Mary's with Jesus and Baby girls are with us.

Scott's grandmother (Mary) was very sick after we returned from our wedding/honeymoon. The family opted to put her on Dialysis the day we visited her in the hospital. She made it through Thanksgiving and Christmas but she was sleeping almost 8 to 10 hours during the day. After several weeks of seeing her quality of life go down, the family made a decision to take her off. We knew it would be a short time before she would soon lose the functioning of her kidneys. Scott and I visited her on Friday and it was very sweet to see her surrounded by her kids. She was in a good mood and seemed to be eating well. The next day her breathing decreased and her eating had become less. By Sunday at 12:30 Scott's mother called and let us know it was going to be soon. It was early that morning Scott's cousin had her twin babies and reported to the family. They gave the great news to Mary and she seemed to understand. Scott's mom arrived at the retirement home just before Mary passed. Mary had her children by her side as she left this world with the knowledge of being a great grandmother. As we came to comfort the family, tears filled our eyes. It was bitter sweet to know we had to say goodbye to a wonderful grandma and hello to two additional memebers. Scott and I are reminded of how wonderful life is from beginging to end. How we are called to give Him Glory when we can't understand everything. How blessed our family is because he cares about our small and large request. Blessed are we by a Mighty and Wonderful God

Perspectitives Class/Finding my way

Tonight we went to our second session of our class at church called Perspectives. Also today our pastor talked about Prayer and praying in Jesus Name. I was overwhelmed by what God was telling me through these men today. I learned so much in one day and it felt amazing to know God cares about the next stage of life.
Today, I learned it's extremely important to not forget to pray for things from God with out medium, Jesus Christ. I mean what gives us the courage to go before the Father as if speaking to him like a friend and not all the other things He is as well(like Father, Judge, Creator, and King). I think we get so relaxed in knowing God is a personal God, we forget what sinners we are and how important it is to continuely be reminded of our daily graditude towards the Son. Without the Son, God sees us for who we are... imperfect, infectious, weak individuals but with his Son; He sees us as His Son; perfect, without sin, loveable, warriors for Him and His children. I hope I am explaining this correctly. I just realize everyday how important it is to keep Jesus our connection to the father, by praying "in Jesus Name". Without a growing relationship with the Father and without realizing the importance of our dependance of the Son, we have nothing. We can ask for nothing, we can hope for nothing. But here is the excitment.....with a growing relationship with the Father and the Son, we can ask and know God will answer! We can know God hears our prayers. He may not answer them the way we would hope but He is in our lives to Be Glorified... It's not about us, it's all about HIM. And I am okay with that! Why? Because He is life and life to the fullest! Isn't that just amazing.

Also today, I was met with the idea of many scriptures we have memorized and how we memorize sections but not the full statement at times. We seem to manage learning scripture that helps us understand how blessed we are and how God will be there for us continually by His promises. What I learned was there seems to be a top line statement and a bottom line statement. The top line is how God can bless us and the bottom line is how we are to bless others to glorify God. "The Great Commission". ex. Psalms 46:10 Be still and know I am God; (it's about "us" a top line statement, important but look at the bottom line) I (God) will be exalted amoung the nations, I (God) will be exalted in the earth. The bottom line is God is to be exalted and worshipped. It's are job to help others see God as a "missionary God", he wants to reach all nations in all the earth, to know Him.
Even though, I am on cloud 9 right now with just being married, my mission is not over. I realize how important life changes so quickly. My husband and I have such exciting plans for our future. I believe God is showing me in every blessing there is also a small reminder of "The Great Commission". Whether it's having kids (to love others), moving to a foreign country, or continuing to help our church love on our missionaries, we need to keep right in our relationship with God. It begins and ends with Jesus. What a finding!

Wii Night

So our great friends Amy and Brett came over with a new video game called the Wii. It's a physcial game of moving the remote and using your entire body. It was a lot of fun even though I wasn't very good. We had six other friends over and everyone got tired out about 10:00. It's amazing wow quickly you get competitive. Boxing was the best working out you literally are punching with the remotes. Quite interesting.
I have been struck with a bad cold for the past two days and it's not a fun thing at all. Luckily I got out of bed today around 2:00 p.m. and started feeling myself about 5:30. Hopefully I didn't get to exhausted with all the games we played.

PT Cruiser? Oh yeah!

This past week Scott and I have been busy working on buying a car. It's been a good go around but very interestesting as well. We first went to Parks Motors and looked at many different vehicles but mainly SUV's. We were trying to find something we could use for our future with softball and eventually kids. Our salesman suggested PT Cruisers. We never thought about them but when we looked at them we both seemed drawn in. Scott and I were very impressed with the gas mileage and space. He gave us a few days to drive it around and I have to say, I really feel in love with it. Since it was our first day out looking we decided to do a lot of research on PT's. We got on the web and found a lot of info. on these cute cars. We had some interesting times with one car dealer in town and it was humorous after the fact. After, hours and days of wheeling and dealing, we headed back to Parks. We found a great price and a even got some extras. It's great to know we found something we are going to enjoy. So if you see a PT cruiser driving by... it might be us!!!!

Great new year news!!!

I asked for prayer on a part time job with softball and to help out somewhere to use my spanish. I went Saturday to a place called "His Helping Hands" and it's a place where people who are down on their luck can get counceling and then recieve free service. Some of the services are free clothes, bread, furniture, ect. I was told they would love some help with inturpting in Spanish and so I took myself down there. As I got there they put me in a room with all the clothes and kids toys. I was able to help and speak to many who came through. I only got corrected a few times, not by what I was saying in spanish but allowing the kids to dig through the boxes. I guess sometimes volunteer staff can be pretty tough people. Everyone received a number of Dillons bags and they could stuff them full of whatever they might need. It's an incredible way to see how God helps those in need. I was thankful for the opportunity and realized I could help in many ways.
Also.... I am starting a new job at Geher's performance center as an instructor of softball four days a week. I will be helping with a hitting clinic and it's a great way to get my foot back in the door to softball. I am thankful for the opportunity. PTL for answered prayers.

Surprise Party Weekend

Well, we helped two friends pull off surprise party's for their husbands. One party was themed camo. So we all got into are hunting clothes and enjoyed some good fun. But we had a great time and I got to hold Vance (Wendy's baby) more! Scott was learning from Vance how to suck his hand. Scott gave up after only a few tries. Amy really got spirited and wore antlers. But Matt and Heather took home the prize.

The other party was a poker night and we had around thirty people at our house. Three tables were set up for 24 players but we had nineteen playing poker. Scott and I were the hostess but Scott ended up being more of the host then me because I was still playing poker until 11:30. Brooks beat me in the final hand of the night! It was a great time and everyone was very excited to see each other two nights in a row. Needless to say we were a little tired today.

Happy New Year!!!! 2008

We had a wonderful time with a dinner and dance. Scott surprised me with flowers and a sweet card. We are excited to see what the new year will bring. It's so exciting to know God is in total control. We entertained friends the next day with about 12 hours of college football. It was pretty fun to sit around and laugh with our friends. I am reminded how much really went on this year. We had one friend have a baby (named Vance), three friends who got pregnant this past year (Karen, Niki,and Beth) three friends moved away with different jobs (Erin, Amy Mo and Shara), we got engaged and married, five of our close friends got married in our singles group (Niki and Jay, John and Rebecca, Greg and Carrie, Lori and Ron, Eric and Shannon) and two friends found true love (Amy and Heather). It's been amazing how God is working in all of our lives. Can't wait to see what happens next year.
This past year I have bought, wrecked, and sold a moto. I ran a basketball league, visited Belize,Tikal,Florese, went to an amusement park in Guatemala, got engaged, dated over the skype, got married in Jamiaca, and am a wife.
Scott visited Eurpoe, Albania, Guatemala twice and Tikal, got engaged and married, redecorated our home,went to his first KC Chiefs game and is enjoying his wife.