Straight Up....

Now tell me do you want to love me forever,
oh oh oh....

If you are a child of the eighties you know this very annoying popular song by Paula Abdul (oh come on you know you do....you danced with it to in your bedroom too...or was that just me.. ahem..) anyway.... Now that this song is stuck in your head I'm moving on.

Your welcome.

Well this post is not about that song, thankfully. I finished a book by the aforementioned title of this post "Straight Up" ~~ which incidentally had nothing to do with the song (that I threw in for free, because I'm cool like that...anyway....) it is by Lisa Samson and it was one very thought provoking book in all respects for me.

The way I came upon this book was all God and I wanted to share. I was in our local library which is rather small and not the one I generally go to, but I was short on time, so I took my books back there and got to looking around for Scrapbook books (that's funny =) and a book on the shelf in the Christian fiction section caught my eye. Yep you guessed it, "Straight Up". Well of course after I got through singing that song in my head, I went over and picked it up and read the back of it. Really I felt compelled to. But I was not in the market to start another book right now, other things on the plate, you know, but like I said I was compelled, drawn to it really, it was a Spirit thing. So after I'd read the back and put it back down and walked away, I didn't get very far. The Holy Spirit just wouldn't let me go on this one, so I checked it out.

I got it home knowing I needed to read it and not just look at it for two weeks and take it back never finding the time to pick it up (not that I'd do that or anything =). So read it I did and read and read and read. This book grabbed me from the first page. For one thing it is written in the style I like...short consistent chapters, and she completely develops the characters. I love that. To me it is essential to a good read.

Well I won't give you the deal of the book, but I will tell you that in the end portion of the book one of the main characters gets to know what her life would have been like had she made other choices; smarter choices, because she'd made some REALLY bad ones. That was a WOW for me. I have thought about this before. Will I get to know how things would've worked out, ya know if I'd have not made those bad choices, if I'd have followed more closely all my life...ya know..........I think about those things sometimes. And to have her in this book get to know, it was just one of those sobering and teaching moments for me. I wish I could tell you what happens, but I'd ruin it. You're just going to have to read it.

So now I have another book by this same author that was recommended on a blog (yes I do pay attention to what ya'll say and recommend). It is called "Embrace Me" again by Lisa Samson and I'll let ya know how that one is when I get it started and finished. okay?okay.


I also wanted to let you know that I've added some yumminess to my recipe blog. Please go and check it out here. I will be updating more hopefully this afternoon. I have lots of updating to do on that baby so keep checking back.

Have I said lately how glad I am to have Ms. Laptop back? Oh yes I think I have mentioned it =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Thursday,

The Motions

I love Matthew West. His music has spoke to me for a very long time. My friend Carrie, asked me last week if I'd heard the song of his, "The Motions", and I was pretty sure I hadn't. So I did what I always do when a trusted friend asked me about a song, I go to Itunes and listen to the little diddy and then download. Some of ya'll have turned me on to some good tunes as well.

Well she also said I needed to not only listen to the song but I also needed to watch the video. So I did that this morning (yeah I am so right on top of things =) and so wanted to share this with you.

God works through trial ~~ He just does. As I watched this my heart was so very happy to hear Matthew's sweet voice. God is so good. And as I WALK this road, I know My God is good.

So take a few minutes and watch, listen and read the white board ~~ God definitely has something to say. Powerful~~~



Have a Blessed Wednesday,

Such Grace!!!

So I haven't talked a lot about our church, mainly because we attend a rather large church, and we have taken a lot of slack about it at times. It is a personal choice for us and really has nothing to do with the size and everything to do with God.

You see Dick and I both went to smaller churches, in fact like really small country type churches when we were younger. But we met a couple who went to James River and kept telling us how much they liked it, but we like so many others said something like, "it's too big". At the time it had between 2,000-2,500 people, but we really felt like we needed to check it out, and as soon as we walked into the sanctuary we knew, God was there and in a BIG way. His Spirit was resting there.

Well that was back about 1996, a couple of years before D and I got married. We so much enjoyed the church and learned so much there. Well after we married we moved to a small community and started attending and serving in a small church that we also loved and felt like God led us to for that season in our lives. We met lasting friends and church family there. But after being there about 3 years God was talking to us about going back to JRA. We had moved back closer to the church so I couldn't use that as an excuse, we were right in between the two churches at this point. Well, D and I started talking about it, and about a year later (yes I know, a year?!!) we decided that it was time. I was very sad to leave that small intimate church, but I knew that God had much bigger things in store for us if I'd just get out of the boat of my comfortableness ~~ ya know what I mean?

Well I did and we did and we started back to JRA and that has been 5 years ago now. When we started back it was a new location and a much bigger church, in fact on Easter Sunday this year. we broke a record for attendance, over 15,100 people. God is so Good!!! And no this is not in LA or Houston or some huge city, it is in Ozark, MO. Remarkable!!! It is a campus now, complete with fitness center, cafe, bookstore and college. How great is that? God is doing such a work in our church. And in the fall there will be a Satellite church (one church in two locations is our motto =) and it is going to be within about 10-15 mins of our house (right now church is about 30-35 minutes away). I'm so excited about this and praying God will give us many opportunities to serve and to build relationships at this new location. Because honestly we have found it a little difficult to fit in to such a large congregation. But we know that this is where God has planted us right now. And we want to be in the center of His will, ALWAYS!!

Well, so why all this talk about our church? Well I love our church so much and our Pastor's John and Debbie Lindell. He is flat out the best preacher I have ever heard.ever. He really makes me think and challenges me, like every single time I hear the man. He is so gifted.

Well Sunday he preached out of Luke 24 (yes still in Luke), and he brought out something I had not considered before. In verse 33 it reads: "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon." As in Simon Peter. And then in I Corinthians 15:5: "and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve." So what is this pertaining to and why is it important?

This is after Jesus' resurrection. He appeared to Simon Peter and that is all that we know of that encounter. What was so amazing about this to me was what our Pastor brought out. He said, "By the grace of God, the interchange between Simon Peter and Jesus is not detailed." And then he goes on to say that he sometimes thinks about how cool it would've been to be in the Bible, but at the same time, if you were written about in the Bible your low lites were highlighted. He said that it was such an act of grace on the part of Father God not to put that interchange in there. Can you imagine how Peter must have felt seeing Jesus for the first time after he had betrayed Him? Yes that was a huge act of grace on the part of our Abba.

I believe that was a private moment of reconciliation for Peter. And Peter was never the same. It is a completely different Peter we see after Jesus' resurrection and ascension. Just read the Acts of the Apostles and I and II Peter. He led an extraordinary sold out life to the Lord and died a martyrs death. He was hung upside down because he would not be crucified the same way Jesus was, but also just prior to his Crucifixion he had to watch his wife be murdered as well. And as she was being crucified he said to her, "Remember the Lord, Remember the Lord" This just makes me cry on the inside. My heart physically hearts when I think of it. He could have said so many things to her in that moment, but he said the one thing that could truly give her peace, "Remember the Lord." Yes Peter was an extraordinary servant of the Lord.

I want to be extraordinary for my Lord. I am being given a huge opportunity through trial to make a difference for the Kingdom, but it is a very difficult trial, so I am listening intently to the still small voice of my Savior.

Remember that God loves you today and that we serve a Risen Savior!!!!!!

Have a Blessed Tuesday,

Well hello there my lovely ...

Okay so I would be speaking of my computer. Yes Miss Lovely is back ~~ and I am sooooooooo pumped!!! She has been on quite the hiatus, and today has really been the first day that her and I have gotten much time together.

Hubbie had to get all the anti-don't-hack-into-my-computer stuff back on there (yes I know very technical =) and Dak had to get my Itunes re-installed (yeah the important to the teen stuff) and then last night I spent a few minutes relearning my keyboard. (Isn't that funny how all laptops are just a little different?) And of course had to get reacquainted with my ~~ button. I heart this button and on this laptop it is in a wonderful place, so we got reacquainted, as you will be able to see in this post already ~~~~~ =)

And then I reinstalled my Smilebox account, and oh, be still my love-to-design-my-own-header's-lovin' heart, we are reunited (and it feels so good ~~ hahahaha). So be looking for some fun new designs coming your way. And remember the barter deal still stands. Let me re-do your blog for say, a knitted scarf, ahem..... (just an example RJ =) really anything you make or don't make, if you just want me to play around with it, I will, I am just handy that way... Anyway, I have some exciting new designs now that me and Smilebox are back together ~~~~~ YAY!!!

And this week I will be working on getting my recipe blog updated as well. I have so many recipes to add, just call me MiMi, okay on second thought don't do that because hers are way better than mine. Hers are complete with pics and wonderful explanations and mine, well there just what I like to cook around here, usually not complete with pics because I am forgetful and think about it about the time the things in the oven, or better yet, I just don't want to take the time to clean my hands and grab the camera for each step. So ya'll need to go over right now and give MiMi a HUGE blog-HUG for all she does with that recipe blog of hers....truly amazing!!! And the food ~~ get-out-of-town good ~~~~ good I tell ya, so go visit her and make something yummee of hers tonight for dinner ~~ you will not be sorry!!!!!



So have you ever been in the kitchen and cooking an apple crisp with your Ipod blaring out your most beloved play list that you've heard a hundred times and you hear a song that you've heard a hundred-gazillion times and the Lord just quickens your heart and you start to cry, because He is just that good? Has that ever happened to you?

Well it just happened to me, right before I came to write this post. I was standing in my kitchen making said apple crisp and the song "Amazed" by Jared Anderson was gracing my Ipod and the Lord graced my kitchen with the most beautiful Spirit. Listen to these words, just listen to this:

"You dance over me,
While I am unaware.
You sing all around,
And I never hear a sound.

Lord, I'm amazed by You!
Lord, I'm amazed by You!
Lord, I'm amazed by You,
How You love me!

How wide,
How deep,
How great is Your love for me!"

What an amazing song!! God just came right into my kitchen and started dancing over me with His beautiful Spirit ~~~ Oh Sweet Holy Spirit You are welcome to dance in my kitchen anytime.

It was beautiful.

Have a Blessed day,

Lessons, Cuteness and other Friday Randomness

Carrie taught CYC this morning and she taught on hearing God's voice in our lives. It was such a good lesson and so timely for me. She went to I Kings 19. When I got home I read it out of The Message Bible and this is how it reads:

I Kings 19:12 "A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before GOD, but GOD wasn't to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but GOD wasn't in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but GOD wasn't in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper."

And it struck me afresh and anew this morning how God sent these other things, the wind, the earthquake and the fire, but He wasn't in those things, He was in the quiet. And that got me to thinking,

how often do I want Him to be in the busyness of my life so I don't ever have to slow down to hear Him. Ummmm hello.....that message will preach let me tell ya.

God really is getting hold of me on this. The last couple of weeks have been really busy and instead of staying up everyday after I get Dick off to work, a lot of days I've been going back to bed, well that is the time that generally I stay up and spend time with the Lord. Well God has really been talking to me about that, ya know giving Him the firstfruits, and this morning it just really hit me.

God is not going to take a back seat to my busyness.no.way.no.how.not.going.to.happen. So if I want to be close to my Savior (which I do more than anything) I must take this time to spend with the Lord. I am so grateful for the Holy Spirit's work in my life and for showing me how important my time with God is, listening to His still small voice, and obeying His Word, and knowing Him. It is the most important thing I do all day. If you don't have a time designated to the Lord everyday I really encourage you to start one. It will be the best and most important part of your day too.

So I wanted to show you Mr. Cuteness:

This pic was taken right after he woke up from his nap last weekend; look at those curls on his little, sweet, lovely, could-eat-him-up-with-a-spoon, head. Look at his tired little eyes. He is so sweet....okay moving on.....

To another pic of Sky =) This one with his g-pa, my man. I these two so much. Look at how he is looking at him. Could he be more proud of this little bit of loveliness in curls?!!

And yes Mr. Cuteness, Scoot himself, is coming to visit this weekend; tomorrow to be exact. And I can't wait!!! Bring him on....him and all his cute-ness and in to stuff-ness....and eating like a baby horse-ness. Love him!! Bring him on!!!

So I am working on some really great projects right now and hopefully I will get pics taken and loaded in this weekend so we can have a show and tell!! I loved show and tell in school!!! anyway...

Also on another note of randomness, you probably don't remember, but months ago I talked about my computer crashing. Well I am getting it back today or tomorrow ~~ how exciting!! I have been working on hubs computer, and I'm ready to get back to mine. YAY!!! And the computer techie guy was able to restore all of the pics we had on there and hopefully Smilebox, although I'm not sure about that one. But yay that we didn't lose our pics. Can you say I will be backing up more often? =)

Ok so I'm off to the grocery store and then to a meeting at the Senior Citizen's Housing Board thingy. I apparently have been voted onto this board and today will be my first meeting. Oh also with my computer back I will be updating my recipe blog with lots of yumminess!!! Can't wait to be doing that as well.

As I close this post I just wanted to draw attention to some urgent prayer request. Continue to pray for baby Stellan, as they are still in Boston and may be for some time, and also remember to pray for baby Kayleigh, things are not looking good at all, they received devastating news about her condition this week. So please click on their links on my side bar to read the latest. There are so many needs, it makes my heart so sad, but my God is able!!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Friday,

Is this a sign I'm getting old? Ummm no...no it's not!!!

So I have had an interesting week. Monday I had a doc's appt because I have not been feeling my best. I have been having a lot of allergy troubles and started taking Zyrtec again, but it has been causing my heart to palpitate and race, and I didn't want SVT to kick in again, so I went off of that and made a doc appt. Well on Saturday I started feeling a UTI come on (yuck and double yuck) and so Monday when I went to the doc, she gave me an anti-biotic for the UTI and a medicine script for a new drug for allergies that is suppose to be "cleaner" than Zyrtec (to which I wonder if that makes Zyrtec dirty........what can I say I wonder these things =) and it shouldn't cause trouble with the SVT situation.

So I went to pick them up and my insurance was refusing to pay for the new drug because it is $305.00 ~~ what?!! Are you kidding me? Pharmaceutical companies make me mad ... hmpfff

So I have been waiting all week for some new medicine and still do not have any.......hmpfff..... well I just called back and still no new medicine..........patience is a virtue right?!! =)

So yesterday I went to the eye doc for my yearly exam, well my regular doc had truck problems so I had to see another eye doc. Well in like the 10 years I have seen my eye doc I haven't seen another one, so that was interesting, but fine. I explained to him that I've been having these little black floaters that are new and just wanted to make him aware. Well he went through my exam and he said everything looked fine, so I thought great I am out of here and on to the rest of my day~~ and then he said that he wanted to dilate my eyes to get a good look at the retina. Ummmmmmm okay.

So he did and looked at my retina's with a specific scope thingy (yes me Miss Technical) and said that my right eye looked fine, and then went to the left (the one I'm having the floaters in) and was there for a long time, and said that my retina looks fine, no detachment or tear ~~ Praise the Lord!! But he did say that I have something called Vitreous Separation ~~ HUH? Apparently we have vitreous fluid behind our retina's and it is a jello(y) (?) like substance, well mine is starting to separate (which can happen with age, but in my defense (like I need to defend this) the Internet says that it usually starts happening around 50, if it happens at all ~~ well I am 7 1/2 years from 50 thank you very much...anyway) and thin and he could see the black spots himself. What?!! Now how cool is that?! I know it shouldn't be cool to me, but at least someone else can see them and tell me I'm not crazy =)

So I asked New Doc if there was anything I could do about it and he said not really. That my body could absorb it, over time. He said that this vitreous fluid regenerates so hopefully mine will. But in the mean time I have to be careful and pay attention to my eyes and any cloudy or strange vision I must get right back in for more test.

Hmpffff.........

So that is my current crazy life among many other things. I know not exactly exciting but just thought I'd share and document all at the same time. I find this a good avenue for both =)

Also today is the one year anniversary of my hair ~~ meaning, I have not cut or colored my hair in a year ~~ man have I saved some money!!! And my hair, well I kind of like the long unkempt look (which is evident in the pictures of orange from yesterday =)

Ok one thing......... Memory Verses ......... For the last two nights I have not been able to sleep because of my allergies and the craziness that is my life right now, so both nights I have finally settled down and fallen asleep quoting my Scripture Memory Verses in my head. It has been so great!!!!! So do ya'll do that?!! If not I HIGHLY suggest it!!

Love you all, have a GREAT Thursday,

Orange you glad you wore orange? I am!!

Baby Stellan is having surgery today, as I type. If you do not know about this situation or haven't read the latest please go here to catch up on what is happening today, right now.

In support of this dear family, I am jumping on board and wearing my orange today, and I'd like to encourage you to do the same. I'm going to go in right now and get dressed in my orange and have Dak take a picture so I can send it to MckMama's blog in support of baby Stellan!!!

I wanted to take just a second and explain what SVT does if you are unfamiliar. Now my explanation is not one of technical medical terms, but one of experience. I started having SVT a few years ago, although I had no idea what it was. Back in 1997 I was hospitalized for low heart rate (like 31 bpm when I slept) and I was feeling really bad all the time. So they ran some test and all seemed fine, so the plan was to put me on a monitor and send me home. Well the morning I was to go home, my heart went into v-tach. I didn't know what that was other than I was really light headed and feeling really weird. They came running in hollering I was in v-tach and had these paddles and all that coming at me and they asked me how I was feeling, well in true Petrii fashion I answered, "okay, but your scaring me to death!!!!!" I laugh at that now, but it was scary at the time.

Thankfully I was still on the monitors when that happened and they could see what my heart was doing. It went from a resting heart rate of 51 to something like 260 in a matter of a couple of seconds, pretty scary stuff.

Well the halter monitor they put me on for a month was inconclusive they said, so that was that. So I thought. A couple of years ago it started in again, so I went to my doc and she put me on a 24 hour halter monitor and it showed that I have bouts of SVT. This is where your heart rate goes way up suddenly and stays there a while (like those techie terms =) One of my doc's put me on some meds to get it to regulate, but that was worse than the SVT for me. I was so sick on those. Yuck!!

So when I think of little Stellan being in SVT for over a month now, more in it than out of it, it is hard to fathom. It makes you so irritable and tired and drained. Not to mention anxious. It is a terrible feeling if you are in it for very long. It can leave you short of breath and laborious in your breathing. In short.......it stinks.

Today I do not take any medication for it. My docs monitor it and I had several bouts of it when I was in Mayo, but the docs saw it immediately both the day before surgery and the days that followed surgery, and all was fine. I find that stress makes mine worse or if I'm not feeling well for some reason it will get worse, or if I'm just hanging out drinking an ice tea with my hubs on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, yep it can do it then too. Not always a rhyme or reason to it.

So today my heart is so heavy and burdened for this sweet dear family. Lift them to the Father today, remain in prayer all day when you think of them, or when you see a little one or when you drink your coffee or when you go to the bathroom (yes I did really say that) remember them all day no matter what you're doing.

Father,
You are God of all the situations we face in life. You know and see all that is going on with baby Stellan today and I pray for your mercy and grace just to fall on that hospital in Boston today and with Stellan and his mama and grandpa that are there with him. Guide the doctor's hands and show them exactly what needs to be done to help this little child. Sweet Jesus, be right there doing that surgery through the doctor's hands. Oh that we will be willing vessels for your glory to be shown through...touch him, my Jesus.

Be with Jennifer's husband at home with their three other children. I can't imagine not being able to hold your wife and love on your child as this is going on, but Father you are holding them all right now, help them to feel your touch and your love. Strengthen and help them Lord.

Thank you Father, be with us today, Amen.

Spring Concert and other quick bytes =0)

Good Monday Morning to ya'll!!! Do you ever get the feeling I am a morning person?! Yep I dig me a beautiful sunny, God-filled morning ~~ just like this one!!!!!

I only have a minute this morning, because I'm off to a doc's appt and errands, but I wanted to give you a sampling of Dak's Chamber Choir. They are going to State Competition this morning!!!!! How exciting!!!!

So listen close, the dude you hear is Dak and Adam (but I only hear Dak, Adam sings really soft, but see you wouldn't know that the dude you are hearing is indeed Dak, because well you've never heard him before ~~ don't you like the way I always just clear things right up for you =)

anyway.....

Take a listen to this bit of loveliness...

Well hopefully I'll post a little more when I get back home, but for now I'm off to get ready for the doc.

Have a Blessed Monday,

Dawn

Object Lessons and Other Randomness on this Friday...

I had a very interesting day yesterday. About 11:00 am I received a phone call from Dak's friend Alyssa (the one we went to the nursing home with the night before). Well her dad had said she could stay home from school and sleep in, well she called him and wanted to know if she could go hang out with me, and he said yes. So she called me and asked if she could hang out with me, and I said what any mother of her own teenager would say....."you want me to aid in the delinquency of a minor?" To which she replied, "yes" .... to which I replied, "Okay". =)

So I went and got her and we spent the afternoon together. We stopped and got us a soda at the new Casey's in our town (big doin's around here), and made lunch and then she drew me a picture (she is 16 what can I say) anyway... then we made cookies and went out and looked at the garden....it was so fun. I think she just needed a place to go. Ya know how it is sometimes .... just a safe place. I'm so glad I could be that place for her yesterday.

Well here is the picture she drew.....so funny. At the top it says "Jesus take the wheel! Cuz Dakota's drivin'" hahahahahaha yeah he even thought that was funny. And then the red building is a school house (jail =), and yes that is Dak in there. I am in the green dress ~~ diggin' me that green dress, but my chin, she seriously funkdified my chin =) And that is her all stylin' jeans and way cool earrings, I so wanted earrings, anyway...... =)

Then that is a cheese burger at the bottom and I haven't a clue why it is in the picture other than she'd had a cheese burger for breakfast ~~ yes I was confused on that one too =)





Then after school Dak came home and took her home, how funny, so she could go floating. Yep that Alyssa had quite a day =)


So this morning was my morning to teach in CYC, and the Lord gave me an object lesson to give the kids as part of the lesson. You should have seen their faces ~~ it was great!!!

I set out a table cloth on a desk and added two place settings. One with glassware all pretty like complete with real silverware and the other one was a paper towel with a Styrofoam glass and plastic spoon, and I asked them which one they'd rather eat from, of course they said the glassware. Then we went over to James 1:13-15 and read about the enticement and progression of sin.

Then I added cookies and chocolate milk to the paper towel side and put a whole onion and whole uncooked sweet potato and left the glass cup empty and asked which one they wanted now? They all chose the paper towel. So I asked them which one reminded them most of sin, and one of our girls said the one with the onion because it will make you cry. WOW!! So right!!!

Then we talked about David and Bathsheba and the progression that sin took in King David's life and the consequences and how the consequences came later, they weren't instant, oh but they came!!

Then I put the glass and cup at the front of the table and poured chocolate milk into the cup as well, and asked them which one they'd want to drink out of, and of course it was the pretty cup. Then I added Glass Cleaner with Ammonia to the pretty cup, and I didn't have to ask that time, no one wanted the pretty cup anymore. So then I showed them that it just looked like chocolate milk, if they hadn't saw me add the ammonia they wouldn't know it was poisonous, but if they drank it there would be HUGE consequences for them, maybe even death if they drank enough of it. That is the way sin is....it looks enticing.....it may even taste good at the time....but oh the consequences it brings.

James 1:13-15:

"When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone; 14 but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."

That is the progression of sin. Tempted by our own evil desires, dragged away and enticed, desire conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it grows up = death.

It was a powerful object lesson for me. God works so beautifully. This was not the lesson I set out to study last night, I had something different in mind, but God had this instead. It was great and very timely for our kids and for us as adults. We must keep our armor on and remember we are in the world, but not of it.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful Friday ~~ Dak has his Spring Concert tonight ~~ YAY go son!!!

Blue Rooster Junction!!!

Okay are you confused yet?!! What in the wide world is a Blue Rooster Junction you might ask?! Well, I didn't know either until last night. Dak and I were invited along with his friend Alyssa to sing at a nursing home in our area last night. On the third Wednesday of every month they have what is called Blue Rooster Junction and it is a night where different folks come together and sing, play, and entertain the residents at the nursing home. And last night it was Gospel night, so they invited us to come. It was so much fun!!

We sang "Shout to the Lord" and I got to play a baby grand. Oh be still my baby grand lovin' heart ~~ those are the most beautiful pianos with the most lovely sound. It was fun!!!

If you have never visited a nursing home and spent time with the residence there you really should. They are so sweet and the lives they have lived tell a story. There was a lady there last night Dawna (no I did not make that spelling up =) and she played the piano as well, and back in the 50's she played for Elvis Presley ~~ yes THE Elvis!!! How exciting!!

Her husband had a heart attack this week, Merman, and she was requesting prayer for him through our host, so sweet. So please pray for them and remember the older members of your community, and get out and see them, they'd love to see you, even if they don't know you. It doesn't matter to them. They will love on you even if they don't know you.


So this morning I've been working on a chipboard project and was researching Scripture for this project and I found little verse tucked away in Proverbs 24:10:

"If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!"

And that is just how it reads in the NIV with the exclamation point included.

Above my sink in the kitchen I have a window that I post different verses and sayings and this one will be added today. I do not want to falter in times of trouble, because after all, Jesus did tells us that in this world we would have trouble (John 16:33), but take heart because Jesus has overcome the world!! Hallelujah!!!

So if you find yourself in trouble of any kind, don't falter, go to the Father, He is waiting for you. He will help!!

Have a Blessed day in Him,



PS Remember Stephanie and Travis today, this baby is getting closer, will be here any day now!!!

Moving Toward the Light

Here is what my tulips were hanging out doing this morning when the sun came up. They were moving towards the light. Now I do have a stubborn tulip who is moving the other direction.

And this got me to thinking........



Which one am I like? Am I moving towards the Light or I am being stubborn staying where I am or heaven forbid going the other direction, like this one stubborn tulip? Please let me keep going towards the Light.

And going towards the Light led me to my next memory verse for the LPM verse for the 15th of the month.

James 1:17-18 "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created."

How much do you love these verses? These are some of my favorites. Aren't you so glad that God doesn't change like the shifting shadows? I am so thankful for that. He never changes!!! And how much do you love that God chose to give us birth through the Word of Truth? I love it, LOVE IT!! He didn't have to, but He chose to ~~ so AWESOME!!! Thank you Lord!!

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Well, I wanted to also let you in on a little something I've been up to lately. The knee has had better days, so this is causing me to rethink some activities right now. Apparently no mushroom hunting for me this year and that was a goal I really wanted to accomplish, but alas it is mushroom hunting season and we have our keesters (isn't that a funny word? =) parked at home. So I will be working towards being able to hunting those illusive mushrooms next year. Those mushrooms won't stand a chance =)

So since I am rethinking my activities, another activity that I love is back into the forefront for me: scrapbooking, both digital projects like this blog and paper projects like my Faithbook that I just love so much.

And I have a favorite scrapbook store that is in the same town that the kids (Chase, Tonya, and Scoot) live in, which is about 30 mins from here. Well I went in the other day and they gave me a little piece of paper with a web address on it for their blog and I was sooooooo excited, because ya'll know I do love me some blogs. So I checked it out and noticed that they used just a plain template.

Well that got me to thinking. I so enjoy designing my own blog, that maybe I could help them out as well. So I went in yesterday and talked to them, but had to leave my name and number for the owner since she makes those decisions.

But my idea was this. Instead of charging moola (money =) for the blog makeover I could barter. How cool is that? Scrapbook supplies for a new blog design. I thought it was a GREAT idea. Now please keep in mind that I am an amateur, so I am in NO way trying to take any business from a real designer like the incredible Faith, who might I just say is amazing and if you want a real design complete with buttons and tags, please visit her, she is GREAT!!!!

I just thought if some of ya'll would like a new fun blog design and would like to barter, say like if you knit and would like to trade a scarf for a design =) how much fun would that be? Or if you would like to trade fitness secrets for a blog design, or a floral arrangement for a blog design, I will barter people, or if you are just extremely cute and adorable (which you all are) and have nothing to trade, you know I will barter a smile. I am just cool like that =)

So there you have it. Just some fun things I'm working on, as I move toward the Light of my Savior every day.

Love ya,

Ideas, Thoughts and other Random Happenings...probably NOT in that order =)

I hope ya'll had a really good Easter. Ours was quite different than most Easter's we have had, and no, there are no pictures. I have browsed around this morning and seen all the cute pics ya'll have of your Easters, (if you have not checked out Bibby and AJ you really should, just go here), but you will not find one here. But if you did, this is what it would look like: me, not showered wearing my basic black pants with my white "Who Let the Owls Out?" sweatshirt (yes, a totally other post), no make-up and the hair in a pony tail loop that I slept in all night, cute. You'd see hubs in his oldest pair of blue sweat pants and a black work t-shirt, and Dak in a ripped pair of jeans, neon green shirt with a picture of a microphone on it, and plaid loafers. Yes we were a sight to see. Well you might be wondering why this was the case. Well, we didn't get to get out of the house yesterday.

Little Scoot came over on Friday night and the kids were going to pick him up on Saturday. Well, Chase started running a fever Friday into Saturday and it reached 103 degrees. Oh my stars, he was so sick. And then Sky has been battling a cold himself and not feeling great. So we just kept him on Saturday evening as well. Well at 4:30 Sunday morning Sky woke up coughing and choking, eek!!! So we got up with him and changed him and I fed him a bottle and we all went back to bed. Well Tonya came and got him around 2:00 pm, so we just stuck around the house yesterday. I was upset at first, but then I just thought no reason to be upset, we can't change it, so I just praised the Lord in my heart and felt so happy inside to know I serve a Risen Savior ~~ oh praise Him!!!!!



Well today I thought I'd share with you some of the creative things I've been working on lately.

This first pic is of our kitchen table. Back in the fall my friend G, set a pot of tulip bulbs in my garden buried and then this spring they came up. She dug them up and this is what I have sitting on my table today.
Look at these beauts....Thanks G.....just gorgeous!! And they look so pretty sitting next to one of my picnic baskets....nice.



Now this next pic is very blurry, but I wanted to share with you a lovely find, okay a lovely win. I won this lotion on MckMama's blog back in February (I think) and just hadn't gotten it on here yet. But if ya'll have REALLY dry skin such as myself, or you have a baby that gets diaper rash, such as our Sky-baby, then you really need to give this a try. It is GREAT!!! I don't know how much it cost since I won it, but it is definitely worth your time to check out.

Man this pic is bad.....my mad photo skills and all...anyway... it is called Formula II

And then my neighbor called this morning and said she left me some things out on my porch. So I went and this was in the sack. It is bread shaped like a rabbit. How incredibly, stinkin' cute is this? I mean really, have you ever seen anything like it?!! So cute. And the bread........it will be soooooooo yummee because it is from our local bakery.......so good. Thanks Linda.

Okay, and now I'd like to share with you some things that are scrapbook in nature.

This is a tag that I did over the weekend. I wish the pic turned out better, but the ribbon across the middle and bottom is music notes and the whole tag is distressed with a new product I got at the SB store the other day. I love it. It comes in a stamp pad and you just use a sponge to apply it. It is so GREAT!!!!!

This is another tag on a tag that I also did over the weekend. It's not quite done yet; it needs a button, but anyway you get the idea.

And then this is some of my Faithbook Prayer pages to go along with the verses I'm memorizing this year.

And here are some pages that don't have verses on them yet, but how cute is this paper?!! You can't see it, but it's glittering at you........so cute!!

And then these pages are also hanging out waiting for verses....aren't they fun?

They just scream "MEMORIZE WHAT'S ON ME!!!!!"

And then these are pages that are finished complete with verses. The one with the pink is actually a card and the verse and thought are on the inside of the card. I really like this one. The flower on the card is actually a hair pin.....I don't wear it anymore and hated to throw it away, so I used it in this and I love it. So I've gone through and pulled out things I don't wear in my hair or ears and use it on my scrapbooks (after I wash them of course =)

And then this last one.....I thought I'd share with you a little about the knee. I've had several mention it lately..... so thought I'd give you the latest.

It is coming along. This is such a slower process than I'd like, but that is okay. I must press on right?!! right. So I am.

My PT ordered the turnbuckle brace and it came in last week. Well it was going to cost us quite a bit out of pocket and we just didn't feel like we could do it right now, so when I told the lady I was talking to I'd have to call her back, she said they would except what our insurance paid and we wouldn't have to pay anything. Now that was a BIG Praise the Lord!!!!!!!! But why don't they just do that in the first place? anyway.....

So here is the contraption hanging out on my couch. I'm to have it on 30 minutes at a time, 3 times a day, 7 days a week. What?!!! boo. Yes it is as uncomfortable as it looks, but if it gets this knee out straight to where I no longer have this handsome limp, kudos to it. So we will see. I'll keep you updated.

Today I saw a recipe for Stomboli, so I'm trying my hand at a whole wheat version. I'll let ya know how it turns out. If it's yummee I'll post the recipe on my recipe blog.

Have a Blessed by the Lord kind of Monday,

Hallelujah Jesus is Alive!!!

Death has lost its victory and the grave has been denied,
My Jesus lives forever, He's alive, He's alive,
He's the Alpha and the Omega
The first and last is He
The curse of sin is broken and we have perfect liberty,
Jesus lives forever He's alive ~~ He's alive ~~ He's alive.

Please take a minute and listen to Ron Kenoly sing this song, it is one of my absolute favorites and so wonderfully fitting for this Beautiful Easter.




Hope you have all had a Wonderful Easter,

The Lord of Glory!!!!!

How powerful is Good Friday for all believers!! Christ died for all humans everywhere, so we could have a way to the Father. Was it easy? Absolutely not!!!

Matthew 26:38-39 "Then He said to them, 'My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.' 39 Going a little farther, He fell with His face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.'"

Every time I read this verse my heart just aches. He knew what He had to do, but it was still agonizing. Oh no it was not easy, but Jesus knew it was necessary. If there had been another way He knew the Father would have showed Him. What Christ wanted more than anything was His Father's will, and this was it. To die so we could live; to make a way where there was none, and so Christ fulfilled His purpose and today is seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for you and me. This, to me, is such a beautiful picture.

He is the Lamb of God, the King of Glory our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!!!

What He did we couldn't have done for ourselves or for anyone else. We were powerless to free ourselves from sin. So Christ came and willingly laid down His life for us. No one took His life from Him; He laid it down. When He cried: "It is finished." It was done.

Today was our Good Friday service at church. It is a noon service that we have every Good Friday. It is filled with somberness and worship, praise and remembrance. As I have said before, it is one of my favorite services of the year. We remember our Lord and His sacrifice as we remember His body broken for us and His blood spilled for us...we remember as we take Communion, and my heart is so full of Love for my Savior.

Communion is a very personal thing to me. I take it very seriously. I love the way God moves in this service; I am never ready to leave; just want to bask in the Presence of my Lord a little longer; linger in His Sanctuary; prepare my heart for Easter; love on my Savior.

Amazing Grace ~~ My chains are gone ~~ I've been set free ~~ My God, My Savior, has ransomed me ~~ and like a flood ~~ His mercies rain ~~ unending love ~~ Amazing Grace.

I received this in an e-mail today. I had never seen it before. Please enlarge it to make it readable.




Amazing love ~~ How can it be ~~ that You my King would die for me ~~ Amazing Love ~~ I know it's true ~~ and it's my joy to honor you ~~ in all I do ~~ I honor You ~~ You are my King ~~ Jesus You are my King ~~ Amazing Love Indeed!!!


I love you all so much. Thank you for sharing in this week of Passion with me. Two days until Easter when we celebrate the Resurrection or our Lord and Christ ~~ He arose!!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah Christ Arose!!!!!!!!!!

Have a Blessed Good Friday,
Dawn

The Cleansing Power ....

Tomorrow is Good Friday, the day we pause and remember the horribleness and goodness of that day for us who Believe. There is much made about calling it good, because of the awfulness of it all, but we as believers definitely can see the good our Father worked out of all that happened on that day.

I would like to focus for a moment on something monumental that happened the night before Jesus was betrayed into the hands of sinners. I remember the first time this story made sense to me; the first time it resonated truth to my very heart.

I was about 30 years old and was finding my way back to my Jesus. I had a man in my life who was the catalyst in bringing me back to the Father: my husband Dick. He wasn't my husband at the time, but he saw something in me, something no one else could see at the time. Dick saw past the hurt and the pain, the tears and the anger, and he saw that Abba had another plan for me and Dick was determined to help me live that out. He is an amazing man of God.

I remember when I was struggling greatly with unforgiveness. I really had a hard time with that, at this particular time in my life. I had been wronged I felt, and I was being asked to forgive that person without that person ever forgiving me. I so thought I was in the right. (So are you seeing a problem? I have used the word "I" 9 times in this paragraph, yes I was the problem, but I didn't see it at the time.)

So Dick, knowing what the problem was and knowing just where to go in Scripture set me down and shared John 13 with me. This passage is entitled in my Bible "Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet". Now I first, of course, was thrilled with this passage and seeing the heart of Christ come out in this act. I was all over that. But then he started telling me that Jesus washed even Judas' feet, on the very night that Judas would betray Him, and that betrayal would cost Jesus His life. My mind started reeling ~~ why would Christ do this?. Did Jesus know all this? Of course He did, and He washed Judas' feet anyway. And not begrudgingly.

When Dick first started reading this story to me the part that stuck out so much at first was verses 4-5:

John 13:4-5: "so He got up from the meal, took off His outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around His waist. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around Him."

I immediately went there in my mind. I saw Jesus wrapping the towel around His waist. I saw Him pour the water in the basin, and I saw Him kneel before His disciples and start washing their dirty, grungy feet. And I saw a look of total love on His face, as Christ the servant, lead by example. It moved me deeply.

I wanted to harbor bitterness and unforgiveness in my heart, but after seeing the heart of Christ in this way those things melted away. I understood that if Christ could forgive me my sin, and oh how I had failed Him, then I could surely forgive someone else. The Word changed me that day. It was one of those moments that I knew Christ had done a big work in me.

This time of year always brings me back there to that day when things changed for me. When I started really understanding more of the heart of my Savior. I have never been the same.

I hope you all have a Beautiful Thursday,


PS Tonight is opening night for Dak in the Play. Please remember him; he is REALLY nervous!!!

Prayer Warriors ...

Well today in Passion week we pause. The rest of the week is so completely full of pain and suffering of the betrayal, mock trial, and Crucifixion of our Lord and the complete Joy and celebration of His Resurrection, that today I thought we'd pause. Pause and reflect on our Lord. His sacrifice, His love, His forgiveness.



There is so much going on in this land of blog that I thought it would be fitting to pause and pray for some of the very real needs that face us here. So the following is a very short list of ones to pray for....some very sad things going on and some very happy events about to happen, but all needs to be covered in prayer.



Please pray for:



Stellan and family and the decisions being made about surgery and moving his care, and for his family etc.



Stephanie and Travis (Steph will be giving birth in the next couple of weeks) she's really been on my heart. Baby Ava will be here soon. They are set for this little one. I've been praying for safe labor and delivery and I ask that you visit her and pray for them as well.



Arianna - facing breast cancer; surgery tomorrow (Thursday)



Mom - we go to the Oncologist tomorrow for a check up. Pray that all is well.



NieNie - Critically injured back last August in a plane crash - she was burned very severely and will be recovering for a very long time.



These are just a few to pray for; I know there are so many more. These are ones that are on my heart today. I think it is very fitting as we get into the latter part of this week that we dedicate ourselves to prayer.

Love and Blessings to you this Wednesday,

GET OUT!!!!!

Over the last couple of years our church has been going through the book of Luke....yes couple of years. I'm actually not sure how long we've been in this study, but it has been a long time. Our Pastors preach verse by verse, and generally we take it a book at a time.

We are almost done with the book of Luke. I'd say there are probably only 2 or 3 messages left to complete it as we are in the latter part of Luke 24.

Well through our study of Luke our Pastor has brought out some very interesting points. I pick up on the Greek and the nuances that he brings out that are not written directly in the Scriptures.

For example in chapter 19 of Luke you have "The Triumphal Entry" of Christ into Jerusalem, the last week of His life (vs. 28-44). And this happened on Monday (that's one of those little nuances I was talking about). I love it that Pastor J brought that to our attention. It puts me right into the story.

Can you picture it? Christ riding triumphally into Jerusalem (on a Monday), on a donkey colt, never ridden before, and all the people shouting "Hosanna, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!" waving palm branches. Can you imagine being there?

There are a lot of overwhelming moments in the Passion week. A lot of times that my heart just wants to cry out and other moments when I just have to fall on my face and worship and then jump up as He triumphs over death, hell and the grave at His resurrection!!! Oh what a Savior!!!!

But oh how I'm getting ahead of myself....today I want to focus on what happened on Tuesday of Passion week: The Cleansing of the Temple. In Luke 19:45-48 we have a passage that indicates that Jesus was angry, I believe He was angry; righteously angry. Here these people were in the house of God buying and selling for their own gain and ripping the people off. They were not buying and selling items to benefit the Kingdom of God in some way, they were buying and selling to benefit themselves, and doing it in the House of God. This cannot be and Jesus took to doing some cleaning.

Do you ever feel like there is some cleaning that needs to go on in our own Spiritual lives? Some clearing of the table so to speak? just saying......

When I picture this scene in my mind, I see the righteous indignation of our Lord and the fortitude to clear out the money changes and to tell them the truth. I love that, setting them straight.

Vs. 46: "It is written," He said to them, 'My house will be a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.'"
Vs. 47: "Every day He was teaching at the temple. But the cheif priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill Him."
Vs. 48: "Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on His words."

I love this passage and I love that the people were hanging on His every word. He drove out the money changers, the robbers, and the people still hung on His every word, because it was Truth. He was after all, The Word (John 1).

So am I hanging on every word of the Word? Our Pastor said in his message on Sunday that if you are not reading the Word regularly you are killing yourself!!! Strong words, but truth. We must feed the Spirit and starve the flesh. Paul said he died daily to the flesh, the only way to die to it is to starve it. And how do you starve it? Don't feed it.

And the only way to live to Christ is to feed the Spirit with the things of the Spirit. I love my Jesus and living life for Him, and reading His Word and spending time in prayer and with God's people. It is the only way to live life.

So on this Tuesday, if there is some clearing out Jesus needs to do in your life, spend some time with Him and let Him lovingly care for you and show you the areas that need His cleansing ~~ it is a beautiful thing!!

Have a Blessed Tuesday,

Do you have the Passion....

of Passion week?

As I was sitting in church yesterday and hearing about all of the events that will be coming up this week, my heart was full. This is one of my favorite weeks at our church, because within it lies one of my favorite services, Good Friday Noon Communion.

Now I absolutely LOVE our Easter Sunday morning services as well, but there is something about the Noon Communion service that our Church has. It is a very somber meeting, but it is so powerful. You are hit with the brevity of Christ suffering on Good Friday. Good because He was willing to go to Calvary for us...me.........sinful, depraved man....He prayed in the Garden if there be anyway this cup could pass....there wasn't.....not my will Father but Yours be done. Oh the beauty of that moment. And Good Friday service commemorates what Christ did for us. I am looking so forward with GREAT anticipation to this service. And more about that at the end of the week.....

Yesterday was Palm Sunday. The day that Christ rode triumphally into Jerusalem and all the people waved Palm branches and sang "Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!! Blessed is the King of Israel!" John 12:13

Our Pastor spoke out of Luke 24 yesterday about the Emmaus road. It was a GREAT message. He talked about the disappointment of Cleopas and his companion (probably his wife) as they walked along the road. They were having doubts and clearly they were not believing. They were remembering the events of that week, no doubt the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and then the turn of events that happened. The betrayal, the mock trial, the floggings, Jesus' Crucifixion..........the horror that the week ended up being.

It is so interesting in verse 19 how Cleopas says "He was a prophet..." In verse 21 "we had hoped...." They are now so disappointed. Things had not turned out how they had planned.....disappointment is a hard pill to swallow sometimes. And their disappointment gave way to unbelief.

And then in verse 27 ... "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself." Can you imagine The Word speaking the Word? (goosebumps!!..)

I love these verses, and this message really prepared my heart for this week. I will be studying the Passion week and will be blogging about my studies this week. My heart is ready for a fresh Word from Abba about the most important week ever for sinful man.......the week Christ died and HALLELUJAH!!!.... rose again!!

So join me on this journey through Passion week.

Love you friends,

All Grandpa's Idea...or was it Sky's or maybe it was Dak's....hmmmm I'm confused!!

Okay, so just sit right back and enjoy some pics of this weekend. So much fun!!!

These first two has NOTHING to do with the title, but thought you'd enjoy the sleeping ones.





I love this child so.....and these pj's. Their my fav's =) Both of them =) =)



Okay so on to whose idea was it anyway.....

Sky and the Trampoline....whose idea was it to get him started so early?

Look at this lil booger.....




Pucker up.....how cute is this.........go ahead and enlarge this one, (check out those gorgeous eyes, yep the W boys are Blessed with 'em) it is sooooooo worth it!!!





No grandpa it's done like this. (It's been awhile since gpa learned to crawl =)

No gpa you hike your leg just like this to get started.

Just hangin' with the boys.

Lovin' my day in the sun!! Does it get any better than this?

Oh yeah maybe, when I can take my hat off and crawl away =)

I love these guys ...... these are my adorable ones..... you can't see Dak, but he falls in this category too.

We've had such a fun weekend and we hope ya'll did too.

Love and huggin' ya,

Friday in Randomville...

Welcome to Friday in Randomville.....quite a lovely place some times =)

This edition is brought to you by the Louisville kids (that title is just for you RJ =)

My cousins from Looville (trying to spell phoentically correct, because folks in Looville apparently don't like it if you call it Loueeville like I do -- emphasis on the e =) anyway...

We met up with them on Tuesday and went to Incredible Pizza. Does anyone out there have one of these in your community? It is such much fun...pricy, but fun.

So here are some pics from our day...

Here is Dak, Kae, Cliff (left corner), Devin (right corner) riding the bumper cars. And let me just clarify before I get a gazillion e-mails I am the one with the camera, so that means no riding bumper cars for me.... are you guys so happy that the sensible side of me won out? =) Because I so love bumper cars and go-carts and the like~~ YIPPEE says me!!!!! anyway...



Here is Nick (their adopted son from China), Dak, Devin and Kae playing a little mini-golf.


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Dak giving me the golfing 411 ~~ thanks son!!!

Thanks because I beat everyone, got a whole-in-one too, just sayin'......

(Now I say I beat everyone, only by one stroke and I wasn't keepin' score, so I'm not sure that my sweetheart of a cousin Heather didn't forget to write a couple of strokes down because she felt sorry for my limpingaroundthecourse-self, ya know, just saying...... =) Either way ~~ YAY!!!




Here is Cliff, Heather's husband and a wonderful man of God who adores his family and us and not because he has to. He truly is one of the great warriors for our Lord in the days that we live in. We love you man!!!!!



Here is Heather, one of the best mom's and friends/cousins you will find. She is such a Godly woman who is ten years my younger, and she tells me EVERTIME she sees me~~yeah a real gem~~ I love you so, girl. And Nick our new cousin from China. He is soooooooo smart and funny. H & C said they knew he was their son as soon as they saw his picture ~~ how terrific is our God?

This was so fun. I miss them sooooooooo much. We hung out a lot when they lived back here, but God has moved them on to bigger and better things and He just continues to be huge in them. It is so GREAT!!!!!

Now to a little other randomness: I am pumped about this evening for these reasons:

Pumped for Dak: He has play practice (the play is next week) and Read-a-thon tonight and he is soooooooooo excited!!!!! He loves to read uninterrupted. He is just cool that way!!

Pumped for Hubs: He is picking up Sky on his way home from work, so they get to have a guys night out (at the house of course, but you know =)

Pumped for Me: I am going with one of my Bff's to our church for the Ladies Rally. I am so excited!!!!! I usually don't go because none of my blog friends live close enough to go with. Because I could so hang out with all who read this blog. Can you imagine the fun we would have praising our Jesus together and drinking a lovely Chai tea in the atrium of our church, oh it sounds so lovely doesn't it? Well that is what I will be doing with Bff Carrie tonight. And oddly enough we have never had a girls night out!! What in the blue blazes (love that saying) is wrong with us? We have known each other for years ~~ seriously we need to get out more!!!!!

So anyway busy and fun randomness going on right now ~~ so great!!!!

Have a Blessed and Randomly fun Friday,