Blessings abound...

I know it's been a long time since we blogged. Summer has ended. School has started. As I said on the first day of school on my facebook wall, the first day of high school was almost as hard as the first day of kindergarten, but this time there was only one set of tears.  Now, we are in our second week of school and already, the time seems to be passing too fast! We have a high schooler! But we've been busy. And that's a good thing. Getting straight to the point, I have some things I would love to share!
Blessings and Praise:
1. Business (for Curtis Company) has picked up, and I think we may just make it! Which is a blessing and answer to many months of prayer.
2. We have found a church home (finally) and are all VERY happy and waiting for more opportunities to serve. Another blessing.  Mom said to me just yesterday "isn't it strange how we are surprised by the blessings we receive, but we shouldn't be surprised, I mean we prayed for it, having faith that God would bless us in our obedience." So true.
3. Opportunities and new ways to glorify the Father have been falling in our laps lately.
Again, surprises, but when we pray for certain things, we really shouldn't be surprised.  On that note (sort of), I finally have an official website other than this blog. It will be up and running very shortly and I will let everyone know as soon as it happens. Updates to come very soon...
4. We are expecting our second litter of American Bulldog puppies. Dakota is doing great and the pups are due around September 13th.  We will keep you posted and I am sure you know, (if you know me at all) there will be no lack of photos in the weeks/months to come.  http://www.dakota-dawn.com/ for more info on the pups.
5. Both kids really like school this year. Gabe is at Floyd Magnet again (and playing Bass Guitar in the band) and Breanna (in Creative Writing) at BTW.

Prayer requests:
This is something new (for the blog) I would like to try, so add a prayer request to this post as a comment, and hopefully it will give you peace, knowing that prayer warriors are right there on their knees, praying with you and for you, for whatever it is you may be going through. If you'd like to be anonymous, that is fine, God knows who you are and prayers will go up, just the same!

Lastly, I would like to leave you with a verse that has been sticking around in my mind lately... Hebrews 11:1 Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Blessings,
Maria