Blessings

I thought it was about time to give you an update on the happenings from the Kemper home. Things are going really good. God has just been blessing us so much. It has been wonderful. We continue to pray that we are in His will. Let me share a little more.
Okay, so most of you know we were looking at buying the home that is pictured in my previous post. Well, it is a go. We are very excited. God has opened every door and done even more. Our closing date on the house is January 31st. Wow huh, that is coming up quick.(no I have not started packing) We are planning on moving in the weekend of Feb. 8-10. This will give me a week to paint the walls the color I want and put the blinds up and light/fans. It is a new home, but I really don't want white walls. I am so excited to get it all ready. Okay back to how God has blessed us. Today I get a call from the loan company needing more info, no problem there. I asked the lady what interest rate we ended up locking in. She looks it up and come to find out they didn't lock one in. Yeah, that is not good. I was a little annoyed at that moment, but just thought okay whatever happens happens. We originally thought we would have about a 6% rate. So, I get an email from her with our locked rate at 5.5%. How crazy is that? God is so good. Well, that is not all that God did today. My insurance company calls me today to verify stuff for the house and give me my monthly cost. The loan company had it estimated at about $66 a month. I finished all the stuff for insurance and she tells me my cost will be $25 a month. Yeah!!! So, with the rate being lower and insurance being lower we are saving about $75 a month. How cool is that?! I don't remember if I told you all this before but the company we are buying our house from is buying out our lease and paying the fees to break the lease. And they are paying $9,000 to closing cost. Mind you they took about $32,000 off of the house. Yeah, I think God is taking care of us. I have such a peace about it all. Ben & I have been getting along great during it all. That is huge because it is usually very stressful around our home when we are buying a house. God is so good all of the time!!!!! I have been thanking him all day. Oh, I almost forgot. Also, today I got a call from the company we rent from and they wanted to show the house today at 1:15. I had about an hour to get the house looking good. Thank goodness I keep up on it. I was running around crazy though. My plan today was to spot clean the carpets, well that didn't happen. Maybe tomorrow. One more thing went good today, I fixed my little vacuum cleaner. It stopped working last week and I really need it to clean my stairs. I was a little proud of myself on fixing it. So, all in all today has been wonderful. I want to thank all of you that have been praying for us during this process. Please continue to lift us up.
I will try to post more often. Miss you all! Please come visit us. We will have plenty of room for visitors in February. :~)

New Home

This is the house we are looking at purchasing. We are going on Saturday to start the process. We are real happy about it. I know it isn't a great picture, but I took it in the dark and couldn't really see what I was taking a picture of. Maybe after I know the house is ours I will post a better picture. This house is located in Castle Rock, which is about 20 minutes south from where we are now. It is in a real nice area. I would ask all that are reading this that you would pray for us. We want to make sure we are in God's will. It all feels right. The place we are buying the house from is willing to pay out the rest of our lease. That is a big deal for us. If all of this works out we will be in this house by the end of January. How cool is that? I will try to post to keep you all up to date. Just pray for us, knowing buying a house can be very stressful. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. We had a white Christmas. It snowed all day. It was beautiful. Our Christmas was really nice. Missed family and friends though.
Have a wonderful day!

More pictures

Just thought I would post some more pictures of our snow here. There is a picture of our house with the snow falling. One of our backyard to show how much had fallen. Then there is Jacob shoveling snow. He does a pretty good job. Also, he is pretty willing to help. Hopefully that will continue. Megan helps sometimes too. This was all taken on Tuesday. Because of the snow the kids had a delay start at school. So, they started an hour later, but got out at the same time. After school, they went sledding behind our street. I only got a picture of Jacob because Megan wouldn't go again. Maybe next time I will get her. We are suppose to be getting more snow tomorrow (Friday). The kids have been out everyday playing in the snow and making ramps to go down. I am so happy to see them really enjoying it all. We are all hoping that we will have fresh snow on Christmas morning.

Speaking of Christmas I believe that I am all ready for it. I finally finished my shopping today. I just need to wrap one more gift and I am officially down. Even though I am ready in that way. I am sure missing my family. This is going to be a little tough for me but I know that I am right where God has me and wants me to be. I have had some tough days that makes it really hard for me to have joy. Then I have to remember that I have a choice to have a pity party or to look to my Rock for joy. I am choosing to look to Him and continue to pull strength from him. I am thankful for that.
I pray that each of you have a wonderfully blessed Christmas. Don't forget the real reason for it all. Jesus did it all for us! That is what I am most thankful for.

Merry Christmas! Love you all!!

After a day of skiing/snowboarding

Here is a lovely picture of Ben after a day on the slopes. We were all very tired. I had to post this nice picture of Ben with his crazy hair. This was a long day for us, but we had a wonderful time. Jacob was so tired and said he wouldn't be able to fall asleep in the car. Well, I have proof that he was tired enough. He played hard this day. Megan worked hard too. Her & I went down the slope together. It took her and I 2 hours to get down. Yeah, that is right it took us 2 hours. It was a long run. Well, not really 2 hours long, but Megan is new at it. God sure did give me quit a bit of patience that day. I am so thankful for that. Megan had a good attitude most of the time. There was one point when she told me to just go down the mountain without her. Yeah, like that was really going to happen. We laughed together and got frustrated together. At the end we sure did give each other a high five. I was and am so proud of her for not giving up. She was so awesome up there. God really blessed our time together. Jacob & Ben were able to spend some time together too. I think that was really good for them. I really believe that Jacob's love language is time. I love to see Jacob & Ben spend time together. It was great for Meg & I to spend our time together too. Those bonding times are just so awesome. Okay well now I am just babbling now.

Things are still great here. We are getting some snow here today. Tomorrow we get to go get our Christmas tree. I am looking forward to getting all our Christmas decorations up. I am almost done with my shopping too. Whew hew! Just a couple of more things and I am all done. I guess that is all I have for now. I will try to post more later. Not much else happening here.
Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas season! Miss you all!

What's new?

Well, not much new here. Waiting for some more snow to come our way. The weather actually has been very nice. We are in the 60's and 70's one day and then it sometimes gets in the 40's & 50's. The sun sure shine a lot here. I do enjoy that.

I have share with you all that I get to see my mom & dad on Thanksgiving. Oh, and my sister, my niece, grandma, aunts and cousins. I can not wait to see them. It has been almost 5 months since I saw my mom & dad. That is a long time considering that I would see them at least once a week and my mom usually twice. Then, right before we left I lived with them. We are meeting them in Arizona. I have to say I am not looking forward to the drive. It will take us about 12 hours to get there. It take my parents about 10 hours. I am just so happy that we have the chance to spend the first holiday with family. I sure miss my family and can't wait to give them a big hug.

Let me tell what has been happening here. Jacob has been sick almost a week now. He started last Saturday with a fever & headache. He had a low fever for a couple of days. Well, then on Tuesday it peaked at 103.2. I was able to get it down that day. Then, on Wednesday it was up to 102.2. By then I had had enough, so I decided to take him in. Of course, I had to do Urgent Care. So, I take him to urgent care and they have to give him a breathing treatment. He was coughing pretty bad. I guess because of his asthma (which is all still new to us) he needs take his inhaler when he is coughing from a cold or flu. That is good to know. Well, then they take a chest X-ray to see if he has pneumonia. I am thinking great, what a horrible mother I am. Well, it turns out it was pneumonia, but instead he has bronchitis. Oh yeah. I must tell you now he is doing much better. He missed 3 days of school, but is back at it today. He needed to go back. :~) I am not looking forward and either is he to all he will have to make up. But, I am so happy he is feeling better. I really don't like to see my kids so sick. It was nice at the doctors because he would lean on me and let me hold him. That does not usually ever happen. I am lucky if I get a hug usually. So, the good side of all of it was that I realized even though he doesn't say or show that he loves me often, I sure do feel needed and loved when he is sick.

So, yesterday Ben & Megan has eye doctor appointments. I went with them because Ben said that I needed to go for Megan since I usually am there and know more of what is going on with her. Megan is getting new glasses again. And Ben has to now start wearing glasses when he is on the computer or reading. It was fun finding glasses for him & Megan. He tried on some that were interesting. We had some good laughs.

Well, I think that is all the exciting news from the Kemper house. We are just enjoying each other and taking it all day by day.To all my family & friends I pray your Thanksgiving is full of love and thankfulness. May your day be blessed with family, fun and laughter. I miss you all! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our first ski/snowboarding trip

I thought I would share some of our photo's of our first trip to the slopes. Then I had to include a pretty view that we had. I was so proud of both of my kids. They both took lessons the first day and Megan took lessons for two days. Jacob caught on very quickly. I think with him skate boarding helped a lot. Ben got a great pictures of him in the air after his jump. He was doing all kinds of tricks. He is ready to go again. Megan did so good in her lessons. We were a bit nervous for her, because she isn't as outgoing in this area. But let me tell you she did great. She really enjoyed herself. They both were wiped out at the end though. We are looking forward to many more trips out
this year. I am so thankful for this time we have
together as a family. I love to find more things
that keep our family close. The kids really love it
too.

This was only our second time as a family. Ben
was still trying to figure out snowboarding. He
did well too. Well, I used to snow ski when I was younger. So, this was I think my first time out on my own in about 7 years or so. Let me tell you it kicked my hinney. I had a great time, but sure realized I need to workout a bit harder. My legs were so tired at the end of my
first run down the mountain. I only went down
twice and I was done. And I only fell once. Whew hew for me! It was a nice first time out.
I believe that is all I have for you all today. Enjoy the pictures! We are doing really good here in Colorado. Still loving it!
Missing my family and friends!

Halloween

Just thought I would post some pictures of our Halloween. Don't you think my kiddos are so cute. My ninja and my geisha girl. Then look at Dalin what a cute monkey! I love the picture of Megan fixing Dalin's costume. She is so fun to watch playing with Dalin. We all had a great night. The kids got tons of candy. I just wanted to share our current pictures. I will be posting next week after our trip to the mountains this weekend. We will be skiing and snowboarding all weekend. So, I will check back in next week. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Take care!