Quiet Time

Just thought I would share my quiet time from Thursday night...when I finally crawled into bed at 11:00, instead of reading one of my many devotional books that I usually read from...I just opened my Bible...not to anything specific. I just opened it.

I don't remember the specific chapters (I marked them at home), but I turned to Isaiah and Romans as I was reading, I wrote down things that stood out to my heart.

You must decide what you really are by the amount of faith

God has really given you.

Your offering must be only for God.

Your love must be real.

Do not let evil defeat you, but defeat evil by doing good.

No one can explain the things God decides or understand His ways.

Not any big revelation, but just GOOD reminders from God...which was just what I needed...what I always need!

All I have to Say about That!

Two words...HOMECOMING DANCE!

My son went to the homecoming dance last weekend

and first of all:

1. Don't you have to be at least 21 to dance that close with someone of the opposite sex??

2. Is the homecoming dance really necessary??

OK...so maybe I need some therapy, but I am just not ready for this scene...seems like he just turned 11. He has tried to tell me like 100 times how many girls wanted to dance with him! But, I will hear nothing of it!

In all seriousness, my prayer is that JB dates a good Christian girl when he finally

decides to get serious!

Here are his pics...he is so cute! As he put it..."woo wee I sure am fine"!

For now, I will enjoy the days that I am the only girl in his life!

The Good ole' days!!!!

Scarecrow Festival

SO...this last weekend was the Scarecrow Festival. It is our family tradition that we always go.

It was one of those weekends that we have been looking forward to for weeks and it was a MUCH needed get away! BUT...God had different plans...

VERY LONG story short...Jason and I were real distracted with "something" and that something made the drive up not very pleasant...AND to make matters worse, we turned the wrong way and ended up going almost an hour out of the way. By the time we got to the festival...it was closing in 20 minutes.

But, ya know, instead of continuing the bad day...we decided to enjoy the time we had. The kids had a good time and we got some really cute pics.

Me and the GIRLS!!!

I LOVE this pic of the kids!

My BEST friend, who I LOVE with ALL of my heart! Could NOT do any of this without him!

GREAT picture of Vincent and Lisa!

This picture of the beautiful sunset is for JB...he insisted on me taking a picture of this sunset, so I did it just because...BUT it turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL picture...so thanks JB!

Happy Fall!

The fall is my favorite time of year...I married my best friend and love of my life in the fall!

My handsome son...I can't believe he is so big. He is playing Varsity ball and turning into quite a young man. Every once in a while he gives me a glance at who he is and I see that a little bit of me and his dad have rubbed off on him!

When we all got dressed this morning, I realized that we all kinda matched...

so we took some pics after church today.

The goof balls...they are two peas in a pod!

Royalty Came to Visit!

The boys went to the football game and the girls stayed home with mom...I put some make up on them and let them play dress up...they were so stinkin cute!

Here are some of the highlights from the day...