The crazyest stories ever!

Hi, this is Angie and recently my language teacher sent me a link to this and I thought it was the coolest thing ever so I thought I'd tell everyone. http://www.nanowrimo.org/ Na no wri mo stands for national novel writing month, this on this website is where you pledge to try and write a novel in a month, if your over 13 your goal is 50,000 words, if your under 13 you can set realistic, challenging goals. Maybe it's the writer in me, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever. The best part is what you write can be the weirdest thing ever and it wouldn't matter, "it's not about quality it's about quantity" I could be anything you want it's a good way to learn or practice perseverance. anyway I hope you will check it out.
X's and O's Angie<3

Change is good!

Dan Having Family Fun

Suzzie's Great Spades Hand

As I write Dan is at work - Praise the Lord!!!! Two weeks ago yesterday, Dan (for very good reasons) parted employment with Ferman of New Port Richey. He received an offer of employment the very next day. We were soooo happy. Then on Friday, things began to change and though we never received a no, we kept being put off without any good explanations. We continued to pray for guidance and felt that we were being asked to wait. We enjoyed alot of family time and trusted that God was in control and if this was where Dan was supposed to work, then it would all work out in His time. Of course, being human (and living from paycheck to paycheck as we do) we decided to give them til Tuesday (Monday being Labor Day and all) and then call and see if we could get a straight answer. Dan called first thing Tuesday morning and was told they would be working on it and he should call back between 3 and 4. He patiently waited til 3:10 and called and was told that things were happening and he should have an answer shortly. He (again patiently) waited til 6:30 and called again and got voice mail. Ok patience was wearing thin. Then at 7pm he got the call that he needed to go in yesterday for a meeting at 10am. He went and was told he had the job and would be starting today at around 1:30-2:00 (they'd call and let him know). If you can believe it, he had been waiting with his phone by his side for two weeks for this call, but today his phone was in his box by the door, somehow set on silent! Of course his new boss called at 11am and wanted him to come in earlier but he never got the message til close to 1. Doesn't it just figure. Anyway, as I said he is at work right now and we are grateful to God for this opportunity (not to mention that he's way closer to home making for a much nicer commute time).

Angie is doing well - she is counting the days til September 15th when we return to the Doctor's and get her cast off. We're all looking forward to it, especially since lately she's gotten used to her crutches and doesn't pay as good of attention as she should and has put a crutch down on our toes a couple of times.

We also started back to school this week and my hours at work have been changed to 9-1. Lot of changes going on and we are all working at adapting and improving ourselves. Dan has even taken to waking to the alarm at 5:45 and running on the treadmill and studying the Bible before I even get up. I'm considering getting up earlier too, but so far am still adjusting to all the other changes.

Praise the Lord!

We are very happy to say that Angie has a cast on her ankle. When we went to the Ortho on Monday and he looked at the x-rays from Thursday he said, this type of fracture (she had a fracture on both the inside and outside of her ankle) usually requires surgery. He then took Angie for a new x-ray and came back and said that she was going to need to have a cast for 5 weeks. I asked what about "surgery" and he said that the bones had not moved at all since the x-rays taken on Thursday so he felt that surgery would not be necessary - Praise the Lord!!!!!!

Angie was planning to get an orange cast (not because it's her Mom's favorite color but because it's the hair color of her favorite anime boy - Ichigo), however her pediatric ortho only does the plain off white kind (go figure). It actually worked out quite well because her Youth Pastor, Mr. Elliot is a great artist, and as he has always called her gymnastics - ninja training - he drew this great ninja on her cast with a note that says "ninja school didn't work out". What a hoot!

Needless to say Suzzie is getting a little tired of Angie's new limitations (and so am I to be honest) and so is Angie (as she's really not one to lay around all day), but we're working together and getting through. Dan, Bless his heart, continues his attempts to "toughen her up" when he's at home (which unfortunatly is not that much).
Thank you all for your prayers and thank you Carmen for reminding me that I hadn't posted this yet. God Bless you all!

Beauty from Pain

On Thursday, 8/7, Angie was doing a round-off back handspring on the tumble track at her gym when she twisted her ankle while jumping off of her ankle. Miss Darla called and said that it was pretty swollen and they felt we should have it looked at. I picked her up and took her to the After Hours Pediatrics (Great Experience!) where they took an x-ray and discovered her ankle was fractured and that when she had stubbed her toe earlier in the day, she had chipped a piece of the bone off her baby toe of the same foot (could have caused the second accident??). Anyway, they splinted it up and decided that the fracture was very close to her growth plate and that we should take her to St. Joe's ER and have an Orthopedic Doctor take a look at it. Again, Praise the Lord, a very good experience (for an ER trip - we even had valet parking). They decided that the splint was fine and we need to have her keep it elevated for the next few days and see an Orthopedic Doctor this week. We have an appointment on Monday afternoon and my prayer is that the swelling will be down and they will be able to put a cast on it. Angie is going crazy being stuck on the couch - and we're getting a little weary of waiting on her hand and foot.