Friday, January 22, 2010

Never a Dull Moment!



Today started out as many others do...quiet, watching the news, a hot cup of tea and then teh phone rings..."Mom? So I'm ok....but" and the panic begins. It was Nick's voice on the othere end letting us know that he had been in an accident. Praise God he was uninjured but shaken up, a bit stiff (I'm certain that will be even better tomorrow). The older couple in teh other car was shaken as well and an ambulance was called just to make sure they were ok. Turns out that the teh driver of the other car had open heart surgery last week so the needed to have him evaluated. As far as we know all involved were uninjured, Thank you Jesus. Now...Nick's truck..that's a different story. I believe this will be "Hanks" last hurrah. Now we deal with all that is coming and just be happy that Nick is ok.
Ash and Dan are still at Stanford and awaiting th day they can go home...CT came back with good news. Not more fluid in his tummy and so the wound vac will go on tomorrow to try and get rid of all the infection in his wound. pathology came back with good news as well. When the next surgery is done and Dan is all healed up it could make dan CANCER FREE! Praise God! So now, we wait for him to recover from this surgery and get him through the next and then watch them go about living the lives of a young married couple.
I guess that about it for now. We are so thnakful for the family and friends that keep us all in their prayers.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I can't believe I started this almost 2 years ago and this is the 3rd blog!! I think this year I better get ALOT better at this. 2010 has started off with so much going on in our family.
Russ and I have accepted the Youth Pastor position at Lighthouse Foursquare Church about a year ago and we are loving it. The young people we get to hang out with are some remarkable people. I think we are just where we are suppose to be...loving on, guiding, teaching and having a ball with these kids...oops, youth!
Nick has started his 4th semester at SRJC and has decided to enter the EMT program & Academy. He took a 1st Responder class last semester and LOVED it and did great in it. After that it was full steam ahead and now he's on his way to being an EMT with prospects of becoming a paramedic in the future. Nick is as well dating a lovely young lady he has known since 1st grade. Katie is in her second year at Davis University working on her verterinary degree.
Ash & Dan are, as many of you have been reading, in the middle of another journey in Dan's fight with cancer. Dan is in Stanford Hospital recovering from a 15 hour surgery he had on the 8th of this month. I have never seen 2 such strong, faith-filled, remarkable people as these two. Ash is in her last Semester at Biola University finishing her nursing degree and Danny is looking forward to finishing his credential studies to become a HS math teacher...yep, A MATH TEACHER...do you remember your high school math teacher? I think Danny will make his class nothing like what we remember. Please keep them in your prayers as they wait patiently for God to finish up what he is doing in Danny's body and let life continue as normal. Visit their blog for more info on they're journey footballandsthoscopes.blogspot.com.
One other really fun thing that is going on right now is that Russ' dad just moved in with us. he stayed with us for a bit this summer/fall and has now sold his house in Paradise and moved into our home with us. Russ, Nick and I are thrilled to have him here...as are our dogs...they now have a constant playmate. god has been so good to us and we continue to look forward to what else he is gonna do in us, through us and for us. I promise to be better at keeping you all updated on the happenings here with the Cliffords....I really will...you'll see. :D

Love you all,
Terry