Prayer Request

Miss Erin and Alison at O's Christmas Program

My friend, Erin, was hit by a car riding her bike to swim practice last Thursday morning. She is currently in the ICU at Naval Hospital Okinawa, but will be transferred to Balboa in San Diego this Thursday. She is a triathlete, devoted mama, and marine wife. This has been a very tragic and unexpected event for her and the family. Please pray for her healing and for peace as they begin a new journey. The whole family will be moving to San Diego in  a matter of weeks. Todd her husband has received permanent change of station orders to Miramar. He and their children, Taryn 6, and Ian 3, will leave the first week of August or so. Please keep the family in your prayers. They are doing well considering the circumstances. Clinging to Jesus. Please pray that they continue to do so as they work through all of the details and emotions. And pray that the kids and I can be blessing to them as they prepare to leave. 

Death is not Dying

Jeff and I watched this video this morning. I found the link on a blog I read regularly. This is incredibly powerful and I strongly encourage you to take the time to watch. It is well worth the 55 minutes. Definitely puts things in to perspective. I pray that I too will know God, know myself, know the gospel, and know my purpose.

P.S. We're down to less than 24 hours. Pray for our time to be well spent and our words to be kind and for God's peace to fill us from head to toe. :)

Summer Update

Just a quick post to update our summer adventures. We arrived in Virginia on June 13th and have had almost a month of fun. I think the kids are on permanent vacation mode. I am ready for some routine back in our days, but that will be a few more weeks in coming. We spent 10 days in Richmond with my family. We also took the kids on a mystery trip to Williamsburg and went to Busch Gardens and The Great Wolf Lodge. We have been with Jeff's family since the 25th. We celebrated the twins' first birthday with every member of the Singley clan. It was great to see Nana with all of her kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. We arrived in OCNJ last Tuesday and have had a pretty lazy week at the shore. Lots of beach time and even more boardwalk time. Owen is on a quest to play every mini golf course on the island. We had a great end to our time at the beach at the Phillies game last night. What an awesome game. Beautiful weather, cheesesteaks, yuengling, big foam fingers, the Phanatic, and a Phillies win 22 to 1. God Bless America!

We head back to Virginia in a couple of hours. We'll be back in Richmond by the end of the week for a certain little girl's 3rd Birthday. Can you even believe that beautiful girl is going to be 3? I can't. Jeff heads out a week from today. Right now I'm just telling myself he's going to California for work. Because he is for at least a month. I'll deal with the rest of it later. Please continue to pray for us. I have a feeling next Tuesday is going to be pretty tough on two little kids who love their dad. Gotta get packed up, again.