Sucessfull Surgery

From what he heard (we had to go to Indiana today) the surgery was a success. The Lymph Nodes that they removed appeared to look good, of course they have to wait for the pathology report to come back and that should happen sometime late week. On behalf of Missi and her family we thank you for all your prayers, emails, phone calls and thoughtful words as she underwent this surgery. Please keep her in your prayers as she anticipates the results from pathology and as she recovers. God is good all the time, All the time God is good!. There is great power in prayer!

Pumpkin Patch

Annika was worried about triping over the vines so while Derick carried the pumpkins my job was to carry 2 kids!

Dressed in our Sunday afternoon Best!!

Rag a Muffins ready for the hunt.

Here are a few picture we go this afternoon as we took out anual trip to the pumpkin field. The kids always have a great time finding just the right one.

Please Pray

Tomorrow is Missi's (Derick's sister) surgery. Please pray that she will be able to get some much needed sleep tonight, and tomorrow be a peace with the whole surgery.
Please pray for Jon as he has to watch his wife go through all this, that he will continue to be her rock as I am so sure that it has to be so hard to watch someone you love so deeply go through all of this.
For the kids as they try to understand all of this scary stuff. Pray that their minds will be at ease.
Pray for the doctors that will be performing the surgery that they will have steady hands and clear minds.
Pray that all the Lymph Nodes come out clean, meaning no cancer in them. They will take out a few of them and quick take a look at them, if they are good they will not take anymore out. If they are suspicious they will keep taking them until they feel they got it all.
Pray for Derick's parents as they watch their child go through this, and for them as they have the kids for the week.
God is the great physician and I know that he has a hand in this surgery. I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, even though we have no idea why this is happening I have faith that God is using Missi for his good work.
Thanks so much for your prayer you have cast out already. I will update hopefully tomorrow night as Derick and I have to go to Shipshewana tomorrow.
Thanks again.

Derick New Job!

Derick has gotten himself a new job modeling celery fields for Meijers! Check today's (Sunday) paper section A8-A9! What a bunch of great looking guys! In case you did not get the paper you can see the picture when you go to Meijers and by Crispheart Celery!

On a more serious note, we feel so blessed to have another successful year in business. I know I complain when he puts in a ton of hours but what a blessing it is to just have a job in this day and age. We are so thankful for all the hard work you do Derick so it is possible for me to stay home with the kids! We love you!

Intresting Afternoon

We had a little excitement over here this afternoon! I was taking all of our stuff out of the rental car and getting everyone loaded in to go drop it off and pick up the van as Annika was playing around in it as she normally does. I told her to get in the seat and I was coming to buckle her up so she climbed out of the drivers seat and shut the door and was trying to open the side door when I hear her ask me to help her get it opened. I come over and try to open the door and realize that while she was in the front playing she must have hit the lock button and we now have Tyler looked in the rental car along with the keys on the front seat! I of course go into panic mode ! And of course Derick is not picking up his cell phone. WONDERFUL!! So what do I end up doing? I had to call 911. Annika of course thought it was cool that the police man had to come and a tow truck! Hopefully she doesn't try locking him in there for fun now!!

Warning!!!! Lots of Wedding Pictures

Ok. So it spent like an hour getting a slide show ready and then when I was loading my last 2 pictures my computer froze so I just did a regular post nothing fancy. Sorry guys it may be a little long. Enjoy!


Jason and Melissa getting ready for Mexico! - Rehearsal was at Jason parents house, They had food catered in from the Sand Man and it was awesome! Thanks Van Dyke's
Cute Hat's Guys

Rileigh wanted to get her picture taken by the turkey but would not do it with out Uncle Jason.

Silly Girls!

Roasting Marshmallows at the Van Dyke's .

Rileigh getting her nails done for the wedding

Annika getting her nails done

We had to get a picture of Tyler and the great wall of nail polish! He was such a trooper waiting for us to get our nails done!

We were so happy that my sister in law was able to do our hair, she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer 10 days before the wedding and still wanted to do our hair. She will have a double mastectomy on Monday so PLEASE pray for her!

Annika- Finished product!- sorry some how this picture got deleted off this post.

The Beautiful Bride

The girls all dressed up!

Dad and Mary

The girls and I

Sisters!

The wedding party

Scott and I

Ethan and Rileigh

The happy couple getting on the Trolley

Derick and I

Tami and I

Some pictures at the beach

The girls and I

Annika getting ready to dance. aka trash the dress!

The girls dancing with grandpa

The first dance

Annika and Emma dancing

Annika

Ethan caught the guarder!

Jason and my girls.

It was so cute. Annika asked Derick to dance!

I think this is the dance that trashed the dress!?!

Jason and Melissa and the girls.

New Surgery Date

Sorry I realized when a friend called to see what time Missi's surgery was today that I never posted that they changed the date to Oct. 6. They had to move it back b/c the plastic surgon was not available for the original date. Thanks so much for all the prayers that have been offered on her behalf I know they have been felt.