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Jun 13 2006

Another New Job, God Provides Again

I start another new job on Monday. So now I will have a full 40 hours a week. I will be working from a friend at church that runs a realty. I’ll be building him a website, doing some photography of homes and other work. I think it will be a lot of fun. God has provided again for us. Now we will have some extra money to buy baby things. Brooke is feeling better off and on, but more on. Thanks for all of those praying for us and for the baby. Today we also got our refrigerator fixed. It wasn’t cooling all the time and was making a weird buzz. It was still under warranty but we had to pay for the service call. Better than the whole thing. I’ve been finding a lot of old friends from Pine Island on MySpace. I’m really thinking about starting a website with all of my Pine Island pictures, memories and links to others from PI.

By Douglas • News • 0

Jun 7 2006

Brooke is Pregnant

I just sitting here waiting for a dvd of a wedding to burn so I thought I would update this. Yesterday morning we went to the baby doctor (i would rather call it that than ogbyn or whatever). This was our second time for this pregnancy. We went about a month ago to do an ultrasound because we’ve had one miscarrage before. This time we could see the heartbeat! So, we went again yesterday and got to hear the heartbeat. It was very strong and fast. Everything was normal so hopefully this time God gives up a baby. When we were at the counter setting up all of our future appointments, Brooke asked for a glass of water. I was like, Huh? and then she passed out. It was so weird. She’s never passed out before and we’re not the type of people to be stressed about anything. I think it was her Hypoglycemia. They took her in a room and gave her some juice and she was all better. It was so weird. Anyways, she’s pregnant! So she went to work and I went to the church to edit videos for VBS. Our theme this year is setting sail and pirates. The pirate video went well but the other video didn’t. Instead of having a special speaker I prerecorded missionary John Leonard and have been cutting out pieces of 5 minutes or so through out the week. Well yesterdays came out to be too long and compared to the first two days, not a lot of action. Hopefully I will do better today. I have heard of about 4 kids giving their lifes to Christ and getting saved so it is all worth it. I’m off to video another clip for the pirate theme, edit some video and then Vacation Bible School from 6:00 – 8:30pm.

By Douglas • Brooke, News • 0

May 24 2006

Greater Des Moines Community Foundation

Greater Des Moines Community Foundation is where Brooke will start work tomorrow! She had her interview yesterday and starts tomorrow! How kewl! It will be just enough to cover our budget and exactly what we wanted. Here is a link to Greater Des Moines Community Foundation. Her hours will be 8-5, Monday thru Friday. God has perfect timing.

By Douglas • News • 0

Oct 16 2005

Possible New Town House

This is the most recent home we’ve looked at:
We are going to sleep on it tonight and double check the area for other options but we’re pretty sure we like this one. We still have to sell our condo in Ankeny. There are more pictures at our Photo Gallery.

By Douglas • News, Pictures • 0

Jul 1 2005

Update

Ok, I’ve gotten a little behind again, but here’s a quick catch up… Over the past couple days here’s what I’ve been doing: working at the eBay store, we’ve been trying to list as much as possible lately. The owner is in a big push to start making the store money. We’re also getting bogged down with small items. Anyways, that’s that. Been trying to get everything together for Brooke‘s Visa. Basically we’re waiting on a copy of our marriage certificate which I will get tomorrow and send it all out tomorrow. Um… I can’t remember which nights what happened but one night Lily (our Beagle) was choking on a pig’s ear she was chewing on and she was choking for like about 2 minutes or so… I finally got her to cough it up. The problem was she wanted to eat it so she didn’t want to give it up… One night some friends of ours that live in the same condos had their fire alarm go off ’cause of lightning. The fire department came and took forever to get it shut off… I’m scrambling to get a slideshow done for some people at church. It should be done tomorrow morning though… Tonight I stayed after Impact and played basketball with a bunch of guys. It was very good for me ’cause I really need to find something to get back in shape. I actually felt good afterwards. I’m sure I’ll sleep well tonight. Finally, here are some pictures from the week:

This is the road construction in front of our Condo. They are widening the road.