Real Life: Live & Unscripted

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day Six

Six places.

This one will be easy. I'll narrow my list down to six places I want to go lol.

New York

Paris

Australia

The Grand Canyon

Africa

Italy

I can't wait until Tony and I can travel more. We do some traveling now but not like we will once the kids are up and out of the house lol. I love exposing them to new places but some of these will be momma and daddy trips lol

Toodles!

Happy Birthday Tony!!!

I thank God for allowing you to see another year! I'm gonna make your day superb!!! Love ya baby!

Soul Food, My Walk With God

I totally credit http://serenity23.blogspot.com/ for my love of workbooks. Had it not been for her I would have NEVER known about them. EVER.

When I do these workbooks, I never finish one and I'm still the same. SOMETHING in me has changed. They change the way I think, the way I talk and the way I pray.

They've helped me so much with my walk with God.

I'm currently doing this one with a group of ladies.

Fruit of the Spirit

It's amazing. Seriously.

We are on week 4 and it realllyyyy makes you look at yourself.

I follow these ladies on FB, Twitter and the blog lol:

http://www.womensbiblecafe.com/

I kept meaning to check out their bible studies and I FINALLY did it.

http://www.womensbiblecafe.com/our-bible-studies/

These are the two they have coming up:

Duty or Delight and Brave. I don't THINK I'm going to be able to do these two WITH them....I might though. I really want to do both. I may just pick up the workbooks and finish them at a later date.

I will start with them in the Fall. I have one of the workbooks and the other one is on my list to purchase.

Anyway, just wanted to share with you all. I figure it might be something you all will like :)

 

 

I'm not perfect, just striving to be the woman God wants me to be. Keeping my life lined up with the WORD!

Jaelyn is home from China!

Jaelyn spent the last 17 days in China. I'm SO glad she is back home! I'll share more pics later on! I'm not sure where the first pic was taken but I think the 2nd one is on the Great Wall lol.

 

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day Five

Five foods.

Uhhhh this is SO hard lol. Y'all KNOW I'm greedy and LOVE to eat lol.

Scallops. I could eat scallops EVERYDAY. EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. I LOVE THEM.

Shrimp and Grits is my all time favorite meal.

Delmonico. Enough said.

Dessert. LOL

Cherries.

 

There! lol Happy? LOL Now I'm hungry! LOL

Toodles!

Catfish

Uhhh this movie was crazy. Folks are crazy and you really have to be careful on social network sites. It's a documentary but just wow. I probably shouldn't have been blown away but I was. Just wow.

 

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day Four

Four books.

I love to read. This year has been different. I've been working more on my relationship with God so I haven't read as much as I normally do. I honestly just haven't had a desire to read anything.  I recently went to a huge library book sale and I took one in the bedroom but didn't get past the second page lol. I'm going to have to MAKE myself read lol.

Here are my favorite four books. Let's see if I can get it down to four lol.

Redeeming Love

I read this book I KNOW back in 2000??? Kayla was a little girl when I read it so I know it's been a GOOD ten years. This is STILL my all time favorite book. I STILL buy this book and I STILL read it and I end up telling someone about it and giving it to them.

32 Candles

This was my favorite book last year. AMAZING!!!! I look forward to more books by this author.

Didn't I feed You Yesterday

This was the most hilarious book ever. I LOVED it so much lol. One of the funniest things I've read in a LONG time lol

The Help

VERY good book AND I'm excited about the movie!!!

 

Have a good one!
Toodles!

Wall of Shawl

Yes, that is yarn and a pattern. YES, I am knitting lol.

Soul Food, My Walk With God

GOD KNOWS MY HEART

I had a wonderful conversation with a really good friend of mine talking about when people say God knows my heart. I had this whole post typed up but decided not to go that way. I'm just gonna post scritpures and be finished with it. My opinion means nothing but the Word of God means EVERYTHING.

 

Galatians 5:19-23

The Message (MSG)

 ^19-21It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.

   This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.

 ^22-23But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

 ^23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

James 4:1-10

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

James 4

Friendship with the World

 ¹Why do you fight and argue with each other? Isn't it because you are full of selfish desires that fight to control your body? ²You want something you don't have, and you will do anything to get it. You will even kill! But you still cannot get what you want, and you won't get it by fighting and arguing. You should pray for it. ³Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.

    ⁴You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. ⁵Do you doubt the Scriptures that say, "God truly cares about the Spirit he has put in us"? ^{[a] 6}In fact, God treats us with even greater kindness, just as the Scriptures say, "God opposes everyone

   who is proud,

   but he is kind to everyone

   who is humble."

    ⁷Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you. ⁸Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind. ⁹Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad. ¹⁰Be humble in the Lord's presence, and he will honor you.

Galatians 5:19-23

American Standard Version (ASV)

 

 ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

 ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

 ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

 ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

 ²³ meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

 

Remember next time you say God knows my heart that He DOES know you heart. He knows exactly where your heart is if you are doing something you KNOW you shouldn't be doing, saying, going, etc. HE KNOWS. He knows your heart and your motives. HE KNOWS. Even if you try to fool yourself. 

I'm not perfect, just striving to be the woman God wants me to be. Keeping my life lined up with the WORD!

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day Three

Three films. Hmmmm I like movies as much as I like music soooooo this is HARD lol.

The Rock

This is my number one favorite movie of ALL TIME. I watch it anytime it's on TV (which is ALL THE TIME) andddddddddddddddddd I have the DVD. I LOVE IT. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it!!!!

I LOVE Sean Connery AND I love Nicolas Cage so this one just fits the bill lol.

Love Jones

Mannnn, NO WORDS NEEDED!!!!!! I want to go look at it right now lol.

 

The Notebook

I don't know a woman out there that doesn't like this movie OR that doesn't have this movie in their top ten SOMEWHERE. This is like what romance movies are made of. I STILL cry when I watch it lol.

 

There ya have it. I hope you all have seen these movies, if not you are seriously missing out in life lol. JUSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT KIDDINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG lol

 

Toodles!

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day Two

Two songs. This was SO hard.

 

 

 

Anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE music. It was so hard for me to pick TWO songs. TWO songs??? Really?? Lol. I picked two that I'm just STUCK on right now. If you have a minute listen to these two. Hopefully they will bless you like they are blessing me!!

 

Now I BLAST these two songs in my truck lol. BLAST. They mean a LOT to me and they are saying a lot.

YAY! That was fun! lol AND this means I'll be blogging for ten days lol.

Toodles!

10 Day YOU Challenge - Day One

One picture.

Since I HAD to pick one picture of myself, this is the one I loved the most. Let me tell you why:

• This was the beginning of a brand new journey for ME and my family. There is nothing like a PERSONAL relationship with God but when your WHOLE family is desiring a relationship as well...PRICELESS.
• I can't think of myself sometimes without thinking of my family. I truly love being a wife and mother.
• EVERYONE looks happy. I think it was because everyone WAS happy. I thank God for that!

10 Day YOU Challenge

Man, I was in NEED of somthing to make me blog! I'm starting this tomorrow!

Thanks to http://jasminnation.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-day-you-challenge.html and http://www.onefootintheloonybin.com/ for the idea!

 

Passion Fish

Passion Fish

One of my friends said this was her all time FAVORITE movie, soooo I had to watch it.

IT WAS SO GOOD! I'm actually going to try and buy it to add to my collection.

This is SUCH a great story of friendship!!!

Check it out if you haven't!! I'm WAYYYYY late to the game lol.

Soul Food, My Walk With God

BLESSED: divinely or supremely favored; fortunate.

Isn't that a beautiful definition?

I go to 5am prayer at my church and on the way there this morning I realized just how blessed I am. I mean I KNOW I'm blessed but it's like I appreciate it or something. I don't know how to describe it.

It's not STUFF. I'm not interested in stuff. I mean it's nice and all but that's not why I'm blessed.

I'm blessed by my walk with God, I'm blessed with a wonderful husband and great kids (even when I wanna knock them out lol)

I'm blessed with wonderful friends and family.

I'm SO thankful!

After prayer I turned my ipod on and it's always on shuffle and this song came on: Ohhhhhh!!! It got in my heart and I've been STUCK ON IT!!!!!

God has been SO good to me. Last night Tony got sick and I had to take him to the ER. All I could do was pray that it wasn't the same problem he had last year.

I was at Bible Study when he called me, but it was amazing to me that the Word I got, kept me from being nervous about him not feeling well.

The speaker was saying at one point that if you keep your mind on Jesus He will keep you in PERFECT PEACE. That's why its SO good to KNOW scripture. Keep a scripture in your heart so when things come up, you go to that scripture. Repeat it, whatever you have to do to keep God on your mind. I was at peace the ENTIRE time.

I thank God for it.

That's all lol. I'm just BLESSED and I realize it. I'm thankful for it and not taking it lightly.

I'm not perfect, just striving to be the woman God wants me to be. Keeping my life lined up with the WORD!

Due Date

Mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn THIS IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER LOL.

I thought Tony was going to put me out from laughing so hard.
I guess I'm going to blog about the movies I'm watching because nothing else is being done lol.

If you need a good laugh WATCH THIS NOW LOL. I NEEDED this laugh tonight lol

Pictures from my G2 -Phone Dump (SUPER PIC HEAVY)

Umm hey ya'll!!

It's been a minute. I think I lost my blogging voice lol.

But I think I'm back lol.

Soooo sit back and enjoy the tons of pics I've had stored in my phone lol.

This is the longest phone dump EVER lol.

 

I was blessed with a new truck! I don't think I will EVER buy another car. Well, not while the kids are still in my care lol. Gonna be like my momma one day and get a two seater lol.

These have to be my most favorite shoes to date. I LOVE THEM.

I heard such good stuff about this polish. I've only used it on my toes and it was great. I'm letting the gel grow off my nails to give them a rest so I'll try it on my hands soon. Jaelyn loves it.

I pulled this dress out the other day. It's one of the FEW dresses I've kept from 2008.

Here is the first time I wore it lol

I've gained weight?? lol

This crackle polish has been THE HARDEST THING TO FIND. I haven't worn it yet, but Jaelyn is killing it lol

MAN, OK. I had these made when Jaelyn and Kayla were babies. Wellll, when I had Aj I wanted him to have one also. It took an act of congress to track the lady down who made these. I finally got her and she made one for Aj. WELL A few years ago I lost them. I really thought I had thrown them away and Tony found them the other week. WOOHOO! They are now in a SAFE place lol.

 

Jaelyn had too much time on her hands one night lol

I FINALLY got my dryer. I'm actually sitting under it now. I LOVE IT. My hair drys in ONE HOUR FLAT!!! No more 2.5 hours under that other dumb hooded dryer lol.

My baby is KNOCKED OUT! LOL Wellll not MY baby but you know lol. How about Andre told me I couldn't hold him one night. He was serious. I almost cried lol. He gave him to me :)

Kayla had her baton recital. She's been twirling for FOUR years!!

Andre shaved so everybody took a pic with him lol. BAHAHAHAHAH lol

I made Zanete a Strawberry Delight for Mother's Day and Andre wanted one also. Soooo the following week I made him one. I also made one for my house too lol.

He was so happy lol

Went to a Gospel Concert at Ra.il. Ro.a.d Park

Lady Tr.am.aine Hawkins was there. So was Big Rub, Twin.ki.e Cl.a.rk and some other folks I THOUGHT I Took pics of but ummm. Can't find them lol.

Kayla took a really cute yearbook picture.

 

 

 My hair was super big lol. And fuzzy lol.

We had an after hours concert at church one Friday night and Aj and Kayla found a spot and passed out lol.

Jim.N.Ni.c.ks Ched.da.r Bi.scu.it.s MAN this stuff is so good. One of my friends from church brought me some lol. YUMMMYYY.

Look at Aj when he was a baby lol. I don't know WHY he was crying but he was MAD lol

Look at Kayla! LOL Awwww lol

I have the coolest nephew EVER lol

Mannnnn see that lil polka dot fuzzy blanket she holding?? DO NOT TOUCH IT OR THIS IS WHAT SHE DOES lol.

She doesn't always cry lol. I kept her for 3 days. MANN MY BABY DAYS ARE OVER lol. SERIOUSLY lol

Kayla was all jazzy for her 5th grade graduation lol

 

 Someone was happy about the last day of school lol

Cute lil baby feet!!! lol

I LOVE THESE. Remind me to tell y'all about the #sparklyflipflopbeatdown lol

Got to have breakfast with Ms. Val , Tyler and The. Real Mrs. Long ! Love meeting my blogger/twitter buddies!

Trying a new flavor tea and it is SO GOOD!!!!

This was the coolest thing ever to me lol.

Tony and I went to our fav spot! LOL

Eeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh MY BABBBBYYYY *In my Claire Huxtable Voice*

I thought this was cute lol

OMG this is so hilarious! Tony was just *blah* while Jaelyn and I went crazy over accessories at F21 lol

 

SMH lol. So happy my kids are STILL KIDS.

My senior prom lol

O_O she has issues lol

HE is the cutest baby ever!! I have over 400 pics on my phone lol. I PROMISE 300 of them are of Aiden lol

My brother is a DADDY YALL!!! lol

Can ya'll see this?!! It's like the biggest fly EVER!!! OMG

Kayla did the welcome at church Sunday. She was not scared! I was so proud of her!

More throwbacks! I Think this was in 2002.

Train up a child lol

BLESSED! LOL I haven't had a gas bill in a while lol.

Alright, that's all I got! LOL

Toodles!