I told you - Alike but not

I had posted in a previous post that the girls were alike but not, here is another picture of two totally different personalities! Avery is on the left. Micah on the right.

More pictures of us

Me and Avery

Russ and I

He is 33 I am 30 years of age

Rylan - 8 Avery - 4 Micah - 4

Ry Fry, Me and my husband of 9 years

Pictures of us @ Thanksgiving

Sittin cross legged on the hood of a ford. This is my grandpa's truck that he used to haul cattle in. Dad took off the sides and it now has a flatbed on it. Oh the memories of this blue ford!

Rylan, Avery, Micah in front

Russ, Me, Avery, Micah, and Ry in back

Me and Micah

Alike but Not

Yep, this is how it is sometimes. One is frowning while the other is smiling! When they are both giggling at the same time and I can hear it from the other room it just warms my heart. Now on the flip side of that it does seem to happen pretty often in town that if one starts crying, here starts the other not too far behind her sister. I remember being in Target a couple of weeks ago and I was loading one into the basket and she started boo hooing because I put her in the seat and she wanted down in the basket. Well just as she is starting her howling as loud as she possibly can, my other one trips over her own feet and hurts herself and she starts crying. I felt like the circus was in town! I am a very shy person and do not like attention drawn to me so these are moments I don't get through so patiently some times. I am sure the audible sounds are far more louder to me than the passer bys but during the moment I feel like we are miked up for the whole world to hear!

Picking your battles

I had to pick one this morning. I constantly fight with Rylan to put on a pull over in these fall mornings now because he is usually wearing shorts for the afternoon when it warms. Ugh, I just hate thinking of him getting cold. But apparently it doesn't bother him or he doesn't get as cold as I do. I am realizing he is getting older and can really start to make his own choices in things such as wearing a pull over or not. So this morning I am reminded of the picking your own battles and this one is definitely not worth fighting over! No one is getting hurt, he is not breatking rules so, son you win and if you are cold throughout the day, lesson learned!

Friend Prayer Warrior, Do you have one?

In Exodus 17 when Joshua was fighting the Amalekites, Moses, Aaron and Hur were at the top of a hill looking down upon the battle. When Moses had his staff raised, Joshua (with the Lord) was winning the battle, but when Moses arms would get tired and lower, the Amalekites would be winning. So when Moses' hands grew tired, they (Aaron and Hur) took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up - one on each side so that his hands remained steady. We need friends and family like this, to hold us up when we are losing the battle to encourage and pray for us! To go to the battle with us and walk in prayer for us DAILY to help us win the battle, to be a prayer warrior for and with us!

Do you have a friend or group of friends that pray for you on a daily basis? I have found just today how important that really is. I have a friend that has been praying for me about how I spend money. I have discovered that when I am bored, unhappy, or mad at my husband, I like to go and spend money! Ugh.. it is an ugly thing about me as I am supposed to be wise with money. This is something I am working on and with the Lord's help, it is coming under control. This last week, some of us took a trip to Canton. I have been before and man, I spent a lot of money! There are such beautiful things for your house, spouse and man if you have a little girl, there is ton's of stuff. But all it is is stuff! More things for me to find a place for. So anyway, my friend had prayed that morning for us (me and her) to be conscious of our spending. Man it helped, I only spent about $125 including food! This is ENORMOUS for me. I spent well over $350 last trip and I only had Rylan then! So my friend at the end of the day with a smile on her face said she had prayed that morning for us. Looking back on the day, the MANY things that caught my eye, I found myself not having to REALLY talk myself out of buying. Sure I had to think about the purchase but it didn't bother me to just put it down and say not now! (there is this one certain hat I wish I had bought myself though)Then just last night I had said to her, "I don't know if you are still praying about my financial situation but it is working if you are" She shook her head and said that YES, she still was! That explains while all this week, I have not been to town once to "pick up that one item that we NEED". I am staying away from town and it is ok. I don't feel like I am missing anything! I am really content and that is because of the prayers my friend is sending up for me!
So if you don't have a close friend, someone in a group of yours that you can trust to really pray for you, I advise you get on your knees and ask the Lord to show you who you can trust to pray for your needs. Even ones that you think may be small ones! It is awesome to have someone like that in your life to encourage you and most of all PRAY FOR YOU! Thank you friend, you know who you are!

Some will abandon the faith

I came across this chapter today from 1 Timothy 4. It is definetly from the Lord as today is election day!
1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and Prayer.
6If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 7Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives tales; rather, train yourself to be Godly. 8For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.9This is trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance10(and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe.11Command and teach these things. 12Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the belivers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. 13Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
15Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and you hearers.

I pray for you and me that we ask for eyes of the Lord. That we see his truth in all things. I pray that we are not deceived from the evil one. Evil is good at talking smoothly so that you don't quite hear the truth behind the message. Look closely for God's Truth in everything. When you have questions go to the Living Word of God for counsel. If you don't understand ask God to reveal to you his truth in whatever situation you may be going through! Be sure to go to him for the little things as well as the huge things in your life!

Remember whatever happens on this election day and days in the future OUR GOD IS IN CONTROL!

Trick or Treat

 
 
 
 


Some quick pictures of tonights trick or treating. We went to walk around town with some friends today in Merkel. Mesquite Bean gave away bean burritos and DQ gave ice cream. They were yummy. We then went to see Grandad in Tye. He always has good candy for the kiddos and we love seeing him! We stopped by the City of Tye little festival for a bit before going off to Gammy and Pops house to show off our costumes. Rylan was the scream character. It was blazing hot so his costume didn't stay on for very long. I was glad to be done treating so early because I am off to Canton in the morning!!! I am soooo super duper excited. It has been years since I have been and I had a child with me last time! I am ready for some good girl talk with my best friend Sandee and some family time with my mom-n-law and aunt Lou Lou and some others I havn't seen in awhile! If only I can sleep through the excitement! The only sad thing is I will miss Rylan's first playoff game, if they win I will get to see him in his last game of his mighty mite career for the championship next Sat. Lets pray he has a game next Sat. because I do love to watch him play!

Fall Pictures

Coming back from Rylan's football game in Hawley we passed this pumpkin patch on HWY 277. It was weird that just a couple of days before I was wishing someone had a patch we could take pictures in. We just happened to drive by this one by chance. I was so excited to get some pictures of the kids. I didn't get too many good ones because my darn camera doesn't have a flash and it was getting to be around dusk. So here are a few I can share. Isn't Rylan a good photographer? He took the one of me and the girls. I am never in pictures because I am always the one behind the camera trying to capture every moment! I am so afraid of forgetting memories! You may not get to see all my pictures but I have tons on my computer. One day I will get to categorize them all!

Syd over for the day!

This is kinda a silly picture but it was the only one I got when we had Syd over for the day! She is the daughter to my very best friend and the girls love her! We spent the day playing babies and watching Princess Gigi! What great fun we all had!

First Day of Tues/Thurs School

Well, the girls look really ready to go in the first picture. They actually came running in my room the morning of school and both of them saying "I'm not going to cry momma!" You see, they cried almost every day last year when I dropped them off. So this year I was really amazed that they were so excited about going. We talked about school every day when bubba started and kept telling them how in a week they would start. The second picture shows them getting kinda nervous and they know the time is coming. But still they triumph through and they didn't cry when it was time for mom to go. They did although try to walk after me out of the room but their teacher is so awesome, she stopped them and redirected them and they were great for the day! I on the other hand was sad all day long!

This is Rylan at his first game this year. He is usually not number 70 but is number 00. Thank goodness the new jerseys had come in on this day or Rylan would not have had a jersey! This was an extra one that the team had. Rylan had been to a birthday party the night before and left it in the other parents car and we didn't realize it until game time! Ugh. so frustrating! Whew, and dad was mad too! That is my goal is to PLAN AHEAD and get everything ready the night before! Everything seems to go so smoothly when that happens.
Sweet sweet grandad is in the red shirt talking to Rylan. He is such of Big Fan of Rylan and all his grandkids and greatgrandkids. We are so lucky to have him so involved! What a blessing he is!!! We love you Grandad!

This was just precious! I was washing dishes and heard the girls reading so sweetly. When I looked up I discovered the audience they had made. I think they are pretending to read like the ladies do at BSF! I am so thankful Russ has allowed me to stay at home and not work for this season in my life! BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) has been not only a blessing to me, but my girls learn every Wed. that the Bible is true and it is God Breathed! I am so lucky! We are also so lucky to have my best friend in the class with the girls this year! We are very sad that Syd is not in the same class though, but that is all in the plan of our Heavenly Father!

This is a couple of shots of what our girls do while we moms are "PTOing". Up top they are coloring and in the bottom picture they are holding the door open for all the kindergardeners.

Avery in the Brown and Micah in the orange shirt. This was our first day at Beltway Mops. The girls transitioned so well into their class that they stay in for the day. It also helped that they had their friend Aspen to look forward to staying with! WE LOVE OUR CHURCH! With Beltway hosting MOPS it sure helped the girls being dropped off in a familiar place. We had a blast this day and I came away very encouraged!

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My Avery

4 Years Old

My Micah

4 Years Old

Father and Son

I know I am going out of order on my posts but I definetly want to post this pic of Rylan and his Dad. They were out testing Russ' gun before Dove season got here.