Twenty-Twelve {Best of}

We've have alot of great memories this past year..

Here are pics of just a few...

 

 

Here is to a blessed Twenty-Thirteen!!

I am trusting the Lord has a great year planned for us!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

9/11

The tragedy that took place 11 years ago.

 

Attacks on the World Trade Centers that took thousands of innocent lives.

An attack that would spark the world on terrorists.

 

 

But we are America!! We came together, as a nation should, to help the families of the lost.

Since then, many soldiers from all ranks of military have lost their lives fighting for you and for me.

 

This tragedy has only made America stronger!!

 

 

 

I remember I was in 11th grade and in school when the first plane hit. We were outside at break.

The rest of the day all we did in each class was watch tv, listen to the radio, anything to hear what was going on. We sat in awe of what we were seeing and hearing. Something you only see in movies. Horrible images that will never leave our minds.

What were you doing that day?

 

 

 

WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!

 

Isaiah 40:31

"but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;"

Independence Day

We went to Dan's parents house to eat yummy food and shoot off a few fire crackers.

Have y'all ever had FRIED ribs? OH. MY. GAH!! So yummy!!

Anyway.. I didn't haul my Canon so these pics are from my phone

 

 

Rivers helping put the fire cracket in the bottle.

 

Konner lighting them himself

 

CrAzY chicken

 

Rivers with his fire cracker that he would not give brother to light.

Don't you LOVE his FSU Seminole outfit. It's way big but still looks cute and the big is from when Konner was a baby.
 

 

He got a little bottle rocket happy and started to light them all in row.

 

 

And this is me in my cute rain boots =]

Freedom is never free!!

Thank you to past, present and future soldiers for the sacrifice you make for America's freedom and that myself and my family can live in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Golden Sky

Today, I am honored to take part in a blogfest about loosing a loved one.. a tribute to them.



Tomorrow, this book by EC Stilson, will be released.

It's a memoir about the death of her son, Zeke.

Tomorrow will be 9 years since he has passed.

I still have a hard time saying my daughter 'died.'

Doesn't it sound better when we hear or say 'passed away.'

As hard as the truth is to hear, she did die. But I still don't like to say it or hear it.

Sometimes, not often, I do say it.

A tribute to my daughter, Adyson.

The days after you passed, I never thought I would see any good that could come after loosing you.

The days were dark, gloomy, long, and just down right miserable.

Didn't wanna get out of bed. Couldn't go to sleep because images of you ran through my head.

The ''what if's'' and I ''should have done this'' or ''should have done that.''

The first year was not near as bad as the second year. Maybe because year one, I was in deniel? Shock?

Year two I believe was harder because you little brother was here.

And I see his milestones and just think of what I am missing with you (not that I didn't realize that before he was born, believe me I did).

When your little brother was about 4 months old, he was in his high chair, and I looked at him and saw you.

BUT with all the sadness and grieving that I still do, I can see the beauty and the goodness that has come from this tragedy.

The beauty and goodness of my closer walk with the One you are with now, Jesus. *jealous*

The beauty and goodness of Him blessing me with your little brother, Rivers.

The beauty and goodness that has forever changed me.

I will end with this:

I just finished a 12 week Bible study on the book of Revelation and when I read Revelation 21, I cried.

I cried not only because I can't wait to have that home He has made for us, but I am SO SO SO very, very THANKFUL that you are already experiencing ALL of that.

Revelation 21:9-27

"One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Thank you Jesus for allowing me to experience such tragedy, only to see Your glory through it all.

And thank you for the gift of being Adyson's mom.

And last but not least, thank you Adyson for just being you!!



**For Adyson's full story, click on the tab on the top "Adyson's Story."**

Isaiah 65:20 “Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days.."