12-15-09

We are all finished with our Freshman semester, yay!!!! And to top it off we passed all the classes!!! ;) We are so very excited to have some time off now and be able to enjoy each others company more! Most of our friends have headed home for the break so it has been really quiet around here. Just yesterday I had a group of girls over and we just baked up a storm! :) I now have more cookies and such than we know what to do with haha:) It has been really nice to have more time to bake and cook good meals (not ones from boxes although Denny says that boxed meals are made with Love haha). We both have really been enjoying time to sleep in and most of all no homework! :)We are also really excited to celebrate Christmas together this year. We are heading home for Christmas eve and Christmas to spend time with family but are ready to also start up some traditions of our own! Please pray for us not to get to lazy during break and have a hard adjustment going into the next semester! Please also continue to pray for safety and for guidance as we continue to look for God's leading for the next step. Also for God's provision financially, Denny got quite a few extra hours last week due to others being sick but is still only getting 20 hours this week! For some reason the finances have been heavy on my heart lately so please pray for God's calming spirit for us as we continue to learn to trust in His provision. Thank you all for your prayers and support! We hope you have a great Christmas however you choose to celebrate it! (Just don't forget the true meaning of what CHRISTmas is all about!) Love, Denny & Janelle P.S. We posted a new picture below! :)

12-01-09

Can you believe it's December already? We only have 7 more days of class left in this semester.Please pray for us as we have two exams, 2 two page papers, and a six verse memory verse due between now and next thur. We are very excited to no longer have homework to do and to be able to get some much needed rest and time together. Please continue to pray for strength and energy to get through these next 2 weeks. Also please pray for healing and continued health. I have been feeling exhausted and some slight stuffiness, but Denny has had a cough and has been stuffed up for over a week now. Compared to all the sickness that has been floating around school we are still doing really well! The thanksgiving dinner we put together for fellow students went really well! We had around 38 people and a ton of food! It was really great fellowship and I had a lot of fun in the planning. We got a note letting us know how much next semester is going to cost. We are going to need around $4000 after everything is added up. We will have to pay nearly $1800 by January 1st. We still owe $2000 on our loan to pay off this semester. Denny is hoping to get a lot of extra hours over the month of break but Meijer is threatening to lay off some people even before Christmas which isn't a good sign. (Denny is safe because he has worked there for over 6 years. But it might mean he won't get as many hours as was hoped for)Praise the Lord for providing up to this point, and please pray for continued provision! Thank you all for your continued prayers and support! Janelle *Below I added two new pictures, one of our little three foot Christmas tree and one of our new sink. Thanks so much to my dad who spent countless hours making it so life would be a lot easier for us! We now have a sink with running water in our apartment!!! :) Feel free to leave comments and let us know you are praying and reading our blog! :)