All that's happened in the past week or so

Yes I know, I've not posted in a long time.
We had revival Sun, Mon and Tues. Wed, I just didn't feel like typing, and today, well I'm hurrying while kids are sleeping.

Here's what's been happening:

*Revival, yes it was Great! Br and Sis Garcia from Kentwood LA came in and preached. We had some amazing and heart changing services. Ray came Tues. night. For the first time ever he came up to the front where I was worshipping and stood with me. God is great and greatly to be praised. He says he doesn't feel anything, but actions speak louder then words my friends. He can try to deny it all he wants, but I know, and I'm not giving up on my promises.

* I've been ebay-ing again. Yes it's awful, but I can't stay away! lol On the other hand I've found some awesome things at a great price. So that makes me feel little better.

* I've ordered 6 new cd's through Pentecostal Publishing house, only to receive a letter saying every single one of them have been back ordered. WHAT? I was steamed. I called and said, why wasn't I advised of this at the time I placed my order? I was told that they were sorry, but their website wasn't that advanced. HUH? I'm over it.

*Brooky had her four month visit yesterday. Daddy took her b/c she was getting shots and I didn't want to be there in case I would have to punch a nurse when they stab her leg and bend a needle. (ya that happened with Logan.) **I didn't punch her, but I felt like it**
Since that incident, I've tried to make the appt where kids get shots for when Daddy can go. He is much more laid back. He also can handle their crying better then me. My heart breaks.
She weighs 15 pounds even and is 26" long. Doc told Ray that I needed to start giving her food twice a day rather then once, plus cereal. Apparently she is needing more lol.

* Logan is talking non-stop. It's great b/c he seems to learn something new everyday. But man, he can talk. I've been told he inherited that from me. I don't know where they got that idea from.

* Brooky loves her bouncing seat thing that hangs in a door way. It's on loan from friend from church whos baby can't use it any longer. We have to put blankets in the seat with her to keep her propped up straight, else she ends up all crooked. She loves it. Logan does too. Remember when you were a kid and you would sit on a swing and your friend would twist and twist you and then let you go so you would spin like crazy. Well Logan's discovered that he can do that to sissy. have to watch him lol. She likes it even though she is dizzy. She cracks up laughing. She loves her brother that's for sure.

Well kids are waking up. It's feeding time and then getting ready for church. Need to go to Walmart before service. Have a great weekend.

God woke me up early this morning

I had only been asleep for maybe four hours when God woke me up this morning. He brought to mind a woman that I knew years before. At first I laid there and prayed a little for her. Finally I got up. I did a search for her on an Apostolic website I belong to and couldn't find her. I did however google her and found her on another website that I belonged to. Anyways, there had to be a reason God brought her to mind so early this morning, Especially after all these years. While in search for her on the Apostolic website, I searched another Evangelist I knew. I found an article he wrote on Intercessory prayer. It's very true what he wrote and I wanted to share it with you.


This was emailed to Bro. Anthony Mangun and he sent it to his church members. I wanted to post it because it is so true and necessary in these last days!! I believe Intercessory Prayer is the vehicle that shakes the foundations of hell. It will work when nothing else will.Webster defines interceding as: : to intervene between parties with a view to reconciling differences : mediateIntercessory Prayer, We Miss You!By Martyn Ballestero Sr.This is just a line to let you know how things are since you’ve gone. It’s not the same without you, nor will it ever be. Although our lives seem shallow and empty when you’re not here, we’ve learned to make up for you in other ways. We’ve learned to live without you.We now run the aisles, leap for joy, jig to the music, sing catchy choruses, and tap our feet in time to the rhythm of the drums. We use sticks, banners, black lights and our sign teams do a tremendous job acting out recorded music. We’ve learned to worship without you.The prayer rooms are mostly silent now. Those that do go there, for the most part, come away dry-eyed. A lot of praying now is chanting and singsong style. That’s how we know we’re in the groove. We pray memorized phrases that come automatically. We love what we call Prayer Walks. Most of us don’t even close our eyes anymore during prayer. We just walk and pray while we look around. We pray because it is required. No one prays till they break through anymore. We just pray till our ten minutes are up.Family altars are almost unheard of now. You can’t imagine how busy we are and how hectic our schedules have been. It’s unbelievable. We get up in the morning and never stop till we go to bed at night. We do try to make it to church most services and get some praying in there during the service, but prayer at home is kind of out of the question. That may be another reason you haven’t heard much from us.Oh sure, we still believe in prayer, as such. But not very many of us are anxious for you to come back. (You were always the polite type, you know, never forcing yourself on anyone. You never came uninvited. You only left because you were ignored.)The sad truth is you’re not really needed anymore. You see, most of us have hospitalization insurance now. (It sure takes away that old desperate feeling we use to have.) So now, there’s no need to pray more than the few minutes it takes to drive to the Emergency Room. Also, we don’t have to ask for our daily bread like we used to. We now have better jobs with good benefits and government programs to fall back on.If we lose our jobs, there is always Unemployment or Welfare. If we retire or become disabled, Social Security now supplies our needs. So, you can see, we’re doing OK. Other things have filled the void in your absence. Sure we miss you. But we’re getting over it some how. Actually, we’re too busy to entertain you right now, even if you tried to come back. I hope you understand.We are having revivals now without you. It’s not hard. The pastor fasts and prays, along with a couple others. The evangelist preaches mostly just to sinners now. Most of us try to get to church in time for the first song or two. We justify the fact that the number of new converts is down. Yes, there seems to be diminished conviction, less lasting victory, fewer miracles and many young people are backsliding. We agree, however, that it’s not us that are at fault here; it’s just the times we’re living in. It’s like this everywhere.As your friend, I’m writing this to you, knowing how much it must hurt you to have folks say they miss you… and yet in their material and intellectual progress, they’ve weaned themselves away from the haunting memory of you.What hurts, I know, is that we were children you personally raised. You were always there when we needed you. (But now… we don’t.) You taught us about faith. You taught us about miracles. You taught us about a move of God. You taught us about revival. You taught us about how to touch God. Thank you for that, but you see, this is a new day and we are trying to go to the next level. Our services are structured differently now.Do you know… can you believe, that now when you are ever mentioned in church, everyone gets real quite? They all feel guilty I’m sure. It’s like they experience a momentary twinge of guilt while they consider their part in your disappearance. Once in awhile some even get misty eyed when we talk about the old times you shared with us. But all that feeling vanishes along with the pizza right after church.No, Intercessory Prayer, your coming back really wouldn’t work right now. We’re too blessed. We’re doing too well. We’re comfortable. In your day, you served your purpose, but the sentiment of most today is that we can manage OK without you now. We’ve got better clothes, cars, homes and prettier and bigger churches than ever.By the way, do you remember all the folks of yesteryear coming into the sanctuary with red-rimmed eyes? Remember the baggy looking knees in men’s’ suits? Remember all night prayer meetings? Remember the depth that was in worship? Remember when sinners couldn’t sit in their pews any longer, and would run to the altar? Remember when you could feel unity and brotherly love? When folks helped bear one another’s burdens? When the saints didn’t watch the clock? When they could hardly wait to enjoy the after service atmosphere, praying around the altar until the wee hours of the morning? Boy, those were to good old days. We call that “Old School.”Well, it’s pretty much all gone now. But you ought to see our new Hammond C-3, our new drum set with a cage and everything. Electric bass guitars are just awesome and the electric guitars too. We use Praise Singers to help cover up the fact that our congregations don’t sing like they should or used to. We let them do most of our worship for us. Our Choirs just do terrific on the new style songs. Old saints don’t like the new songs much, but the younger crowd seems to like them. Many music directors don’t even know some of your old favorite songs, so they don’t get played much anywhere.You would be proud of our church buildings. Carpet on the floors, there are pews now instead of benches and they are padded too, besides. The arched beam are beautiful, we also have the loveliest of imported chandeliers. Our pastor has polish too. He doesn’t preach long. We are more concerned about sermon length now, than content. Our pastor spices up his sermons with cute sayings… but I guess that’s progress for you. “Win some, lose some.”Speaking of “lose some”, we’re losing a surprising percentage of our young people. An unbelievable number of marriages have gone on the rocks. Many lives have been in jeopardy. But that’s to be expected I guess. Teenagers seem to be at war with their parents and want to dress more and more like the kids at the public school. Our youth meetings may not have much in the way of prayer, but we have great icebreakers, skits and games.We have plenty of medicines nowadays to help our aches and pains. What more could we ask for? Sure we miss you, but I guess we really don’t NEED you right now.I hope you’re not offended. I don’t mean for you to be. You’ll always have a special place in my memory. You were very kind and generous to me. You sure got me out of some hard times. I can’t thank you enough! Still, this is a generation now that doesn’t know you at all. Your coming would probably scare them.Remember the night when my mother sat at the piano bench and you joined her there? Remember how she wept and groaned in the Spirit and slumped to the floor during the revival service and how some tried to call the ambulance because they thought she was sick? They never knew you and her were talking.That’s what I mean. A good many never got to know you well. And most never knew you at all. Those that knew you personally have waited so long to talk to you that they are now, to say the least, embarrassed.So while we are trying to work out our feelings about you, and see where you might fit into our plans in the future, you might try your luck someplace else. Try Brazil, Ethiopia, or how about the Philippines? You might have better luck in Third World Countries, or behind the iron Curtain. You might even luck out and find someone to talk to you in some little storefront on the other side of the tracks. Surely someone somewhere needs you.We’re terribly sorry, Intercessory Prayer, we miss you, but we really don’t NEED you… right now!

Get ready and fasten your seat belts, here are some pictures

Ok here are the long awaited pictures that some of you have been asking about. I have time now that I have put the kids down for a nap. I'm not taking one b/c I actually slept good last night, and I took my diet pill. It keeps you awake and energized alllllll day long. One prob with taking it though for me, is that my brain moves faster then my mouth. So when I try to talk, my words tend to jumble up. Another one I've just noticed is that I can't type. lol My backspace key keeps being hit. Another instance where my brain is going faster. **no jokes please about my brain**

Here is logan when he was sleeping still in his crib. He wouldn't lay down unless he had his 'purse' in bed with him.Here is Ray when we were at the race in Charlotte, NC.

For someone who said he didn't like four wheeling, he really took a liking to it fast. This is when he got back from the six hour trip everyone took. I stayed behind. Was sore from the previous day of riding. lol He was sooo dirty and nasty. But he had a great time.

Here is a close up. I was trying to get a good picture so you could see how dusty his face was. He was sooo dirty.

Here is little Brooky. She was 2 1/2 months old here. She loves the camera. She was talking and smiling. Just beautiful!

Here is logan in his helmet and sucking on a ring pop Aunty Gigi gave him and wearing Katie's jump rope. He walked around like that for a long time.

Here is Brooky smiling big for the camera.Isn't she just beautiful!Here she is gettin ready for a nap. She is starting to try to hold her bottle.Logan getting in his pool. I had him all dressed and ready to go and let him out the door to go to the car. Well he detoured to the pool. I had to take him in and change him. It was cute, but I was aggravated too. Here is Logan man on the boat. He loves it.

Here is Brooky sitting up next to Sis Ashley from church. We were all in the camper. She has her tommy cherry onsie on. It's sooo cute.Brook at church laying on G'ma Chris's lap. She was just about to doze off. So sleepy.Here you can see my skills at taking pictures of myself! lol Logan was ready to go down the slide. He didn't want to take a picture.Brooky was sitting so good for Daddy in her car seat. She just talked and smiled to him.

Here is Ray Ray with his babies. Here are Logan and Daddy swinging at the park. I did it too, but Ray didn't take our picture.Logan sleeps in his big boy bed now. lol I took apart his crib and told him he had to stay and sleep in his other bed. So far he has done good. He is growing up so fast.Here is our little beauty queen. This was just last night, she was dressed up for church. (3 1/2 months old)Here she is with her first boyfriend from church! His name is Isaiah. We call him Zay though. He was rubbing her face. He loved her hair bow.

So there ya go, now you are up to date.

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Potty training! Ahhhh so I have decided after talking with a few moms to just put underware on Logan and let him feel himself pee. Then maybe he will stop in time and tell me he has to go potty. B/c he has been telling me after he does it. One time I heard him grunt and knew he was doing number 2 but I stopped him to put him on the potty, well he never went and it took him a few hours again to go poo. Poor kid. lol

Brooky is doing well. I'm starting her on Stage one foods. She seems to be needing more then just cereal once a day. So, I'm giving both to her. She is most definitly teething. Poor thing had a fever last night and was chewing her fingers. I had to give her some medicine. Didn't help she was so tired. She was up almost all day and she isn't used to that. She slept till 11:30 this morning and she went to bed last night around ten thirty. She was exhausted.

Well I'm hopping off here. I've got to get some more stuff done. Kids will be up soon.

Been a little while

So I just wanted to stop in for the brief second that I had and say, All is well and great!
I have loaded my pictures onto my computer and when I put kids down for a nap I will post for you all to see.
Happy Monday!

Its over...

Ya the weekend is over ya'll. Whole new work week about to begin. Well for you guys. lol
Anyways...tomorrow I should find out the details on my car and when I will be getting it back.
They gave me an X3 to drive and I love it. I like the X5 way better, but ya know, can't complain. Better than that stupid Charger they tried to get me to take. I hate that car. Had to drive it b4 and it was awful. I suggest you don't buy one.

I just hopped on the computer for a little bit to check emails and such. It's eleven already and I'm fighting with Logan to get him to sleep. I will catch you all later. Have a great week!

It was going, or so I thought.

I thought my migrane was leaving and the medicine was working. B/c for a short while I had only a bad headache. But, let me say not long after posting that, My head was throbbing. It's very hard to take care of two kids when you have a migrane lol. Especially if one of them decides to cry. Lord help us!
It was so bad I texted and called Ray begging him to come home and keep the kids so I could lay down for little bit. I ended up taking a pain pill which helped some. Needless to say when Logan woke up at four this morning, I still had a headache. But by 8:30 this morning I was feeling much better. I ended up missing vbs last night though. I was disappointed but there was no way I could drive, or handle the yelling and loudness that goes along with a church full of kids.

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So today I've just been working on the laundry, which never seems to end. I've been cleaning some too. My husband will be happy I've picked up the downstairs. I didn't mess it up, but ya know it's my job to clean up no matter who did it.
I added a mattress topper thing I got from walmart to my already tall bed. It's so tall now I have to really climb to get up in bed. The funny part is that it was a queen size, I bought it for the camper bed. But then I got a really nice one at the mall so this one has been sitting in it's box. I never returned it. It's four inches thick. My goodness. Anyways...the funny part. My bed is like a Cal King. So there is like IDK maybe four or three inches left on each side of the topper. It's comfy though so I believe I will leave it on there.
Well I've got some errands to run before I head to church. I've got to finish getting ready and get the kids up from their nap. I will talk to you all later!

My lesson went well

So remember it was my turn to teach last night? I taught about Jonah and for the most part everyone seemed interested. There were some smaller kids that weren't really paying attn and that was when I started to get nervous. But the kids must have been paying attention b/c they had to do a bonus round during the quizzing time. It was nice and stressful and wonderful all at the same time. I said I would never teach a lesson again, but ya know I think I just might if the oppurtunity shows up.
I didn't think I would be able to blog during this week. But I've just made an effort to come downstairs for little bit after I've laid the kids down. Tonight another sister is teaching I believe on Moses. If you haven't noticed it's stories that have to do with water. We have a Survivor theme going. It's been pretty neat, I've really enjoyed myself.
Well all, I've had a really bad migrane all morning and it's only a headache now. I just wanted to let you know how my lesson went last night.

Fact: The bible does not say that a WHALE, swallowed Jonah. But it says a Great Fish.

Things are starting to become a routine

Thank Goodness! Things are becoming a routine, and I don't know about you, but I love routines. Makes it easier especially when it comes to the kids. We wake up in the morning between 9-10 and I feed the kids. Brooky will only be up for two hours and is wanting to lay down. But I lay her down for little while and then get her up. I lay logan down by 1:30 and Brooky will be ready to lay down for her long nap b/c I got her up. I do what I can while they are up and try to have it finished so when they lay down for a nap, I can too! Ahhhh the joy of taking a nap. I know there are people out there that if they take a nap during the day they have a hard time going to sleep at night. Not me. I take all the rest I can get. I have loved naps for a long time and still do.

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VBS was pretty amazing last night. I'm so excited about it b/c the kids really seemed to love what everyone had planned. Sis Cathy taught about Moses and the kids listened. They were quizzed afterwards. The decorations were incrediable and I was so lovin' it. Logan watched the puppets do a little song and he really liked that part. For the most part he sat there and paid attention. We sang songs and it was a great time. I teach tonight, and I'm teaching on Jonah. It's a small lesson, and I don't have any props or anything, but I think I will be able to tell the story good enough for them to understand it and like what they hear. So stay tuned and I will let ya know how it went.
Well I've got to hop off here. Have stuff I need to get done.

VBS all week

I probably won't get to post much. We have Vacation Bible School going on this week. Mon-Fri. I get to teach a lesson on Tues. Teaching about Jonah. I'm excited and nervous too. Been awhile since I've taught a lesson. So I hope all goes well.
Ray and I have been doing paperwork up till about an hour ago. We were way behind and man I'm very relieved to have it all done. I'm sure he is too lol.

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Potty training?! Well it's starting slow. He will sit on it and then not go potty. But I think he just likes sitting on it. He asks like a hundred times a day. I don't even have to ask him. He's asking me to go potty or pee pee he says. Sometimes he will say pee pee after he has went in his diaper though. But we are still encouraging him to go and sit on potty and when he does we congratulate him. He gets all excited and gets up and claps his hands and says yeah good job! lol He is such a cute kid.

Brooky is doing well. Growing like a weed. She will just carry on a conversation and its too funny. Logan was like that. I would just talk back to him like when we were out at a store or something. People would get such a kick out of hearing him jabber on. She's starting to do the same thing.

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We went camping this past weekend. It was nice. The electric is fixed and nothing was shutting off. I sat around and visited with my neighbors, who are so very nice. I hadn't gotten the chance to talk with them since we've bought the spot. Logan had a blast as he always does at camp. It was pretty muddy still from the rain and I think he was totally covered in it from head to toe. That's a boy for ya though. He played till he was so exhausted. I laid him down for nap finally when it was close to four in the afternoon and he didn't get up till 7 and could have slept longer but I got him up. We took golf cart rides and ate and seen some fireworks. It was pretty nice. Though Sat night everyone it seemed at our section of the camp were up till the wee hours of the morning. I got a nap though Sun. afternoon. I needed it too. Logan stayed with Daddy all day sunday. Him and his friends managed to get our docks in. Logan played happily getting dirty once again. They all took a boat ride and now were able to park our boat at our dock. Don't have to pay for another slip where we dock our houseboat. Saves quite a penny.
Well I'm going to lay down for little while. I haven't been feeling well since last night and my stomach just hurts me. Keep us in your prayers for a great move of God during our VBS.

When can I have a day and just sleep?

Peeps, I need some sleep seriously!
I'm exhausted. Do kids Logan's age dream bad dreams? He has been waking up during the night, sometimes two and three times a night. Ya know I just thought of something. Could his two year molars that are STILL trying to come in bother him and wake him up? IDK? All I know is that getting to bed at one a.m. like I will be tonight for the 4th night in a row, and getting up a couple times a night to comfort little man. Finally falling back asleep to only wake up to Ray's phone ringing from his bud doing his wake up call. Agghhh you know how aggravating that is. Then for him to lay in bed and not get up. Only to roll over and around and sometimes snore cuz he is off to sleep again. Little while later his phone is ringing again and I'm just not getting any sleep!
Brooky must be getting used to her brother waking up cryin cuz she doesn't always wake up herself. Can you imagine logan cryin and waking brooky up and then her cryin and me not gettin them back to sleep! Oh man.

Anyways...Ray should be home soon. He had a late night, it's actually almost one a.m. now. He took the boat out to watch the fireworks with his friends and had to take them back to their camp. Lots of boat driving. Then drive home. He said he was stoppin at our local grocery store. They are having 5 12 pks of pop on sale for like ten dollars if ya spend ten more dollars. So he said he is gettin some more. lol
Kids went to bed about 11:45. So they should sleep in tomorrow.
OHHHHH guess what?! I got Logan a POTTY! I'm so excited and not really sure where to start. He likes to go sit on the potty and he doesn't go, but he is makin the effort. So now that he will have one that is just his size, it should be interesting. I hope I can do this. I might end up researching some to-do tips online. I need all the help I can get...lol....I can hear you all saying 'you sure do' well I admit, I do.

My husband finally fixed the electric at our campsite. So we will prob camp this weekend. Been awhile since we've stayed there b/c of the electric issue, and b/c we had a bad start with all that rain and it flooding our spot out.

Ray just walked through the door. So I'm hopping off here. I'm Ready for bed anyways.
I wish you all a Happy 4th and a great weekend. Enjoy!!!!!