Laughing my butt off

I have spent the last 15 minutes laughing so hard I thought I just might wet my pants. If any of you were raised in a strict, ( can I use the word "rigid"?) Baptist home like me you will love this web site:
http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/

Today's blog about prayer is hilarious.

I think we take ourselves WAY too serious.

Truth is, most of use do 75% of what we do in church for others to notice.

Happy Father's Day

When I met Wayne and fell in love, I did not think of him as the father of girls. I imagined him with a bunch of boys, hunting, fishing and restoring old cars. God, who is infinitely wiser than us, gave us two beautiful girls, one like Wayne, one like me. I could fill this page with all the reasons why he is such a great dad, but let me just say--

Wayne is patient and kind to Leslie and Virginia,

He never acts arrogant, and usually puts what he wants last.

He is slow to become irritated and doesn't keep a record of their screw ups.

He hates it when when they get in trouble,

and it makes him smile to hear them tell about their good times.

He never gives up on our girls, He never loses faith in God-or them

He is always hopeful in what they will become.

and he will be around for them through good and bad times.

They may love other men, but the love of their daddy will endure forever!

(My adaptation of I Cor. 13)

Beatin' the summer heat

Here's how you beat the heat in Georgia ....

First you and your sister move the trampoline in front of the pool

(wetting it down with the water hose will assist you in jumping 12-18 inches higher)

It's summer olympics in the

backyard!

Next you perform your double backwards- triple -forward -spin -tuck

Judges-- 9.9/ 9.5/9.8/10!

Here's your competition-- your younger sis

Looks like she nailed the hold-your-nose-cannonball

Will you pray with me?

Yesterday, my very dear friend, who is 22 weeks pregnant found out her baby has a diaphragmatic hernia. He will have really rough road when he gets here in October.
Will you join me in praying for my friend Lauren and her hubby Chris? They are such salt of the earth kinda people, but most of all they have great faith in a God who can heal if He chooses.

I am reminded of my favorite verse as I pray for baby Gage.....
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according the His power that is at work within us To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever Amen!

Eph. 3:20-21

It's kinda quiet around here...

My girls have deserted me for an entire week in favor of intense spiritual awakening at summer camp, OK that and the Code Red Mountain Dew Slushy. Here's what me and Wayne have done by ourselves all week: (No it's not what you think, keepin' clean for all my bloggin' peeps.

.....Mowed the entire yard and fertilized all my plants.

......Finished my last tennis lesson tonight!

......Made Wayne eat leftovers.. again.

.......Finished "Crazy Love" for the 2nd time.

.......Visited my pregnant pal Lauren and saw her new baby furniture (Love it and felt a small baby yearning in my uterus that I ignored)

.......Went to bed early last night then woke up at 11:30 to talk to my baby and find out her first day at camp was fun.

.......Bought a new black and white tunic to wear out on my date with Wayne tomorrow night.

........Made reservations for 2 at 8 pm tomorrow night at the Oceanaire in Atlanta!

My favorite hymn of all time...

Come Thou Fount

Come Thou fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing thy grace.

Streams of mercy never ceasing

Call for songs of loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet

Sung by flaming tongues above.

Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it

Mount of thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer

Hither by thy help I come.

And I hope by thy good pleasure

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger

Wandering from the fold of God.

He to rescue me from danger

Interposed His precious love.

Oh to grace how great a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be.

Let thy goodness, like a fetter

Bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord I feel it

Prone to leave the God I love.

Here's my heart oh, take and seal it.

Seal it for thy courts above.

Vacation 2008

In between washing a MOUNTAIN of laundry so I can get the girls off to camp in the morning, I will tell you all about our wonderful trip to Vogel State Park.


I grew up with absolutely NO interaction with the great outdoors. My parents carted us off to my grandparents in New Mexico every summer and the closest we ever got to the great outdoors, was playing in my grandparents back yard.


My life with Wayne has introduced me to the wonders of camping, enjoying animals in their natural habitat, and most of all learning to appreciate the mountains. Having our own camper has really made this so much fun. My girls will probably grow up and realize all they missed by becoming pampered women who view vacation as sitting poolside at a resort sipping a fruity drink!


Vogel State Park is in the Chattohoochee National forest. We arrived on Wednesday night to 4 other families that we love to camp with. They helped Wayne set the camper up which really saved on the usual temper flares,and tears that are involved in setting up camp!

Thursday, we spent all day at the river. This involves sitting in your camp chair in the middle of the ice cold river, waiting on the men to grill something really good while reading a really good book, in my case, Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Best read in the last 5 years!


We went to the Deer Lodge, which Wayne and I first visited on our honeymoon. They have the best fried trout I've ever eaten!


Friday we visited Brasstown Bald, the highest mountain peak in Ga. The .5 mile hike was ridiculously steep! By the time we were through, we were all starving and ate Mexican and watched to new Indian Jones movie. I agree with the critics, not that great, I mean come on-- aliens???


All our friends went home on Saturday morning and we stayed around camp all day except to venture down the mountain for BBQ. My favorite park of the week, was watching the girls play at the beach and listening to the bluegrass band playing at the pavilion. It was gorgeous week and a great way to kick off the summer.



Now I am frantically trying to get clothes washed and the girls packed for camp. They are both going to youth camp this next week and I will either be really lonely, or really enjoying some quietness. Probably both!



These guys are on top of Brasstown Bald

Virginia robbed me of every quarter I owned so she could try and see her cousins in North Carolina from up here!

I cannot believe that these girls actually had a good time with sand and shovels without the help of any technology!

In the words of my favorite beer commercial-- It doesn't get any better than this!