An Offer on a Home

Hey Guess what!
We settled on home on Thurs (which went wonderful our buyer even gave a White House Christmas Ornament!- so sweet) and then we put an offer on a home Fri!

Luke & I went last night to look at more homes (I think we've seen a least 20 now!). We walked in an loved it (except for some of the carpeting that will have to go=) but other than that and fresh paint it seems perfect for both our families. It even backs to parkland. So last night at 8 we meet our realtor Tom (who works with our friend and Care Group leader Dave Dabbondanza) to fill out the paper work. The home is in a "short sale" so we will have to wait and hear back from the bank to see if they accept our offer.

Thanks as always for your prayers in this endeavor. If you would specially pray for a quick and favorable response from the bank. But more importantly for our hearts. We would really like to own this home yet at the same time we want to hold this desire loosely. Trusting in the Lord and in his good plan for us, remembering that this place is not our forever home. And while it seems like this would be the perfect home for us, he knows. We'll keep you updated!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make straight your paths. Prov 3:5-6

Snow Pics

One of my favorite things to do on the first snowfall is drag my family out in the freezing cold and take "Snow Pictures." It doesn't always work out but this year we got a few good shots and had alot of fun.

Luke, Braet, CC thanks for blessing your mommy!

Also thanks for sending in Micah Moments for our new tradition. What a blessing those have been and will be to us... keep em coming =)

Like to share one that a received, I'm just reading a few here so I can still be surprised on Christmas Eve. This ones from our good friend Adam...

My favorite Micah Moment was the day I joined the entire Davis family at Disney on Ice. I was sitting in one of the seats in the suite watching Mickey do his thing, and I look over my left shoulder and Micah is there standing over me, shirt up, rubbing his belly. So of course I poked him in his belly, and he turns around and does a complete lap at full speed around the suite performing his Indian Chant. He came right back to my left shoulder... shirt up... belly rub. Again, I poke him in his belly and blast off... he is running rampant around the suite like a crazy Indian. He finally tired out after 14 glorious laps. Thank you Micah!

Join us for a New Christmas Tradition

Braeton & Dadda 2004

Christmas Traditions

Here at the Davis & Miller house, we have a few Christmas traditions that we've been enjoying this month of Dec....We get the tree and decorate the day after Thanksgiving, out comes the Christmas music (which Luke insists cannot be played before that day =). On family night we make a snowman cake and dress him with yummy candy, we watch fun Christmas movies, paint our own wrapping paper or gift bags (the kids always love giving gifts with the wrapping paper they have made), count down the days to Christmas with the Christmas Story calander. Oh and I must add that on Christmas morning all the stocking stuffers are wrapped in crazy ways so that the gifts are hard to figure out, we all have a competition to see who can get the most right (thanks mom for the endless hours of taping!). We hide the pickle ornament ( yes a pickle- don't tell me you haven't heard that before!) in the tree and whoever gets it receives an extra gift from mom. We sing, we read from the book of Luke, take turns opening gifts, its grand just being together.

It's great to have fun traditions, they bring us together and remind us of the ulitmate treasure we have in Christ. This year we will add a new one.

This year we will write notes and color pictures of special memories with our Micah Man. Things we did together, things he gave us, what he taught us... on Christmas Eve we'll pull down his stocking and take turns reminiscing, reading and remembering our little treasure and all God has given us through him.

We'd love to invite you to share in this time with us with us, if you have a special memory of our "Micah J" or a story of how he touched your life we'd love to hear from you and place your note in his stocking too. We anitcipate this being a very special time for our family, we'll post some stories to share with you too! Thanks!

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, Phil 1:3

Braet 2005


Mikes 2005

Mikes painting 2006

Nana & G paintin bags 2006

Dadda & B 2007

CC first time painting Christmas bags

Christmas Music

Just in case you are looking for some great Christmas music I like to suggest...

Savior: Celebrating the Mystery of God Become Man

click this link to check it out

"While not traditional Christmas tunes, these beautiful songs are full of the wonderful truths of the incarnation:
God has sent His greatest treasure Shown His love in greatest measure Sending Christ to bleed and suffer Purchasing our joy forever Let the earth rejoice! " Girl talk Blog

You can also listen to some of them online, click the link above to listen. Bob Kauflin, friend and pastor to us is one of the song writers and producers of this wonderful album. You may remember led us in worship at Micah's Memorial. Thanks Bob, for this wonderful cd.

Updates

Oh my, I have so many updates. Guess I haven't been a faithful blogger lately =)

Okay here's the first... My Daddy. He is going in for a small surgery today so your prayers would be greatly appreciated. The recovery time will be 2 weeks. Dad has been quite sick lately and been home most of the month. Last Thursday night he spent most of the night in ER due to another seizure (think they have determined that his seizure med was too low). Dad never complains! If you ask him how he is his answer is always "good", so when most hear he is sick, they had no idea!

And mom, well she has had a lingering cold to put it mildly, maybe she is fighting off the flu- who knows. What can I say, these 2 are troopers!!

A house, we have been looking all over Gaithersburg, Germantown, Damascus, Clarksburg and Montgomery Village for a home that would accommodate both fams at the right price. We have found one that seems like it would work well but doesn't really have much of a yard for the kids. We're still looking. We go to settlement for the sale of our home on Dec 20th and then the plan is to rent back until Jan 30th. It is kinda crazy thinking that it is only about 7 weeks away yet we know the Lord will provide for us and we are looking forward to seeing what he has in store.

Cameron & Brandon are gearing up for FINALS. C just recently got accepted into Maryland's Engineering program and will start there or at UMBC in the spring semester. B still has another year of community college.

Lastly I wanted to share some great pics of our time at Children's Hospital. Our field trip group went to Children's a few weeks ago and it was wonderful!! The kids got to see the new helicopter "Bear 1". This was so great! They also got to ride in the special elevators, chat with some of Mikes nurses (Megan & Pup), climb or should I say cram into an ambulance and our kiddos brought gifts for Doctor Bears Toy Closet for the children at the hospital. It was wonderful to be there. Children's has been such a special place to us and to have our friends there with us was such a joy! Moms, thanks for making that looong drive. Afterwards Katie took us on a tour of the new wing, which is gorgeous and amazing- its so Big! Private rooms are going to be wonderful for those families. The trip wouldn't be complete without a stop at Teddy's coffee shop (a friend of Mo & Wandi -these men started the Sovereign Grace church in Ethiopia). Teddy, like so many prays for our fam often. He dotes a pic of him and Micah at the stand.

Katie, thanks for making our field trip happen. We all really enjoyed it!

the Christmas Message

“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor and was born in a stable so that thirty years later he might hang on a cross. It is the most wonderful message that the world has ever heard, or will hear.” J.I Packer

House Under Contract

Hey Friends!
Thanks for all your prayers, our home is officially under contract! It's hard to believe.... We got a good offer and are supposed to go to settlement on Dec 20 and rent back. So we are currently looking for a home for all 8 of us . Pray for us! And please send us any home ideas you may have for us! Thanks!