The Penick Family

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Heavy Heart

I don't normally use the blog for writing, mainly for pictures, but tonight my heart is heavy and I felt like sharing. I feel like in the past two months that I have heard so many sad stories. Stories of unexpected loss, sickness, failing marriages, and neglected children. Things that break my heart. I find myself asking the Lord how He could let these things happen. He is the God of the universe...couldn't He prevent them? Then I'm quickly reminded that these things break His heart way more than I could possibly imagine them breaking mine. Tonight I just had to go to His word and be reminded of His comfort and love. All of these people in these situations are His children. He made them. He loves them. I am just pleading for Him to comfort those in need. I don't understand why these things are happening, but I do trust in my God of peace & comfort & love. It hurts Him, but he does allow these things...I trust for purposes that are bigger than I can imagine.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

NuNu Retired!!!

After 33 Years of working at the same place, my Mom FINALLY retired!! She has worked so hard for so many years. I'm so excited for this new adventure for her. She deserves this so much and I have a feeling that these four little people will keep her plenty busy!! So happy for you Mom!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

When Daddy Plays Hooky

Whit stayed home on Monday...He has been gone a lot on the weekends hunting and he wasn't feeling great so he stayed home(He really did have a tummy ache)! We were so glad. It was a great family day and you can tell the kiddos LOVED having him around even if he wasn't feeling 100%. Here are a few pictures of what it is like when Daddy plays Hooky! (He is so killing me for putting pictures of him on here with his tank on (I won't call it what he calls it) and just got out of bed look!

God is GOOD!

We have had an interesting past week with our sweet little Macy. Long story short, we went to Children's hospital for some not so fun testing last week. She has had UTIs that won't go away and so they wanted to find out why. She also had some wierd/scary bacteria that showed up in the last culture. Last Thursday she was tested for Spina Bifida (not sure if I spelled that right) because of her late walking and a symptom being recurrent UTIs. She had an ultrasound of her kidneys and bladder and then she did a REALLY not fun dye test. After several days of waiting and much prayer, we found out good & bad news. The bad is that she has Reflux in her kidneys meaning that she has to be on antibiotics for at least a year, possibly up to 4 years and then we will go back each year to do the dye test to see if she has outgrown the reflux. The WONDERFUL news, is that she doesn't have Spina Bifida and the scary bacteria that doesn't respond to antibiotics very well...is gone! They actually think the culture that showed it was contaminated. So...God is good, we know that. He is good all the time...good times and bad times. But, He truly walked through this little scare and reminded us that He is in complete control and that Macy is fearfully and wonderfully made..by Him and He knows what is best for her. Thank you Lord for being so Good and blessing us and hearing our prayers. Thank you too to those of you who prayed.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Celebrating Two Birthdays!

December is a busy month for us...like everyone else. We celebrate 2 Birthdays on Christmas Day! First of all, the birth of Jesus, our Saviour, which means more and more to us with each passing year. We celebrated with lots of family and we are so thankful that everyone is close by! We also celebrated the 3rd birthday of our Sweet Macy!! We can't believe she is 3 and we STILL can't believe she was born on Christmas Day!! She is getting so big, so sassy and so fun!! She has an opinion about EVERYTHING and wants to do EVERYTHING.."ALL BY HERSELF!" We love her so much and love getting to know this little girl that is becoming such a little person.

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and like us, are looking forward to a great 2009!