I married my best friend! And today....I couldn't be more blessed. I just look at my husband and how wonderful he is to me and I am amazed at God's blessings in our lives. We have three beautiful children and we are closer today and more in love today than I could have ever imagined.
Now...that isn't to say that we haven't had our moments that have been hard in the past 10 years. We have been through a lot of drama together but God has used those life events to pull us closer to HIM and closer to each other.
I am so blessed to have a husband who puts Christ at the center of our marriage and we share the same love for Christ.
I just wanted to post this as I am thinking about my wonderful husband! I took him ice cream at lunch as he is at home planting flowers....he was surprised. I also have another gift to give him later and he doesn't think I am getting him anything! HA!
Anyways...10 years ago today I was preparing for one of the best days of my life! I always say that it is funny to me to look back now at that day and think about how in love I thought I was. I don't think I really knew what love was at that point. Not sure if that makes sense...but with each day and each year and each baby that was born and each night up with a sick kid and each time he looks at me and each time he cleans the house or does the laundry or buys my special things at the store or brings me flowers just because or pushes me to do something that I really want to do but don't know if I can do or each time he tells me I am beautiful or watching him read the kids a book or saying it is jump on daddy time and watching him play with the kids or the times he stays home with the sick kid so I can go to work or the times he gets the kids ready and comes to watch me in a race or the times he tells people what a great mom I am or the quiet moments when it is just him and I and we just talk....I mean the list could go on and on....each of those moments have made our love grow and made me look at him more and more for the man he is and not the man he will be. I love him and I am so blessed to have him as my husband.
Just wanted to share that today!!!! Happy Anniversary to me!!!!
OH....and Happy Earth Day too!!!
Love ya!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
I love this time of the year!!!
God has a plan for you. Before you even thought about Him and what His plan entails for you, He was already thinking about you and He already had a plan for you. Wow. That is pretty cool!!!
So, we had a great sermon yesterday. I have to tell you that when we first started attending this new church, I wasn’t too sure about the preacher because he is vastly different from Bob and I really enjoyed Bob. But let me tell you, there have been so many awesome sermons. My mind has totally changed about him. Yesterday he preached from Jeremiah 1 and it was a powerful, powerful sermon. Then the sweetest thing happened at the end of the service. Each Sunday they invite people to come up if they need prayer or whatever and it is always so sweet how it is handled. Typically he will tell everyone what the person is requesting prayer for and then invites people who have had similar situations in their life to come up and pray with them. I love that part of the service. It is so neat to see. Anyhow, yesterday there were several people who went up for prayer and right before the end of the song, these two young boys went up together. You could tell that their parents did not know what they were doing and they actually tried to stop them for a second but they were quick! LOL Well, those two little boys went up to request prayer for their grandma who is having back problems. When Randy (our preacher) asked them their Grandma’s name…they shrugged their shoulders and said “Grandma”. So sweet. So, he prayed for their grandma and it was so precious. So precious to see their faith and they knew that their request – no matter how big or small – was just the right request to take to the Lord. Oh, if only we had that same faith and persistence. It was a great ending to a great service. Oh…plus we sang the Revelation Song yesterday and that is just about one of my favorite songs ever and it was so neat to see how it moved so many people.
However, on that note…I have to say that last week on Easter, church was really great in all three services that I sang in. And I had this cool conversation with a guy after the first service. Our first service is a traditional service and the average age of the congregation is about 65 or so. Well, I made the comment to him that it was neat to see some of them “get into” worship with us because that is so rare and there aren’t many. And he said that he has a different theory about that….he said that just because we don’t see them “get into” worship the way that we do, doesn’t mean that they aren’t “into it”. We talked about that for a while and he made a great point and I will certainly keep that in mind. Now, I still think the ones that stand with their arms crossed and their lips pursed together are probably NOT into worship, but who am I to judge? LOL It was just a great conversation and Easter worship was really good!
So, what has been going on in my life the past two weeks since I last posted? Let me recap all of the excitement for you!!!!
Vacation….was AWESOME! We left early on Sunday morning and drove to Gatlinburg. My parents have an AWESOME time-share place there that has a very cool indoor waterpark. So, we got there on Sunday and Mom and I went and got groceries and Scott and Dad took the kids onto the resort and waterpark. The kids had so much fun. That night, we stayed at the park until it closed and then went back to our room and I cooked dinner. We had a relaxing evening and just enjoyed the company. Then the next day we got up and took the trolley (found it!) to Gatlinburg and went to the Aquarium. Aside from Gracie having a few meltdowns, we had fun there. Faith just loved to take pictures of everything and she was a bit scared of walking under the sharks. We all tried to touch the sting-rays and I actually did touch one but no one else could reach them. We ran into two families from Dayton there that we knew…so that was a bit weird! Then we went back to the waterpark for a bit and then we went out to dinner to Logans. YUMMO. Plus CHEAPO. We did some outlet shopping…I have to go to the Disney Store when we are there and then back to the room for dessert and games. Then on Tuesday we just planned on spending the entire day at the waterpark and we had a blast. The kids all love it and just had so much fun playing. I went back to the room at one point and made sandwiches for lunch and we just hung out all day there and enjoyed the time. After cleaning up and grilling out for dinner, we went to the Miracle Theater to see Joseph and the Technicolor Coat of Many Colors featuring Melinda Doolittle (from American Idol a few seasons ago) as the narrator. It was AWESOME and the kids all were great and really enjoyed it….we all did! Faith’s favorite part was getting Joseph’s autograph afterwards. She thought she had seen a celebrity! So cute. Plus the kids got to ride on a camel! Oh….Gracie fell asleep on my lap right before the end, but she still loved it! We got up and headed home the next morning. Being home and off work the next two days was fabulous because we had perfect weather! The girls and Isaac literally played outside pretty much the entire two days. I took them to Cox Arboretum one day. I had never been there before and we will definitely go back because they had so much fun and it was so pretty. I didn’t take my camera and that was really dumb. I got the pictures that I posted here with my phone.
Then that was Easter weekend and we had fun with my family! We painted eggs on Saturday with Jodi’s family and Isaac got to hang out with Austin. He sure loves his cousin! They played a lot of basketball and a lot of xBox. Austin ended up spending the night with us and the boys had fun….well, I know Isaac did. He probably annoyed Austin, but Austin was a good sport! And of course, Easter Sunday was tiring because we had to be at church early and sang in all three services, but that was very fun! Then we got to spend most of the day with my family – which I LOVED – but we had to leave before everyone else to go to Scott’s family….which I could’ve done without. Oh well. I enjoy spending time with them….but lately there has been drama again, so that makes it not as much fun. Plus, when my family gets together, it is really more of a gathering of my best friends, so I just hate missing out on any of that! But…did you know that we are going on a cruise in May? LOL So, that will be awesome! I am getting so excited!
So, anyways….then I had to go back to work and work was crazy busy! But at least I have a job! I ended up spending one night in Columbus, which was okay. I just enjoyed one night of total quiet and peace in a hotel room. That doesn’t happen very often. And the rest of the week was spent just getting caught up at work and running to soccer practice and baseball practice and t-ball! The kids are super busy…but they are enjoying it all. Poor Gracie isn’t in anything yet, but she enjoys running everywhere with me. Well, for the most part! LOL
We have been doing some landscaping at our house and I just don’t want to come to work! I would rather be sitting in my backyard and enjoying the fruits of our labors….or just enjoying the sound of the girls playing (or screaming) in the backyard! They LOVE their playground so much. I need to get them a new see-saw thingy to put in place of the baby swing since we don’t need that anymore. They will play out there for hours. It is so funny to listen to their imaginations as they play baby or go on rock hunts or push the dog down the slide (LOL). They crack me up.
I am sure there is so much more that I could say….I feel like I could go on forever, but I am also sure that I would bore you to tears! Love to all!!!
So, we had a great sermon yesterday. I have to tell you that when we first started attending this new church, I wasn’t too sure about the preacher because he is vastly different from Bob and I really enjoyed Bob. But let me tell you, there have been so many awesome sermons. My mind has totally changed about him. Yesterday he preached from Jeremiah 1 and it was a powerful, powerful sermon. Then the sweetest thing happened at the end of the service. Each Sunday they invite people to come up if they need prayer or whatever and it is always so sweet how it is handled. Typically he will tell everyone what the person is requesting prayer for and then invites people who have had similar situations in their life to come up and pray with them. I love that part of the service. It is so neat to see. Anyhow, yesterday there were several people who went up for prayer and right before the end of the song, these two young boys went up together. You could tell that their parents did not know what they were doing and they actually tried to stop them for a second but they were quick! LOL Well, those two little boys went up to request prayer for their grandma who is having back problems. When Randy (our preacher) asked them their Grandma’s name…they shrugged their shoulders and said “Grandma”. So sweet. So, he prayed for their grandma and it was so precious. So precious to see their faith and they knew that their request – no matter how big or small – was just the right request to take to the Lord. Oh, if only we had that same faith and persistence. It was a great ending to a great service. Oh…plus we sang the Revelation Song yesterday and that is just about one of my favorite songs ever and it was so neat to see how it moved so many people.
However, on that note…I have to say that last week on Easter, church was really great in all three services that I sang in. And I had this cool conversation with a guy after the first service. Our first service is a traditional service and the average age of the congregation is about 65 or so. Well, I made the comment to him that it was neat to see some of them “get into” worship with us because that is so rare and there aren’t many. And he said that he has a different theory about that….he said that just because we don’t see them “get into” worship the way that we do, doesn’t mean that they aren’t “into it”. We talked about that for a while and he made a great point and I will certainly keep that in mind. Now, I still think the ones that stand with their arms crossed and their lips pursed together are probably NOT into worship, but who am I to judge? LOL It was just a great conversation and Easter worship was really good!
So, what has been going on in my life the past two weeks since I last posted? Let me recap all of the excitement for you!!!!
Vacation….was AWESOME! We left early on Sunday morning and drove to Gatlinburg. My parents have an AWESOME time-share place there that has a very cool indoor waterpark. So, we got there on Sunday and Mom and I went and got groceries and Scott and Dad took the kids onto the resort and waterpark. The kids had so much fun. That night, we stayed at the park until it closed and then went back to our room and I cooked dinner. We had a relaxing evening and just enjoyed the company. Then the next day we got up and took the trolley (found it!) to Gatlinburg and went to the Aquarium. Aside from Gracie having a few meltdowns, we had fun there. Faith just loved to take pictures of everything and she was a bit scared of walking under the sharks. We all tried to touch the sting-rays and I actually did touch one but no one else could reach them. We ran into two families from Dayton there that we knew…so that was a bit weird! Then we went back to the waterpark for a bit and then we went out to dinner to Logans. YUMMO. Plus CHEAPO. We did some outlet shopping…I have to go to the Disney Store when we are there and then back to the room for dessert and games. Then on Tuesday we just planned on spending the entire day at the waterpark and we had a blast. The kids all love it and just had so much fun playing. I went back to the room at one point and made sandwiches for lunch and we just hung out all day there and enjoyed the time. After cleaning up and grilling out for dinner, we went to the Miracle Theater to see Joseph and the Technicolor Coat of Many Colors featuring Melinda Doolittle (from American Idol a few seasons ago) as the narrator. It was AWESOME and the kids all were great and really enjoyed it….we all did! Faith’s favorite part was getting Joseph’s autograph afterwards. She thought she had seen a celebrity! So cute. Plus the kids got to ride on a camel! Oh….Gracie fell asleep on my lap right before the end, but she still loved it! We got up and headed home the next morning. Being home and off work the next two days was fabulous because we had perfect weather! The girls and Isaac literally played outside pretty much the entire two days. I took them to Cox Arboretum one day. I had never been there before and we will definitely go back because they had so much fun and it was so pretty. I didn’t take my camera and that was really dumb. I got the pictures that I posted here with my phone.
Then that was Easter weekend and we had fun with my family! We painted eggs on Saturday with Jodi’s family and Isaac got to hang out with Austin. He sure loves his cousin! They played a lot of basketball and a lot of xBox. Austin ended up spending the night with us and the boys had fun….well, I know Isaac did. He probably annoyed Austin, but Austin was a good sport! And of course, Easter Sunday was tiring because we had to be at church early and sang in all three services, but that was very fun! Then we got to spend most of the day with my family – which I LOVED – but we had to leave before everyone else to go to Scott’s family….which I could’ve done without. Oh well. I enjoy spending time with them….but lately there has been drama again, so that makes it not as much fun. Plus, when my family gets together, it is really more of a gathering of my best friends, so I just hate missing out on any of that! But…did you know that we are going on a cruise in May? LOL So, that will be awesome! I am getting so excited!
So, anyways….then I had to go back to work and work was crazy busy! But at least I have a job! I ended up spending one night in Columbus, which was okay. I just enjoyed one night of total quiet and peace in a hotel room. That doesn’t happen very often. And the rest of the week was spent just getting caught up at work and running to soccer practice and baseball practice and t-ball! The kids are super busy…but they are enjoying it all. Poor Gracie isn’t in anything yet, but she enjoys running everywhere with me. Well, for the most part! LOL
We have been doing some landscaping at our house and I just don’t want to come to work! I would rather be sitting in my backyard and enjoying the fruits of our labors….or just enjoying the sound of the girls playing (or screaming) in the backyard! They LOVE their playground so much. I need to get them a new see-saw thingy to put in place of the baby swing since we don’t need that anymore. They will play out there for hours. It is so funny to listen to their imaginations as they play baby or go on rock hunts or push the dog down the slide (LOL). They crack me up.
I am sure there is so much more that I could say….I feel like I could go on forever, but I am also sure that I would bore you to tears! Love to all!!!
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