Sights of San Antonio

My oldest was nominated to play in the Texas All Star Game @ The Alamo dome for the South team
Dustin and Little Brother Lane

MY #1 Center

there were over 13,300 coaches there for the convention this past week

BEAUTIFUL

observation deck of the Tower of America in San Antonio

Lane missing a couple of teeth, Myself and my honey

Chris and Lauren

We don't have these in Kirbyville..... LOL

My family minus one

lane digging for um i am not too sure, maybe silver or gold

Whew that is one hefty man there.

picture I had to take in the elevator that made me leave the kids on the 2nd floor. I could hear Lane hollering "Mom wait. Where are you going?"

I couldn't stop laughing... almost peed my self actually and when i went back up he was standing right there wait..... poor kid

Wes and Lane

Petting zoo

A little too close to the car..... eeekkk

Lane wanted to know how this big thing only walked on 2 front legs.... lol got to love kids

Shamu...... note to self never go to sea world during the summer, watch Shamu performance 1st, and sit in the splash zone. You will smell like fried whale poop by the heat of the day....

Have ya ever?

Have you ever just felt this way......

Praying for my marriage and trying so hard not to listen to the lies of the Devil.

Throw out the Trash

July of 2007 a group of 30 women from our church went to the Going Beyond Conference in Houston to see Priscilla Shirer. Oh My Goodness, what an event. It was awesome. There were ladies there from all over with different faiths, nationality, and circumstances. We all joined together to worship and hear from the Lord. He showed up alright, right there among us all. It was beautiful. The worship team and leader did a great job. We all worshipped the Lord, together as one!
The Lord spoke to me about impure things in my home. Oh not only did he speak to me about it, he just about slapped me in the face with it. I am a mother of 4 children, and married. I have battled with the comfort of intimacy with my husband and here I was letting these impure things in my home which was only there to destroy. My husband and I have participated in somethings in the past that were impure, unnatural, and full of sin. I had been so convicted of it that "That day I left it at the cross" and I was cleansed of the sexual sin we had been partaking in. I had my mind made up and was obeying the Lord to come home and clean house! On the way home ole Satan started doing a number on my mind of how mad I was going to make my spouse and my son. Now my son only had posters and pictures of "girls in bathing suits" up but it was inappropriate for him and in our home where we wanted the Lord to reign. So I stayed in prayer all the way home. The week prior to my weekend get away my teenagers had been at Teen Church Camp. When I got home and we all started discussing what the Lord had done at church camp and my conference, I got the confirmation. The Lord had also be convicting Dustin at Church camp about those same posters and pictures all over his walls. So together we tore them down and put them in a trash bag. Then I also threw out magazines and movies that my spouse and I had. I can't tell you what that has done for me. It felt great to throw out the "trash" from my bed room.
Here are some pictures from that weekend. We also got to hear from briefly, Beth Moore (sorry no picture of her, she was in and out like a flash) and Lisa Whelchel (Blair, from Facts of Life).

Go See FireProof......

If you did not go this weekend to see this movie then shame on you....... But wait there is still time for you to catch it. If you loved Flywheel or Facing the Giants by Sherwood Films this one will blow you away. Married or not you have got to see this movie. It is their best yet.

I loved it. God spoke to me about this movie a while back and I was not going to let the devil detour us (me and DH of course) from seeing it.

I don't want to give any details about it away. It is heartwarming and funny, and bring your tissues....... I learned alot about love this weekend....... Please , Please go see this movie and if you just cant You should buy it when it comes on video.

I am buying it, and adding to the collection of Sherwood Films.
God is at work with this church and he is using them to reach millions. Praise Him, He is so good.

The theme of the movie is "Never Leave Your Partner Behind". Marriage is the most important Human relationship there is. Over Parents, Children, Siblings, Friendship and Work. I have a hard time putting it first in my life, always have. And we both suffer because of it.

There has been so many times that I just wanted to give up and call it quits. The part of this movie that really hit me like a ton of bricks was when "Cole" and his dad were talking and he was describing all the things and actions he had taking in the last few weeks to demonstrate his love to his wife and she had totally rejected him...... Spat in his face. And this whole time his dad was walking around him and ended up standing under the Cross. Then his dad basically told him isn't that what you have been doing to God...... He pursues us, Loves us, Blesses us and we spat in his face and reject him. But he never gives up on us. Look at all the chances he gives us.

Even after becoming a Christian, We still turn our back on him, dishonor him by our actions. We don't Thank Him, Praise Him, and Worship Him as we should.

digging up something old

Our Women's Bible Study class is studying "Living Beyond Yourself" right now. It is an amazing study by Beth Moore. It is a study that encourages women to know the freedom of a fruitful, Spirit-filled life. We just finished the lesson on peace. Well not me actually since I am a week behind, but that is the video session we watched yesterday. If I am not mistaken I think I was the only one in the whole room..... I think she wrote that whole video segment for just me.
Have you ever experienced that before? The Lord spoke through her just to me, or atleast that is what it felt like.

It was moving. I left there so flustered, chest pounding, sick to my stomach. I just could not shake it. I have no idea why I felt that way.

Let me back up a few days, I had a doctors appt last week and on my way I called a friend at church to check on somethings she was going through. Before we got off the phone I had shared some really dark secrets, sinful areas of my live that I know no one else at my church knows about. Now this is an area in my life that I am completely ashamed of, but also the season of my life that the Lord pulled me back to Church and to him. I have had my eyes set on him ever since. It is not something that I am at all comfortable to share here because too many of you "I know" personally. Anyway she really made me feel better after sharing this with her.

Now back to Sunday, I left church and went to p/u Lauren from a friends house. On our way home I had to pass the church back up again...... I was scoping the parking area to see if her vehicle was still there. Yes it was. I pulled in and took off to find her. When I got in the fellowship hall I waited for her, as her stuff was still sitting there from early. And praise God here she came. Like I said before I don't know why I felt the way I did, but I knew that I had to get to her to talk with and pray with her.
You see there is alot left unsaid with my husband about that dark sinful area in our live. It is something that I put a cap on just as soon as the Lord told me to get out of it. But we have never really talked about it and I don't feel peace in my heart about that. I know that we need to discuss things but that would also mean for me to dig it up. I have just shoved it away, and not dealt with it. I think that the Lord wants us to talk about it, pray about it, and heal together over it.

This is a little sketchy, I know, but some suggestions or prayers would be nice. I am very clear that this needs to happen but the question is when and how.

Marriage Testimony

"Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." Acts 2:17b

November 11, 1996
Today I saw a vision from God. I went to use the restroom and as I was in there I was suddenly an onlooker at a wedding. I was against the wall in the middle all the way to the right of South Park Baptist Church. It was beautifully decorated, the church was full of people. The Groom was at the alter and the Bride was at the rear of the church; waiting to walk the aisle to her Groom. It was Chris and I. I was in a beautiful wedding gown. I was only there for less than a minute, but that is all it took for my question to be answered. Chris and I were to be husband and wife. I cried at what I had just experienced and praised God for sharing it with me.......
Chris was to come over that evening and I couldn't wait for him to get there. I wasn't sure how I was going to share with him what had happened. While we were sitting at the table eating dinner he told me that we were getting married. And I replied with "Yes, I know that we are getting married." "No, I mean I know that we are going to be married" he says. To his surprise I came back with the same comment...... So he asked me how do you know? That is when I told him what I had experienced and he just sat there in total amazement. Not because he didn't believe me or anything, but within the same hour the Lord had shared with him the same thing.... Just in a different way. He shared with me that while in the shower that evening he all the sudden was looking over the shoulder of a person reading the newspaper. Chris was able to read our wedding announcement.
It was something that neither of us had experienced before and we had been praying for God to show us what our future would hold for us as a couple. He answered that question for us that day.
We have not had an "easy" marriage. I know that God put us together and we have something to hold on to when we get weak in our marriage. I truly believe that we sometimes have to work harder to stand in our promise to each other and to God because of what he showed us 2 years before we were married.

This summer we celebrated our 10 year anniversary and I pray for many more blessed years with him.

Winner Winner Winner.......

Well I did it again..... I won another giveaway. I tell you the Lord has been really good to me. This time it is from Brandi Wilson over at Brandi & Boys. She had a giveaway of 3 different books last week and this is the one that I won.......

Not to go into deals or anything But I SO need this book...... And I am finding out that I am not the only gal out there that needs this book. My plans are to read it, study it and memorize it....... well ok I am going to read this book and then I am passing it around to all that would like to get there hands on it...... Share the Love so to speak.
After I do read it I will let you in on some of the secrets I learned.......
But if you are interested in getting your self a copy it is only $10 and you can go here to order one.
Thanks Brandi.......

Fireproof Trailer

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