FAMILY:One of Gods greatest gifts!!!

pictrure time
Matts parents havea time share in orlando florida,so every year we have gotten to go to this incredible resort in orlando for a week and just enjoy family time:) we always have sooo much fun and w all love the place we stay at.it has soo much for us all to do,at least 5 or 6 pools,hot tubs,a few cafes,a putput corse,volleyball net,a little water slide..and the list goes on..normally we dont leave the resort,our rooms are pretty incredible too..little appartment type things ,very spacious.2 bedrooms,2 bathroom a living room a big dingin room table and nice size kitchen and tvs in every room.a little peek into our week....

off to the pool...at 7 in the evening:)



matt and his neice..



bacj in april matt and i and some friends went to this same place for a wek as well for a friends birthday-and that week we had bought a 4 day pass to go to diferent parks down tehre..we still had one day left so we used it the one day to go to hollywood studios..it was SOOOO awfully hott we didnt last longer then about 2 hours...

my much popping belly..

little trouble makers..:)

1 of the 6 or 7 towers at our resort..

floridas beautiful sunset..

matts parents took the whole family to the holy land experience on friday-it was incredible!!we got to see lots of shows and just experience the bible times...i loved it!


this play was of jesus death and resurection-literally had me in tears...






this was a super big amazing model replica of jerusalem..absolutely amazing-i meen it had everything from golgatha to the holy of holys...i thought this was a highlight..


the 15 steps of ascent..our ladies at church did a beth moor study on the steps of ascent..and wen mom and i saw this we made sure to count all 15:)


one night amtt had to make sure to take his brother in laws and dad to this put put course..although it wasnt really put put it was sooo hard!!i meen this place was called the fairways course,the holes were soo long.it was like putting on concrete..pretty intense.i ahd to remind myself to stay calm..



well thats all for now..next week ill try to post pics of wen mom and karen came..hope yal enjoyed..now im off to snuggle on the couch with my hubby and watch the braves:)

LIFES A DANCE YOU LEARN AS YOU GO....

where to start this blog...a week n a half ago my mom sister and her 3 girls up and packed there bags one morning and headed down here-planned the trip in a matter of a few hours..and lets just say some family time was much needed for me..ive bneen feeling a bit ,lets just go with hormonal:),the past couple weeks and last sunday night i called my mom in tears and told her how sad i was feeling and i culdnt stop crying..and an hour later my sister called and said"were coming in the morning" now dont think that i am that spoiled that i can jsut call my mom crying and she comes running to my rescue..not always the case..karen and mom had been wanting to come down in the next few weeks anyways,.,,they jsut hadnt put there heads together as to wen they would come..and this just made them think..oh hey we dont have anything goin the next few days..lets just go..soo they did.they came monday and left thursday and we had a wonderful time..my sister who has more energy then 10 monkeys combined got this wild idea to make me food and stick it in my freezer..so tuesday she went to work..she was in my kitchen all day making lasagna,chicken enchilladas,fiber balls,cookies and topped it off by making us dinner,chichekn alfredo.i felt so unworthy but overjoyed that i now had enough meals in my fridge to last me a week!!my mom who i have the utmost respect for and love more then any women in this worldwas just here and all i wanted her to do those days was just be my mom...and thats what she did..we sat around and talked figured out lifes problems and giggled at the little girls running around the small house..it was such good medicine those 3 days.i do love my family!!
on sunday Leroy Miller,who ive know for a few years and have allot of respect for,preached the mesage.it was all about goin through rought times in your life..so soo up lifting and i was to share a little peices of my notes....
"the trials and tribulations of this world are the safest place to be"
"if we feel crushed and broken your only becoming godly"
"no one else can go where you are going,where God is taking you.in those rough times you ahve to go alone.others can go half way and then they must wait,and pray for you..thats what Jesus did in Matt 26:37-38"
"if you dont feel alone youve never been to meet with God"
"we beleive that God is in control of everything then why do we worry/panic when our world seems to be falling apart"
so so encouraging..and i hope u were encouraged as well.

now onto the biggest part of our lives..our precious baby mullet.he/she is thorwing some serious kicks jsut in the past week..its the absolute BEST feeling!!! wen i sit i can see my belly moving around..and at night it will wake me up with his hard kick..i jsut love it.so so hard to beleive that in 4 and a half months that little bundle will rrive..and we are preparing:) my sister and mom went with me to register last week and i dont no what i woulda done without them!! im goin to pa end of this month and my family is having a shower for me..so excited for that!time is just flying by..i thought this stage would never come,with the belly showing and the kicks and the showers and the "soonness" of it! buttt its here...and its only gana keep gettin closer:)

everytime this baby kicks im reminded of how blessed and loved i am that my Father would choose my body to place this child in...HE CHOSE ME!and he has placed an annointing on my life as a mother and a wife..isnt that incredible?we as women,as mothers,as wives,have an annointing. beautiful.Lord your ways,your purpose for our lives,what an HONORE!!!

speaking of honore..that is something our church has been talking about soo much lately,honoring the life of God in others...so my challange to you this week,tell someone that you honore them.for what they do,for who who they are,for how they live,honore..as a christian it is our job to honore each other and to let each other know we do so...

i love you all so dearly-thank you for readin my posts:)i hope u were blessed

wow!what an incredible week-pictures to come:)we spent the week with matts family on orlando florida.matts parents have a time share there so we get to stay at this incredible resort and we pretty much hang out there all week long!the resort has its own putput place and i dont no how many pools and this year we got to do something special-matts parents bought all us kids a day at the holy land experience..amazing amazing place-filled with people who love the Lord and want to see him honored and glorified.desptire the heat it was an incre3dbile experience.we got home last night around 5 and spent the evening drinking in our wonderful home once again:)the tempatures dropped quite a bit here-from 95 to about 75 ish-but of course its saposed to go back into the 90's ths week:(im soooooo ready for fall i can hardly handle it.
baby mullet started his/hers intense kicking in my tummy.its such an awesome feeling-and im just waiting for the day that matt will be around when it happens and can feel it too:)
electra got a haircut and is now starting her gray coat:(i was hopeing she would be one of the rare yorkies that stays black her whole life but it aint lookin so good- oh i could stress over how shes gana be when the baby comes-but i keep reminding myself to cross that bridge wen it comes.:)
seems like our fall is quickly filling up-with weekend trips here and there-church functions,family and friends coming to visit us and before we know it ,decmeber will be here and we'l have quite a bit more action in this house:)
this post is very jumpy i know.one subject to the next..but thats mostly how i roll.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BIG SISTER ROSA!!today all i wanted to do was jump in my car and go kidnap her,take her to starbucks and giggle about her kids silly things they did this week or get our serious faces on about the tiny bit of drama in our lives,or go on about how much we love these times together-sometimes i could almost feel how it would be if we all did live close together-me still in my house here or course but able to jump in my car-drive 5 minutes and be at my moms or my sisters house,i wonder if id ever be at home,because thinking about it i feel like id always be over at my moms or sisters or somewhere-i spend soo much time at home..and its so weird cause even wen i lived in pa,i was fine goin out by myself and i often did..but down here i dont like goin out by myself,maybe cause im not quite as familiar with the area..theres somethign about driving,even just to the store and back and knowing so and so lives there,or ive been to this target a million times,that makes u not think twice about going.theres times when i could just cry remembering how easy it was to go places because that place was all i knew-now im getting to know a whole new place and i cant wait till this place feels like that place did...time..these things take time.:)
anyways-i think im gana go indulge in a peace of my incredible strawberry cream pie i made and hope that tonight chears me up-cause now im feeling kind of sad....surgar should help that:)

its such a hot start off to the day here in north carolina..i no im a woos but i am so sick of the heat..this summer has been unbearingly hot for me,maybe cause im pregnant,maybe jsut cause im not used to living in the south yet but i cant remember a day where the tempatures were lower then the 90's..this weekend its saposed ot be in the 100's AND THATS NOTHING NEW!!!Fall is BY FAR my most favoritest season-the leaves,the fall air,the fun fall activities..its all so lovely.and fall in north carolina is the best-its no prettier anywhere else im sure!sooo i have decided to stay inside as much as possible until fall arrives:)however we are goin on family vacation with amtts family on saturday to orlando for a week..btu at least there we have about 5 pools all around us to jump into:)

so about 3 weeks ago i beleive it was i started feelin the baby"move" around in my tummy...just little flutters here and there...but sometimes im not sure if its the baby moving of my tummy growling:) most times i can tell the difference..but not always.ive been sooo wanting to be able to feel the baby move from the outside of my tummy so matt can feel it too.soo often times when it starts moving ill put my hand on my belly and see ifi can feel something...nothing.but this morning,right wen i woke up and was laying in bed i put my hand on my stomach,the baby was moving all around,and suddenly i felt a light kick:)just once and barely enough to recognize but since i could feel it inside i felt it on the outside too..it was awesome..and now i jsut wanna feel it again..but i have a feelig i wont for a while.

i just love letting my imagination go wild with this whole haveing my own child thing..last night i told matt "can you just imagine..having our own child,we can do whatever we want with it,if we want to take it away with us,we can.we can hoold it wenever we want..its all ours"i just love that thought...this child will look at us the way i look at my parents.the 2 people in my life who have always been right there-the 2 people who know me the best,the 2 people who have seen every step of growth i have taken in my life,the 2 people who i know will love me NO MATTER what i do..thats the 2 people we get to be now.i just love that thought.

if theres one thing i want to teach my kids from the very beginning is to be respectful to there elders.i pray to God this is something that i will always be consistent with.nothing frustrates me more then when i see a child disrespecting an adult,or anyone above them.yet i know its hard to always stay on ur kids about these things..i pray that God will give me patience to teach the child respect,the wisdom to know how to teach them and when to "Sit them down" :) and the love to do all these things out of love and not out of anger. "In Christ all things are possible" :)might wana remind me of this in a few years:)

well i must go.a very dear friend of mine is coming over this morning for coffee and muffins:)God bless!

Week # 20!!! where is the time going??!!its insane how fast this is going-this week marks my half way point.incredible!!it just keeps getting more excited-baby mullet has been moving more and more.although the past couple days i have only felt him/her 1 or 2 times.im a huge fan of www.babycenter.com i go on it regularly and it always fills me in on whats goin on this week with the baby and also how i might be feeling-last week was the week that they think the baby can begin hearing you..so ive been making a special note to read aloud when i have my devotions,or just to talk to it every now and then .Matt thinks its a bit awkward talking to my belly-but i think once he can feel it move it wont seem so strange:)the other night we were watching tv and matt was rubbing my belly i told him just to hold his hand still and when he di i said"this is daddys hand baby mullet,whenever you feel the big hand you know its daddys:)"and about 20 seconds after i said that the baby started wiggleing around-i think matt was a little proud:)hes gana be sucha great daddy.

today i was having one of those"i just cant wait any longer "kind of days-soo i went in the baby room and was figuring out some ways im gana decorate and then i hung up a bunch of the baby clothes i had and emptied out the closet so the baby has closet space:)but i so badly wanted to hold the child in my arms-i did consider gettin a peice of baby clothing and rocking it back and forth but i new that would make the ache in my heart bigger cause i KNOW babies are heavier then that:)soon enough ony-soon enough!:)

wednesday we have our doctor app that was saposed to be alst week but got changed to this week-soo this is the week we could find out what were having BUT we are not going to..although for about 5 small seconds today i thought id really like to know-i quickly pushed that thought aside.

i have a little book i keep by the computer called"a pocketful of promises" its a bunch of verses on certain topics and then love letter from God to us..and today i went to the topic "Gods promises for family but i accidently opened to Gods promises for my dreams..and this is what i read..and i loved it..so fitting seeing as that my dreams of becoming a singer or a nurse has changed to having a family with the man i love,as we follow in the footsteps of the God we love..and HE showed me this..
PRoverbs 13:12 When dreams come true at last,there is life and joy" i love the part "there is LIFE" WOW ..we serve an AWESOME God.


well tahts all i got for now..so long my friends.

i have been getting so many giggles out of our dog lately... she found my slippers that i love..and has been sticking her head in them and running around the house..only pictures can explain this situation...
these are the slippers...






i think she knows im laughing at her too because the more i laugh the more she goes crazy with my slipper..ah yes what an amusement she is to me.

on another note..i had to share this..i wanted a background for our computer of all my neices and nephew..sooo i found these pictures but couldnt find a good one of chad..anyways..this is all my sweet much missed neices and nephew..



well ill be back again soon..so long for now