On a more personal note......

I haven't shared our life happenings in a while it seems.......

We haven't stopped this summer!! After our VBS we had a pool break and then picked back up this week with another VBS for KE. She loves it. KE has made a couple of accomplishments in the past couple of weeks! She has self-taught herself to ride her bike and play twinkle twinkle little star on the piano. I'm looking into lessons as we speak.

W has been 3 nights and going on 4 days with no papi!!! I simply told him that it was time for me to send it to another baby and since he was a big boy, he didn't need it anymore. He cried the first night and naptime but is doing great! He said " I don't want to be a big boy, I want to be a baby!" He is a sweetheart in every sense of the word. I truly believe that children are THE most precious gift ( besides salvation) we are given. And just like salvation, some poeple accept thier gifts and some don't. My house would be full of neglected children if my husband would let me.

My ladies small group just finished Beth Moore's Breaking Free (Making Liberty In Christ a Reality in Life)
I was not raised in church except for going with Granny when I visited her ( oh she made me wear those awful pink sponge rollers to bed and I looked like a freak going out in public the next day). Oh and thank goodness ( ironically) my mom sent me to Catholic school.
I accepted Christ as my personal savior at age 2o. Now let me just say, it was not an overnight transformation... actually it was pretty scary. I wanted to learn and know more of how God wanted me to live but it was so different from what I knew at the time that it was overwhelming. ( I mean, I wasn't that bad) So overwhelming that I rebelled.

After starting to settle back down in life and finally start to feel comfortable being with me... I met Torrey. The saying that "if you aren't looking.." is true... at least for me. We didn't click until the 3rd date and we just knew soon after that we would be together forever. It wasn't until I became pregnant with KE that we both agreed we needed to be in the same church (He was Catholic. I was not.) So that is what we did.

A few years later, I started going to small group Bible study. I had no idea what a blessing this could be! I have met some amazing women and a few lifelong Christian friends. See, when I started following Christ, I lost some friends ( and family). That was devastating to me at the time but I knew God had bigger plans. He "let" me keep some of the old friends to grow with and introduced me to new ones. Even parental figures.

After I became a Christian, I started to learn about Christian music artists ( well, I knew about some and couldn't stand the music), speakers and authors. Beth Moore was one of them. My impression of her was that she was really deep and way above my head.. anyway.. I was intimdated by all that serious Bible studying stuff.

Finally!! In the past 12 weeks I have completed my first Beth Moore study!! This may not excite you but let me tell you.... if you ever have the opportunity to do one of these... DO
She keeps your nose to the scriptures while sharing her life expierences with you. It's humanly unbelievable what most of these great Christan teachers have gone through in their pasts to come to Christ.

... I think I just gave a bit of my testimony.

I haven't mentioned N... oooohhhh.

He is going to be a handful to say the least. He is 18 months and walking everywhere and saying a few words... mama, dada, juice, dog, ok, eat, more, barney, dora, diego and today he picked up a pull-up and said "pull-up" color.. and cancake ( pancake) tank-choo (thank you)
When this little guy doesn't get his way he throws a ear-piercing tantrum. It's LOUD. I told Torrey the neighbors are going to report us if he doesn't stop screaming!! This too shall pass. The screaming... well, hopefully!

We leave for the beach Saturday and I have yet to pack so I better get busy.

I found this survey and thought I would close with some favorite things :

COLOR • greens, blues, browns, creams, reds... too many to pick just one
ANIMAL • sweet puppy dogs
MOVIE • new fav is 27 Dresses
BOOK • the B-i-B-L-E and Feeding Your Appetites by Steven Arterburn is good.
MAGAZINE • Southern Living
BAND/SINGER • if you know me, I can't give you just one (or two) but I like Matt Redman and Crystal Lewis. Then I also like Dave Matthews and U2.. that is so not all of them
TV SHOW • any home improvement show.. Divine Design. Any dance show.
VACATION SPOT • The Beach
ACTOR • Jim Carrey.. I like to laugh
ACTRESS • julia roberts
FOOD • anything fattening
DRINK • Coke
WEBSITE • Blogger these days.
CLOTHING STORE • Libby Story and Co.
TIME OF DAY • nap time
SHAMPOO • Sheer Blonde
SOAP • Dove Cool Moisture
ICE CREAM • Yarnell's Homemade Vanilla and Coffee with fudge brownie from Coldstone
CHILDREN'S BOOK • I love you forever
DAY OF THE YEAR • Christmas
WORD • hhhmmmm
QUOTE • A liar listens to lies ( that is somewhere in Psalms)
FLOWER • white tulip
SNACK FOOD • chocolate
BOARD GAME • Scattegories