My Bunkle Buh

My Bunkle Buh went to be with Jesus this past Sunday morning! And today we celebrated 55 years of his life. His funeral service was so beautiful and so Bunkle Buh. He has been driving a Ready Mix Concrete truck for the past 10 years and he LOVED his truck, so they brought his truck out to lead the recessional from the church to the cemetery. They had a big cross hanging from the top balcony. It was a beautiful site to see it leading the way! The preacher(s) did an incredible job  telling stories of Bunkle Buh, encouraging us about heaven and the kingdom that Jesus has prepared in advance for us, and talking about the grace and forgiveness Bunkle buh has received into his heart from Jesus! Here are a few pictures of Bunkle Buhs truck today! 

You will be so missed Bunkle Buh! I will always remember you at your favorite place that I have grown to love, Cape Lookout! I will never forget the way you say "Hey Maary." I will love every dog with your loving heart! I will try to love my Nieces and nephews half as much as you loved yours. I will tell my children about their great Bunkle buh who looks over them and wishes he could play with their toys on Christmas morning, how he is laughing in heaven when they are scared of the boogie man at night. I love and miss you so much Bunkle buh!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=in9-6IxQbzk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Din9-6IxQbzk

There is a song on the radio...

There is a country song on the radio right now that I think was written about Clint Rouse. And it just so happens to be the Chevy truck song on commercials! So, this blog post and song is dedicated to the one and only Clint Rouse! My STRONG husband and best friend!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HItiJYwAPGQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHItiJYwAPGQ#/user/Chevrolet

He's a 20-year straight get to work on time
He's loved one woman for all his life
He's a shirt off his back give you his last dime
He's strong.

He's a need to move something you can use my truck
He's an overtime worker when the bills pile up
Everybody knows he aint just tough
Hes strong.

Strong,
Hell pick you up and wont let you down
Rock solid inside out
Somebody you can trust
Steady as the sun
Aint nothing gonna knock him off the road hes rolling on
He's strong

It aint what he can carry, what he cant lift
Its a dirt road lesson talking to his kids
Bout how to hold your ground and how to live strong

He's strong
Hell pick you up and wont let you down
Rock solid inside out
Somebody you can trust
Steady as the sun
Aint nothing gonna knock him off the road hes rolling on
Hes strong

Strong, like a river rolling
Strong, gonna keep on going
Strong, when the road runs out
Their gonna keep on talking about how he was

Strong, strong
Hell pick you up and wont let you down
Rock solid inside out
Somebody you can trust
Steady as the sun
Aint nothing gonna knock him off the road hes rolling on
He's strong

Everybody knows he aint just tough, hes strong

Have a great day! 

Love,

 

The wife who loves chevron and the husband who loves Chevrolet 

So, it's been a month...

Where did October go? Man! Well, folks! A lot has happened in the Rouse House in the past 4 weeks! Where to begin?

Go ahead and clear the air... We are not pregnant. Were you expecting for me to announce that? Well nope

Okay for real, we still are in K-town getting more and more settled in our little town! We have made great friends who are intentional and super embracing. Clint and I both have found older men and women to pour into and to disciple us. Very thankful! We have joined a House Church (like a Bible study), we go on double dates, we eat a lot of chicken, and do a lot of Young Life! A typical week looks like this for us:

We work 9:30-5 Monday-Friday

Monday night we have Young Life Club!

Tuesday night we date each other! (Or have committee meetings)

Wednesday night we have House Church

Thursday night we date or are intentional with friends our age or high school friends

Friday night we are either traveling or at a Parrott football game.

That is a pretty typical week, but the past couple of weeks have been a blur on the weekends!

I went to Colorado with 4 of my best friends on this planet! Kelly Odom lives in Buena Vista, CO and works at a Young Life camp their (Trail west!) Anna, Becca, Stacey, and I flew out to be with Kelly for the best fun packed days! We laughed until we cried and laughed some more. I love these girls ALOT! The 5 of us lived together through out college! We tried to hike and the snow was too deep, we went to a pumpkin patch that had 4 pumpkins, we stayed in a home that could be on MTV cribs, made up hash tags, said sayings with the same inflection as "hump day!", sang some Celine dion and Gavin degraw! it was a fun filled weekend! And it wouldn't be us with our an impromptu photo shoot....

(This last one is the most natural!)

Here is the shot from our .2 mile hike... A foot of snow in capris...

Then...We did program at Windy Gap for Raleigh Young Life!

This weekend was such a blast! We were the silly people leading skits and making 600 high school kids laugh (hopefully) we were Bill and Faye Tomlison who were duck hunters with some SWAG trying to make it platinum. We served on program alongside of Leigh Kellerman (my BFF) and Brently (my bffs bf). SO fun!

Here is Leigh and I as the jeans! Ha! RIDICULOUS!

Then....the very next weekend Clint and I turned around and went to Carolina Pont with 86 Kinston high school friends! Such a blast! The Lord is so cool! For real! Carolina point is REAL far from K-town. To break it down we were on a bus for 16 hours and at camp for a total of 36 hours... But SO fun! Here are some pics:

The whole big group! For real! Goose bumps looking at this pic! K-town rolling deep!

This was the cabin I had the privilege to lead! All the jr and sr girls from APA! Love them! For real! These girls make me laugh so hard! 

And in all of this craziness my Bunkle Buh has been very sick. Bunkle buh is my moms little brother who is known as Uncle Bill by some, but I had a speech impediment as a child and coined his name as "Bunkle buh." He is the sweetest man who never had his own children, but loves me and my 2 big brothers as his own. He is the uncle who taught us the Boogie Man is real, would be at our house every Christmas Morning, never missed a birthday, bought Clint and I everything remaining on our wedding registry! To say the least, I love this man more than words and brings tears to my eyes while I type. His birthday is Monday and he will be turning 55. He has been fighting an infection in his liver for almost 9 months and he has been placed in Hospice this week. We are beginning to grieve the loss of our Bunkle Buh. Clinging hard to the truth that The Lord has a beautiful plan for his children! That He is calling this loved man home.

My Bunkle Buh

So... That was October and beginning of November. 

Very thankful for y'all!