Silly Songs with Autumn

 

So here is the skinny on "Silly Songs with Autumn." These videos were recorded around Christmas of 2007. I was 24... so that is part of my disclaimer. This all happened on one silly evening when Autumn (me), her roommate Christine, and Christine's cousin Dayne were all totally sober and were feeling a wee bit silly. These videos are totally embarassing to me... but hopefully you find it entertaining.! For each video we picked a random thing and sang about it. I do hope you enjoy our silliness.

 

 

Oh Christmas Tree.. you are so Pretty/Ugly

 

 

"My Chin is Times 2"

"Mr. Salsa"

 

 



"Broke"

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A not so typical day at the dog park!

So I took the dogs to the dog park the other Saturday; and by dogs I mean the three big ones (Lola is more of a cat sometimes). And when I say I took them… I mean “I” took them (Byron was out of town). L I began to creatively think of how I could make it work and get all 3 dogs (well 2 dogs and one mini horse) to the dog park. I started by inviting a friend to meet me at the dog park. Said friend has a Dane and a lab herself. So I decided I can meet up with her at the park and this will be “manageable”.

So what makes me think it would be manageable? Well recently I have begun to take all 4 dogs for a walk by myself and have been able to handle them fine.  I walk the 3 big dogs on one side and little Lola on the other side by herself. The reason I do this is for two reasons: 1.) The 3 big ones like to walk by each other and 2.) Lola need’s to walk by herself so she does not get accidently walked on. I put Aggie and Drake on a connected leash (they are besties and like to be side by side) and I put Chance on his own leash. I have also learned the Drake has to be the one on the inside or the one who walks next to me. If Aggie is next to me I will not be able to walk straight or where I want to… because she continues to walk into me. If Chance is on the inside He walks in front of me… not way in front of me… like right in front of me and he tries to cross back and forth and trips me up (not fun when you are walking 4 dogs). So that leaves Drake… he is the best at walking beside me… because he actually walks beside me… and he gives me like 12inches of space between us and keeps the other two dogs on the other side of him. This is the only way I have been able to manage walking all of them. It took me several times to figure this system out… but it is what works for me. If we are walking and they happen to get out of order I have to stop and put them back in order so I can finish the walk with my sanity.

Ok, so back to the dog park… which is what I was writing about before my A.D.D. kicked in. J. Like I stated in my family pictures post… I don’t totally trust Chance not to run away or at least run around playing “I bet you can’t catch me” … so I needed to figure out a way to get all three dogs in the back of my car (FJ Cruiser); without Chance having the opportunity to jump out and run around as soon as I crack the back door to get them out. So, I decided I would put the “smaller” (put still large) of our two kennels/crates in the back of the FJ and strap it in. This way he can’t just jump out the second I crack the door. So I get it loaded and “Strapped in” to the car. I go back inside and get my dog park bag packed. It consists of a back pack full of towels, bathing supplies and a toy or two. Then I leash Chance and get him loaded in the kennel. I go back inside and get the other two and get them loaded in the back of the car. I then proceed to lock up and get myself loaded.

So we are now all loaded and on our way to the dog park. All is well… then I make my first turn and the “strapped in” kennel begins to slide around the back of the car… CRAP! Then it dawns on me that it probably wasn’t the brightest idea to “strap” the kennel in with bungie cords; because now the kennel is bungeeing (not a real word I know) all over the back of the car. So now Chance starts to whine, Aggie try’s to crawl in the front seat and Drake is cowering in the back. There went my great plan. So I stick my hand in the crack of the kennel and pull it towards me and try to straighten it. So every turn I come to from here to the dog park I held the kennel and repositioned it during and after each turn.

I finally make it to the dog park without Aggie in the front seat or Drake cowering in the corner… but Chance is still whining. I jump out of the car to meet my friend and we try to figure out real quick how we are going to do this. We decide we are just going to do it… between the two of us we got all four dogs into the dog park! I let Drake off the leash and he immediately runs away from me and starts exploring and heads straight for the “pond”. I let Aggie of the leash and she runs a quick circle and comes right back to me. I however do not let Chance off the leash. This is his first time at the dog park and I want to know how he will behave before he earns his “freedom” at the dog park.

So I begin to walk Chance around on the retractable leash. I keep the leash very short at first. We walk around the track and he begins to meet the other dogs. He is pretty excited to see the other dogs and for some of the dogs he lays down in front of them. While I am walking Chance around the park Aggie stays close… she may run off for like 30 seconds but she always comes right back. She is a brat at home but a scaredey cat and mommas girl at the dog park.

So while I am walking Chance around I begin to look for Drake. I am pretty positive is is at the pond because that is where he lives while at the dog park. I see my friend at the lake but not Drake. All of a sudden I see this gray dog. I shout to my friend... “Is that Drake?” to which she replies “yes”. Oh boy! So Chance, Aggie and I walk over to the lake and all I see is mud. They drained the lake!! Really? So all this time that Drake has been playing in “the lake” he has really been playing in the mud… and is now totally covered. So I begin to try and get him come out of there and stop playing in the mud. But instead of coming out… he dunks his head in the mud trying to get the ball (just like he would in the water) and comes out with a mud covered head… and then he lays in it. This is where I give up and am just thankful that I brought shampoo and towels.

A close up of his face!

 

Drake the Statue! If you look in the background you can see the drained lake. A.K.A. mud pit!

 

So you think what could be worse than a dog covered in mud? A dog covered in stinky mud. I bathed him at the dog park and he still smelled when I get home so he got a second bath and sprayed with doggie perfume. This helped but it did not eliminate all the stink.

I would say overall the dog park was a good experience… but I do not plan to take all three of them without Byron again!! J

Do any of you have funny dog stories?

Does your dog lose its “listening ears” at the dog park?

The Cookie Party Adventures!

Cookie I decorated for Byron!

Saturday, I decided to have a cookie party! Byron has been out of town for two weeks now. I do pretty well at not being lonely during the week… but the weekends are another story! I did not want to be alone this weekend and there was nothing already planned… so I decided to make a plan. I invited some of my girlfriends over to have a “cookie party”.

The plan was to make roll out sugar cookies from scratch, drink hot chocolate/apple cider and then watch a Christmas movie(s).  But of course that is not exactly how things went. The party was scheduled to start at 3. The first person got there at 3:10 the last person got there at 4:15. When the first person got there I had just started making snacks (chips, queso, guacamole and salsa), she helped me to finish them as the next two people arrived. We decided to wait on the last person to get there before we started making the cookies.

Typically when I know I have people coming over I will put the dogs outside and let everyone get inside… and then I will let the dogs in one at a time. I do this for a couple reasons. 1.) The dogs calm down quicker when they meet everyone at once. 2.) I can introduce them one at a time so there is “less” competition for attention and it is a “little” less overwhelming for the guest. 3.) Also, it keeps the dogs from trying to get out.

Well after the first 3 friends got there I went ahead and let the dogs in (they were whining because they wanted to say hi). So they said their hellos and then went to lie down. Well most of them… Aggie the Great Dane went to the kitchen to see what trouble she could get in. We are sitting around talking and waiting on the last person to arrive when she calls me and is unable to find my house. So I decide to go outside and wave her down. I successfully flagged her down and we are getting ready to walk inside the house. Right before we walk in I warn her about my dogs (she had never been over before and I wanted her to know they are big and will be excited to see her). I open the door for us to walk in and she just stands there (I think she is overwhelmed). I tell her we need to hurry up and get in before the dogs get out… too late! Chance and Drake are out and now sprinting down the street! CRAP!! So I run inside real quick and ask the friend parked behind me to move her car so I can get out (I have learned that the best way to get the dogs is to pull my car close to them, open the door and let them hop in). She backs her car out of the driveway and tells me to get in... and that she will drive… I hesitate for a second but then I get in.

We drive down the street and see Chance first. So,we stop and open the door for him to get in. I notice he is a little wet, so he think that he must have got in the lake a little. We open the door to let him in and he just runs around the car. While we are trying to get Chance loaded… Drake runs up soaked and dirty. He had obviously been swimming in the lake. I looked at my friend and tell her that he is soaking wet. She tells me it will be ok… that we can go ahead and load my wet dogs into her new corolla! Good friend! Bad Dogs!! We finally get them loaded and drive them back to my house.

I open the door to let them out to go back to the house (neither one of them had a collar on… they were in the wash and I had not grabbed a leash when I left). I am trying to walk them to the door and when we are almost there they dart and run down the opposite side of the street. Grrrrr!!! Now they are really bad dogs!! This time I go on foot to get them since they aren’t too far (and I don’t want my bad, dirty dogs to get in my friends new car again). I ask my other friends if they will grab the collars and leashes. They do and begin to hurry down the road to catch up with us.  Now the posse is out to bring in the runaways. Drake has once again gone straight to the lake and Chance is just running around sniffing everything. We finally get Chance to come close enough to leash him and Drake runs back and we are able to get him leashed as well, whoosh! So we walk my sopping wet dogs back to the house where they get to spend the next 2 hours in my back yard to dry out! Bad dogs!!!

So my one friend kept apologizing for letting them out. I told her it was ok. No one was hurt and none of the dogs were hit by a car… so all was well that ended well! Once we got my bad puppies back in the house we could finally begin our “cookie party”.

We had two different recipes to try. One of the recipes was the Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix. The other recipe we tried to make from scratch: BrownedButter & Nutmeg-Spiced Sugar Cookies . We split up in two teams… each team to tackle one recipe. The Betty Crocker team got there dough made first and began to cut out the cookies... but the dough kept sticking… so they decided to put it in the fridge for a little bit. Team 2 (the team I was on) got the dough made and then realized we were supposed to refrigerate it for an hour (oops… I guess I forgot to read that far along in the recipe). So while the cookies are in the fridge we decide we are going to try to make cake balls and Oreo balls. One of the girls brought over all the stuff for the recipe… but not a recipe… so we decided to wing it! J

First we made the cake for the cake balls. The cake was in the oven for like 5 minutes when it was remembered that the oil was never put in the cake mix... whoops again. So, we took the cake out... added the oil and put it back in. While the cake cooked we begin crushing the Oreos for the Oreo balls. We got that done no problem. We add the cream cheese, formed the Oreo’s into balls and put in the fridge/freezer (I don’t remember which one… obviously I didn’t do this step of the process). When the cake was done we took it out of the oven. It didn’t look pretty… it actually looked a little deformed; but it tasted good (which was much more important for cake balls). So we crumbled the cake, and then I decided to put the icing in the microwave to “soften” it. Well, I put it in a little too long and “melted” it. Then we “poured” the whole thing into the crumbled cake and mix. I don’t believe it was quite the texture it was meant to be; but it was still able to be formed into balls and put in the fridge/freezer.

While the “dessert balls” are in the fridge/freezer we begin to cut out the Betty Crocker sugar cookies. They cut out much better now! So we put thefirst batch in… first batch out… Perfect!!  Then second batch in… Pizza arrives… forget cookies….remember cookies… burnt cookies out! Opps! L Next we roll out the Browned Butter & Nutmeg-Spiced Sugar Cookies. They roll out nicely… cookies get put in the oven… girls get distracted/forgot to set timer…cookies come out… cookies are burned. Second batch in oven… out of oven… not bad but not really good either.

Once the good/ bad cookies are out of the oven and cooling we continue on the “dessert balls”. The chocolate gets melted for us to dip the dessert balls in. The first set of melted Chocolate was perfect… the second set… not so much. The chocolate was put back in the microwave to melt again and it did not really cooperate. Somebody read that we are could add shortening to help with the consistency. Since I had some on hand we added it to the chocolate. It helped but was not perfect.

It is now probably like 9 – 9:30ish and we were finally ready to make the Royal icing and put it in the piping bags to decorate our cookies. While the bags were being filled I went to put on our Movie winner…Elf! With the movie playing we finally sat down at the able to begin decorating cookies. For the most part I would say this part was a success.

With all the blunders, mess up’s and excitement… we all had a great time and would like to make it a yearly tradition to keep on even when we have kids!!

I have a couple of questions today!

·         When your pet gets out how do you get them back in?

 

·         What is your favorite sugar cookie recipe?

·         Any secrets to keeping chocolate melted?

·         Any traditions you have started with your friends/ family?

Our Family Photos

So two weeks ago we finally got together for our first family picture. Byron and I have not really had any pictures made since our engagement/ wedding photos (almost 3 years now). So we decided it was about time for us to officially have a “family” picture and our fur babies had to be included. This is/was quite a task. We have four fur babies; and they are not all little dogs! We have Aggie (our Great Dane), Drake (our yellow lab), Chance (our Dane/lab mix) and last but not least... little Lola (our Chihuahua).

Aggie: She was a little nervous :(

Drake: He could be a dog model



Chance: He is our foster/rescue and love bug! :)



Lola: sweet little girl!

There was a little debate in my house about whether or not to include the puppies (yes I still call them puppies). I wanted to… Byron did not. He loves our dogs… but he didn’t want to have to hassle with them at a park trying to get them to sit for pictures; which totally makes sense. I on the other hand really wanted them in the picture. I didn’t think our “family” picture would be complete without them. They ARE our family right now in this stage of our life. We don’t have any kids yet… so I REALLY wanted them to be in the pic. Reluctantly Byron agreed.

We both ended up being right… it was crazy… but so worth it! It was crazy getting all the dogs loaded to go. I took Aggie, Drake and Lola in my car (with Lola in my lap of course). Byron took Chance in a kennel in his truck. This was Chance’s first “outing”. Chance was a rescue/foster and had heart worms when we got him. He was on a year of treatment and was recently diagnosed heart worm free. So this was his first time out of the house besides going to the vet or to board. We didn’t trust him in the back of my car with the other dogs. Chance is a runner… I was scared I would open the back door to let them out and he would jump out and run. So he got kenneled separately.

So once we get the location for our photos we get unloaded and we each walk two excited dogs while carrying our props (scarves/buckets etc.) to our first photo destination. Once we reach our first spot we try to get situated and I accidently dropped Chance leash and he takes off. Luckily he didn’t get but like 10-20 feet away. So I slowly walked over there and got his leash and he was back with the pack and we were able to continue taking pictures.

Chance’s leash got dropped again like 20 minutes later. This time he only got like 10-15 feet away. So once again I walked over slowly to grab him and the leash and right before I get to him I quickened my pace just a little…but just enough to make him run! Dangit! So now he is full on running away from me and I have to run to keep him in sight… he pauses for a second and I try to approach slowly… then he sees me and runs again. He stops again about 100 yards from me and about 75 yards from the road. He is scaring me… if he keeps running he could run in to the road and get hit by a car… he has no idea there is a road ahead with cars that could hurt him. I keep calling his name from where I am standing (I am scared to walk towards him because he might run again and is too close to the road for my comfort). Finally he looks at me… and then I do the little “come and get me move” and I turn and run away from him. Success!! He follows me! He is now chasing me… and passes me and runs straight to the photographer and she grabs his leash. Disaster averted!! Whoosh! Thank you Lord!

At the end of the day... it was all worth it! we got great "family" pictures and we are both very glad that we did it!! :) Below are my top 3 favorites! :)

 

 

Do you include your pets in your family photos?

My 29th Birthday Party!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not feel like I am a year away from 30 and it doesn’t “really” scare me either. Honestly, I think the only thing that really scares me about turning 30 is the expectations I have made for myself by my 30^th birthday. Although my “Birthday” was Sunday the 25th, we did my birthday “party” a week early. As a holiday baby it is nearly impossible to do a party on or really close to my actual birthday and expect people to actually be able to attend! J

My husband did a good job at planning my birthday. Originally I think he planned it as a surprise, but I kept pestering him about it (I didn’t want him to forget :/) that he finally just told me what he had planned. J

He invited our friends to go out to dinner with us and then come back to our house for games and cake. He was so nice to get everyone together. I love Birthday Parties and celebrations. I love anything that will get family or friends or both together. I love to have birthday parties too. I don’t typically like all the attention and I get a little embarrassed when people sing to me but I love having everyone together and getting to entertain.

Byron and I with my cake and Balloon

They thought it would be funny to wrap me in my balloon.

Byron thought it would be funny to wrap it up to my neck... I did not!

 

So what are the expectations I have made for myself before turning 30? Are you ready for this??? J I would like Byron and I to have our first child before my 30^th Birthday. There… I said it out loud… EEK!!! That is my wish and my hope/ plan. But, I know God always has his own plan. Originally I wanted to be married by 22 first child by 25… I didn’t even meet Byron till I was 25. My dad always tells me that “man makes plans and God laughs”. I think God gets plenty of laughs from me then because I am such a planner.

 

Proverbs 16

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

The Lord Has the Final Word

16 We humans make plans, but the Lord has the final word. ² We may think we know what is right, but the Lord is the judge of our motives. ³ Share your plans with the Lord, and you will succeed. ⁴ The Lord has a reason for everything he does…⁹ We make our own plans, but the Lord decides where we will go.

 

So I am at the point now where I give it all to God. I try my best not to worry or be anxious.

Philippians 4: 6-9

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

⁶ Don’t worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. ⁷ Then, because you belong to Christ Jesus, God will bless you with peace that no one can completely understand. And this peace will control the way you think and feel. ⁸ Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don’t ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise. ⁹ You know the teachings I gave you, and you know what you heard me say and saw me do. So follow my example. And God, who gives peace, will be with you.

 

I know that everything happens in his timing. Whenever I get worried or anxious about having a baby I remind myself about my “waiting” for a husband. There were many times I thought I might never get married. I hit 25 and I didn’t even have a boyfriend. But I had always been told that God might still be preparing 1 or both of us for the marriage. In hind sight I understand. I had to grow and mature more to be able to be married to my husband… I had to learn to not be so stubborn and that I didn’t need to win every argument; and I think God was doing the same for Byron (we are both pretty stubborn and strong willed).

So once again I find myself “waiting”… waiting on God and the plan he has for me/us. For when we will have children… if we will be able to have our own; or if God will want us to adopt.

Whatever it is… I am waiting on God… I know what he has planned for me is far better than anything I could hope or plan for myself.

 

Psalm 130:5-6

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

⁵ With all my heart, I am waiting, Lord, for you! I trust your promises. ⁶ I wait for you more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn. Yes, I wait more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn.

 

Is there something you are waiting on? Or expectations you have set for yourself?

Long time no Post :(

Hola!

So once again I am way behind on here (so is the story of my life…J). This past two and a half weeks have been very busy for us and got even busier the closer we got to Thanksgiving and since. Honestly I am not even sure if I can remember everything that has happened in that time period to even catch up on. But I will try… one post at a time.

Two Sundays ago was my Birthday (Sunday, November 25, 2012). My 29^th Birthday to be exact; my last Birthday in the 20’s, Eek!! My Husband has been in South Korea on Business for a week and a half and still has a week and a half to go.. We have had our family pictures (including the fur babies)… that was an adventure and so much more. I will try to begin catching up on all of these over the next week or so. I am also way behind on my Thankful post so I will catch those up too.

P.S. My internet has been down at home and my lunch breaks have been very busy that I have barely been able to get anything written. Hopefully I can remedy that but no promises! I will do my best to try and stay updated! J

 

 

I hope you all have fabulous day!!

P.I.T - Parent's-In-Training!

 So I was going to try to include this in my Monday post…but I feel like so much has happened this past week/ weekend that it would need its own post (and it has taken me this long to write it).

So as I stated in an earlier post Byron and I got to be parents in training for 4 ½ days this past week. Why do I say this? Well starting Wednesday afternoon I picked up a 4 ½ almost five year old little girl (Kindergarten) and a 7 year old little boy (2^nd grader) and brought them to our house until Sunday afternoon; and we were able experience what it is like to be working parents of two school age kids. I was reminded several times that even though Byron and I felt like we were parents in training, we still had it pretty easy since we were out of the diaper stage and I need you to do everything for me stage. But regardless this week was definitely training for us and a good experience.

I had to prepare myself for this experience though. I have been very bad at cooking dinner lately (as in… I don’t do it or we heat up one of those bag pasta dinners on the stove).  I knew I didn’t want to be that kind of mom-in-training so Tuesday on my lunch break… I actually did meal planning. I figured out what we would be eating for breakfast and dinner and lunches for everyday while I had the kids. Then when I got off work I went to the grocery store to buy the groceries. This is a big deal because I was tired and had it been groceries for Byron and I only… I would have rescheduled the grocery store trip for a more rested day (which never seems to appear and is probably why I don’t meal plan/cook and we eat bag dinners all the time). But since I had two more mouths to feed I sucked it up and went to the grocery store! J

My lifesaver this past week for dinner was my new Crockpot. My dinner meal plans included two crockpot meals. I knew I would be getting home late so I wanted dinner to be ready when I got home. With my new crockpot I set the desired cook time and then when that time was up the crockpot automatically shifted to warm and stayed on warm until I turned it off. When it switches to warm the timer then starts counting how long it has been on warm. This makes crockpot cooking a lot easier with a lot higher chance that dinner won’t be burned when I get home!!

So for dinner the first night I tried CrockPot Chicken and Biscuits . Let’s just say mine… did not look like the picture! J I varied the recipe only slightly by using a frozen mixed vegetables meant for veggie soup, but it still turned out more like chicken and dumplings. The biscuits just didn’t really cook, maybe too much condensation, not sure. Well, on second thought I think I added way too much broth too! Oops! Oh well, Byron and the kids liked it a lot. Byron Loved it actually… so I will still consider it a hit/ success! J

 

This picture is not of my dinner…but of how it is supposed to look when done right! J

 

Dinner for night number two was Slow Cooker Ravioli . So, with this one I followed the directions for the most part. My only variance was one bag cheese ravioli and one bag beef. But, with this one I learned I would need to double if not triple the sauce I use the next time I make it (and there will be a next time). We had to add more sauce because it was a little dry, but still very tasty.

So not only did I have to make sure the kids had dinner at night… I also had to make sure they had breakfast in the morning; and cereal and pop tarts were not going to cut it for this mom-in-training. So, for our first morning I made bacon, sausage, egg and cheese English muffins with a side of fruit and Apple juice. On morning two I made scrambled eggs and cheese with bacon and mixed berry muffins with fruit and apple juice. Morning three which ended up being Saturday I made Pumpkin French Toast Bake. Actually, I made it at like midnight Friday night after we got home from our softball games... but that was only after I made the Home Made Pumpkin Butter to go in the French Toast casserole.
So as I begin making the pumpkin butter I am expecting the kids to be in bed because after all it is midnight but no; after their baths they hit a second wind and sat at the bar in the kitchen and “helped” me cook.  As I continue making the pumpkin butter I realized I forgot to but in the apple juice. I was like “oops I hope this turns out good, I have never made it before.” The little boy looks at me and says “don’t you think you should make us something you have made before?” Ha-ha! I said “well, we all have a first time for everything, but I am pretty sure it will be good…if not… I have a backup breakfast.” J So they helped me make the French toast and we practiced math as we did our measurements. Fun! Then we went to bed.

 

This night at bed time was a little different. Usually they have their own room that they sleep in when they stay with us. But tonight they told me they wanted to sleep with us. I was not thinking this was a good idea for many reasons. One, they are not family so I don’t want it to look bad them actually sleeping with us; two, we only have a queen bed; three, my husband is 6’7”; and 4, my yellow lab likes to sleep in the bed with us. I was just not seeing how this would work. Then they told me that they could sleep on the “small” mattress. I said “the twin mattress on the floor in the bedroom?” and they said “yes”! “The one the dogs sleep on?” I asked. “Yes!!” “Well, you know if you sleep on that mattress the dogs, are probably going to want to sleep with you.” I said, and to that I got two big grins and two very enthusiastic head nods yes. That was the whole idea. They wanted a slumber party with us and the dogs! J (To all who maybe concerned… the mattress is a twin mattress that we put on the floor and yes we let the dogs sleep on it... but the sheets on it are washed and changed regularly and we get the mattress cleaned regularly like we do our carpets.)

 

As much as I enjoyed winning our two softball games Friday night… I thoroughly enjoyed our Saturday.
Saturday morning we were all out of bed at 6:30am, (even though we went to bed after midnight) thank you daylight savings... and Drake (my yellow lab). As soon as anyone starts to move in the morning Drake is in their face waiting to play, potty and eat. The kids were no exception to that; so as soon as they stirred and Drake said hi... there was no more sleeping in. J So I went ahead and got up and but the casserole in the oven to start the day. After breakfast we got ready to go spend the morning/afternoon at the Zoo. It was a beautiful day for the zoo and obviously everyone else felt the same way because it was packed. Many of you may already know this…but going to the zoo with kids is so much more fun than going with adults. I think Byron and I had has much fun with the kids if not more fun than the kids!! Every exhibit we went to we would check the sign to see what was supposed to be in the exhibit. Then we would play “I spy” and try and find them all and read the interesting facts. I have been to the zoo before… and it was fun…but I had such a good time with the kids.

 

The kids with Chance

 

The kids got to crawl through the fish tank

All in all we had a great weekend! We won our first two softball games and we survived being Parents-in-training and honestly loved every minute of it! We are now just waiting on the Lord for our own blessing of Children so we can be parents-in-training for the rest of our lives. J

God Bless.

Here are a couple of verses I am holding on to while I wait.

Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (NIV)

 Psalm 40:1
I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. (NIV)

 Psalm 37:3-5

New Life Version (NLV)

³ Trust in the Lord, and do good. So you will live in the land and will be fed. ⁴ Be happy in the Lord. And He will give you the desires of your heart. ⁵ Give your way over to the Lord. Trust in Him also. And He will do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

He's got the whole world in HIS hands

Day 14: Today I am thankful that he really “has the whole world in his hands”. It doesn’t matter what is going on in this world, this country or in our lives because God has has it all. He has you, he has me, he has the homeless guy down the street and that movie star in the mansion. We are his.

 

Matthew 6:25-34 (New Living Translation)

25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?

31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God[a] above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.

 

He´s got the whole world in His hands,
He´s got the whole world in His hands,
He´s got the whole world in His hands.
He's got the earth and sky in his hands;
He's got the night and day in his hands;
He's got the sun and moon in his hands;
He´s got the whole world in His hands.

He´s got the whole world in His hands,
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He´s got the whole world in His hands.
He's got the land and sea in his hands;
He's got the wind and rain in his hands;
He's got the spring and fall in his hands;
He´s got the whole world in His hands.

He´s got the whole world in His hands,
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He´s got the whole world in His hands.
He's got the young and old in his hands;
He's got the rich and poor in his hands;
Yes, he's got ev'ry one in his hands;
He´s got the whole world in His hands.