Chris Tomlin w/ My Favorite Sister-In-Law Lee!

Lee bought us tickets to go see Chris Tomlin in concert. It was awesome!!!



I of course had to buy his new CD! Also, I got his book of music so I can play it on my keyboard.

And I had to get the group that came with him. They were totally awesome! Got a new appreciation of gospel music!! :) It was Israel Houghton with their new music off of the Power of One CD.


I was so mad because no where on the tickets did it say you couldn't take pictures until we were inside and they came out on stage and said do not take video or pictures......uurghh!! So I got some pics of the stage.


The whole stage.



All in all we had a FUN time!!! :)

Never Say Never

Well ever since I got a van, I said I would never drive a car again. I love being able to sit up high, since I'm so short. Well Robert had to take my van in for some work and they had to give me a rental car. I got a Ford Fusion and of course it's white (can't have any other color of vehicle in my life apparently). I'm amazed at how smooth it rides and how sporty it really does look. Even Robert was impressed and very impressed with the head room because he's so tall. :)

Well my van will be ready tomorrow darn it. If I had been paying for the rental car they would've taken two weeks to get my car done.

So here are my farewell pics.


It fits so well on my side of the garage.


I love the tail lights.....


Even the front end is cute.

Tomorrow I go back to being soccer mom, instead of cool mom. :) No car payments, and free oil changes for as long as I own my van, means more to me.

Organization

I find each year I'm married to Robert the more organized I become and the more organize I want to be.

I decided to finally organize under my bathroom sink.

Here's the before..... (I'm almost embarrassed to show this to you!)


And here's the after..... LOVE IT!!!


Really this all got started because Robert and I are wanting to get our garage more organized, so here's the start of it.

You can actually put a board on top of the racks, but that might come later. For getting the ladder and the hoses put up, is all I can ask for.

Then we got this really neat thing to hang up the weed eater. It was in the garage floor.


Our goal is to get everything that we can off the garage floor and out of our way. How about the rest of you? Have any of you gotten the organization bug yet? Spring time seems to be when I get it the most. I've noticed a lot of blogs I follow have done this recently too! So get organized!

Gaither Homecoming

I got to go to the Gaither Homecoming concert with my mom, my granny, and my favorite aunt. I was with 3 over 60 women...... :) But hey, they CRACK me up!! They are so much fun and I love all 3 of them.


My mom is on the left and my granny on the right.


I couldn't ever get a full face pic of my aunt. Always a side profile. She loved every minute of the concert. This was her FIRST concert she had ever been too....


And of course me. I was trying to get my aunt to look, but she was more interested in the concert..... :)

It was very enjoyable even if I didn't know all of the songs. Here were my favs. Can't remember their name, but I liked them.


I thought this guy was good looking.... Not as cute as my hubby of course.


This awesome piano player is blind and he totally rocked on the piano!


This lady had a testimony that rocked. She has been cancer free for a year now.


These guys really cracked me up. They were cute and very good at singing.


I LOVED this guy's jacket. So cool!


This lady's voice really made me think of my bible study leader. She was VERY good.

Yes I was the youngest, yes I didn't know most of the song, BUT I had a great time hanging out with my 3 favorite ladies!!!

Comforter Random

Just thought I would share with you what our new comforter and Harley's new comforter looks like. :)


For some reason this posted sideways, but this is a picture off a package. Ours is chocolate brown with stripes. I LOVE OUR NEW COMFORTER!!! It's soooooooo soft.


Harley's comforter. It's green (her favorite color) and so very soft! Her's only cost $15 on sale!!!!

I got to thinking though how our new comforter's keeps us warm, secure, and happy. Kind of like the Lord being our Comforter. I feel warm when I think of Him, secure in knowing that He always knows what's best, and happy knowing that He's my Lord and He's all I need.

Play it Harley!!!

Harley had her spring band performance. I just cannot get over how well these 5th and 6th graders can play. Unbelievable!!!


This was before the performance. Such a sweet picture of Harley.

Harley plays the clarinet this year. She's really good at it when she practices and tries. I really hope she'll stick with it.



Harley's band teacher is pregnant with a baby girl. She's due around Easter. So it's coming up fast! Usually the spring performance is in April, but due to the new baby coming around that time, it was best to do it this month. :)

This is Mrs. Danielle Hodges. She is just super with the kids!!


Another good one of Harley.

I won't bore you with all the pics I took. I'm a proud momma! Plus it's her last year at the elementary school, and her last performance there. :(

So I'll give you one more pic.



Me, her dad, nanny and poppa, and poppa Steve were all there to cheer her on! :) Great job Harley! We're very proud of you!

Friends, Shopping & Ice Cream!

Well today I got to shop with my two wonderful best friends, Misty and Teresa. We went to Rhea Lana's Children Consignment in Conway. Misty and I had went to the last day of Duck Duck Goose. I was on a hunt for clothes for Harley. I found some really great deals both days and some really cute stuff. Misty has a 3 year old girl, Ms. Sarah and Sarah can only wear botique style clothes it seems. Well Misty is not stupid enough to pay the prices. Here's the funny she just bought a botique brand the other day for (Bradbury or something like that, known by the plaid print???)$35 and brand new it's $500 (FOR A KID!!!! Seriously?????) Anyway, she took pics of Sara Kat and posted them on Ebay and in 30 minutes she sold it for $200!!!!!!! What a profit!!!! Sorry I got side tracked there, just unbelievable!

So anyway, Teresa has her two girls and so it was fun to shop with her since our girls are around the same age. With Misty in the toddler area I would hold up an outfit and cover the brand name tag and she would get each one right! She knows children clothes.

Here's a pic of the 3 of us. (Me, Misty, and Teresa)


And you always have to celebrate your bargain shopping with your friends with ice cream and especially from Shakey's!!!


I wish I had taken a pic of mine. I had the Bopper! YUM!!!

It was a great time to be with my two best friends for a couple of hours. :)

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CELEBRATE!

I have found a verse that will be mine. Very fitting to my baptism.

"Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." II Cor. 5:17

Our friends from our Hand and Foot card group took pictures as well which I didn't know until tonight. The one I had hope my friend would've gotten and didn't, I now have. :)


Robert hugging me right after and this was a memory I thought I would always have just in my heart. Now I have a picture that speaks 1000 words of the love I have with Robert.

I Know, I Know......

Yes I've been a bad blogger. I've had a lot going on. I'm trying to post as fast as I can and in date order so you know what's been going on. :) Stay tune.....

LYLAS - Finally Close to Me

For those of you that don't know what LYLAS stands for, it means Love You Like A Sister.

My dearest, best friend Teresa of 20+ years, had her home burned October 8th, 2008. Five months later they have moved in to a rental home and guess where??? In Maumelle!!! And even better??? She's exactly 2 minutes from me. We've never lived this close together before. She's always been out in South West Little Rock and I've always been in West Little Rock.

I've taken some pictures of her new place.


The Dining Room - The lower part is a eggplant maroon and will be a dark chocolate brown.


The Living Room


Brianna's Room


Kayla's Room


Kayla's Big Big Closet!!


Master Bedroom


Master Bathroom - This too will be painted. I think a really pretty warm brown color. Can't remember what she said. :)


The Kitchen


The front of the house in the dark. Will have to take another one during the daytime so you can see it better.

Yes it is very nice to have my best friend, and someone who has always been a sister to me, close by. Love you Teresa!

Scenario #3: It's Tough Being a Woman in a Mean World

Need I say more? It's very tough when you feel the world is against you.

Here are some things I picked up about this week. Meaness always has a history. How true this is when studying Haman in the book of Esther. He came from a family history of meaness. He was a man driven by ego. Enemy goes after the weak, when the stron is weak. You are victorious when you and God are both fighting the enemy. Amen! Meaness catches like a virus - pass it down, pass it around. Isn't that kind of true when they say things like "If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy". :) I know if I'm in a bad mood, it tends to rub off on my poor kids and my poor hubby. I'm always telling Robert before he walks in the door after a hard day at work, he can choose his attitude. I try to remember that myself. Granted I'm not perfect so there are days I fail.

How about you mom's out there? Protective of your kids? I know I am. My girls can say how another girl hurt her feelings and I'm ready to go after that girl for being so hateful to my girl. Beth Moore says "Coming in contact with a mean girl, raises up your own mean girl." Amen? Amen!

Meaness is curable and we really can get over it. Slowly but surely..... Yet isn't part of the verse "Slow to anger....." So we get it mixed up sometime...... :)

My favorite quote from Beth tonight was "Do not pay evil with evil. Leave room for wrath to God." Leave your Haman (problem) to God!