WHAT IS NEW...

 SWEET LEVI IS 7 MONTHS OLD...

 SOME OF THE KIDS SNUGGLING IN MOM AND DAD'S BED:)

ANNA, HOPE AND JO PLAYING UNDER THE KNEELER...

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE DUST ON THE KNEELER SHELF... OH MY!

MY SISTER IN LAW PICKED THIS OLD CHURCH KNEELER UP SOMEWHERE YEARS AGO. I USED TO USE IT...BUT HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF THE HANG OF ACTUALLY PRAYING AT IT... I WANT TO PICK THAT UP AGAIN...

I came home from the doctors office stentless today... PRAISE GOD!!  They said that the one kidney looked clear and that the stent could come out.  Within an hour I passed 2 fairly large stones that I am assuming were stuck above the stent and were too big to come out with it in... I am sooooo glad to have that thing out.  I do have some stones in the other kidney that he wasn't sure would be able to pass on their own with out getting stuck... so it looks like I will probably have the lithrotripsy done one more time in the next couple of weeks I am hoping.  They won't need to put a stent back in so I am so happy about that. When I saw the stent, that was no lie about 10 inches long, I thought, it was no wonder I have been uncomfortable for the last 5 weeks.

I am so excited to be starting a women's study at church on Sunday mornings. It is one I did a few years back at our church in Wisconsin... Just getting into the homework for it has been amazing!!!  It is called Wisdom for Mothers. It is sooooo good and God is so faithful to bring it back into my life at just the right time.

We had a balloon release tonight at our MEND meeting.  Gosh, it was a precious time.  I love those ladies so much and it was such a blessing to me.  I think that I may share some different loss/grief types of things over the next week or so as we get ready for Samuel's birthday.  My new friend Katie and I have some plans for a way to commemorate her baby.  I will try to get her permission to post a picture maybe at some point.  It is crazy, she is almost 1/2 my age, but I so enjoy the time that we can share together.  We laughed that her mom would think that the 40 year old Pastor's wife that she is hanging out with is a bad influence:)  Can you guess what she might be planning on doing?

The youth group from church is heading to Joplin again to help in the clean up... The youth director invited our whole family... so off we will go on Friday.  I am not sure how long the little ones and I will stay... maybe a day or two.  I am really looking forward to helping in some way, even if it is just cooking or sorting things at the church...

Although as of today... ( I wrote all of the above last night) the littles, myself and Caleb will have to be postponing Joplin for at least another day... Caleb has some sort of stomach bug... We are praying that none of the rest of us get it.  I had to sort of laugh, within minutes of his first episode of throwing up....Louis was giving out our immune builder tincture, emergence drink and vitamins to the rest of us... Praying it works!