My first pumpkin carving ever!

These are my wonderful Co-workers, from left to right, Me, Kim, Jan, Melissa, Judy, Marsha, Tina, and Mary-Pat, and this is our beautiful Dragon Pumpkin. Since the sculpture we chose was a dragon we decided to take a theme of Chinese new year.

This is the sign for destiny.



(this is what it is supposed to look like)

Ha when they put my pumpkin in it is sideways... My destiny is sideways! too funny. Fits me...
This is Marsha and Tina in their little hats with pigtails...

Tina made all these hats. She is so smart.

I got the First Laugh!

It was a long day yesterday. Last week, Nana ripped a gouge in her finger. I call it a gouge, because it was a v shape. They couldn’t even stitch it; there wasn’t enough of the skin left. As if that wasn’t enough, Tymothie decided to get in on the act, and stepped on some glass. No you are right; he didn’t do it on purpose. It was accidental. Nana’s fault actually, she was chasing him thru the yard with the water hose. Anyway, so yesterday I had to take Nana and Tym to the doctor for a checkup on their various wounds. When we left, I had to go to the pharmacy and get prescriptions filled, which of course they were out of what I needed. Both kids were tired, and in pain from all the poking at the check up, and well you get the idea, I was none too chipper.

As we left the store and started toward our car, I handed the key to Nana and asked her to open the door. Tymothie was riding in the cart, tired from his crutches, and I wanted the door open when I reached there, so she went a little ahead of us, in the direction we thought we had parked. When she reached the car and tried the key, it wouldn’t work. It was the strangest thing. I was sure that this was where I parked, and it looked like my car. I told her to try again. As she did, a guy walked up, and said “My key will work better.” Then he pulled out his key, opened the door, got in, started the car and started to pull off. Meanwhile, Tym, Nana and I stood there with our mouths open. It had been such a long day, at first I thought, He is stealing my car. Then we turned around and saw our car on the row behind us. We had to laugh. How silly of us. Right about then I decided If you laugh at yourself first, others are merely laughing with you.

Every day is a terrible day for a miserable person, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast

Proverbs 15:15

MUD... That Pretty Much Says It All

Thankfully we have been getting some rain lately. We are still in a drought, but every little bit helps. Unfortunately the warehouse where Tymothie (7) has wrestling practice is surrounded by mud. As we were on our way into the building to get Tym, Que showed me the best way to go. It was a lot like a treasure map, “Take three steps to your right, go around this puddle, go in front of this puddle, now step over this ditch then hop over this puddle.”

On the way out, I thought I saw a better way, so I took it. It was dark, and I couldn’t see well. I nearly fell in the mud! Que looked at me and through gales of laughter said, “You had to go your own way didn’t you?”

As Christian we get tired of going God’s way sometimes, and try to do it our own way. We forget the verse that says

Your word is a lamp for my feet, and a light for my path.

Psalm 119:105

He knows the way; all we have to do is follow.

Since When Is Snoring A Ministry?

Since when is snoring a Ministry?

There is a young couple in our church, Mark and Stacey, and they haven’t been married for long, and haven’t been saved for long. We wanted to kind of mentor them some, and just encourage them in God, that He is worth the time, so we invited them over to our house for lunch one Sunday.

Quintin has been working two jobs, so he was really super tired. After he cooked lunch, and helped me serve lunch, he was even more tired. Mark and Stacey’s kids went to play with ours, and we settled in the living room.

Stacey has a camera similar to mine, and loves to take pictures, so I pulled out my laptop which has like a thousand pictures on it, and started showing some to her and Mark. In a few seconds we heard a strange noise and began to look around for the source. We didn’t have to look far, over in the recliner Que was snoring. We just laughed and went back to the pictures.

A couple of weeks later, at church one Sunday, Stacey’s brother Michael came up to us and said, “Thank you so much for having Mark and Stacey over the other day, that was such a blessing, you ministered to them so much. It even ministered to me!”

Poor guy, I laughed in his face… I didn’t mean to, it just came out before I could stop it. Then as he kind of looked at me funny, I said, “I am sorry, but since when is snoring a ministry?” Then I explained how Que had slept most of the time.

I guess it just goes to show you never know when you are ministering to someone, just by being yourself.

My eyes will be watching the faithful people in the land so that they may live with me. The person who lives with integrity will serve me.

Psalms 101:6

Roll Tide Roll!

No, I didn't take this picture, but I wish I did! Wow way to capture a moment!

I love pictures...

Que used to kiss my nose all the time when we were dating... On our first date I got ice cream on my nose... LOL

Beautiful family! I am sooooo blessed.

And I have a GREAT photographer friend... Anna L. Wight. This is from some of our Christmas Pictures.

Tru love...

I am trying so hard to blog at least M-F but well... He is just more important... Sorry, gonna go spend time with my hubby!

Bff's

This is for my nieces, Suz and Bek, and my girls Nana and Anny... love yall!

It's gonna be a Great Day!

It’s freezing outside!
It’s gonna be a great day!
My heat in my car doesn’t work!
It’s gonna be a great day!
My car is out of gas!
It’s gonna be a great day!
The gas station is out of French Vanilla!
It’s gonna be a great day!
While trying to unlock my car I accidentally hit the panic button!
It’s gonna be a great day!
The remote battery for my car is dying, and I can’t get it off of panic, even unlocking it doesn’t work…
It’s gonna be a great day!
When I finally get to work, I spill coffee all over me!
I choose, It’s gonna be a great day!

He Took My Sins Away!

We are currently (2007) in a stage three drought in Central Alabama; we have about a 20in deficiency in yearly rainfall totals. It is so bad that there is even a small town, Wilsonville that only has one well, and only has seven feet of water left in it. While we were watching the news tonight they mentioned that Marble Falls Texas got 18in of rain yesterday. They went on to say that much rain would totally take away our drought. Well Tymothie (7) got all excited and yelled “They took our drought away!! They took our drought!” of course he had misunderstood and I had to explain that the weather man was merely saying that much rain could take our drought away.
We don’t even get that excited about God, and He did take our sins away. We should be shouting “He took my sins away! He took my sins away!” After all,

But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Isaiah 53:4
(The message)

My word!

My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now, and we don't know where she is....

photo courtesy Anna L Wight Photography (sorry about the funny twins look, since they are foster kids I had to edit them for the blog. Keep praying, they will be Rotten-berries yet.)

Fiery Darts of the Cheese Fries!

Tymothie (9) and Juliannah (8) are in a peewee league for football. Tym is playing football, and Juliannah is a cheerleader. It has been so much fun… except for the cheese fries. Those things are sneaky!
I go to a ball game, I'm sitting minding my own business, cheering for my kids, and suddenly it happens… I smell em! Sure enough, a person in front of me has just gotten a huge gooey pile of super yummy cheesy goodness. The smell wafts up to my nostrils and does a delicate dance of tantalizing temptation! I WANT SOME CHEESE FRIES!
I knew it was going to happen. I knew this smell of cheese fries was going to throw its fiery darts at my tummy and tempt me to eat them. This time I have a plan. I loaded up on snacks, low calorie snacks, to take to the ball game with me… I knew that if I had something on my stomach it would give me the power I needed to withstand the fiery darts of the cheese fries.
God tells us in Ephesians 6:16
In addition to all these, take the Christian faith as your shield. With it you can put out all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
We need to use the Shield of Faith to protect us from the fiery darts of the enemy. If we are reading His word, and spending time with him in prayer, we will be better prepared. It might even help us avoid cheese fries.

Is God the Origonator of Dramatic Effect?

My church closed last week.Yeah pretty sad. Finances got to us, well to the church. No, it wasn't about paying the pastor, the pastor hasn't been paid in months. We simply couldn't keep up with the mortgage payment. We signed a contract on it about 3 weeks ago, and were gonna have our last service today. Instead, that Sunday the people voted to let that be the last service. Sad stuff... So today should have been the end... Hence the dramatic effect by God... This is a screen capture of our radar right now. You can't see through all the rain, but that is most of central Alabama.


The cool thing is our first Sunday away from our church, we went to Christian Life Fellowship in Calera, and in praise and worship we sang this...

Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.
Just to take Him at his word.
Just to rest upon his promise,
Just to know thus sayeth the Lord.

Jesus Jesus how I trust Him,
How I've proved Him ore and ore.
Jesus Jesus precious Jesus,
Oh for grace to trust Him more.



Indeed... Oh for grace to love and trust Him more.