Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!

When we go on vacation in the summer with my parents and my sister and her family, we spend some time up in Minnesota at a resort.  It's quite fun and they have a variety of activities to do.  One of them is playing Bingo!  It gets very lively with money involved and when someone wins, the owners of the resort always shout "Winner!  Winner!  Chicken Dinner!"  I felt it only appropriate to name the post with that phrase because we have a winner in our first giveaway!

So, let's move on to the good stuff.  I had a trusty little assistant to help me! :)

That's right!!  Tiffany Van Zee, you are the big winner! :)  We truly appreciate everyone who has jumped in and helped us with our fundraising efforts!

We have officially been with Village to Village for about 3 weeks and have been able to raise $3,200!  We feel so blessed to have people walk along side us in this journey.

I will be honest.  It is downright hard for me (and Jeremy) to ask for help......especially when it comes to money.  I think we were both raised with the mentality that we should be able to do things on our own.  For example, Saturday night we had friends over.  I wasn't quite ready when friends arrived and Jeremy still wasn't home from Jake's basketball games.  Our friends were asking what they could do to help me, but I felt like they should just sit, relax, and enjoy themselves instead of pitching in.  But, they wanted to.  And, I appreciate that.  Just like I appreciate all of you following along with us.  God is truly stretching us in this area.  Because we have to face the reality that we just cannot do this on our own.  And, just when I let worry creep in and wonder how we are going to do it, God gives me hope through others.

We are trying to come up with some ideas for the month of January and another giveaway.  So, stay tuned.  And, if you donate between now and when we announce our next giveaway, your name will still be entered into the drawing.

What else have we been up to?  Well, getting ready for Christmas, of course!  I am really struggling with not letting the busy-ness of the season get to me.  I'm really trying to focus on the gift that God gave us so many years ago.  Here are just a couple of pictures of us trying to soak up all that this season means.

Hope reading from the bible while enjoying some hot chocolate.

Doing our advent devotions at supper time.

Looking forward to driving around and looking at Christmas lights soon.  I just hope it's on a night where the snow is lightly falling, and we can sing Christmas carols in harmony while wearing our pj's.  A girl can dream, right? :)