Works of God Monday

Hooray! God gave us a good night's sleep last night, and we had two happy girls today who felt much better than they have been. After they woke up, we surprised them by telling them that we were going to go to Disneyland. They were SO excited! I was so excited that they felt better and were able to enjoy the whole day there. It was a great family day.



Fall has arrived at Disney! The flowers and decorations are amazing all over the parks.


Olivia loves Tinkerbell and wanted to get a pic by Tink's pumpkin.


Emma's shirt has Tinkerbell on it, so we had to get one of her too.


The teacups are a favorite! We got ours spinning quite fast.


Check out the cow! We thought that was pretty funny.


It's Woody!


This whole area we were walking through was beautiful and had lots of picture spots.


Check out the Disney pumpkin crown! Emma said it was heavy on her head.


Olivia wanted to try too. The lady in the background carved all the pumpkins. There were so many of them around that area. They were amazing!

Continuing to Learn Patience

OK, so last week was a hard one. Last Sunday during our worship service, Emma looked up at me and told me that her throat hurt, and she couldn't sing. On Monday she was sniffing constantly and saying she felt like she had a cold. Monday night was not good--she was up for 2 hrs in the middle of the night with a headache and feeling terrible. I took her to our chiropractor on Tues. because he has really helped us with adjustments and supplements lately with the girls. Basically Emma was showing signs of bacteria again, and we gave her a big boost of stuff to "kick it." On Wednesday Olivia said her throat was hurting and she had a 99.4 temp and just didn't feel well. I kept them both home from gymnastics and church that night. I was really down!

I was thankful to see improvements in Emma by Wed. night, and on Thurs., both were doing somewhat better. The plan had been for 2 wks that we would go to Disneyland on Friday with our friends, the Foxes, because we knew the girls had been better with their coughs and should be fine to go. Our passes expire next weekend, and we are not sure about renewing them as of yet. Well, Thurs. night I was a little leery of whether or not we should go, but Kris and I decided that if the girls slept well that night, and if they woke up on Friday feeling well, we would go for at least some of the day. God gave us a CLEAR answer through the night Thurs. into Fri.--Olivia started coughing right before we went to bed. Coughing had been nearly gone during the nights, so I was really surprised at how bad this was. It was like we were stepping back a couple of weeks. She continued most of the night and was up several times. We hardly got any sleep. We did NOT go to Disneyland. Everyone was bummed, but we talked about God's ways being best and that He clearly gave us an answer, so we enjoyed the day together as a family at home. Thankfully the sore throats ended in the middle of last week, the sniffing has drastically decreased with Emma, and both girls were able to go to church today. We've had a good day, and Kris and I have a plan on getting Disney in this week! :-)

Our family Bible passage that we have recently been working on is Psalm 145:1-3. As we recited the verse with the girls this past week, I was reminded that our Great God does all things for our good and His glory. He deserves all of our praise--EVERY day, no matter what! God is always good!