3 weeks later

Well, I've only missed one day of working out. Otherwise I've done at least 30 minutes everyday. PLUS, no extra sugar for the month of January. The no sugar part hasn't been too bad except for the times I have gone to dinner with others and they have dessert. February, I'm going to allow myself to have sugar during those special times but no other time. We will see how that goes. -I think I've lost about 6 pounds. Only 14 more to go. :)

Working out again

Now that the holiday's are over, Dan and I have decided to get back into the working out and losing weight routine. Today is day three. I'm very proud of my husband. He has gotten up with me at 5AM!! for the last three days. Dan is someone who would rather get up at 10AM and go to bed at 2AM. However, when I left for work at 7:20 this morning, he was crawling back into bed. :) He has plenty of time to adjust. I've lost 1.5 pounds already. That just shows I have plenty to go.

We had a no show house showing on Saturday, we are hoping they will try to make another appointment soon and another New showing today! It's been about one showing every 3 weeks. Which we have been encouraged about. Hopefully one of these times someone will actually make an offer.

Dan started working two days a week at the Robinsdale school district. He's helping in a tutoring center with highschoolers who would like to go to college. So far it's not very challenging or exciting but it provide 12 hours of income which we are thankful for. He is hoping to get some info on becoming a Math sub there on the off days.

Dan is once again preaching at the Blaine Highschool this Sunday (1/11) at 10:00. Feel free to join us.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We sure did.

2000 Miles

Well, my mom has decided to move back to Minnesota for the next 3 months. I know, not a great time to be in town, especially since yesterday's high was -4 but she is here. My dad is going to stay in CA. I flew out to CA on Wednesday afternoon and started the 2000 mile drive back on Thursday. It went really well! We counted about 30 hours in the car. We started out between 6 and 6:30 each morning and was in around 7:30. Long days but not late nights. It was kind of fun and I would do it again. The most fun thing we saw were 3 cowboys. Real cowboys on horses, driving cattle! For a city girl, this was quite fun. We also saw a coyote eating road kill, that was the only wild life we saw in the whole drive. We were suprised that the thing didn't care one bit that a car driving 50 (I slowed down to look) was within 8 feet of him.

While Mom is in town, she will be working hard on the book she is writing and doing a lot of counselling . I hope to have her help me pick out some new fabric and do a little 30 day cooking. It will be fun to have her here but hard knowing that my Dad is on his own back in CA.
Please pray for my parents, that they can work some things out while they are apart.

Two Showings

We had two house showings this month! These were the first two we have had. Our realtor is trying hard to get a hold of their realtors to get some feed back but so far no luck. Not sure what that is about. - Dan and I have decided to looking into renting out the house. I have a list of things to look into and hope to have it completed by early next week. If you know of anyone looking to rent, please keep us in mind.

Did you know my mom is writing a book? She is, I'm really excited for her. It's about her ministry and different types of healing God has performed in peoples lives. I'm helping her edit it. Yeah, I know know, I thought that was funny too. But Mom says I'm doing a good job and I'm enjoying it.

Dan has picked up a few tutoring jobs for the evenings. He's also trying to break into the substitute teaching field but so far no luck. I of course can't help but wonder if he's not getting a job because we aren't suppose to be here.

Please pray that the house will work out for someone and that Dan can connect with Doug in Idaho to get some things in place for our move out there.

I hope your Thanksgiving Holiday is a good one!

Dan is now 30!

Dan's 30th Birthday was on Sunday, November 9th. We gave him a big party Saturday night and 40 friends and family came to join us. Including my parents and Kylie and Jesse who flew in for the event. It has been fun spending the weekend with everyone.

We have no news on the house, still now showings. Our next through is it rent it out. I'm leaning towards a Jan 1 date but am still waiting for Dan to decide what he would like to do. Everything has been slow and getting a bit frustrated. We have even talked about Dan heading out on his own for a month or two.

Dan started a new part time job. He is now tutoring after school at Silvan Learning Center. They were excite to get a guy with a math degree who actually still remembers how to do it to join the team. I don't think they have a regular schedule worked up yet but at least it will be a little cash coming through. He's also looking into possible doing a little substitute teaching. It's hard to know what to do if we are going to leave in the next month or two. Again, more decisions.

Dan and I just started leading a new Sunday morning group at church. Our topic is Following God's Will. We are to come with a decision we are trying to make in our life and we will explore what God's Word says regarding his desires for our lives. Yesterday went really well and we were excited to see 8 others join us. It will be fun to see what Dan learns from this group. :)

I'm going on a 5 day quilt retreat this weekend!! I'm so excited, it's our longed one yet. I figured if it was going to be my last then it may as well be a good one, right? We take off around noon on Friday and head up to Camp Lebanon in Upsala, MN. We will then stay there until Tuesday doing nothing but quilting, eating great food, giggling until late hours into the night with little sleep. I know, your jealous right? :) I'm really looking forward to it. There are going to be 12 of us in our group out of the 150 women at camp that weekend.

This is probably enough info for you all at once. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. It's been hard to share when there isn't much to share in the areas we really want things to be happening. I do have one request though, please don't try to be funny in telling us that you are praying for our house Not to sell. This is starting to become a real sore spot for me. It's ok if you are sad that we are leaving, this is wonderful to hear but this is something that both Dan and I really want to do.

Thanks for reading! I hope you have a great week.

What to Wear?

I'm having another Sr. High Girls overnight this Friday. I told the girls they could dress up. My only problem is...what do I wear? Any ideas?

Dan's preaching

Dan's preaching this Sunday (Oct. 19) at Cornerstone Church of Blaine. We meet in the Blaine high school's auditorium at 10:00 in case anyone is interested in hearing him.