Life Group

I'm convinced that we probably have the best LIFE Group in the whole world. We've been sharing some of our job concerns with the group and, of course, they've been praying for us since we found out about Mat losing his job. We meet on Monday nights, and last week, the idea of fasting and praying for us was brought up as something to do until Mat finds or is offered a job. We thought this sounded great, but didn't seem to really go anywhere until we received an e-mail mid-week asking our group members about it. We didn't realize it until Monday night, but the time of fasting and prayer began Monday morning and we had several good things happen.

The first took place when we went into our rental office to give our 30 day notice. We have a new manager now, and we haven't been very impressed by him, but then again, it seems like we're always finding little things to complain about...another thing I need to give over to God (Thank you Jesus that I am saved by grace and not by works). Anyway, he asked us what was going on, found out Mat is a pastor and actually lowered our rent for the next two months instead of raising it :) Whoopie! Yay God! When he was working in his office, the assistant said to us, "He never does this, it must be because of God."

We didn't even realize the second had happened until we were at LIFE group. Mat was able to apply for between seven and eight jobs in one day. I thought, "wowzers, that's a lot" and he made up some excuse about being able to use the same resume and cover letter for them all. Needless to say, this is the first time he has come close to being able to apply for this many in one day. Yay God again!

Even though we've had all this amazing stuff occuring around us, he is still without work, and I feel like we're being attacked. Great things happen yesterday, but not without much conflict within our home :( At least we realize this now, ah the beauty of hindsight. Please continue to pray for us!

May

Please join us in praying that Mat finds or is offered a Job in May. Our rent is going to skyrocket in June, so we will be giving our notice on May 1st, that we will be moving out. This means the packing must begin...ugh! Moving again, for the 4th time since we've been married.

You may have noticed that we've changed the blog up a little. The links to the left are some things that are important to us in our lives, like church, Elody's photography business, and the Eden Projects. Check em' out and we'll add more periodically.

Abby is sleeping, something that she's been very good at lately by the way. Yay! I like getting sleep. Mat is trying to shove donuts and cupcakes down my throat! Tell him to stop! I don't think he understands that I'm trying to lose the rest of the baby weight. The cats are fighting in the hall and Squirt is begging Mat for some of his cupcake. Mat made the cupcakes for me for my birthday, how nice of him. Funfetti...mmmm...my favorite :)

Little Fish

We took Abby swimming today and will post pictures in a little bit. They're on the camera right now, so that means I have to get them off of the camera, and that's a lot of work! She wasn't too sure about it, and I don't blame her, because the pool was so hot it felt like a bath tub...ewww. We got kicked out a little later, because a maintenance man by to test the water and said it was not good for us to be swimming in it :(

On the brighter side, we were changing Abby to get ready to go swimming and she escaped as soon as we had her diaper off. We decided to let her be free in her birthday suit for a few minutes and found her peeing next to the cabinet, ha ha! It was a good laugh.

Food Fight

We celebrated my birthday and my wonderful friend Melissa babysat Abby for us! When we got home, Mel told us that Abby wasn't really too interested in eating, and instead wanted to throw her dinner at Mel! Ahhhh! She had dinner spots all over her, te he he. Life is always an adventure :)

Long Long Time

It's been a while since we've updated Abby's blog, but we'll try and be a little more on top of things now. Abby now has two teeth and is teething again. It seems like she's always teething! Abby has discovered the toilet bowl...oh boy! As I type, I can hear my Mat saying, "no, I'm using the toilet, you don't need to stick your hands in it" ha ha!

Abby got to finally meet my best friends Sarah and Julianne. That was lots of fun! Abby loves all of our pets, but they're not too sure of her, actually they don't really like her at all. They run when they see her coming.

Abby's favorite thing to wear is nothing. She always tries to crawl away when she's having her diaper changed, even when she's on the changing table. She also tries to crawl out of the shopping cart when she's strapped in. Speaking of crawling, she is crawling now, if you hadn't already figured that out and is pulling herself up on everything. Today she figured out how to open the sliding glass door. Lookout world, here comes baby!

Food is the new love of Abby's life. She will eat just about anything we give her, and gets very excited when it's time to eat, whoopie! This makes me happy, because apparently I didn't like to eat when I was younger, don't know what happened there :) Mat is still looking for a job, so please keep us in your prayers!