Tyler was home for the summer going to the office every day...Least to say I was a happy camper, because he came home every evening....Since than, it being September he is back on his normal rotations off shore. He rotates every two weeks off shore to an oil rig off the shores of Louisiana. He enjoys the helicopter ride out there:) BP has been a great company for him to work with:)
In June and July, I spent a lot of time up at Sandy Creek Bible Camp. I had so many projects that I needed to get done before camp started.
I covered both old freezers with old wood to dress them up and make them look pretty, because....they were not pretty.I organized the tools. enough said...
Junked the old erase board and put a new one up and made it look pretty.
I organized the tack room so that everything has a place now and each horse has assigned equipment and everything is labeled. It took me quite a while but I got the job accomplished:)
Tyler's Birthday came and went:) I made him a yummy red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting:) Yum!!!
Our little puppy, Zed is no longer little...He has grown so much! This is our little charmer now 8 months old!
He's lost all of his puppy face now! He is the best thing that we could have gotten though! While Tyler is gone Zed makes me laugh and keeps me going.
In August a lot has happened. The first thing is that we moved to a smaller apartment in the complex. The one we originally started with was too big for what we needed, so we decided to down size. I love this apartment far better than I did the old one. Our stuff fits in there so much better:) Pictures will come soon...I just need to finish cleaning...It is a never ending job if you unpacked everything in a hurry and than left for NH.
This begins the next part of my summer. While Tyler was off shore, I went to spend time with my family in New Hampshire:) I went a week early and than Tyler came and joined me for the second week. I did all kinds of things with my brother, Dan and his wife, Emily that first week.:)As you can see, Dan, Em, and I went rock climbing at the Rumney Rocks:) Em and I both did a 5.8 and a 5.9:) yay!!! It was a good time.
Dan, Em, and I ran a 5k in Plymouth. Em and Dan got times some where in the 25 min range I think...And I got a time of 28 I think:) It was alot of fun and a good race to start off the next couple of months of races.
When Tyler got here, one day we went hiking up to Cascade Falls in Waterville Valley.
What a beautiful hike. Got some great pictures of mom and dad and of Tyler and I.
I also got one of Tyler being a monkey and climbing on the rocks near the falls:) His smile says it all;)
We went for a night and stayed at Dan and Em's apartment. Dan and Em took us climbing at Dan's Rock barn that he climbs at. Tyler once again showed his awesome monkey skills:)
We spent some time working on the outside of Seth and Anna's house. We scraped off the old paint..from what I hear, the front has been painted...YAY!!! Success.
The next best thing that we got to do with Seth and Anna, was play with their two wonderful children:) I got to hang out with them the week before Ty can and than they came while Ty was there and we went down to the river. David had a great time....And look at Tyler with Emma:) He is going to make a good daddy some day:)
We went to Wallis Sands Beach in Dover, NH. Oh the day was so beautiful...but the water was really cold!!! So cold I couldn't stay in it very long! Grandma Savage, Aunt Beth and Uncle Jim came as well. It was good to Grandma out and about. My family is thinking that this will be the last time she goes to the beach.Makes me a little sad to think that she does not have a long time to live...and yet I think of what she has to look forward to and I can't help but smile:) She has been looking forward for so long to go home and be with Jesus. He has kept her here this long...94 years old. It will be hard for me to say goodbye, but I know that she is going where her heart has longed to go for so long!
To finish our time in NH, Tyler, Dad and I went out on New Found Lake and Tyler slalom skied around the lake:) He got up on the first try and he had never done it before!
Good job Ty! He had a grand time...but was pretty sore for the next couple of days afterward.
One thing I learned is that you should never judge a book of the bible...when I first heard that we were going though the book of Nehemiah, I was slightly curious and other wise a little bit annoyed. I thought it was sort of weird to pick a random book of the bible that no one really talks about. Little did I know it would rock my world.One of the biggest things I learned that with all ministry that God is calling you to, prayer needs to be at the for front of it all. I really felt God through all the studies I did this summer challenging me to look at my prayer life. I will be honest, I barely understand how to pray. In Crazy Love, Francis Chan brings up a verse that Solomon wrote concerning prayer.
"Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifices of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few." Eccl. 5:1-2
Okay so when I read this it sort of blew my whole perspective on prayer. I always would come in and pray but half the time I was distracted by all the things around me that needed to happen that I didn't fully engage my brain. According to this verse anyone who comes before God without thinking before speaking is a fool. That has definitely challenged the way that think on prayer.
A thing that struck me is that Nehemiah prayed about everything. He prayed when he became burdened for the city of Jerusalem. He prayed for direction when his enemies began to confront him and threaten him. However, he didn't just end with prayer, he was a man of action. He did faithfully what God was calling him to do.
Another thing I was convicted by through the life of Nehemiah, was that he was faithful with the job God had given him to do. One of my struggles this summer, was driving to the hospital. As you all know from a earlier post, I work at Texas Children's once a week doing art on the bone marrow transplant unit. I grew up in the little town of Rumney, NH population 1,480. There is never traffic to speak of. So to go from little town to Houston, TX is a little intimidating. Going to the hospital means going into the city...big and scary. I usually go with my mother-in-law, but over the summer, she was very busy. So there were a lot of times that she didn't make it, so I didn't go either.As we went through Kelly Minter's book Nehemiah, I was struck by the fact that God had given me a job to do, a ministry. He had given me a passion for it and the ability to carry it out. And what did I do with it? I was too scared to drive into the city by myself! God really convicted me that I needed to be faithful in the work he had given me to do.
I could continue to share with ya all many more things that God showed me through my many studies this summer, but I think my day is getting away from me...so I need to stay good bye for now:)
Hope everyone of you had a great summer as well:)
-Jules
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