Wow its been awhile!

Well, I have been totally slacking on my site, sorry! Life has been crazy busy, but I guess that is nothing new. Easter was awesome and we were blessed to have spent it with both sides of the family. The kids dyed Easter eggs at YiaYia's and grandma's house. They even got to have their first communion at grandma's house, it was awesome! Grandma had a church service and her house to celebrate our Savior and King. She surprised us with a church service, and read John 13. It was amazing and it is so awesome to see the Lord working in our family. We also had "Greek Easter" at my grandparents house which was really fun, the kids love playing outside at their house. Of course we were busy with Christian's Tee Ball, which was fun. The kids were so cute and they all learned a lot, but most importantly had a lot of fun!

The last couple of months have been challenging, and doors have both been opened and closed in our lives. John got a new position as an official bailiff, and is enjoying his new position. As for me, I lost my job; which was shocking at first, but definitely has been a blessing. Before I had lost my job, and all the talk with teacher layoffs and cut backs; John and I were praying and talking about me not working and staying home with the kids until Zoe starts Kinder in 3 years. And although I wanted to be the one to make that decision, God had different plans, and as we all know HIS PLANS are always BEST! So, I am thankful for the decision and JOHN is so excited it was just getting to crazy with me working so much. So now its count down...15 more school days:)

And then there was...Another little scare with Zoe, she had been sick for a couple of days and on the third day she was not looking too good and was having trouble breathing. We made an appointment with urgent care and she was not going to be able to get in until 9pm, but when John got home from work, he was worried and decided that she needed to go in earlier. He went down and about 45 min. after he left he called me and said that it didn't look good. Of course I panic and said WHAT, he said that they wanted to transport her on the ambulance to the hospital. So, we ended up spending the night at the hospital with her, and she had pneumonia starting and they think possible asthma. She is okay, and we are following up with our pediatrician. With her being sick; it has really opened up my eyes to how precious life is, and if we can make it work on one income then to do it. We are going to have to cut some extras out of our lives for sure; but it will be well worth it!

I also finished my masters and graduate May 22, 2009-I am really excited about that! Now that I am going to be home I want to look into writing children's books. This is something I have always wanted to do, and my dear friend Sarah is knowledgeable in this area, so I will be getting some advice from her. I will finally get to get caught up with scrapbooking, friends, teaching Faith how to read, working out, but most importantly being used by God and serving in HIS ministry!

The LOrd is soooo good, and we are so thankful for the work he is doing in our lives, and look forward to seeing his Plans unfold in our lives and the lives around us!