What Am I?

Good luck on this one!!!

Suzannah is 14!!!!

My niece is 14... Gee I remember when she was just a little whipper snapper... Here are some pics from one of her recent basketball games

Love you girl!! Happy Birthday! The best Valentines Day Present ever!

Love meme... I love friday the 13th!!

COUPLES SURVEY!!!

♥ Fill it out and let's learn about you and your better half!

♥ What are your middle names?
Jean and Leroy

♥ How long have you been together?
15 years married 16 dating

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
a month

♥ Who asked who out? Um... I asked him out and then stood him up... Whole 'nother blog...

♥Who said I love you first?
I did. We were riding in the car one day on our way to work, (we worked at the same place so I would go over to his house since it was on my way, and ride with him) and he was saying I love your hair and I love your eyes, and I love... several things about me, and I just looked at him and said, "Well, I love you."

♥ How old are each of you?
I am 35, and he is 34

♥ Who's siblings do/did you see the most?
Mine because his is sorta MIA... We don't know where he is.

♥ Do you have any children together? What do you mean by togeather? 4 that we bio parented, and 1 that we adopted

♥ Did you go to the same schools? Nope... not really

♥ Are you from the same hometown? No I'm from Alabama he's from Kansas

♥ Who is the smartest?
Depends on the subject.

♥ Who is the most sensitive?
Me

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Where ever Barb, Jerry, Yavonne and Bill are going on sundays... which is a diffrent place every week... Never seen anyone with such a well worked out rotation...

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Kansas

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Um... that is a hard one... Both of us?

♥ Who does the cooking?
We share it equally.

♥Who is the most social?
I am

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
He is

♥ Who is the most stubborn?
Well we call each other Muley and Mulette

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
He does

♥Who has the bigger family?
me

♥Do you get flowers often?
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!! and it makes me sad...

♥ Who do you spend the holidays with?
at home with our kids mostly. We do go to my mom's for "her Christmas"

♥ Who sings better?
Me

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
We share it equally.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Both

♥ Who drives when you are together?
He does – I hate to drive

♥ Who picks where you go to dinner?
We both do it pretty much equally. We take turns.

♥ Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Me cause it takes the wind out of his sails, and I love it...

♥ Who wears the pants in the relationship? My husband

♥Who eats more sweets?
Me!!!

♥ Who cries more?
Me. He only cries at births... He cried at the birth of our four children, and he always cries when someone gets saved.

♥ Are you still together?
Always!

Just some pictures

This is a close up of a prayer cloth... Sigh... I love it.

Yeah... my new lens... So how long after you have had something is it no longer new?
This is the scene behind our baptistry at church.
Anybody notice my new header(other than Gee)? I designed it. I was delighted with how it turned out.

Here is what I am...

Have I mentioned that I LOVE my new lens? It is awesome!!!! Here is the rest of the picture... that colorful blob in the background is my darling hubby...

It's a sweet gum tree ball.

What Am I?

Here we go again! Personally I think this one is much harder than last week's... But we'll see some of you guys are hardcore, yall can guess anything. I'll save you a guess it isn't bird beaks... although that is what it looks like to me.... If... I didn't know better!

I have a problem...

(Doesn't really fit, I just love the picture!)
Hi, my name is DaNella Auten, I am 35, almost 36 years old and I have a problem. I have S.S.S.R.T.A. Singular Section of Song Repeated To Annoyance. Ok so I made up the name but the problem is real. There is this stupid song that some secular person decided needed a Grammy, that annoys the snot out of me. The song is about an ungodly action that is now accepted in this society. It is something that is clearly unchristian, but who says this is a Christian nation anymore?
My biggest problem with this song is my SSSRTA. I only know a section of the song, but I will repeat this singular section of song over and over and over and over… You get the idea. It is so bad I have gone to great lengths to avoid hearing it. Since some silly person decided it needed a Grammy, the Grammy awards commercials have been on tv all the time lately, so if I see that commercial come on I will grab the remote and change the channel long enough for it to be over. The other day the remote wasn’t near, but I so desperately did not want to hear the song that I literally put my hands over my ears, and started singing… “la la la la la la la la” My husband looked at me as if I had lost my mind and said what are you doing? So I explained to him that I didn’t want to hear that song, or I will start singing it. He understood.
A day or so later in another conversation the song came on tv again, and in the middle of talking he stopped and started saying “la la la la la” at first I kinda looked at him, but then I realized he was trying to help me avoid that song.
As I was laughing at myself for taking such great lengths to avoid a silly little song, it occurred to me that we don’t try nearly as hard to avoid sin. Think about it. We all have that “pet sin” the one that is hardest to give up. We know it is wrong, and we know we shouldn’t do it, but we justify it by pretending it isn’t as bad as we know it is.
God tells us

1Co 10:13 There isn't any temptation that you have experienced which is unusual for humans. God, who faithfully keeps his promises, will not allow you to be tempted beyond your power to resist. But when you are tempted, he will also give you the ability to endure the temptation as your way of escape.

He has provided a way out, but it won’t fall in our lap, we have to work at it. We have to want to let the sin go.
What sin are you “petting?”

sooooo how was your day?

I'm so glad you asked, let me tell you about it. Well it started to go down hill or rather up hill, it was such a roller coaster, when on my way to school, the car over heated. Ever seen the back seat of a cop car?
See picture on rt... Yeah that's about right. cept mine was vinyl, not metal as that appears to be.

Why was I in a cop car? More specifically the back seat? Well...

My car overheated. That in itself is amazing since it was 18 degrees outside! So I pulled over and called Q (my hero!) and he said he would come to get me as soon as he could. However, since it was 18! degrees outside, the nice officer stopped and offered me a ride, he took me to Wal-mart, so I could wait for Q.

I told him I wished I had a camera with me so I could take a picture for my blog... lol

Ok so we're clicking up the hill (the roller coaster silly did you fall off? This ride ain't over yet!) click. click. click. Q came and got me, we drove the car home, and it seamed to be fine, but Q took me to school just in case... He didn't want me to be stranded again. He's so sweet... So I get to school, and go to class, even have a quiz and do pretty good... Yay. Down a hill we go!

Well then up another hill, I had to wait from 12:30 until 2:30 for a ride. That's ok, while I was at Wal-Mart this morning I bought Fireproof! so I just got out my lap top and watched it. Whee! down another hill.

This was a pretty good long hill, as I finished the movie, Q came and got me, and then we went home. As we were pulling up in the drive way, a kid ran out with the phone for Q, a person was on the phone offering him a job. Yay since his current job is dropping down to 3 days a week, another job would be good.

So since it is a nice evening Q took the kids out to the back yard to play some soft ball. Whee! we're having fun! until. You guessed it. Who'd a thunk it? The softball had a homing signal for Juju's nose. Yep ever hear that sickening sound of something solid thunking a melon? Not a good one. So... up the hill we go, off to the emergency room to spend the evening. They basically said they couldn't do anything until the swelling went down so she will have to be checked on Monday. If you look closely you can see her rt side is pretty swollen. She isn't seriously hurt, so Whee! down another hill we go.

However, attempting to get some "fast" food at Captain D's? Not so much. That was an up hill battle. But the final down hill slope was a good one.

I got home and was getting ready to post this and check my email, and low and behold there was another email from someone else offering Q a job! Praise the Lord!

But wait, there's more! I also got an email from the local weather man James Spann that said...

Hey DaNella

Yep... the book looks great. And, a good job with the microburst definition.Looks like some very good encouraging stories... I look forward to finishing it. Thanks again and have a great week!

James.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! That's a good hill!

Wow, what a ride wonder how tomorrow will be?

P things I love...

P things I love . Sue at the cotton patch challenged us to leave a comment and she would assign us a letter and we then had to write a list of things starting with that letter that we love.
The letter I was assigned was P so lets see…
The first thing that comes to mind is the Purple People eater… Ok so he doesn’t exist… Remember that song? I love it, I can remember singing it and playing with my friends, the first of my many Christys, Christy Wilson and I used to plat that RECORD and sing and dance to it all the time… lol So I love happy memories.
Parents—thank God for wonderful Godly parents! And thank God for the chance to be parents.
Precious—our little puppy dog. She really is precious… most of the time. Here is a picture I took of her yesterday... she is getting bigger all the time.
Pictures—perhaps this one would be better titled Photography. It is not just the pictures I love but the chance to take them also. I have several pictures floating around in my head, and I have to use my camera (which by the way is named serendipity…) to find and capture these pictures.
Plethora—I love the sound of that word… but yes there are a plethora of things I love, my hubby, my kids, my church, my nieces, my nephews, my friends, my camera, my house, my camera, my computer, my camera, my… do you get the idea I love my camera? Oh and my new lens… too cool.
Ok, if you want to play, simply comment and I will assign you a letter.
Thanks guys!

Editor's note added after initial post... I have to say I love Policemen... One picked me up this morning when I was stranded on the side of the road in 18 degree weather. Praise the Lord for Policemen... Funny that my letter was P. Tell me God doesn't have a since of humor!

Oh and I put in a link to Sue's blog... Sorry Sue!

Here is what I am...

See I knew this was tooooo easy, you guys are good! Have I mentioned that I love my new lens? Just wait, I have a harder one coming next week... And two of you were even specific that it was a Daffodil... Those are my favorite flowers... I can recognise them even when they haven't developed a bloom pod yet. Q says I am a Daffodil...

What Am I?

Yes boys and girls it's that time again... This one is easy!

41 years ago today...

41 years ago today was a very important day in my life. No, I wasn't even thought of, I was merely a... well this isn't a biology lesson. Lets just say no I am not that old, I am only 35, 36 on Feb. 17. So what happened 41 years ago? My mom and dad said I do! Awesome stuff. I am thrilled that the legacy I have to offer my children is I have been married 14 almost 15 years. My sister has been married 20 years, my Parents for 41 years, and both my mom's parents, and my dad's parents were married until my papa's died. That is an awesome legacy.

The day of the Disease

Saturday when we went to Suzannah's game (pictures of her later) I just thought that Juliannah had that glazed look in her eyes (as seen in the picture above) and I had a feeling.... Sure enough, a fever set in. So this is how Juju and I spent our Sunday, in bed watching swan princess... On a cool note, this is a picture taken with my new lens. The first one is without the wide angel on, and the second is from the same distance... same exact spot (and she didn't move, she was toooo into the swan princess) with the wide angel lens... cool beans...

So why am I calling today the day of the disease? Juju went to the doc this morning, tested positive for strep throat. At abt 11 the school, nurse called and said Nana was in the office sick, so we went and got her. At 12:15 the school nurse called again... Matt was in the office sick, he just threw up. lol Fun stuff. So far Tym is still at school... so far.