More Pictures......

Elli decided to spend a little time with Grandma
Grandama Brenda came to visit, Today (Sunday) is my Parents 40th. Anniversary. Happy 40th. Mom and Dad!!!!! .



Mommy decided to take a couple pictures before going to church tonight.



A Good chair and a nice fireplace, all I need now is a good book by Ted Dekker.



Cute Kids!!

Happy Sunday!

Just thought that I would send a quick post to tell everyone Happy Sunday! :-) I hope that you are having a Blessed Sunday with the Lord! What an awesome God we serve - not only in the good times, but also in the trying times! May you feel His presence ever so real today! :-)
~Tasha

God is so faithful! It just amazes me that even though we may really mess up sometimes, God still loves us and is standing with arms wide open ready to forgive! I certainly want it to be said of me that I was always ready and willing to forgive as Christ has forgiven me! I want Christ to so shine in me that the joy and peace I have from knowing that I'm in the center of His will flows over onto others. A dear friend of ours from Hobe Sound told me something that a pastor had shared with her, it went something like this - " God is most happy with us when he looks down on us and our heart is polished enough that he sees his own image in our hearts." I want God to look down on me and my heart be so polished it's like looking in a mirror.
Well, I should go for now. May we all shine for Jesus!
~Tasha

A Couple Pictures.

Tanner standing next to my new toy.

My beautiful wife!

This is the back of the house.



The garage, wow we have a lot of junk.



Here are a few pictures of the house that we are currently in. I have been trying to get more together, but we have been having trouble with our camera. I figured out how to fix that, then we started having trouble with our computer. With regard to the computer we have presently, the pictures may or may not load correctly, so I hope they look okay.
~Greg

Thoughts.......

Howdy, Howdy!! Thoughts come and thoughts go, but it's the one's you can't get away from that you have to sit up and pay attention to.

I have recently been giving a lot of thought to our future, it didn't take very long thinking about the future until regrets from the past came knocking. While I am smart enough to realize that you can't live in the past and in fact you can't even change the past, I think most of you would agree that you can, and definately should, LEARN from the past. Wow, don't you wish you could go back in time and change things? My dear Grandpa Collins was famous for saying "Hind sight is ALWAYS 20/20" Man, was He ever right. That being said, how does one go about learning from the past, without becoming too involved? Is there a healthy mix? I think there is, let me know what you all think.
More later.
~Gregory

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year everyone. We had a very blessed Christmas spent with family and friends. We are hoping to be back on line soon so that we can update some pictures. Until then thanks for your understanding.

Greg

Long time ~ no post...

Wow! It seems like forever since I have posted. ( That's because it has been , huh?) :-) Anyhow, God has been so faithful to our family in sooo many ways. I recently was sick, and unsure of the outcome, but God showed us that His will was to touch me and make me well. For that I AM truly greatful. As Greg already posted, we have turned in our Missions application here at H.I.M. and things seem to be happening really quickly to my human eyes. However, I KNOW that God's timing is perfect and He is allowing things to happen according to His perfect plan. When I say "quickly" I mean that in a positive way. It just amazes me how once Greg and I felt God leading us in a certain direction, and we obeyed Him, things that we have prayed about and discussed for quite some time are starting to take place! God truly is WONDERFUL!
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The Children are doing wonderful! I think this Christmas is going to be really different for them (and us) without snow. We have our tree up, and our decorations out, and our air conditioning on!! :-) We are still going to make it as "normal" as possible for ALL of us.... making Christmas candies, shopping, wrapping presents, eating our Christmas candies, sending out Christmas letters and photos, doing our Christmas puzzle, did I mention eating our Christmas candies!!! :-) Wesley is REALLY close to walking, and he now has seven teeth. I am going to have to bring this post to a really quick close because the library here on campus is going to be closing in about ten mins.
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I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and a wonderful week in the Lord!!
~Tasha