Tea party and another fun outfit for school!

Yes, we still have the streamers up from  January 8th. They bring some cheeriness to everyone when we are sick...I guess.
Olivia has started taping them on her clothes
Everyone has started taping them to their behinds
and saying"stop following me, stop following me"
The little joys you get to be a part of when your a mommy
They play so well together.  I never  knew how little girls can be so mothering to their siblings. 
Have a great Friday!

INFLUENZA

Wow, I am finally getting over that bug.

It has been a week and a half

Sunday it started to get worse and went downhill from there

I am one who never gets sick

Minor sniffles and that is it.

My husband took off Monday-Thursday for me

I pretty much lay ed around

No throwing up

drank 7 up

lost 9 lbs

I had my dad drive me 35 minutes to the Dr.

in a snowstorm

My insides felt like someone was just squeezing them.

I am very good about pain too, but this was seriously painful

I cryed and cryed

It's hard when you can't be mommy

Or lay and cuddle with your kids

When Odin got home from school today

I happen to be sitting on the couch

freshly showered and he says

wow mom, with a big smile

you look better

sweet boy
I'm coming around...slowly

Have a great Thursday!

My funny husband!

I made these delicious black bean brownies the other day that are so delicious.  They have 2 cups of black beans in an no flour.  I have had this recipe for ever and have not tried it.  They are awesome, rich and very fudgy.  I am one who could eat the whole pan at a sitting so he decided to be funny and put a note in there.

Funny memory from one of my good friends graduation party.  I was at her house for her high school graduation party and we were all standing in the kitchen talking for awhile. 

The whole time I was talking I just kept licking and eating at her cake and before I knew it I had eaten 3/4 of the cake without even realizing it. 

Her mom took a picture and I about passed out thinking that no one else ate any of it.

Luckily they were like family and we were very close growing up and all.

How embarrassing

 I love sweets!

Date with daddy

About every 3 months each kid gets to go on a date with mom or dad.   We have a rotating schedule of how we do this and what we have coupons for. 

So, they have some choice but not really.

  We tell them what we have coupons for and go from there. 

 Then it's only a couple bucks.

We all have a good time too!

This is from a friend!

How are you spending your time?
We have been sick here at the Funkhouser house.  Just getting through this last week here and hope to be up to my old self again. 

Thanks for your prayers for yesterday. 

All went well.

I snapped a few pictures, but should of brought the video camera. 

He was pretty funny to hang out with after they gave him the "sleepy" medicine.

Poor guy, his tonsils were so big they couldn't put an air tube in his mouth so they had to give him his oxygen through his nose.

                                   trying to make a muscle

Bye bye big guys

 

Hanging out all weekend!

Lots of love and prayers

The Funkhousers

Jeremiah

Pray for this little guy

He will get his tonsils and adenoids taken out.
They are so big they actually wrap onto the uvula
The poor guy will be able to eat again.  He never complains but he doesn't eat much.
They have been like this for about 8 months now.
I took all the kids to the library last night and of course he left his blanket there
He takes that thing everywhere.
Will keep you posted
Pray for fast healing.
Have a great Thursday!
Lots of love from the Funks!

                                                   Jeremiah's Birthday

                                          We started off the morning by this

                                   and wearing underwear. 
I had the brilliant idea of trying to potty train him today for his birthday.  Otherwise he won't even put underwear on. 
                       One time on the potty that day...that's it. The rest was in his pants, down his legs, and on the floor.
We left and drove to the zoo in Milwaukee.  Compliments of Grandma Mimi an Papa Julio we get in free.  This has been such a wonderful gift for us. We use the gift membership all the time.

Would love it every year....hint hint

Never been there in the winter time though

The kids were all bundled up in their snow gear and we walked around the zoo. We didn't see many animals  but we had fun!

                                           Dinnertime

Surprising Jeremiah with his choo choo train cake...The cake worked out pretty good. I had never done one before so it worked out pretty good. The kids loved it.

                                               He loved it!

                                       Chowing down on cake

My parents (actually my dad) wanted to get all the kids their first remote control vehicle ...now they just gotta figure out how they work.

These are the cupcakes I made for Jeremiah's pre-school class.

We had a great day and I know Jeremiah did too!  He is such a ham and such a sweet blessing! 

I'll never forget when I found out I was pregnant with him.

I was on birth control when I got pregnant with him

I didn't know you could actually get pregnant still taking it. 

So I called the company and had them explain it all to me and how this worked.  Very interesting and sneaky might I add how these companies work.

So I emailed my Dr.(after I found out via a leftover pregnancy test I had at home) and asked her about these exercises I've been doing and asked if I could still do them. 

Dave came home in the mean time and just happened to stumble across my email that I just received from the Dr. and I ran in the room just as he was reading the e-mail. He didn't say a word, he just looked at me with a "WHAT IS THIS?!" expression.

oh, yeah...I'm pregnant

 that was not the most exciting way I wanted to tell him about my pregnancy but oh well.

I remember on the way to the hospital we hadn't decided on a name yet. Dave asked God to give us a sign and right after he did that, the DJ read the daily bible verse from the book of Jeremiah. Hmmm, that's a pretty good sign. Then at the hospital, the bible in my room was open to the book of Jeremiah so that was our answer

Jeremiah Christian Funkhouser

The other side of the story is that we were just getting ready to start some medications to be surrogate parents.

We had everything all lined up with the lawyer and we were almost all ready to go....

So after we got the news about the pregnancy we struggled on how to tell our friends that we were pregnant and prayed about it for a couple of weeks.

Well, GOD is truly amazing

I got an email from our friends saying...your never going to believe this but I'm pregnant after the umpteenth time of doing IVF treatments. 

I couldn't believe it, so our kids are a couple weeks apart now and life is wonderful. 

GOD has a plan it's up to us to follow it!

Happy Birthday Jeremiah!

Guess which kid it is?

 We are doing another fundraiser rummage sale in May for the city wide rummage here in Kiel. I have been working on pricing and organizing rummage for the last couple months here, and I am finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.  It is so much fun though!  I am not sure why but I love this stuff.  Our good friends moved across country they gave us lots of great items to sell. (Thanks!) So if you have anything you'd like to donate to our sale, let me know. 

months on the waitlist

 

Psalm 68:4-6

Sing to God, sing praises to His name

Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,

Whose name is the LORD, and exult before Him.

father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,

Is God in His holy habitation.

God makes a home for the lonely

Making a gingerbread village

I bought it last year on clearance for $2

Some fun over Christmas break.

My kids are not gingerbread fans.

So old ones don't matter then

It was fun but, the gingerbread was very heavy and thick.

                                               Olivia's

                                                                         Jonah's

My parents brought them some New Year attire

                                                                          Odin's

       This little one just liked to put frosting on his finger and lick it!
                                  Have a great weekend! 
         It's Jeremiah's 3rd birthday today so we will be celebrating!

Sledding Fun

Olivia likes to put a rug on her sled and stand all the way down until she wipes out!

Way at the bottom of the hill

Random shots

Thanks for all the added prayers for our friend yesterday.  She is doing great.  She will stay at the hospital for a few days and go home. 

 Thank you Jesus!

 Praying and fasting for a friend of ours who is having surgery today.
  She is a sweet young woman with a wonderful family who love the lord. 

Wouldn't be a post without a picture!

 Olivia
This is what she wore to school the other day!

check out that smile!

It was a hard day of going back to school. 

Lots of tears from Odin. 

 He always asks when we are going to home school. 

Isn't he sweet.

I missed them all day. 

missing our little African treasures a lot

and cannot wait to meet them

 I have a hard time sending them back. 

They get up at 5:15 so we spend a lot of time together in the morning which is nice.

We listen too a lot of praise and worship before school  and that always gets them pumped up.

Love how all the boys still hold my hand in the hallways and

give me kisses in front of their friends

I just don't want it to ever end!

Hope you all have a wonderful day as well!

Happy New Year

What a wonderful and blessed year we have had.

God is Good.

Looking back on some things..

God breaks our heart for what breaks his

We start making radical changes in our life

went back to our old church

lost a lot of friends

we have made a lot of new friends that God has placed in our path

God is breaking our kids hearts for what breaks his

they are changing right before our eyes.

oh, God is so so good

a lot of difficult decisions and conversations

It has taken a lot of courage as a family to get through some of these bumps God has put before us this year.

As a friend always told me,

Fear is nothing to be afraid of it's just the door we push through to get to the other side.

We never have to be ready just willing to give up ourselves for HIM

As a family we couldn't be happier.

Joy is something that comes naturally for all of us

especially when it is found in the love and life of our Saviour

Our circumstances do not dictate our joy,

We take our eyes off our circumstances and ourselves

JOY is free

just have a heart fully surrendered to HIS will not your own

which will cost you everything!

We are so excited to see what 2011 brings.

I am in awe at what God is truly doing in our family.

Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.

We couldn't do it without you.

Have a blessed New Year!

James 1:12 "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him."