Dreaming

Last night John and I stayed up talking till the wee hours of the night. Which for us, the wee hours can be defined as 11 pm, max 12 am.....usually even weekends. My little sister has claimed we aren't cool at times, that was when she called once upon a time and we were in bed at 8:30 pm. The thoughts that kept us awake were those of the future, and down the road when little gippers come along. No plans for a kid at the moment, but we enjoyed dreaming big and thinking up of sweet baby names. There were a few that were hard to pass on such as....Shaquanda, Guadalupe, Gurpreet, and even Harpreet. Eventually after I nixed numerous names of Johns and he nixed my "too long and old fashioned names" we settled on a few we like. Than we sighed and looked at eachother and longed for a baby. Than I woke up this morning and went to my job where I have 9 kids- 6 boys and 3 girls including a set of twins. Reality set in, and although I love my job and kids- a few hours of watching the boys tackle eachother, break a music instrument, never stop having energy, and have a moment of silence only when I took my bathroom break. Yes I think that we can wait that 2 years and enjoy our little doggy for now.

Shortstop

The true tales of our one and only Child- Shortstop

There was an young doggy who chewed up a fly
I don't know why he chewed on a fly...perhaps he'll die.

There was a young doggy who chewed on a moth,
he chewed the moth to swallow the fly,
I don't know why he chewed on the fly.

There was a young doggy who chewed up a razor,
he chewed the razor to cut up the moth,
he chewed the moth to befriend fly,
I don't know why he chewed on the fly.

There was a young doggy who chewed on a Bible,
he chewed the Bible to shield him from the razor,
he chewed the razor to cut up the moth,
he chewed the moth to befriend the nfly,
I don't know why he chewed on the fly.....perhaps he'll die.

There was a young doggy who chewed on a Powercord,
he chewed on the powercord to electrify the Bible,
he chewed the Bible to shield him from the razor,
he chewed the razor to cut up the moth,
he chewed the moth to befriend the fly,
I don't know why he chewed on the fly.....I don't know why, he has not died.

"What's a Puig"

Basically I stink, literally no. I like to say "pink you stink" to my little sister, I love her so, but that doesn't really mean she does either. Stink is just an expression and I stink at keeping this updated, so bring on 2009 and the beginning of resolutions. Resolution # 1- write more blogs!

Resolution # 2- GRADUATE. 5 years ago I ventured off on my own to little ol' Lynchburg where my incredible parents began paying $20grand a year for me to find a husband. Well lucky for them it has paid off and I have successfully obtained my M.R.S degree- check! But there is a little sidenote of also getting the diploma for that B.S. degree of mine, and the new year will finally bring that. Once May 10th rolls around I will officially have completed my victory lap and become an owner of a certified Liberty University diploma. I think I can hear people, *cough- my parents* cheering at that thought. It Will be a great day, so mark your calendars.

Resolution # 3 Learn what exactly a Puig is. Once I became a preschool teacher they asked me what I would like to be called- Ms.Danielle, or Mrs. Puig, or something else. Well having been newly married I gleemed at the thought of being called Mrs.Puig all the time.......yes it was a grand thought...until the day I tried it out and my 2 year olds could be heard down the halls yelling Mrs. Pig, Mrs. Pig and parents said things like P-wag, Qwig( because P sounds so much Q), and Pug amongst other things. From that day on I decided that Ms. Danielle sounded like ther perfect choice, although some of my kids have managed to miss the "ani" part of my name and simply call me Ms. Dale which comes from the Dell part I guess ;-)
I also need to learn what exactly a Puig is because today a 3 year old I was babysitting asked me just that. She announed her full name to me- Charissa Marie Rawlins and than asked me mine,- Danielle Christine Puig I replied. Sounded good to me until under her soft chuckles she declared, " What- hehe, is- hehe, a Puig-bahha( full spit laugh as she said it)?" . Well what is a Puig....so 2009 is the year of the Puig mascott and discovering just what a Puig really is.

Life as old married ones

Over a year ago I got the honor of becoming Mrs. John Puig. I have loved married life, and both John and I have enjoyed many life adventures together.
Last month we got to have the unique opportunity of being a bridesmaid and groomsmen in two of our best friends wedding. The unique thing is that these two met on our wedding day as they were a bridesmaid and bestman at our wedding. I had been trying to play matchmaker for 3 years and finally they met at our wedding. On September 27th,2008 Cheryl Ely and Wesley Marthers were married! My Dad officiated the wedding which made it all the more special.
Besides having this special event we have had many more things happen in our life over the past year and half. As much as my Dad wants us to, we are not pregnant nor are we planning on getting pregnant for quite some time. Dad likes to drop subtle hints like announcing to others I am pregnant, or telling us to go to our bedroom, or trying to play the " I am gonna be to old to play with the grandkids" card. Needless to say the Puiglets will have to old off for a few more years. Here are what has actually been going on in our life recently:

John's job changed in August from Road Director of the LIGHT ministries singing team to Campaign Cordinator for LIGHT. What a HUGE blessing this was! John's past position ment lots of traveling and it was overwhelming at times. God taught us a lot of things through his job that year and we fully believe God directed our steps into John taking the Road director position. However, after the first year we were unsure of whether we were to stay for an additonal year. Just when you wonder what God's plan was he shows it to you vividly.
The LIGHT ministries singing team was moved to a different department where it would not become student led, which ment John's position would no longer be needed. This left us wondering what would happen with John's job. Although his boss assured us he would not leaving us hanging, we still had no idea what John would be doing. What a blessing it was when John was offered his DREAM job as a campaign cordinator for LIGHT ministries ( LU's missions department). This is a job that John had thought would be incredible to have as he was a student and took part in a missions trip through the department. Since we want to go into missions full time what could be better than John getting paid to take short term missions trip and be directly involved in missions now! How neat it has been to see God working out his plan through all these things.
John has now been working as a campaign cordinator since August and has loved every minute of it. He is blessed with great co-workers and an incredible boss. In December he will be leading a trip to Asia and in May he will have the opportunity to head to Mexico or India. We are so grateful for the doors God opened.

I am now a SUPER senior and completeing my victory lap at Liberty ;-) I will be graduating on May 9th and anyone reading this is welcome to come and celebrate! I have been attending resedential classes again this Fall ( 18 hours) along with working as a lead 4yr old teacher at a Preschool and Nannying a 3 yr old girl. I have also continued teaching Sunday School at church for the 4 year olds and love having that ministry. In the Spring I will complete my last 3 classes online and hopefully be working at a full-time salarly position in the social service field. I am looking at jobs with Adoption Agencies and the State department. A change in my plan for life has been in school. While I thought there was no way I would ever willing take more classes after this year I am now planning on pursuing my Masters degree. I will be obtaining a degree in Human Services with a specialization in marriage and family to be started this coming summer! Whew, who knew that actually going to school for a victory lap would make me want more school.

I have recently also begun pursuing my passion for photography. I have had 3 photo shoots so far and I have four more already set up. It has been so much fun doing the shoots and I have been so pleased with the picture turnouts. I am hoping to do this as a side job next year and continue it for a long time. Check out my photo blog at http://www.xanga.com/DaniellePuig

You can see the albums on my facebook account. Hopefully after December I will have my own website up and running.

John and I have recently become more involved with missions at our church and John is now a member of the the missions committee. Pray for the continue passion for missions amongst our church, especially globally.

The Death of the Honeymoon Baby

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.

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!

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 ;-)