From the one and only.....JASON!

Ok, My first try at this blob, I mean blog thing.

I hope all know that I am finishing up my Seminary Masters degree this December, Very important for everyone to know this. I hope to be serving in a church soon, in the capacity of Minister of… have absolutely no clue. God has always called me in steps, never revealing what is next until His perfect timing comes about. I pray that He moves in our life in this manner soon. I am looking forward to serving the Lord doing what I hope He has been preparing me for.

Tonya’s Work, I think, is going great. I do have to continually remind her that she is talented, capable of making good grades, the best cook a man could have, good looking woman. She also as if that was not enough has a great deal of potential to serve God in ministry. I would not have made it where I am without her, God planned her to work in my life the way she has. She is my help mate. So it has now passed to me to be her help mate. So her studying habits still need working on. The one thing about trying to get her to study, I love her cleaning the house, love it, love it. (this means I do not have to clean) But she has been cleaning the house to “get out” of doing school work, see my problem. On the one hand: I am a selfish man, I don’t want to clean the house. On the other hand: I know she needs to study so I want her to leave it to me. So if you see her, tell her “read every chance you get, let the Husband do the cleaning”.
Glad that was said.

Well in other news. My Bro. in-law has mono, if anyone remembers or cared I had mono last year and I felt for the guy. He had a chance to possibly get a job but he had conflicts getting to the interviews because of… you guessed it mono. God must have something better for him because he has not been able to get back with them and they essentially have moved on. We talked on the phone for about 15-20min I shared some groans and moans of my experience with mono. And tried to encourage him with wise words like: “don’t worry you’ll feel better in 2 or 3 weeks.” “Only exhaustion awaits you after the aches and pains go away.” Make sure you spray disinfectant after you’ve used something.” “Hand sanitizer will help people not fear your disease.” Get the idea, the guy still said thanks like I had actually given him hope that this will go away. I still get exhausted abnormally after a days work. I wish that could improve, but it seems that I must feel tired more than usual a bit longer.

My sister Amy got a job this week after visiting with one of my teacher, Dr. Marcia McQuitty, about Amy looking into children’s ministry studies. I had no idea of what would happen for Amy this week but Monday morning she met with Dr. McQuitty, I took her over to the Day Care center on campus, and left her getting an interview with the boss. She got a job that day, on the spot, and started the next day. All on a Monday. God does some things when we least expect and most of the time when we quit looking for it to happen. This was an answered prayer. She is applying for seminary now and we hope that she will get in with no problems or hold ups. She going to pursue a Masters in Christian Education in Children’s ministry.

I will leave you with a thought I have had for a couple of days now. I wish that ya’ll, could appreciate the art of listening to scripture, or hear it the way I do. Not that I have the marked on it or something like that. Just strictly for conversation reasons. I listened to first and second Samuel. I find myself just amazed by Samuels words to Saul. God will choose for himself one after his own heart. (1 Samuel) when referring to David I know not one man that could say he was better than him. My hope is that just like I did, you could hear that we are all after God’s own heart, adopted children that God chose himself. Listening to David’s life anew and hear all his struggles, victories, sins, joys, and sorrows, this man chosen by God, helps to give me courage, hope, and assurance of his love and power in me to do whatever He has for us in our future. My prayer is that He shows you that you’re His child and if you become president, get a doctorate, become homeless, get it all or lose it all, you still never lose that standing. You’re a child of God that is the least you or I will ever be. You are a child of God that is also the greatest you and I will ever be. No matter what, we are His children.

In Christ,Jason Curry

Look in the sky.....is it a bird, a plane? No...........Its Indiana Jones?

Well this past weekend the Welkers invited us over to play their cool new Wii. Amy and I had planned on going to downtown to Uno's Pizza but the plans changed at last minute when we heard about 5 times each from our husbands, "are you sure that'll give us enough Wii time by going downtown, eating, then getting back that late?" Ok, let me clarify, "that late" is about 7:30 or so. So we get in the car and I look at Amy and say "are you sure we need to go downtown?", she gets the clue, and says "no, lets go to this pizza place that Jason (her Jason) and I love". So we go.

Then we get back in time for the boys to play Wii. The played Indiana Jones, and before we got to the Welkers I asked J if he wanted his Indiana Jones hat, he said, oh yeah! So here is the boy w/his hat playing Wii with his buddy Jason Welker.




Here he is concentrating really hard! (And don't be confused this is Jason not Indiana Jones, for those that may need clarification :) )




You may be thinking, what did Amy and Tonya do? Well we went shopping to Cotsco, Bed Bath and Beyond and Krogers. We got ready for the party the next day at the Welkers. :) When we got back though, it was time for me to try the Wii. I played Tennis, bowling and cow racing! All in all the Wii is a pretty cool little gadget, quite fun. And we enjoyed our night with the Welkers!

Welcome Basket (A Work in Progress).........

Jason worked hard to put together some Welcome to our Neighborhood baskets on Sunday while I read on my Swing may I add :)......

The awesome guy even made cookies and here is the documenation to prove it!

He first tried the bowl (please notice my nice China bowl, but the wife does not complain when the husband makes cookies)......... he then transferred them to the Kitchen Aid Mixer (which helped make the chocolate chip cookies into chocolate cookies :) ).......

The finished Product! Good Job Babe!!

A little Video for your enjoyment!

My New Swing.......

Jason worked hard and got this swing put together from a frame that we got from our neighbors. This is my new spot at home, I love it! Thanks Jason :).

Didn't he do good??!!

Busy Weekend........

Jason and I had a pretty busy weekend. First thing we did was go out with the Ericksons Friday night and went to Souper Salad!, our favorite place to go :). Then Amanda and I went to Garden Ridge and we bought some items to decorate for fall. I bought 4 wreaths, they were all from the summer and were 90% off, so they were from $1.00-2.00 :), and then I bought a "garland type" of leaves, and a few things to stick in my wreath, to make a Fall wreath! I looked at all the wreaths for sale, and they just were not in my "budget". So for 7.50 I made a wreath that looks like the ones for 25.00, tell me what ya think:

Next items up that I bought were little porcelin pumpkins and squash to make a centerpiece, and I bought a cheap mat to put under it, again, tell me what ya think:

So we "decorated" a small bit and the next morning we cleaned up the front porch. Jason was awesome and painted a table, made a swing (from a frame that the Mays gave us) and cleaned up our "landscaping" area. So here is our front porch!

This is where you'll find us now!!! :)




The rest of Saturday we got to watch an adorable little guy Eli until Sunday after church! We played outside, saw fish up here at the seminary, and even got to see the one and only Noche (our Presidents dog). We had so much fun and were ready for rest!

My Brothers Wedding 8-8-08

My brother got married last month and I wanted to post a few pics of the very happy newlyweds! :)





And here is one of Jason and I with my grandparent's! :)

A good day and night :)

I went to class today and chapel today and both were good! After work today I thought what can I do for dinner? I forgot I had steaks that I bought on quick sale, so we had steak, free wild rice a roni (coupons rock :) ), cheap broccolli and cheese, and free croissants! Thank you grocery game for a cheap and delicous dinner. I keep getting reminded how lucky Jason and I are, to never worry about if there will be food on the table, we are very blessed and God takes care of us everyday, its a good reminder :).

On another good note, I got to talk to an old friend, that I haven't talked to in about 8 years, it was really good!

Hope you all have a great evening and I'm going to go start that thing they call reading.........

"He" works hard for his money.........

Well Jason went to his parents this weekend to start the many phases of remodeling their home. They are doing room by room and the first room was Amys "old" room. Amy just moved out, so it worked out really well.

The whole process took 3 days, that was preppping/kilz/painting walls and doors,pulling up carpet, putting down laminate wood floors and adding white trim. It looks awesome! When the whole house is done, it'll look new! :)

I studied all weekend and read theology books that didn't make a whole lotta sense to me. We stayed at Jason's grandmothers house and it was nice and quiet.

On Labor day, we labored all day and cleaned, put up laundry and washed laundry for about 5 hours. From mopping the floor to my awesome hubby scrubbing the bathroom even using a toothbrush at times! That night we went to Jonny Carinos and got the family platter (half off Monday nights) and got lasagna, pretty good! (had it for lunch the next day too!)

So that was our Labor day, we were pretty pooped from a long weekend of working and studying so we went to bed at 9 and woke up at 7 this morning :).

Hope you had a great day too and got a lot done too!