Please pray

I am so sorry that I haven’t blogged for so long!! I must admit that I have a really good reason though.
Right now I am working pretty much full time at YFC. To make a long story short I was supposed to put in 10-15 hours a week at YFC as the California Breakaway assistant, helping out with all the administration stuff. But the main person had to go on medical leave so then I was the ‘it’ girl.
So now our lives have consisted of California Breakaway!
I have been putting anywhere from 35-40+ hours a week and I still feel like I have a lot to do!
Prime example of our craziness: Yesterday was my birthday (26th) and I went from work from 9:00-3:30 and then I had some errands to do, so by the time I got home it was close to 5ish. Then I sat for 20 minutes, playing with Libby for a bit and then I had to make supper (Daryl and I gave up eating out for Lent), and then our good friend Kendra came over to take care of Libby while Daryl and I went back to the office for 3 hours and didn’t get home until after 10!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!
One bonus is that Libby is able to come to the office with us, and she does really well! We are so blessed by her and she amazes us everyday. Since Sunday, she has started to take some steps on her own, but still prefers to be safe and crawl. She also has started ‘swaying’ to the music and she is constantly ‘talking’ although we can’t decearn anything.

We would like to ask that you all pray for us as we are very exhausted and feel like we are quite stretched out! Please don’t think that we aren’t interested in you all anymore…. We really do think of you all a lot and we are super bummed that we can’t spend time with you (either in person, on the phone or chatting on the computer). And please don’t abandon our blogs… I promise that we will try to post more consistently!!
We love you all and would appreciate your prayers!!

fun with food
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Simple Pleasures

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Sorry so long!!! Life here has been super crazy. Daryl and I feel like we are running around constantly! For almost two weeks now I have been working at YFC pretty much full-time. The main admin. person has taken a medical leave, so right now it is pretty much just me doing the admin. for the California Breakaway trip. To put it into perspective, last year it took two people at pretty much fulltime PLUS volunteers to do what I am doing right now... YIKES!!! I am really enjoying it, but I am super tired....only 4 more weeks to go! The nice thing is that we can bring Libby to work with us... she is turning into the YFC mascot! She does really well and even gets a few naps in as well!!
Last weekend we had the opportunity to go to Swift Current and see our friends Ben and Jenn. It was a lot of fun, and we even got to see Daryl's uncle and aunt! It was a great time, and then this weekend we got to see Ben and Jenn again!!! They were up here for a conference so we got to see them twice in one week.
Libby is doing great!! She is standing a lot now by her self, but she hasn't quite built up the courage to take that step without holding on to anything. She also loves the stairs!!! Last Sunday she climbed up the whole flight of stairs.... this has become the newest fun game in the Grunau household. As you can see she also loves to give herself kisses in the mirror.
Anyways time to sleep, but I thought I would send this out and ask for all of your prayers over the Grunau family.... it is going to be a crazy month or so and we would appreciate your thoughts and prayers.
Thanks!!