A time for prayer....

Thank you everyone who has been praying for my dad. I was able to go to NC last week and be with him during his first surgery. The results came back before I had to leave and they were negative. The cancer has not spread yet. Praise the Lord!! He is now scheduled for his BIG surgery on March 3rd at 10:00 a.m. NC time. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. He will be laid up for some time afterwards. He is not allowed to lift anything over 5 lbs for 6 weeks.
I flew there on Saturday, Feb 13th and returned to Anchorage on Saturday, Feb. 20th. I was suppose to sit at the Anchorage airport for 8+ hours waiting for my commuter flight into Kenai but my wonderful & romantic husband tracked my plane from Chicago into Anchorage and planned an arrival at the same time. He flew to Anchorage and picked me up!!!! How sweet!! He and a friend from M.A.R.C. (Mike, who owns the plane) flew in and "swooped" me away! I was home by 10:30 p.m. How cool is that??? They landed at Lake Hood. Our favorite place to sit and watch the planes take off and land...off and on the water. VERY COOL!! After a 22 day, that was such a blessing!!

Other news:
Shaughn got new glasses. He loves being able to see again. :-)
Scott and the boys did well with mom gone but where very glad to have her home again. :-)
Native Musicale is next week. We are in charge of this and need your prayer coverage.
Scott and I are in the middle of our online class, please keep us in your prayers as we continue to complete the course.
We are loving having our own place again. We are very blessed to be able to live in this home and bless the owner with fixing it up. It really fits our needs. What a blessing!!

Everyone is doing well and loves it here. Bless you all and again, thank you for keeping us in your prayers.

Lela and boyz~

Shaughn has his first job!!!

Shaughn the morning of his interview.

The morning sky

The evening sky

That's right, Shaughn went for his first interview yesterday and was hired on the spot. He went today for his orientation and starts on Monday!! He will work M-F 8-4. He is excited to have the opportunity and to be able to put something on his resume. It was a little bare. He applied at a place where he wouldn't be tempted...(his favorite place is Taco Bell and he didn't apply there because he didn't want to end up not liking the place after a while)...the only temptation he will have is their milkshakes...and he gets 50% off of anything (for himself only) whether he is working or not...have you guessed it yet??? They gave him two uniforms and a hat. They are ordering his shoes which will come out of his check. Jeremiah is super excited....yep....McDONALDS!!!

He has applied at several places but being a smaller town than Brighton but bigger than Coshocton, we are excited for him. I was hoping for Walmart since it opens up in March but they said there is like 35 openings and over 700 applications (his is one of them) that we are not sure of his chances. We do know with God all things are possible but we also feel this is an answer to prayer.

Matthew is doing great driving. He is a natural. He tries to drive anytime the vehicle is about to move. Unlike Shaughn who doesn't care if he does or doesn't. LOL

Scott and I are puddeling through our on-line class and trying to prepare for our CEF State Board Retreat and CEF Staff Prayer Retreat...all this weekend. We are also doing both workshops in them. We are leading/organizing them and are very excited about it. God has shown himself so much through this process. Different people have stepped up to help out and it has been just great. I spent all day yesterday writing a book for our prayer retreat. I had one of the gals at MSE (McKinley Service & Equipment) print them out for me last night and Scott brought them home...Fun to see how God puts things together.

We are loving it here and loving what God has us doing. We do ask for your prayers as the spiritual warfare has been very active.

Also, I ask for your prayers for my dad. We found out in January that my dad has cancer. He has stage 4, aggressive prostate cancer. They have done a bone scan and a cat scan and both have come back neg. so we are praying that it has not spread. They will know more when they do surgery which is Feb. 16th. He will see the specialist on Feb 10th to find out more details regarding the surgery and what to expect. They do want him to do radiation afterwards because all of his numbers are extremely high. Everything points to it not being good, but with the prayers of God's people so far, both of the scans came back with good news. He will be laid up for some time healing from surgery and all. I am hoping to be able to go and be with mom during the surgery and help her a little afterward. I am not sure if that is going to work out or not. I am leaving it in God's hands. We were not telling many people, only immediate family, per my dad's request until the scans came back and we had more information to share. He just finished his 5 years at US Airways/Pedmont and so he is now vested with them and can have the flying benefits for life now. That was something he really wanted to accomplish. God allowed for it to happen. His anniversary is Feb 7th. The week before his surgery. I have been struggling with the news and really had a hard time processing it. I am trying to leave it in God's hands and just keep keeping on my knees for him.

We are also moving!!! We have been living with an 85 year old gentleman out in Sterling but have found a place much closer to the CEF office and church that will save us a lot in gas money. We will be moving after this crazy weekend. We have already taken some stuff there now but with school, retreats, homeschooling, work, etc...yeah...priorities baby.

Scott is going to start working at the MARC hangar next week a little to help them out. They need the help really bad as they have had a lot of new projects come in and we will be slowing down a bit after the retreat until March. So, Scott will be able to go and help them out some. He is pretty excited about that. Steve took him last week flying and Scott really loved that. It was the first time he has flown since we left OH. They practiced stalls and all kinds of stuff. He was a happy man! :-)

Well, that is most the what is going on here. We are working on getting the newsletter out too, we want to try doing it email so please make sure we have your updated emails if you have changed them recently or would like to receive them. I hope I have them but it doesn't hurt to send them to us anyways to make sure. :-)

God bless you guys~
Lela and boyz~