A Vessel God Can Use
Swimming with the wolfWarning do not swim with the wolf he thinks people are swim toys. When he jumped in he did this to me:
God Bless, mj How many men dies it take to hang a picture?I had my daughter Kristi take this picture when we were at my sisters Tracy's house for a BBQ. She and her hubby Andy just bought their 1 st home a few weeks ago. She needed this picture hung. Tracy, mom and I laughed so hard while the men were hanging the picture. We kept saying how it would have been done faster if we girls did it. And the boys / men kept making jokes about the "stud finder" find them! Oh'boy men. It took them over 15 minutes to hand the picture with ONE nail. We love you boys, but we girls could have had it done in 3-5 minutes! Here are the boy / men:
God Bless, mj ****Sunday's Musings****This afternoon I thought I would take a photo of our sunflowers as they are already starting to keel over. Then I noticed some wild flowers from seeds that I didn't think would come up but they did. So far there is Love in the mist and red poppies - just a few but these looked awesome & so colourful. I then picked some more runner beans and I would say the last of the tomatoes as these have now had it. Yesterday I went to the local market and picked up 13lbs of tomatoes for around $9 and tomorrow or Tuesday I will turn these into both sauce plus make Tomato & Basil soup for the freezer. DH is making a three course meal this evening. He is making Baked Camembert with hot Ciabatta followed by fillet of beef wrapped in parma ham served with mushrooms, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, mange tout and baby corn. For dessert, a quick rich chocolate mousse. We are also having Californian Sparking Zinfandel Rose Wine - am I being spoiled or am I being spoiled - woo hoo The overflow of tomatoes purchased are also in the pot:
I forgot that I also picked a small squash and the only two apples from one of our trees (This is a new tree so next year should hopefully be better)! Have a wonderfull blessed SONday
Dinner at my sistersThis afternoon we went to my sister Tracy's house to see it and have dinner. Tracy and her husband Andy bought this house a coupleweeks ago, but have just finished painting and fixing it up. The house is cute and big, I love it. I love the color she painted it. This is her 1st time owning a house. There was only one problem . "How many men does it take to hang one picture"?
We girls were laughing so hard. We kept telling each other if we did it we would be done by now From left to right is my husband Shannon, my dad Mike, my b-i-l Andy. Shhh, it took them about 15 + minutes Dinner was great. It was Tracy and Andy , our parents, our aunt and 2 cousins and Michelle, Gill and the babies and of course us 4. We thought that the babies would come with us because when they see us they always want to come back "home". The grand-babies cam home with us We had a blast and can't wait to go again. God Bless all, mj Celebrating my blessings!Greetings Friends!This last Friday was my son, Ezekiel's birthday! What a wonderful day it was to celebrate my blessing! The Father has so graciously given me these children; I am truly humbled to be their mommy. I must take each day, each moment, with a seriousness and respect of the great calling that He has placed on my life! Oh! dear friends, I can not count the times I have given thanks to the Father for letting me be this young mans mother! Ezekiel was born from our hearts through adoption. The battle was long and fierce for him and his siblings and I will never take for granted what the Lord has done in bringing them into our home. Ezekiel is a mighty man for Christ. May he grow strong to accomplish all the Lord has set before him... all for God's Glory! Ezekiel planed out his day the night before his birthday. To start the day off we all enjoyed a day of yard sales! Fun, fun, fun! Our sweet neighbors invited us to join them in a city not far from here that had a city wide yard sale! There were hundreds of yard sales in this small country town. We parked our car and walked to each one.. NO! We didn't visit them all, not even close! We had take a certain amount with us and once that was gone we were done and ready for a trip to the ice cream parlor! Ezekiel requested ice cream at the parlor instead of a cake so off we went! What a delightful treat it was to spend time with all the children. The Lord poured out such peace upon our family. I enjoyed the day as if there were no life troubles to distract me. For at that moment, there was nothing more important than enjoying all that the Father has given me- my blessings! After ice cream, we headed back home for naps and put all our yard sale finds in their places. Sammy was excited about his bubble lawn mower that he bought with his own dollar. He is eager to help the big boys mow the yard! Naps refreshed us so we could tackle the rest of our day. Off we went again for dinner and a night at the lake for hot air balloon rides! The children were so tickled to be walking around these huge balloons. None of them were frightened about going up in them, which really surprised me since I have some very reserved and cautious children at times. Balloon rides, climbing on fire trucks, bouncing in bounce houses and playing on the grass with siblings took us late into the night. We all enjoyed seeing the hot air balloons light up at night! The photos we took didn't even come close to capturing how pretty it was. I have posted a slide show on the side of the blog for you to enjoy! Spiritually, the Lord continues to work in each of our hearts! I am thankful that He will complete the good work He has begun! My heart continues to wait upon the Lord. I will patiently bear the delay of His answer to me with confidence that it will come in due season! What a sweet heart work, transformation, that has been taking place in my life! How are you dear friends? Please send us a note as the Lord allows you too! The Wood family sends hugs to each of you! Cheryl you have been in our prayers- we love you dearly dear sister! Lori- Rebekah enjoyed seeing Rachel's picture- she was surprised with how she had grown. I guess we forget that others are aging as we are too! :-) Kohout friends, Joe has yet another newspaper to share with you. I think he is trying to send hints that we would love to have you join us here in KS! :-) We know the Lord has each of us placed perfectly to testify of His love and grace- we just love you guys! Susi- did the children get Zeke's letter? If not, that is my fault. He wrote two letters that were the same and I threw one away.. I am hoping I didn't throw them both away. Let me know when you can! Well, there are so many of you dear friends that I would love to just come and sit and share with. For now, the Father has allowed us to share via our emails, letters, phone calls and blogs. I will thank Him for those moments and trust that "real life" fellowship will happen in His timing! Until our next chat, may all His blessings abound in your hearts and home... all for His Glory! With much love, Mrs. Joseph Wood  Josiah, Bekah and Ezekiel- they are such a blessing to me~ I delight in each of them!  My Timothy and Ezekiel enjoying a ride on the fire engine  The girls gave toddlers "horsie rides" until late into the night. We all sat on the grass and had a simply relaxing and delighful time playing, laughing and loving each other! I thank the Lord for such sweet memories that were made!  Can't you just hear them giggle?!  Beth and Sarah my little ladies!  Elisha working on his art work of our night with the balloons! 
tomatoesTomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! I can't believe how many tomatoes we have in our garden. It was a slow start, but they have been growing like crazy lately. We already canned 7 quarts of spaghetti sauce (and used 4). We have at least 80 tomatoes on the counter right now. After church tomorrow we will probably make another batch of sauce before the tomatoes go bad. Yesterday my husband and a couple of our kids killed 3 roosters for dinner tonight. I soaked them in salt water all night and put them in my large roaster all day to slow cook with potatoes and carrots. Everyone enjoyed them. We are just starting to be able to eat the "fresh" chickens. We get more than a dozen eggs a day from the hens. We have at least ten more roosters to eat. We have at least 20 turkeys that we can eat. We are going to let them get big enough first. We have 3 huge males that are ready for Thanksgiving. I am going to start preparing my family for a "no power" day. We are going to not use any unnecessary power on Sundays to see the effect if will have on my power bill. My power bill is way to high and I know there are things we can do beyond what we already do. All of my light bulbs are the twisty bulbs. We have the air set a little hotter than I like. I hang out most of the laundry (except the endly white load of socks, and on rainy days). We limit the lights on to whatever is needed, but not to leave a light on. Next I think we should only use the power for the air, fridge, freezer, etc., but not for lights, laundry, TV, etc. on Sundays to see what effect it has on the power, then if it is significant enough I could try two days a week. The kids will love the lanterns and I will love the quiet. Well, after church tomorrow I am going to take some pictures. Have a nice one. Brenda God loves a cheerful giverGod loves a cheerful giver Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Budget Friendly supper....Since moving to the new homestead, our expenses have triple as far as groceries and gas. I have had to be creative as far as groceries are concerned. I am literally spending a fortune and can not wait to get some deer in the freezer but until then, we are trying to do some meatless dishes. Here is tonight’s recipe, super easy!!!! Black Beans and Rice I soaked my black beans all day and put them in a bean pot at about 3:00. I covered them with water about 2 inches above the beans. I added salt, pepper, garlic powder and 1 Tbsp. of oil and started to boil them. I turned them down to a simmer after bringing them to a boil. I simmered them for about 2 1/2 hours. After about an hour I started my brown rice. After the beans and rice were cooked, I added some rotel to the beans and simmered it for about 15 minutes. In a bowl I put rice and then topped it with the bean mixture. We added cheese and sour cream to our beans and rice. It was so delicious. We don't feel deprived at all. Blessings, Trixi
The StartMy name is mj and I am Shannon's help meet. Shannon is a Mr. Command Man, as described in Debi Pearl's book. Some times it is hard to be a wife of a Command Man, if you are a strong dominant woman. I am just about as hard headed as Shannon. It took me years to give him the head of the household role and I do mean YEARS! But it was all worth it! To have him in charge of it all is such a weight off me. But some times there are problems. An example is with our older daughter Shayna. Shayna is a very good girl, but boy is she strong willed, I have no clue where she got that from It was hard for me to not say something about his not talking to her more. He knew I wanted to say it, but did not. This blog is a part of my journey of working everyday on being the help meet Shannon needs and God wants me to be. God Bless, mj PicturesHere is a picture of my husband and one of his fish he caught on one of his trips to Mexico, my hubby is the one in the red tank top:
Here is one from 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever seen a horse drink from a park fountain:
That is Kristi and Cody. It was taken last fall. This next one is my father on his bike with his little dog George. They ride around Vegas like this. Aren't they cute!
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Here is some of a wet wolf:
Arthur wolf in his run, muddy:
We let him in the pool because it need salt to run and clean it.
From left to right is my hubby Shannon, our dad and last is Tracy's husband Andy.
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. The problem was Shayna spoke to me rude and then to her dad. He and I talked to her about it but stopped when it was dinner time. Shannon said he would talk to her again after dinner but did not. That was hard for me because it was not resolved. I wanted it done and over with.
Moose for sale. As Shayna was listing some books for sale on E-bay her cat Moose was helping out. Yup he wore some stickers that said 50% off and 75% off. I think he thought he was worth more as you can tell he was not happy about his price 
