Happy New Year !!!!!!

Happy new year!!!!
Lisa's surgery went well, it was scheduled for 7:30 am but we had to be there at 6:00 for prep. The Doctor said everything went well but he needed to make 1 more incision than normal for better view and angle. So she has 5 small incisions 3 about 1/2 inch long and the other 2 about an inch long. One of the longer ones is in her belly button. She came out of recovery and into a room about 11:30am. She was able to keep lunch ( clear diet ) down fine, so they ordered her a soft dinner. That came around 5:30 and she was able to eat that and was doing exceptionally well with walking and moving around. She was able to come home and was discharged at 9:00 that night and we were able to bring in the new year as a family all together. Now she is getting around ok, still in pain but the percacet is helping a lot.

Thank you for all of your prayers!!!!

Tim

Sword Fighting and Being Soldiers for the Most High

It is snowing here in the North West corner of OHIO today. The boys wanted to go outside and use some of the pent up energy that they have. They received practice swords from Vision forum for Christmas this year and decided to "practice" in the snow. They set the line out in our front lawn and soon they were having a great amount of fun and exercise. They were dodging and lunging all over the front lawn. I was thinking while watching them outside, we need to be this way at defending ourselves against the enemies of Christianity. Taking our "swords" and following after Christ daily with our challenges and worldly confrontations. Confronting what is wrong in our society and taking it back for the Glory of God.

Tim

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!!!!
I hope everyone has had a Blessed Christmas. I worked last night and got off work this morning at 7:00 am. I have the rest of this week off though. We will be spending quality time as a family before Lisa's surgery on the 31st.

Unto us this day a child is born in the city of Bethlehem, a Savior which is Christ the Lord.
He is the reason for the season.

May God bless you and keep you all!!

Tim

A Wonderful Weekend

The Children on the Rope bridge

This past weekend we were able to attend the viewing of "Mysterious Islands" in Kentucky at the Convention Center in Covington. We had such a wonderful time meeting a family there (The Moyers), and going out to dinner at a small restaurant down the block. Getting to know them is such a blessing. It almost seems like we have known each other for years and a lot of the roads we have travled seemed very familiar. We were able to go to worship on Sunday and listen to Dan Horns message. It was a wonderful message and one that everyone needed to hear. I hope we will be able to attend more conferences this coming year, it has always been a blessing to hear the speakers and meet new families.

The Creation Museum was wonderful and we had a great time walking around seeing all the lights outside. We enjoyed a couple new exhibits like the blind cave fish, the different dogs skulls, while enjoying the walk through the Bible. This trip has been a joy and blessing to all of us.

The blind cave fish

The Christmas light display

The dogs skulls

Lisa's gall bladder surgery is scheduled for the 31st at 7:00 am. She has pre op blood work to get done today so I better wind this up. I will post again soon.

Blessings in Christ,
Tim

Pearl Harbor: Tragedy and Providence

On December 7th 1941, an event occurred that would change the world forever. After weeks of preparation, a Japanese task force consisting of the aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Zuikaku, Shokaku; the cruisers Tone and Chikuma; and the battleships Hies and Kirishima were steaming towards the Islands of Hawaii. Also included were nine destroyers and ten subs along with a combined total of 432 airplanes. It was 4:05 AM when the mine sweeper Condor sighted what appeared to be the periscope of a Japanese submarine. She immediately notified the destroyer U.S.S. Ward who sounded general quarters and began an extensive search of the area.

At 6:37 the Japanese sub was sighted again, this time by the cruiser Antares. The nearby U.S.S. Ward shot twice, the first time shooting high and the second time getting a direct hit. The sub tilted slightly to one side and then slid beneath the waves. Commander Lt. William W. Outerbridge sent a report at 6:51 to the 14th Navel District Headquarters at Pearl Harbor. Fifteen minutes previous Privates Joseph Lockard and George Elliott reported several planes approaching from the Northeast. These may have been scout planes launched from the cruisers Tone and Chikuma. At 7:06, six minutes after his watch ended, Elliott reported that there was a large group of planes heading their way. This however was mistaken for a flight of B-17s that were supposed to be arriving from California.

At 7:40 Lt. Commander Fuchida with 48 Nakajima B2N1 High- Level bombers started their attack. The Japanese plan was to disable the American aircraft that were still on the ground and then attack our carriers and battleships. By God's providence all of the aircraft carriers were gone on odd jobs. The light cruiser Raleigh and the target ship Utah were the first to be hit. What was to follow was the destruction of Battleship Row and Pearl Harbor itself. In the end the total loss was 900 crewmen missing, 2,403 dead, 1,178 wounded, 169 aircraft destroyed, 3 ships destroyed and 18 ships badly damaged.

Although Pearl Harbor was one of the most devastating attacks in the history of the United States of America, it should have been much worse. Only 3 ships were destroyed out of the 21 that were hit and although they repeatedly strafed our encampment on Ford Island not a single life was lost. We still had all of our carriers and we still had the Lord.

-By T.J. and Kaleb

For more information see: http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ax/frameset.html

Thanksgiving!! A lot to be thankful for!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
As an update to Lisa's scoping, all went well yesterday. They had planned on her staying over night for observation. However after the scoping the Doctor said that he couldn't find any stones in the bile duct and that she would be able to go home after spending some time in recovery. Thank you all very much for your prayers. We will now have to get the surgery scheduled. As soon as that is done on either Mon or Tues. I will let you know. Also my Dad is also out of the hospital and is doing better for now. They have been in Louisianna for a while and will be heading for Texas in a few days. Again I thank you for all your prayers. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving all. I'll keep you posted.

In Christ,
Tim

New Update!!

Hello All,

We're most of the way over the Swine Flu now, though the boys and Daddy still have some pretty rough sounding coughs. We went to the doctor yesterday and got some antibiotics to (hopefully) keep them from getting pneumonia. Mommy and I did end up getting some of the symptoms, though we never had it as bad as the boys! Your prayers would still be very much appreciated.

Another prayer request is for our Grandpa (Papa) Cadle. He is in the hospital for the third time for bleeding and they still don't know what is causing it. The first hospital in Maine cited stomach ulcers, the second in North Carolina thought it was diverticulitis, and this hospital (in Florida) thinks it is some sort of bacteria in his digestive tract. They just scoped him yesterday but we don't know the results yet.

Christmas secrets are starting to develop and there have been heightened levels of whispering and sneaking! Hope all is well with everyone else. Feel free to leave us some comments! (Hint, Hint!) To do so, just click on the 0 COMMENTS link beneath this post and it will take you to a form you can fill out. You can use any screen name you like and only we (the moderators of the blog) will see your e-mail address! Once again I hope everyone is well! God Bless!

In Christ,

For the Family,

Tiffany

Update!!

Hello All,
We got the results from Mommy's MRI. She'll need to be scoped shortly before Thanksgiving. The H1N1 bug (Swine Flu) has invaded our house! Daddy got it first, then Kaleb and finally T.J. . Mommy and I have been holding out so far, though the germs are likely incubating inside us at the moment. The Doctor has us all on Tamiflu now, so that should nip it in the bud! We would greatly appreciate everyone's prayers!

In Christ,
For the Family,
Tiffany

P.S. No one wanted to have their picture taken for this post!!!

It's Here!!

The brand new, 2010, Vision Forum Catalog!

Mom was the first to look through it, then the boys, and then me (Tiffany)! I couldn't resist snapping a few shots of the boys as they poured over it!

Sorry for the lack of posting lately! We've been busy trying to prepare everything for Mom's gall bladder surgery. (She had an attack a few weeks ago, the third time in eight years, and the doctor says it's time to get it out!) As planned, she will have laparoscopic surgery rather than open surgery. This means that she will only have a few small incisions rather than one large one. Right now we are waiting on the results from the MRI to find out whether or not she has any stones outside her gall bladder and if she will have to be scoped before the surgery. We would appreciate everybody's prayers!!

Today has been rather busy, we pulled down the last of the herbs we were drying and got them safely stored away! This year we dried lavender (by the boatloads!), chamomile, sweet basil, cinnamon basil, lemon balm, lemon verbena, lemon thyme, peppermint, chocolate mint, chives, pineapple sage, and stevia! I also made and seal-a-mealed some meat loves for later as well as making a big batch of pie crust dough that yielded twelve crusts! School has been going quite well for the boys and I'm starting to get used to not having any school books to pull out in the morning!

I'll try harder to keep this place updated in the future! God Bless!

For the Family,

Tiffany

Fall is here!!

It seems like just yesterday we were going into spring. Where did the summer go??? Have you ever asked this same question? It seems so likely you have. We as a society have gotten so BUSY, we don't even stop to appreciate the Seasons or Family as much as we used to. Should we settle for this and accept it as a normal part of "life in the fast lane"? Should we do something to change it? I think this philosophical question should be asked by everyone. I'm presently asking myself this question. I can tell you one thing, that I don't want to be like society and lose my identity as an individual. I have gotten so busy this last summer with ALL the THINGS of life etc. that I feel I have dropped the ball and fumbled my family. I really need to work hard to get back to the place where God wants me to be. We have strived so hard to be where God whats us. As a Father I have been in trusted with many lives to Shepard and disciple. I need to regain my strength in Christ and rise to the occasion and accept my responsibility again as the leader of MY house. I need to stop and smell the delicate Roses of the family that God has given me, spend time with them and rebuild the example of Christ for those around us. I don't want to look back and reflect again and ask these same questions with out already knowing the answers. "As for me and my house we will serve the Lord". I will chose to reflect on each season for Gods goodness and grace to MY family.

In Christ,
Tim

Genesis 8:21-22 KJV 21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.