Gods amazing love and provision!

I told myself on new years eve that blogging would be my newyears resolution so I can look back and remember ALL THAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US THIS LAST YEAR. I don't remember what I posted last so I'll just catch up quickly; In December we received a phone call from an old frined of Steven's saying that the church steven grew up in owns a house that they'd love for us to stay in for free if we fixed it up! We went to look at it and it was in bad shape. But due to my HARD working hubby and the help of many family and friends we got it to be "move-in-able"! Yeah! 4 days after we got that offer the fire academy called and said that steven made it into the spring academy! The awesom part about it is that the house is .5 miles from the station where he's doing his training! We couldn't be more blessed by Gods gracious gift! Especially considering the fact that the academy is from 5:20am-7pm 6 days a week! A commute would've ment Steven not seeing Noah 5-6 days a week. A job that has been Steven's for about 8 years is filing our taxes. That means going to a meeting with my dad for hours on end with the tax man, yeah. But this year he is in the academy and lucked out of it. On my way to the meeting I told him "you owe me big time buddy"! Little did I know that God was going to meet me in that meeting in huge ways! The tax man talked for what seemed like forever about how we're all dumbed and my dad and he reminissed about the good ol days......while I sat there and thought that it would be less painful to eat my own foot! We then started taking care of all of our personal taxes and then the comapany taxes. FUN, FUN (SARCASM). Then the tax man turned to me and said "Steven made 26K-ish last year"! I could not believe that he made about a 1/4 of what he had last year, we added a person and we are still alive!!!!!!!! I left that meeting on such a high and so amazed at how HUGE our God! I can seriously thank this horrible economy for renwing a deep love and trust in my Savior that had been getting growing faint for some time! Thank you Jesus for your love and provisions! On a different note Noah is GRWOING, GROWING, GROWING! And Steven seems to think that he needs a sibling to play with soom. Hmmmmm......we'll see babe, we'll see. Steven is doing soooo well in the academy, he has been noticed in big ways and they are seeing a man of integrity and talent. Please be praying that it will be the Lords will for him to be stationed quickly and locally as soon as possible. until next time......I love you all!