It's been a while...

Sorry it's been so long... we've been busy!

Last weekend we had a Missions Conference at church. Saturday night we got to meet with three different missionaries in small groups and here about what they do. One of the couples was from a ministry called Transport for Christ. They have chapels at truck stops... they do some pretty cool things! Shortly after we got home, Mel Walker (president of Vision for Youth) got here, as he was the special speaker for the teens in Sunday School. The kids (and us) really enjoyed having Mel in Sunday School and spending time with him. We had youth group early on Sunday because we had an international banquet at church and them another speaker at night. It was a long day, but a good day!

Monday we had one of our teens over for dinner and Mario Cart.

Tuesday, after we got home from voting (yes, Brent did vote!), we got a nice gift from a member at our church. He had won a big screen TV at a benefit and decided to give us his old (but really not old) 36 inch TV. Consider we are used to our 24 inch TV's, it's HUGE! But it is pretty amazing how God works... one of our TV's was starting to go... so we were going to think about having to buy a new one soon, but instead God provided us with a HUGE one for free!

Also on Tuesday my kidneys started to hurt and by the time I woke up on Wednesday morning I was in a lot of pain. I went to work (even though I probably shouldn't have), but left around noon to go to Urgent Care. Once again, I have a bladder infection, a kidney infection, and some more stones. I'm not in as much pain now. They put me on antibiotics, so by Thursday afternoon the pain from the infections was pretty much gone and now it's just dealing with the wonderful stones moving around inside me. In a month and a half or so I'll have health insurance...so my body doesn't have to wait much longer for some help!

Last night Brent took my to Qdoba for my Birthday dinner. It was delicious! We don't have a Qdoba close to us, so it's a special thing to go there now.

Tonight my friend Modesty came over and we made cookies to send to some of the troops overseas while Brent went to Men's Game Night at church. We all had a good time.

Thank you to everyone who sent Birthday cards and e-mails! I really do appreciate them.

And now...it is bed time...tomorrow will be filled with getting my car's oil changed, starting to plan Girls' Night, and a concert at night!