Yes I am alive!!!

and been busy doing bread cloths, what are bread cloths, you know, the thing that covers up the rolls or breads, or whatever you have in the bowl or the basket on the table for dinner, below is some that I have done and I gave away some from christmas and then I have a few more requests for over christmas!! Let me know what you think. Have a very merry christmas!!!!

Where

has the time gone?? The past few weeks have been hectic and good and bad but God is there at everyone of those moments. There has been so much death in the last 2 weeks and families trying to figure out where to go from here, even as a christian we struggle with death when in our minds it doesn't make sense but I just keep thinking God does know all and he does see the bigger picture and I have faith to know that he knows!!!!

Erika's birthday, Nicklas birthday this weekend and then a very emotionally funeral on sunday and then it is Thanksgiving and guess what comes the sunday after Thanksgiving????

I am a Promise!!!

Last wednesday night, Allison had a wonderful devo for the CLC kids and it has been on my mind for the past few days and I have sang it several times over as a reminder that I am a Promise and God does have my best interests at heart, even though my heart might get broken (which it did this past week) but I have to trust God and have faith that he does see the bigger picture and he does know what is best for this moment in time. We fly thru life sometimes without a care in the world and then we are hit with something, it sometimes stops us right where we stand, that is where faith and trust come in.

Here is a words to the little song:

I am a promise
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital "P"
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learning to hear God's voice
And I am trying to make the right choice
I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.

I can go anywhere that He wants me to go
I can be anything he wants me to be
I can climb the high mountains
I can cross the wide sea
I'm a great big promise you see!!

Memorize this song, when your day is bad, when work stinks, when people disappoint, the list goes on and on, sing this song and really hear the words, you will be amazed at how it might just help!!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Just a couple of trick or treaters!!!!

Max and Hannah

This is Max and Hannah, Kadee and Matt's two cats, they need to find a good home for them. Max is the yellow tabby and Hannah of course is the white and gray. They both are very loving cats. They are both fixed and declawed, if you or anyone you know is looking for a cat for your home, these two are ideal.

What a beautiful weekend!!!

Just got done raking most of the leaves that were down, cleaned up Boomer doggie doo and then one of the neighbors dog left a great great great big pile next to one of Boomer's little piles, that was disgusting and picked up all the sticks that were down, okay I am free to surf the web and then go cross stitch without feeling guilty. Isn't life grand!!! Enjoy the week suppose to be around 60 degrees, heat wave here we come.......................?

Hello!!!

Well it is so had to believe it has been how many days since I was on the blog. I have a little friend at my side as I write tonight. We are trying to help Kadee and Matt to try and find their dog a new home. He is adorable. Only 21 lbs and won't get any bigger, loves to play, only 17 months old. Is house broken and is an inside dog, comes with indoor kennel, leash, outdoor leash, all his toys and etc!! Anyone want him!! I know God has the perfect person for him, please step forward. If you or anyone you know even slightly interested, call me!!

How has your week been?? Mine very busy as usual. Where does the time go, when I was little I could hardly wait to be older and then once the girls came the time even flew faster. We are given so many opportunities in life to witness for God but do we??? It is even just the little things, a smile, giving change to the person ahead of you at the groc store, our attitudes when we are so upset, everything just has the snowball effect. Try it and you will be amazed at what you see. Let me know how it goes, have a great rest of the week!!

O What a beautiful morning!!!

Isn't that a song, yes i believe it is and it is true, just hung out jeans and rugs and it is going to be a beautiful day and we need it after the rain. Before I forget please pray for the couple coming to look at Kadee and Matt's house today, they have been trying to sell it for several months and someone is coming so please pray for this. What are you doing with your saturday? Did a couple of loads of laundry and now blogging but then will go on to the rest of the house's chores, you notice I said house's chores not mine, makes it sound like I am doing the chores for the house and I guess in a way I am. In all honesty how many times do you do something just for yourself?? Me.......hardly ever and I don't mean that in a bragging way. One of my gifts is to give and I do, probably sometimes too much but that is how God made me I can't help it. When I was younger I don't think I was so giving but with where we live and how much money we had it was a whole different world and of course I had the girls that needed me most but now that I am older, it is another different world and the giving is so much different. I have more compassion for people and is that a gift from God or maturity from God??? I believe God changes our gifts in life to help fullfill what he desires for our life and with that I will also say sometimes I don't always like those changes, I want to stay in my little world where I think I can keep everyone safe and happy and ...............but it doesn't work that way. With doing the precepts on monday nights from week to week my eyes are opened to a much bigger picture, not that I don't already know that there is a much bigger picture but the scripture we look at and the questions we are asked just opens the door to another question and another question and do we get answers to all of our questions, NO but don't you think sometimes God doesn't want us to have all the answers that way we keep searching for the answers thru him. Well I best go vaccum............dump the cats liter box.........see the chores go on and on...........have a great sunny day!!!!

Where have I gone??

O my goodness, fall is here and the carefree days of summer are gone, I am meeting myself coming and going and that is not me. I love my life to be simple and it is not simple. Here is just a round down of why I am not blogging, I work full time and then monday night Dave and I are taking the precept class at church (revelation) and so we have about 4 to 5 hours of homework to do before the next monday, tuesday I get home from work and I do my lesson for wednesday night and then go on to the lesson for sunday school (I teach both 1st graders for wednesday night and adults for sunday) and then wednesday go to CLC at church and then thursday night Pearls at church with Jen Hess (that is my veg night and just uplifting night) and then friday night I don't get out of work until 6:30 so makes the night later already so I try not to do anything but sit down with Dave and saturday I clean the house, finish my sunday lesson and the aim for a really nice dinner and then sunday of course church and try and do another nice meal (those are our leftovers for the get home from work nights and change clothes and head back out the door nights) then every about 3 weeks we go see kadee and matt in lansing and in the midst of that is of course laundry, groc shopping, homework and christmas. I know you are probably thinking christmas but yes my thing that I love to do is cross stitch and I try to cross stitch every other year everyone something for christmas, so I started on christmas back in january :) and won't get done until right before christmas, after this pic I am doing right now I believe I won't do anymore big pictures not for a few years, I will stick to smaller ones. So that has been my life............... I do love looking at everyone's blogs I just need to get back to mine!!!!

part of the food

I don't know why it keeps turning my pics sideways but we had spanish rice, punch, tacos and toastios and fruit and a both of other stuff I didn't get a pic of, it was all good!!!

Birthday!!!!!!!

Yes it was my birthday.........but I was not 60 but it was fun and my room was decorated cute and then we had good food, I will post other pics tomorrow

Romeo...............

okay if a cat is named Romeo, what exactly do you think that means!!!!!

Field of Yellow

Isn't that just the kewlest sight, pictures do not capture what you see!!!!

Hmmmmmmm

just when we thought the tearing up our yard was over, it has been 6 days since the coons or shunks have done destroying in our yard, we have caught 3 coon and now two shunks in the live trap and o 1 squirrel, is it ever going to stop!!!!!!

water falls

a few weeks ago, where I work went over to Gladwin to a place that grows day lillies and other plants and in the one spot was a water fall, they have people come to their home and business just to get married cuz it has a beautiful gardens and of course water

Moon and nights

the other night the moon was just coming out between the branches, no clouds in the sky, nice night for sleeping with the windows open, its just great !!!

Do you see it??

The other morning I was in the bathroom and as I was standing in front of the mirror, I see something out of the corner of my eye, it was just swinging back and forth a little bit so being that I am very nice towards insects, I left him there!!???

So...........

with the room decorating and the gifts, there is always food, a birthday cake, here is nachoes and below is barq weiners plus we had veggies, fruit, cheese and crackers so life is good right???

Surprise!!!

Well when you turn 30 or 40 or 50 at where I work you get a surprise on or around your birthday, here is Becky's a few days ago, of course everyone wears black and we all hid in her room, there is a plus though you get gifts and ?????

Flowers

a couple weeks back I worked with Bill and Paula Coe and Jim and Sharon Lynch at a memorial dinner at our church. What a fun time (well the people I was working with were) and Sharon brought in this flowers to sit on the food table just as a happy hello to the people going thru the line, some might think it is not needed but at a time in our life when things don't seem so great, it is those little things that make the difference

Mac and cheese

there is nothing better than it, well okay KFC chicken, okay maybe a good steak out on the grill but I just love mac and cheese, it doesn't matter what our weather is like outside it is a wonderful thing year around, yummmmy

Outdoor wedding

This is the outdoor wedding we went to a few weeks ago, got there it rained, we all went into the garage, then it stopped raining, they flipped the bales of straw, on went the wedding, the wagon is where their daughter pulled up their son, it was really cute and then this is the pic of the cake at the reception, left for relay for life before I got a chance to get it...........

Excuse me young lady!!!

This is Bitz once again being bad, she is sitting on the table on the screen in porch, she loves to lay in the sun so when she is feeling more lazy than usual she moves from chair to chair from across the table into of getting down and walking to the next chair

Easter Lilly

about 3 years ago one of the older ladies of the church kadee and matt went to, talked us into taking home the last of the easter lillies, she said plant them they will come back every year, yes they did come back every year but this year one actually bloomed

Tennis anyone???

Well actually tennis is done for the summer but it was fun, met a few new people and looking forward to playing next year, I have never played before and so it was really nice, if you even want to try let me know, we play once a week usually on monday for about 8 weeks and that is it, it is for beginners thru people who have planned for a few years, very laid back

you get 1 guess on what this is

It looks like one thing or two things but it is another thing!!! but the most important thing it was yummy!!!

Relay for Life!!!!

Today is relay for life for Clare county and Dave and I went to the luminary ceremony, it was the neatest thing, everyone knows someone who has either had died from cancer or a survivor or dealing with it at this moment, if you ever get a chance at least go to this part of the ceremony, it will touch you in a way you will never expect

I know

its another pic of the sky, but I just can't help myself, the picture just doesn't do it justice to all the colors

Roses

This is the rose bush that I posted a pic on a little bit ago, it is filling in very nicely

Sky.........

isn't it kewl to be outside or driving home and just see all the different colors in the sky and the sun to try to be coming thru at all different points

Yes I know

once again I can't remember what this flower is and I can't figure how to stand it up right but anyhow it comes out of a green plant and then this shoots up in middle and stays a brown color and then at some point turns this color, okay Jami what is it???

Layla

I went and visited some friends that we hooked up with back when we were both in birthing classes almost 27 years ago and we did everything together and then they moved and we moved but kept running into one another, well thru facebook we have reconnected and come to find out they live about 15 minutes away and that daughter they had 27 years ago had her own baby and is pg with another one. This is Layla, she never sits still and her and I just connected, isn't she just a cutie, her mommy is very sick with the second pg and has been in the hospital for the past couple of days and they finally figured out she was having a reaction to the anti-naueous meds they were giving her so they switched and she seems to be doing much better but if you think of Lisa please pray for her and that she gets back on track, they had to move in with mom and dad so they would like to be back in their own home

Roses

I know you are thinking another pic of roses but as you can see this has two different shades, I am thinking it almost had 3 but you can't really tell in the pic

Lilly

Do you like lilly's, our neighbor grows them and I have about 15 different colors, the wife grows one kind and he grows another, they experiment trying to get a new flower for color, etc that can be put into some Lilly growing contest, if they pick yours, then you get the patent and everything, if you stop to buy be prepared to visit cuz they love to share what they are both doing

Well

Of course there is a story but do we really want to go there???

Bitz being bad!!!

Bitz loves the pantry, who knows why, she is a cat, well anyhow the other day Dave and I were splitting a sandwich and we kept hearing this noise but thought she was in her liter box, nope dave went and check it out and she got a bag of 9 lives cat food down off the shelf and she had ripped a hole in the buttom and was eating the cat food out of it, she might like the food but it doesn't like her back cuz after about a week of eating it she throws up so that is why it was on the shelf, so being the nice cat owner that I am I get her a little bit every few days and she hasn't started throwing up yet so we will see............