PICTURES

Thought I'd share some updated pictures of the family.

Well that's about all I have for today! Hope you have a great Wednesday Night Service.

Well I Woke Up This Morning...

With my mind stayed on Jesus! This is true! I did wake up with my mind stayed on Jesus. God has been so good to me that I'll never be able to praise Him enough for his goodness and mercy!

I was going thru my work computer and found some old pics of Anna Claire and some of our church kids and thought I'd share so here it goes.

Bro. James Gaskins and Anna Claire around Christmas last year.

Sis. Honeycutt and Anna Claire

Paydon and Anna Claire's Me-Me (Deb Walters)

This picture is really old, Paydon doesn't have his glasses yet.

Hayden and Haley Wilson

This is the first picture of Anna Claire and Paydon together.

Well that's about it from here. Hope you all have a great day. God Bless you!

Great Ladies Retreat

Well as you that read the last post know I was worried that Anna Claire would have a really hard time without her momma while I was gone to Ladies Retreat. Do you know that God moved and worked and she never really even asked about me?! She was even in bed on Friday night about two hours earlier than normal! I Praise God for that!

Praise God for a wonderful ladies retreat! I had such a wonderful time in the Lord and enjoyed the wonderful fellowship so very much. God is so good to me that I'll never be able to tell all that He has done for me, but please know that we serve a great big God! Our Ladies Retreat theme was "Committed to Service". Everything from open to close went with being TOTALLY committed to God! A total commitment is what is required from us. Sis. Tammi Adams was my TAPS (talk and prayer session) leader and I so appreciate everything that God gave her, she may have been out of her comfort zone, but she still allowed God to use her to minister to those of us who were lucky enough to be in her group. She talked about how if you go to the bank to cash a check, you must have the whole check. The bank will not cash a check if you only give them part of it, part of a check is of no value. Much the same, God desires all of us and only a partial commitment will have no eternal value. God has taught me several things throughout this weekend and I can't really explain it all, but God is doing a work in me and I'm thankful for that. My desire is to be totally committed to Christ and His Church and to move closer and closer to God, I want to live for him and if need be I want to be willing to die for Him. I want nothing between my soul and the savior!

The fellowship is always wonderful around Gods people! I can truly say that laughter doth good like a medicine. Those of us at Ladies Retreat truly got an overdose on laughter. Many laughed till it hurt to laugh, but laughed some more. Sis. Janet Talley was our guest speaker and she shared so many things, some that made me laugh and just as many that made me stop and examine myself and at times cry! I want to worship the Lord not WARship the Lord and I want to do in spirit and in truth. I don't want to fail the Lord and if I'm totally committed to Him I will not! One thing that sticks out is the little story Sis. Tammi put in our Journal's that she gave each of us in her TAPS group and I'll share it with you and pray that it blesses you as it blessed me.

A chicken and a pig were walking down

the road together. They passed a sign for

a local diner advertising its breakfast

special: "Ham and Eggs--$2.95!" The

chicken said, "That's our whole

contribution to society: breakfast food!"

The pig replied, "For you, it may be a contribution.

For me it's total Commitment."

Are you like the chicken and merely contributing or are you like the pig...

TOTALLY COMMITTED!?

In closing I'd like to say to all those that attended the retreat Wee Wee my Ladies! :)

Ladies Retreat

Well today is the day we are leaving for AR/MO/OK Ladies Retreat. I leave in about 15 minutes and am pretty excited and praying for a great out pouring from the Lord! Sis. Janet Talley is out guest speaker so I'm sure with the help of the Holy Ghost she will feed our souls just what the doctor, I mean just what God ordered. Looking forward to it, however, not so much looking forward to leaving the kids behind. I'm sure it's gonna be a rough night for Josh with Anna Claire, but hopefully she will adjust just fine and make it thru the weekend without her momma. Please pray she does well! Also while your on your knees, please pray for Paydon. He's had a sore throat for about 3 days now and just all in all feel yucky, and I know that God can heal him and want to depend upon him. He's only running a low grade fever 100.5 or less so I'm not too concerned about strep throat, but who knows. I know God can supply all our needs and I need Paydon to be well!

Well I'm gonna go, just wanted to post while I had a minute hope you all have a great weekend. It's sure to be a great one weather wise around here, fall is finally at our doorstep and I can't wait for those nice autumn nights.

God Bless you all!

The Weekend

Well what did we do this weekend. Hmmm, I remember Josh letting me sleep late Saturday which was a great blessing! I got to sleep till about 10am and Anna Claire even slept in too! We had a good lazy Saturday. The kids and I hung out at the house most of the day and they played and played. They love the weekends when they can finally be at home and play with their toys and just relax and I love getting to spend uninterrupted time with them. Makes one happy momma! We had revival service that night and Bro. Don Pate preached a really good message and then we all got together for some good fellowship. I love fellowship with Gods people, makes me so happy, however, we also stay up way too late which makes for a rough Sunday morning on us all, but always such a blessing! Then Sunday morning and evening service was again a great message by Bro. Pate. I just love revivals! Not only the refreshing we get from God, but getting to know people better. You see people at the Assembly and at Conventions, but you hardly ever get to really know them. Revival's let you do just that, get to know people. You find out that people aren't always as they seem and it brings on a new realization that you truly can't judge a book by it's cover. We so enjoyed getting to know Bro. Pate better and look forward to seeing him at upcoming conventions and retreats!

Now onto my Anna Claire Story! Sunday night Josh took Anna Claire outside while he let the dog out and she looked up at the starts and said "luv you Jesus" then a second or two later she looked back up and said "luv you too" as if Jesus was answering her, it was so cute! Kids are just so loving they have an unconditional love especially at that age, I just love it!

Well my work is calling me to get back to it so I need to go! You guys have a great day and until next time God Bless you all!

I'm Trying Here

Okay so I really am trying to do better at blogging. See I'm blogging two days in a row. On the other hand I have no idea what to blog about. I guess one really great thing is that we are currently in a revival with Br. Donald Pate from Shawnee, OK this week and last night we had a wonderful service. I really needed to be revived and the Lord did not disappoint! He opened up the windows of heaven and we had a time in the Lord. Br. Pates' preaching has been wonderful, but I really needed the touch from God last night and I thank Him for it, He always supplies my needs! We also had one filled with the Holy Ghost last night, to God be the glory!

I also learned yesterday that Paydon has decided he wants to write a book. The name of his book is Pippy Dippy Do, and it is going to be a children's book about a giant. His teacher was so excited when she e-mailed me yesterday especially since Literacy isn't his best subject. Hopefully this will spark his interest in reading and writing.

Anna Claire is just my little ham. She loved shoes! When we went on vacation we found a 4 pair pkg of Disney Princess play shoes and last night after we came in from church she went and got a pair to wear while she ate her chicken. Then she had to give us all a kiss at bed time and she had to show us her happy feet dance. I tell you the older she gets the more of a ham she becomes. I guess she learns from her brother. I guess all kids at that age do all sorts of funny things from time to time and right now hers is her happy feet dance.

Well I've succeeded, I've blogged two days in a row, hopefully this is the start of something, we shall see! Hope you all have a great weekend.

This is Paydon and Anna Claire in their Easter best this year. Enjoy!

Where did the time go?

I cannot believe that it has been so long since my last post. No wonder no one ever follows my blog, I'm such a terrible blogger. I'll try to do better and blog more often.
First off there is no way I can back track almost a year and catch everyone up on my life so I'm not even gonna try. I will back up and share some highlights of our year with all those who might still stop by. I guess the first highlight was Anna Claire's first Christmas. It was fun! She doesn't remember it and I'm sure she will not remember much about Christmas this year either, but it was fun seeing her eyes light up with the sight of all the decorated trees and all the lights everywhere. I'm sure this year will be even more fun for her and us as well as she is now older and will really enjoy all that Christmas has to offer.

Then came January, the month that both of my children were born, howbeit 8 years apart! We celebrated Paydon's 9th birthday the first part of the month with a party at Pizza Hut. I learned a few years ago that with Pizza Huts pizza deals I can feed everyone pizza and be just a cheap as if I bought the stuff for hot dogs and such and the clean up is a breeze, we tip the waitress and leave and they clean up the mess---for someone his age it couldn't be better! On the 23rd of January we were not able to have Anna Claire's b-day party, which was her actual birthday, do to everyone having a conflict in their schedules, we did however have out pastor and his wife over for cupcakes and chili, I think, and Anna Claire enjoyed feeding herself a pink cupcake. She really got into it! Oh if I was only at home and could add in some pictures of her enjoying it, you'd all laugh! She had icing up her nose, gross I know, but so cute on a 1 year old!

Then came the spring, nothing I can remember there except at 15 months Miss Anna Claire finally decided it was time to take those oh so cute first steps. I jokingly called her my lazy kid because she was much later in crawling and walking that Paydon, but the her pediatrician brought a point up at her twelve month check-up with these simple words, "I wouldn't walk either is someone would carry me." Ok doc point taken, she started walking at almost 15 months. Then the fun began! She gets into everything from the toilet to the bookshelf, something Paydon never did. She is also way too smart for her age. Shortly after learning to walk she also learned that from my chair in the living room I could see her if she went into our front bathroom and soon also learned if she went to the bathroom in our room that I could not see her. She had found Paydon's battery operated Pound Puppy and decided it needed a dunk in the toilet, then when she picked it up it got her wet so she thought it had pee'd on her and she proceeded to carry it to the door and in this gibberish that no one understood began to get on to the puppy for peeing on her. Shortly after that we started shutting every bathroom door and making sure all toilet lids were down! No more giving things baths in the toilet for her!

Well now I'm on to Summer. We've had one hot summer! It has just been terrible around here, 110 one week and the heat index above that, then the humidity and it was just a nasty sticky Summer. Some good did come out of it all though. June 26th Josh and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. We took a little mini-vacation to Little Rock the 24th and stayed at the Robinwood B&B, www.robinwodbnb.com and it was absolutely wonderful. We had the best time even though we left the kids with relatives and I missed them, Josh and I needed to time for us! Summer drudged on and then in August right before school started my wonderful boss sent us to Branson for vacation for the kids and we enjoyed that as well. We went to see the Noah musical and it was wonderful. If you ever have a chance to see any of the biblical shows at any of the Sight and Sounds Theaters I highly recommend it! It's a little pricey, but well worth it! The very next week school started and my little man entered the 4th grade!

I guess that pretty much brings everything up to date. We are all doing good and just staying very busy! Hopefully I'll blog more--no promises though!