*I have no idea why this looks so strange and I am out of town so I can't fool with it now....
So try and understand this funny mess, it is fitting with this post.
also THAT family, you know the ones... I was inspired to share a time that every
thing went wrong.
We decided 4 years ago to move from our very upper class neighborhood where
I drove a Cadillac) to a town 4 hours away in the middle of no where (driving an
old ugly green mini van)... Let me tell you why.
HD was working with a large computer company and he traveled away from us
(then Luke and Bo) 5 days a week, he left at 3 am on Monday morning and
returned sometime friday normally around 8 or 9 at night. We had prayed for
years for HD to find a local job but to be honest he made so much money nothing
could compare. Anyway, while camping near the place we live now, God started
working on my heart, I felt instantly like we are supposed to live here, and in one
week we had scoured the home ads and made a God lead decision to move to a
town 4 hours away because the cost of living and lifestyle was so much less, but
we would have so much more, HD home with us! It was a really hard decision,
we were very involved in our church being church planters, HD ran the sound board,
helped every week to pull the truck full of portable church things (we met in a roller
skating rink) and helped set the whole church up, I was helping with worship and
the nursery ....
So we were leaving alot behind to go to a place we know not one single person, but
still believing God is totally leading us. My wonderful Brother and Sister in law came
from Ohio to help us pack up our 2 moving trucks, and head out to our new life.
But the trouble began early, 2 trucks weren't enough we had to drive 80 miles an
hour to another town to get the only truck available on a holiday weekend, we go
it though. We drove on until 1 am finally arriving at our new home deep in the
forest, I will never forget my Sister in laws face when we got out of our cars, she
said This is no Where, you have a baby, this is out there... As we got out of the
I excitedly said lets go look at the pool, it was a lovely above ground attached to
our deck, as we came around the corner our feet got wet and it was not raining,
but our pool had collapsed, all the walls were laid out in the yard and water was
Everywhere.... Ok, maybe we didn't need a pool. We came inside things were well,
it was late and we both had little babies and toddlers, we laid down on the sleeping bags
and went to bed. The next morning when the sun came up we saw that their was
saving the pool so we cleaned up the mess while the guys started to unpack the
trucks. A very odd oder was coming from our moving truck, it smelled like trash,
not my trash more like a dumpster. As we made our way through the truck the
smell was actually gagging us. When HD got to our mattress our brand new
mattress our $2000 brand new mattress, he found this black stinky wet mess, it
seems as if some of the generous church friends who helped us pack accidentally
HD's Compost bucket, and then some one accidentally turned the box upside
down which made the compost sludge spill out onto our new bed and every box it
came in contact with... It was Sunday the day before Memorial Day in the middle
no where, so we high tailed it to Sams Club 20 miles away and settled for a mid
grade mattress that didn't smell like death. Memorial Day was fairly uneventful
until we started unpacking my china cabinet, not one single dish was left,
all of them were broken, every wine glass except 2, I was just as crushed as my
dishes! I guess heading over the mountain and down one gravel road after
another was to much for my lovely crystal. And then as we were working our
way through the broken glass we here screaming from the bathroom where my
brother in law and HD were giving the babies a bath, I came around the corner to
see my 9 month old baby boy Bo covered in blood, his eye was split open and he
was screaming so bad, I knew he need a plastic surgeon because I had been
through this before with Luke but thats another story another THAT family story.
We had a children's hospital back in our big town, I had no idea where to go or if
they even had a children's hospital, we made our was to the hospital and indeed
he did need a plastic surgeon to fix his eyelid, he need 9 stitches, we had to hold
him in this strait jacket like wrapping while they fixed his little face, and yes we
had to hold him that was so horrible, to see your baby helpless and being stitched
back together. It seems as if he stood up in the tub and fell before HD could grab
him he smacked his face on the side of the tub and it split right open. We were at
the hospital for 6 hours. The next morning it seemed really hot, it was because
our air conditioning was broken, as I went for the phone we realized it was out....
So no phone no air, in the middle of no where, I just kept thinking God must really
want us here or did we move to the money pit? We used our cell to call the phone
company they told us it would be 5 business days, and have a lovely day, I would
tell you how stupid they are but thankfully, 9 months later HD got the job that
brought him home with that same phone company, so I love them and they pay
the bills so I will leave all negative comments to myself ...So they come and fix
the air for $400.00 and not but and hour later the power went out and stayed
out all day. By now let me tell you I felt like we had made a big mistake I want
to go home back to the big town back to our friends away from no where.
The next day was the first day that seemed normal we even had a bonfire, because
we were country people now and we felt like we needed to burn something. All the
sudden a large deer ran through our yard and my dog chased it, she was gone all
night she was lost. HD slept on the couch, and called for her all night.
Our dog did come back about noon the next day. The lights have stayed on except for
a few winter storms. We have a best friend who works in heating and air so if
the air trys to go out we are covered. Bo's eye doesen't even have a visable scar. We
Love No Where, God has provided us with so much here, HD being home is the biggest
thing of all, our family felt so empty mon-fri, husbands and fathers are needed every
day. We have a wonderfully amazing church, we have great friends. We love small town,
I wouldn't leave No Where.
This picture was taken about a month after I got married, we were married on Oct 29,1996 and this picture was taken right before Christmas for a modeling contest I was entering. I was only 18 in this picture, hard to believe it was 12 years ago. I saw an ad in the paper for a modeling tryout and I went. I was excepted and off my career would go or so I thought. First let me say I had the weight right I was a size 1 yes you read that size 1 which is way to small I think ever rib stuck out I was sickly, I was a newlywed and I didn't know how to cook, HD traveled and was gone 5 days a week and so I lived on Cheerios's and we ate out on the weekends. Anyway the modeling company loved the size but I have one down fall that they couldn't overlook I am only 5'3.... That is not super model material. We went to a beautiful hotel in Louisville Ky called the Taft and we spent several hundred dollars on lessons to walk and learn more about modeling and in the end I was rejected. More or less I was told not every pretty face is made to model, I was just to short even in high heels! I loved the 3 weeks of fame I thought I was going to have, and being that I had always struggled with my weight being so small felt great. Looking back on those pictures today I think I look rather pale and 
And then she gave me this great Vera Bradley purse with matching apron for Christmas
And last weekend while she was visiting she stopped at an antique store and saw this beautiful Vintage apron and she so generously bought it for me
