Brayden's T- Ball

I was at softball so Bret video Brayden's game for me these two shots cracked me up. I am sure you will find them funny.
Enjoy

BE STILL AND KNOW

I have prayed a thousand times BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.. I wanted God to show me how to be in his presence and feel him. I just didn't know that he would bring me to this place to do it. As I am trying to adjust to our new life here I can clearly see God's hand all over this move. He has answered my prayer I am still and now I need to lean in and know my God is here, he is walking with me. I see that God has taken everything that I knew and loved about SD and brought me here and this is were he will teach me to be still. Now my daughter it's my time dig in I will not let you fall. I can truly say that as I have said to my Father where are you... he is right here. I was comfortable in SD I surround my self with people with like values and beliefs. That is not the case here my husband 's job is now our life. We live with all those he works with most don't go to church have very different values than I do. So what to do? God I pray where are you. I get nothing and yet I know he is here. I have nothing but quite time. Yesterday I prayed again please Lord I need your touch and he didn't disappoint, he was wanting for me at church. I will continue to lean in to him and pray that he will continue to hold me. When God stretches us it never feels the way we want it to.

I'm Alive

It has been awhile but I am alive. Thank you for all the calls and emails checking in on me it has meant so much to me. We are finally all unpacked. I am getting lost all the time just trying to find things. We have not found a church yet but we are searching. I have found the book Steams in the Desert to be a great comfort right now. I have been reading it off and on for a few years. It amazes me how God use his words to speak to me know matter where I am. When Heather was gone I had many days praying for her, some great words of encouragement came from this book. One day it said that if God left me where I was he would never be able to use me for his glory. I am not sure what that will be but I am daily looking for it. I have not been able to plug in with any ladies up here yet but I am sure that will come soon. We have had some changes in our adoption adventure I will update that blog tonight so you can read about it. My children have had a bit of a rough transition I am daily praying for some Godly girls to surround them. I miss all of your faces.

Vegas

I wanted to share with you about our great trip to Vegas. Bret arrived home on the 8th. We had planned to leave on Tuesday the 14th. Brayden came down with a stomach bug over the weekend. So I was not sure how he was going to do. Monday night at 10p I got a call from the people who were going to take Brayden saying they had a family emergency and could not take him till 3 or 4 on Tuesday. So I thought there was nothing that night I could do so the next morning I called my friend Rebecca who said no problem I will do what ever you need what a blessing. Ten minutes later our friends called back and said thing changes and they could take Brayden as planned. So great we are off to Vegas. We arrive in Vegas around 2 and check in. We than decide we will go down and walk around the hotel. We see happy hour is going on at the Diablo’s Cantina. We are there for about ½ and the bar tender asks if I can help him. I say sure. So every half hour the happy hour special change so they have a woman get up on the bar a spin the happy hour wheel. I get up and spin the wheel as I get down from the bar I step on the stool and two men help me down I jump and my ankle twists sideways. I am flooded with pain and my eyes gloss over with tear as I try to walk back to our seat. I sit down look at Bret and he just shakes his head. I have another beverage and we leave. We than walk all over the strip about 2 hours later I tell Bret I have to sit down my ankle is killing me. We head back up to our room I lift up my pants to see that my ankle has now swollen up and looks like cankle. So I ice my canke for about an hour feel bad because we are in our room and it really hurts. I am now in need of some alcohol relief. We head down to get a bit in the café and a drink. After dinner I decide I would like to play the slots and I am a big spender so I sit at the penny slots I put in my 2 dollars and two minutes later I win 225.00. I was so excited. Wednesday comes along my foot is now blue from the inside of my right foot all around the heel and across the top and hurts. But I don’t want to be a baby so we set off and walk all over and check out all the cool hotels and just enjoy spending time together again. Thursday is a good day Bret see’s that the Barrett-Jackson car auction is at the Mandalay bay hotel this now is a must to see. We spend several hours checking out many cars and taking pictures of all of them. When we return to our hotel I think lets take a romantic bath together that will be nice. Well not sure if my butt has gotten that big or what but it was a tight fit and not as romantic as I had hope. I move so we have more room and put my back to the faucet. As I go to get up out of the tub I jabbed my back with the faucet and am now bleeding. As we return from our weekend a bit richer and a bit banged up. All in all a good time.

It's funny

I came across this and my children and I have watched it and think it is very funny enjoy.

He's almost home

Well tomorrow is the big day my sweet husband returns. I wanted to post a few things my husband missed during his deployment

4 birthdays his, mine and both daughters
1 anniversary
1 set of braces coming off
1 child learning to ride a bike with no train wheels
26 days at the beach
1 surgery
1 child learning how to swim
8 softball games
16 soccer games
4 horse shows
5 inches grown
6 pounds gain
15 pains lost
205 hugs goodnight
Countless tears shed

All in all it has been hard but I made it through it with the help and prayers of all my friends thank you

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