Author Archives: admin We of course rang in the new month with April Fool’s Day on Friday. Richard has recovered from the phone call he got from me asking why the painters were painting our house green–there were no painters of course…but he had just gotten an estimate to have the shutters, trim and back of the house […]  Finally–it’s time for another “One of the Best Years of my Life” posts!!! Post 2 (and you’ll have to bear with me as I lead up to Post 5…I’ll get there eventually with some news in that post–but to understand it fully…Post 2, 3 and 4 must precede it!) I knew tonight was the perfect […] yay! i love reading these stories and am excited for the next 3 installations. Joel and I had the same Bebo song sung at our wedding. LOVE it. PS sorry for being a random commenter–though we did meet super briefly at the Wiphan Waddle (we were the family w/ 2 girls against the wall after the race–the same ones that know Shelly & Joy and are pursuing adoption in Uganda with Lifeline) Awwww……such a sweet real-life story! So glad that God blessed you beyond your wildest imagination with your husband! Amazing what blessings follow when we let God lead us, huh?!?!? 😉 To many many more happy years! Hey…u went to Banff!! That’s just one province from me:) I am glad u enjoyed it! Wow, such a great story!!! I had the same song played at my wedding, and I too had to fight longings to go back to Germany or the Philippines after doing short term trips there and them both asking me to come teach there… but having to come home to pay off college loans first and then shortly after, getting engaged. I honestly have forgotten how much I wanted to go back and this is making me think about it again and wonder if God will somehow use all that someday to help me pursue some kind of international ministry like He has for you! 🙂 Wow! What a beautiful love story. pretty sure you should just write a book….love these stories!!!! hugs. such a beautiful story of REAL love. Lovin this series. And the reminders that our “best” seasons are the ones we grow in our dependence upon Him. I loved this post, Andrea. Can’t wait for the next ones 🙂 I have to tell you, I was wearing overalls when my husband proposed to me too!! I always laugh when I look back at the pictures! […] (Post 2) – One of the Best Years of my Life – Part II […] from the Young house. Ok–so people always stop me when I’m out in public with my little ones and say, “You have your hands full”..OR the new favorite is, “Not everyone can have a big family–you must have a lot of patience.” WELL…I have been told a time or twenty that I have a not […] oooooooh loved all these videos! 🙂 Oh to have all that land – makes me miss GA SO badly! Maybe someday God will move us there. 😉 YOu know I am going to have to get that Lucado book now. I haven’t heard of that one! Cute! We love those plasma cars. We have three. And we are totally crazy too. 🙂 You should totally share with the company that manufactures your camera what a GREAT product they have! And, our plasma car is worth its weight in gold! Those things get goin’ FAST! 🙂 loved all these videos and yes im from the north and yes i loved your voice, i think its so cute! ;0) Your kids are precious and laney’s skirt is adorable and well frank on his tractor…he seems so content on that thing! ;0) I LOVE your family videos!!! And I’ve said it before – but I love your accent. I wish we had one “up and over” here. I think it just makes everything sound more cheerful. Hugs to you and your sweeties. Oh, My Goodness, Andrea! I was loving those videos! Too cute! He he he- love your kind of CRAZY 🙂 He he he Oh my goodness…that video of Isaac jumping is hilarious! That made me laugh out loud! Too funny! (: No one’s making fun of your accent up here, we all love it! =) Adorable videos…love to see other families in their crazy environments! =) such cute videos!! you don’t sound THAT country to me! probably cause that’s how we all sound down here =) you’ve GOT to see our videos of the girls driving the gold carts around the ranch! hilarious! golf carts- not gold carts, now that would be interesting!  While Rico Suave and I have had our hands full over here more than usual–I’m totally having fun playing on your comments…SO tonight…I’m answering them again:). “What are the movies your family watch for movie night?” you ask??? I have LOVED hearing your movie favorites–and I think we’ll be adding some of those to our […] Ah, the Anne movies. I was SUCH a huge L.M. Montgomery fan as a younger person. Will likley re-read all the books sometime! Quite a bit of filming for those movies took place just a few hours from me, in my province of Ontario 🙂 My daughter LOVED the books and movie series of Anne of Green Gables ~ I hope your sweetie does too. Have you had a chance to check out The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry … might be for when the kids are older, but YOU might enjoy it now. =) HA at the Tangled review. At first I wasn’t sure because it’s PG but I guess it’s because they are in a bar for one of the scenes. We are picky about what we let our kids watch so this is one of the few princessy type movies we will own. OH, mine love Mary Poppins too, and I know H will love Sound of Music soon too! 🙂 We loved Tangled!!! Caty is getting the DVD for her birthday coming up! Can’t wait! And we had family movie night a few weeks ago and watched Secretariat! I cried!! Loved it! And CG is already loving Anne of Green Gables..Laney will love it too! 🙂 Thanks for the movie reviews. Took my grandaughter and nieces to see Tangle and it was wonderful. All my girls did uncountable marathons of Anne. They still do. I love Plugged In. Saves hubby and me the money of seeing it first so we know if it is appropriate! And the Anne books and movie series with your kiddos is gonna be so fun and a blessing. My three girls are starting to get into them. 🙂 Awwww….Swiss Family Robinson!!! Forgot how much I LOVED that movie. Gonna break that one out =) We saw Tangled in the theater and absolutely loved it! We absolutely l-o-v-e-d Tangled. Scott is a HUGE fan, too! I have NO IDEA why it’s rated PG…it is truly my favorite Disney movie!!! And, Anne…my heart smiles and sings when I think of Anne and Gilbert. So looking forward to sharing those movies with my girl! We love Swiss Family Robinson too– the race is our favorite part and I love hearing the belly-laughter from the kids as they watch! We are also big Sound Of Music fans! Thanks so much for answering my comment question Andrea! This is a huge help to me! Just had to answer some of the comments from yesterday’s post:) I can’t leave inquiring minds hanging. SO…here’s more you obviously needed to know:) 1. YES–the cookbook I have my recipe page numbers connected to is the WIPHAN cookbook. I cook from it these days 90% of the time!!! It is MY FAVORITE cookbook and […] and another question…who is the author of simply organized? I love the Wiphan cookbook! 🙂 It IS easy and most of the ingredients are things I normally have! I have given it for a couple of gifts too. Probably need to restock! 😉 We love WallE and Toy Story 3 here, and my H loved Tangled. It was really cute and clean (without some of the evil that is conveyed in some of the other princess movies) and comes out today! She has been earning it with good attitudes during her schoolwork time and thanks to my good friend Amazon, 🙂 it is coming today on its release date… so I will have one happy girl! 🙂 Andrea, The Kilgoris Project does sell pictures on their website and it has been a good source of income for the schools and farm. So, yes sell your beautiful phots that you have taken in Zambia…I would love to buy them! We love Winn Dixie…great book and great story! We read the book and then watched the movie! So many lessons taught in it! MISSY! I’m such a airhead!!! You’ll never find the book “Simply Organized” because the name of the book is “Organized Simplicity”!!!!!!!!! So sorry…the author probably wouldn’t like me botching her title!!!!!!! Anyway, it’s Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider! I love the Wiphan cookbook, too! One more question:) A while back you mentioned another book that you got your Easter Tree idea from- now I can’t remember the title (??something about Homemaking??), but I remember looking on Amazon for it and it must be out of print. Any ideas on where to find it? THANK YOU for posting this! I had those same questions after reading your last post! 😉 Also, would you consider photographing the table of contents of the Wiphan cookbook for a post? I would love to see what is inside. Thanks! Yes – please consider selling prints of that beautiful image from the Wiphan school! One of our favorite family-friendly movies is “Despicable Me”. It has a great message of adoption, God changing hearts (though it’s not attributed to God!) and is just all around funny! Absolutely no scary parts – even the villain is funny! We struggle with movies as well. It’s really hard to find something that’s not scary or too suspenseful and doesn’t have any other negatives with something an hour or longer. We also usually watch movies in parts since they’re so long. Our kids are 6 and almost 4 and we feel we recently found the absolute best movie of all time for our family: Mary Poppins! Our kids love it and think it is so magical. The music and dancing is so much fun! Our son also loves Cars but at first he was scared of the combine. They also love Charlotte’s Web. It could bother some children since they’re trying to keep Wilbur from being killed. Also, Tigger and Pooh and a Musical Too which is just an hour. We watch parts of movies like the Aristocats, 101 Dalmations, Bambi, and others but my son who is almost 4 is very sensitive and gets scared easily. He wants to turn it off or fast forward anything scary. Thankfully he lets us know he is frightened. When he was two he was having nightmares. He had repeatedly been requesting this Disney sing-along video with a short part that had witches and ghosts. He was also requesting this book called Lamont the Lonely Monster. We removed both of those and not long after the nightmares stopped. Even Toy Story 3 scared him and we left our first movie theater experience early. I’m eager to hear other suggestions as well. Ummm… YES on the Wiphan cookbook – it’s AMAZING!!!!! And I’ll be cooking from it a lot more once our produce stand opens back up. My grocery budget is HURTING, lol! And BTW I LOOOOOOVE your new header slideshow!!! Amazing family pictures! |
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Oh girl, I cannot tell you how badly I needed to read this this morning. Thank you thank you thank you! Love how God uses people in my life so often like you, who I’ve never even met personally, just through sharing what God puts on their hearts!
The snow globe illustration was PERFECT for me today. We are in the adoption process, and I just really needed to read this today. Thank you so much.
What a great visual reminder of God holding us in His hands. We are in the midst of one of those storms and not quite knowing which way is up. Thank you for posting.
What a beautiful picture of God’s plan and purpose! Thanks for sharing! I needed to read that today!
Oh, Andrea, THANK YOU for re-posting this! For following God’s lead to post it again! Looks like many of us needed this perspective today! We, too, are in the middle of the blessing of adoption (from ET!), and it seems as though every time it looks like the storm might clear, another storm moves in, keeping our view quite blurry. I admit that I haven’t been focusing on the beauty of the storm, but when I stop and think about it, beauty abounds………..bless you. And that sweet precious heart of yours!
That is a great illustration and I am so thankful of Christ holding my life in his hands.