"New ground & a walk in faith"

Some of you may have already heard of this, but I thought I would share with those of you who don't.

Last night Dad, Mom, Lincoln, Cameron & I were headed home after the "bulls & broncs" rodeo in Cedar Rapids. Mind you this was in the middle of the snow storm! Oh, we got caught in a 2-3 mile long traffic jam. It took us forever to get out. Or so it seemed like... which for my aunt Cheri who happens to live in the fine state of Cali-for-nie-ae this cannot be called a traffic jam=D But anyways, as we drive down interstate, Mom gets an e-mail on her shmansy fancy phone from a lady that's in our home-school group saying that our friends the Hathaway's house had just burnt to the ground. This was at around 10:00 pm that mom received that

 e-mail. It actually happened at 7:00 we found out earlier today.  

Tim, Linda & the kids left at around 5-6:00 that night & were headed to drop the kids off at Tim's sister's house so that he & Linda could go out for Valentines. It was shortly after supper Linda's Dad called saying that there house was completely a goner. 

To that they decided to make a stop at wal-mart to get the basics; socks, toothpaste, tooth brush's, etc. 

All they left the house with was Tim's phone, warm clothes, & each other!!!  

Not too long after Mom got the e-mail mom & I got some phones that were collecting dust from somewhere & took them over to to where they were staying. Then after that we were going to make a trip too wal-mart to pick up some things for them. It turned out that they had already gone to get stuff & that where Mom, & I had gone to find them, Tim & Linda were not staying there. Tim & Linda had gone to Linda's Mom & Dad's for the night. It wasn't long after we were told they were not there, we were on our way to Tim & Linda. 

At about 1:30 Mom, & I were on our way to our house to get Tim & Linda some clothes. In the mean time we were able to find them a camera we weren't using, some notebooks, journals & things like that.  Unfortunately we were not able, in our HUGE pile of cords, able to find Tim a charger for his phone. But this morning Dad & Cameron had to go to town to get ilk & picked one up for him then. Later after we had our "Valentines brunch" we loaded our things to go to Des Moines for the weekend & grabbed a build-a-bear bunny for Brea-3-ish that was just like the one she lost in the fire, some only heart dolls for rain 7-8 & an electric building type kit for Cambridge 9-10 that he had just recently gotten for his birthday. 

So please put this wonderful family in your prayers as they break new ground & take a step in faith! Thank you so much. I will keep you updated. Mikaela