Merry CHRISTmas Everyone!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Hope yall are enjoying your holiday season with the people you love. For us, the holidays are usually spent with some good Godly church family. One thing that I have learned recently is that the closer I get to the Lord, the farther away I get from certain friends and family. It was a REALLY tough time I was going through debating on what to do about it. David's family lives here in Pa, but there are only a couple of the family members that, as Christians, we would wish to be around them. And I have a very special friend that we usually spend the holidays with, but she wants the things of this world and I dont. It is AMAZING that when you REFUSE to choose, God chooses for you!!!! Not always what our choice would have been, but the right one.
As you grow closer to the Lord, you may lose a few friends, and maybe even family along the way, but remember, CHRIST IS THE BEST FRIEND YOU COULD EVER HAVE. And if you are in a good Bible believing church, you wont have a better family than the one you have there. I love my family very much and wish I could be with them during this holiday season, but I couldnt find any better people to spend it with than my church family. Lets remember to keep Christ not just in Christmas, but in our hearts and lives as well. No matter what the cost! Merry Christmas bloggers!!!!! May God bless you are yours this Christmas Day!!!!

OOOPS!!!

Oh, dear.....I messed up. I did not type anything for my blog challenge yesterday. Well I was at church all day and then when I got home a pretty serious situation occurred and distracted me. So I forgot all about it. I am still going to try to write in my blog as often as possible, but maybe next month I can try the challenge again.
I have to say I am disappointed. Not necessarily in myself because I think the problems we were having yesterday trumps my blog, but still disappointed.
We had a nice day at church yesterday. Poor Katie was sick do she couldnt be in Sunday School with me. A bunch of us went out for lunch, which is always nice fellowshipping with your loved ones. And then being the first of the month, we had our prayer meeting. Pastor always says that it is the most important service that we have and I agree with him. It seems like our prayer list keeps growing and growing. BUT, I have noticed that the section for answered prayer has been growing as well. PRAISE THE LORD!!!! Our Christmas service is going to be in 2 weeks and I cant wait to see how the Lord will bring our church family together at such a special time of the year.
Oh, and I did take some pics of the FIRST SNOW FALL IN PA, but I left the camera in the van so maybe it will be on here tomorrow.

Happy Easter!!!!!

We had a WONDERFUL day with our church family this Easter Sunday. At first, with as many people as there are sick right now, I didn't think that there were going to be too many people at church. But Sunday morning we were packed!!!! Lots of visitors came back and even some families in town were there.

But then in the afternoon, I am assuming that most people had family waiting for an Easter lunch because almost everyone disappeared. We had about 5 or 6 families stick around for lunch. I am so glad that the Lord is blessing our church with the growth that we have experienced lately, but sometimes it is also nice to get together with just a few people and have a nice fellowship. Everyone had a great time and there was just a really nice and sweet spirit in the air. We didn't get started on our second service right away because we were having a missionary coming in. The Hooper Family from Germany came and spent a couple of hours with us. They have 14 children..all ages!!!! It was really a blessing listening to his testimony. He shared everything with us. The part that really touched me was talking about their daughter Ruth who had leukemia. And something that REALLY encouraged me was the fact that they thought Mrs. Hooper could not have children and the first few years they were married they were not able to. And for God to allow a women told by doctors she was barren to have 14 children gives me alot of hope.

Well, the Blackman girls looked cute as always, and they decided that David, my husband, needed to have a little more decoration. So they took turns putting their hates on him. In the picture Courtney is putting hers on and at the same time, Hannah is yelling, " You look like a sissy!!!" ROFL...It was hilarious!!!! Then we ended the day making cards and taking a midnight run to Sonic with Jodi, Katie, and Kate. I'm so glad that I was able to come to church that day. In the morning I wasn't feeling well and God gave me the strength to go anyways. I am so blessed to have the most wonderful church family anyone could ask for. I couldn't have had a better holiday. Unless my mom was there of course!!!!lol

Slurpie Gone Wrong!!!!

Okay...as most of you know, I am NOT a morning person. I get up early only when the occasion calls for it. In this case, the occasion is Sunday mornings. Because Dave works on Sundays now, it is either bug someone for a ride, which I don't like to do, or have him drop me off at the church at about 7 to 730 am. Now for those people who don't know about our church we are there until at least 330 pm sometimes longer. So that's a pretty long day for everyone.
Well we have been doing this for awhile now so we have a pretty good routine down. I get everything ready on Saturday night that way all we have to do is get dressed and a few other things in the morning. Then we either grab something at McDonald's, or recently we have switched over to Dunkin Donuts, for breakfast. Then we go over the 7-11 to get my morning pick me up. For most people it would be coffee, but for me it is a Slurpee! Well everything was going according to plan and we arrived at the church. I got out and tried to carry too many things at once and the worst possible thing happened. My Slurpee slipped out of my arm and fell onto the ground!!! Usually it would be salvageable, but the cup itself had cracked into about 4 different pieces. Right then a black cloud formed over my head. (alright, go ahead and laugh if you aren't already)
I know it seems pretty silly to be in a bad mood over a spilt drink but that is our human nature. Of course later on I did realize how silly it did seem. Right when this happened, Pastor, Katie, Lisa, and other Katie arrived at church. And poor Katie Mathena tried to say hello to me....POOR KATIE. ROFL (which by the way sorry Katie) If looks could kill the poor girl probably would be in a coffin right now!!!! So I went inside and sat down and ate my sandwich and kept to myself while the other girls sat in the other room giggling and having fun.
Well eventually Katie came and got me and I did join them. Then Katie took us for a "joy" ride on and errand for Pastor. But I have to say...whoever came up with the term "joy ride" has obviously NEVER ridden with a beginner driver...ROFL. I am just kidding...for anyone who is wondering, Katie is a really good driver. Better than what I could say I was like when I got my DL. I failed the test 3 times and then got in my first accident 2 weeks in. There is a lesson from that sentence. STUDY FOR TESTS...AND USE...YOUR...MIRRORS!!!!
Anyways, back to the story...actually, the story is kind of done. The girls cheered me up and we went back to church and had a nice day. Guess that's what good friends are for!