So Many Happenings

The last month or so has been a busy one!  That's really nothing new these days but sometimes there are those months where you seem to have the schedule filled up from week to week, and unexpected things get added to it as well.  Even in all of this there is strength and joy along the way because our busyness of life revolves around family and church happenings! 

Breann had a school play, The Mighty Minds, at the beginning of October and it was a really cute play.  She was so excited about having a main speaking part and she truly did AWESOME!  She was the Music Mighty Mind.  The play was an encouragement to third graders not to worry about the state test they will have to take this year.

                                                                                       

With her friends afterwards

The very next day after Breanns' play we made a fast trip to Colorado for the weekend due to my grandmother having a stroke earlier that week while asleep the night before they were going to head back home.  I know without a doubt my Nanny had a wonderful time as she has always loved nature and beautiful scenery!  The doctors were not giving much hope at all for her to even make it or be able to do anything if she did make it, but it is AMAZING what God has done.  My grandmother has done many things and even in a time sooner than the doctors said she might could do these things.  We are still praying and believing for a miracle of complete healing in her body, and I know God is with her through this all!  Even in this fast little trip we enjoyed the scenery ourselves and made a couple little stops along the way.

My dad wanted to take the kids to a park, the trees were so pretty

Colten made me so nervous on this cliff

His hands were so cold, lol

The following weekend I went to a ladies retreat and had a wonderful time!  While I was gone Chris and the kids did quiet a bit of Bible reading that Saturday to get caught up on the 40 days of fire reading plan.  On Sunday morning Chris had went in the kids room and Colten was on his bed reading the Bible all on his own.  That very Sunday night, October 27th, Colten was filled with the Holy Ghost, whoohoo!

Oh what JOY so see a child receive the Holy Ghost

Then Thursday, October 31st we had our Fall Blast event in our church parking lot.  The kids always get so excited about dressing up!  I have to admit I do not, lol.  Costumes can be so expensive and when you have 4 kids it adds up to cost more money than I care to spend!

The day after the Fall Blast we had family pictures taken by Kassie and Priscilla.  It was kind of spur of the moment deal even though I have talked to them for years about doing family pictures for us.  I just never made it happen!  One day I was actually relaxing on my couch, looking at the kids pictures on the wall made me say within myself we have got to get some new pictures.  Haiden was 8 in the picture hung on the wall so that is 6 years ago.  Way too long!  So in a matter of 3 weeks I managed to figure out what we would wear and felt like I went everywhere to make it all come together.  All a bit stressful in my opinion!  Here is one picture for now, I'll do another post with more pics later, but I was very pleased with our pictures and of course expected nothing less from my friends as I have always loved photos they've taken!

A little over a week ago Breann had her 9th birthday!  I really just can't believe my "little girl" is growing up.  I feel like inside my heart she will always be our little girl since she is our only daughter.  We don't have parties for the kids every year and this was one of those years, thankfully, lol!  The kids pick what dinner and dessert they want me to make and we celebrate as family when there is no party.  This year we had Mark and Kelli join us since they are close by and we just consider them a third set of grandparents to the kids now!  It ended up being a fun night with lots of laughs!

Dad had to be out of town so we did FaceTime

These two got to put together  her stroller, it was hilarious!

My last thing to share is Breann getting baptized last night, November 17th, in the name of Jesus!  I'm so glad she decided to take this step.  For whatever reason she has been hesitant for so long, and I just left it alone knowing that when God dealt with her she would make the decision.  No doubt God was speaking to her little heart yesterday and last night.  During service last night she needed to go out twice, which my kids know our goal is to never go out during service, and I really thought she may be getting sick, but she told me she felt fine.  We had already made plans to leave as soon as service was over due to me feeling like she may have a bug.  Then Angel started talking to her about getting baptized and she said she wanted to and told us it was to have all her sins washed away.  While she was changing she let me know she had been thinking about it throughout the day.  I realized then all her needing to go out during church was because she was nervous and God was dealing with her.   God draws each and every one of us and it is our choice how we respond!

God is good and life is good when you live it for the Lord!