Almost DONE!!! & Heavens blessings upon us...

The semester is almost over and we have been through quite a few challenges, but we have received some many blessings as well. Glen has been cramming hours upon hours of school and when I say that I am not kidding. He has been working on the Lego graphics drawing assignment that has completely consumed his life, as well as his other studying for his 5 classes and two labs that he is taking. For the last week or so he has been getting up at AM (if not earlier sometimes) and then he doesn't get to bed until like 1 or 2 in the morning. He is literally going ALL day non stop. He finally got the project done yesterday (December 11, 2010) at around PM in the evening. He had to print a whole bunch of papers that we might as well call it a book. He has two finals on Monday and then three finals all back to back in a row on Wednesday. I think that he might have a half an hour break in between each final, but then after that he is done for the semester!!! YAY!! He has worked really hard and deserves a nice break from all of that studying for a while, all though he does have work full time with the Research Department at Boise State University that will keep him busy. He needs to work 60 hours the first two weeks to catch up on some time from the semester. Glen only has three more semesters left and then he'll have his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. We are excited for that time to come :) I am extremely PROUD of my husband!!! I know that he works really hard to get the best grades that he can and on top of that he still works extremely hard to be able to provide for the family.
With this semester it has been so busy, and we have hardly had time to breathe let alone do anything else. There was a month during the semester where we were concerned with making our mortgage payment. With my surgery I wasn't able to bring anything in for a month if not more than that and Glen took some time off to help me. November mortgage was coming up and we had maybe a few dollars in our bank account, not nearly enough to pay all the bills and mortgage. We needed to pay tithing and decided to do so, having faith that things would work out. The next day Glen received a call from Doug (from the Home Depot Window installs that Glen subcontracts for) he was calling to inform Glen about two jobs that he had coming up that he was wondering if Glen could get done that week on Thursday. I remember Glen calling me telling me that he just got a couple of windows jobs and that it would help bring in some money to pay for some of the mortgage. We felt blessed and excited that the Lord had heard and answered our prayers. Thirty minutes went by and Doug called Glen again saying that he just got one more window job for Glen that was scheduled on Saturday. With the last call that totaled three window jobs for the week. Glen was able to juggle his schedule around with school and work with Research to get the jobs done and still keep up with all of his responsibilities from school. About a week later when it was time for the mortgage to be paid, Glen got paid from the Home Depot for the recent window jobs that he did, totaling $795.00, well it just so happens that our mortgage is $795.00. We received an answer to our prayers with a temporal need to help keep a roof over our heads to the PENNY. Some people might say that it was just a coincidence and some what say that it happened out of sure luck. I don't believe that it was either. What I do know is that we have a Heavenly Father who knows us and the things that we need. I know that we were blessed from paying tithing and I am forever in debt to my kind and Loving Heavenly Father. I feel blessed to be a part of this gospel, to know of it's truths and to know that we have a Heavenly Father who knows us, our needs, desires, worries, wants and he loves us. What a great blessing it is to know these things in my life! I know that with faith all things are possiable and that when we pay tithing it is a great blessing that blesses us with both spiritual and temporal needs.