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Our house all primed and ready for top coat which is a Dark chocolate brown with cream trim! Special thanks goes tooooo...
Scott Susan, Gabe Norris, Daryl Hausman, "my hubby"Randy, Rob Kennedy, and Abe Sink!
They all came out to help celebrate Randy's 30th birthday by providing helping hands on our house! Thank You All! More finished pictures to come as progress is made :)

"Making Apple Sauce"

Hard at work

YUM!!!

Autumn turns "5", I still find it hard to say! It is hard to imagine where all the days have gone. We celebrated by having Uncle Rob, Aunt Dee (her favorite Aunt:), Kiana, Dusti, Sean, The Ryans from church, and us :)

1st day of school:)

"Kayla"

"Lyn"

"Autumn"

"Cheese"

My little girl, growing up.

Cousins, Kiana & Randalyn

Randy & Rob
Ushers for Kelly's wedding

Flower Girls

Wow! have our days been full!! It has been near impossible for me to find the time to update! And when I look at the last time I actually did I very much realize it is way past due! :) sooooo here goes~

Randy has been busy, busy, BUSY! With work which we are very blessed to have, Randalyn has started the second grade this year and has decided that history is boring! (o dear!) Autumn is turning 5! and has started kindergarten and to my surprise is loving every minute of it, she is my "busy one" so i wasn't sure she'd be able to sit through it. But she is and wishes her school days were longer! Nikayla is learning too, mostly right from wrong these days :) and is bringing much laughter to this household as she learns to mimic her sisters in talk and deed. And me well....I often feel am on overload but the Lord gives me HIS strength daily, while I cook, clean, can, home school, my own schooling, attend births, meet with clients, am...Wife, Mother, Doula, Teacher, Student, Homemaker, etc. etc! I'm sure Doctor, Farmer, Secretary, Cook, and maid all fit in there somewhere too! :) But most of all I'm a child of the King and my greatest desire is to reflect that one gift above all others...like I said, I daily need HIS strength, but don't we all :)

Below enjoy a few glimpses of our summer!...

"Honey in our house"!

Peaches...

Strawberries...

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A few of the births i have been blessed to Doula

Randalyn :)

Visiting the Pearls at No Greater Joy, Mr. Mike Pearl is teaching the men and boys how to knife throw.

Visiting Grandpa and Grandma Wanner in TN!

Autumn lauree'

Randalyn, Autumn and friend Abby riding a camel

Paulus summer vacation in South Carolina

Life in the country some days can be , o sooo much fun :-p , today we are "potty training", so far all Nikayla has figured out is that if I sit on the potty, i get a chocolate chip! ergh, what have we started! She now needs to learn that we only get chocolate chips if we actually see some results! Then outside to find out that we have MORE babies on the farm, "free kitten's anyone?" But the trick was to find them! finally we did, in the top of daddy's shed stuffed in a volley ball net and box that at any moment was just waiting to fall from the ceiling, so after rearranging that, we discovered 6 little mewing kittens.
Life is good, Our God is great and we love it out here, goofy days and all! :)

It's puppy time again! "10" rolly, poley lil guy's and girls!

All three girls have so much fun with the puppies but it's Nikayla who is lifting about half her own size! She has learned Mia's name quite well (the mommy) and you will often here her outside calling away! Then today I heard Randalyn and Autumn in the shed with the puppies giving them the "buddies" names, seems that happens every litter.:)

"My wonderful raised garden!" After 2 years of flooding and losing the majority of our crops, God provided us a way to raise our garden, I fret no more when the soaking rains come our way! Just yesterday we had storms all day long, I went out to see the water merrily running down the isles not even touching the plants. A wonderfully huge thank you to my hard workin' man! He put many long hours into this project! Also a thank you to friends and family, Jared, Abe,Rob and Chad who pitched in!

"My Kountry Kids"

I have for sale a pure bred alpine buck, "Jasper". He was born on March 7th and will be ready for a new home the end of April! He comes from a line of state champions and great showmanship, his markings are beautiful! Please call or e-mail if interested...513-722-5678

A short history that goes like this is... I have shared in the past of our story of God
working in our hearts to go to the mission field as the door opens, to serve in Papua New
Guinea, the Country where my husband grew up. We have felt for several years that this
is Gods plan for our future, the goal that we are working towards! Randy is a
contractor and a licensed Mechanic, I am studying with Charis in the Doula / Childbirth
educator program with the ultimate goal of becoming a Midwife. These areas are very much
needed in this country and it is our hearts desire to be used by the Lord to serve those
in need.

This past week Randy was contacted about a current need for our skills in
PNG for the month of April. They are looking for a mechanic to come for a short term
trip to PNG to serve on a missions school compound and while there, I (Kristin) would
have the awesome and wonderful opportunity to serve the surrounding villages in Doula and
childbirth care. The native women are often left to themselves in this area of their
lives, giving birth in the bush alone and with no assistance or care during the beautiful
miracle of childbirth. The clinics that are set up in the bush area are in great need
and have been looking for help in the way of Midwives etc. The Need is GREAT! But our God
is GREATER! Please pray for us as we seek to know if this is something God would have us
to do right now. The finances it would take to go is mind boggling, just to be able to
go for 4 weeks the month of April, tickets and all we would be looking at $ 14,000.00. An
amount that we have no way to give, but as my husband and I were talking, is just a drop
in the hat to our Lord! He who merely speaks things into being. This short term trip
would be a great honor and introduction into what will one day be a long term lifestyle
for us. Please , please pray that God will provide in this area whether He chooses to use
us at this time or provides another avenue!

The girls and I went went on a field trip to the Cincinnati Children' s Museum along with the other homeschoolers associated with our church. The place was really incredible and very age appropriate. Even Nikayla had a great time, her favorite were the balls that would get sucked up tubes, she laughed and laughed. A highlight of the day was getting to spend it with friends, Stephanie Ryan and her three girls the same ages as ours.