Happy New Year 2009!

In the first edition of our newsletters we welcome you as our family and friends into our lives and hearts!

Brad, Elisha, and I rang in the New Year at the Onething Young Adults Conference! Imagine 15,000

of your closest family and friends dancing, singing, and rejoicing in the New Year by worshipping the King of kings! It was exciting and in my opinion the most wonderful way to bring in the next year. The conference was over the book of Revelation and the importance of knowing and understanding it, especially for these end-time days we live in. http://www.ihop.org/onething

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which G-d gave Him to show His servants things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of G-d, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near." Revelation 1:1-3

Elisha is 10 months old on January 4 and on March 4 she will be turning 1 year old! She has one of the happiest personalities I've seen! She has 6 teeth fully in and one on the way in! She loves to climb the stairs now so we're having to make a custom gate to fit our bottom stair, YIKES! She is a very social and loves to say Hi-e-e! and wave at people and the telephone. Elisha says: Hi, mama, dada, baby, my baby, and her newest... Happy! We were at the conference and Elisha was turned around in my chair being her social sweet self and waved to the girls behind us and said... "Happy, Happy, Happy!" I think our little song: If Your Happy and You Know It has paid off! :) And if you're wondering Elisha is still crawling, quite fast I must say, and not walking yet! She brings a lot of joy to our lives.

Elisha taking some steps from Aunt Beth to her Grandpa Larry! She took several steps that day and not one to me until the next day... :)

Elisha with Grandpa Nowotny!

Daddy-Daughter feet at Padre Island on Thanksgiving Day!

Okay this one was to cute not to put up! Elisha meeting her Great-Grandparents in Texas!

As some of you know Brad and I have debts that we need to pay off, so we're prayfully looking for and waiting for responses of a new job opportunity for Bradley. He hasn't had very much work coming in. Please keep us in your prayers for us to continue to trust in the L-rd and remain patient and faithful in prayer.

Recently our friends have given us their upright piano on loan until they have a better location to put it. It has become quite the addicting habit to play on and worship with... um whenever we're not doing anything else. :)We have thoroughly enjoyed visiting all of our family and friends in Texas for Thanksgiving and in Michigan for Christmas. We wish we could spend more time with all of you. Until the next newsletter... WE LOVE YOU!!

Love,

Brad, Leslie, and Elisha