With our recent trip to Italy, David is worried that this will be POMPEII PART 2!!!!! :)

RUN FOR THE HILLS AND HEAD FOR HIGH COUNTRY!

And just thought i should let everyone know that i plan on winning the 2000 dollar easter egg that KSRM does every year... So if you plan on finding it, you might just wanna give up because i am DETERMINED! We owe like 1,000 bucks on taxes this year which -sounds horrible but really it is just because i get paid by my 'clients' if you call them that (the moms) tax free by my 'self-employed busines'. I know there is a way of paying each month but that is just TOO MUCH organizing for me and i now i would forget and get behind and it would end up just being more of an annoyance than anything. SO im just going to start setting aside a little here and a little there on each check. It sounds like a huge ugly amount, but really in perspective God has WAY blessed us A LOT especially since we have been back in Alaska.

As we were getting closer to our date of EAS (end of active service) in the Marines, the time was a-ticking for David to find a job in the Kenai area for when we would moveback. GOD WAS WAY IN THE WORKS BEFORE WE EVEN KNEW ANYTHING! A close friend of Davids parents (who owns his own construction/home builers business) heard that David was in need of a job and said that he would hire him right then and there! -NEVER meeting david before, NEVER talking to him before, Not knowing ANYTHING about him except that he was a Christian man, serving our crountry in the Marine Corps and went off the reputation that his dad has as a working man. And if you knew John Nussbaum you know he is nothing short of a HARD WORKER. So when we came back to Alaska, David had a job to get right into when we came. After a year or so of working there he decided to move on into the Oil Field. He now works for Peak where God just plowed he way through everything and put david in a position and environment where he really wants to excel and where is hard work DOESNT go unnoticed! God has blessed us with extra money we were able to put towards a DREAM VACATION to Germany and Italy, and little bits of extra money here and there that were -as david likes to say- 'A Blessing Incognito'.. I have a job at home that still allows me to get house work done, do as i please in town, and really allows me the time to still serve others, and gives me GOOD PRACTICE for that one day when im a REAL LIFE MOMMA!

I LOVE "Taking the time to Smell Gods Blessings!"