Heart of Worship

We sang this song today at LFBC.  It is so wonderful how a song can really speak to my heart.  It really is all about HIM.

Happy 2nd Birthday Hunter

Happy Birthday sweet boy

Uncle Austin and the silly boys

Annabeth and Mitzi

Noah sure does love his PeePaw

it took alot of spit to get those candles out

Mitzi Bitzi

Taming the Bull - the John Bramlett Story

This is the movie trailer from the film that we saw tonight.  What a beautiful story of Christ's love and redemption.  It was funny, he said he was reading the bible and got to John 3:16.  He said not many preachers preach a message on that verse, but every criminal in prison knows that verse.  He said as he read "For God so loved the world that He gave His only son that WHOSOEVER believed in Him would not perish, but have everlasting life".  He said that whosoever is ME.  Christ died for even me.  Wow!!

"Your Great Name"

All Heaven Declares

We sang this in the choir tonight.  Such beautiful, simple harmony. 

computers.....UGHHH!!!!!

Got home from work last night ready to sit down and pay a few bills, and the computer was dead and I mean D-E-A-D, dead!!!  I tried and tried to get it to boot up and there was no power.  We had some bad storms come through and terrible lightening and I guess it just zapped my computer.  Now I wish I had actually learned how to back up. 

What did we do before we had all of this technology?  Cell phones, internet, computers, paperless bills, online bill paying, cable TV.  I was asking my dad this very thing and he said we got out a card table, the check book, an old timey adding machine, a pen, a sharp pencil (with a good eraser), some stamps and started paying bills.

I don't even know what kind of computer to look at buying.  None of it makes sense to me.  How big is big enough, how fast is fast enough, ughhh!!!

MedFest 2014

I have been considering going on a short mission trip for some time now.  I really feel like it would be so fulfilling to me personally as well as spiritually.  We get so caught up in this world and the amenities of life.  We take so much for granted....air conditioning, diet coke, ice, a nice clean bed, good quality medical care, a nice church to worship in whenever we feel like going to church.  I want to serve - even for just a few days - in a place that is underserved.  I think it would be such a blessing.  I have been invited to go to Nicaragua to the MedFest sponsored by Way of the Cross Ministiries.

It is in January 2014, and there is a cost involved, but I am willing to pay for a vacation, why not be willing to give back to God what is already His in order to serve others.

Our friends, the Damron's and Edmiston's are involved in this ministry.  Giles has gone with a dental team for years and years.  Cliff has gone the last few years with the construction team.  Of course Giles said there would always be a place for me in the medical tents.  They are taking dentists, pharmacists, surgeons, an OB-GYN, and others.  He said I could accept a job that was as "gross" or as "not gross" as I wanted.....I am leaning towards "not gross"...Ha!!!  He even said that if I did not want to do something medical that was cool too, there are many children there and so many activities that you can do with the kids, really just loving on them.

I had to Google where Nicaragua even was at......geography was never really my strong suit. So now I know, I have heard of all of those places....Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.  Now I know where it is located.

I have until October the 1st to make a decision and get my deposit in.  If you think about it, pray for me that I have be at peace with whatever decision that I make and that if I do feel led to go, that some support will come to help with the expenses involved with traveling there.

 

My whole life I have been taught about the Great Commission of Jesus, I know that we can do that right here in our back yard, and we should, but THIS is what I have always thought of when I think about fulfilling the Great Commission........GO and TELL.

I am thinking about buying this infinity scarf

for our Ole Miss Rebels.....Hotty Toddy!!!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/151898554/monogrammed-chevron-infinity-scarf

Hotty Toddy

Dwayne takes alot of teasing about Ole Miss.  He has been a fan since he was a boy and just like with the Dallas Cowboys, he has not wavered even when they are not winning.  But.......they won their season opener the other night, so I wanted to put up a post in honor of them being undefeated.

I just bought us tickets to see Ole Miss play the Arkansas Razorbacks in November.....at least they will be in Oxford, so will have the home field advantage.  I just hope it is not a LONG RIDE HOME....if you know what I mean.

I love you Dwayne and you know that I will walk up in The Grove with you any time and sit in those stands and cheer right along with you......as long as you buy me a diet coke and some popcorn.

Praying for strength for Sarah

Sarah is going through a very hard time right now, she is alone, she has financial struggles and she is trying to raise 2 little boys by her self.  I know that there are often times that she is just worn out.  I know because I have been there before as a single mom to a small child....but I only had 1, she has 2.  I heard this song and thought of her, my prayer is that she will be strengthened by God in order to face the struggles that she has to face day to day.  I pray that she can be the best mother that Noah and Hunter could ever have asked for and that we can be the best grandparents and parents that we can be to them.  Praying for peace in her life.

He Knows My Name

We sang this song tonight in the choir and I absolutely love it.  The first time I heard the song was in 2002 right after the 9/11 Tragedy.  We were living in Bogalusa, Louisiana at the time.  Someone had made a video of all of the devastation from the Twin Towers along with this song.  How comforting it is to know that He knows MY name....little ole Kay.

Dwayne and I were talking tonight about how blessed we are to have found Lakeland First Baptist Church.  We feel so at home there.  The pastor, Chris Hodges, is great.  He breaks things down where it is easy to understand.  We have started a bible study through Abiding Above ministries called the Mailbox Club.  I am currently on Practical Christian Living.  Choir is wonderful.  Jim Avery, the music minister is hilarious, but he can really break a song down so you can truly understand the meaning.  Our kids love it, especially Austin.  We have been searching for a long time, and really feel that this is where the Lord wants us to serve.  We are thankful. 

I'm gonna float just a little bit longer

As summer comes to an end, I am trying to soak up as much of the sun as I possibly can.  I love our pool and even though it can be a pain in the tail sometimes, I get great pleasure out of just floating with a diet coke in my  hand and some WRVR on the radio - I know, I know!!!! But it is what I love to do.  It is so relaxing.  It won't be long before we have to start the process of "closing the pool".  It is such a sad and dreary time for me, so until the water gets so cold that I can't stand it, I will just keep on swimming.....ahhhh!

for Karen............

Not only are you and Kevin our cousins, we are blessed to call you friends.  We are praying for you as you go through this journey of cancer.  We are inspired by your bravery.  It is our prayer that our entire family and those that you come in contact with will grow in their spiritual walk with the Lord as you endure this. You are truly an inspiration. We love you.

Life verse for Sherry and Karen

Each of you got devastating news this week.  I was reminded of this tile that someone gave momma. This verse became her life's verse as she ventured into the unknown......unknown diagnosis, unknown treatment, unknown side effects, unknown prognosis, unknown pain.  She claimed this verse several times a day.  I had it laminated and put in her bathroom, on her night stand, on her end table by her "Magic Chair".  It was everywhere, but it was a constant reminder that the Lord is with you wherever you go, whatever you are going through.

Happy Birthday, Baby Girl

This is the cutest picture of my sweet Annabeth

Love those beachy waves in her hair

Paris, France....Ooh La La!

Sam, Natalie, Annabeth and Cori

Oh to be 14 all over again

the girlie girl cake

for Sherry........

I love you and I am praying for you as you go through this difficult time. Momma loved you and so do I.  You were always there for us, and I am here for you.

Austin is College Bound!!!!

Go Tigers Go!!!!!

As you probably already know, our household is completely Ole Miss fans.....~Hotty Toddy~!!!  BUT.....Austin received a full 4 year scholarship from the University of Memphis, so he chose to go where the money is.  He is going to major in technical theater.  All we really hope for him is that he is able to get a J-O-B!

Annabeth started school 3 weeks before Austin.  On her first day of school (along with first day of school for all of Austin's younger friends), he came downstairs and said "so I guess this is what grown up feels like....not going to school".  I said "no grown up is paying your own bills".  He is a good kid.  He works hard.  He has kept me laughing for 18 years, in fact it probably got him out of alot of spankings because of the laughter.  It is hard to yell at someone to put their laundry away when they have a big red clown nose on....and any time I try to correct him, he says in THAT   VOICE "But Mutha".....He makes me crazy, but I sure do love him.

I am hoping that he enjoys college life and makes us all proud.  Don't forget where you came from, son.

Sarah could sure use some prayers

Sarah is now separated and living alone for the first time in her life.  She is a single mom to two little boys, and things are very tight financially.  I told her we need to pray and hope for a "loaves and fishes" sort of miracle for her.

She has moved into a place that hopefully she can afford, it is about 25 minutes away from us, but only about 10 minutes from my dad, so at least there is family close by.  The place is really cute, we got everything moved in and things are starting to settle in place.

As you can imagine, when you are first going through a separation, you have anger, fear, sorrow, and loneliness.  I am just praying that she will get involved in a church and make some friends and that she and Noah and Hunter will grow and thrive.  I love her and those boys more than she will ever know.

Please remember them in your prayers. 

Annabeth's tattoo

Annabeth came to me and told me that she had gotten a tattoo just like Sarah's (her big sister).  I almost fell out when she pulled her top up and there were two little dolphins on her tummy.  She thought she was being so funny with her little temporary tattoo.

Annabeth's birthday is coming up

Well the baby girl is about to have her 14th birthday.  I cannot believe that 14 years ago I was on bed rest with pre-eclampsia at home, just waiting for the arrival of "our little souvenir from Gatlinburg".  I had had such a difficult time getting pregnant with Austin, and then she was a little surprise.....make that BIG surprise.  But God had a bigger, better plan, and I am so glad He did.

I was scheduled for a C-section August 26th, nurses were coming out to the house to check my blood pressure.  The nurse, Cheryl, came by on the morning of August 25th and my blood pressure was up yet again.  She made a phone call and before I knew it, I was off to the hospital.  Dwayne was at work so he left and headed to the hospital, so Momma took me to Baptist East.  The only thing was that momma had just washed and rolled her hair on all of those pretty little colorful rollers.  So in we rolled with Barbara's hair up in curlers. We probably looked like the hillbillies, I am sure.  Anyway, I had my sweet baby girl later that afternoon.

She was a very colicky baby......VERY COLICKY!!! And she eventually had tubes put in her ears at 3 months of age, so that played a huge part in her crying all of the time.  We always said that if she had been our first child, she would have been our last, ha!!! But ever since that time, she has been the quietest, sweetest child.  She is very much a people pleaser and never says a word.  I guess her lungs and her voice were tired from the first 3 months of her life :o)

Anyway, I am headed out to order a cake for the big 1-4.  My how the time has flown.

I love you baby girl!