Go Dawgs

Last minute on the day before UGA’s home opener my dad got some tickets from Pepsi. Keith, myself, Carson and his girlfriend Aubrey went together. Sadly when we got the CVS to pick up our tickets there were 6 tickets not 4 as we thought. Madison was not happy at all when she found this out. We ended up selling them for pretty cheap and had our parking paid for!

I miss going to all the games. One great perk of being a student!

4:8 challenge

Philippians 4:8 (Contemporary English Version)
8Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.

I have been doing a challenge called the “4:8” challenge with my mom an a few others. Feel free to read more about it on my mom’s blog :    http://thehillsideoflife.blogspot.com/

It is crazy how when you start looking at your “thought life” you realize how negative you are really thinking and how you are not thinking on what is pure and holy is lovely.

Today was day 5. I had a hard day looking and focusing on things that are true and pure, right and holy, friendly and proper. It is crazy how little situations get you down everyday and cause such bitterness in your life. I have a lot more to learn on this subject.

mercy.

“I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.”- Psalm 116:1-2

Since we don’t have kids…

We blog about our cats!

 

Little Aslan is doing great! He is crazy and always running around like a mad kitty. He is fisty and like the pounce on our feet at night. He loves to play fight with Sadie and cuddle up on your chest. Since he was a lot youger when we adopted him from the Animal Shelter it has been crazy to see him grow so quickly. He is a little ball of fun. We love him, even though we want to kill him sometimes!

  

Sadie is doing great too. When Aslan 1st arrived, we were really worried this second cat thing was not going to work out. Sadie was an “ only child” and she had only child syndrome. she would just hiss and growl at little Aslan, but he just wanted to bite her tail!  Now they are BFF’s and Keith sends me pictures all the time of them cuddling with each other. They still love to fight, but they end up licking each other on the head after biting. haha!

Where have we been?

Guys… It has been too long!

Keith and I have been going going going over the past 3 weeks. We spent 2 weeks straight every night at church preparing for VBS and actually having the VBS.

I was thinking if we had 25-30 kids that would be a great turn out for our small church. Our first night we had 39 kids which blew my mind. The next night we had 59 kids then we had 70 kids by the end of the week. The lord is good and showed how awesome He is to everyone there. It was so awesome to see how God pulled it all together. There is no way this could have happened without him. Total the church spent $33.00 on VBS. Everything else was donated or creative skills were used to make everything super cheap and awesome! The kids raised $1300.00 for our missionary.

PureFUN! Donated the juice and food for snacks. A lady at our church, Maria, wrote the skits for each night… which were AWESOME! I used some songs from my past for all the music. i created the trading cards and v-buck money and Jerry let me print it out super cheap at work. I can’t believe $33.00 total was spent. It just shows what can happen when you listen to God’s calling in a situation and allow him to work in every area.

 

Besides that we’ve had some fun times with friends, saw inception with Leo DiCaprio, and a few other movies in home. Had a few girls from the youth group over. worked… slept… ate… you know the normal. I hope to update a lot more over the next week. Since we kind of have a little more time on our hands :-)

This weekend we have Mark Rice’s wedding and i can’t wait! :-)

Hero UP

This year our church is having our first ever VBS.  It is called “Hero Up-unleashing God’s power in your life.” We have a fun Super Hero theme, so that rocks! We are doing everything ourselves, so it has been lots of ideas flowing around and lots of work but it will be awesome to see how God uses the time.

We are making “trading cards” for the characters in the shows. Keith is playing the “smart” kid. Here is the trading card i made for Keith’s character:

4th

We had a great 4th. We had a wonderful service at church to start out the day and then Keith’s mom and Dennis came over for all the festivities Porterdale had to offer! We walked around the booths and had some yummy Pulled pork sandwiches. We just relaxed and enjoyed the beautiful weather. We rocked our USA Sunglasses and watched a great fireworks show. Porterdale is great! hehe!