Christmas has started!

Christmas has started already! We celebrated Christmas with my dad, step-mom, and sister last night. The girls were very excited to spend time with their grandparents and aunt. Yes, you can probably tell by the picture the girls got a Wii! They were so excited...we hooked it up last night and played a few games. The girls are professionals already. They beat both Jc and I in tennis and bowling.

We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas Eve with the rest of our family on Thursday. And, then of course Jesus' birthday on Friday. We will be making a cake to celebrate the special day. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New year.

Andrea

Clothing Bank

Clothing Bank you may ask what it that?
Well, let me tell you!

Our church has opened a clothing bank where you can donate your clean, gently used clothes to be bought by others. Anyone and everyone is welcome to donate and shop at our clothing bank. Most clothes are $1.00 yep, you read that right $1.00! The most expensive at this point is $3.00's and those items include men's complete suits and women's formals. We have kids, women's and men's clothing, ranging from jeans, t-shirts, to suits (both men's and women's)ties, shoes, dress pants/shirts, workout clothes etc...

The proceeds from the clothing bank go to the food bank. And, once again you may ask what is the food bank? Well, our church is opening a food bank to assist those families that need help with food. But, you need food to have a food bank and you need donations and money to buy food. So, that's why we have the clothing bank.

All clothing donations are tax deductible.
You can donate clothes at:
Church of the Harvest offices
120 S. Cole Rd. Boise, Id 83709
8-4:30 Monday - Friday

Or you can bring your donations to church and drop them off at the alcove by the main doors. This is a great opptrunity to clean out your clothes and help others all at the same time.
If you have any questions please call me!
You may wonder why I am posting about the clothing bank and the answer is becuase I am in CHARGE of it!

We don't have a set schedule as to when we are open but our goal is 2x times a month (usually on Saturday's) with the hope of being open every weekend.

OPEN DATES for DECEBMER:
Saturday the 19th 10-1
Wednesday the 30th 1-3

Will contuine to post open times as they become available.

Andrea

Finally!

Finally! things are starting to feel like the Christmas spirit in the house. Since, I have been recovering from surgery we haven't really thought about Christmas and the FUN that goes along with getting ready. But, we have ordered and mailed out Christmas cards, the tree is up and decorated, and I am finally feeling well enough to start thinking about what Christmas treats I want to start baking :) The girls are getting excited to celebrate Jesus' Birthday and hang out with family. Christmas here we come.

I went to the Dr. today for my post-op appointment. Things are healing well, they removed my stitches and the stint that was holding my septum in place and cleaned my nose...yeah it hurt. I go back in two weeks for another cleaning (yeah for me) and to make sure things are still healing properly.

To keep you updated, we have signed up for the PRIDE classes. Not sure what PRIDE stands for but you have to take these classes before you can be licensed to foster parent. These classes are three weeks long we will take them on Saturday's from 9-4 and Tuesday's from 6-9. During these classes we will have a home study done and the social worker will approve us and hopefully by February we will have a child placed in our home. We are still very excited and anxiously awaiting the arrival of a little person to our home. We have been specific about the age, we will only take a child 2 or younger and we would prefer 1 but, we are will take siblings. We are excited for what the Lord brings our way.

Sorry, this post is so sporadic in content but I had a few things I wanted to update everyone on.
Andrea

Busy Last Few Days...

Hello,
The last 5 days have been busy. Surgery on Thursday which I am still recovering from. Getting better day by day. I am still on pain meds but not taking them as often as I was so that's a blessing. I told Jc that I have never been punched in the face but, thought that after this surgery I can confidently say that it hurts...I felt like I was punched square in the nose :)

On Monday, Jc and I celebrated our 9th anniversary! We had a wonderful meal cooked by our great neighbor Trinity (some ladies from church are providing meals while I am out after surgery) we watched the movie Emma and had milkshakes from Arctic Circle. Yeah, we were living large :) We had a great night!

Thanks, for all your emails, phone calls, and texts with prayers and well wishes. I feel like I am definitely on the mend.

Love,
Andrea

P.S. I want to give a shout out to my hubby! He has been amazing! He has baked bread, administered late night pain meds, has cleaned the house, taken care of 3 emotional girls..well make that 4 emotional girls and has done all of it with grace and anointing. Thanks Babe for all that you have done it has not gone unnoticed :)

Post-Surgery...

I am 2 days post surgery and am doing as well as can be expected. Will post more as I feel better. But thought I would give a quick update :)
Blessings,
Andrea

So, tomorrow is surgery day! I have to be at the surgery center at 12:15 pm. I am a little nervous but not to bad because I know that God has a plan and He is my healer! I think my girls are more nervous than I am. They have wanted to clean the house, do laundry and cook for me, maybe I should have surgery more often..HAHA.. They are sweet little girls and want to take care of their mama! :)

I went to Costco last night to pick up me meds for after surgery and was very surprised when I left the Pharmacy. I walked out with 4 BIG bottles of medicine. I even told the pharmacist I didn't think all this medicine was mine. He asked me "is your name Andrea Sills?" I said "yes" he said "then this is for you" I said "oh, ok." And then walked away from the window thinking am I dying and someone forgot to tell me! I have 2 large bottles of main meds for when I come home and 2 bottles of antibiotic. Taylor said "WOW, mom that's alot of medicine" I said "I know!" But, once I got over the shock I figured out what everything was for. Praise the Lord.

Jc will keep everyone up to date on how things are going and if I don't look to bad maybe even post some pictures. But I will sensor those :)

Andrea

Thanksgiving Day

I have realized that this blog is going to help me to take more pictures. Because while it is fun to read updates on people and their families pictures are much more fun to look at while you read! :)

We spent Thanksgiving in Mtn. Home at my dad's with family from the Barber side :) It was great to see Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Grandparents that I don't get to see often. We watched football and old family videos of my grandpa and his family from when he was young. I have seen all those pictures before but it was really neat to have my grandpa narrating the pictures as we looked at them. It brought them to life...

The girls love their grandparents house...horses, chickens, dogs, and cats...any child's dream. Taylor wrestles the cats and catches the chickens. (I have nick named her Rocky) Jordynn loves the Wii and is a bowling wonder. And Madison just likes to be able to run in circles and be crazy! Jc and I enjoy the break! :)

We hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family and friends and reasons to be thankful.
Love,
Andrea

Thanksgiving Service Pictures

Thanksgiving Service

Every year our church has a Thanksgiving service where they encourage everyone to dress up and come and give thanks to the Lord for all that He has done. So this is one of the 1st years that we dressed up...I have some pictures of the girls and their comstumes... Taylor was a pilgrim, Jordynn was an Indian, and Madsion was from the late 1600's. We had so much fun :)

Here We Go!

Ok, so here we go...
So, for those of you who have checked our newly started blog you can be the 1st to hear our BIG news. Jc and I are in the final stages of becoming foster parents!!! Which we are very excited to do. We have to take some classes and then hopefully we will get a child placed in our home soon after that! The girls are very excited to open their home and hearts to a child who needs love :) They are such amazing girls. We will keep you all posted (on our blog page) as we continue through the journey of foster parenting. Yes, we would love to adopt if the Lord opens the door.

The other news is that I get to have sinus surgery Dec. 3rd..yeah for me! I have a deviated septum and my right cheek sinus cavity is completely blocked and about 1/2 the size it should be. So they will fix my septum and "find the natural openings and make them bigger" so my sinus's can work. WooHoo...

Thanks for taking interest in our family...
Will post again soon..
Andrea

Our 1st Post...

We are excited to start blogging so family and friends can stay caught up with our family!