Jason & Ashley Davis

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow we didn't realize it had been April since we had written. As you can see we stopped doing Birthday wishes online basically because we don't know who reads and we were trying to get better with cards and calls. Let's see, where to start. Well, as you can see we went to GA in May to see Ashley's brother graduate from HS. That was a fun trip (short but fun).  We then came back to find the downstairs neighbors still meandering around downstairs and well it just took a while to get them out. We finished painting, stripping, and restaining the living room and the wood in it. We then started to rip out the bathroom where it was rotted and VERY difficult. 95% of the bathroom was covered in tile and after being sore for almost 4 days (hands especially) we FINALLY finished. We are now waiting on our new tub, window, and electrical work and then we will post all before and after photos.

 

Next we're going to work on the kitchen for a bit and hopefully the dining room because we wanted to get as much done as possible before we move in so we don't have Hershey getting into everything. When we were using the hammers (and yes, sledgehammer) on the bathroom it would take a few hours before he'd go back in the bathroom up here. The last thing going in is the carpet and yes, then we can FINALLY move downstairs.

 

We have been feeling a little lonely at times because none of our friends call and Jason's guys at work are giving him a hard time again and not training him--but every day is a new day with God and we have to learn our patience because Lord knows we're ready to ring some people's necks. We move in on the 1st and then we are going to California on the 15th for 2 weeks. We are VERY excited about this trip because it's the first VACATION we get where we don't really have a whole lot to do. Just a fun confrence, visiting with some friends, going to Disneyland, and Sea World. We're very happy to have these two weeks to be together on a vacation where we don't have any major event (not that we don't enjoy major events--but we're happy to get away from here at any point in time).

 

Be praying that DFW will want Jason NOW and that it's God's will we move back. We haven't found a REAL church here and it's hard living in an environment where everyone is so negative...it kinda rubs off after a while (on us). We are praying for everyone out there. We love you guys and miss you!

Well it's been a while. With nothing to really report. Well, some things have happened since then.

 

We'll start with a couple weeks after the Ashley's return. She had to take Hershey to the vet for his check up and some shots...needless to say (and to make a long story short) he was totally unhappy. She accidentally got in the middle of his anger and he bit her finger. (almost all the way through--she still has a scar). Everything was fine after a couple of weeks the swelling went down and Hershey has turned into a different kitty.

 

We've been to a fundraising dinner for the Joshua Revolution which is a teen organization here that gets together for a giant youth convention every year. They are working this year to win back a nation for Christ and the youth are going to do that :) we're excited about the vision this group has.

 

We have a lot of stuff to do at church. Ashley is working with another person on the decor for the upcoming Women's Breakfast. Jason will be cooking for that event and is ecstatic because he's a cooking guru. Ashley was helping with the children during a mom's playgroup so that the mom's had a break for a couple hours--those kids were so great!

 

We have made friends that are absolutely amazing. One couple has kids, the other doesn't. So we still get our kid fix with their 3. They've been awesomely prayful and playful. We have a great time hanging out with them and their kids.

 

Jason will be done with his training soon. He is about 3 weeks away from his last qual on this specific part to the training. Then he has one last thing to do and he'll be ready to put in for a transfer. We hope that we get to go home soon. Even though every place has it's ups and downs...we don't see to many ups here. After half a year spent here we have just now gotten friends (whom we will miss dearly) but the place we live is frustrating--especially after we called the police last week. If you wanna know the WHOLE story, call us because it's interesting. We have seen the way things are here like laws, taxes, housing, and people.

 

We will be back next month with our update. We have to go to GA for a week for Ashley's brother's graduation and it's our 3rd Wedding Anniversary. Exciting!! Everyone have a great week. Love and miss you!

 

 

 

Happy Birthday March

7-David Chase

13-Jacob Harris

14-Peyton Ruley (2)

15-Megan Epperson

20-Lisa Alaniz

29-Grandma Carol Davis

Wow, guess this year's deciding to fly by quickly.  Well, we've seen most of you that read our website. We just have one thing to say--sign on to genebase.com and help us with the family tree!! We desperately need those that are members to help fulfill the tree until some kids are born. If only we could sit and talk to each one of you and get the info ourselves it would be that easy, however...if you're already a member then it doesn't work because we then need your "permission" to add or delete people.

 

As for that, we just like to keep reminders up. We would like for everyone to be praying for Ashley's family...we're not getting into detail about it, just know that as we pray God answers our prayers when there are two or more gathered in prayer. Our friend Heather, about 2 weeks ago, went in for a bladder surgery, sparing you the details she's doing pretty well and will be up shortly actually leaving the house for extended periods of time. Pray that this surgery actually sticks because we read up on the odds of it not sticking, and we don't want her to be the one that it doesn't. It's an extremely painful surgery and we can only hope it doesn't happen to anyone else :) Pray for our dear friend Kathy, and our grandma Dianne, they both have been fighting illness for about a month now. Ma'ma was getting better and then all of a sudden came down with a Stomach Virus to where she hasn't been able to consume much food.  And finally, (we think) our dear friend Erica. She's not been doing too hot with the divorce and she's ready for it to be over. We keep reassuring her that her part might be over, but unfortunately at this point, it involves two little ones and we hate to see then continue a custody battle for the next 16 years. She's doing well and the kids are too, but it's stressful being a single mom, going to work Full Time, and going to school Full Time so she can get a better job.

 

Ashley is in Texas still. She went to Oklahoma last week and helped out around the house, took Geno to his surgery (oh, another prayer request, he had the BIG screw taken out of his foot, but the dr's say he won't stop swelling for about a year...let's pray that's not the case!) and she took Ashlea (the niece) shopping too. She had a good time there and Jason misses her so much that they are excited about seeing eachother again this weekend for one last visit before he goes back to Buffalo and she goes to San Diego...although she gets the better end of the trip, he will be missed especially when she goes to Disneyland. (pray for her safe trip and safe return to Buffalo)

 

Guess that's all the news for now. oh, Jason is doing extremely well at training. When he returns to Buffalo he will be fully qualified in about 4 more months then we can start applying to go back to Texas. There are some great stories to go along with his training...but he has limited time between school and sleep to tell them so look back in a few weeks and we'll see if he gets them up.

 

We hope everyone enjoys their Valentine's Day. Don't use this as the only day to tell the one you love that you love them, but use it to go above and beyond the other days that you do!

 

Birthday wishes for February are:

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY (February)

14-Lauren Freeman

17-Breck Keller

17-Joshua King (2)

21-Ashlea Jackson

22-Dwain Davis

 

We hope all of you enjoy your birthday's this year. Breck, Ashley will see you on yours. And we want to Thank the Kings for rearranging Joshua's b-day party for us. You have no idea what that means to us. Love all of you, stay safe and prayerful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday (DEC)

9-Shauna Keller

12-Stephanie Nunez

19-Jordan Chase

19-Makayla Flinn

 

We have plans for Christmas (We're going back to GA to celebrate with Ashley's mom). Cards will be going out this week. It's been snowing since Monday, and some Christmas presents are going to wait until we come back down to Texas and Oklahoma. Ashley will be coming down on the 4th and Jason will then drive down on the 18th. We will be there for at least 2 weeks and hopefully we will come back to get our stuff and then be moving back...but we're not sure yet and we haven't heard anything.

 

We hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Enjoy your new year's celebrations! We'll be going to Michigan next weekend and we plan on watching Fireworks at Niagara Falls. We'll have lots of pics up afte all that. Have a great CHRISTmas season!!

 

Love and miss all of you!

 

 

 

 

 

November Birthday's

25th-Jason's Mom: Dee Nunez

 

 

SO sorry we didn't write earlier but we just regained power after having none for almost a week. It was the snow storm that I'm sure most of you heard or read about in the news. We have been trying to keep ourselves busy here with a lot of things to do.

 

Well so far, we've been to Niagra Falls, Toronto (but we didn't like it--however we were told that the "layer" we were on was just the top, the city is underneath), Niagra on the Lake, Rochester (to see Chuck preach at New Life Fellowship--and to see Joe and Vonnie Askins). And then it happened--the snow came. So that was a week long affair to remember.

 

We can't explain how happy we were to see the snow, but then it took our electricity along with about 200,000 other homes in the area. We stayed warm with blankets and occasionally turned on the stove and stood in the kitchen. Other times we went to stores that did have power to see what was left. We ended up having to buy a big comforter, candles, a puzzle, and monopoly--to keep busy.

 

We thank everyone for their prayers! And are so grateful that God is on the throne! Because without him we would not have survived the storm! Thanks for calling to check up on us and now that we have power our phones won't be dieing. Be praying for Jake (my brother, went in for an apendix removal LATE last night), Erica Ruley (the dr's might be telling her she has cervical cancer), and Heather King (she will be going in for a bladder procedure at the end of the month).  It seems like the enemy is trying really hard to take out those that are close to us. We are happy that Gary made it home from the hospital safe and sound, and that everyone who was sick is now (kind of) better.

 

We think that's it for now. We have to get ready for church since we didn't get to go on Sunday. But not before we give out the October Birthday Wishes!

 

Happy Birthday (October)

1-Rachel Moscript

7-Matt King

10-Sydney Chase

13-Paulette Keller

14-Nik Lillard

 

Happy Anniversary

28-Matt and Heather King

 

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So after 2,064 miles we are finally here! We made it after only a 12 hour trip from Raliegh.  It was fun--a little scary up in the DC area but the pics speak for themselves. We left Oklahoma on Monday, Sept 11 and were in Denton until Wednesday morning when we left out for Georgia. That was a 16 hour car trip and it felt like 2 days. Then from Georgia we went to North Carolina to spend the night (7 hours total to get there) and then the next morning off to New York we went.

We went through Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Pensylvania, and New York. If we had gone the other way we don't think it would have been too fun.

So, the furthest North we've been is Colorado (Jason) and DC (Ashley). This was a trip that we only remember gas prices on.  It was long and tiring and we think we have Buffalo down a little bit-at least the shopping!

Everyone is really nice here. We moved into our temporary "home" on the 20th where we will try to spruce the OLD place up a bit...maybe install new wood floors in exchange for rent. The "landlord" is Jason's Union VP. This gives us a chance to pay bills off. We will not be getting our stuff because there is no way it will fit through the doors or upstairs.

Jason's second day at work went nice. The first day he found out the FAA implimented a lot of new rules such as dress code, whether they leave for lunch or not, and specified break times. If Jason had gotten in a month ago, he would be getting about 4k more right now, but we know God works the way he does.

The tax rates aren't too bad up here. It's 8.3% on most items except food and clothes then it's 4.25%. Gas in Oklahoma was $2 when we left, then we paid about 2.50 the rest of the way until we got to New York. It's $2.72 here. The Hotel we werere in wasn't bad but it looks as though Buffalo is being "remodled" so to speak. The weather when we left wasn't BAD but it was in the 90*'s that we remember. Here's it's been in the 60*'s and we have no idea past 10 pm because that's our bed time :)

We made it through our first week in Buffalo. It was very trying and Ashley's back isn't doing much better. As of Friday, we had to check into a hotel to take a shower because they didn't come turn on our gas like they were supposed to. That was THE worst hotel that we have ever stayed in.  Then Saturday we went up to Niagra Falls. (which is only about 20 min) and decided to go over to Canada. (Ontario is right over the Falls). Jason has never been out of the country and Ashley's only been to Mexico a couple of times...so it was a new experience. It's really nice over there and they talk so cute! There are pictures of what they have...some of the pics we didn't get were of Planet Hollywood, Rainforest Cafe, Hard Rock Cafe, Marvel's Comic Store, Coca-Cola Store...and some other museums that we didn't want to pay to get into...mainly because you have to have money to pay :) You don't have to exchange your money which worked for us. We bought a T-shirt and lunch at Wendy's.

There was TONS of Maple candies, syrups, and cookies. The moose is big up there...and of course everything says Canada on it just in case you forget where you are.  We also took a trip downtown yesterday after church at "Sword of the Spirit Ministries" (which is there's website as well)...Downtown's a little abandoned. There is some great architechture but it's really old! So HGTV is renovating a lot of it...we'll be excited to see it when they're finished. Then we went around looking for new places to live. It was slim pickin's!! But we did find a few houses in a price range we'd be willing to pay. We got groceries to last us for 2 weeks...we thought it'd be like $120 but when done ringing up it was $82...how crazy is that?! Now gas, is still $2.60-$2.70 but they said it had come WAY down in the last week.

Well we better go....We thank you all for prayer, food, and lodging (and money) through this HUGE trasition for us. We promise to pay you back with prayer, food, and lodging anytime! (money will have to be later)! Love you all and miss you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason is Batman...Ashley is Superman/Wonder woman. Take the quiz: http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/superhero/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Memorial Day!  I have some great news!

 

Jason got a job offer from the FAA it's in NEW YORK!

 

Now we've been learning here at our church to PRAY and SEEK the Lord on everything because NY is THE MOST EXPENSIVE place to live in the nation. It has the highest income tax, you pay tolls on EVERY road, and when you do trash, you have to buy the county trash bags (you can't use your own).

 

We prayed and felt that there was some reason why we were supposed to be there and that the Lord has gone and prepared a speacial place for us. Then the Prophet at our church gave us a word that confirmed it all.

 

So Jason has to turn in his paperwork tomorrow and then we'll be getting ready to leave when they tell us.

 

So Our 2 year anniversary was this year. And we had a small party. It was fun. Our "cell group" that meets with young marrieds at the church broke up because the Lord was leading the group members all through seasons and the leaders weren't there with us. Our friends Marilynn and Deirdre are moving and CONGRATS to Deirdre she's getting married!!

 

Our friend Becca got married on Friday night. It was a great ceremony. We've been so busy because we have the BEST friends here that just had a baby in April. She's now 7 weeks old and growing so fast...we're so going to miss them. We go over to their house every night. They're so sad that we're moving, but know that as soon as God sends us, the sooner he'll bring us back.

 

Since we haven't mentioned birthdays in a couple months here goes:

 February

17- Uncle Breck Keller

22- Ashlea Jackson

23- Dwain Davis

 

 March

7- David Chase

13- Jacob Harris

14- Peyton Ruley

15- Megan Epperson

20- Lisa Alaniz

29- Grandma Carol Davis

 

 April

1- Olivia Myers

8- Heather King

11- Anslie Ruley

11- Jasmine  (my doggy at home)

18- Starsha Keller

 

And Happy 33rd Anniversary to: 14th-Pa'Pa (Gene) & Ma'Ma (Dianne) Keller

 

 May

12- Bill Davis (Dad)

20- Angel St. Andrew

 

And Happy 2nd Anniversary to Jason and Ashley :)

Happy Anniversary to Gary and Kathy Patterson

 

So I guess that's all for now. We're excited about what God has in store for our life.  Be praying that the move goes smoothly and that we have money to pay for someone else to move us, because it's NOT easy.

Hello!

 

We have been through yet another month. It has been a VERY long month!!

 

Because Ashley is working out SO much during the week, she is slowly but surely slimming down to what she was before Jason and her were married. Jason will soon start working out again because as he puts it "I'm fat".

 

Jason did shortly after the last blog find a job and it is delivering commercial newspapers for the Dallas Morning News. He makes $450 a week works about 3-5 hours each morning, and didn't have any complaints until recently. He just got a job as the newest VW Salesman at Lewisville VW (ranked #7 in the NATION!) He is commission based, but it is a great job and since they are selling cars like IHOP sells pancakes, he shouldn't have any problem bringing in money to pay down a lot of bills :)

 

Ashley continues at the gym, but is also looking at a Law Firm office here in Denton. She will be an Admin Assistant to the Mr. Coker and still working at the gym teaching health and fitness classes a few times a week.

 

"We feel totally blessed to have such great friends here!! It's been so long since we've found someone that will listen to us and give us great advice. Even though we still miss everyone we don't get to see anymore, soon we will be able to vacation with time to spare! We love you guys and love that you visit this site regularly!

 

We are still learning SO much about our families! As we continue with that please contact us with any information you might have regarding that. We are hoping to make it back to California in June for a couple of weeks if we can. We want to be able to see everyone in that time besides the family.

 

As God continues to bless us, may he bless you this Easter! We are going to put up late Happy Birthday's soon...we haven't forgotten about you! Love you guys!"