To Cherokee and Back

Well as we gear up to head off for our second weekend traveling with the LIGHT ministries team, I thought it would be about time to mention that first weekend trip. It was a very excited weekend for both the team and John and I. John got the opportunity to preach to the church at the concert Saturday night. Afterwards numerous people came up to him, including the pastor telling him it was a great sermon, Praise God!

The concert went very well also. We were actually at a church on the Indian reservation and this concert was something Completely different for them. Loud music and young kids praising God presenting missions to the church in a whole new way! It was amazing to see how accepting they were of it. Well we did have one guy who came to John the next day ( as the team also sang Sunday morning) and said to him, " I really enjoyed the concert last night. But last night was all I could take, it was too loud for me to go this morning." *Smile* We took it as a compliment considering he was quite elderly and he liked at least the one night ;-)

John also made his first safe trip driving a 15 passenger van with a huge trailer attached, another Praise.

Overall the trip was fantastic. I have been dubbed the team mom and enjoy getting to fulfill that role by bringing baked goods every week, along with encouraging those on the team, and being there in prayer for them. I also help out with the promotions on the weekends and take PLENTY of pictures.

Have you ever raced a toilet?

What do Toilets and racing have in common?
Well for one John,Danielle & Kyle. Two laughter that affects the bladder, and three a grand ole time. Liberty block party 2007 not only did we race toilets, yes you heard right ( see now Meg you wanna come to LU ;-), but we also joust, ride mechanical bulls, have giant milshake drinking contests, and even crazy dance contests. For all of you who now have your interest spiked you should! Liberty is where its at- whoop whoop! Well Liberty and the Puig residence. Between the two you'll never need to search for adventure again. As you should all expect by now the Puigventures are never ceasing. Since the last bug incident we have had many more adventures. We are currently in the process of the creating a legal waiver for all who come for future visits.... ( j/k.)

Danielle is now learning french, or at least attempting. Oh and did we mention she is learning it from a 4 yr old!?!?! She is an assistant pre-school teacher and has a little french girl whi speaks no english. As a result Danielle has learned how to say numerous, she is practically at translator level. 10 french phrases, 2 songs, and the ability to count to 10...definetly worthy of translator status.

For the record John CANNOT sing. His abilitly is limited to the shower and car. We have had many many people saying they didn't know John could sing after hearing about his position as head of the LIght ministries singing team, however notice his title is ROAD DIRECTOR. Unless there is some highly creative re-arranging of those two words and letters in them, there is no mention of singing. John and I are thinking of creating a song for us to sing as a duet to debut later this year....comments on that, eh eh????? John did lead the team on their first trip this past weekend to Cherokee, NC and it went over very well. A blog on that with pictures will be coming this week.

Sorry for the slacking on blogging, it will become more regular and with lots of pictures to follow us Puiggy's.

ATTACK

It was a quite even in the Puig's house, Danielle was upstairs while John was being such a good hubby fixin to take out the trash. Than it happened.....

" It sounded like a plane" is how John would put it. All Danielle heard from upstairs was....

Thump, ah, OH MY GOSH, thump thump, OH MY GOSH....DANIELLE COME DOWN....

So Danielle casually walks down the stairs , than there it was. Just standing there in the middle of the kitchen floor, acting so innocent. But We saw right through, but before John got the chance to destroy it " bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ( as loud as a plane remember) the dern thing started again.

"AHHHH," shouted Danielle.

John than had an idea, turn off the lights and it will settle down again. It was a great idea so John turned off the light. But there was 1 close to fatal flaw...the light in the living room. As John turned off the light it immedietly chased us into the living room. So we RAN! First into the living room and than frantacically up the stairs but that 1 flaw, turned out to to be 3- stair lights, hall lights and bedroom lights. Now John and Danielle were trapped in the bedroom and all they heard was," BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ( as loud as a plane)" Suddenly after a few minutes,

Nothing. Silence.

C R A C K ......the door creaked open as John peered out to protect his honey from it. Silence. After proceeding out the door and checking out the hallway, the coast was clear and John slowly led his wifey out into the hall. Down the stairs they cautiously went, peering over the railing. There was no noise to be heard. Then there it was, lying on the floor feet in the air. We weren't falling for it's trick though, Danielle saw its legs twitching. *Twitch Twitch* So John did the noble thing lifted his notebook HIGH into the air and smashed it. Than of course to make sure Danielle was completely protected he stepped on it.

That thing at the top of the page, caused quite a racket. In the end there was no damage, well Danielle didn't get a little 'too scared' and had a little accident. But really just a few guts on a notebook and John SAVED THE DAY!

I love my new name

Attention: This is Breaking news....... Danielle has a new license plate exhibit A above! ( John loves to drive the car now ;-)


The other News needed to be shared, the BIG news..John as accepted a new job as leader of the LIGHT missions singing team at Liberty. This is very exciting for us as we begin our life in full time ministry! We look forward to the future when we will Lord willing be in missions overseas, but this will be a great foundation for that. Also as a result of this, we can now recieve the free tuition benefits through John so Danielle is able to quit her job and get a full-time working which kids, which she will love!

BREAKING NEWS....

Well my not to mention any names ( ahem, cough cough...Grandma Carol).... but it is somebody's bday today! So let's all say Happy Bday ;-) That someone whose name is not to be mentioned reached a respectful age of oh somewhere in the vicinity of 40, or was that the vicinity of how long she had been married;-)......Love ya Grams! Well since it is her birthday I thought I would take this time to do a little bragging....

John and I both are very blessed to have some amazing grandparents! We weren't stuck with any of those cranky grandparents some people have who just send a check here or there. No we both have AMAZING Grandparents! Grandparents we look up to. They've all been married for over 40 years which is something to be very proud of! John and I look forward to having marriages like our Grandparents. One's that honor God and whose marriage is not only a blessing to eachother but to those around them.

And for a bragging moment on the birthday woman......Grandma Carol raised my Daddy so well. ( Technically my Grandma Carol is my Aunt Carol...but that's a whole other story). She taught loved him, cared for him, and raised him in a chirst centered home! Because of this she passed on the her GREAT faith to my Daddy. My daddy and mommy have taught me that faith, which John and I share. My Grandma Carol is the Proverbs 31 woman and I am so thankful God has blessed me with a Grandmother like that! ( Actually two!) I look forward to be a grandmother whose grandkids can look up to me the way I do to her. She has taught me a lot ( little may she know) and always be there to encourage me( now I know where Daddy gets all that encouraging....Come on guys go "shake someone's hand, encourage somebody"). I am excited that John now gets to become part of family and share with me the wonderful blessings of having great grandparents.

O' Happy day

...Things We highly recommend:

1. Getting married!
2. Going to Liberty ( got Kyle, next is Meg than Pinkly). I am bringing a new tradition to rival the Houghton one ;-)
3. Knowing where everything in the house is so when your hubby is looking for something (which consists of opening a door glancing, but not moving anything, than shutting the door and yelling" Honey where is_________?) you can immedietly tell him the exact location.
4. Knowing that girls will become more smelly when you live with them: stinky breath in the morning, smells coming from restrooms that I ( John) think should not come from a girl, but being prepared to still give them PLENTY of kisses
5. Weening your child off their security Blanket at a much younger age than 21...( thanks Aunt Karen, the blanket still occasionaly makes it into the bed. Unless John catches it, in which case he throws it across the room)
6. Did we mention GETTING MARRIED!?!?!

We are loving married life, wondering why we waited so late in life to get married.....j/k. We have news to share about new happenings in our life but we have to wait till Danielle's parents are back to share with them first.... NO WE ARE NOT PREGNANT!!!! We are leaving that up to Matt and Sarah right now.

Learning: the process of getting use to waking up everymorning with a man lying next to you;-0

Short thoughts from John and Nell:

John: Nell, how'd you get out of the kitchen?

Nell: I think We should buy a shed for you to use as your closet


* please note sarcasm is used in the saying of these