Decisions, Decisions

We have a lot going on right now!!!

1st- Derreck and I are wanting to take a trip together. Just to get away. We are always so busy, even when he is at work. I really believe that since we don't have kids of our own (yet), that everyone thinks that we have all the free time in the world. It seems like here lately, Derreck and I are constantly going in the opposite direction! The problem is...Where do we go? We want to go somewhere where we can relax but do fun stuff. It can't be to far of a drive away. It can't be way too expensive. So the question still remains...where do we go?

2nd- We are wanting to buy a new to us car. One that has less miles on it than mine does! We will be giving my truck to Nanny to drive, and giving Nanny's car to Mikey & Roze to drive. But so far we haven't found anything that fits just right. So we are still looking!

3rd- We are trying to get the church legal and all the business parts situated. Then Derreck gets this bright idea about opening yet another church. I feel like he is going 100 miles an hour and I am struggling to catch up! And when I almost get to the same place he is, he takes of again! I know that God has this in His hands and He will guide us!

4th- Everyone around us is having babies and it just makes us want one even worse than before! I think we have decided to do foster care with the possibility to adopt. It is such a big decision that could end up breaking my heart over an over again. Then I think, we can help some kids have a great home if we do this! The more and more I think about it though...the more excited I get. I am ready for this and so is Derreck! Know we just have to wait to do all the classes, and qualification stuff! And of course for kids!!!! Couldn't you see us with a house full of kids? I can!!!

I have never gave up hope that one day I will have kids to call my own. Does that mean I have to have them naturally? NOPE!!!! I love every kid that we come into contact with and each one has a special place in my heart!

BELLA!!!

Taking it up a Notch!

"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idelness."

Proverbs 31:27

I feel like I need to step it up a notch, for some reason. I don't think that I am lazy by any means, and my house for the most part is taking care of. I just feel like I'm not going any where. I think I need to seek God more in my daily life and not have so much time to sit. Because if I am not spreading the message about Jesus, then what am I doing?

"And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things that they ought not."

1 Timothy 5:13

I don't want to be labeled as one of those busy bodied housewives that don't have anything better to do than sit around, and talk about everyone and their problems. I could spend my time better by praying for those people and praising God! When Derreck got ordained as a deacon and then a minister they told us that it will be like we are living in a glass house for everyone to see. Well I know people are watching our every move. I also know that some are waiting for us to slip. I want them to be able to us in our daily lives and say "They are living their lives for Jesus and they want everyone else to live that way too."

Sunday Afternoon!

I enjoy days like this past Sunday afternoon. After church everyone came over and we ate lunch. We cleaned the kitchen up and then everyone couldn't wait to get outside. It was beautiful weather and all the kids just loved running around and playing. We all ended up playing hop scotch and the kids loved it! Who would think that kids these days would like to be outside playing a game that doesn't require a controller! I love to see the kids running around the yard, yelling and screaming. Who likes to use an inside voice anyways? Then to top the day off we had 10 kids at church that night and had a wonderful service! God is working in our little church and I am excited to see what he has in store for us!!!

Our 8th Anniversary!!!!

Yesterday was Derreck's and mine 8th Anniversary!! When I say eight years it seems like we have been married forever, but when I think back on our marriage it doesn't seem to be a long period of time. We have had some good times and some bad times, but mostly great times. It is so hard to find time away from everyone and everything in order to spend with each other. I look forward to the times when we can just get away and be with each other. I love to spend time with Derreck. He is the one person who can make me laugh from inside, make me smile with my eyes, and the only one that knows how to dry my tears. Most of the time we are so far apart because of his job, but I know that he is only a phone call away. Derreck is a great husband and a great servant of God. I love being married to a man that lives his life for God and will guide me in my life according to the Bible. I hope we have many more years together and thousands more memories. I know that we have a lot to learn about marriage and about each other, but I know that we are on the right track. Why because we are both serving a mighty and powerful God!

"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,Does not behaveitself unseemly,seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth."

1 Corinthians 13:4-8