HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDIE!!!!!

Today we went to Aunt Blue's house after church to celebrate Maddie's 3rd Birthday! We had a cookout and swam all day! I think we were in the pool about 4 hours total!! We all had a blast especially little Lexi!! So Happy Birthday Maddie!!!! And to watch the video you might have to turn the music at the bottom of the page to pause:) Enjoy:)

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House Update

I just wanted to write and say that the house is a no go! there was so many things wrong with it that we found out during the inspection! I am sad about it but i know that it was a good thing for it to happen instead of buying it and findng all of this stuff wrong with it and shelling out money we dont really have! We are still going to take the first homeowners class on the 16th of august so when we do buy a house hopefully by the end of the year, we will have that out ofthe way and dont have to worry about that aspect of it!

I think i need to leave it up to God to show us the right house at the right time! I am having a hard time with this bc when i want something done or i want something i want it now! and this whole house buying process has taken a toll on my stress level and i have come to face some major disappointment! but i am now realizeing i need to leave it up to God and the perfect house will come in the right time he has laid out for us! I need to Fully Rely on God! And i am working on that and praying to get better at that!

Different note my week and a day of vacation is up and i must return to work Monday! but i am glad to get in the groove and learn new things!! Lexi starts her new daycare on monday as well! i am a little nervous but i will just be a few minutes away!

We found a few more houses we like on the internet and might go look at them on wed! we will see! 

Just a few prayer requests:

1. my brother found a lump in his testice and he has been on 2 rounds of antibiotics and it seems to have srunk but if it doesnt after this 2nd round he will have to go to a specialist and have a better look taken at it! So please pray for him and Pray that it is not cancer! 2 of his friends already have had testicular cancer and have to have stuff removed and they were only 15-16 yrs old! My brother is 19 and i pray he doesnt have to go through any of that!

2. My friend Zsera she had a miscarriage 5 weeks ago and it is still hurting which i cannot fathom what she is going through but she is Regaining faith and stregth through God and HE is helping her to heal and grow in him!

3. Sam I have mentioned him before and you Can read his story HERE but he has a heart defect and he is going through a sickness right now and has been fighting off a fever! Tessa Sams mother is taking care of him by herself this weekend as her husband Bill is in India working for Samaritans urse! So please pray for them and for sam to be well again!

4. My great grandma she is 96 and still going strong but she is slowly forgetting anything and everything and when we were down there last weekend she remembered lexi but did not know whos child she was. This broke my heart and i do realize that soon it will be her time to be with Jesus and she has been fighting cancer for about 2 years now so just pray for her to have stregth and continue to feel as good as she can!

Well i think that is all for now! i need to get my booty in the bed so we can get up in the morning!!!

Going away!

Hello everyone!! I hope everyone is having a great week! i am just doing some updating!!! Since we cant close on the house on the 31st we were working with the sellers to make a 100% guarentee to get the house and we did and hopefully around august 22nd we will be closing!!!! W e have to take a homebuyer education class on the 16th of august so that will be an intereting saturday!!!

My job is going great i ove it!!! and my boss is going to texas so i dont have to work until the 4th of august!

That same day lexi will actually be starting her new daycare! she will be going to LaPetite! and it will be a good chance for her to learn a lot more and make new friends in a structured surrounding! I am very nervsou about ehr starting but she will be about 6 minutes from my work so it wont be too terribly bad! i can get there in a hurry if something were to happen or they needed me for something! Once we move int our new house we will be saving sooooo much on gas so that is a good thing:)

Tomorrow mornign we are going to head out to my parents for the weekend! to jst get away and relax! We will have to miss church on sunday:( but we will so be back sunday night for the Hear our Praises concert!! If you are in knoxville you should so come to this concert it is going to be over an hour or praise and worship songs singing to our one and only God in heaven! It is going to be AMAZING!!!!

other than that we are jsut busy busy busy!!! i am starting packing when i get back to so that should be tons of fun.....have a great rest of the week:)

This is lexi in her ADORABLE outfit playing at church tonight!!!

Do you like the mowhawk?????

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Love,

Kristen Justin and Lexi

A MUST READ!!!

I will put a disclaimer on this: when reading this story you will cry and just thank God for all the blessings in your life! And i pray that you will continue to pray for this very strong and Faith driven Family!!! Here is the link to their blog.

Audrey Caroline's Story

Please go read their story

The Latest Happenings!!!

This has truly been an amazing week!!! and God has answered so many Prayers!! ALL IN 1 WEEK!!! As the last post says i got a job and it is still going great! i love it so much!! 

Also our offer was countered and we accepted that so we are filling out the loan paperwork tomorrow and we will see when we get to close!!!! Then we will be moving!!! so most likly Next month we will be changing locations!!! I am so excited to finally have something bigger and being able to decorate things!!! This is going to be a great experience and i am so glad it is finally happening!!!

Here are a few pictures from the 4th of July! I know they are late!! sorry! but i hope everyone has a fabulous week!!!

I had Lexi and Maddie riding the pony:)

Kiss time:)

Lexi cheesing for the camera!

Lexi going down the big old slide!!

Can you tell they were both just screaming at each other??

Lexi singing and dancing to the Hoppers a Christian Group who performed at Justin's parents campground on the 4th! 

Anyways I know i need some more pictures up and hopefully sometime soon i will have pictures of our beautiful new home!!!!

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!

I got the job and this past week was my first week and i love it!!!!! It is such an easy environment and it is a 4 day a week job 830-430!!! so it works out perfectly! Lexi will start daycare about 6-8 mins away from my work on Aug 4th! so that will also be an exciting time!!! The clinic i am working at is a surgery referrel so we only do surgeries! which is nice we dont deal with any shots or walk ins! you have to have an appt! so the major surgery we do a lot of is when dogs tear their ACL! so if your dog ever does have your vet refer to us and we will take good care of your doggy! It is call Blackford Veterinary Referrel Clinic! 

On another note we are putting an offer in on a house! so hopefully it will go through:) I am excited to be starting this new chapter in our lives!!!

I took pictures this weekend and will put them up sometime tuesday!!!

Hope everyone had a great week!!!

P.s. Here is a link to the house:)

http://tinyurl.com/5f83tm

A LOT OF CONTEMPLATION GOING ON!!!

So there is a lot going on in our lives right now! I have 2 interviews tomorrow and both look promising. They are both way out west by pellissippi Parkway! One i know for sure is very promising bc they talked to my boss back home at my moms and he highly recommended me and they are good friends with him so that place is looking great! Thing is is from where we live now it would take about 45 mins to get to work! so judging how tomorrow goes we have been talking and if i get one of those jobs we will be moving! We will find an apartment close to where justin works so it is less travel for both of us resulting in actually saving money on gas than we are doing now! and i would be filling up a lot more if we stayed here! 

Another thing i have been searching today is daycares! Because i dont want to end her to any day care i want her to be challenged! so i have been researching daycares and pre-schools close to where i could be working! 

So if everything goes great and i have a job then some big changes will be taking place! 

Justin is now working 4pm-4am which stinks! but we will get by hopefully it wont be for too long!!

So if you dont care to please be thinking and praying for us as we will need it in the next few weeks if i get one of the jobs! If i dont then we have nothing to worry about and we are back to square one in trying to find a job for me! This has been a long processes and i am ready for it to be over! Looking for a job since march and having no luck is starting to get to me! 

We will still be going to Chilhowee Hills so i will not leave all of you there:) One good thing is i will be so much closer to Turkey Creek:) WOOHOO for shopping!! haha

anyways just wanted to update you all! Hope everyone is having a great week!

Love, 

Kristen Justin and miss Lexi