7 x 7 PRAYERS

One of my favorite blogs, Bring the Rain is doing the coolest thing! I have to share it! And you should add her to your list of blogs to follow! Angie is Amazing and her story is so precious. Any how she wants to devote her life to more prayer time and be that example to her daughters. So she found 7 verses that go with a specific time and is praying them over her children 7 times a day. Its beautiful! Check it out here......http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/

I wrote my prayers on notecards and hope to start this soon! :)

Please Pray

I wanted to share that our former church body has recently loss their youth pastor. He was helping a young teen and being the servant that he was. My heart is aching for his young wife and her 18 month old son. She recently learned that she is expecting...only 11 weeks. Tara is being such a ROCK and she is an amazing Christian woman. I believe she sees this as another way to share the good new of our Lord to others. Please pray for the youth at the church too, they are an awesome group of teens! It is so hard to comprehend how God uses people to bring others to him but we do know that it was part of his great plan. Praise the Lord Preston is in the best place ever now! No doubt about that, I'm sure Tara and others find great comfort in knowing that. The funeral is planned for Saturday.................

Parent's Prayer

O Heavenly Father, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them or contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me. Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes, or resort to shame or ridicule them they displease me. May I never punish them for my own selfish satisfaction or to show my power. Let me not tempt my child to lie or steal. And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness. Reduce, I pray, the meanness in me. And when I am out of sorts, help me. O Lord, to hold my tongue. May I ever be mindful that my children are children and I should not expect of them judgements of adults. Let me not rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and to make decisions. Bless me with the bigness to grant them all their reasonable requests and the courage to deny them privileges I know will do them harm. Make me fair and just and kind. And fit me, O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated by my children. AMEN!!!!

I have this hung o the wall in my bedroom.........if I could just read it everyday and act upon it!! O Lord help me to do just that!

SOCCER

Yes, I know I never blog but I still love reading everyone elses! I had to post this new thing I discovered! Smilebox...I lOVE YOU!! So fun, easy, and adorable!! Happy Day!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Our HUGE life moment!

What a special day we had! This afternoon I was upstairs on the computer and Lacee came up and told me she wanted to ask Jesus into her heart! Wow, I thought okay do I take this serious or what. I asked if she understood what it meant and she said, Jesus lives in my heart and takes away all the black stuff and makes it white. So I told her a bit more and said we can pray with daddy when he gets home. She goes okay but I already prayed downstairs. Oh really what did you say, Dear Jesus please come into my heart so I can live with you. Good girl honey but daddy and I can pray with you tonight too. So we did after cubbies this evening. It was so special and she repeated the sinners prayer after her daddy. I know she's young but I am so thrilled she is getting it and it is a great foundation to grow on. So tomorrow we are off to the Christan Book store to get the frillest PINK bible we can find to mark the occasion! Man they grow up quick!!! Just had to share our wonderful news with my blogger friends!

LACEE

Lac & Cousin Aden putting on a Hannah Montana concert x-mas day!
Artist of the month at school! She said she would sell her painting for $50!

This is what she takes pics of?????? :)
My snow angel!!

My Lacee girl.......I just love her little spunky personality! She really is a joy to my heart! I can't believe she is getting so BIG! Stop Growing I tell her! It is fun to watch her grow into her personality. She really is sensitive (like me) and strong (like her daddy) at the same time. She's very outgoing (when she is comfortable), she wants to please others (not so sure this is good all the time), and she loves singing her heart out! We love to hear it too! I am posting a few pictures of her and some random ones I found on the camera she took. She's my budding photographer and singer! Eat your heart out Carrie Underwood and Vanessa Hudgens! LOVE YOU DEARLY LADYBUG!!

Stay home Day..

(Poor Luke didn't make it all in this pic. I love when people add pictures to thier post so I always try to find at least one. This is as good as it gets tonight.)

I am a big time go and do girl. Love being busy all the time (well only when it is my schedule and my choices). This is the first weekend when we didn't go out to eat and we hung out at home all weekend (taco bell & a visit at the neighbors tonight after dinner doesn't count). I organized the laundry room and that's about it. Watched a ton of TV and eat a ton of junk (not good but enjoyed it all). I really wanted to go to Target or something last night but decided to put my jammies on and stay with my hubby. It really was nice and I didn't spend a dime all weekend! I don't think these kinds of weekends come around enough and I'm going to treasure them more! Hope you had a fun weekend too!