One Last Thing...

These pictures are special to me. In July Barna bought these precious ballerina outfits for the girls. They did not arrive in time during their visit for us to get pictures of the girls. Barna was bummed and so was I!So when Jared was packing up the girls to come to Rayville and be with Kerry I asked him to PLEASE pack the Tu-Tu dress!

One afternoon while I was watching the girls and everyone else was at the hospital with Barna I found Kerry's camera (A Nikon which is like a foreign language to me... I'm a Canon girl!) and attempted to get some cute shots.

One of the last times I leaned over to talk to Barna, heavily sedated, I told her not to worry, I got the pictures of the girls in their ballerina tu-tu's. I pulled them up on my phone and showed her, even though I knew she was not able to see. I also told her I loved her SO MUCH and he was an amazing Mother-In-Law! She was! And told her she did an AMAZING job raising my precious husband! I told her I will miss her but I knew she was going to watch these girls dance from above and love it!

The girls love their Tu-Tu's Barna!

GiGi, Mama- We Love You! We Miss You!

Our Wife, Mama, Gigi, Sister, Aunt and friend is with Jesus now. We want you all to know how amazing it has been to feel your support and love through your fervent prayers. Your prayers were answered. Miracles happened. It was a miracle that she didn’t bleed to death in the beginning of all of this. It was a miracle that we all got to see her. It was a miracle that Daddy, TJ and I were able to see her respond to us and to recognize that we were there. It was a miracle to get amazing nurses and doctors who went above and beyond their job descriptions to help us and inform us and do everything they possibly could to try to fix her. Her healing has taken place in a different way than we had hoped but she is in heaven, completely healed. She is seeing her Daddy for the first time in 44 years. She and her nephew Brian and her Mama and other friends are reuniting and praising God together (with especially beautiful music today).

We will see His glory in this and we know that God will use this to draw us closer to Him and pray that it will draw other people to Him, through the blood of Jesus, for the first time. It is wonderful to see how many people were touched by Mama and we thank you all for loving her. The void in our lives will be huge. She took care of all of us and loved us and so many others with all of her heart. This will be a very difficult time for us, but we trust that the Lord will bring us through it with a renewed sense of confidence in His plan for each of us, knowing that our ultimate goal is to take as many people with us when we see her again as we spend eternity in heaven with our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Please say a special prayer for our Daddy. He has lost his best friend who has loved him for 34 years. His heart is aching and this road will be tough. He will be surrounded by the love of family, church family and friends but prayer is what will sustain him.
The body of Christ came through in a mighty way by ministering to us over the last few terrible days and we will be forever grateful to you for that.

In the Sweet Love of Christ,
Kerry, Sarah, Jared, TJ, Beth, Karen, Mark, & Heidi

“So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.” 2 Corinthians 5:6-9

Fun Visitors!!

Kim, Kylie, Cohen, and her mom Debbie came in town last week for a quick visit and to meet up with some of their family in Virginia. We had a great time getting to see them and I think it was their first trip to Myrtle Beach... we hope the first of MANY!

Thursday night we ate at one of our favorite places, Mr. Fish, then headed to walk on the beach... turned out to be a VERY QUICK beach trip because it was CRAZY windy! I have never seen it that windy on the beach but we got a few quick pics and headed home!




Please excuse my camera lens... it was SO HUMID I could not get my lens to not be foggy so they are not too clear! Haha







Friday we got to have some pool time before they check into their hotel...







Saturday Karoline & I got to play at the hotel with everyone then we met them at Broadway At The Beach that night so the kids could ride rides before we had to say goodbye... They had a BLAST!

TEXAS!

I had such an amazing time in Fort Worth a few weeks ago at Premier Designs National Rally- Their 25th anniversary! It felt great to be in Fort Worth... it was like "home" for a while. Premier is an AMAZING company. Yes, the jewelry is great but it's the HEART of this company that I LOVE and ARDOR!

For 4 days and almost 10,000 jewelers, jewelry and sales was rarely talked about... it was MISSIONS, SERVING OTHERS, TESTIMONIES, and SCRIPTURE that we heard over and over again! It was wonderful. Point of Grace came and did a concert and it was wonderful!

I think my favorite part of Rally was hearing the testimonies from the missionaries supported by Premier! Just to hear how God has used the blessings of Premier Designs to take the gospel around the world is just SO AWESOME! I'm proud to work for a company who "gets the BIG PICTURE" and who's #1 desire is to see people come to know Jesus in a real and intimate way!

Here are a few pictures of our group at Rally...

View from the hotel room...
Missions...
Our founders... Joan and Andy
Got to see my two Fort Worth best friends... Kristin and Cindy!!
Myrtle Beach crew with some of our Virginia downline...
My great friend and "mama" got to model the new jewelry....
Point of Grace...
I got to have lunch with Angie, a sweet friend from Keystone church & who sang on TJ's CD.
Amanda and I
A few of the missionaries from around the WORLD supported through Premier... many could not come of course! Amazing testimonies shared!
My Premier Family- Karen (Great Grandma), Myself, Daune (Grandma), and Amanda (mama!) :)
A group of children supported through Premier came to sing for us. They were precious!
Myrtle Beach Girls...
With the Georgia girls, Mandie and Rebecca
On stage for the Amethyst Award.

Karoline dressed up as "The Jewelry Lady" after I came home... So cute!