Blessings

August 21st, 2009

Blessings

Written by: Lance
Published on August 21st, 2009 @ 11:19:00 pm , using 808 words, 2850 views

Posted in Information, Family, Christianity, Me, Love INC

I've been meaning to do this blog for a while, but haven't had much time to sit and think through everything. We started our Love INC financial management thing back in March or early April. Since then, God has done some incredible things ... miracles in my book. I just wanted to post a list of those things so that everyone could see and share in our blessings.

Date	Type	Description
April	Wal-Mart Gift Card	Tom Scott Honda sent a mailer that said I could win 1 of 4 prizes: a car, $5,000 cash, something else I don't remember, or a $5 Wal-Mart Gift Card. I said, "well, if I'm guaranteed to win, why not?" So I went down and sure enough, I won the gift card. The best part of this story is, we were desperately in need of gas for the next 3 days or so and the $5 could be used at the Wal-Mart pumps. Cool!
June	Gifts	Mom & Dad O. came to visit in June and we were able to save lots of money on groceries, gas, and home remodeling supplies.
June	Airplane Tickets	Mom & Dad L. purchased tickets for Katrina and the girls to visit California and go to Mollie's graduation.
June	Airplane Tickets	Mom & Dad O. paid for tickets for us to go to NY. Katrina, Grace, and Faith flew out of Ontario, CA and I flew out of Boise.
July	Date Night	While in NY, Mommom (my grandma) paid for Katrina and I to go to Melody Lodge, a really nice restaurant in Speculator.
July	Gift Card	On my way to NY, I took one of those deals where I got a later flight and received a free airplane ticket to use within the next year. When Joel and Natalie came to NY we found out they were trying to get to CA for a wedding. We thought it would be cool to give them the free ticket, since Mom and Dad O. bought our tickets in the first place we asked them and they agreed. J & N sent us a great gift card for Chili's as a thank you for the ticket.
July	Gift Card	The son of a lady I work with was having some computer problems and asked me to try to fix them. I was able to and he gave us a gift card to Olive Garden.
July	Date Night	I threw out a request to my Facebook friends for $30 to take Katrina out on a date. Amazingly, a friend of ours decided to send a check. What a blessing and Katrina and I were able to go to the theater and see Les Miserables.
July	Cash	On the same day as Les Miserables, Katrina cut a friend's hair and she blessed us with some cash to go to dinner first. We had delicious Chinese food before the show.
July	Gift Cards	Katrina cut and highlighted another friend's hair and she gave us 2 gift cards! One for Red Robin and one for Starbucks.
August	Cash	One Friday, I received an envelope at work with my name on it. In it, $50 cash! And no indication of who it was from.
August	Swim Lessons	Mom and Dad L. called one day and decided that they wanted to pay for swim lessons for the girls. So we did 2 weeks of lessons at a park next to MAF. It was great and something that I was really glad we could do for the girls.
August	Gift Cards	Sports Authority just opened a new store in Nampa. On the opening weekend they were doing a lot of in-store marketing which included giving away and winning gift cards. We signed up to win $100, which they gave away in a drawing each hour. We then went to the hulahooping contest and, after 17 minutes, 45 seconds, I won. That was good for a $10 gift card. Shortly after that contest, the hour drawing happened and Katrina won the $100 card!

I did a quick calculation and, although I'm not quite sure the exact amounts of certain things, these items add up to almost $2,500! This doesn't even include some other things, like when Katrina has gone out with her friends and they paid for her food or fun, when a new friend of ours took us out to Olive Garden, and the things here and there that were bought for us by family and friends.

God is so good and we are definitely humbled. We see even more how it is important for us to be good stewards of the resources God gives to us and I hope that we can bless others as much as we've been blessed.

Thanks so much to all!