We have been blessed with lots of visitors lately and so excited that the Lord has given us time to just hang out with people. We did a quick run to Bellingham on Saturday the 18th. We had our woman's activity friday night and then left at midnight in a small kingcap truck to make a birthday party for kenya and grandpa scheffer the next day.

We also needed to pick up some canning supplies we had left in Bellingham, to use for our plethera of fruit trees we have been blessed with. We had lots of fun with family and spent Satruday packing 2 trucks to bring back, As Tadd Dad was so wonderful to let us use his while the van was down. We left late saturday night and got back early sunday morning. We should have been so tired, but the Lord was so good to give us "stenghth for the day," well atleast till we got done with church and then we all crashed for 3 hours.

Then that next tuesday, we had our great friends Brent and Michelle and their family stay overnight with us as they were on their way to Creation Northwest. We were so blessed to hang out with them and be loved on.

This last weekend we had our sweet friends Ben and Brian Mouche over and apparently there is a 20 mile perimeter around our house that is prime breakdown territory. Poor Ben had just had his last day at his job, as he was planning on attending Calvary Chapel Bible College in August. He got about 20 miles from our house and blew a large hole in his engine. Needless to say he left our poor broken down astro van some company as he had to have his aunt come bring him home. We know the Lord will take care of him, but I am sure he could use your prayers.

This coming weekend, Tadd's parents and sister are coming down to visit and stock up on apricots. Here is a picture of our "baby" but not so baby bunnies, under our beautifully ripe apricot tree.

Well, the Lord is always at work and may save us from going to trial after all. The prosecuter called and asked if we wanted to offer the defense a lesser charge, if they settle out of court. We enthusiactically said yes and she is going to offer the plea to them either today or tomorrow. If they do not take the plea, then atleast they will meet us half way in Everett for the interviews. God is good and thank goodness he is taking care of all of this, because I have no desire to worry about what happens next.

We are so greatful to the Lord every day for even allowing us to be used here, we are so blessed that he takes care of us better than we could even imagine. And he is so faithful, it continually amazes us. Thank you all for your prayer and above all thanks for just lov'in on us, even though we could never deserve it.

Lots of Jars of Peanut butter

I had a good friend of mine tell me once when she had a lot of things going on in her life and wasn't sure what the Lord was going to do, she said that, " she had her hand in lots of jars of peanut butter but just was waiting to see what the Lord would do with them". I would say right now we have our hand in lots of jars of Peanut Butter and we are excited to see what the Lord will do with them, but will also be glad when a few of them are gone.

It looks like the trial for the kidnapping is going to go on after all. We were hoping that the defense would interview the kids and try to settle out of court, for some reason God has not provided that opportunity, so even though it is not the way I would have like to have ended this, I know God has a purpose in ALL He does and this of course is no exception. Please be in prayer for Kenya and Elijah and also Mom and Dad as things are pretty busy and a week away from home will be hard to do.

We did find a lawyer to help fight the neglegence charge from CPS. We are supposed to have an over the phone "Administration Hearing on Sept. 8th. Please also keep that in your prayers.

Last but definantly not least, we are told that Annecy and Isaiah might be home by the fall. That is only a couple of months away! We are excited beyond words and hoping that things will start to slow down so we can take on 2 more kids. The Lord is good and He does all things in His perfect timing. We know He will never give a more than we can handle, so we are encouraged in that.

Church is going wonderful, we have had atleast one or two new people every week and the Lord is blessing out summer BBQ's, there is nothing better than hanging out in the sun, with good friend talking about what God is doing in our lives.

We are so blessed to be serving the Lord and even though we are busy we love being busy serving and loving on God's people.

Angels among us!

We had a great week and have started with another great one. We had lots of new people on Sunday and got to spend the weekend with some great friends from Lynden, as they were down for a Fast pitch tournament. We are planning on heading back to Bellingham on Saturday to pick up a new bunny, some canning supplies and lots of berries. Not to mention have a birthday party for Kenya and Grandpa. It will be short but sweet visit. We got a new opening page on http://www.calvaryellensburg.com/ and are trying to get some pictures and messages uploaded this week.

Last night, we had yet another perfect example of how faithful our God is. Charity and the kids had taken a 3 hour drive to her brothers house in Pullman, to say high and pick up some stuff for a chuch craft project. She spent the evening there and then left at bedtime to drive home, so the kids could sleep through the drive. The drive is a long 3 hour stretch of lonely highway, with nothing but a few very small towns along the way. Because it is in the middle of no where, there is no cell service for the first hour and a half. Charity was checking her phone frequently after that hour and a half, so she could call Tadd. When a couple of bars finally appered, she called. with in 5 mintues of being back in cell service, the van started bumping and shaking and she felt like she blew a tire. She got out and checked the tires, but they were all fine. So with 2 kids asleep in the car at 11:30 at night, in no man's land, she jacked up the van to make sure the lug nuts were not loose. After jacking it up, they all seemed to be on tight. With no real explaination, Tadd set out to the rescue. Since we were still about 80 miles from Ellensburg it would take him quite a while to get there. Charity decided say a quick pleading mommy prayer and limped along until she got to the next city. Going 35 to 40 miles an hour, the lord was faithful and she finally got to Royal city about an hour and half later. She stopped at a well lite, closed gas station to wait for Tadd. When Tadd got there a few minutes later, he did the full under the car, tire inspection, checked out the engine, with no real sign of any huge problems, we decided to limp it a long with Tadd following and see if we could get it the hour home. We babied it, till we got about 20 miles out of Ellensburg and heard one quick clanking sound. Charity pulled over and Tadd crawled under to check out the wheels again. When we turned the wheels to try and see the brakes, we heard a horrible sound. When Tadd tested the car, it had no brakes and no power steering. Needless to say we left it there for the tow truck in the morning. We headed home and climbed in bed at 4:00am.

Then next morning when the tow truck came to drop off the car he told us that he had tried to drive it up to the truck and could not get it to stop. He wanted to know how we got it stopped without crashing it into something. He said there is no way you would get a vehicle as large as an Astro Van to stop, if it was moving down the highway, you would have to run into something. I kindly told him it was by the Grace of God that we stopped just before they went out and the credit was to him as he had Angels carry us the last 2 hours, as we limped up and down the rolling hills of highway 26.

Needless to say the Lord was so good to allow it to happen while I had cell service, hold the van together until my husband was with me and to keep the brakes until we were stopped and in no danger of risking Charity's life and the kids to a crashing stop. He is so great to know just what we need, even though we had no idea. It is so wonderful to know that if we give things up to him, "He is able to do far more than we could ask, think or even imagine." -Ephesians 3:20

My God is Mighty to save! - Isaiah 63:1

Here is what happens after staying up until 4:00 in the morning, sleeping in till 10:00 and then telling your kids that God saved them from a crash. It's totally unprompted and definantly Sweet Chicken!

Reaping what we did not sew

Happy 4th everyone. We had a great 4th, Tadd's brother and his wife came down and we went to the 4th of July celebration at the Ellensburg park. They put on a 4th, like only cow country can. They had a mecanical bull, stick horse barrel racing, lasoing a bail of hay with a fake cow head sticking out and all topped off with a rubber ducky drop from the top of fireman's ladder, last year it was dropped by helicopter, we are sorry we missed that.

We had lots of fun and then came home to get some sleep for our 2nd "Sunday in the Park. " It went great. We had lots of friends from Whatcom County to love on us and we were very blessed. It was really a blessing because most of the church was either sick or out of town so we had some seat fillers. When you love the seat fillers, it's an extra bonus.

We spent the last week picking what we did not plant as the Bible would say. We have 5 fruit trees and the cherries are abundant. We were so thankful Tadd's brother and his wife came down and picked a lot to take back home and then lots of friends were over to pick to. Still, the tree keeps giv'en.


Elijah got pretty sick last week and had a high fever, when I went to wake him up and see how he was doing, he asked me to get on the spaceship and then get the brown snake. When I asked him what he was talking about he said, "here bunny bunny bunny! After he fully woke up his brain returned to a solid and he was fine. He has really needed his naps though the last couple of days, so it has been a drop where you are and Konk out. Poor Patches has been used as a pillow much more than she would like I am sure.


We are coming up on our 1st men's activity and our first woman's get together, so please pray those who need to, will come out and be blessed. We love you guys, even more we love that you love on us and even more than that we love that you love the Lord. We will pray you keep on doing both.