27 Days Left...

Well the first countdown has begun...only 27 more days until J gets back. It has been a busy past week and weekend. We had a going away dinner/get together for J Friday night and then ran errands yesterday and my BFF, Donna, was in town and they were able to hang out for a bit and go to dinner. So it was sooo great to see her. And then today I dropped J off at the airport this morning as he is in Colorado for his 4 week training. He is there safely, although they have lost his golf clubs. The airlines always loses his luggage on just about every trip he has made. There are 2 more flights due in today, so hopefully they will show up....his work boots are stuffed in the golf case, so we pray it does show up tonight in that he needs his boots. He said the area is nice and he is living it up in a very nice hotel!! He has taken a few pics today, but we will not be able to post them until he gets back. In regards to his next trip, it looks like we will not have near as long together after this first trip, but we will take whatever time we do have and enjoy that....so it is a bittersweet deal, glad to have been given time together but wished it was more.

And here is a couple of Praise Reports for the week...I actually was able to work 40 hours this week. It was exam week, in which I only had to go in on Monday and Tuesday to take my exams and I was done for the week. And Praise be to God, because I have finished my first semester of nursing school with straight A's!!
Also, we had our second womens bible study and God is totally talking to me through this one. It is AMAZING! There were many areas we touched on such as being the salt and light to the world, hungering and thirsting more for the Lord and being the Peacemakers. The Lord says, blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. Being a peacemaker requires wisdom, and oh how I pray for wisdom. Proverbs 17:9 says "the one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends." And then we are asked to read Matthew 18:15-17 which talks about when it is too early to get involved in someone else's conflict and ways to be a peacemaker. The Lord has been speaking to me through all of these topics and He has answered many of my prayers in which burdens have been lifted. So Praise God for the walls that are down and the expectancy that we have for His next plan for us!

New Pic Site

J has built another picture site for us.....the layout is a bit better than the other one we had. We still have both sites but the newest pics will go to the JandMishi2 site. This pic is one J took the other weekend while fishing.
May you all have a blessed week!!

God is SO Good!

Wednesday night we had our first women's bible study. We are studying a book called Mocha on the Mount. I think this will be a great study with awesome fellowship. The Lord has truly blessed us with a wonderful church family here....ya just don't know how awesome and excited we are at what God is doing in us and what he has planned for us and for our church!! It was so great to hang out with some great Christian girls the other night and love on the Lord with them. And I can not wait to see what He has planned for us through this 6 week study.

In school news, the Lord has been so faithful and has been speaking to me so clearly with school. At the beginning of school, I was really doubting if this is where I should be and what I should be doing, but He has been so evident to me through the 3 months of school thus far. My friends in class truly think I am a nerd and a straight A student....BUT I keep telling that I am so not a straight A student and have never been one. All through high school and college I was more on the B-C side of the ol grade scale. I had a test on Wednesday that I knew I had failed, but hmmmm, got a 92...I know it is only the Lord guiding me through this. And this has happened several times throughout the 3 months of school. And yes I know it is my determination helping, but I still give God all the glory. And on Tuesday when I had my first clinicals, I was soo nervous, but prayed for confidence (not a Big Head confidence attitude,) but you know, just confidence, because I so lack that in myself. And he sure did give me the confidence to make it through the clinicals.
And then yesterday, I went to the OR for the first and I was oh so scared I would vomit everywhere or pass out....but made it through that too! School has been so exciting thus far although, finals are next week for the semester! Fun times!!
Here is a little tidbit of a flashback in "current history!" 1 year ago today we woke up to an empty house in Germany.....they were packing up our house and finished on this day 1 year ago. Man how the time has flown this past year.

Not too much going on this weekend, I am studying a lot for the finals and J will probably try to get in some last minute fishing...he will be leaving next weekend for Colorado for 4 weeks for training. So please keep in your prayers next week for travelling mercies. And also please keep us both in your prayers as we are seeking out what we are to do next with our future careers!

Well, I will end this blog for now...sorry to have been so selfish with it and talk about mostly me in this one.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

Happy Anniversary Dad and Mom W!! We hope you have a wonderful day and many more blessed years together! We Love you guys and thank the Lord for the wonderful example you are to us as a couple!

I SURVIVED!!

I did survive my first day at the hospital...YEAH!! It was not a traumatic experience like my first clinical rotation I had when I was in Florida. Today I had a very "good" patient. He was admitted to the hospital in March because while incarcerated, he became unconscious and fell thus causing him a bit of brain/neuro trauma. So he could not speak or do much for himself, had a feeding tube, and catheter. So I had the good case for the day. But all went smoothly and my teacher let us work with a partner (in which I don't think she was suppose too, but we were all SOOO nervous!) I know I will most likely be nervous each time, but it will be a slight less nerve racking each time! But all it takes is some prayer to walk me through it all...the Lord was definitely with me all day and kept filling up my confidence! So we shall see what Thursday will bring on my surgery rotation....my classmates had some "awesome" cases today!

Also, just a quick prayer request....Nanny, my grandma, had her other knee replaced today, so if you would please be in prayer for her recovery and for my mom, as she will help her out this first week. I have not heard the report from the surgery, but will hopefully get a call in a bit tonight.

I pray you all are having a wonderful week!

It is Getting Real....

My nerves are starting to kick in this weekend about the whole nursing thing....I go to the hospital for the first time this week for our "pre-clinicals." We are going on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I will be on the hospitalists unit just bathing and doing vital signs and other beginner stuff like that. Then on Thursday, I am heading to the day surgery department, in which this makes me really nervous. I told my partner that I am going with to keep reminding me to not lock my knees in that I will not pass out. LOL!! The rest of our class will be on the units or the OR. But as my surgery partner said, we get a better chance of seeing a lot more surgeries, in the day surgery arena, versus the people in the OR. And then after this week we will be finishing up our first semester with exams and then get 2 weeks off. In September we will begin our hospital rotations on a permit basis and be there every week. So the fun will really begin.
Well in other news around the Wells house here....J flies out on 27 July for Colorado for his training! So the time between now and then has been ticking away too fast, if you ask me. And he found out this past week that his name will hopefully be pulled from the list that went out to receive orders in September for a new assignment. So we are praying that his name is able to get pulled out and he get on the next rotation of assignments, which would put us moving about this time next year, if he does get orders. So basically it is all up in the air and we will find out come September if his name was able to get pulled out of the "to go" list and wait until the next cycle to see if we will be leaving the area. Sorry if that all does not make sense, I understand it all, but is hard to write down in words.
So other than all of this hurry and wait stuff going on, not too much exciting stuff going on.
We hope you all have had a blessed Sunday and your week is full of joy!

Grand Re-Opening

Well, we had to reopen the car sales lot....the guy brought the truck back. Long story, but Jason was gracious enough to take it back despite what the contract said "Sold As-Is!" Here in VA you have to have your car inspected and the guy said it was going to be like $800 to fix what the inspector found wrong. And J was trying to work with him in either knocking money off the price or fixing the stuff for him. So who knows...we are both bummed about the whole deal, but I believe J did the right thing in taking it back. So now we just pray it sells for real this time and soon, especially before he leaves. I am not quite the expert in that area!
May you all have a wonderful hump day tomorrow!

Officially Closed!

Our car lot is officially closed now!! J and his brother, Brad, bought a kayak together in that Brad will have one to use while they were visiting and then were going to turn around and sell it. We also had a nifty ol 1985 Ford Pickup truck we were trying to sell. Last week the kayak sold in a record time and then today J sold the ol red truck! Praise God for the selling of them both. So J is retiring temporarily from the sales lot....although I am sure it will reopen once he returns?! Too Funny! He bought the truck for a great deal and then sold it to only make a lot more money on it. So Thank you Lord for that wonderful blessing!

I hope you all had a wonderful long weekend celebrating our independence. We had a quiet, yet nice weekend! On the 4th we went to Yorktown to check out the festivities during the day and then headed back that way to watch the fireworks in the car, it was raining pretty heavy, but so worth going! And the rest of the weekend we just hung out, ran some errands, of course some studying was fit in and J was able to get a little bit of fishing in.....it rained on and off so he got a little bit of time in, in between the storms. We surely needed the rain and we surely got it, along with the thunderstorms! It has been awesome to hear thunderstorms again....in the 4 years we were in Germany, there was not even a handful of times that we heard thunder and lightning, we had PLENTY of rain but no noise to go with it!

J heads back to work tomorrow after the long weekend, so I am sure he is excited about that! LOL! Although it will be interesting, because his shop is closed and they did not tell anyone where they were to report to. But please do keep us in your prayers these next few weeks, as assignments will be going out and we find out if we are to move or not. Also, we are just praying for what the next step would be in regards to his career and becoming an officer and if that is His will for J, that the right doors be opened in regards to his schooling and the right program to get into.

Also, our website should be up and running within the next few days. J is tweeking it up a bit and should be finished soon with a few new pics on there!
We pray you all have an awesome week!