Fun night of worship

Last night (Tuesday) Danae and I went to see Chris Tomlin in concert. It was an AWESOME night of worship! There were several thousand people all pouring our hearts out in praise to our awesome God.

I also found one area/position I could serve on in a praise team...the guy who runs out and switches guitars for head performer...that could be me! j/k :)

Anyways, thank you to those who respond to us on our blog...I do check it regularly to see what people say. :)

Love you guys.
Will

2 Weeks to Go

Today is a happy and sad day. Our friend Shirley and her two girls, Melody and Gracie, are going back to their home in Little Rock, AR. Her husband, Jason, has less than a month left to finish up the project of building the border fence and then he will join them. It was really cute watching the girls say goodbye to each other. Kierra even gave away her two favorite stuffed animals to them as a parting gift. She said, "God wants us to share our toys with our friends..." Too cute! That's my girl!

Anyways, we are close to leaving too. I have my final written exam tomorrow...and then we have a final air battle (simulation exercise) later this week. I am finishing up the events required to earn the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge. We have the high jump and a sprint event on Tuesday. I am the Officer In Charge (OIC) of it so I have a few people who have to make up events throughout the rest of the week...but that will be nice to finish that up. We also are getting level 1 certified in combatives which we have a week and a half left of. The final event is called "the clinch drill" where we get in the ring with someone with boxing gloves on, and they hit us until we can achieve a move called "the clinch." That is next Thursday...it should be fun.

Now the tedius details of clearing the installation and packing up all that we brought come into play. Danae has been a little sick this past week so it has been hard for her to get started on everything. Kierra is doing great in school and she is even saying some spanish prayers now! I'm proud of both my girls for how quickly they learn things and how great their attitudes have been despite moving around across the country. We are all just very thankful to be together as a family.

Little Brookie did a face plant yesterday and cut up her lip a bit. She is doing well, but there was a lot of blood for such a little cut! She was tough about it though... :)

For those of you at home, thought you might want to know that I will be preaching at our church, Central Valley, on March 22nd. For those of you across the world, I'll try to snag a copy of one of the sermons and post it to the blog. :) (Some have asked for it in the past...)

Can't wait to get back to cold Idaho...

Love,
Will

What are we up to.....

Sorry I have not written in a while. I got into facebook and have been totally into that. But I am back to blogging too. We are down to 3 weeks left here in El Paso and we are ready for our time to be up. I think no more than Will though. He has 3 tests left and he has held the number one position in the class. We are very proud of him as he has worked very hard. He also just completed a 18.75 mile ruck march. Most of which he ran. I think he is slightly insane, and I am sure there are a few of you that may agree :).

Brookelynn had some more tests done this last week to figure out why she is vomiting so randomly. This is on going now for over a year. I think we have run just about every test possible on the GI tract, and I think we are coming back around again. We will get the results this coming up Friday.

Kierra is loving school and I even catch her speaking Spanish here around the house. I have no idea what she is saying, but she seems to be picking it up fairly quickly.

As you have probably read, I am pregnant again. We are very excited. I am not going to have any prenatal care here in TX. I will just wait till we return to Idaho to start care there. It's not like they do all that much at appointments anyways beside have you pee in a cup and tell you that you're gaining way too much weight. I can surely wait for that:)

We have a special request to ask of you. Our friend Tim Beck was recently diagnosed with Hodgkins disease which is cancer. He is headed to Seattle this week for further treatment and to see what can be done. We graduated high school with him.

We hope you are all doing well. We miss you all.
Resting in Him
Danae

Great News!

In case you haven't heard yet...Danae is pregnant with our 3rd child. We don't know a ton of info on the child...we think Danae is a little over 4 weeks along, but we won't know much more until we get to Idaho in March. Everyone is very excited for the new addition to the Andrews household. Especially Kierra. She is convinced that she is getting the little brother that she has been praying for. Brookelynn is also excited to be a big sister.

I hope you all have a good Valentine's day.

Love,
Will

Enjoying the Sun in El Paso

Hey everyone,

With all the recent storms that have hit the U.S. it has made us very thankful for the great weather we have had since we've been here. Cold here is in the mornings (the only time it is ever below 30 degrees) the normal temp is around 50-60 and that was in January!!! We had a week of 70's too!

Anyways, now that you are all mad at us for enjoying the warm weather while most of you are looking at snow...on to what's going on.

Brookelynn and Kierra are continuing to grow and learn. It is so much fun to watch them...I love being a dad. :) Danae has been busy taking care of us and has even found time to meet some new people and start a facebook...hence the reason we haven't been blogging as much. :)

I'm still in Patriot phase which is not nearly as bad as people made it out to be. It is boring at times (what technical school isn't) and its not the weapon system I will be using...but its not all that bad. I am just thankful to come home every night to my girls. We took our final Physical Fitness test which means that is another box checked off for graduation. We are all looking forward to going back to Idaho for a little bit and being at Sage's wedding.

We will be home March 11th and then I will leave on the 29th of March. Danae and the girls will be in Idaho til about the middle of May. I have six weeks of training in Ft. Benning, GA (jumping out of airplanes and learning how to set up landing zones) and then eventually we will be in Ft. Cambpell, KY.

Sorry there are not any pictures in this post...I'll try to get Danae to post some soon.

We love and miss you guys.

Will