He has learned how to flush!!  Now what??

 This past Sunday... Nov. 1st.  We had Communion and Fellowship Meal.. After that the men had a brother's meeting.. Then the men and children headed outside. I trailed along to take pics! 
They sent off a bunch of helium filled balloons with tracts!
Jonathan Byler from West Virginia, brought the helium tank.. He does this himself, so it was something new for us.. But a very neat idea.
Here is the first balloons and tracts they sent off. Emery got that privelege. Not sure how that came to be..

Here Stephen Peachey was very interested in the process of how the balloons are filled and he wanted to try doing it!



Merlin got in on the fun as well, then he slept for several hours! It was pretty chilly outside, but he loved it..
 
Send off with Prayer..

Here is the first balloons with cd they sent off..

Here they are fixing to send off a cd.. The cd was too heavy for a single balloon. It took about 6 or so.. Then they also added a baggie with a tract on the other end of the string!

This one has a tract on one end of the string and a cd! 2 sets of balloons with a cd on them were sent off..
Andreas let it off.. They are praying over it.

Here are the 3 girls with balloons ready to go off.
Mariah Byler, Cheryl Stoltzfus, and Damaris Hostetler. 
Up, Up, and Away to do the Lord's Work..

We already got a call from one! Yesterday!  Andreas had put his name and our phone number on one and a young boy (12yr. old) called from Hershey saying that they found it in his back yard! We thought that they were all heading south and west! Hershey is north and east! We prayed for them before they let them off that the Lord would take them where needed.. and where He wanted them to go.
I think the children had as much fun as the men!

One Sunday afternoon the children were invited to go along with their Uncle Levi's biking the Rail to Trails.. They had a lot of fun!

Here they are starting off from Shippensburg Township Park on Britton Rd.
Crossing Britton Road..

In Oakville.. Where we picked up the kids and Levi's biked back to the Park.

 

On the way to Oakville we saw these guys gliding..
 

I am so praising the Lord! All of Junior's blood work came back clear except the sugar test.. It is border line. So we watch our sugar. Cut back on carbohydrates and not so many sweets. He said to feed him more green veggies.. Well, 6+ yrs ago we were told he couldnt eat them green veggies or anything raw. But now he is supposed to. Rather confusing. But, that was cleared up as well. Junior was told to take a dose of Metamucil every night before bed. Than he can pretty much eat whatever he wants to without fear of his diverticulitis flaring up! With the holiday season approaching where a lot of nuts is used in the baking, Junior can now eat them nuts! I can now start to use pecans again! AND buy him a bag of walnuts to crack. He has missed nuts greatly these last 6 years.. 
Yesterday I woke up in a sore pain. Junior thinks it might be diverticulitis.. So I will just start taking that fiber stuff and hoping it will take care of it.
Well, I should/NEED to get moving, but was too excited to not share the good news with you all. 
Also, I needed to say Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian family and friends.. I soo miss celebrating that holiday in October. I just dont feel right to celebrate the end of November..

AAHHH... I feel like a freight train ran over me.. I tore up the living room last evening and cleaned it.. Or most of it got done. There are 2 bookshelves and a closet and desk and a set of knick-knack shelves yet to clean. I am wondering if I am crazy, but when I look at it this morning.. I dont feel crazy, just awfully sore and tired..
I was also woke up several times during the night, by the smallest King in this house.. I am almost positive it is teething. He was running a fever for 2 days.. Now he is not sleeping well at all.. But he fights me when I try to look in his mouth. So, since I do not want to get bit, I do not try to poke my fingers in too far!
I think this week is going much better than last week.. Praise the Lord!  Junior is still sick, but I think he is feeling better.. He is still weak and awfully tired. He can sleep and sleep and sleep. He went back to the dr. yesterday. This time the dr took 4 vials of his blood.. We are hoping to hear back from one of the tests today, hopefully by Friday for the others. I hope that either something shows up or it is a virus and takes care of itself..
O the joys of teaching daughters how to clean...
Dear Daughter is not a neat freak... Her room caves in and looks like a pigpen.. I can clean it up and within 12 hours it is trashed again.. Weary task.. 
Her father sent her in to clean it up last Friday or Sat. It was done so swiftly and it looked wonderful..  Sunday afternoon, they were invited to go biking with Uncle Levi's.. Well, she couldn't find her bike helmet.. So, Momma goes in and looks around.. Under the bed would be  a good place to look.. 
O my my my.. Dear momma pulled and pulled.. You could not see to the other side of the bed! She had shoved and pushed everything that was on the floor, in sight, under the bed.. It is a single bed! How on earth did she manage to get it all under that bed and not a single thing sticking out?? I wish I would have taken pics! There were clothes, toys, towels, books, cd and tapes and their cases.. etc.. Everything but the bike helmet.. We still haven't found the helmet. 
We went in that room yesterday morning and pulled and pulled some more. Until not a thing was under the bed. She had a near overflowing hamper.. and such a pile of books, it is no wonder the bookshelf was looking bare! And the closet and dresser..
Tell, me.. Does anyone else have this problem?? Or is it just our house??
The boys room gets to looking BAD also.. But it has 2 cleaner-uppers livng there.
The boys claim it is their sister who trashes their room..
And she claims her baby brother messes her room up! He might do that, but not carry in piles of books and tapes and cds.. 
Emery can be a bit of a whirlwind mess maker as well.. But, he can pick up a mess and make things neat again.. To the point of driving me crazy. He will empty dresser drawers (any drawers) and put things painstakingly away in 'neat' messy piles!!
Do I have a messy daugher? Will she out grow it?? I cannot remember being that messy, but I was not and still am not a neat freak.  I can remember shovign things under my bed, but, not clothes.. I can not stand it when there are clothes on the floor.. When there is a hamper right beside them!!!
Well, now that I am done ranting and raving.. I will get to work.. CLEANING.. and folding laundry..
You all have a great day... God Bless..