Baby Goose #2

Baby Goose #2 and the next 2 getting ready to hatch!

Baby Geese

Okay so almost a month ago one of our geese began sitting on some eggs. We have prayed that we would have a successful hatch. So far we have one baby and another almost out. We are ALL so excited! This is so neat! Thanks Elisha for the geese we have enjoyed them and we are so excited about these babies!

Women's Retreat

Fun With Friends and Family

Walk of the Cross

Boys

IPOD Touch

The LONG awaited IPOD Touch. Austyn has been wanting and waiting for this and was so excited to finally receive it!
Happy 13th Birthday!

Babies

Around our house there has been alot of farm babies.

DuPeire Family Update

Okay, so where do I begin???

Austyn: Well, a few weeks ago Austyn turned 13!! I am TOTALLY amazed that he is now officially a teenager. YIKES! It really does seem like just yesterday that I was coming home from the hospital with him and that all the cousin's were there to welcome their new baby cousin! We are so blessed to have him in our life. Austyn and I have the same personality and we butt heads alot but we learn so much from each other. He is trying to become more independant and I am having a hard time with it. I know I need to begin to SLOWLY let him grow up but it sure is hard!

Austyn finished his last year of U14 soccer this year. Their team did great and only lost one game and that was to the other Imperial team. He also played on the U19 team this year and that was a good experience for him. He got to play with older and more experienced players. He also tried out for a summer traveling soccer team and he was chosen but he would not have gotten much playing time if any and so we opted to wait another year to do it. Austyn will be going to summer camp this summer and he is so excited. He has raised all of his money and he is one of the first ones to do that. This is the camp that we took our youth kids to for so many years. It is in California and Matt and I get to go with him this year. This camp is AMAZING and we are praying for great spiritual growth for him and his 7 other fellow youth kids that are going!

Bubba had a great soccer season this year. This was the last year that him and Austyn get to play on the same team for a few years. It was so much fun to have them on the same team. Bubba is now playing baseball. He has not played in several years and he is excited to do it again. He has a great coach and he gets to play with his cousin Kyler who just moved here from Arizona. Bubba is looking forward to a summer trip with his grandma. While Matt and I and Austyn are in Califonia he gets to fly with his grandma for a week long trip to Wisconsin to see relatives. Bubba still enjoys the farm animals and was the proud daddy of 30 baby chicks this spring. At this moment he has a momma goose sitting on 8 eggs and he is hoping and praying that they hatch. They have caught 2 snakes trying to snatch the eggs. I don't know how the snake thinks it is going to eat those eggs. They are so big!

Matt has officially begun a new business. He is now running a carpet cleaning business. He is trying to do that as well as truck driving. He has a driver coming to work for us in a few weeks so he will dedicate his time to the carpet cleaning. We are praying that it works into full time work for him. He would love to work 3-4 days a week carpet cleaning and then have 1-2 days to dedicate at the church. There is so much to be done at the church that it would be wonderful if he could be there at least 1 if not 2 days a week.

I continue to do whatever needs to be done. I am loking forward to playing softball this summer with the city league. Our church has a team and Matt and I both play on it. It is a fun thing that Matt and I can do together as well as with friends!

Matt's biological sister Kristina (Hope)and her family moved here this past week. The boys are glad to have their cousins nearby. (just down the road) We are glad to have Kristina nearby too. Pray for their adjustment!

This is just an skeleton idea of what is going on with us. Drop us an email and give us updates on each of you!

We love you all!!!

The DuPeire's

Will post pic's later on!

TIME FLIES BY!!

Well a very good friend of mine the other day reminded me that I needed to update this! I have meant to but just haven't found the time to lately.

Today I am in a hospital with a friend who is going through some tests. She has been diagnosed with a low grade brain tumor. There are concerns about where her memory is and how removing this tumor will affect her memory. She has EXTENSIVE tests today and I would appreciate the prayers for her. As I am writing this she is in a MRI and they could NOT give her anything to relax since it is a functional MRI. PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD WOULD GIVE HER MIND PEACE!!!


Another friend of ours was having chest pains yesterday and was flown to Kearney and had a stent put in. Please pray for his recovery and for his wife, daughter, and son as they go through all of this.

Things like this just remind me how short our life is and how it can change it such an instance! James 4:14 says For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away It reminds me of this quote....: “Soon this life as we know it shall pass … only what’s done for Jesus will last.” .” And always remember, “It’s only a minute, but eternity’s in it.” Make your vapor count!

Lately, I have been physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally DRAINED!! The things of life have been weighing on me and just bringing me down. The other night I just cried out to God and said I can't do this God. I can't do ANY of this. I am tired and drained and I can't do one more thing. God reminded me that my focus was wrong. I am just a pilgrim PASSING through. This is NOT my home and these distractions and afflictions are but for a moment so why are they bringing me down??? Why am I tired and weary??? I once AGAIN had fallen short. My daily time with God was being squezzed out by the business of life; the demands of life was distracting me from the very one and the very SOURCE of my strength. So once again, I confess my failures. Once again I see why I have failed and how I have failed. Once again I return to MY GOD and MY SAVIOR!! ONce again I return the MY STRENGTH GIVER! Lord, HELP ME!! I need to be in Your Word DAILY! I need to be receiving your strength on a moment by moment basis! Lord, TEACH me!! Lord I want my vapor to count. I don't want to go through this life weary, tired, and heavy laden. I want to make a difference a difference that can only be done through YOUR STRENGTH!!! Thank you Jesus for your help in my time of need! Thank you for your loving discipline and constant guiding hand showing me the way!! I CAN DO ALL THINGS WITH YOU BUT I CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT YOU!!

Well, I don't know what lead me to write all of that! Just thoughts on my mind and in my heart!

Love you all!!