Last Day for Blog Party!

Last party post

I get kind of sad when a party ends...although, my feet hurt, from standing so long chatting with all these great wonderful ladies, but I am mostly sad because there was just no way I was going to be able to visit everyone!! With currently 906 people on the list, and who knows who will sign up before I get this posted, I would have to stay home and do this for 24 hours a day for like a week!! So, if I didn't make it to your party, please know, I am trying.

I must say, I have met the best, craziest, funny, and wonderful people this week. I spent a whole hour catching up on one girls story about being a first time mom as she journaled much of her pregnancy on her blog. I have laughed. I have cried. I have prayed. I am looking forward to putting together a post of these "new" people in my blogosphere.

I will finish with this:
This week was incredible. God showed me even more just how awesome He is. He is worthy of nothing less than my all and He showed me what that actually looks like. At church, we had a four day revival from Sunday to Wednesday night. In one word: INCREDIBLE. The people were great and helped lead us into worship and breaking down walls, but more importantly the Lord was AWESOME. He showed up and we were all about His Glory. The topic was Thirst. We dumped out our cups on the platform Sunday night after writing on the cup what we were filling our cup with that wasn't the Lord. Monday night we got sugar packets - various ones, and talked about what we use as a substitution for God. Tuesday night - Marriage/Hurt night. Moving testimonies and funny videos, it was a night to rekindle that flame with your spouse or with the Lord. Wednesday was just a pure celebration of all He's done and getting a water bottle to remind us to be filled with His spirit.
I crashed last night. I was exhasuted from early mornings to late nights, but it was all worth it. I hope and pray that as we come off this high, we don't forget what He's done, what He's doing, and what He's going to do.
Hey, girls, IT'S FRIDAY!! Insert me doing Friday dance...after all, this is a party!!

Love in Him-
Karen

Babies! It's the week of Babies!

No, not for us!!! For my friends! Rush over to my friend Kaci, who delivered Elizabeth on Valentine's Day!! My friend Kim, who doesn't have a blog, but needs to get one, delivered Ellie just yesterday. Kudos to Kaci and Kim, who both delivered in less than 5 hours...I know....some of you are gritting your teeth at them! hee hee.

Picture:
I couldn't resist posting a picture of Boo either. We treated him to a Krispy Kreme donut last night and oh my...he got it EVERYWHERE! He wanted to make sure we took his picture to show his Papaw. :)

Enjoy!
Look at my shirt! It's all over me!! :)

Not sure if you can tell, but it's all over his face and he gave me his cheesiest grin for you!

This is Boo doing his new Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm song and dance. I don't know if he made it up or what but it's hysterical face to face.

Karen

Funny of the Day

We are doing the usual Monday morning drive in to school and work and David is in the backseat reading and counting. He can count to 10 (yippie!) and he knows 11 and 12, so I help him count to 20. It apparently was so exciting that one of the books he was holding hit the door and fell to the floor of the car, in which he exclaimed, "OOOOH, Busted it!" WHAT? exclaims Mommy. I was laughing so hard I was crying. I called Jeremy and could barely get the words out because my giggles and tears were getting in the way of talking. It was a sight.
I think he got it from watching too much ESPN. I think one of the announcers said that the other night during a baseball game. Ahhh...none the less, that was my funny of the day. I doubt much will top that.
3 more days till David's birthday!!

Have a great day with the Lord!

Laughter

If you have been around me for more than a minute, then you must know that I love to laugh! I don't think my laugh is all that great, in fact, at times it might be loud and obnoxious (did I really just say that about myself??), but none the less, if it gets someone else to laugh, then my purpose was completed. Life is just too short to waste it being mad and upset at the world...of course, it's easier said then done in some cases. Laughter stems from joyfulness, since joy lasts forever and happiness doesn't (you do know why, right?) because Joy comes from the LORD! (I bet Joy Walters is reading this right now thinking...yep, I come from the Lord! HA!) Only the Lord can fill you with joy, but happy, that's a feeling...see, I am under the perspective that you can be sad, but still be joyful. Anyone want to go on that debate with me?
Back to laughter...I not only like to make others laugh, but I love a good laugh. I love a great story with a big laugh ending, especially if it involves what the Lord is doing in the lives of His people. I think God has a sense of humor...be honest, you know you think that too! The picture of the Lord smiling is one of my favorite pictures! How could he not laugh at some of the silly things we do??? I am not talking about stupid things we do, just silly things.
I think the Lord smiled and laughed the day He chose me to be Jeremy's wife or him to be my husband, however you view it. Jeremy thinks I am the silliest person to walk the planet! (We differ on that occasionally, because if you have met our good friend Eric Henderson, he ranks right up there with silliest person in the universe.)
But seriously, if you saw some of the things I did only in the privacy of our home, you too, would get a good chuckle. I am under the philosophy of "dancing like nobody's watching" and David thinks that mommy is silly doing that...then he normally joins me or tells me to stop. I definately "sing like I don't need the money" because there is NO WAY that someone would pay me to sing, they would pay me to stop singing first. I mean, I can keep with harmony and all, but making up silly songs is the best! (Laughing out loud...) I used to make up this one song to the tune of "Firm Foundation"...we used to sing it at the church we went to in Texas, and I put my own words to it about Jeremy and me and he gets the biggest laugh about that. I haven't sang it in a while, so maybe I will tonight.
I think the Lord smiled and laughed the day David was born...that kid was 9.8 pounds and I had no control over him arriving in this world. I think the Lord smiles and laughs on the days he grants parents more than one miracle at a time. I know several mommies with twins or more, and they all had a good chuckle when the doctor said, uh, yeah, there's 2 or 3 in there!
Laughter is good medicine...so laugh hard, laugh lots, and laugh often.