Thanksgiving

It's been a while since I've posted.. I'm sure you guys have not noticed nor minded :).

Life has been rather busy lately! We've barely had time to work with all the fun we've been having ;)!

Around February - March-ish I was making potato soup. I geniusly decided to use the crock part insert on the top of the stove. .ANNNND that's another story for another time.. Well, as I'm sure you can assume the insert busted and potato soup went EVERY where. Including in between the layers of my oven door. This ugliness has been driving me nuts every since then. So, on Friday I decided I was going to take apart the oven door and clean the inner and outer sides of the glass.. Well instead of being a "smart" person and taking the door off the oven I just started unscrewing screws.. Yeah mistake number 1! After I cleaned the glass I was trying to reassemble the door, yes while it was STILL on the oven (about 3 minutes after I was instructed by my husband to leave the door alone so that I didn't break it), the glass slipped out of one of my hands and fell about 2 inches on to our ceramic tile floor and shattered.. into a million  trillion pieces... Yes, it was awesome. I'm so glad I paid heed ignored my husbands brilliant advice.  I was able to find, with the help of and online chat person, what I thought to be the replacement part for a decent price online. I ordered and was so excited that shipping was reasonable, AND it got here in three business days.. Only to discover that it was the wrong part... Oyyyyy... I am super grateful that I've got two ovens and am still able to cook. Wait, cook? What's that? I haven't done that all week.. Well except for the gf brownies I made last night :)! YIKES!

We're gearing up for a fun weekend! Katie, Kylie and Kyndall are spending the night with us tomorrow! Yay for yummy foods, games, fun crafts, camp fires and sweet time with some of my favorite kiddos!

Thanksgiving is exactly one week from today! I LOVE this time of year! Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite Holidays of the year! We have so much to be thankful for! So I will try not to focus on the fact that we just realized our roof is leaking pretty bad and all the rain from the last few days... Well not so great! Or the fact that my oven is still broken.. Or all of the other things life throws at us. After all, it is all for our sanctification right?!?! I'm incredibly thankful for my salvation. Christ saved me from the pits of hell, from a life lost and looking for momentary happiness and I am so unworthy. He not only saved me but loves me immensely and desires a relationship with me! I am so unworthy of my amazing husband that has made coffee every morning this week! I have the most loving family and friends a girl could ask for. A wonderful (new) church family, who we are super excited to get to know (or re-know lol). I have a roof over my head and an abundance of good food to eat. Praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow! I am soo so unworthy of all the blessings God has given me. Thank you abba Father.

Toodles!

My Best Friends Wedding

This past weekend one of my best friends from childhood got married. We've been friends since I was 12 (I think)? That's half my life.. After all of the moving around my family did when I was a younger child I never thought I would be able to say (or at least not at 24!) that someone has been my friend for half of my life. We've been through and shared so much in these past 12 years. Even her hiding her belongings the first time she met me, because she thought I would steal something... HAHAHAHAH!!! Oh the nerve of that 11 year old child!!! haha.. But seriously we have had a lot of good times and this Saturday was definitely at the top of them. She was such a beautiful and glamorous bride! Here are a few pictures I stole from some friends, because I was a slacker really busy;) and didn't take any of my own.

Heather - I am so thankful that God saw fit to put you in my life 12 years ago. I am thankful for your friendship and all the spice, joy, drama interest ;) and laughter that you add to my life. My prayer for you and your marriage is that you put Christ first today, tomorrow and always. Pray for Charlie daily, pray that you will be the help meet you are called to be, and pray that God's will be done in your marriage and not your own. I wanted to share a few verses with you, and all who are reading this. 

Colossians 3:12-17

¹² Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness,humility, meekness, and patience, ¹³ bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. ¹⁴And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. ¹⁵And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were calledin one body. And be thankful. ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. ¹⁷And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Proverbs 31 gives us a wonderful outline of what a Godly wife is. 

Also in Ephesians 5 we are told to submit to our husbands, as we submit to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church. 

It wont always be easy, I can assure you of that. It will have to be a conscious decision you make daily for the better of yourself, your husband, your marriage and your future family. Remember that the Proverbs 12 says "A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones."  I promise you that these verses are not only for you but for me also. Even as I write this blog I am convicted of many of my shortcomings in my own marriage.  If we do these things every day in our marriage I believe God will be glorified in and through our marriage. I love you dearly and pray for you often! 

For all that read this post I would like to request that as you rejoice in Heather's marriage will you also pray for her? Charlie, her husband, will be leaving for Afghanistan on November 17th. Please keep Charlie, Heather, and their families in your prayers whenever they come to mind. 

While marriages are fun events where we can get together, see old friends, have good food, and delicious cake I pray that I will always be reminded by the new covenant of my own covenants. My own vows and promises to my husband, my role and duties as a christian wife in marriage but most importantly, may we be reminded of the great love and mercy of our faithful Savior. 

Nakitta