Brooks is a little butterball! Has Clara had her first haircut yet? Trish they look content and happy at your house!

Went down to Lecanto and visited Merrell and Donna last evening. He was able to come home from the hospital. He is in quite a bit of pain from the blood clot in his leg. Must stay on the meds and in the prone position most of the time. Anytime he is up in the vertical the pressure builds up quickly and causes him pain. They are exactly 1 and 1/2 hours south of us. Donna will take him back and forth often (maybe daily) where he will be treated on an out-patient basis. Keep them both in your prayers.
David

Brooks

Beautiful! I love it too. A teenager sings it in our church.

"The Promise" By The Martins (2009)

Good Morning All
We have beautiful snow and ice here this morning with rain coming later maybe. I have three prayer blessing to share. Freddie Stump is the first(he works with a friend of ours). He had a heart attack on Monday last week. They put two stints in the back of his heart that were totally blocked. He came home on Wednesday and feels better than ever! Praise the Lord!
The second is Adam. He went for a screening interview in Salem for the Carter Machinery Co. (CAT) yesterday morning on his day off and they sent him on to Princeton for an official interview an hour later. He has what they are looking for when he obtains his CDL licence! In a month, when their trucks come in, they will be hiring! Praise the Lord again!
And thirdly, my little Marleigh is going to bust loose and walk just any day! A year ago I was fasting and praying on this day for her safe and perfect arrival into this world. I couldn't wait to meet her and as I watch her grow God has fulfilled all those early prayers and dreams! She's everything and more than I ever hoped for! Praise the Lord!

Food For Thought

The woman asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. "Oh, yes!" he replied. "I cannot take my eyes off the silver. If it is left in the furnace even a moment too long, it will be destroyed." The woman suddenly understood the beauty and comfort of Malachi 3:3, "He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." 

"How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" the woman asked. The silversmith smiled and answered, "Oh, that's easy. The refining process is complete when I can see my image reflected in the silver." 

Rita

Lol I must've had Brooks on my brain as well as my fingertips. It should've been blood clot!

Addy so sorry you had to endure the trauma after your sled ride. We will keep you in our prayers. Trish, do you know which hospital Merrel is in here in Florida? I may be able to go see him. I will also email Donna and see if I can reach her. Rita, we are sending your calculator tomorrow.
love you all
David and Julie

Trish

What is a Brooks clot :)

Addy , I am glad you are feeling better and going to be ok And Trish glad you are getting to cut back on your meds, and that you are starting to feel better, David had his Shower this morning and then to therapy, then had his lunch and back to therapy again , so by this evening he was real sore so it is starting to work so , hopefully he keeps a positive attitude . they got him a air mattress too for his sore bottom , so it could heal better. so I am hoping it will work. so keep those prayers coming. Love you all.

I'm doing alright today. Mom took me back to the doctor today for a check-up. He said everything looks as good as can be expected. He did some OMT stuff on my back where I have a knot on my left shoulder and it really helped my neck too. He looked pretty closely at my eye on the side where it is swollen but said it was ok. If I don't have any more problems I don't have to go back for a few weeks. He said he's pretty sure I had a concussion but there's no point in doing any tests because they wouldn't show anything now and there's nothing I can do about it. My vision is fine but I'm experiencing some vertigo and am taking meclizine (for motion sickness, like dramamine). I'm just really sore and tired now more than anything. Having neosporin on my face is annoying, but if I don't put anything on it and just let it breathe my face gets really tight and stiff. Facial expressions really hurt. But I'm really not in a lot of pain, and I just keep remembering how calm everything was when it happened. God is Good!

Yes Bobbie I am planning on going! Because the last time I planned it I ended up in the hospital. I may not buy my tickets in advance this time. I think I am feeling better...I have cut back to 10mg of prednisone daily and also cut back on the cellcept by 500mg and I was taking 3000mg. I still have a lot to cut back but it's been a long time since I have been this low and not ended up in the hosp or sick because of it.

I was feeling so good that last friday I got the big idea I would babysit Olivia,Kaiden,Emma, and Clara and Brookes came too! Luckily emily was there to help me or I couldn't have done it. I forgot how much energy 2 and 3 year olds have. We had lots of fun though. They wanted to play tea party so emily was setting out the little plates and cups and the girls were all about setting them up. Well Kaiden sits down on his stool and says "where's the food"lol. They had more fun with water and saltines than if they had been at a party with the queen! Although we decided that Clara is more of the gulper than tea sipper! She would fill her cup and throw that head back and down it. Emily got a few pictures so I will see if I can get her to post them.


Clara has had the biggest time this weekend with Jacob. She calls him "Jub". Today I was calling the kids to come for lunch and she yells tan come on! She is really spouting out the words and I can actually understand her. I think it's from all the chatter I learned from Emma.

Addy how arebyou today? I sure hope you get a CT scan of your head!
Also merrel Witt is in the hospital with a Brooks clot in Florida so he has been added to our prayer list.

Love to all,
Trish

Trish, are you thinking about going? How you feeling now?

Vonda, if David is taking to the food and the place, we'll pray for the right person to come along to work with him. That might be half the battle right there!

Addy, are you getting a few days out of school right now?

Beckley Welcomes The Isaacs 
  
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Addy, I believe "white trash cabbage patch" would belong to the Garbage Pail kids instead of the Cabbage Patch kids lol. Do you remember those stickers? I may still have some hidden somewhere around here :p

Hi ever body, Glad all is well with you Addy as can be expected , after your All's little escapade, thankful you didn't break any thing and that you will be OK. I guess we never look or think of the danger of things we just look for the fun, but sure am glade your Angel was there , God probably had to send him ASAP, before you hit the bottom.yes ,I can just hear Daddy , chewing you all out .and Mommy would have laughed after it was all over and everyone was OK.

Well David went for some thearpy this morning and ate good so he starts the hard stuff tomorrow for him, but he still has a good autitude about it , so keep praying for him to get stronger. and I'll keep every one posted. Love you all.

Hey Everybody! Just checking in. Steve called this morning and wanted to know if he and Teresa could bring us lunch! Of course I wasn't going to say no. So they showed up with brown beans, fried potatoes, cornbread, and Teresa made some Cinnamon Sugar Amish Bread that is delicious! We visited for a few hourse before Paul's mom and dad showed up. After they left, Steve and Teresa went to Dairy Queen with us for dessert. So far, my wound looks a lot worse than it feels, but the rest of my body sure is feeling it.
Has anybody heard from Vonda or Lorie? How is David today?

Thank the Lord, He was there too! You all know, Steve was the one who picked Janet up out of the pond and He was the one who helped pick Addy up out of the road.....Ummm? He just might be your gaurdian angel! And I was so hoping that this might become a tradition with all the grandkids....sleigh riding up at Steve's on Saturdays...Maybe even those folks from Virginia could drive up for the event...Sledding at night is really fun when you build a bonfire! Ohhhh, but if that happens, the ones who stay home will have to cover you with Prayer while ya'll have fun.
I told Georgie that I could just hear Daddy now...."Yur gonna go out there and git yor killin' done with all that foolishness, Now I know what I'm talkin' about!" Georgie did laugh and said she was just about to say the same identical thing. She said if he'd been here, he'd a stopped that before it ever got started! I told her, no he wouldn't. The grandkids could get by with a whole lot more than we ever could, BUT he woulda' put his 2 cents worth in. You will just have to be more careful and scout out your landing zone a little better.

Mom wanted me to post a picture of the front so you could really see the swelling. I felt like the Joker in the original Batman when I was taking my head wrap off this morning, but now I feel more like Two-Face! Paul told me I could part my hair to the other side and cover most of it up. I think that was a pretty girlie solution coming from him, but I'm glad he's trying to help!

Hi Addy, Sorry to see your snow day went sour, We are praying that you have a rapid and full recovery real soon. You aren't the first one that's had a bad ride down the hill there at the home place. Myself and David or Lonnie were bringing in coal for the stove one day and we had maybe three or four five gallon buckets of coal, soooooo we thought it would go faster if we put it on a car hood and pulled it from the coal house to the basement. Well, there was ice instead of snow on the ground and soooooo at about the corner of the house where the large pine tree is standing, guess what happened. Yes, we all went down over the hill, car hood, coal, and boys. We landed in the road coming up to the house and the car hood full of coal landed below the main road against the fence. There was coal and coal buckets all over the hill that day.
The Lord is still watching over us . Thank God for that. Keep Smiling.

Addy, it's me again. The Lord has chagrined me about the humor part. I am so glad you are alright and that He truly had his hand on you and Paul, and we give Him the Praises for that. It's kinda like the hysterical laughter that shows up in the face of fear. When it is over and in hindsight there is just this element of laughter that is still hanging around and won't go away! Maybe it derives from scripture; the part about laughter being good like medicine! I do pray you have complete healing as you trust in Gramma's God too! Anyway, I'm sure you have thought many times since, about the seriousness of it. YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED! And I don't want to go there today!! We love and pray for you, Gramma's little dumplin' maker!

Oh Addy! My face hurts just looking at yours! What are you going to say to your kids when you go to school? "OK, What did you do on your snow day vacation? Can anyone top this?" No! I know, you are going to make them write an essay on What Not to do When Sledding! I'm just kidding. We are remembering you today that the same Lord God of your grandma would order not one, but two angels to keep guard on Cecilia Adair McClannan in the hills of West Virginia!!! I can just see Momma and Daddy looking down and saying, "Oh those kids, they're havin' so much fun today! Just look at the beautiful snow dad. See all their red noses! Listen, doesn't their laughter sound soooooooo good! Oh no, GODDD ?" and as she leans forward to see better "What happened to Addy?"