Greater things are yet to come

What a week it's been already! It's almost scary when a week starts out as good as this one has for me (aside from the fact that Mr. Walker's funeral is this am but we know he's with Jesus and would want us celebrating about that) Yesterday I was able to work in the am and spend the afternoon with my sister, my niece and nephew, and my kids at the Eads' pond. What a beautiful afternoon. The sun and temperature were great therapy. That evening I then met my sis to take in the movie, "My Sister's Keeper". What an awesome, thought provoking film. We both thoroughly enjoyed it and spent the evening doing my two favorite things, laughing and crying at the same time. Sisters are truly fantastic! Then this morning Leigha and I went to church to meet with Dave and Mandy(our youth pastor and wife) to schedule Leigha's baptism. I am so excited for and proud of her. She has been inquiring for a few years about what it means to be baptized and I think she is going to be a great witness to the love of Jesus. She than asked if we could "celebrate" with breakfast and ice cream (at 10 am) from McDonalds. Let's pray the week continues on this course. It's pretty busy with us getting ready to leave on vacation next week so I'm sure the devil will do his best to bring me down. I'm praying I can stay strong in the Lord for he is sooooo GOOD to me! Thank you God for an awesome beginning to my week!

Decision, Decisions

Have spent most of the evening contemplating what online university to attend for my BA. I am not a decisive person, on the contrary, I am a very indecisive person so much in fact that I typically have trouble deciding what kind of lunch to have each day? I wish someone would say to me..."The money is no object and this course suits your needs best" and then just sign me up and tell me when I start. UGH! I want to make my mind up soon b/c I'm not getting any younger you know...did I mention I'll have a teenager by years end. Oh well, speaking of my children in general (b/c how much I love them is one thing I'm sure about) we had a fabulous weekend in our new camper (it's really like a 1985, but new to us) Larry got an incredible deal on it from a gal at work so we've deciding to be an RV family. I was a little anxious about getting into camping again because we haven't done it since Austin was a baby, but it only took one afternoon of relaxation and literally forgetting what time it was for me to know we'd made the right decision. We spent the 4th of July weekend at a small campground in Chur0busco, IN called Camp Blue Lake. We enjoyed activities each day scheduled by the campground like bingo, tye dying t-shirts, karaoke (not me, Leigha) and a watching a hula hoop contest where the contestants finally quit unanimously after 35 straight minutes...pretty impressive. We also rented a row boat and boated around the lake one afternoon. It was slightly scary with 5 of us in a row boat but peaceful too. A few minutes into the boat trip Abbie says "This is not fun at all" b/c she was scared...then she fell asleep. Some of our family came up and had lunch with us on the holiday and we enjoyed some corn hole competition and the fireworks. Talk about an awesome sight. The fireworks where virtually a 360 degree panoramic view around the entire lake. Beautiful to see. My dad just kept repeating, "If I only had half of the money going up in smoke right now." We may even go back next year we had such a great time. I told the girls at work I began mourning they return of reality two days before it actually got here.