Birthday Preparations...

Today Samantha turned 11 months!! That means next month our daughter will have her 1st birthday..and Birthday preparations are already under way!! I don't know if I have a theme because it is her 1st birthday and she really isn't into anything yet. So I just went with A Posh Theme( I guess that is what I would call it)

Here is part of the "Happy Birthday Banner" I made.

This is her invitation. I am proud to say I made this!! I think it turned our pretty good! I might even start making invitations.

I even made her birthday outfit!! I have felt very Martha Stewart lately!! I am not done with her outfit yet, I still need to embrodery "My 1st Birthday" on it. But you get the idea.

90.1 and IPods

So this afternoon while I was leaving work, I was trying to get the IPod to work in Shane's truck-my car's A/C Heater died yesterday-well it kept going to like 90.7 on the IPod well Shane's radio stopped at 90.1 and then I tried to tune to another station 88.3 and the radio went to 88.1. I kept trying this for another 2-3 times. It wasn't tuning and I was getting very frusterated! These days I am soo impatient, due to all the stress at work I have to deal with.
So one of the times I was trying to tune the IPod, I heard on the radio
                               "God puts you into situations for reasons"
This caught my ears, so I listened more closely to the radio and what the gentleman was saying. I don't know who it was that was talking-radio station was 90.1 .The gentleman was talking about how God puts you through situations that make you grow. and tests you as to how you deal with those situations. He will never put you in a situation where he won't lead you through it.(there is a Bible verse from that statement-anyone know it-my mind is blank?) He was saying God throws you in the fire and he doesn't take you out until your done. How  does he know your done? He pulls you out and if you're singing, he will take you out. If not, then he puts you back in. What this means is that if you'r complaining about being in the fire then he is going to leave you there until you see the good in the fire. Well I prayed last night for God to find me a better job. This one to say the least has been my fire. So I know God answered my prayer through the man in the radio and I must find the good in this job and stop complain how bad it sucks and how I hate it.

WOW!! This hit me hard and was very convicting. So I MUST sing through the rough times and know that God has bigger things for me and that this is just one of the many fires he will throw me in!

The year off to a start

Well they say what you do on January 1st, you will do all year long....

I locked myself out of my house and had to sit in the car. I called everyone I knew to see if they had a key. Then I finally got the courage up to call Shane and tell him I did it AGAIN...afte the last time I locked my self out of the house, he kinda got mad, so I was reluctant to tell him. I was even thinking to break the back window and have it fixed before he got back into town. HA!

He called a friend to come "break" into our house!! THANK you to that friend!! Your awesome, I owe you one! or 30..HA! HA! I hope I didn't ruin their plans and I hope they found a place to eat black-eyed peas!!

What else did I do on the first, I went shopping after I got up and going again. I returned items I "didn't buy" but got charged for anyway. I actually did buy the jeans, just only bought them once. To finish the day up, I hung out at my in-laws house, ate a yummy plate of black-eyed peas and cabbage. I had never had cabbage but it was pretty good. (after I got past the mouth burning hotness of the 3 jalapenos my father-in-law put in it.HA!)

Looking back, I had a blessed holiday! Thank you everyone to made it great! I am still looking forward to what 2010 brings! I am ready for anything!

Hello 2010, Reflecting back on 2009!

Another year had slipped away. But lets take the time to reflect on 2009. This is something new for me. I have always rememember what the last year brought, but I have never actually reflected on it. To remember what it brought, the good, the bad and use those to have a better year in 2010.

Looking back on 2009 and what it brought to my family and the lessons we have learned from it.

In February, we welcomed our daughter into the family!! What an amazing addition! I don't know what life would be life without her! Very boring! Ha! She amazes me every day. Having a child is a struggle and very difficult no matter how hard people say it to be expect it to be 10 times as hard. Reflecting back though, I would do it a hundred times over. I think the unknown of raising a child is what was the hardest and that is why it seems so hard.

The year also brought new friendship for Shane and I. I pray that 2010 brings even more of those friendships. I know I have let friends slip away this year and I so did not intentionally mean for that to happen. I think I have been so consumed with raising Samantha, that I have pretty much neglected everything else.

I know I always say I will do it this year, and never seem to get around to doing it. Well I have a feeling that 2010 will be different. I wanted to get my weight in check last year but this year there are already a few festivities planned where I want to look and feel awesome! I need to start early on conquering my weight so I will be ready for anything that 2010 has in store for me.

I want to get more involved in a church, I think that is one thing that has been missing from our lives. Samantha is understanding how life works more every day and I want her to know God. I want her to have that friendship. So I will be looking for a family of believers in the next few weeks.

I am going to take opportunities as they are presented to me and not wonder if they are the wrong decision. I let a handful of opportunities pass in 2009 and I regret that.

I am also going to get a hobby. Any ideas will be appreciated! Ha! I don't know what but I need a hobby to pass the time when Shane is at the deer lease!

In 2010, I want to pray, laugh, love, cry, run, sleep, sing, watch, wonder, enojoy more than 2009!

These are, I guess, my New Year Resolutions. I am going to take it one day at a time and see where this year leads my family! With God by our sides, we will have another year to celebrate!

We made it to 2010. This is going to be a unique year! Why? 2010 is going to be a unique year because if you will just say the year twenty ten, it's sounds so space like? "WELCOME TO THE YEAR TWENTY TEN" So far in the future but yet here it is, we are embarking on this mysterious journey. What will the year 2010 bring your family? So hold stead fast and get ready for another year of amazing memories!