A few surprises in the mail.....

Look what I recieved in the mail on Thursday! Thank you daddy and Amy :) Gotta love me some Vera Bradley ;)

Oh glorious day

One day He is coming and I look forward with much HOPE that that day will be soon, VERY SOON! But with as much hope as I look forward to Him coming, my heart breaks for those who do not believe. I am beginning to pray for opportunities to share once we finished the Proclaim series (but that does not come without a WHOLE LOT of fear of man and pride). Please pray for me. This song is an old hymn that was written with new music. Don't know much about it but it's been a source of encouragement and hope for me as we have been hearing the Proclaim series and how I am starting to truly understanding the Gospel (and Heaven) in a different light. What an amazing Savior we have that He would "Suffering anguish, despised and rejected: Bearing our sins," so that "Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;Buried He carried my sins far away;Rising, He justified freely forever; One day He's coming; O glorious day!"

Update....and a somewhat funny story :)

It's very hard for me to post these days because I don't have good inernet connection, and my other computer is dead (and that is how I did all of my posts & pictures) so I haven't had the greatest post lately but hope to get back on top of it because I want to pass my blog along to some family members that I don't talk to very often so that we can keep up what is going on in each other lives. SO here is my first attempt in trying to be regualr in posting updates of my life. I might be changing my blog name, but still haven't decided. I love my blog and the many memories I have wrote about the past 2 years, so we shall see! With all that being said I wanted to share a funny story (well it wasn't so funny at 4 this morning) but I thought you all might get a good laugh out of my fear, and sillness. So I am sleeping last night, and all of sudden I hear that sound of the power going out. You know how it goes, just sounds like everything dies and comes to a complete stop. Instead of thinking there is a power outage or once again I forgot to pay the bill my heart falls into some major fear and thinking about all those crazy movies or shows I have seen where bad guys (and girls ;) cut the power put on the nighttime vision googles and are getting ready to break into houses to hurt them. YUP that is EXACTLY what I was thinking and fear has completely taken over, and while that is going on my alarm goes off REALLY LOUD! I pull my night stand in front of my bedroom door (it was already locked) turn off my alarm and called the alarm company. After being reassured that its just a lost to power, and phone line that none of the zones were alarmed I got off and called the power company to find out that about 1900 houses are without power. I somehow calm myself down, and fall back to sleep in the FREEZING cold and then many hours later you hear the power come back on along with my closet light. Somehow stupid me thought that putting the switch up at 4:00 in the morning would make it work. Who knows what I was thinking! I think I was exhuasted from not feeling well the past few days, and the exhuastion of the fear that took over me for a while just came to a crashing halt then :). The lady at the alarm company and power probably got a kick out of me ;) OH well and life conitnues on.....

In Christ Alone

In Christ alone my hope is found; He is my light, my strength, my song; This cornerstone, this solid ground, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depths of peace, When fears are stilled, when strivings cease! My comforter, my all in all— Here in the love of Christ I stand. In Christ alone, Who took on flesh, Fullness of God in helpless babe! This gift of love and righteousness, Scorned by the ones He came to save. Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied; For ev'ry sin on Him was laid— Here in the death of Christ I live. There in the ground His body lay, Light of the world by darkness slain; Then bursting forth in glorious day, Up from the grave He rose again! And as He stands in victory, Sin's curse has lost its grip on me; For I am His and He is mine— Bought with the precious blood of Christ. No guilt in life, no fear in death— This is the pow'r of Christ in me; From life's first cry to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny. No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man, Can ever pluck me from His hand; Till He returns or calls me home— Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand.

O Christmas tree....

Well I had NO plans of putting up Christmas decorations this year, not because I was being a scroge but more because it would be just me looking at them (and who wants to go through all of that) and wanting my house to be perfect if I was going to put anything up. Well I gave up on having other people over or my house being perfect, and decided that I needed something to celebrate Christmas so here is a picture of my tiny little tree, stockings, and then I put out a candle, wreath and a few other small things around the house. That my friends will be the extent of my Christmas decorations :) MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Airport Craziness and a Thank YOU!

I had to share with you the craziness that proceeded on the Sunday after Thanksgiving at the BUSIEST airport in the world. This is LONG but I had to include everything. I will give you this. Check-in and security in both airports went very smoothly. I was checked in and through security in less than 30 minutes, which was AMAZING considering when I was there. So here comes the comical part (at least I thought it was) My dad and I went up to Atlanta on Sunday morning for lunch (and of course a little shopping ;) I had just called about at an hour before I was suppose to be at the airport and they said everything was on schedule so we decide to head on over because we had no clue how bad traffic would be. As soon as I checked in and I see my dad pulling away they say your flight has been canceled. You need to fly out on the 8:45 tonight. UGH! I was in tears before I got to the counter because I was sad about leaving my dad (that's something I will have to explain to you if you really want to know) so anyways she finds me a standby flight. I get there (that airport is HUGE and of course mine is the furthest away) and then ONCE I get there I was shifted from one gate to another. Only to find out that the standby flight that I was going for at 3:09 was canceled too. But there was a flight at 2:09 (mind you it is around 2:30) that had not left yet so I get on standby there. I had never done standby before so I was clueless in what to do. I was standing in line why they put everyone that had a ticket on the plane. I turn around to ask someone something and the couple behind her jump in front of us :( I wonder if the lady that gave me the ticket had ever seen a response like mine. I jumped up and said thank you SO much and THRILLED that I was going to make it on. I manage to get on the plane, called to let my dad know, and then trying to get a hold of Rebekah to let her know I was coming in earlier. We did not lift off when we were suppose to. We were on the runway for over a half an hour. The kicker was with all those people trying to get on planes they were saying that had no room on any flights (there was even a family of four that did not get on before me), but I was the last one on and the had 20 plus empty SEATS! It was crazy. I got 3 seats to myself :) Well once I get on the plane I realize my luggage was suppose to go on the flight at the 3:09, so when I got there poor Rebekah had gotten there early (gone around to many times with her boys not so happy in the back seat) so I did not see my luggage. So I left (not putting a claim in-opps :) Samuel was so excited to see me (which TOTALLY made my day :) I got my car, and I called AirTran (my luggage somehow had arrived) went back to the airport to pick it up. I was home by 8. So I was originally supposed to be home at 6:00, then got pushed to 10. Then I was able to make it to an earlier flight but had all the luggage issues. I am just VERY thankful that I got home especially after CRAZY plane ride coming home. In the dozen times I have flown have never had a bumpy ride like that. I felt like I was on one of the crazy fair rides that Lindsay forced me on last year :) Yes that was very LONG day but I am home and not stuck at an airport ☺ I cannot end this story without saying a HUGE thank you to a dear friend (and yes I know who you are but I won't disclose so you can keep your secret but I found out through some investigating and figuring it out on my own who you are.... ;) You made my day, and brought me to tears that you would even take the time to do that and bless me. There are really no words that could possibly describe the deep gratitude I have towards you. Thank you again. And that my friends is how the Sunday after Thanksgiving went ☺

I have been tagged!

I have been tagged! I know you are suppose to go to the 5th file to the 5th picture but since I am in Georgia I decided that I would use one of the pictures on my camera and of course it had to be Cissy and her precious girls :) We went to Sea World (sometime back in October) and this picture was one of many that we tried taking on that rock :) It was a wonderful day and full of lots of funny memories :) Thanks again Cissy for letting me go with you and for allowing me to be apart of your girls lives the few times I get to see them now. It means so much to me. You are an inspiration in the way you live your life. Thank you for all that you do to care for these three precious girls and the daily sacrifices you make. I pray that one day I have the opportunity to adopt children and to love, nurture and protect them just like you. You are a blessing! Since everyone I know has been tagged, I just tag you all again and say you use the number 8 this time :) and use that to get your next picture :)