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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Some pictures from our 4th of July weekend
The boys posing before the fireworks
This looks safe...
Hunter enjoying the boat ride.
Riley...just chillin' in the hot tub. lol
Getting ready to toob again after a stop at Sandy Beach.
Anyone know a good orthodontist?? :)
Riley REALLY enjoyed toobing this year! He didn't want to get off!
Riley...just chillin' in the hot tub. lol
Getting ready to toob again after a stop at Sandy Beach.
Anyone know a good orthodontist?? :)
Riley REALLY enjoyed toobing this year! He didn't want to get off!
We had a blast! The boys are lake rats!!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Our 1st Run!
Jake, Hunter & I (Christy) ran in a 1K fun run this morning. Jake came in 1st place!! He did great. I didn't have my camera with me (& Hunter & I were a few minutes behind anyway!) but I will hopefully get some pictures from friends soon!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Baseball begins another season!
Riley looking on as his silly brothers...wonder what he was thinking???
...maybe... "where's my uniform??"
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Jake's basketball tournament
They lost the first game at 8am this morning...played Peaster. Then won the 2nd game against our other Graham team by 1 point!
We play again at 7 tonight!
I have about a $80 concession stand tab I'm going to have to settle up tonight!! I don't think they realize that just because I'm working in there doesn't mean I don't have to pay!
We play again at 7 tonight!
I have about a $80 concession stand tab I'm going to have to settle up tonight!! I don't think they realize that just because I'm working in there doesn't mean I don't have to pay!
Friday, April 3, 2009
God is really making me laugh today!
Anyone who says that God doesn't have a sense of humor is wrong!
First thing...Jake reminded me at 7:30 this morning (10 minutes before we were supposed to leave for school) that he was supposed to take his 12 plastic eggs to school today for their Easter egg hunt. I found a bag of Easter stuff I had stored in Kelly's closet...and found 13 plastic eggs. Luckily I already had the candy, so Jake, Hunter & I stuffed them quickly and I got Jake to school 1 minute early!
Next thing...I had to print labels for the Humane Society Easter mailing. I got them all printed, looked over at the printer, and I had 1 sheet of labels left after they were finished printing!!
Acts 20:34
Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me.
Hopefully I will keep laughing today!!
Happy Friday :)
Christy
First thing...Jake reminded me at 7:30 this morning (10 minutes before we were supposed to leave for school) that he was supposed to take his 12 plastic eggs to school today for their Easter egg hunt. I found a bag of Easter stuff I had stored in Kelly's closet...and found 13 plastic eggs. Luckily I already had the candy, so Jake, Hunter & I stuffed them quickly and I got Jake to school 1 minute early!
Next thing...I had to print labels for the Humane Society Easter mailing. I got them all printed, looked over at the printer, and I had 1 sheet of labels left after they were finished printing!!
Acts 20:34
Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me.
Hopefully I will keep laughing today!!
Happy Friday :)
Christy
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tag, I'm it!
I think this was on "the quest for the perfect birth announcement picture"!! You can just see the love in the big brothers' eyes!!! haha
And Riley going...oh my, what is going on here??
Here were the instructions:
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag 4 people to do the same.~No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.)
I tag: Pat, Beverly, Ann & Ruth
My thoughts today...:)
Every spring I get so excited at the first glimpse of spring. When we have a warm day, I just get the itch to start planting things! Knowing full well however, as it happens every year that it’s going to get cold again before it warms up for the summer. Though it’s a beautiful day today, yesterday was cold and windy! The weatherman even said we were going to be doing “the wave” this week because the temperatures are going to be so up and down.
So anyway, I just went outside to check on my plants. I hadn’t thought that it got below freezing last night, but apparently it did. The first plants I checked on were fine, they had been under the cover of the porch. As soon as I went around the corner though, I found several plants with black and wilted leaves. Then I went out to the greenhouse I have to play with all of my little “gardening projects”. This year I have waited to plant anything out in the garden. My tomatoes and strawberry plants are all tucked safe and warm in the greenhouse.
But the plants that had their timing a bit off and thought spring was here and had started putting out new leaves are now suffering from the freeze last night. All my little seedlings that had sprouted are all seriously damaged and they may not make it. A whole season of growing, so much opportunity for beauty, all lost in one brief cold spell. If they had only known to wait just another week before they sprouted, they would have remained unscathed and ready for a long summer of growing.
It makes me think of how important timing is. There are so many quotes about timing…
“time in the market, not timing the stock market”…Dad
"Selling a house is all about timing"…Pat
“you’re timing is way off…”…me!!
But it’s hard to wait! Our society now has engrained this into us without us even thinking twice about it. We don’t want to take the time to look in the phone book for a phone number, we call 411. We don’t want to use an encyclopedia (who even has them anymore??) just look it up on the internet, the answer is only a click away. Why should we have to pay for a doctor’s visit, we can type in our symptoms, hit search, and BAM! we’ve got our diagnosis from the internet. My kids watch commercials on tv, they see something they want, next thing I know they’re begging me to take them to Wal-Mart to get it…now! You hear a song you like on the radio, you don’t have to wait to go buy the CD…you can download it immediately! You don’t even have to wait for it to come on the radio anymore, you have an IPod, you can listen to it anytime you want! And then there’s that terrible commercial that my kids love to quote…”it’s my money and I need it now!!” UGH!!!
Our impatience makes us want all of our problems solved immediately and easily and tied up in a pretty little package and NOW!! But that’s not God’s view of things. His timing is much different than ours. As I’ve learned in the past week at our revival, every single bad thing that happens to us is happening to us for a reason. We are to learn from it so we can be able to minister to someone else going to go through a similar situation at some point…to minister to someone in need and be able to tell them how God has helped us through it.
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:71)
“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance products character, and character produces hope.” (Romans 5:3-4)
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” (Romans 8:18)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)
So our time we spend in our problems we’re facing is supposed to be teaching us something. When the time is right…in God’s time, and through God’s will and God’s grace, we will get through it. The only thing we can do is pray about it, trust that God is faithful and that He loves us and that He will answer our prayers. They may not be the answers we wanted or expected, but He will answer.
We can find rest in Him and just like my little plants that were tucked away in the greenhouse, safe and sound, we can tuck ourselves away in God’s arms and be safe until the time is right.
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (Psalm 62:4-6)
All of our burdens we are carrying right now, all of the unanswered prayers, the turmoil…they will all be taken care of…in God’s time. When the time is right, the issues will be dealt with and the truth will come to light.
What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God's—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning. (Zechariah 14:5-7)
So anyway, I just went outside to check on my plants. I hadn’t thought that it got below freezing last night, but apparently it did. The first plants I checked on were fine, they had been under the cover of the porch. As soon as I went around the corner though, I found several plants with black and wilted leaves. Then I went out to the greenhouse I have to play with all of my little “gardening projects”. This year I have waited to plant anything out in the garden. My tomatoes and strawberry plants are all tucked safe and warm in the greenhouse.
But the plants that had their timing a bit off and thought spring was here and had started putting out new leaves are now suffering from the freeze last night. All my little seedlings that had sprouted are all seriously damaged and they may not make it. A whole season of growing, so much opportunity for beauty, all lost in one brief cold spell. If they had only known to wait just another week before they sprouted, they would have remained unscathed and ready for a long summer of growing.
It makes me think of how important timing is. There are so many quotes about timing…
“time in the market, not timing the stock market”…Dad
"Selling a house is all about timing"…Pat
“you’re timing is way off…”…me!!
But it’s hard to wait! Our society now has engrained this into us without us even thinking twice about it. We don’t want to take the time to look in the phone book for a phone number, we call 411. We don’t want to use an encyclopedia (who even has them anymore??) just look it up on the internet, the answer is only a click away. Why should we have to pay for a doctor’s visit, we can type in our symptoms, hit search, and BAM! we’ve got our diagnosis from the internet. My kids watch commercials on tv, they see something they want, next thing I know they’re begging me to take them to Wal-Mart to get it…now! You hear a song you like on the radio, you don’t have to wait to go buy the CD…you can download it immediately! You don’t even have to wait for it to come on the radio anymore, you have an IPod, you can listen to it anytime you want! And then there’s that terrible commercial that my kids love to quote…”it’s my money and I need it now!!” UGH!!!
Our impatience makes us want all of our problems solved immediately and easily and tied up in a pretty little package and NOW!! But that’s not God’s view of things. His timing is much different than ours. As I’ve learned in the past week at our revival, every single bad thing that happens to us is happening to us for a reason. We are to learn from it so we can be able to minister to someone else going to go through a similar situation at some point…to minister to someone in need and be able to tell them how God has helped us through it.
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” (Psalm 119:71)
“We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance products character, and character produces hope.” (Romans 5:3-4)
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” (Romans 8:18)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)
So our time we spend in our problems we’re facing is supposed to be teaching us something. When the time is right…in God’s time, and through God’s will and God’s grace, we will get through it. The only thing we can do is pray about it, trust that God is faithful and that He loves us and that He will answer our prayers. They may not be the answers we wanted or expected, but He will answer.
We can find rest in Him and just like my little plants that were tucked away in the greenhouse, safe and sound, we can tuck ourselves away in God’s arms and be safe until the time is right.
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (Psalm 62:4-6)
All of our burdens we are carrying right now, all of the unanswered prayers, the turmoil…they will all be taken care of…in God’s time. When the time is right, the issues will be dealt with and the truth will come to light.
What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God's—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning. (Zechariah 14:5-7)
I hope you all have a blessed day!!
Christy
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Sorry!
I know I've been a TERRIBLE blogger. Please forgive me!
Let's see, where to even begin...
Since November was my last post, I guess I should go back to December. We spent Christmas in Kentucky, as most of you know. We had a great time and the boys loved playing with their cousins. I think they succeeded in wearing everyone out! :)
January, well, where did it go?? Not sure. Jake started playing basketball and had games all through January. He did great for his first year playing. The regular season has ended, but he's playing on a tournament team and we have our 2nd tournament this weekend.
Let's see, where to even begin...
Since November was my last post, I guess I should go back to December. We spent Christmas in Kentucky, as most of you know. We had a great time and the boys loved playing with their cousins. I think they succeeded in wearing everyone out! :)
January, well, where did it go?? Not sure. Jake started playing basketball and had games all through January. He did great for his first year playing. The regular season has ended, but he's playing on a tournament team and we have our 2nd tournament this weekend.
This is a great bunch of boys and is almost the same kids that were on the baseball tournament team...which we have already started practicing for!! no rest...
February has been a fun month. We went snowskiing i Breckenridge Colorado last week for Winter Break. We dropped Riley off with Grand Jo & Papa Bruce in Amarillo about 1:30 am early, early Wednesday morning. So he got to stay with them while the rest of us went on to Colorado.
We put Jake & Hunter in ski lessons the 1st day. Jake is a natural, he picked it up so quickly that he was skiing blue/blacks by the 2nd day. Hunter did great too. We skied together all day Friday. I'm ok with staying on the greens... I figure by the time Riley is ready for the blues and blacks, I will be too...hopefully :)
Jake had a b-day yesterday. I can't believe he's 9. What's even harder to believe is that Hunter will be 7 in 3 months! My babies are growing up!
I would like to ask for prayers for a little boy in our area who was burned terribly last weekend. They live out in the country and were burning some trash when a gas can apparently exploded on this child. He's the youngest of 3 boys and only 5 years old. He will probably lose both hands and both ears. The other 2 boys had minor burns and their mother has pretty bad burns on her hands.
Here is a link to a blog that his aunt is doing to keep people updated. I don't know them personally, but I just can't imagine what this family is going through.
http://claydavidfite.blogspot.com/
Anyway, hope everyone is well. I'll try to do better!
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