Merry Christmas

from all of us!!!

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Christmas photos

Merry Christmas from the Kistners!





Here is our failed attempt at a photo with our puppies... they would not cooperate!

Rick, I love you my dearest, but I have found another...

Proposition 8: The Musical!

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... by Jack Black

Our Christmas miracle

God truly is good! He has answered our prayers, and has brought us our Christmas miracle.
Mayo clinic called today to tell us that my cousin Brenda from Colorado is a match, and she is approved to be my kidney donor! My surgery is scheduled for January 6.

I am overwhelmed. I have the most incredible family, and an amazing, supportive, loving husband. My cousin is an angel! I know how proud my grandparents would be.
Please keep us in your prayers in the coming weeks as we prepare for the surgery.

In less than 6 weeks, I will have a new chance at life. Truly amazing.

I've found that it's in our darkest hour that God shines his light the brightest for us.



Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
change and decay in all around I see;
O thou who changest not, abide with me.

I need thy presence every passing hour.
What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;
ills have no weight, and tears not bitterness.
Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;
shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;
in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.