Thankful is my heart....

I am so thankful for my Yada Yada sister's. I have been truly blessed by finding an amazing group of women to share my blessings and my trials with. It is a random group that became of by being put together in a small group at a church bible study and we enjoyed each others company so much that we decided to keep meeting for bible study and coffee (of course). It is a great time of fellowship and they have become dear friends. It is so comforting to have these ladies (aka...FRIENDS) in my life. They have helped with my transition here in Idaho and filled the giant hole in my heart from leaving my Michigan friends and family behind. Thank you YaDa's-you ladies are a treasure!!

Healthy kids!!

I am ever so thankful that God has blessed me with three wonderful healthy children!! They are my world, and I love them dearly!!

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: his love endures forever.

My husband. . .

Is so wonderful!! I am very thankful for him. I am thankful we have all those hard years out of the way and just enjoy our life together. I am thankful that he loves to cook and does dinner more than I do these days, helps run the kids around, helps with laundry, loves me when I am not so loveable, loves my family, puts up with my dog, . . . there are just so many great things about him, I could never list them all. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am blessed!

Important Message . . .

I interupt this thanksgiving blogging season to bring you a very important message. . . My baby girl is transferring to BSU and will be living at home with us!!! Yipee!! Hip, Hip, Hooray!!! I'm just a little excited, can you tell? Good thing you can't see the happy dance I'm doing.

Well now, if that's not something to be thankful for!! Woot, Woot!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

Thankful for facebook

I know it is a silly thing to be thankful for. I have really enjoyed reconnecting with old friends and classmates of the past couple of weeks. Reconnecting with these people of my past has brought back a lot of great memories.

Thankful this day....

I am thankful I have a job to go to this Monday morning. Not am I only thankful for having a job, I am very thankful for the job that I have. I work with some really great people. My boss is the nicest dentist in the world (everyday) and we have really great patients.

Psalm 118:24
This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

I am Thankful for. . .

The wonderful family I married into. I am treated as a daughter, not an in-law. I talk to so many people who talk about their mother and father in-law like they are a disease or a burden. I am blessed to have such a great relationship with Ron's family and my children have been truly blessed by their relationship with Grandma and Grandpa.

Thanksgiving is fast approaching

What are you Thankful for this year? I have been pondering Thanksgiving, as I am feeling blue about not being surrounded by our usual family group. Yes, we are very fortunate that Ron's brother is fairly close and this gives us family to celebrate with. . .a family we did not have the opportunity to spend holidays with before our move, and are very happy to have this opportunity now. However, I am still blue about not being with my family or Ron's family back in Michigan. . . full of Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles, and lots of cousins. We are in a new season now, and must find new purpose and new traditions.

I was doing a little research to help me with my attitude toward this new season and found the following on Bible.com. Thought I would share with you all.

Thanksgiving is one of our main national holidays here in the U.S.A. A good question to ask is "Are we as Christians celebrating it the way the Lord would have us celebrate, or have we compromised with the world?" Have we lost the emphasis on thanksgiving and prayer and shifted it to a gluttonous feast of food, drink and games like those in the world have done? God wants us to enjoy family, friends and feasting, but leaving God out of the day breaks His heart. More and more the media is referring to this holiday as "turkey day" instead of Thanksgiving Day. They also eliminate the object of who we are to offer our thanks. We are just to be "thankful" we are told. Who should our thanks be directed to? The object of our thanks for our many blessings, should be directed to the Lord God. It should not just be a general "thanks."
The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated less than a year after the Christian Plymouth colonists had settled in the new land of America. The first Thanksgiving Day, set aside for the special purpose of prayer as well as celebration, was decreed by Governor William Bradford in July 30, 1623. There were harvest festivals, or days of thanking God for plentiful crops. During the Revolutionary War, eight special days of thanks were observed for victories and for being saved from dangers. On November 26, 1789, President George Washington issued a general proclamation for a day of thanks. Our national day of thanksgiving was proclaimed by President Lincoln in 1863 with these words, "a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father."
Today we still celebrate this national and legal holiday, but are we celebrating in the right manner as Christians? Are we forgetting the main purpose of this day is prayer and thanksgiving as we feast and fellowship? The Lord is not opposed to our feasting and our gathering of friends and family to dine, but if our only prayer is to ask God to bless our food are we not forgetting the real meaning of this day? God delights in blessing us as His children. However, do we, as His children delight in blessing Him with our prayers and thanks? Do our celebrations revolve more around the meal and the football game that follows, than around the discussion of the things we should be thankful for? Many are worshipping the idol of ball games on holidays instead of focusing on the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Not that watching games are wrong in themselves, but many have forgotten the Lord and have replaced thanking God, praying and reading the Bible with watching games, drinking and eating. Let us ask God to forgive us and truly celebrate this day in real thanksgiving and prayer.

With this in mind, my intention is to share some of the things I am thankful for between now and Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for . . .
All of the great holidays I have had the pleasure to share with my family all together and complete. I have AWESOME memories from these simple holiday get togethers and thank God for my awesome family!!!!

Psalm 107:1
Oh give thanks to the LORD for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Enjoying Fall....

Fall is upon us (okay, now it's almost over) and we have made it through another soccer season!! WooHoo! Zach really showed great improvement as goalie and I even got to were I didn't hold my breath when he got shot on. Talked with the varsity coach at parent teacher conferences and he commented on how impressed he was with how Zach handled the position and really took ownership, he's also the Biology teacher and Zach is doing well in the class also. RMHS varsity soccer team took the state academic championship, way to go guys!! Jake sat during all of the games wishing he had tried out for soccer, so maybe next year I'll have them both out there again. Jake has been working hard at basketball "conditioning", now this week he is doing tryouts.. .I'll keep you posted.

So what shenanigans have the guys been up to. . . most of their free time is spent at the skate/bike park working on their moves, and don't mean picking up girls, just bike stuff. . . atleast I think??? And when they aren't at the ramp park, they are in the garage working on their bikes.

Also we took a drive out into the dessert to do a little target practice, not quite as much fun with out Nana (aka Nanny Oakley)

Zach has begun his driver's ed adventures and Jake will start in January...Wow, I can't believe my babies are all grown up. They continue to keep me entertained and busy. We're just missing Becky and Jordon and looking forward to seeing Becky over the holidays.

My Goblins. . .Yes they are too old, what are ya gonna do??

Election Day. . .

Praying for our country on this election day!

Correction. . .

Oops! What kind of doggie mom am I?. . .it was Bailey's 7th birthday not her 6th. Seems like she's still my precious little pup. . .time flies! I guess our pets are not immune to the superfast aging like our kids. Good thing as adults we stop aging. . . What? Why are you laughing?. . . a girl can dream.