State Honors Choir

We are so proud of Keri! She made the state of Michigan Honors Choir!!!! After many practices all of over the state, the final concert was in Grand Rapids. That girl was blessed with an awesome voice.

Update!

Things have been very busy so here are a couple of pics of the kids from the last 6 months!!!!! I am awful about updating. I have also attached a video of Keri at her Choir concert at GVSU.

Computers & Bible Study

What a way to start the week. I get to work on Monday to find that our system is going to be down for at least 2 days. That means absolutely NO work can be done. Even though I have nothing to do I must remain at work in case customers call.



You are probably asking why the title of Computers and Bible Study? With nothing else to do I completed my bible study and got paid to do so. I have been struggling with getting the studies done before our small group on Thursday's. Could this be the hand of God helping me???? It feels so good to be able to have the time to read and listen to what God is telling me and not feeling rushed.


Keri and I had a conversation this morning about putting God first in our lives. Some times we forget to put God (the main thing) in our schedules first and fill the rest the space in our day with the other stuff.

So instead of complaining about the computers I will thank God for the break so I had time to spend in his word!

A boy and his Monkey!!!

Every boy needs a George!!!!!

Fall is Here!

With Fall comes the end of the camping season. Am I sad to see it go? Yes, but I am ready for weekends at home. The end of the camping season was fun. Sad to leave our friends, many who travel south for the winter, and others we hope to see through out the winter. We had a good last couple of weekends up there. Got to enjoy many camp fires and had 1 last camp out with my in-laws.

Camping is relaxing at the same time makes us tried.


I am ready for the jeans and sweat shirt days and the changing of the leaves.

I will leave you with a couple of pics from this summer season.

Death of a Cell Phone

What did people do without cell phones????

My cell died a tragic death last night. Keri found my cell phone in the bottom of the dish water last night. After leaving it all night to dry out, the screen is still filled with water. I tried to plug in the charger this morning and turn it on...NO luck! So I am without a cell phone today and feel like I am missing a huge part of myself, sad but true!

I will be laying to rest my trusty phone tonight as I go to replace it.

Note to self: Don't but your cell phone on the counter by the sink again!!!!!

He's the Lucky One!!

What a week!!! On August 15, 2008 a good friend from our old church, Wayfarer, passed away. Tim has left behind a wife and 4 kids.

Wednesday was the funeral and it was one of the best I have ever attended. The funeral lasted about 1 hr & 45 min. His brothers, sister and parents all spoke and shared many stories of Tim.

Please keep Becky, Haley (10), Cassie (8), Lanie (5) and Jediah (3) in your prayers.

All I have to say through all of this is we serve an amazing GOD!!!!

WE WILL MISS YOU TIM!

July 4th Week

We spent the week of the 4th at the campground and had wonderful weather. We also started a new tradition of going into Sand Lake for the festivities.

Hold on to your kids & LOVE them

I have been praying all morning for Steven Curtis Chapman and his family. See Link. http://www.stevencurtischapman.com/

Craigslist Bidding Wars!!!!

OH MY WORD!!!! These are the only words that can come out of my mouth right now. David & I have been throwing around the idea of selling our sectional couch. We bought this couch 11 years ago for $100.00 from a family friend. This couch is a 5 piece Thomasville sectional. I just for giggles put it on Craigslist yesterday and within 1 hour I had 8 people want to come and look at it. Last night I took a picture and email these people back and to my surprise everybody wants it. As of this morning I have 3 people that keep trying to out bidded each other. I listed it as $150.00 and I am up to $250.00. The first guy is coming at 2:30 today, keep my fingers crossed that it sells!!!!!

Changes

Many changes have taken place in the Hondorp household.

1. New Flooring in the entire house....
Which all I can say has been a nightmare! After ordering the flooring it took 3 weeks for them to come an install the laminent flooring in my kitchen, laundry, dining room and both entry's. Then 1 more week for them to install the carpet in all the bedrooms and the living room! I love the carpet and the wood floor, BUT!!!! the laminent has to be torn up and replaced since the first installer did not install properly! Enough on the floors!

2. Nathan in a BIG boy bed!
Since we took down the crib for the carpet install, David & I decided that it was time to put Nathan in a big boy bed!!! He loves it!

3. Finished the Swing Set

4. Had a fence installed in the back yard

5. Opened up the camper for the season
Now that spring is here you know where to find us every weekend!

6. And the biggest change!!!! Nathan turned 2!!!!!

I will try to post pics of all the changes soon!

Helping Daddy

We are doing some remodel in our laundry/half bath and Nathan decided we wanted to help Daddy last night.

Poor Nathan

Not a good month!!! A couple of weeks ago we went down to Shipsee with David's brother and family for a long weekend of fun. Friday night was a blast. Saturday came around and it went down hill from there. Nathan woke up and felt a little warm so I gave him some ibuprofen that Brenda had brought along. All day he was just not himself, the coughing started, the whining was in full gear and he just was irritable. By 6:00 it turned bad! We were swimming in the pool and Nathan was shivering so bad, but his body temp was high. I brought him back to the room and gave him some more ibuprofen to help bring the fever down. I knew deep down inside that his pneumonia was coming back. I needed his breathing machine and medicine which was at home. So I called my parents and God Bless them they drove all the way down to us and brought it for him. They finally arrived at the hotel around 8:30 and he was very warm and coughing alot. We gave him the treatment, which makes him cough even more since it breaks it all up, and then my parents where leaving to go back home. As Nathan was watching them get there coats on he decided that he wanted to go with Papa and Nana. So my parents took him home so we could finish the weekend with Keri! I am so glad to have parents like that. Well to make a already long story short, he cried all the way home, all night, and all morning until we got there. Ended up bringing him into the ER since we could not control the fever, he had strep throat along with pneumonia. So on Monday I had to bring him in for a follow up and the doctor said that we was all clear EXCEPT that now he has an ear infection.... This poor kid! But as of today he is doing much better.

1st Official Hair Cut

After many months of wanting to cut Nathan's hair, we finally did it! Who would have ever thought this kid would ever get a hair cut. This is the first hair cut he has ever had and he is 21 months old.

He did not like getting his hair cut, as you can tell!!!!

Church Transfer!!!!

On Sunday we were acknowledge at church for our transfer back to Corinth. Of course we all had to go up on stage in front of the congregation.

My worst nightmare happened. Nathan screamed the entire time!! Here is how it went... We had just finished singing and the bulletin said that they where going to play a video testimony and so I thought to keep him quiet I would give him some smarties. BAD CHOICE!!!!!!

Nathan did not want to eat them out of my hand, he wanted me to put them on the chair next to me. Guess what, they did not play the video! Pastor Don starts calling off the people to come up on stage. I went into panic mode!!!!! I started picking up Nathan and thought I better grab the smarties off the seat otherwise he would loose it. On the walk up the stairs I showed Nathan I had them in my hand so he would calm down, but that did not work. He managed to shove all that I had in my hand into his mouth and had dropped a couple along the way. After realizing that he dropped them he screamed because he wanted them!!!!

At this moment my face was on fire and I just wanted to hide under a rock. I thought about just letting him down but I was afraid that he would run down the stairs and back to where we were sitting.

All in all it went very well and we are very happy to be back at Corinth.

Sledding

Sledding at Grandpa and Grandma's is so much fun.

As a kid I loved to go down the huge hill in the back yard but hated coming back up.

David and I took the kids to my parents to enjoy the snow. David, being an awesome dad spent the entire time outside with Keri and Nathan. I went down once, but it was too cold for me (ya ya, I know I am a wimp!!!!).

This was Nathan's first time sliding and he loved it. He would have loved to stay out longer but with it being so cold I was worried about him, so he came in earlier then everybody else. David was glad, Nathan got heavy to keep pulling up the hill on the sled.

Maybe one of these years I can get my dad to rig up some kind of pulley system to pull us up the hill!!!!!!!! Wishful thinking.

Odds & Ends

Here is some miscellanous photos of the kids!!!!!
Keri on Christmas day, Nathan posing on grandma's stool,
Keri all dressed up for her Christmas program at school, Nathan trying to be like grandpa and shave,
and finally Nathan trying to fill his daddy's shoes.

I am so Sorry!!!

I am so sorry for the long delay in posting.....

Where do I begin! I could write a book about the last couple of months of our life. Anyway, Thanks giving went well and Christmas was amazing!!!!

Now it is the new year and things have been good. Nathan has been very healthy so far this winter and seems to be out growing the RSV. Keri is doing awesome, she is growing up so fast. She has gone from a little girl to a pre-teen. WOW does time fly!!!

I am home today with Nathan... I got a call at work from daycare saying that Nathan thru up all over. So now I finally have time to update.

I will leave you with a couple of pics!




This is a pic of a naughty boy!!! He was throwing a fit about something and he finally cried himself to sleep.




Keri and Emma on Christmas day at Gma & Gpa Hondorp's




Nathan and his twin Uncle Joel!!!!




Nathan loving his big sis Keri.