30 Days: When You're The Best of Friends

Today Katie is asking us to share pictures of our friends. My husband and our families are my closest friends.

Some of my other friends in no particular order....

My high school BFF. I love this girl! She is such a beautiful Christian woman. We always have a great time together.

The Springers...Stuart, Laura, and Jude. An amazing family. These three guarantee a good time.

The Winburns..Sinclair & Amanda. I love these two. I can completely be myself around them. Great friends who would do anything for us.

A Church Home

As you know, the husband and I have been without a church home for a year now. Wow! I can't believe it has been a year. Crazy. We are still going to church every Sunday, just not always the same church.

It's hard. Even though we have been going to church, we don't belong anywhere. We don't have a church family right now.

When we first left our last church, I was in NO hurry to join another church. I was burned out. Now I'm ready. I miss not having a home church.

A week ago, I felt like God shared with me where he wants us. It is a place that I never thought God would call us to. It's not a bad place at all. In fact I love the people of this church. They are so sweet. I've just never felt like I belonged when we've gone to this particular church. It is a place that I made very clear to my husband, I didn't want to be there.

Yet now, I feel God is calling us to that very church. I have felt Him tell me this twice now. Not an audible telling, just a feeling.

Andrew has not felt like God has shared this with him yet. I don't know why God hasn't shared with Andrew. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe God knows Andrew isn't ready or something. I don't' know.

I just know that now that I feel like we're supposed to be there, I want to hurry up and get there. That blows my mind because of they way I was running from this very place.

Anyways...all this to say... Will you please pray with me that Andrew and I will know where God wants us.

30 Days: A Place You've Traveled

A few of my favorites...

Destin, Florida


South Dakota


Washington DC

Friday Night Fair

Andrew and I won tickets to the state fair this year. To say I was excited would be a major understatement. I love the fair!! Andrew...not such a fan. I've never been able to sweet talk him into taking me. This year though, I finally won. We had free admissions and our good friends, the Winburns also won tickets.

Friday night was the night. I was easily the most excited out of the four of us. We decided to buy armbands since that was much cheaper than buying individual tickets.

We started the night with the ferris wheel. I think this is the only ride my husband truly enjoys. I on the other hand hate the ferris wheel. I will ride roller coasters, things that spin, or anything else for that matter. I love all rides. All rides except the ferris wheel. It totally creeps me out. I'm not a fan of heights and the ferris wheel just takes to long to come back down. I buried my head in the husband's arm and stared at the our feet.

Sinclair of course loved this and and kept messing me. He and Amanda were as happy as a couple of larks.

I did a little better toward the end of the ride.

After the ferris wheel we grabbed some yummy fair food. After burgers and dogs it was time for more rides.

We rode the scrambler which is by far my favorite fair ride. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. Something about the scrambler makes me giggle.

We had to ride the carousel of course. I'm pretty sure we were the only adults on the thing who weren't holding a little kid. We enjoyed every minute of it...some of us more than others. :)


After a few more rides the men were finished. They had had enough and were feeling a little sick.

We girls were feeling good and managed to ride a couple more rides before the boys said it was time to go home.

I loved it! But I'm pretty sure I will have to find someone else to go with me next year. I think the husband is done with the fair.

30 Days: A Night At The Movies

Day 7 of Katie's 30 Day Challenge.
Today we are sharing our favorite movies. I don't think I have one favorite movie. There are several that I could watch over and over and over....actually I do watch them over and over. :)

Here are a few...
I love all three of these movies!










Okay so that is more than a few and I could still list several more!

30 Days: A Happy Photo

Today's challenge over at Katie's blog is a picture of something that makes you happy.



Though we have our imperfections, my little family is perfect!



I would not change anything about it.



I love who my family is at this stage in life.



The husband and furbabies definitely bring a crazy kind of happy into my life on a daily basis.

30 Days: Parents & Siblings

Well, I didn't make it very far into this 30 day challenge before I was behind. Surprise Surprise! Thursday was just one of those days where I need to come home, put the pjs on, and go to bed. I meant to double up yesterday, but didn't have time . We went to the fair last night with some friends. Lots of fun! Be expecting a post about that soon.

So let's backtrack... Thursday's challenge was about parents and Friday's was about siblings. Two of my favorite things...

My parents...


I made Chris and Patty parents on August 30th back in 1983. They've done pretty well if I do say so myself.


Daddy is my hero. I view him like most little girls view their Daddy. He can do anything. He knows how to fix anything or how to build anything. I think I'm more like my Momma than my Daddy, but there are definitely things Daddy and I have in common. We both loves us some Arkansas Razorbacks. We love roller coasters! One of my favorite pictures of me and my Daddy is one that is taken on a roller coaster a couple of summers ago. Every once in awhile someone will tell me I look like my Daddy.


But for the most part I'm my Momma made over. :) Most everyone tells me I look just like her. I definitely act like her in a lot of ways! We both love a good chick flick and a good movie. We love fall weather and have the same taste in clothes for the most part. Our attitude and mannerisms are a lot alike. The older I get the more of my Momma I see in myself.

My parents are two terrific people. They have always stood behind me no matter what the dream was. They believed I could play piano, clarinet, softball, basketball, or any other activity I wanted to do. Without them, I would not be the woman I am today.



As far as siblings go I only have one, but he is a pretty good one. My baby brother is a 23 years old and single ladies! I pray every day for the wife God has for him. He is going to make a great husband some day. He is a sweet, but shy young man. At least he is shy at first. Once he warms up to you, you better watch out. he loves practical jokes! He is one of my favorite guys! I'm thankful that we are so close. I love him more than he know.

We've been told more than once we looked like twins. I used to hate this. I am four years older!!! Now I love to hear than we look like twins. :)