My baby boy....

Turned "2"... Happy Birthday Piercen!

What a wonderful two years it has truly been. God has been so awesome! I never knew I would love someone so much! Of course I love Jeremy with everything I have but it is a completely different love. AND I must add, there is SOMETHING about a mommy & her B*O*Y!!!

Here are a few pics to share with you over the past two years... OH how I love him so!

Piercen, the plans God has for you will some day soon all unfold... I pray that my love with always give you roots & may you always, always, walk in the truth!

love,

Mommy

I can't believe it is this time of year already...

Hey friends! I am such a horrible blogger. It seems every time I get ready to write actually write something I get side tracked and need to jump off of the computer. I am starting to think it is the devil keeping me from writing like I one time did here on my blog! I get so busy traveling with Jeremy, spending time with Piercen, church, family & friends I seldom have much 'free' time if you will... honestly, when I do I spend it reading a lot of what others write! :)

I hope that you have started your December off to a good start and aren't rushing around trying to get all of the shopping done at the last minute (that would also be me!) Ha Ha! I've had such an awesome year. I can't imagine what God has in store of us in 2009. Jeremy has yet calculated how many souls we have seen saved but I can already tell you, we have been in some of the most amazing services ever. In the midst of a world filled with confusion, strife, businesses closing, people loosing jobs, homes being taken away, families falling apart, God is still on HIS throne and he is still moving amoung us. If we will only seek Him, He will come!

Here is a picture of us that my best friend took a few weeks back. I love it. I love the background, I love the cute little smirk on Piercen's face. He is growing so fast. I can't believe he will be TWO this month. I am taking in every moment with him. Jeremy & I have enjoyed him so much the past few months as he is putting sentences together, learning colors, and he must take his bible and guitar *every* where we go. He is pure joy! Every time I see his big brown eyes, hear his laugh, and feel the warmth of his xox oxo I realize once again just how much my heavenly father loves and adores me! Oh what an honor! I am so unworthy!

I pray that as Christmas approaches that we all will keep Christ in our Christmas... He was born in a stable, died on a cross and he is a soon coming KING! I look for him any day! Thank you for the friendships I have made and the blessings I have had just knowing you all.

He is growing so fast...

Just a few updated pics of my little guy... I am so in love with him. I never knew I could love him so much.... I never imagined a love like this before. He is such a joy and we try to hold on to every second with him because he is growing so fast... hard to believe it has almost been 2o months! He loves the piano and honestly, he doesn't just get on it and *BANG* around... he will stretch and play over it just perfectly! I love watching him... He also loves his guitar! I am proud of him! For so long he would play a little then stop and sing and then play some more and then stop and sing some more. NOW he has it down!! He can play & sing !!! Isn't it precious how they learn ??? Piercen loves it now that he can play and mommy sings ....

The top picture is how Piercen likes to be super silly! The *H*A*T* on his head is actually the saddle that goes on his pony -- where he came up for that who knows! He cracks us up. He more me laugh, the sillier he is! He is so much fun! I am posting an upclose pictures so you can see the HUGE smile!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Isn't it Strange...

Isn't it strange how a 20 dollar bill seems like such a large amount when you donate it to church, but such a small amount when you go shopping? Isn't it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you're at church, and how short they seem when you're watching a good movie? Isn't it strange that you can't find a word to say when you're praying but.. you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a friend? Isn't it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of the Bible but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel or ZANE GREY book? Isn't it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or games but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in Church? Isn't it strange how we need to know about an event for Church 2-3 weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can adjust it for other events in the last minute? Isn't it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to share it with others; but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend and repeat gossip? Isn't it strange how we believe everything that magazines and newspapers say but... we question the words in the Bible? Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven but... they don't want to believe, do, or say anything to get there? Isn't it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are forwarded right away but when we are going to send messages about God, we think about it twice before we share it with others? IT'S STRANGE ISN'T IT? Now that you've read this message, will you forward it to anybody that you consider a friend, family member or foe (enemy).If you choose not to share His message you may deprive yourself from being blessed as well as depriving others... who may need God in their life.


I thought that was just awesome! I hope everyone is doing good. I am not sure I have any readers since I seldom have the time to write anymore. I do read though - I promise! I would love to hear from you! I am going to post some pics of Piercen , he is getting so BIG!

Question....

Does anyone know what happened to Veronica?

I am not dead... I am really alive. I am!

Okay I know.. it has been three months since my last post but so much has been going on. Forgive me! I am sure I have lots all of my readers even though I promise I have still been following you.

We began the process of house hunting which lead to applying for a loan and that whole process. For those of you who are home owners you KNOW how time consuming & complicated it can be. Complicated? Did I say that? HA! We had all of our papers filled out, approved in NO time and our close date set --- it was pushed back a week, had our final day set to close on a Wednesday and got a call about 10 am on a Monday morning and our loan officer says "I am sorry to tell you this but our company can not give out any more loans". At this point I was like "OK, so were we just not approved and your covering or what?". I had every possible thought go thru my head! I was so upset! Well.... he calls back... he tells us he has a buddy who will take over and we should be closed in three weeks. He did just that but three weeks turned into six! We were ONLY supposed to have to fill out a few papers and we ended up doing the entrie process from scratch!

The good news is that we finally close after three additional close dates and we are proud 1st time home buyers!! We took three weeks and worked on the house laying tile on the counter tops, retexturing walls, completely redoing the bathroom b/c MAN! It had brown all over and well..... it needed remodeling. We replaced all the light fixtures, all new ceiling fans, new front and back door, my daddy painted the outside taupe and we hung new black shutters.... tiled the utility room and had a painter come in and redo the entire inside. It was hard work but it is almost finished. We have a few things left ... we want to put in new windows in a month or two and then put up a privacy fence because the fence now is chain link. Even though it was alot of hard work it was fun actually AND we hope to make some money off of it so in a few years we can build or buy again before Piercen starts to school.

Piercen is growing fast. I am posting a new picture so you can see our handsome little boy. He never ceases to amaze me at all the things he comes up with. His latest thing is he has been carring his little red bible around for weeks. I have tried to get him to put it away and only carry it to church...hoping that by offering another book, ANY other book to him he'd do so but OH NO! He carries it EVERYwhere! I am talking to play outside, to the restuarant... you name it. The other day he looks down, opens it up and begans to jabber... I hear "Bible" . He then pauses and points and starts to babble! I asked Jeremy "Did you show him that" , "Have you been coax him"... NO he says.. NO way and actually I'd never seen or heard him say anything other than "Lets get your bible for church"...... it was priceless! I can honestly say it doesn't matter if he ever becomes a preacher as long as he knows what the word of God says and is as eager to KNOW HIM and have the desire to serve him just as he has the desire today not to let that little red bible put away for another book. Isn't that how it should be for us? We must read them as often as possible and use them like no other book... if they get messed up we can get another one. After all the ones that are worn are the ones who have had the greatest use!

fyi.. I am going to post some pics of our projects but I need to get an updated pic of the house on the outside ... will do that soon!

... what a week

WhEw! I have had one busy week. Sorry I am just now being able to post. I know some of you have asked what is going on and wondering where I've been ... we applied for a loan on Monday, got the news back on Tuesday we were approved (early that morning, less than 24 hrs to be exact!), found the house we wanted to make an offer on and did that on Wednesday - they counter offered and we signed papers on Thursday afternoon! We had been looking for about two weeks so we kinda knew what we wanted to do. Some might say that was *qUiCk* and yes it was!!!! I

This house is not the house I want to be in forever but it is a great start for us! I can't wait to get closed and get the things done to it that need to be done before moving in and making it our first home! I will take a picture of it and post it asap! I plan to post pics along the way because we are going to paint the outside, inside, hang new light fixtures, tile the counters in the kitchen and bathroom, put in a new dishwasher, tile the laundry room and redo the flower bed! This neighborhood is one that my best friend Michelle grew up in when we were kids. I remember spending the night there many times. We have driven by at many different times to see if it is still a nice area and it seems to be. It is quiet and Jeremy and I both have peace that this is what God has for us.

I do want to ask you to pray for us ... we are renting right now and it was supposed to be long term. The couple has asked us to move because they are wanting to be back here from LA. Well, we need to be out by the 15th of April and it just isn't going to happen... the end of the month yes and maybe even that next weekend but not by the 15th. You know how it goes, if you move in some place and it needs things done chances are they never get done! PLUS, these things are a must. Also, my son hasn't slept well since we moved here! Infact, he began sleeping **ALL** night long at 7 weeks. We moved here in late August when he wass eight months old and he hasn't slept all night ONE time since we moved. Jeremy & I know why and now it all makes since that we have put two and two together..... that would be a whole other blog post! Needless to say we have no idea who lived in our new house but we will be covering it in prayer and for those who believe as we do we will be annointing it with oil and covering it in the blood! Every evil spirit and things that aren't of God will be rebuked! So if you will pray with us on that...

Also, I wanted to share something ... God has really been showing me some things during this whole experience. Jeremy pastored for several years and we lived in a parsonage so there was no need to buy a house. During those years we traveled alot, bought expensive clothing, jewlrey, had many different hobbies and spent alot of money on even furniture. I was one who seldom cooked much because we always dined with friends or went on many *dates* together. Over the past several years while renting when Jeremy began evangelizing we have spent over $30,000 on rent... RENT ALONE! This made me sick. I couldn't see us continuing to do so. When we found out we needed to move again I began to pray for God to open doors for us. What I didn't realize was that when opening them I'd first have to repent. You see, I didn't want to live here or live there because it wasn't 'this' or it wasn't 'that'. But once I began to seek HIS will for us instead of what I wanted or where I wanted to be he began to open one door after another very quickly. I've looked back over the last several years and am amazed at what God has done in our lives but also what he has done in ME! HIS way is always best and HIS timing is always perfect.
After making the offer on this home we found out that the closest thing in the neighboorhood in sq ft and price is $22,000 more than what we were able to get our house for and it only needs about $2,000 put into it. Once again God has enabled us to not only be blessed by buying our first home but it is something we are going to be able to sell one day and make money in the process!

I know that I know that I know --- I'd rather be in His PERFECT will than His permissive will any day of my life!

Praying for Gods will....

Hey friends... hope this blog post finds you all doing well. Thanks for visiting me even when I am not faithful to write or post anything! Everyone has been such a blessing to me over the past several years. I am blessed to call you my friends!

I would like to leave a prayer request with you today and ask anyone who stops by to pray for us. We have been married for almost ten years and during those ten years Jeremy has both pastored and evangelized. During the times of pastoring we lived in a parsonage and during the last 4 1/2 years we have been renting. It is with much prayer that we are trying to get everthing finalized today to begin the process of building our very first 'home'.

While this request may sound materialistic for a home it is really not I promise. As much as I'd love to build the home of my dreams in all reality that isn't what will take place. However, it will be much more than a house, it will be our home. I look forward to it being ours, no more rent each month and thousands of dollars invested into something each year that we can not call our own. It is my prayer that if it be Gods will that he will continue to open the door that has been set before us. We will find this out either this afternoon or tomorrow and I am believing for what God has in store for us.

the SICK bUg, tEEtHinG & MY *fabulous* hubby

You got it right.... the SICK BUG has been at my house! I have no idea what I came down with but it hit me so fast it didn't even matter. I went to the doctor last Wednesday for a routine visit and I came home with something I did *NOT* ask for! A sick bug.... it followed me home and boy was I ever sick... I was honestly sick until Saturday night. Finally yesterday I began to feel like myself again. I won't go into the details of all of illness.... I will leave you with wonder haha! I promise you -- you appreciate me for it! Needless to say I aqm still SICK! Stick at my stomach. I cried like a baby lastnight too because of it.... I went to the laundry mat Saturday night. Call me 'miss goodie 2 shoes' but I hate going there! It isn't that I am too good because I am not - I just don't like to wash my things where other people do regardless of the hot temperatures! I had to get my wedding done, fast so my hubby could finally get back in bed with me (Come on, I was sleeping with the sick bug on Valentines day, not my hubby!) and so I took it all to get caught up F*A*S*T! Needless to say last Tues night I had taken my compact flash card into Wal-Mart to get copies of a picture I had taken of Piercen for his Valentines Day Cards I mailed out ..... I had misplaced it. Last place I KNEW I had it was my pocket.... so..... pocket... flash card.... laundry mat! NOT a good combination! I've been sick ever since! My compact flash card, its not at the laundry mat, it sure isn't in my pocket anymore and it is isn't anywhere to be found. I have prayed for God to help me find it.... I've prayed he'd perform a miracle (call me crazy but I knew he CAN make it appear to me) and I don't know what else to do. I had dowloaded almost all that was on it but Piercen's 1st hair cut and his pictures I had snapped for 13 months..... I've been great about getting tons of pics and video so the 13 months snap shots I could deal with IF they weren't pics of him in the tub. The thought of someone might having pics of my family and pics of my baby in the tub makes me even SICKER! I've called Wal-Mart, went back to search the laundry mat, washer, dryer, my van, you name it...... so needless to say I've just been sick, sick, sick!

Piercen has been teething like crazy.... four jaw teeth all at the same time! Three have now broken thru and the fourth is well on its way.... he hasn't been feeling well but he also had shots a week ago.. this is the 5-21 day period for the mmr shot of which he could run fever and have a rash... He has had fever! I think its a combination of teething & the shots! I am not chancing taking him to the doctor unless he gets worse - we need no other sick BUGS at our house! Once these monster teeth are in all the way my son will be able to eat some steak with those teeth! ha ha!! And for those of you who have heard as I did that they don't run temps when the cut teeth I'd have to say I'd disagree .... what about you? Did your children or do your children while cutting teeth? This is a first but it has happened this round of FOUR at once!

Inspite of our week and weekend I have to brag on my incredible hubby! God has been so good to me... I didn't even get to spend Valentines day cuddling with him! He has taken such good care of Piercen, cooked, cleaned and taken even better care of me! Thank you honey for being so amazing! It is a good thing we've always celebrated our love and not just that one day a year that has been set aside.... I was a little disappointed but I promise -- I'm making it up to you!

I've got some awesome pictures to show you soon -- I've got to go to Sam's and get a new compace flash card to take them first haha! But God has been so good to us and I'll be sharing them with you before long..... Hope you guys are all doing well.... Veronica, thanks for checking in on me.... sorry it has been a while .. as you can read I've been busy but things are better for sure! **HUGS**

Piercen's "FIRST" bIrThDaY party....

Check out those precious lips and long eye lashes... I prayed for those! I am telling you... he may be oNe but he knows how to get into that paper & ribbon...

We'd been telling him about his birthday cake & he enjoyed playing in it !!! I know before long there will be a 'theme' to everything... who knows what it will be... maybe spiderman, superman, bob the builder, barney (oh my), I loved green & blue and dots and stripes are fun so mommy got to pick out the cake this time.. he loves bright colors ...

...... and as you can see, he had a FUN time.. he smiled & laughed a lot! A time to celebrated HIM! God is good.... some of our 'little' friends Bree & Bodey (Cousins), Aiden, Megan, Avery & Zac.... the older kids were busy eating !!!

The bIrThDaY BOY with Chuck E Cheese..

I just wanted to post a few pictures from Peircen's birthday party... we had such a great time! Even at ONE he had a fun time! There was no way in the world we had enough room for all of our family & friends so we decided to call Chuck E Cheese and let them do all the work! It turned out to be a great success... the kids had a great time, we had plenty of room AND it was warm and we could invite eVeRYoNE !!! Of course mommy did have to design her own special cake for PK and have Paul's bakery make it... yUMmy !!! Can't have a birthday with a cake from Paul's... it was a great night! My baby boy is ONE!

People have asked me is it really different with him being 1... YES it is... he has changed a lot the past two weeks. He now sings at the TOP of his little lungs when we sing AND I am not talking just a few seconds... He starts out and gets louder and louder.. it is precious... he also learned tonight to drink out of a straw... we are having so much fUn !!!

Thank you God for out little man!