7 Years!!

I cannot believe that tomorrow will mark 7 truly wonderful years of marriage. We talk about it and it is one of those things where we feel like it has always been this way and other times it seems like only yesterday. I have been blessed with such an amazing husband. He brings out the good in me and dispells the not so good in me. When he is around, my world is at peace. I love to play with my husband. We always have such a good time together. He is all I ever prayed for in a husband and all of those things that I said, "You know God, it sure would be nice if he was good-lookin', athletic, can fix things in the house,ect..." I am blessed. He makes me smile and I still get giddy when he walks into a room. He also amazes me by the gift that I see that God has placed in him. I love tohear him speak. You can actually hear the Lord through him. I learn and have grown so much through his teaching and preaching. It is wonderful to know that you and your spouse are actively seeking out what God wants for you to do. It is such a wonderful feeling. It also helps that he is such an amazing daddy. That makes me smile.

7 Years!!

I cannot believe that tomorrow will mark 7 truly wonderful years of marriage. We talk about it and it is one of those

From Blackouts to Mice

Nice title huh? We had the longest Sunday. We had a great peace on Sunday morning. We felt the spirit of Lord with us and an amzing peace in our hearts. We spent time together in prayer before Sunday School and we could feel the presence of the Holy Spirit with us. Fifteen minutes into Sunday School, everything went black...and it stayed black. I rushed towards where I knew the door was because I knew that the 4&5 year olds were down the hall and I knew my little girl would be scared. I then asked another dad to go and check on the nursery. The children were pretty calm and we took them all out to the playgtround. We started flipping breakers and I called the electric company. They said that there were 786 customers without service and it was being called a brown out. They said power would be restored at 12:30. So we moved a piano into the santuary, got a camping light out for the pianist and opened all of the doors for circulation and light. This would be the second week that crazy things happened before church. Phillip likes to focus on his sermon during Sunday School and pray but for 2 weeks that has been taken away. Amazingly I feel that Phillip has done remarkably well. Well, 15 minutes into the service power wasa restored. We closed all the doors and turned on the sound system. God is GooD!!

After church we went to my dad's because Phillip was doing some marriage counseling for one of the weddings he is going to perform in the coming weeks. The girls and I stayed at Dad's while he counseled and went swimming and fishing. We had a blast. Phillip came out at the end and got to swim with us. I caught lots of fish: bass, catfish and perch. Kaylee was "The Bait Lady" as she coined herself. She wound cut the worms in half for us and then make sure they were on pimernetly (permentally). She was precious. When my bait got taken off by a nibbler, I gave Kaylee a hard time about my bait inspection and she apologized with real concern. Hilarious. She is precious.

After that we went to Janell's house to help clean out because they are putting the house on the market. Jere and Phillip were pulling some old carpet out of the garage when they heard a squeak and 7 rats(not mice) scurried out. Yes, we ran and got bait immediately and hope to see less rodents soon. I sware there was enough going on for a week just in one short day.

This week Kaylee has swimming lessons, gymnastics and riding lessons and we have a wedding this weekend in San Angelo. The fun never ends. Hope you all have a blessed week.

Potty Fun

Reese is starting to realize and become interested in potties. I am careful to say that she is not interested in using the potty. Just the potty process in general. Tonight, Reese has the beginnings of diaper rash so we are letting her air out. She decided that she needed to go potty. She went and got Kaylee's dollhouse potty and sat it up and tried to sit on it. It was hilarious! Sorry no pictures. She then sat on her little potty and then asked for a diaper and promptly went. Oh, well.

Growing up

My baby is growing up. She has gone to both grandparents homes already this summer. I actually have only got to have her for 4 days in the last 2 weeks. She has attended both of their VBS's and has had a great time. We have been working with Kaylee on learning bible verses and it is always a blessing to hear your child repeat the word of God. This last week, 2 of her verses were (in paraphrase) "Always forgive others." and "Children obey your parents in the Lord". So Phillip asked Kaylee, "Kaylee, do you always obey your parents"? "No", she said. And then sat there thoughtfully and said, "But you have to always forgive me". and she had a huge grin on her face. It is so neat to have your child putting it all together. I think it was the Easter Kaylee was 3 that she told us the complete story of Easter. She amazes us on her grasp of the Love in the Bible. If we only would keep from complicating things with our overly critical thinking.

I am also reading a book called , Same Kinda Different As Me. and it is amazing. It is about a homeless man and rich man in Dallas and the lessons they taught one another and it is amazing how much I have learned from Denver.

I hope you are all having a great week.

CHEESE!

Kaylee graduated from Preschool and is SO excited about starting Kindergarten in the Fall. She may not be so excited once she finds out she needs one more shot. I am very proud of my little girl. She is so smart and thoughtful, most of the time. God has blessed us truly.


Reese has become fascinated with putting on everyone else's clothing. Here she is modeling Daddy's socks and shoes. She wore them for hours. She is so precious. She is always trying for a laugh!



As soon as you get out the camera. Reese is running to find a place to pose. She starts yelling, "Cheese"! Then as soon as the camera flashes she says, "See, see". Usually you haven't even taken the picture. We are trying to teach her.



It is amazing to see and witness God's perfect timing. We know that strength rises as we wait upon the Lord. It is humbling to look back at our lives and see how God has made all things beautiful in His time. I have learned to be thankful, truly thankful for all things and the timing of all things. God is Good...All the Time!

Summer's Here

Well, summer is definitely here. Every day is hot and hot. My work only has one window unit and it can be miserable. I have decided to be grateful for a great job that I enjoy and to having my own personal sauna to sweat away the pounds:). I hadn't downloaded pic in a while so I thought that I would put a few of the girls.

Here are Kaylee and Reese having fun at the end of the year school party and no, Kaylee did not put all of that shaving cream on her sister. She did it herself. She loves to be dirty!

Tragedy

This morning we recieved a phone call from one our church members that a little girl had drowned last night. Her name is Abby and she had just turned 2. The family had just gotten back from church camp and had gone to baseball and softball games. The dad had brought the kids home and someone drove up at their house as they were going in. The dad hollers for the boys to watch her. They go in a few minutes later and start getting ready for bed. The mom comes home and asks where Abby is and the dad runs out and finds her in their pool. It is a tragedy that could happen to any one of us parents. You turn your back or loose concentration for a brief moment and...your world falls apart. I have been following a website http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/ and it is from one of the wives of the group Selah. She is an amazing woman who truly has a grip on who our God is. I hope it will bring Angie and Heath comfort. I do not know them well but will be praying for His comfort. I cannot imagine how my life would be without my precious children. Yet I know that God is bigger than all our problems because has conguered the world and overcame all. Please pray for the Silva family.

Inspiring...Aspiring

I have read many peoples blogs, half of which I do not know. It is amazing to hear the stories they tell. I began to wonder about what I find inspiring and who I am aspiring to be.

I aspire to be like my mother. She was a true women of God. When she was diagnosed with cancer she came out of the shell that she had always been so comfortable with. She was so shy. But when the times became more than any of us could bear she put on the armoe of Christ and fought for Him. She opened up about her faith to those she knew and those she did not know. I know of so many people who came to know the Lord through her and by the testimony she allowed the Lord to use for her. I cannot tell you how many times I looked at the verse and prayed over the verse, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it". John 11:4 Or "Rejoice always, pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances for this is the will of God for you" Thes. 5:16-18. I would always try to thank God for all His blessings and for all He was doing. I would 'remind' Him that He was the great physician and that He could take the cancer away. I would tell HIm of all the wonderful things that a miracle could do for Him. But that is not what happened and I thank Him for the woman He has made me be because of it. I aspire to be like my mom. A true 'Virtuous woman'. She was the peacemaker, the encourager, the rock, the warrior, and the mom that loved unconditionally. I am so thankful that God gave me a mom that I could model. She was amazing and I hope to be like her. At the same time, I am not as shy as she was and that tends to be my weakness. I tell Phillip all the time that I hope that he excells in his ministry inspite of me. I don't have that little voice that says you shouldn't say that until it is already out my mouth and into the ears of those around me. Definately something to work on and I am trying.

I aspire to be a woman who is faithful to her Heavenly Father. Who remembers He is the reason that I am a wife and mother. That I am a nurse who loves caring for others. That I am a friend to many. And that I need Him every hour. I want to be a true disciple, a servant to my friends and family. That is something that I have really been trying to focus on because I feel that is where true ministry begins. If we serve those around us, they will see Jesus in us and that is who I want people to see. Not Molly, but Jesus.

I am inspired by the world around me. I get to drive a lot with my job and I get to see the wonders of His creation. I love to see the colors of the sunset/rise and the beauty of the sky when it is about to rain. The clouds are so amazing to me. The trees as they lift their leaves to catch the water. The amazing hues in flowers. Only God can paint such a majestic masterpiece.

My children inspire me. I love to see the world through their eyes. They are amazed at things that I take for granted. Reese can get so excited about seeing animals she has never seen or just every time she goes outside and lifts her little arms up and grins and lets the world surround her. Kaylee has an amzing grip on the world and our creator and it is so simple to her. It should still be simple to me. I pray for that daily. Jesus said,"Let the little children come to me". He knew they understood him. We should believe simply because,"...the Bible tells me so."

My husband inspires me. I love to hear him preach. He amazes me. I learn so much from him. He is truely a man of God who seeks after Him. He encourages me to be a good wife and mother and I love him dearly. I am privelaged to be his wife and WAY over married. He inspires me in everthing I do.

Thank you Lord for giving me things to aspire to be and things that inspire me to get there.

The Results are In

Dr. Wiley's office called today and Reese has some refulx to her Left Kidney. They feel like she will grow out of it and we will continue to watch it. I see teeth on the horizon so we will probably be teething in the near future but no surgery is such a relief.

Update

We have completed VCUG part one. We hope to have the results by Thursday. They did say that they did not see reflux into the kidneys. Reese was actually quite silly with the Versed. She did scream all throug the ultrasound and during the catherterization and then she got silly and drunk. She wasn't pleased when the machine came on top of her and we gave her some more Versed and no cares again. Thank you for your prayers and we will update when the final word comes. We pray that whatever was wrong has healed thanks to the Great Physician!

Prayers for Reese

Reese is having a VCUG and sonogram tomorrow and we are all a little nervous, except Reese who has no idea what is going to happen. The doctors and radiologists have all warned us that this is not a pleasant event. She will be given an amnesiac but can wake up and most likely will wake up dureing the procdure. This is being done to see why she is having urinary tract infections. So please say a little prayer for us all tomorrow and that there is nothing wrong.