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OK so i have pretty much been a slacker on this thing. it didnt take real long for me to get to that point. lol. I am currently involved with a lot of Christmas activities at my church. i am one of the puppet team directors, a children's choir director\helper ,and we are trying to get our fund raisers going on for our mission trip. its not that it is to much or anything but i get side tracked easy. ok so im am soo tripping out about christmas. yes i love the season! i have my tree out.. well in the box, but me and philip plan to put it up this weekend. i know my cats are going to be thrilled to death to see the tree lit up with ornaments! they like to leap from the top of a large chair into it. luckily its never been knocked over, just limbs looked like they were hit by a train wreck! lol. well i hope that everyone has an awesome thanksgiving, and eats loads of yummy foods!

take up your cross

I have always loved the song by Ginny Owens "if you want me to". i think every christian can relate to this song and sometimes this song is just what a person needs when them hard times weigh on our shoulders and we want to question God with "Why am i having to deal with this?". Its hard to go through the valleys, but in those times are when we grow closer to God and have faith in him. If our lives were perfect living from mountain top to mountain top, how then can we ever really put our complete faith, trust, and love in God. God never puts more on us than he knows we can handle, and that is a hard thought to swallow at times, but we need to always look to him when tough times roll in. i just wanted to share with everyone this little simple cartoon that has such a powerful message.i still watch it numerous times a day!!! Everytime i have seen it,i can't help but cry (even through my millions of views). hope ya'll enjoy it as much as i do!

Ok well i know i emailed this to a lot of friends but i had to post this here because i think it is sooo fantastic! i kinda stumbled across it on youtube but i sure am glad i did! hope everyone loves it as much as me because i think it is the bomb..i know what your thinking.. & yes i did just bring "the bomb" out from old school! lol

HOPE WATCHES DORA

I had to post this. I was a nerd and recorded this with my camera sideways.. but you can still see it (especially when you tilt your head! ha ha) . People use to NEVER believe me when i said my cat Hope watched tv all the time. when we aren't home we always leave the tv on so my cats wont sit in a quiet house. i'm funny because i don't like to leave it on certain channels so since i consider them my babies, i leave it on nickelodeon all the time. Hope has took a special liking to Dora the Explorer and Diego. maybe she was living with some MEXICANS before i rescued her?? who knows.. she just loves these shows. she will sit like this in front of the tv for a complete hour! i think that it is funny a cat watches a kids spanish learning show.

RECAP OF THE HALLOWEEN PARTY LAST NIGHT

Billy Ray Cyrus is a TOTAL wash up with "Achey Breaky Heart", but his daughter broke a lot of parents achey breaky pockets this halloween! 3 Hannah Montanas rocked out last night. The crazy thing is i heard 4 more girls JUST today say they are gonna be her too. By far she is the new latest and greatest craze! The variety of costumes were good. One boy had on a hippie out fit and it was soooo funny! Katie (my niece) was Hannah Montana..(of course) and Drew (nephew) was a whoopie cushion. My sister wouldn't pay the ridiculous price for the banana suit he wanted so that was his next choice. We let this little old man from across the street judge the costumes, and of course he picked the little girl dressed up like an old woman.. (of course.. wonder why?? lol) for 2nd place and Drew for 1st (only because he knew him i think). They ate pizza then we filled them up on sugar between the punch, cookies, cupcakes, and loads of candy. OH YEAH we had games, girls screaming, a bonfire, girls screaming, painted some ghost, and did i mention.. lots of girls screaming?! I'm not a 100% positive, but i think all of Anderson county heard them! They had fun and that was all that was important.

NEW MISSIONS TRIP

Our church has recently decided to go on a missions trip to Jamaica in February. The preacher called me the other night and wanted to personally ask me go and to be praying about it, he also told philip to be thinking and praying about it because he wants him to preach over there. My preacher has made his mind up that the Lord is gonna call him into the ministry because of his love and passion for extensive study of the word. Philip don't think he wants to go, but who knows, maybe he will change his mind. I on the other hand, probably will go . Mission trips are the most awesome trips ever! Most people know that on my trip to Costa Rica i actually lead my first person to christ all by myself.. well, with the help of a translator (he is the white man in the top photo..name:Fransico ). It is extremely hard to try to witness to someone that speaks a whole different language. I have always been the first one to make smart ellic comments about the population of Mexicans here that cant speak our language, but when i was there i had a total attitude change! i realized repeating myself 10 times and talking slow using emphasis on punctuation makes them understand me.. NONE! why do people do that? its the worst feeling knowing the whole world surrounds you, they dont have a clue what your saying, you have no clue what they are saying, and reading things are pointless. It is the most hopeless and helpless feeling on the whole earth. i was totally stressed oneday trying to witness (without a translator) by handing out tracks printed in spanish and people would stop me wanting to know more..but communications are at standstill. I just wanted to cry because it was so hard with the language barrier until i noticed this one old man. He walked around with his eyes open but he saw nothing, he had ears but they heard nothing: his arm & hand was extended out with his palm up and he used his other hand to guide him by his stick that replaced his eyes and ears. At that very moment i felt so guilty for feeling sorry for myself! i couldnt speak the language but i was still functional. This man wore a smile on his face and he walked around not even knowing the world around him! i wanted to witness to him but had no humanly way possible! i wanted to take hold of his fragile hand that was extended and just show him a simple expression of love. i couldn't even offer him a smile back that he offered everyone else. i pray blessings on his life to be in those conditions and still be thankful for life in general. well, sorry i got story book mode, just expressing how wonderful mission trips are and they will impact a person forever. i will pray to see if it is God's will for me to be on the team going to Jamaica.. keep me in your prayers also!

here are a few pics from our trip to the pumpkin patch!