twenty years and a flight with the president and life in the burbs..................

* i know it has been a while since i have blogged. i now have a new hobby. i have a face book page. it is fun. i love to do all of the quizzes. i also love to send all the gifts.

* well let me get to the juicy stuff. well david and i celebrated our twenty year anniversary on wed. i can't believe it has been twenty years. david sent me 22 roses. 20 for the number of years that we have been married. 2 for our girls. we went to celebrate at rockfish. we love that place. i had a grilled shrimp salad and david had fish enchilladas. they sound gross, but they are so delicious. i could write pages and pages of wonderful things about the wonderful man that i married, but i simply just want to say i love you. i and proud and honored to be your wife. i am so proud of you. you are achieving your dreams. we are so blessed to have our girls. i am speachless!!! God you have been so wonderful to me.

* now let me get to the best part. DAVID GOT TO FLY THE PRESIDENT (GEORGE BUSH) AROUND ON THURSDAY. IS THAT COOL OR WHAT. HE WAS SO DELIGHTED. LAURA ALSO WENT. he got home late thursday, so i haven't really get to talk to him about it. talk about the favor of God. he said that President Bush walk all around the other side of the plane just to shake his hand. david was thrilled.

* our taks tests are this week. i am so ready to have them over. my last day of tutoring is tomorrow. i am so glad.

* hannah had a vb game saturday. she served five over handed serves in a row. and they could not even pick them up. they are playing so well together as a team. it was so fun watching them play. she takes her taks test (science) thursday. she is beginning to get a little nervous about middle school next year.

* bekah is growing tall and doing great in school. i get glances of my sister lisa when she was a child, when i look at bekah. it sometimes takes me aback.

* i am still walking and loving it.

just chuggin along...................

well i don't know much, i just thought i would write down somethings that are happening in our lives right now. hannah took her reading and her math taks test already. she passed the reading, however, not as good as she wanted to and was very upset with herself. the night before the math test she slipped off to bed at 7:30. which is very weird, but i think she wanted to get plenty of rest for the next day.

i hope she did well. well i guess that was stupid to say. of course i hope she did well. but i get nervous for her in every area of life. i guess that is part of being a mom. i rememeber when i taught her. it was easy teaching her, but do you know what was the hard part? the social aspect of teaching your daughter. wanting your daughter to be part of the "in " crowd, even when you know she won't be. but also glad that she isn't. you know what i mean. but watching the dynamics of that situation was at times difficult.

i am, however, very glad that i moved her to my school. that was one of the best descisions i ever made. i love having the girls at my school. it is wonderful.

bekah is just trecking along. she is doing well in school. she is going to start playing volleyball next fall. i am excited about that. i can't wait to see her play.

david is in augusta georgia watching the masters golf tournament. he will come home tomorrow and will get to have most of the weekend home. i am soooooooooooooo excited about that. the girls are too.

church is going well and relationships are just barely beginning to form. the ladies that i am working with on wednesday nights and i are very slowly beginning to visit with each other. that is nice. it is nice to visit with other women. one of the ladies that i feel escpecially feel drawn to a lady named christy. hehehe i am like a little school girl.

OH DID I TELL YOU THAT I AM ABOUT TO CELEBRATE MY 20TH ANNIVERSARY IN TWO WEEKS. IS THAT EXCITING OR WHAT? WHO KNEW? AND THEY SAID IT WOULDN'T LAST.

school has 8 weeks left. yea!!!!! i feel like i am beginning to float on air. i am so ready to have this first year behind me. this summer i am going to take the kids to church camp. right now we have 18 signed up. we are going to dry gulch oklahoma. yeee haw. how fun. we are also going to disney world. we are so excited. we have not been a big trip in 15 years. we are going to have so much fun. this will be the first time the girls have flown on a big airplane. they have flown with their dad, but never on a big plane . they are so excited as well. i thingk david and i are just as excited as the girls are.

well i guess that about covers it. happy easter. i certainly will miss the easter egg hunt at church on sunday.

ttfn......................

It's a God Thing...............................

as you all know we had a hard time finding a church. but finally, God so richly blessed us with finding an awesome church. we have been going to faith fellowship for sometime now. maybe about two months. one of the reasons that we started visiting, is because they have a wed. night service for adults. so many of the churches up here do not have a wed. night service for adult or kids, just teens.

well anyway, so we started going. they really did not have anything for the kids, but it was about the only day of the week that david could go so we went. there were about two other kids and my two girls and they would just put on a christian movie, while the adults had their bible study.

one night me and the other ladies decided we had to start something on wed. for the kids. so one of the moms that stays home, decided she wanted to run it, and i told her i would help, but did not want to run it. we start by serving the kids supper (usually pizza) and then we go into one of the classrooms and have praise and worship and then the lesson and an art activity. there were about three ladies that help out.

the first wed. night we had 14 kids. wow!!! how awesome is God. then the next wed. night we had 21 kids. tonight we had 23 kids!!!!!! and that was just the kids in our room. not including the babies and toddles. but here is the really awesome thing. when we first started going to church there, there might have been 30 people in the whole building, including the teens. tonight, toni ( our pastor's wife) counted and we had 97 people in the church!!!!!!! IS THAT AMAZING OR WHAT? AND IT ALL STARTED WITH THE CHILDREN. GOD YOU ARE SO GOOD. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE A PART OF SOMETHING SO SIGNIFICANT. I AM SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE DEDICATED WOMEN THAT I GET TO WORK WITH. IT IS RESTORING MY SOUL.

I FEEL SO BLESSED. GOD LET IT CONTINUE TO GROW AND HONOR YOU!!!!!!!!!

IT'S A GOD THING.....................