Coming as a family!

Enjoying my excitement over Autumns prayer of salvation, it came to me that I had nothing to do with it. I mean I know the Holy Spirit does all the work, however, I thought to myself.... You haven't done to much to help the most important decision that our kids will ever make! They see me read my bible and pray, but did they know what I was reading.  I started in the past, with good intentions, reading to Autumn and Alex their little bibles separate to them before they went to bed. It was hit and miss. Most nights I just wanted them to go to bed for some peace and quite, it was hard to even make them brush their teeth cause it would take 5 more minutes. Brian was never their and I always read to the kids separate. So I prayed, the Lord spoke to me, and I listened this time. For the past 2 weeks, every night we put jammies on, brush our teeth and head to the couch. We sit as a family; Brian, myself, Autumn, and Alex(sometimes even a dog or two). I read from the bible and then we take turns praying as we hold hands. Brian begins as head of household and we all fall in line from there.  I am so amazed each and every night the things that my kids pray! They pray the most anointed powerful prayers. I am not saying there isnt' the occasional Dear Lord please bring me a horse, but for the most part they are strong enough to bring tears. For example, my little Alex that we think never pays attention said Thank you Lord for sending your Son to die and save us from our sins and coming alive again on the 3rd day.  Autumns that first night was dear Lord we just love you so much we can't get you out of our hearts, thank you for saving me!  It has been an amazing movement for our family!  The difference in how we love each other, tolerate each other, and move together as a family is so different, better, awesome, amazing. But of coarse isn't that just what God is. So every night we are coming as a family, to make a pleadings from our hearts to the Lord,growing our faith and worship to the one who created us.

Kids say the funniest things:

Autumn came to me and said "Daddy is SOOO much better at brushing hair than you." I replied "Daddy is good at everything" Autumn-"You're good at stuff to mom" Me-"oh yeah, like what?" Autumn "You are really good at checking the mail and taking out the trash"

While sitting at Applebees. I ordered Artichoke dip and Alex yells out for the entire place to hear. ARE YOU CHOKED YET?????

"... as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
A pic from our amazing first 5k with Run for God group

First Blog

This is my first blog!  I have wanted to do something like this for a while now. After Tiffany opened my eyes up in the blogging world with Cake Runners, I knew that would be great! I hope to be very transparent in what and how I blog.  I hope to make you laugh, and maybe sometimes feel not so alone.

So here we go. My daughter Autumn is 5 years old, I have a son Alex that will be 4 in a few weeks. Which means that Autumn will be going to school this year. As I tooled into WalMart last week. I looked up and felt my stomach hit my feet. There were school supplies everywhere! I had never really noticed them till that day, even if they had been there year after year before. She was so excited and wanted to look, and honestly....I just couldn't do it.  I am SO not ready. So without much of an effort I just said not today, and tried to keep the tears from coming.  I know that this will be good for she and I, because we are just alike..and you know what they say about folks that are too alike. They don't often get along.  With that battle being downed, we were driving down the road listening to praise music, she lifted her hands in praise and asked Jesus to come live in her heart.  So raw and unauthored. It was beautiful. This time I couldn't fight the tears! God is so good to me.  It was an overwhelming feeling for me and her!!!! Even Alex was cheering even if he didn't understand what was happening.
Alex is so very different from her.  He is happy go lucky!!! We went to the beach this past week and my son that almost drowned last year at swimming lessons was body surfing. The wave would come, and he would belly flop right down on the water, ride that wave all the way up to the sand. His poor belly as all scraped up from the shells. But boy did he have fun.
I will have another milestone this week. Brian and I will be married 10 years. It has been an awesome journey this far! I love him more that I can say and looking forward to what the Lord has in store for our future.
That is a little insight into our family. Excited about writing the next blog :)  Enjoy the blessings that God is giving you!