Weekend News

This past weekend we had our usual pizza and movie night on Friday. We saw The Tooth Fairy. It was a cute movie and the girl's enjoyed it!

Saturday Joslyn and Allison went to a friend's birthday party. Sunday we went to church, bible study and Sunday School, then I took the girls to the German Silvana Philip stayed home with Moriah so I could enjoy swimming with the girls. Joslyn brought along her friend Joyce and Allison brought her friend Desheta. I went down the water slide with the girls. That was so fun! We are going swimming again this weekend! Philip and Moriah will swim with us this next time! We had a wonderful weekend. Praises to God for all his MANY blessings!

Marriage Mondays *Overcome Struggles*

This past week Philip and I hit another bump in our path of marriage. We got into an argument. We both said some hurtful things to one another. I tried so hard to pray over Philip, but it was so hard to pray for him after some of the hurtful things he had said to me. I would imagine Philip coming home with flowers and apologizing to me for how he had hurt me. That never happened. After a few days I finally realized that I was going to have to go to Philip and apologize to him first. It was so very hard for me to do. I thought he should come to me, he hurt me more! I was able to write a note to Philip and express my feelings to him through my letter (something my mother would advise me to do) After he read the note Philip came to me and accepted my apology as I accepted his. I know there will be more struggles in our marriage. Every marriage has them. I just pray the next rain we have will not turn into a STORM! I pray that Philip and I will be able to listen to each others concerns, worries, and problems and work together to over come struggles!

I Won!!

My dear friend, Sarah Lett keeps a blog, The Years Fly By On her blog she was giving away 2 really gifts
Book: Mother Daughter Duet
Author: Cheri Fuller

Book: Dancing With My Father
Author: Sally Clarkson

I left a comment on Sarah's blog about how I will be renewing myself this spring. What I plan on doing for spring break. How I plan to renew myself?

My comment was: I do "Spring cleaning" through out the year! I'm not sure yet what we will do over Spring break. This Spring I plan on spending more intimate time in prayer with God and working on my relationship with Him!
I was the random winner and I am excited about reading my 2 new books! Thanks Sarah!

Sweetheart Sleep

Every night before I go to my bed I always take one last look at all my girl's. I make sure they are covered nice and snug under their blankets. I take the book Joslyn falls asleep with and I return it back to her backpack. I take the dsi game Allison was playing before she fell asleep and return it to the charger. I check on Moriah, turn the volume on classical music that plays in her cd player. Last night I had the desire to take a picture of all 3 sleeping sweethearts! I stood over each girl and just stared at them for a few seconds. I thanked God for the comfy, warm bed each of my girl's has. I thanked God for each room my girl's have. So many children go to bed each night without a bed to sleep on, with out a blanket to keep them warm or a pillow to lay their head on. We are truly beyond blessed! Praise God for his many, many blessings!
Matthew 19:14
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Marriage Mondays~New Promotion New Prayers!

I found Marriage Mondays on Come Have a Peace blog.
This past Friday Philip was promoted to a higher rank in the US Army. As with any promotion in the work force, with his rank comes more responsibility and more work. He is now a squad leader. He is responsible for 6 other soldiers. With this new leadership position Philip has a lot more paper work. Counseling statements for each soldier, evaluation forms, awards, etc. This means more work will have to be brought home and completed here at home. Philip's day begins at 5:25am and he comes home around 6pm. Sometimes he is able to come home for lunch. I look forward to Philip coming home every evening. He helps out so much with Moriah, the dinner dishes, Joslyn and Allison, and we usually try to watch a movie together before bed. With his new rank I know sometimes his work will take the place of our movie before bed. I am going to have to remind myself of how much Philip wanted this promotion and what a blessing this promotion is to our family. I have a prayer journal I keep. I bought a journal a few months ago. I wanted to keep a record of the prayers I have prayed over Philip and I wanted to record how God answered my prayers.

I am going to add another prayer to my journal. I pray that Philip will not become overwhelmed with work. I pray that he will continue to have the desire to spend quality time with his family and intimate time with me. I am going to pray that God will help me to be the wife that Philip needs me to be when work becomes stressful. I am going to keep the house clean. I want Philip to come home to a nice clean house. Keep the refigerator and pantry stocked with food he likes. Have myself all made-up for him too. It makes me feel pretty too when I have cute clothes on, my hair fixed and make-up on. I will try my hardest to have dinner ready when he comes home from work and have the kids in bed by 8:30 no later than 9pm (Moriah will be asleep no later than 10pm, fingers crossed) Spending time in prayer with God always gives me great comfort and so much encouragement! So I am praying for my motivation as well! This is my Marriage Monday.

Sunday Funday!

What a beautiful day we had today. The sun was shining, the sky was clear and the air was cool. Our friend's, the Conwells came to church today too. The sermon was on Mark 9:17-21 We need to trust and have faith in our Savior! We were able to visit with the Conwell's after church while our kids snacked on fruits and drank juice in the fellowship hall. After church we had bible study. We finished up our study on Fireproof Your Marriage. It was a 6 week study. We recieved study books with weekly homework and we were also given the Love Dare book! Next Sunday we will begin a new bible study on the book of Revelations. Revelations has always scared me a bit. I really haven't spent much time in Revelations. So this study will be interesting. After church we made a quick run to the PX and bought a present for Allison's friend, Jaden. We went to the bowling alley again today for Jaden's 9th birthday party (we were at the bowling alley yesterday for Allison's cheer party). We had a great time visiting with friend's and visiting with Philip's co-workers. After the birthday party we went back to the PX and bought the girl's Easter dress and new swimming suits. Hopefully next weekend we will be able to go to the Silvana. When we came home (which was about 4pm) the girl's changed their clothes and rushed for the door and ran outside to meet up with their friends! Tonight Philip and I are going to watch the movie after the girl's are in bed! Have a Funday this Sunday!

Cheerleading Party!

This afternoon was Allison's cheer party at the bowling alley. Everyone had pizza, drinks and cake! Each of the girl's recieved a trophy, certificate and 2 free games of bowling! Allison had a wonderful season of cheering at all the basketball games! She really enjoys cheering! I'm so happy she had this experience. Way to go Allison!!