Pifer Life

Count Down With The Pifers

22 days until we open the next chapter of our lives—I’m getting excited; but still very nervous!!

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Family Updates

Zach-his physical therapist was tough on him Friday-so he was sore this weekend, but nothing major. He is still doing amazing; Thank God!!!

Mom-she is still doing good...she is going through a very depressed phase right now so if you could all continue to pray for strength for her to get through this that would be amazing! I found out this past weekend that her depression is normal; it’s a side effect from her brain surgery. I don’t know all the details of why that happens, but I am glad to know it’s normal…hopefully it will be gone soon…she has overcome so much and I know she will be able to overcome this!

Me-I survived week one of boot camp (phew!). No lie—it was very tough!!! Day one they started us off with running 5 laps, which equaled a mile ½; in between every lap we had to do 50 squats and 20 jumping jacks…and that was just our warm up…it’s worth it though. I’ve been pretty stressed the past couple weeks and I can’t tell you how good it feels to just run (at the time I feel like I could pass out…and afterwards I can barely move); BUT it releases the majority of my stress which in return has helped me tremendously; so I am very thankful I did this boot camp—and even more thankful I have 2 amazing friends who are doing this with me; talk about a support system! Ashley took pictures of us before and after-I don’t have them with me, but I will try and post them later…you can click here to see them on her page-->just don’t laugh at my hair :) I was a MESS!!!

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News and Prayers

This Thursday will be the cut off date for the giveaway for a free blog design by Julies Blog Design and crocheted hat by Veronica. They are so amazing, and both of them are equally as excited about this giveaway as I am…so head over here and see how you can enter this amazing giveaway!

I will probably cut off Questions for Zach later this week and get that post up next week sometime, he has seen some of the question and is excited about expressing his feelings on a lot of things, so if you haven’t emailed me your question for “Mr. Pifer” go ahead and do so…or you can leave it in the comments here.

I have a special prayer request for one of my dear friends Sarah. Her husband Ben is in the navy-yesterday he was sent away for his first deployment, and they are unsure of how long he will be gone. Sarah is beside herself, she is trying to hold it together for her 3 kids; however she is having a hard time with this. Please head over to her blog here, and leave her some support and let her know she has many who are praying for her.

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Big events over the weekend…

Friday night when I got out of Boot Camp and Zach was done with PT we headed out to Odessa to spend the weekend with one of our best friends. Matt hasn’t been going down the right path in life to say the least; however I can defiantly say he is heading down a different road. I am extremely proud of him. He is like a brother to me, and I’ve never been so excited to see how well he is doing. He is working two jobs, has a nice little apartment of his own, and is enrolled in the Jr. College in Odessa. When we arrived in Odessa (at 3am-I was exhausted) we sat up till around 4:30 talking to Matt, I couldn’t get over how amazing he looked and how happy he was-it brought tears to my eyes, happy tears that is. I am very proud of him! We finally crashed then woke up early, and Matt toured us around his new little town that he calls home now. Later that night, Matt had something in store for us…we knew that Kevin Fowler would be playing there but didn’t know if we would be able to go or not—well Matt surprised us with tickets, keep in mind this is the same Matt who never had any money to his name because he spent it on items that he didn’t need-well now he had all his ducks in a row—so he surprised us with tickets. Matt’s mother and I pushed our way to the very front of the stage before Kevin came on to take some great pictures, then we headed back to Zach, Matt and Matt’s stepdad. One of the backstage guys knew Zach and Matt and they started talking for awhile. After awhile of talking the guy said “follow me”…so we all started following him and low and behold he took us BACKSTAGE. I was like a little girl in a candy shop fixing to meet Kevin Fowler…we stayed backstage for hours just talking and hanging out with Fowler and the band, it was amazing. After a long “extremely fun” night we headed back to Matt’s and crashed. The next morning was sad having to leave Matt, I gave him my little “momma-sister-friend type pep talk” and gave him a huge hug, told him how proud of him I was and that I loved him. He had tears in his eyes and said “Tiffany-I’m going to be ok…I know it now”, and you know what—I know he will be ok now as well. We don’t know what our future holds, we don’t know what path God will take us down…but we do now with love-support from friends-and prayers God will guide us in the right direction!

I have TONS of pictures to post from this weekend and tons of Kevin Fowler—however there all at home, so there will be a separate post of just pictures coming up soon, hopefully tonight, so make sure you check back! :)