Hope's Birthday!!

3 years ago today I gave birth to my second beautiful baby girl! I can't believe she's growing up right before my eyes.....

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I tried to put the slide show directly on here but couldn't get it to work!!

Dancing Queens

I have Hope in a beginner ballet class and mini-tumbling. They are all 2, 3 and 4 year olds. They are so cute! They have a recital they do in June. It will be too cute!!
Faith is in a hip hop class. She's having so much fun. She can't wait for the stage!

The Battle

I'm going to help Dana with a small group study with our youth girls. We will be reading Every Young Woman's Battle. It is about young girls today in a sex saturated world. I am so excited to be able to share my experiences with these young ladies and help them understand the way we talk, dress and interact with the other sex and how they should behave. I would love for my daughters to be able to do this when they are teens. It's pretty detailed but I think young ladies need to know what is out there and how to handle the situations when they come up rather then being sheltered from them and shell shocked when they occur. These girls know more than you think they do!! I pray that God gives me the words to encourage these young women and share my experiences in a positive way that will help them grow into wonderful women of God.

Hands of Praise

Hands of Praise is back in action! We took the summer off and I needed the break. I LOVE doing hands of praise and I can worship Him so much with it but my heart was not in it near the end of May and I was letting worldly burdens get in the way of my worship and it was affecting my hands of praise and the break gave me time to rebuild myself and I'm so thankful for that. HOP is a huge part of my life. Thank you so much Cathy for bringing this awesome ministry to Living Hope and letting me be a part of it. I've grown so much as a person and I've grown closer to God and to the wonderful ladies who are a part of HOP too!!!

What happens when you put these three things together??????? Our annual Youth Mud Bowl!!
I'll have pictures to post later. We had our Mud Bowl retreat this weekend. It was fun as usual. This year Cathy and I actually got in the mud with them. That was pretty nasty. We had about 21 youth and pretty good weather. We met up there Friday and had our service up there with our awesome praise band for worship and Matt for our lesson. Then pizza and staying up most of the night. Saturday morning breakfast (thanks Susan!!) another lesson then play time in the pool and volleyball, a water balloon game, lunch and then the Mud Bowl Game. I don't understand anything about foot ball so I was clueless about what was going on in the game but the kids have fun. We had a lot of fun and great help with everyone who came up to participate and support the youth. Can't wait until next year!!!

Busy, Busy

We've been busy, busy. I'm working every day now but I really like it. I do check in for the neurosurgeon 8-12:30 and then type in the afternoons. Some days I work until 4:30, some days 2, some days none just depends. I signed Hope up for a beginner ballet class on Mondays. We start next week. Tuesday nights I have the Abba Clinic. Mom's CLUB is going great!!! Wednesday's we have Hands of Praise practice and then church. Thursdays Faith is in a beginner hip hop class, which Jamie has to take her to because I started a precept bible study on Abraham with a friend from church in Newburgh on Thursday nights. This weekend we have Mud Bowl. Next weekend is Hope's birthday party....my baby will be 3! The following my nephew Ty has a birthday. The following is Ladies Retreat (woooo hooo!!) Then there's something every weekend in October too. Life is good!!

My Brain is.........

Alright. Saw this on Tina's page and had to try it!



Your Brain is 73% Female, 27% Male

Your brain leans female
You think with your heart, not your head
Sweet and considerate, you are a giver
But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!


I couldn't get the cute picture with the brain to show up though!