The BIG Finger

We were reading about the Jaredites the other night when the brother of Jared saw the Lord's finger.  I stopped and asked the kids what that looked like.  Ryan said, "Jesus' big finger came down and the brother of Jared was scared because he thought Jesus was going to smoosh him."   Bingo!! That is what I always saw in my head... a BIG finger (not the smooshing part).  We talked about how the Lord's finger would be a normal size and that the brother of Jared was afraid that he would be destroyed for seeing His finger, not that Christ would smoosh him.  Seth just laughed at both of us!

Virginia Beach

We're in and it's great.  We love the house, we love the neighborhood and the kids love their friends.  There are five boys uspstairs with Seth blaring the CD player, as always.  The just came in from making a 12 box fort in the common area.  Ryan is swimming with her two friends down the street after they gave me a great fashion show.  Mom and Dad just drove the 3 1/2 hours back home after painting, pruning, and digging up a BIG ugly tree bush (and, of course, playing with the kids and we went to the movies- can the Preciados ever do anything without going out to eat and to the movies?!?  No!)

Ah there it is... "Shot through the heart and you're to late, you give lo-o-ove a bad name"

Life is good, as always!

Off to bake some bread for my 14 bean soup dinner.  Had to put that in there because we all know that doesn't happen often.

Tragedy

There was a helicopter crash in Sitka and three of our friends were killed.  I was devastated when Adam called me while I was painting.  My heart broke for my friends.  To never have their husbands home again, to have their entire lives turned upside down...  I couldn't stop crying each time I thought of their hurt.  As I prayed, I realized their was not much "I" could do to, but I knew the Lord was the only one that could bring a measure of comfort.  I am grateful that he loves us and I know that he will mend their hearts and bring them peace for as long as it takes.  I will continue to pray for them.  I am grateful for those who sacrifice, in his case their lives, for the benefit of others.  We are surrounded by great people- Coasties, soldiers, police, firemen,... and their families.

I don't know what else to write except that I am sad!  and I am grateful that Christ knows our hurts and can soothe our sorrows.  I have faith that he will do that for my friends as well.

Painting with Daddy

Daddy came down with me to Virginia Beach to help paint our new house before we move in.  We had such a good time.  We drove down on Tuesday, unloaded mattresses, went to buy paint and then instead of painting, we went to dinner and a movie.  The next day we painted, made trips for food and watched a movie on my laptop.  Wow, Daddy laying there with his first laptop ever!  We finished painting the next day, loaded up, stopped at Costco to browse for waterfalls and planter boxes and eat lunch by a nice old guy, and headed home.  I had so much fun with Daddy.  It was like that great house hunting trip with Mom in Astoria.  I will always remember theses few days.  They were great!  I have such a wonderful father.  I am very lucky that he will do anything for me and do it happily!

On a side note, Seth's room is soooo dark and bright turqouise!   We finished two coats (except we didn't do two coats evenly everywhere because we thought it was covering) and thought we were done.  I went in to check on it in the middle of painting my room and, BAM!, there was a light border around every edge of the room (where I had only cut in once).  Well, to our disappointment, we did a third coat the next morning... and his soon to be alien room looks awesome!  My doesn't look to shabby either.  As for the living/dining, I am glad I held off on the daffodil yellow.  I have switched gears to a celery green, it will blend much better with the rest of the house.  I can't wait to see if Mom thinks it holds a candle to her old house (lime green carpet and green fern wallpaper).  Everyone loved it and I hope they think the same about mine!

Excuse Me

Ryan, Seth, Dayton and I were watching a movie on Ryan's floor and she whispered, "Excuse me."  Then, she whispered, "I think you should plug your nose," giggle, giggle, giggle!