Deck the House with crashes of hammers...

Wow...I can't hardly believe it!! I'm finally getting my deck put on my house!! It will be too much fun this summer...with the pool and the slip n slide too...I am loving my house more and more every day. The not so fun part is when you wake up to bashing hammer sounds every morning. Today I was talking to Joy on the phone, with my chair up against the wall were they are putting in a sliding glass door (it's still wall) and one of the guys bashed it with the sledge hammer and it scared the living daylights out of me...good thing I had gone to the bathroom beforehand or we would have had a BIGGER mess to clean..ha.

Out with the Old..In with the New...but carefully!!

This saying now has a new meaning to me....I know we say it when we draw close to the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one...but I have had a totally different experience that has given this a whole new meaning!! Christmas was real fun with friends from Fl. and Kim's Mom and Sis as well as Brian and Joy. Having little ones here in the house again was so fun to watch as they excitedly opened their gifts...they are 8 and 4!!..ok back to my new experience. At approx. 11:30 PM Christmas night I began "getting rid" of the old...I was tossing my cookies and I hadn't even eaten any!! So for the next 8 hours I was getting rid of the old every hour and a half...I'd rather go back and have 3 more kids..than do that!! So now..I'm putting in new..but toast, rice, tea..I did make a mistake today and try pizza...won't even go there...no more tossing cookies..but my stomach was not a happy camper. So for now...just taking it carefully...Burp...oops..excuse me!!

Getting Ready for Christmas

So...I am so cranked...hope I don't get a flat..ha!! I'm having a house full and this is my first year to be able to go all out. THANKS KIM for all your help. I'm having friends from FL. come up with their two adorable little girls...Kim is having her Mom and sis coming...Brian and Joy will be here..only ones missing will be Will and Mandy...maybe in the years to come. I love this time of year..there is love and excitement in the air. So everybody out there...have yourselves a Merry BIG Christmas with CHRIST in the middle..front, back..all around.

Going into all the world???

What is this image?? Only the logo of the FIRST and ONLY mission agency in Chile South America. Adelphos means "brother" in Greek and their theme is Serving to Obey the Great Commission. And why is this important to me at this point in my life you might ask??? Well they have officially extended an invitation to me to be their representative/missionary here in the United States and believe it or not I am seriously considering it!!. As I read these words "Hello Melody, I have the honor to inform you that yesterday ADELPHOS in their board meeting decided to approve you as our missionary and representative where the Lord may lead us" my heart began to beat a little quicker and my spirit soared!! I would actually be involved in a ministry led by Chileans...I need to tell you that I am so cranked. Please join me in prayer as I consider this opportunity for my life. I am in the midst of seeking counsel from those whom God has placed around me to be my guides and leaders as well as seeking HIS counsel and guidance in this. My children seem to be excited about this too as this would mean that I would live here in the states close to them and be able to be a very important part of the ministry in Chile,Paraguay, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Romania and Cuba and where ever else God leads this mission agency to serve. This mission agency was born in the first church that my husband, Bill, and I began in Santiago, Chile so in a very real sense I would be continuing in the ministry that God blessed us with and allowed us to participate in for 14 years.

In my Birthday Suit on my Birthday

So I've been wanting to do this for a while...so who says you have to do it on the day of your birthday, which was in September...but so anyway.
Don't you think it's ironic that on the day of my birthday I was once again with a Doctor and I was in my birthday suit??? HA...yea, on my BD I had my 3 month diabetic check up....so here's some pics of me not in my birthday suit, but my Easter suit (awe..) and my bathing suit. C U