Fear the Lord your God, walk in His ways, love Him, serve the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. Deut 10:12
Sunday, November 30, 2008
A little about me...
A: Attached or Single.... Attached to Eric and 3 wonderful boys..
B: Best Friend... I have several really close friends.. my BF is Jesus...
C: Cake or Pie... as long as it is chocolate I don't care..
D. Day of Choice... Saturday
E. Essential Item... Cell Phone
F: Favorite Color... I don't really have one.. I like pinks, greens, and of course orange.. GO TIGERS!!!!
G: Gummy bears or worms... NEITHER
H: Home town... born in Easly, lived in Mauldin until I was 4 and then moved to Simpsonville/Ft.Inn so I call that my hometown
I: Favorite Indulgence... Pedicures when I do them but a good ole girls night out it great too
J: Jan. or July... Jan...is my b'day but July is when we got married and I do prefer hot weather over cold..
K: Kids...got 3 great boys
L: Lemon in your tea... I will take it..
M: Marriage Date...7/14/01
N: Number or siblings: 2
O: Oranges or Apples... Green apples
P: Phobias... drowning
Q: Quotes... just lay it at the foot of the cross, hand it over to Jesus..
R: Reasons to smile... I have alot of reasons to smile, my family, friends, a good shopping find,great food, lost weight,I have hot water all through my shower, my church family, I could go on and on
S: Season of choice... fall
T: Think of 5 people who may do this... Kim H, Stacy, Kim W, Summer, Summer, Rhonda
U: Unusual Fact... I was adopted??? Is that unusual???
V: Vegetable... cucumbers..lol
W: Worst Habit... not finishing what I have started or just not starting...
X: Excited about.... Christmas
Y: Your Favorite Food... I guess chicken cause I order that wherever I go... but I love brownies
Z: Zoo or ZZZZZ's..... depending on the day and the weather.. I like to do both
Tell me about yourself...
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Crazy Shopping

We are in line waiting to turn into the outlet

Ok, so we came down 85 and the to get off the exit ramp it was backed up at least 2 miles so we thought we would be smart go down to the next exit and go down 11 through the back road guess what.. the line was just as long...
See now you can see where they get it from.. their mom...lol

Beth trying looking at the Wal-Mart sales paper to see if she needs to go there... ok, this girl is organize.. all the other stores she saw she wanted to go to she got a notebook and cut off the pic of the item and if there was a coupon, the name of the store and the hours it was good for and she taped them to the page so she just had to take the page into the store with her.. I think I am going to try this next year...

Yes, this is what you do when you know you are crazy to be out at this hour shopping... 
my crazy partners in crime..lol

mine and Beth's trees fighting, by now it is 2:30 and we have not really brought anything just having fun. 
So, we left the outlet about 4 and went on to Kohl's to meet my other crazy friend Denise... now Kohl's is usually my favorite place to shop I still didn't buy much here. My deal her was a huge throw blanket that is long and soft that is usually $40 I got for $7.99. We stood in line forever but it was ok we had fun still shopping, finding Denise phone that was down in the box of the blankets... From here we went through McDonald's drive thru and got the greasy biscuit and hashbrown they were so greasy I don't think really any of us ate all of it... On to Target now it is not 6:15 and boy was the lines long already when we got there.. I did miss out on getting the GPS I wanted from here but I got all the other things including all my movies for like $3.98 and $5 I wanted plus some.. I found Stephen's grab it and got the only time I saw it all day.. I think I am going to be glad I got it.. From here went to Shoe Carnival and Denise got a great deal on Sperry's I could not believe they were part of the buy one get one half and plus you could use your $10 coupon.. Then onto WalMart at about 8 got my movie deals I wanted and the smaller verison of the GPS I wanted at Target (this is a gift to me and Eric from his mom she gives us money on Thanksgiving to do our own shopping so this year we put our money together and the GPS and if you read my beach blog you know Eric is going to love this..lol) .. Then we headed to the mall I got some good deals on clothes for the boys here and we were able to get into the stores here that we couldn't at the mall... We stop at Garfield's and ate lunch the break was good but boy was it terrible getting up and moving afterwards... By the time we left and got home it was 2:30 in the afternoon we were all worn slap out, my body was hurting and even though I never got that nap I really wasn't sleepy just tired... Came home and separated all our bags out said goodbye to Beth (we had dropped Denise back off at her car before coming to my house) me and Susan went in put on our pj and veggie out for the rest of the day and night... That Greenville trip was shot cause we had enough for the day..lol... Saturday I was going to get up and either go to Greenville, go finish some shopping or go up and help Susan move somethings, pack or clean but I stayed on the couch all day in my pj watching lifetime movies and ABC family movies.. I did watch a little of the game GO TIGERS!!!!!!! It is 11:30 pm and I have moved from the couch to the bedroom to the computer and waiting on the boys to call for me to come and get them from the church, they have gone to OCC warehouse to help do the boxes.. Tomorrow I have a lot to get done I just pray that I will be rested up to have the energy to do it..lol... Will I do it again next year.. You betcha I will but I think it will be back to the old way and going to Westgate at 2am.... but I had a great time w/ my friends and it was worth every bit of it... They all got along great and really didn't even know each other until this crazy shopping day, hopefully we can just have a girls night or maybe even a girls shopping spree in TN after Christmas...
Turkey Preparing

Bucky, Mandy and Abagail starting to clean up the trays and tables

All 80 turkeys season and ready to be deep fried. 
Still cleaning the tables

Blake mopping the gym floor

Some of the youth cleaning the carts

Even Ryan cleaned up.. maybe he will clean his room now..lol

Kimberly Sowell MB Retreat
Friday- we left around 3 to head to the beach, had some good girl talk and dash cam pics...

We went straight to Ocean Reef where the conference was held and meet up with the other ladies and had our first topics for the weekend...
A great group of ladies

Saturday morning we got up and went to MacDonald's for breakfast and went back to Ocean Reef for the morning section....
Glamour Girl or Humble Handmaid
Mary's learning curve- the birth of Jesus
She had a humble assignment it was not about her but it was about Jesus, it was his way to show the world that God placed Him on earth.
It was a public assignment she would be under a microscope all the time. It was not about us but about others seeing Christ inside of us.
It was a painful assignment Luke 2:34-35 not about us but that of hearts of Mary will pierce too you. Her journey began with faith building words... Luke 1:37 For w/ God nothing will be impossible...
After the morning session we all took off on our separate ways about 7 ladies went to a Christmas show that after hearing about it I wish I had gone, 4 other ladies went to the outlets and then me and my group went to Tomlinson a good place to shop and indoor flea Market a good place to skip nothing like the one in Surfside...While we were at Tomlinson look who we ran into...
That is Julie and Sandra Lloyd and Julie's I think great niece... She was on her girls shopping trip

Before we went to back for our night session we went to dinner to some Mexican restaurant can't remember the name of it but the chips were WONDERFUL and I ate so many that I couldn't eat my chicken quesidalles... afterwards we headed back to the conference and meet up w/ all the ladies again.. Before we got into the session they had a little round of some family feud games..
Our ladies won this game.. there were even a few that did some motions of the answers...

We had a short lesson on David during the night time session..
God is calling each one of us to be spiritual risk taker.
Will you be standing still or stepping out for the kingdom of God?
You are God's chosen one 1 Samuel 16:1-13, God sees a dwelling place in our heart for that alone is the reason for us to believe we are his chosen one.
There is an enemy in the camp 1 Samuel 17:29. what we criticize other people for is really what we don't like about our self. Are are motivates pure and hearts right?? He who is in us is greater than of the world.
There is a cause 1 Samuel 17:29 the cause of God it begins and ends w/ Him. He is not going to get in line for YOUR causes you have to get in line for HIS cause.
After the night session we were headed to Shoney's to eat and Teresa and I had been excited all day long for the desserts they have but as we got there they were close so we went to Carolina Roadhouse I was still full from our supper so I just order a bowl of ice cream... but the best part of the night was Ann's hotdog... boy if you ever go there unless you are starving don't order this thing it is HUGE... Also as much as I was drain the Harris ladies kept our end of the table rolling in laughter.. I don't think there was a minute we were not laughing.. I know the other end thought we were crazy.. I don't think I have laugh that much in a while, thank you Kathi, Angie and Peggy and Ann for ordering the hotdog... We have a rule what happens on these trips stay on these trips.. You should come one time, you will love it..
Can you guess who this is??? Maybe there is a reason why she is hiding her face..lol

On Sunday we got up and loaded up and headed back to the conference for our last hour which was on Daniel.
A Pivotal Moment in Time- How can you be in the lions den and have peace???
Notes about Daniel:
They could change his name but not the man he was..
Daniel name means God is my judge
Daniel was so connected to Jesus they could only trap him by going against God's will and when he found this out he just went home and prayed giving thanks to God, he did what was custom
The Pivotal moment was Daniel 1:8 he would not define himself...
Could we be like Daniel?? When you found out that somebody had trick you into signing a piece of paper could you go home and pray not about revenge on the people but to give thanks... So even though the weekend was great I really am praying to give all to God, let him be the hands, let others see Christ in me, quit standing still and go out and show and tell others who Jesus is and live my life to where I give thanks in everything no matter how bad things are... All in 2 days and I question why I was emotional drain.... I do give thanks that He woke me up, I still struggle esp with this busy time of year but why do we celebrate Christmas.. not about the gifts, food, parties, but it is about the birth of our wonderful Jesus. The one that gets me through the day and I pray to have a wonderful relationship with and just sit still with Him...
After we were done we we all said our goodbyes. Since Teresa car really held 4 comfortable I went and rode home w/ Lynn in her mini van w/ 5 other ladies that I had not been able to really get to spend time during the weekend. We stop at Lizard Thicket in Columbia and had dinner it was great as always... Do you see a routine in these ladies things... eat, conference, eat, conference, eat... We do eat alot but we have a great fellowship time , we even make new friends and we are growing over the weekend. It was worth everything.
Toby Mac

All 10 of us that went
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving
So, I want to wish all of you a wonderful, happy and bless Thanksgiving. In this past year God has given me so much to be thankful for or should I say open my eyes up...Here is an email that a co-worker sent to me yesterday and it is a great reminder of what we should be thankful for...
Even though I clutch my blanket and growl when the alarm rings each morning, thank you, Lord, that I can hear. There are many who are deaf.
Even though I keep my eyes tightly closed against the morning light as long as possible, thank you Lord, that I can see. There are many who are blind.
Even though I huddle in my bed and put off the effort of rising, thank you, Lord that I have the strength to rise. There are many who are bedridden.
Even though the first hour of my day is hectic, when keys are lost, bagel is burned, and tempers are short, thank you, Lord for my family. There are many who are lonely.
Even though our breakfast table never looks like the pictures in magazines and the menu is at times unbalanced, thank you, Lord for the food we have. There’re many who have no job.
Even though I grumble and bemoan my fate from day to day and wish my circumstances were not so modest, thank you, Lord, for the gift of Life.
Even though we gets so caught up that we do not take the time to capture the moments, for all of the blessing that you have given us through out the year.
Lord, we asking that you give us a peace of mind this day, so that we can be thankful for your “Harvest Season”.
May you wake up everyday and realize all that we have to be thankful for...
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thankful Tuesday
10 Thankful Things....
1. I am thankful that I am daughter of the most highest King and that He has a great plan for my life...
2. I am thankful for my boys.. Ryan challenges me on days to be a better person, Stephen and his sassy silly attitude gives me laughter when I need it.. Tyler keeps me young, I get to see things from his eyes and it is a happy place there... they all give me love and I thankful for each of them.
3. I am thankful for what God has bless me with being able to do for my kids and not have to really worry..
4. I am thankful for the youth group at church esp for the girls in my ss class.. I learn more from them each day about who our God is and I bless to watch each of them grow..
5. I am thankful for my friends in my life that know when I need them and prayer is needed. They just look at me and can tell and they encourage me and pray for me.
6. I am thankful for my husband he is a hard working man, provides for his family, and keeps me grounded..
7. Oh yeah, I am also thankful that he cleaned out his buildings and our laundry room.
8. I am thankful to have my sisters and their families back in my life.
9. I am thankful for a wonderful sister in law that I enjoy spending time with and I am thankful for my niece and nephew they are just a joy to be with..
10. I am thankful for my friends that are crazy as I am that will get up with me at 3am on Friday morning and go shopping...