Our Weekend

This weekend went non-stop.

Friday was another beautiful sunny day. Blake and I had ourselves a little picnic in the back yard. We have a playground in our backyard. He loves to swing on it....and he likes to do it the easy way....with Mommy pushing him. I don't mind at all. Blake and I have some interesting conversations while he is swinging. He would swing for a while and then we laid on our towels and had a snack. He loved it.

Then that evening our friends, the Clymen's, invited us to go to the park and practice some softball with their girls, then go tubing on their boat. So off we went. Everyone went tubing except Jayme and I. We didn't even take our bathing suits...we just went along for the boat ride. The water wasn't warm enough for mwah yet! I told them I'll be right out in it this Summer though. We had a great time with them......right up until we were out in the middle of the lake and the boat ran out of gas!!!! HA! Now...that was funny. Michael and Tommy had to paddle us to shore. Almost at the exact time we made it to the boat dock...a park ranger just happened to come by. He gave Michael a lift to get Tommy's truck. Michael and Tommy hooked the boat up and we went back to our cars. It all worked out ok...and gave us a few laughs too. Then we went back to their house and stayed for a little while.

Saturday morning, Sara and I were supposed to go run at the park, but it was raining so we decided not to go. I was up and ready to go so I just went on to the gym. Ok....are you ready for this?? I ran 4 miles on Saturday...on the treadmill. I felt like Forest Gump...."I just kept runnin!'" It took me 52 minutes to run 4 miles. I was a little proud of myself. I thought maybe you might be too =-)

Then....Jarrett had a baseball game at 11:15. He had a great game. Jarrett plays for the Yankees this year. It was the Yankees vs. the Braves and we won! Woo-Hoo. Jarrett had 3 triples, scored 3 runs and also got a runner out on 1st base. He is playing 2nd base this year. Here's a few pictures..

paying close attention...

running for 3rd base....

sliding into home....

getting ready to run on 1st base and Michael running the score board Blake also had a T-Ball game at 2:00. Blake is loving T-Ball. They played about 3 innings and then a monsoon hit! It started raining cats & dogs and everyone had to make a mad dash to their cars. Here's a few pictures from Blake's game before we almost got washed away.... Bubby giving Blake some pointers... Michael let Jarrett help him out on the field....We made it home and Jarrett had a birthday party to attend at 3:00. I took him to that and then I came back home to get ready for our Ladies Spring Banquet at our church. The food was catered and it was wonderful. I had ham, green beans, scalloped potatoes, rolls and banana pudding. YUM! Our guest speaker was Jackie Pegram. She did a skit and she played "Mrs. Noah". She talked to us about living by faith not by sight. It was very entertaining. She dressed the part and everything.

Sunday morning we were up early and off to church. Our pastor's sermon was titled "God's Church of Choice". He spoke about acts of faith, the labor of love, that God's people are brothers/sisters in Christ and how we are one in the bond of love. It was a very moving sermon.

After church our Youth Pastor and his family invited us out for lunch along with the Music Minister and his family. We had a good time. We are very blessed with the staff that we have at our church.
Then home for our Sunday naps.
Sunday evening we were back to church for our evening service. Our Youth Pastor led the service. He did a wonderful job. His sermon was about the secret of living a meaningful Christian life. His focus was telling us how to live a life that gives glory to God...which is spending time in the word and spending time in prayer. He said to go in confidence that the Lord will always be with us. Our Lord is always with us...even when WE are not always there for him.
"and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. Matthew 28:20b.
This sermon really touched my heart.

After our service several of us went out to eat. In all...we had 7 different families. We didn't get home until almost 10:00.

Yesterday was also my friend Jayme's birthday!
Happy Birthday Jayme!!!

Now that I have gotten all the rambling about our weekend out of the way (I've been told that you guys enjoy reading it)....I have something I would like to share with you.

I would like to tell you that I have experienced a personal revival the past few days.
I reread my post from Friday several times. When I said...."I have become guarded with myself and my feelings over the past few years. I simply don't open up to people like I once did.When you've been hurt....I think it just happens....I haven't had any control over it. I do not like being this way. It's not my personality. I've always been happy go lucky....no worries. I'm not the same person that I used to be." That's no way to be! I sound like a defeated Christian!! I have allowed the devil to come in and play off of my emotions. I have the love of my heavenly father. I am heaven bound! The things that happen on this old earth don't even matter!
I can not allow people or circumstances of this earth to change me. I had allowed the devil to try and steal my joy!! That's NOT happening!
The Lord revealed several things to me. Number one....I have gotten spiritually weak, I haven't been reading my Bible like I should be. I can get up and go run for 4 miles, but I can't pick up my Bible and spend time in the word on a daily basis??!!!! What's the matter with me??!!! I have let my priorities get out of whack. I also haven't spent time on my knees in prayer like I used to. I used to give quiet time to God EVERYDAY. I have gotten more sporadic with that. I am ashamed!
This is going to change!

The joy that we have as Christians is through our Lord and only through him. We have no joy without him. I am nothing without him!

Thanks once again for all of your comments on my Friday post. Just the fact that you take the time to share what's on your mind, with me....means so much! The words of encouragement that you gave me were so touching.
I love how blogging allows us to reach out and pray for each other. People that we would have never known if it wasn't for the great blogosphere..