I love my family!

I sure am going to miss these sweeties! I leave Sunday for a week and I am excited but, I will miss my family. I have posted my worship minister's blog to keep up with what we are doing during this next week. He will be posting pictures and things on it to keep up with what we are doing if anyone wants to check it out. http://me-log.blogspot.com/

So, blog buddies-have a great 4th of July and I love you all.

No matter what happens each day the sun still sets

Its been a while since I've blogged and I have a lot to blog about.
First I just want to brag Little on my Kids!
Payton is off to Europe where she will be going with her Meme (her dad's mom) to Spain and then to London. She will be gone for 2-1/2 weeks and I am going to miss her so much. But, its such a wonderful experience for her. She went a couple years ago to Ireland with Meme as well. Very lucky Girl. She is my angel. I really see her making a difference in this world. She has the heart of gold and very open and accepting of others. She just amazes me everyday.
Rylie is becoming such a little man. He is out of Day care this summer and he and Daddy are spending some quality time together. He will start the Mothers Day Out program at our church this fall. The only thing is its only three days a week and Thur. and Fri. I will have to find someone to keep him. So, I am praying it all works out. He has been so loving and sweet lately.
Zack, I haven't spent a lot of time with him lately. During the summer he pretty much lives out at his Dad's parents house. There is so much for him to do out there that he stays to busy for his ole mom. We played in the final baseball game last night to see who would get first place in the league. WOW what a game. We were down 5 to 1 and came back to tie them 6 to 6. We had to play a extra ending in overtime and we had used our two pictures so, Ryan put Zack on the mound(he's been working with him on pitching) and boy was I nervous! He strikes the first two players out and grounded a ball and threw the other one out at 1st. 3 Up 3 Down!
Then it was our turn to bat and we had bases loaded with 2 outs. Guess who's up to bat?? ZACK - so what does he do? He knocks the fire out of it and hits a grand slam home run to win the game! Man am I a proud momma or what!

So, enough bragging-I am now getting ready to leave next weekend for my week long trip with my fellow Praise Team/Band leaders. We are going to Texas and will be experiencing wonderful things like, singing with Martha Munizzi in a Mass choir. We will be praising and learning great things to bring back for leading FBC congregation. And spiritualy growing. This is my first time and they say its a life changing experience. OH did I mention 5 of us (Adults that are big kids at heart) will be going to Six Flags with no kids!
The thing is we were sadden to learn the Man (Pastor, teacher, christian musician/song writer, author, leader of God's Kingdom) that has been with International Worship Institute for 21yrs is stepping down as the Lead minister due to some immoral transgressions in his life. Talk about disappointing! We have even had small group classes on one of his teachings and have heard him preach the word of the Lord.
The Bible talks about Great Kings like King David that were followers of Christ and how power and wealth (AND SATAN)turned him against God's ways. But, he eventually found his way back to God and stayed true to Him until his death.
So, after much praying and thought. A good friend of mind hit the nail right on the head when she said "We should not worship people only GOD!" Maybe this is a sign to remember, there is no other God than God Himself! We are human and we fail, fall and sin. That is why Jesus died for us.
So, I pray for LaMar Boschman and his family through this time in his life. I pray that God uses him in a way to teach us things and bring him closer to God.

Schools out for the summer

Man, has this year flown by or what. The kids are getting out of school and ready for summer break. Kids these days are not much different than the kids we used to be back in the day. But, things that these kids experience so much younger than we did are so scary. They are having sex earlier. They are doing drugs and drinking way earlier. Shooting up people at school. I don't know what this world is coming to.
Here in our little town of Hooterville we've had a scare from a boy we all know to be a very good kid. Has wonderful family and is very athletic and popular. Seems to be the All American boy. Well it seems these kids are taking a over the counter cough and cold medicine in LARGE quantities for a high thats been compared to PCP. They get this "Triple C" from the shelves at wal-mart and ingest anywhere from 5 to 30 pills at a time. Because it is a legal drug they think it won't be a big deal. Well, Ellis Jr. found out different when Monday morning, after he and some other boys had a night of popping pills, his dad goes into his room and finds him unresponsive and breathing very shallow. You see this drug he's been taking for the past couple of weeks pretty regularly has the ingredient Tylenol in it. You may know the prolonged use or extensive use of acetaminophen will damage your liver and kidneys. Thats what was happening to him his liver and kidneys were shutting down and also had some damage to his heart. He had also taken hydrocoedone and because his liver wasn't filtering like it should it had put him in a sleep his body couldn't wake him up. If he'd laid there any longer he wouldn't be here today. The other boys knew something wasn't right with him that night but, was scared to say anything because they had taken some too and was afraid of getting in trouble. He as taken to Childrens Hosp. but on dialyses and a breathing machine. After 3 days of not knowing if he'd even make it, I am so happy to say he is off all breathing and medical machines and is in a private room.
We have learned more than half the football and basketball boys were involved in the same thing and even getting prescription drugs such as Oxycontin, zanix, and what ever else they can get there hands on.
The community is coming together to keep this from happening to there child. We all met last night and discussed what us parents need to do to be aware that this could happen to ANYONES child. And that it IS Happening.
I'm scared of what there is to come of this world and these children. There are so many peer pressures and things going on that we have no clue about. These kids are dealing with things that I never would have imagined.
This makes me want to keep my kids locked under my house and I know you cant do that. So, I just pray that God guides these kids to make better decisions and that these kids put God in there lives more.
I really don't know what else to say...

Schools out for the summer