Coffee Talk Book Club!!!

Coffee Talk Book Club is starting up again and this is our new book...I've missed you ladies...Come join us July 17 at 6:30 pm at Penera in the Target center for our kick off Dinner, tea, coffee...what ever you're in the mood for...to get to know each other and to talk about how the group works...I'm so looking forward to reading this book with you...I can't wait to see what God has in store for all of us!!!!

Great Aunt Brandi...WHAT!!!!

I am going to be a GREAT aunt...how did this happen? I guess the same way I became a"Ma am" and the mother of a teenager...here are a couple of pictures of the little bundle of joy that I can't wait to get my hands on!!! These pictures AMAZE me!!!! And people say God isn't real...Ya right...

Oh by the way the best part of all of this is calling my big sis...GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sending me these pictures Kasi...I love them...oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

We're Melting!!!!!

Oh my gosh what a tiring week it has been...and HOT!!! The first day of the fair was 115...we literally stayed at the barn keeping bud cooled down so he wouldn't get over heated and DIE...and no...barns don't come with air conditioning...at least this one doesn't...and pigs actually don't sweat so it is very important to keep them cooled with water and such or they really do die...my favorite part of the day was watching Brittani work so hard and enjoy taking GREAT care of her pig and loving Bud through every hot moment...my least favorite part of the day...smelling pig poop heated up to 115 degrees...I miss my facials and pedicures...boy have things changed...so that was Wednesday...Thursday was a little cooler 110 but still the same proses...Bud did great in market...he ended up in the 1st round of pigs for the auction and at top weight...(they stop paying out at 165)...brit will make a little profit on Bud...Today was only 104 I can't believe I'm going to say this but here it goes...it was sooooo much cooler...Brittani did great in showmanship today...she has really improved...her best is getting better and better...we are very proud of her...now Darin and Colton are happily playing a baseball ps2 video game in a wonderfully cool house...I'm here writing you all and poor Brit is still battling the heat at Cheer practise...what a trooper...Tomorrow is auction where people come from all over and bid on how much they will pay per pound for bud and all the other piggies...we will get to the barn in the morning and find Bud with a number on his back placing him in auction...we will wait until our turn and Brit will go in the ring to show him while they bid...I guess the whole proses goes pretty quickly because they only get 1 minute per pig...so...we'll see...it's another adventure...

until next time...I hope you are cooler than we are...

The Fair already????

Well tomorrow is the beginning of the end for Bud...I can smell the bacon already!!! Just kidding...it's easier to joke about it than to think about it...poor Bud...The fair starts tomorrow!!! Brittani and Darin will be going to our friends the Gillum's at 4:15 yes a.m. to load Bud up for the last time...Tomorrow is weigh-in Thurs. is Market when they judge the quality and worth of the pig Friday is showmanship when they judge Brittani and that leaves Friday sell day...yep Bud is dead pig walking...as of Sunday he weighed a whopp'n 270lbs...things are look'n goooooood...Bruce and Rhonda let us borrow their video camera so we should have some pretty entertaining footage for y'all real soon...well here we go on this wild ride...wish us luck...oh and by the way it's supposed to be in the 100's all weekend...ugh...

Too Long

It's been too long!!! I had an inspirational thought, moment, observation today...Do you ever wish you can see every moment as a God moment? One thing I know for sure...I do want to see God in my moments...I often pray and even wrote a worship song about it...the words are this...

Help me see with Your eyes
reach with Your hands
love with Your heart
fill every part
make me in Your image
take my will complete
to be pleasing to You
Your love makes my new

Make me who You are
reveal to me Your heart
help me understand
my life is in Your hands

Today I had a moment...I am striving to be like Christ...but sometimes I forget, get distracted from my purpose...and then GRACE and MERCY...God takes the time to remind little old insignificant me what in the world I am here for...not for my schedules, appointments, Calendar dates...yes they are part of it but God has to be in all of my life...in my moments...I warn you it's not easy...compassion is...dificult...it hurts sometime when God helps you to see the people He has strategically placed in our lives through His eyes...and it's not always easy or convenient to be His hand extended to them...it can get...messy...but God has made us get your hands dirty kind of people...so do it....just do it!!! Reach out and get your hand dirty...let your heart hurt...cry...love...pray...God is faithful he wont leave you hang'n when you don't know what you've gotten your self into...it is totally 100% worth every painful, joyful, God given moment...