Lately the world surrounding us has been full of babies. Everywhere we go and Everyone we see just seems to be all about baby baby baby....God is torturing Danielle, maybe teaching her a lesson in patience.
Ironically while everyone else's world seems to revolve around babies our own little honeymoon baby has died. Yes it was a sad day as we found Kermit Lewis Puig drifting in the water. The viewing was held today and John will be burying him tomorrow. Kermit lived for 9 months!
Kermit was a wonderful little baby and we loved him so much( one of us a little more than the other) and are quite sad to see him go. Danielle is know raising funds for a name baby..... Flower, the pet skunk. All Donations are gladly being accepted unfortunately we cannot give a tax write off, at least not legally.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Puigventures in China
Tired,Awake, dazed? Who knows what we are right now. Our biological clocks are all out of whack. We arrived home safely at 2 am to our home sweet home here in the Burg. Many Many stories to tell, pics to show and adventures to be heard. The trip was a powerful one, not easy but taught us both many things and has made our hearts and passion burn even more to be overseas.
Big update to come...just keep on waiting.....;-)
So you wanna hear about the trip, eh? Well one blog wouldn't even begin to justify the trip in writing, but I'll try my best to touch on some of the greatest moments!
To list a few.....
1. Singing Amazing Grace with the orphans
2. Staying with the Kids in the orphanage
3. Worshipping with Missionaries and Chinese House Church Christians
4. Walking along the Great Wall of China
5. Having Little Kids grab me just to kiss me
6. Trying to use code words and doing open-eye prayers because of the restrictions in the communist country
7. Getting to hear the testimonies of two incredible missionary couples
8. Learning more about different possible future opportunities
9. Experiencing our first Mission trip together, and with John as a leader
10. Plenty of adventures...car crashes, hospital visits, eating dog, kidneys and tongue!
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Stinky
John wandered into the room I was in yesterday and that's when smelled it....
This quite blatantly HORRENDOUS smell. Please tell me that did not just come out of John I thought. As I smelled it some more I realized that smell was familiar- dog Doo-Doo. Yes John had stepped in it and quite a bit. He was upstairs at this point so as you can guess that means the dog doo-doo was on every step and down the whole upstairs hallway. Oh that was fun to clean up, haha! The culprit of this all, john's shoe, is still being punished and remains outside on our front porch ;-)
This quite blatantly HORRENDOUS smell. Please tell me that did not just come out of John I thought. As I smelled it some more I realized that smell was familiar- dog Doo-Doo. Yes John had stepped in it and quite a bit. He was upstairs at this point so as you can guess that means the dog doo-doo was on every step and down the whole upstairs hallway. Oh that was fun to clean up, haha! The culprit of this all, john's shoe, is still being punished and remains outside on our front porch ;-)
Sunday, December 2, 2007
O Christmas tree O Christmas why are you leaning???
The Puigs officially got their first Christmas tree. It's beautiful looking! Although John and I do seem to have different ideas of what a "full" Christmas tree looks like. John thinks the tree is completely full of ornaments while Danielle see's it as only 50%. One of them obviously didn't grow up with Schmidts in their family.
Mom and Dad Davidson had given us the 'utltimate Christmas tree stand' promising it would save our marriage and prevent many fights. The put there stamp of approval on it as the best thing around. Well about a week after putting the tree up Danielle noticed it was heavily slanted to the front and falling! Yeah what is so ultimate about this Christmas tree stand Mom and Dad? Ha ha. Luckily John with his ' guns' was able to unscrew the tree, twist it around and screw it back in saving our beautiful first tree. O what a wonderful hubby.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Black Friday
2:20 am
Beep Beep Beep
[Groggy Voices]" eh, erhh...Bang(the hitting of the alarm)"
2:45 am Out The Door
As our first year as a married couple we of course had to begin the staple tradition of Black Friday. That is a key tradition to have. Can we count this year and John's first outing on Black Friday as a success? Well that depends on which part you look at and who you ask....
Did we wait in line for two hours to be one of the first 20 people into Toys R us...most definitely.
Did we eagerly rush inside to claim one of the top must haves from the ad ( 30gig video MP3)....heck yes!
Did Danielle make it to the tickets for the item as the second person...duh, years of shopping experience.
Did we than come out empty handed because the first guy there took ALL the tickets...hey let's not talk about the sore spot.
Did we save hundreds of dollars by switching to Geico? Nah.
Did we succesfully spend 8 hours out and come home with 75% of all our Christmas shopping done...yes.
So worth it all? Well are you asking John or Danielle??? ;-)
Saturday, November 3, 2007
If you give a Puig a roadtrip.....
.....they're gonna want adventure!!!
Seriosuly what is life without adventure, much more a roadtrip without adventure. Danielle love's adventure but didn't realize that roadtrips were gonna become so much a part of our routine. Since the very beginning of marriage....a week from being back from our honeymoon to be exact ( that was the time when the 12 year totaled John's car all while Danielle watched thinking she had only been married for 3 weeks and already her husband was dead) roadtrips have made adventure.
The last 5 weeks straight the Puigs have traveled. Charlotte, West Virginia, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Deleware and Maryland. John got his CDL so he can now drive the bus...wahoo. So last weekend he convinced the team that they should be fully confident in his driving by praying before hand. It went something like this.......
" Dear God please help me to be ' Awert and 'Alake' as I drive....." It was about that time the team roared in nervous laughter that he was about to take them home on the 4 hour drive. Never the less he did great...his honey kept him 'awert and alake' .
This weekend Danielle and John were seperated as John drove the team to Deleware and directed them there while Danielle traveled to Maryland. On the way to Maryland Danielle realized she was carsick ( yes she was the one driving) and she realized this when she was in the fifth lane over. Luckily she had a plastic walmart bag, which she didn't have to use, luckily. Whew, close one there. Could have been a long road trip with a bag of ...well you know what in the car.
On our way to Charlottesville we watched the near death of an old man as he walked across the road, purposefully in front of a truck while leaving his wife behind on the sidewalk. Then we watched as he did some not so nice things to to the truck that he walked in front of. Whew again!
Really the list can go on. Cause you know the story all winds up at the beginning...if give a Puig a roadtrip, they're gonna want ADVENTURE.
Seriosuly what is life without adventure, much more a roadtrip without adventure. Danielle love's adventure but didn't realize that roadtrips were gonna become so much a part of our routine. Since the very beginning of marriage....a week from being back from our honeymoon to be exact ( that was the time when the 12 year totaled John's car all while Danielle watched thinking she had only been married for 3 weeks and already her husband was dead) roadtrips have made adventure.
The last 5 weeks straight the Puigs have traveled. Charlotte, West Virginia, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Deleware and Maryland. John got his CDL so he can now drive the bus...wahoo. So last weekend he convinced the team that they should be fully confident in his driving by praying before hand. It went something like this.......
" Dear God please help me to be ' Awert and 'Alake' as I drive....." It was about that time the team roared in nervous laughter that he was about to take them home on the 4 hour drive. Never the less he did great...his honey kept him 'awert and alake' .
This weekend Danielle and John were seperated as John drove the team to Deleware and directed them there while Danielle traveled to Maryland. On the way to Maryland Danielle realized she was carsick ( yes she was the one driving) and she realized this when she was in the fifth lane over. Luckily she had a plastic walmart bag, which she didn't have to use, luckily. Whew, close one there. Could have been a long road trip with a bag of ...well you know what in the car.
On our way to Charlottesville we watched the near death of an old man as he walked across the road, purposefully in front of a truck while leaving his wife behind on the sidewalk. Then we watched as he did some not so nice things to to the truck that he walked in front of. Whew again!
Really the list can go on. Cause you know the story all winds up at the beginning...if give a Puig a roadtrip, they're gonna want ADVENTURE.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
5 little dice
Lately our evenings have consisted of many MANY sports games. Danielle has won John over to being a big Red Sox fan and John has won Danielle over to being a VIRGINIA TECH fan. Between the two teams quite a # of games are played and with the world series there has been many late nights recently. So many that the other night Danielle woke up and couldn't even remember where she was or how she got up into that bed, a fright at first indeed. This past Thursday VT suffered a very unfortunte loss, the Puigs were not to happy. But the bright side looks like BO SOX are gonna win the World Series tonight, keeping the fingers crossed.
Passed on from the Davidson family the Puigs have also become HUGE game people. Yahtzee has recently become our favorite game. Not really sure why as we just sit there and roll dice over and over and over and over and over ( so you get the picture) again. Maybe its that rising anxiety that crawls up your stomach as you feel like you almost have some power over what the dice are gonna come out as, as you slowly drop 1..than 2....3. than 4 & 5 dice out and get to yell "YAHTZEE" oh the excitment. Who knows it could be the feeling you get as you total up your top half scores hoping that you get the extra 35 bonus points or the decisions you have to make when you roll nothing and have to ZERO something. Yes the tragedy in putting a big fat round ZERO in one of the boxes....never the less we are admitting to being Addicted. So if you are ever in town be prepared for some hard core dice rolling battles.
Sad news on the homefront, little Chance died. He was a good lil gipper. I asked John to bury him, he did. Rolled him inside a sheet and tossed him in the woods,I guesss thats kinda burying him. ;-\
We also went on a group date this weekend. Funny enough it was with people from the LIGHT team. Even when we have off for the weekend we still ended up traveling an hour away for a date with a bunch of them, oh the irony.
Once again we are overdue for bedtime. Unfortunetly Red Sox take priorty over sleep today. As my mother would say....
"Its time for B-E-D, its time for B-E-D........"
Passed on from the Davidson family the Puigs have also become HUGE game people. Yahtzee has recently become our favorite game. Not really sure why as we just sit there and roll dice over and over and over and over and over ( so you get the picture) again. Maybe its that rising anxiety that crawls up your stomach as you feel like you almost have some power over what the dice are gonna come out as, as you slowly drop 1..than 2....3. than 4 & 5 dice out and get to yell "YAHTZEE" oh the excitment. Who knows it could be the feeling you get as you total up your top half scores hoping that you get the extra 35 bonus points or the decisions you have to make when you roll nothing and have to ZERO something. Yes the tragedy in putting a big fat round ZERO in one of the boxes....never the less we are admitting to being Addicted. So if you are ever in town be prepared for some hard core dice rolling battles.
Sad news on the homefront, little Chance died. He was a good lil gipper. I asked John to bury him, he did. Rolled him inside a sheet and tossed him in the woods,I guesss thats kinda burying him. ;-\
We also went on a group date this weekend. Funny enough it was with people from the LIGHT team. Even when we have off for the weekend we still ended up traveling an hour away for a date with a bunch of them, oh the irony.
Once again we are overdue for bedtime. Unfortunetly Red Sox take priorty over sleep today. As my mother would say....
"Its time for B-E-D, its time for B-E-D........"
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