A New Chapter Begins.....

I love the periods in my life when I strive to see the hand of God working and the last few weeks have shown He's working in our lives. Yesterday when I woke up there was a definite sense of a new chapter beginning in our lives. After 16 years as the Noble County Surveyor, Scott lost his run in the primary election. It was a bitter-sweet night for all of us. Every election (this was our 5th) has it's own fears and anxieties with it but through the years God has been using these stressful campaigns to draw me near to Him and teach me to utterly rely on His faithfulness no matter what the outcome. I was completely prepared last night for this loss. No, it wasn't expected, but I never once felt devastated and fearful for the future. We are held in the palm of a mighty God and He sees our future. He has plans for us that we can't yet see. There are soooo many directions Scott could turn. The prospects are literally exciting! I must also say that I will be thrilled to have my husband back. In his current position he is on-call 24/7/365. We've had him miss family birthday parties and even one Christmas Day! Yuck! Scott loves his job as County Surveyor and he's good at it! He's a people person but he's also very good at listening to people vent and not taking it personally. Believe me, he gets a lot of that in his position. He tells a story of one man coming in to the office and ranting and raving for quite some time and Scott just nodded and listened. Finally the man said, "Am I ever going to make you angry?!" Scott smiled and said, "Not today, you won't." Haha! I love my husband!! With his gentle leading and hard work ethic and fully relying on God's providence we will be fine. God is good all the time!

Quick June Review...

June was busy, busy, busy! I went to a couple Homeschool Used Book sales and was able to sell a few things. Noah went to one with me and we had some good bonding time. Patty went to the second one with me and it was great to spend the day with my teen! We even went to lunch together. I can't remember the last time just the two of us went out to lunch.
While I was doing book sales, Scott and Hannah were on the Jr. High SMO (summer mission outreach) in Canada. They had a great time and I'll have Hannah make a slide-show or two of pics later. We had several graduation parties this month. It seems those invites greatly multiply the older your children get. Their friends become family friends and suddenly our social calendar is full to overflowing. What a blessing!
Zac spent a week at Red Cedar in Fort Wayne for Autism camp. He did horse therapy everyday along with karate, fishing, canoeing, arts and crafts and lots more! He loves it!! He raved about it so much last year that Noah has begged this year to get to go to Red Cedar for camp himself this summer. His week at camp is in August. I hope he enjoys it as much as Zac.
On July 4th, Patty headed off on his Sr. High SMO trip to Hazzard County, Kentucky. The teens were putting on a Vacation Bible School in the evenings for a small church we support in McRoberts, KY. During the day they would be working on any projects the church needed done. He is on his way home as I type. I can't wait to hug my little boy and have his spark back in our home! What am I going to do when he heads off to college?
4-H starts this week. Another busy month for us!

WOL, NY part 2

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Word of Life, NY part 1

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She's Ours!!!

Our prayers, our faith, our patience rewarded. Hebrews 11:1

It is with great joy

we introduce the

newest Zeigler...

Naomi Beth

born January 19, 2007

adopted forever into

our hearts

May 18, 2009

Proud parents... Scott & Annette

Adoring siblings... Patrick, Hannah,

Zachery, & Noah

Our team: back row Claire, Abbey and Laurie Keister, Nancy Zeigler. Front row: Zac, Annette and Hannah Zeigler

Yesterday was the Autism Walk with ACT (Autism Community Together). The monies raised goes to pay for summer programs like summer camp at Red Cedar, hippotherapy (horse), speech therapy and more. Zachery will attend Red Cedar's Autism Camp this year again and will be taking hippotherapy for 6 weeks this summer (thanks GG and Grandma Nancy!) at Red Cedar, also. The week of camp is absolutely amazing! Zac has so much fun and they work him really hard, too. Last year they rode horses every day, learned some karate, yoga, went swimming and fishing, had a scavenger hunt just to name a few things. He grew so much that week! His self-confidence level jumped! It was the best thing we had ever done for him. I can't wait to see what this year does for him!


This year's walk was very cold and rainy. We ended up heading home before the walk actually began. We had Naomi and her baby sister with us (they were warming up in the Excursion during this picture) and they were just way too cold to stay. The baby ended up running a fever that afternoon. Poor baby...

Naomi's EEG

Naomi did super for her EEG. They wanted her sleepy and she was! She fell asleep half way through getting all the probes stuck to her head. She snored while the EEG tech and I talked away. The results were basically inconclusive. The neurologist's words were "it appears to be normal, however, this test was just a blip in time and because of the symptoms she presents we would be wise to do a 24 hour video taped EEG." So... we are waiting for the hospital to call and tell us when that will be. Answers like this really frustrate me!