted man. Everything he has the time to do, he devotes himself to. He is very committed to pastoring our little church, and he is such an encouragement to the members. He is very committed to his personal devotion to God. Along with, our relationship, being the best Daddy in the world, and picking up the pieces that I tend to let fall through the cracks. Looking at my my planner from July, I only had 3 days that there was not an appointment or event going on. That doesn't leave me a ton of time for my wifely duties (cooking, cleaning, shopping, etc.) Handsome is good to pitch in where needed, as for the shopping, he takes care of the kids in the evenings so I can go without them. I appreciate him very much!

The first picture of Jason is him holding our mini doxie Nema Jaylee. The second picture is of Handsome with his brother and sister.