Saturday After Christmas with the Myers' Clan

On the Saturday after Christmas, The Myers Clan all came over to our house!
Grandpa Myers scored best gift again and outdid us all with his Mini Black & Decker Tool sets for Devon (Daddy was jealous that they never had those when he was little). Then Uncle Lance & Aunt Rhonda's construction trucks got all the attention later that week with the mini set that Auntie Dani got him.



Devon hasn't quite got the goggle thing going yet - but it sure made for some great laughs!



Here's Uncle Ryan and his "Main Squeezes" Lexi and our dog Dakota!

Christmas Day with the Myers Toddlers!

Well, here are a few pics of the kids on Christmas Day - they do know how to open presents now :) and enjoyed ripping the paper off and putting it in the garbage bag almost as much as the gifts themselves - of course. I still think I should just wrap many different size empty boxes and let them play with that - I'm sure they would love it all the same!
A family in our church gave the kids the blankets that roll up and go inside a fluffy pillow - the kids LOVE THEM!
Devon received several Thomas the Tank Engine items & cars - He loves Thomas! Course, Lexi loves Devon's toys more then her own :)
Lexi loves her doll from Grandma & Grandpa McLain and they both love the bath toys!

When God Says Wait!

Well here goes - my very first blog entry of my very own!

It's not like I have time to do it, or because everyone else is doing it. I guess as life moves on - it's time to put in my two cents on the World Wide Web LOL!

As many of my friends and family know, our family has had a somewhat rough 2007/2008.

In July, I was diagnosed with a blood clot in one of my sinus veins. In September, my husband came down with Meningitis, and then in December, I slipped and ended up tearing my ACL. In between that add all the coughs, colds, and flu bugs that 2 toddlers can bring home every month it seems - and you feel as we do. We also had 2 deaths in the family - the first of my aunt in August and the other of my husband's grandfather in December.

Many people have commented - Wow, your family has gone thru so much, and though I might agree at times - I begin to look at the lives of people around me and I feel so blessed! Several have wondered and even commented to me - Why would God allow so much to happen to one family?

I am comforted so many times by I Corinthians 10:13 - "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
God has been so faithful to us in providing for our needs, and He has promised that He will not allow anything to come into my life that I will not be able to bear with His help! Claiming this promise has kept my faith stronger then ever before.

I also think of the verse II Corinthians 12:10, "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." God has used the sicknesses in our lives to draw me closer to Him. I am a very strong person and that has a way of making me less dependent upon God. I believe that God has allowed things to come into my life to take the "control" out of my hands and for me to be totally dependent upon Him. When I put my trust in His almighty hands and give Him the control, I become stronger!

So for now, though I pray that these things do not happen to me or for God to take them away - sometimes He just is saying - Psalms 27 14 "Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. "

Here is our last full Penn (Mom Myers' side) photo on Thanksgiving Day before Gpa Penn passed away.