God is, and always will be Amazing!

We have yet another story to write in our "God is way to good to us" book. We got a call from our Lawyer (you know the pro bono one that He provided) this morning saying that CPS's Lawyer called her to say they are overturning the neglect finding on Charity's case! The trial was not even supposed to be until later this month, but God wanted to show himself strong, so He did it even before the trial. Our lawyer had explained to the CPS lawyer that I could not have this on my file for adoption, church or future occupational purposes as we would not be able to work or serve in the comunity. She said our plan was to drag the trial out for a year, do lots of community service and then ask them in a year to overturn the finding as the media would not care by that point, since we all knew that is why they came up with the neglect finding anyway. Their lawyer said she would call the CPS office and get back with her. When she called back she said she put some pressure on them to overturn the charge, and they did! Now there will be no trial, no findings, nothing on Charity's file! There are not words on this earth to express how great our God is.


Tadd gave a message on Christmas Sunday that talked about the verse that says "His name shall be called Immanuel." Immanuel means "God with us," I think that is a very fitting verse for our lives as God has shown himself to be Immanuel over and over again. And the crazy thing is, I'm sure He is not done! Thank you so much for all of your prayers, I know we could not have done this with out all of your prayers. God chooses to give us the gift of prayer, to unlock all of the beautiful things he wants to bless us with. You have all been wonderful intercessors, to allow all of our blessings to come showering down. You all mean so much to us and we are blessed beyond measure to have you as friends and family.


Now for the little stuff. We had a great new year, we had a church new years eve party and our house and we weren't sure if we would be up to bring in the new year, as we have a large amount of small children in our church. But apparently we have enough college kids and young marrieds to have plenty of company to toast sparkling cider with at 12:00. It was so much fun. Kenya was our little babysitter with 4 new baby's in the church. Tadd and Elijah really cleaned up nice for the party with the help of Elijah's spiderman shaving kit he got for Christmas, (no blades in the shaver of course) He loves using it with Daddy.


We are also getting lots of white stuff that Kenya and Elijah have been playing in, and Patches (the dog) refuses to go out in, despite how much she wants to chase the cars. Here's a short video of what to do with a dog who needs to expend some energy, a red light and some already fading carpet. (It's a little long, so feel free to cut it off.)