More Baseball

I am so excited to learn how to use manual focus! My pics are getting so much clearer! Here are more of my baby boy in action!

Baseball 2011 The Willies

So wipe off the dust and lets get back to blogging.....again! Baseball season is in full swing. Lets say with Rylan playing select arena football for Jim Ned (pictures coming soon) it was hard for me to get ready for baseball. I love it and all but my whole life is in a whirl wind and it snuck up on me!
Here are a few pics from tonights game. Rylan pitched as you can see and did a darn good job at it! He is playing in the Majors again this year for The Willies. It is amazing how he has grown in this sport!
It was so exciting to see him and the team hitting tonight! Excitement was in the air! How I love seeing Rylan become a leader of his team. He has been encouraging others and leading in talking to his teammates. I love this precious boy God has given us!
Oh my Lordeeeeee, I would have downloaded more pics, but my computer was sooo slow!!!!!

Suffering

I wanted to blogg what I read in my BSF notes that amazingly hit home and it may with some of you others out there. Read Job 1-2. Job's suffering lay in the invisible world. Job's suffering was for the glory of God and the strengthening of Job's own faith.
John 9: Unlike the disciples, Jesus was not as concerned with what caused the suffering as with how to relieve it and how this very sufering may be used to reveal the glory of God's love and power more fully. What a lesson for me! Many times God allows suffering in ur lives in order to awaken our spirits. (See 1 Corinthians 11:30) Also God might today heal many diseases and deliver us from much suffering if we would only definitely come to Him in prayer and faith. (James 5:15-16)
Suffering sometimes allowed so that a special work of God shall be revealed to the world through the suffering.
Believer receives infinite assurance of God's concern for sufferers in that Jesus Christ, God the Son, suffered unspeakably in greater depth than any human has ever experienced.
When a person suffers yet has the courage to endure without murmuring against God, the strength of faith in God manifests a particular glory of God that many of us know nothing about.!!! Wow, I want to endure and trust in my suffering! I don't want to Grumble any more but believe and TRUST!

I am counting on God!

Wow, BSF was amazing today. God speaks right through the speaker each Wed morning right to my heart. That is because The Truth is spoken there! The truth is that we as Christians have to go through suffering as well as all the good things that the Lord blesses us with. It is in the suffering that he wants us to draw nearer to him. He doesn't want you to grumble and complain but to trust in Him that you are in that situation to grow, to be disciplined, to love Him more.
We are so desperate to know the how and why's of our sufferings. I am not talking of the daily sufferings but the times when you don't know where to turn, why God would put you in this situation, and the times you just don't know if you can bear one more day of your situation. WE want to know WHY..WHY...WHY.. We want to search scriptures of how to exactly get healing, pray the right prayer. We want the mechanics... a method...not WHO. I want to focus on the who no matter the situation I am going through. I am going to stop complaining, and get on my knees and give Him thanks for my sufferings and know that it is a privledge to be going through them. Through them, he gives me endurance. Suffering is necessary to strengthen my dependance on God himself. I want to worship God for who he is and not for what he can do in my life.

2009 Football Season is upon us

Football season is fresh upon us. I love going to Rylan's practices. The girls get to play with friends on the playground, I get to catch up with all the other football mom's and watch my baby grow in his abilities. I am still nervous about Ry playing tackle. If it were up to me the boy would still be in flag but Rylan and his dad love it so. This is Rylan's first year in Jr. Pee Wee. It is his third year in pads and tackle and his fifth year to play. Jr. Pee Wee is much more intense and much more for the boys to learn to play. This year the coach will not be on the field to help call plays and tell the boys what they are supposed to do in each play. The quarterback is the lead once on the field. He had to know for himself what he is doing but also all the other players on the team. I love getting to travel to other towns, building the homecoming float, watching Rylan learn the fun in winning and the upset in losing. (We lost to the Hawley Bearcats in the Superbowl last year.) I think it is important for him to learn the feeling of losing. I am excited for this season. We will have our games at 2 p.m. in the middle of the heat and nap time but I still can't wait!

Ice Cream Pop's Birthday

These are the ingredients for the recipe I got from Sharla which I think came from her mom. I have my grannies ice cream maker that I have sweet memories of having ice cream on hot summer nights at their ranch in Mingus, Texas. I remember my grandpa having a taste to make sure it was just right and then letting us try it to tell him what we thought. I remember the loud noise of the maker going while we talked and waited for it to get done. I was just going to make the ice cream by myself, that would have been much easier and cleaner, but the blessing I got from letting the girls help was priceless. I got to share with them how to clean as we go, let them both experience breaking an egg and explaining we didn't want any shells in the mix. I got to let them pour, stir, and watch their faces with excitement and grossness and hear them giggle. Such a little task to endure to receive the blessing and memories my girls gave me. I hope later they will remember these days.
We made the ice cream at home before we went to Sharla's for dinner. Rylan was at her house helping her fix chicken fried steak (my favorite), mash potatoes, ranch cucumbers, fried okra and hot rolls. They had the table set all nicely when we arrived. Russ worked later than usual but we waited for him and got to eat by 7 p.m. Then Nanaw came over for Choc. Cake that Ry and Shar made and homemade ice cream.

Avery Cracking an Egg.

Micah stirring all the ingredients. They were kinda grossed out by the look of the eggs breaking up.

Wait for it.....

How a song brings back memories!

This first song from Jason Aldean is the girls FAVORITE song right now. We would crank the music up at the travel trailor every time it came on the radio.

The second song is a song that came out from Reba when Rylan was just a toddler. I sang it to him before the girls came when I tucked him into bed and I still remember the first time he started singing it back to me. (It makes me tear up) I now sing it to the girls and I can also remember when they started singing it back to me. I remember thinking when the song came out how much I loved it and that if my children ever heard it on the radio, it would give them a memory of me.