Going to Visit Brethren

Tomorrow or Thursday we are going to head to Kentucky to be with the brethren there. We plan on being in meeting with them and hopefully getting around to visit with some. It has been a while since we have been down there and we are excited to see the brethren there again. We will be returning either Sunday night or Monday but we really are not sure when. I would love for the Lord to use me in some way while we are there so pray that if He is speaking to me that I will listen and do what He has for me.

Thank God For A Busy Day!!

Today turned out to be a really nice busy day. When I got up this morning I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders and I really just wanted to crawl back in bed but Momma Lou called and asked me if I wanted to meet her over at Krissy's to go swimming so I loaded the girls in the wagon and we were on our way. We had a really good time and I enjoyed spending time visiting with them and just relaxing. Then when we got back home we had lunch and the girls went down for a nap. When Johnny came home and got cleaned up I was off again. I had to run by the store and then I went to do a survey/taste test for a research company. It only took about 30 minutes and we had to give out opinion on 4 different grilled chicken sandwiches. It was really great because not only did I get free dinner I also was paid $50 for it. I say you can't beat that. Then I was off to do yard work at my Dad's and it took alot longer than I thought it would but I enjoyed the time to myself to just think and pray. I had a blessing while I was there, the mower would not stay running and I prayed that the Lord would touch it and wouldn't you know He did because it stayed running the rest of the time. I didn't get home until around 9pm and then to my surprise Johnny wanted to have a fire in our little fire pit in the back yard. This hum drum day really turned out to be good and I say Thank You Lord because I know it is His handy work that made it happen.

Yogi Bear

Well we have planned a camping trip to Jelly Stone park in September so I have started having my girls watch a few episodes of Yogi Bear so that when we go they will know who he is. Johannah really seems to like the show which is really surprising to me becasue she is not a TV watcher. She is so cute becasue Sondra taught her to say "Hey BooBoo what ya got in that pinic basket." It is hilarious!! I think I may try to get her on video and post it later. All you can really understand is BooBoo and Basket but she tries. The weekend that we have planned to go is BooBoo's birthday and they will have a bean supper and a desert contest so I am going to try to think up a desert to enter in the contest. Any ideas??? We wanted to go to Gatlinburg TN for vacation but with gas prices the way they are we decided against it. We are planning on camping for the weekend and then taking a few day trips the following week. We want to go to the Zoo and the Apple Orchard but that is as far as we have decided.

Forgetting Johnny!!

I know that I have posted alot in the past 2 days but Sis. Stubby told me I should post about this so here it goes. Yesterday I gave Sis. Stubby a ride to a class she is taking so that Bro. Stubby could stay home and wait for a delivery. Well we only have one vehicle so I had the car and planned on picking up Johnny from work. Johnny called me at about 3:15 and he gets off at 3:30 well I was sitting out back with the kids while they were playing in he pool. While I was on the phone with him JoHannah had just woke up from her nap and I was just putting her in the pool. Well Jada done something and I needed to get off the phone and correct her so I told him I needed to go. I was sitting there waiting for him to call me back because he always calls me on his way home. Well he didn't call...... I was telling Jada that Daddy would be home soon and I kept watching for him to walk through the house....... Still no Daddy and no phone call. And I am thinking that he got caught up with something at work at the last minute. A few minutes later he comes walking around the house. And I still wasn't thinking much and I said "Why didn't you call me?" Well he says " I had to walk home! You forgot me!" Well yes I had forgot him but he didn't have to walk home. He works with a brother and he gave him a ride home. They were joking and saying that Johnny should have threw some water on himself and made it look like her was really sweating and make me believe he walked home. I really didn't think much of it until this morning when I was telling Sis. Stubby about the girls swimming and Johnny calling and she started laughing because even she remembered that I was supposed to pick him up. Shame on me for forgetting my poor husband!!!!!

Video??

I hope this works. I have to say that I really do not like videos of myself but this is the most recent one that I have, so I am going to use it.

The Pool

We recently bought the girls a small pool. Well this is JoHannah with her swim suit on and this is where she stayed the first time I took her out to get in the pool. Jada was like a little fish and was loving the water but JoHannah would have nothing to do with it.

So this is the next time we tried and this is what I had to do to get her in the pool. She wouldn't get in or even put her fingers in so I put my suit on and sit in the pool. She was still unsure but she finally got in and started having a blast!

Now JoHannah is like a little fishy too and she is having so much fun with the pool. I need to learn how to put a video on and get her talking about the pool. You can only understand about every third word that she says but she is so cute!!

No More Caffeine For Me!!

Well I haven't posted about this yet because it is a hard thing for me but I have been trying to lose some weight. I have pretty much complety changed the way that I eat and have now lost 11 pounds. I used to go in "diets" alot and never really done to good at that and I basically told myself that I wouldn't go on another "diet" because they dont work for me. So about a month ago me and Johnny decided that we needed to make some changes and we have been making subtle changes. Well anyway about the caffeine. Tonight on the way home from church I told Johnny that I really wanted a fountian coke so we stoped and got me one and I drank about all of it and now I am paying it is 1:23am and I am still up but not because of the caffeine keeping me up but because I think it is affecting my heart. See over the weekend at a cookout I drank half of a coke and I started having heart palpatations and I am having the same thing tonight. And before I changed my eating habits I was having the palpatations almost every day and they quit when I stoped having all the caffeine and sugar so I say no more caffeine!!!

Update 4th of July

Well the 4th of July party went really good and I am thankful to God for his mercy. This is a picture of my Me, my brother (Jimmy), and my Dad. They kind of both look mad but sometimes I think men don't like to smile for pictures but I am glad to have the picture and that we all got to be together today. I also received a phone call today from a my friend Jennifer (we have been friends for over 2o years) and she told me that she is expecting her first child. She is nervous and wants prayer because she has a miscarriage a few months ago so if you think of it please keep her in prayer. And I am thankful for the brethren who prayed for us today and we were able to have a peaceful day with wonderful weather.

4th of July........

O my! This week has flew by. I don't really know where the days have gone and it is already Wednesday!! I am looking forward to the long weekend, Johnny is off on Friday and we are going to my brothers house for a birthday/4th of July party he has it every year and most of the time I really enjoy myself. See none of my side of the family are in the church and sometimes I get nervous going to parties and such because I am used to the brethren and I know they are family but it is not the same. I try to always ask the brethren to pray for us before all Holiday's and get togethers and usually everything turns out just fine. The Lord is so good to us. There will be some other brethren there because the Stubby's usually go too because they are close to my brother too. The 4th is my Dad's birthday and my nephews so I have to figure out what to get them and that is especially hard where my Dad is concerned because what do you get the person that has everything???? I usually try to fix him his favorite meal or something but with the party that is kind of hard. My Dad lost his wife just over a year ago and he lives alone. I try to take care of him but he is self seficiant and sometimes I just get on his nerves I think. Well any way I hope everyone has a good long weekend and a safe one too.