Another Video

So I saw another video that I know you guys will love. I know I hardly post and now have I not only posted three days in a row but twice in one day. This video is full of cuteness! :) I love YouTube!! ~ You'll have to scroll down and pause my playlist.

Forever

I saw this on YouTube today and thought it was hilarious. I had heard something about this and then stumbled across it today. It's quite entertaining. I don't think I'll be doing this when I get married but I thought it was funny. Enjoy! *PS - You'll have to scroll down and pause my playlist.



The song that they danced to is called "Forever" by Chris Brown. Since the song was sung by Chris Brown and he was recently convicted of abusing his girlfriend, Rihanna, the couple is asking people to donate to the Sheila Wellstone Institute. Sheila Wells was an advocate in ending violence against women. I'm not asking you to donate but I thought you would be interested in hearing about that.

I hope you enjoyed the video. Have a great weekend!

Rambling Soapbox

Its the day after my birthday and I'm a little sad...no puppy. :( Oh well. Maybe some other day. I really wanted one but I'm sure the timing wasn't right. My office took me out to Cheddar's today and it was so good. I love that place. I don't go there very often but I love it.

Every morning I watch Good Morning America as I get ready for work. This morning I had seen a report on there that Obama was having two people to the White House for beers to settle some racist thing that he got himself involved in when he should have kept his mouth quiet. But I'll keep my opinions to myself on that. What I'm on a soapbox about today is the fact that they (being the media)are being so vocal about them having a few beers together. Now, I know people drink but is this really the message we want to send kids? The message that "Hey, let's settle our problems with alcohol." That's not the message I want my niece and nephew to see. It's not the message I want the youth in my church to see. We should not be settling our disputes with alcohol. Would the Lord bless a meeting like that? I'm all for being getting together and talking out their problems but when you add alcohol to the mix, I'm dead set against it.

If you haven't noticed I am strongly against alcohol. I don't believe it's right to drink under any circumstances. You can agree or disagree with me. If you drink, that's between you and the Lord but I don't get it. I know that there are scientific facts that say alcohol is good for you. But I don't totally buy that either. I'm more concerned in what the Scriptures say about it and what the Lord thinks of me. The Bible clearly says we are to stay away from any appearance of evil. I know alot of people don't think that drinking is evil or wrong in anyway but the effects of drinking can be. Why even put yourself in that position? The Bible also clearly says we are to be in the world and not of the world. We shouldn't be conforming to what others are doing just for the sake of fitting in or trying to win that person for the Lord. That's not how it works. If you are doing what they are doing then they are going to say why change if you are already involved in the same things they are. I know I've talked about it once before so I won't beat a dead horse.

I just was a little disturbed that they are almost praising the fact that Obama is having them over for a few beers. I just don't think that's a great message to anyone let alone the youth of today. There are better ways of settling disputes.

But what do I know? :)

Happy Birthday to Me!!

My poor poor poor neglected blog. I think it's almost time to put this baby to rest. I just haven't had the time or desire to blog. I look at some of my friends' blogs and they blog almost everyday. I just don't do that. I don't have anything to blog about every single day. My life is boring and so I just don't feel the want to blog. So don't be surprised if this turns out to be my last blog. We will see. Who knows? Maybe I'll get a second (or in this case, a 10th) wind and start blogging on a more consistent basis.

July was a busy month for me. We had our FWB National Convention last week and it wore me out. I think it's because I spend every minute at work in the weeks leading up to the convention getting ready for it. Then when you are at the National you are constantly moving...walking to somewhere. You are up early for competition and meetings and you are out late every night because of the nightly services. After the nightly services everyone goes out to eat at nearby restaurants. This year's National was special to me because all of my best friends were there this year. It rarely happens that we all together and this is the first time that we all were together in 2 years. Here is a picture of us all that we took the last morning together. We were all getting ready to head home.

The only ones missing were our friends, Jonathan and Maranda Lieupo. They weren't able to make it this year but we all still managed to have a great time. The guys, of course, made sure they made time for Rook. That was a staple when we all still lived near each other. We all sat together in services and then went out to eat together every night after the service. It was like nothing had changed with us. It was funny because as we were all walking down the street together to get some dinner and one of the guys mentioned how natural it felt for us to be going out to eat. Nothings changed with all of us and you couldn't tell that most of us hadn't seen each other in several years. That's when you know you have a true friendship. I feel so blessed to have such Godly friends and family. I don't know why God decided to bless me with them in my life but I'm so glad that He did. My life would be so lonely without them all.

Every Wednesday night at the National is always the Missions service. They have our International and Home Missions walk down the aisles of the auditorium and walk up on the stage. I love this part always. I guess part of the reason is I used to be apart of that when my parents were missionaries. But since I work for Home Missions now and I know all our missionaries it does something to my heart. When the missionaries started walking down the aisles to get to the stage everyone started clapping and giving them a standing ovation. It was so awesome to see them being honored by our denomination like that. I have a special place in my heart for missions and I was so overwhelmed that I started crying. My sister in law leaned over to me and said, "It's not always about the money. That's why we stay and do what we do." I knew exactly what she was talking about. I've been so discouraged lately with not having enough money to live on and I've contemplated leaving for a higher paying job for the past year. Someone had asked me why I stay at a job that doesn't pay much and I never could put it into words why I would stay. But after that night and after the statement Jenny made. I knew. It's a ministry. Yes, it's a job but it's more than that. It's a ministry. I have a hand in helping this missionaries win souls for Christ. I love our missionaries more than anything and my heart swelled with pride watching them up on that stage making a pledge before God and our denomination that they will fight the good fight and win more souls for Christ. I hope some day that I go into Home Missions again planting a church. If not, I'll keep doing what I'm doing and supporting our hard working missionaries every day here at my job.

The day we were leaving I went with my brother, his family, and youth group to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. We spent most of our time at the kiddie rides but we had a blast. My brother, his wife, and myself have realized how old we are getting because we only rode one adult ride. The rest of the time we spent riding the kiddie rides with my niece and nephew. It was so wonderful though. My niece and nephews are such daredevils. They will ride anything and they had a blast. I got to ride a couple rides with my 17 month old nephew and he loved them. He would laugh and throw his hands in the air. It was so cute. We were all so exhausted though. After spending a week at the National followed by a day at an amusement park, I'm tired. It's taken several days to recuperate from it.

But! Today's my birthday. I turned the big 3-2 today. It's seems so unreal to be 32. I used to think that was so old, but I don't anymore. I still feel like I'm 12 sometimes. It was so great to get a phone call this morning from my brother and his family and they were all singing happy birthday to me. It was so sweet to hear my 3 year old niece sing that to me. I can't wait to hug and kiss her sweet face next week. I don't know exactly what I'm doing for my birthday today. I'm sure it will be low-key. Tomorrow my office is taking me out and I have no idea where we are going. I have to decide and I'm not good at deciding these things. Then I'm so excited that I'm going out to dinner Friday night with a friend and then to a movie. I finally get to eat Mexican! I haven't had Mexican in forever and so I know that's what I'm eating Friday night.

I still haven't received any presents so my fingers are still crossed for an American Bulldog puppy. I'm not holding my breath but there's always a chance. I'll let you know. :)

Watch Out...It's a Boring Blog

Oh boy, I didn't realize that It's been over a week since I updated this! I could have sworn I updated this sooner than that. Sorry. It's been a crazy week. I can't and won't give details but its just been a week that I can't wait to be over.My 4th of July went okay. I hung out at home most of the day and then went out to eat with some church friends and tried to watch the fireworks. I saw just a couple but that was it. It was raining so hard that it rained out the fireworks here. I was so bummed. I love fireworks. I guess it's the little kid in me but I love them so I was a little bit disappointed. We still had a good time though. When you are enjoying good food with good friends, there really isn't much to complain about.

My other blog More Than Just Kids seems to be taking off a bit. I get more hits on there than I do on this one. Ha! I'm enjoying writing it though. It scared me at first because I didn't know if I would have anything say since it pertains to a certain area of my life but so far so good. Of course it's only the third week. I've had several teens email me ideas or even just talking to me about what is going on their life. It's unbelievable what some teens are going through. It's so different now than when I was teen. Sometimes, I feel so inadequate talking to these teens but I feel the Lord leading me through all this and somehow I seem to have answers (whether they are the right ones are not could be debatable.) :)

The National convention is coming up and I'm so not ready for it...personally and workwise. I need to do some shopping but I hate clothes shopping. I would rather gouge my eye out than shop for clothes. I'm not a small girl and it seems as if designers think that if you are somewhat large that your clothes need to look like drapes or tablecloths. Maybe I'm not looking in the right stores but it's so depressing. But I know that I need to overcome my hatred for shopping and get it done before I leave. I have to also pack up things at work for our booth in the exhibit hall. I'm only half done. I feel like it just snuck up on me but I've known for a year when the convention was going to be. I'm just a huge procrastinator...or I just work really well under pressure. Which ever sounds better.

I got to see my brother yesterday, albeit for a total of 45 mins, if that. He brought up a few of his teens for Truth and Peace so he stopped by the office to see me and then off to the house to see mom for a bit before he headed back to Alabama. It was good to see him. I wish he could have brought his kids but it was good to spend time with just him. I'll get to see them in a couple of weeks at the National so I wasn't too sad to see him go.

There really isn't much going on here lately. Like I said in my title, it's a boring blog. It really was too. I'm so sorry to all of you who read to the end thinking it was going to get better. :)

Historical Moment

Today is an historical moment. It is my 100th blog post. I was told that when you hit your 100th blog post that you are supposed to list 100 things about yourself. I'm not going to bore you with 100 meaningless things about myself. Although you might find some things interesting. Maybe another day. But I never thought I would actually make it to 100 posts. I thought that I would lose interest in this and not last a week blogging but here I am still pressing on. Of course some posts were not interesting and some where more than you bargained for. :) But I'm having fun blogging and as long as you are reading it, I'll keep blogging.

Saturday is July 4th so we have tomorrow off at work. I'm so excited about that. What I'm most excited about is having two days in a row to sleep in. I love my sleep and I have been going to bed so late these past few days....darn Ice Road Truckers! I love that show. Have you seen it? It airs on the History channel and it's about truckers who make runs from Fairbanks, AK to Prudhoe Bay, AK. Evidently its a very dangerous job and there is no way I could do it. It's really cool though and I'm addicted.

Since it is July and my birthday is at the end of the month, I'm declaring the entire month a celebration of my birthday. LOL! I'll be 32 this year and I'm not sad or depressed at all at the thought of being another year older. Of course, I thought my life would be completely different than it is now (i.e. husband, kids) but I'm completely content with where I am right now. I'm about to purchase a home in the next couple of months, I have a great family, wonderful niece and nephew and some really great close friends that I love with my whole heart. My Lord and Savior has taken care of me and blessed me beyond measure so what do I have to be sad or depressed over? Are there things I wished I hadn't done in the last year? Sure. I've had my share of heartbreak this year over several circumstances but my God never left me. He's kept me in the palm of His hand guiding me and directing me. He's given me a peace this year after these heartbreaks like I've never known.

I'm excited and can't wait to see what my 32nd birthday will hold...hopefully a male American Bulldog who I will name Gibbs. :)

Really? Am I 5 again?

I'm having a lot of firsts this week. First I forgot my brother and sister (in laws) anniversary and then something happened to me at the end of Ladies Prayer Group Monday night that has never happened to me before, believe it or not. I got stuck in a bathroom stall. I felt like I was five years old all over again. LOL! The meeting had just gotten over and I was in a hurry because I was meeting a friend downtown (a good 20 mins from the church) and I was already running late but needed to make a quick trip to the ladies room. Now, I don't know about you but when I use the same restroom quite frequently (i.e. church, work) I tend to use the same stall. I don't know what that is about.

Anyway, for some strange reason (maybe the stars were out of whack) I decided to go in the first stall rather than the second. I had a hard time getting the thing locked in the first place (common sense should have told me something there). So when I was ready to leave I couldn't get the stupid thing to turn. I did everything I could think of doing. One of the other ladies got her key to try and pry it open but the lock wouldn't budge and her key nearly broke in half. Another friend of mine was trying to push the door up while I turned the key because she got stuck in this same stall not too long ago and that's what helped her. Well, it didn't help me. The lock was completely stuck and would not turn a centimeter. Ugh! So I ended up crawling underneath the door. How embarassing and now I've furthered embarassed myself by telling all of you.

I'm sure this was exactly the kind of blog you were planning on readying today, right? :)