Doggies

The day has come and although I am sad it is here, I will relieved when it is over. We are trying to find a nice home for our dogs. Petey, a long haired jack russell and Mac, a jack russell mutt. Both dogs are well behaved (love attention), love to be outside and are house broke. Petey is about 5 years old and Mac is 3 1/2.

If you are interested or know someone who may be please leave me a comment!

Here they are in their favorite spot!

Yesterday's Project

Trying to keep two little ones entertained inside, when they know it is nice and sunny outside, can be difficult! On day two of our roofing project, the kids and I made a trip for some essentials (gatorade, water, craft items). Yes craft items. Here was the result of yesterday's fun!

Happy Father's Day DAD

Dad has taught me so many things in the past.....most he probably thinks I don't remember. Generally when it was time for a lesson with Dad I was mad because he would not "just do it" for me. The funny thing is I think I remember how to do everything he taught me during these times.
Thank you for teaching me to change my oil, change my tire, use a hammer, a saw (of any type) and so much more. You are a great dad and I appreciate the time you spend with me!

I love you Dad!

Blessed

Since I am blessed with an amazing husband! I wanted to make sure the kids (aka mom) gave him a great gift for Father's Day. Seeing as we are getting rid of most material things, a "normal" gift would not do. After some thought I recalled Aaron wanting to golf at a course near some friends of ours. I put a phone call and email in to these wonderful people and they made the golf trip happen and so much more!

God has blessed me with so many great people in my life! I am so very thankful for Ronn and Yvette! They offered a day and night of rest and relaxation. Golf, swimming, no cooking, a movie, kids to keep our kids busy, good food and free tickets to the children's museum-what a deal. We felt so welcome in their home and felt a sense of peace and rest while there. So my hope of an amazing Father's day gift was made possible by the Oren's!

Aaron enjoyed the time he spent with Ronn at The Legends and I enjoyed talking with Yvette and watching Audrey and Braylon have fun. Thank you guys!

Happy Father's Day Babe!

My Babies!

LOOK OUT!

This is me tonight! For my families sake I better get some sleep!

What to say

Tonight is our Spring sports awards at MC. I usually spit out a quick speech, give awards and let someone else take the floor. Tonight will be different. I am struggling with what I want to talk about. I have some girls that are talented and some not so but they have all worked VERY HARD. We have broke several school records and made great personal improvements. At times I would say we had a "building" season but at others I would say this has simply been a "good" season. I will be losing two girls this year that I am particularly close to. They will be graduating and moving on to new things. I wish them best but am sad to see them go. Audrey will miss Liz, her piggy back rides and taking her on a run with the team. I will miss Stacy, her motivation and perseverance....not to mention sanity among teenage girls!!

This seems simple just get up there and spit out what you just typed. The problem is I can't, where do I draw the line in recognitions? Personal bests? County champs? Conference Champs, Sectional Winners, School record breakers? Hard Workers? I could talk forever about all of the different personal victories (not a bad problem to have). I cannot express how much I will miss 2 Seniors without ignoring 4 other seniors. Hmmm I am stumped and have three hours to figure it out :)

How long have I been saved????

Raised in Church-check
Bible reader-check
Faithful church attender-check
Growth Group member-check
Christ follower and lover-check
Saved by grace-check
Understanding salvation.......just beginning to grasp it. Lately I have been doing some searching and thinking within myself and my spiritual relationship with God and WOW, is it ugly. I have never fully understood or realized what God did for ME. I am not saying I have a complete grasp but I am gaining insight. Today I was listening to Todd Agnew (this is one of my favorites) and he was describing so perfectly what I am finally coming to realize. Even when I mess up his love is unchanging. God knows my thoughts, ideas and imperfections but yet he still sees in me something worthy of reflecting His Glory. There is no way I can fully grasp that this God who is perfect and sacrificed His Son for me can completely forget every sin I have ever committed and not change his feelings about me. Sin after sin after sin, shortcoming after shortcoming after shortcoming God is there to forgive me and show me his mercy.
1 John 1 ⁸ If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. ⁹ But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
I used to think and until recently tried to be "perfect" follow all the rules and do everything God called us to do. In the past few months I have learned that I was trying to do these actions out of a desire to be perfect. I wanted to keep all the rules for the sake of not messing up and sinning. I need to have a servant's heart, following God's commands because I love Him. Not trying to be sinless because that is impossible.
Ephesians 2 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast.

I know God only gives us what we can handle with his strength; generally I only think of this when "bad" things are happening to myself or others. As I was typing tonight I realized that God has been revealing passages to me in new ways and with new understanding. Until this point in my life and after particular circumstance am I ready to handle this new knowledge and only with his strength/wisdom can I grasp these teachings.