Sisters.....

I was planning on doing a post about all the snow that we have been getting....wellllll.....hop over to Kali's blog because she got to it before me. She even did the same you tube video I was planning to do...hmm...coincidence?! I shall let you all decide ;o)

Anyways, here is a video that perfectly demonstrates mine and Kali's relationship.....I am the one on the right and she is on the left :o) enjoy!

Thanksgiving At Home

Since we are farther away from my Grandma W (we get together with my dad's side of the family every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas), we had Thanksgiving at our house, a first for our family! It was great! We had the Majors over, Josh drove over AND my Grandma and Step Grandpa B came!

Thanksgiving morning started out wonderfully, Grandma B made biscuits and gravy!!! Mmmmm....so thankful for southern roots! Please tell me someone out there has had Chocolate Gravy?! Everyone I mention it to they scruntch up their nose...but its soo good! Or maybe you just have to grow up with it to truly enjoy it ;o)

 It was a great time of fellowship and LOTS of food! Lets see, what was on the menu......Turkey, Ham, 2 kinds of sweet potatoes (one with PB and one without), green bean casserole, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes/gravy, rolls, cranberry sauce, deviled eggs, black olives and fruit salad! Whew! We all got PLENTY to eat! I think some of us needed to roll out of the room, but we all made it out! After dinner we relaxed and played on the Majors Wii. (I don't know if those two things can rightfully go in the same sentence....) It was a lot of fun, I was beating Josh and Chris at tennis which is always nice. :o)

After we got our appetites back up, ready for some dessert, we dove in! Lets see, dessert involved.....Pumpkin Cheesecake, Sour Cream Coconut Cake, 2 Pumpkin Pies, 2 Coconut Cream Pies, and Banana Pudding! Did I tell you we had A LOT of food/dessert?! We could have ate an entire meal out of all the dessert alone! After dessert we enjoyed a game of dice, 10,000 to be exact and it was very fun! Even though I did HORRIBLY! The fellowship with family and friends was so good that it was ok I was doing so awful. :o)

                                            All five together again!!!

Lilly's face is soo funny....

"The Adults Table"

"The Kids Table", for old times sake :o)

Lilly just turned 6!

We showed Olivia how to put olives on her finger....my Aunt taught me as a kid, so passing on the torch :o)

Brother and Sister <3

Oh my!

Today I had a Eggnog Chai Latte and the title fits the feeling I had while drinking that. OH MY! It was SOO delicious! I have had an Eggnog Latte before but something about the Chai being thrown in makes it ohhh sooo good! You all have to go try it.....

Thanks Liz for the recommendation!!!

Also, I just made a pumpkin cheesecake for tomorrow!!! Yum...can't wait!!

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving! Eat as much as you can because this day only comes once a year! Well, at least thats what I tell myself when I have my plate filled to the max ;o)

C-C-Cooold!!

Currently it is saying it is 1 Degree outside.....1!!

It looks like we will get to 5 degrees today....a whole 5! yippee! ;o)

The Weekend in Pictures

SNOW!!!

Kali and I made two Birthday cakes, one for Lilly (her 6th Birthday was Sunday) and Dennis (his is tomorrow)! We had a lot of fun making personalized cakes for them!

Dennis loves football and the NY Giants are his team....he LOVED it!!

Lilly really liked her Princess Cake too! 

Thanksgiving Thursday

• Friendships blooming with Dennis and Lindsey and looking forward to the big day coming up fast!!
• Another Bible Study with Sarah scheduled for Sunday afternoon
• Yummy Oreo Klondike Bar ;o)
• OH OH!! Since I'm on the subject of food......Nicki (visited us last weekend) brought Cranberry Sierra Mist and dried Mangos!!! ahh..... my mind was thrilled for all those yummy treats, but my hips are not so happy now....
• Its almost the weekend
• Speaking of the weekend...my parents and the Majors will be out of town this weekend (leaving tomorrow morning and coming back Saturday night), so its a girls weekend with Kali, Lilly, Olivia, and I! fun fun
• Christmas presenting for friends and family starting to be purchased and ideas being formed
• Thanksgiving is nearing and we will be able to see some family soon!
• Weekly phone chats with a friend

How it went...

Sarah wasn't able to make it today until almost 12 which only gave us about a half an hour...(I had to go to work at 1 today). Which I was disappointed with not being able to have as much time as I hoped but I wanted to definitely do as much as we can without trying to rush. She hadn't read the Bible in quite some time so I was able to kind of give a refresher course on how to navigate through the Bible. We got about 3/4 way through the first study about sin. She understands she is a sinner and that even though you may have only commited one of the 10 Commandments, you are guilty of all of them. James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."  Its really neat to see someone who is searching and truly wanting to learn!

We were discussing getting together next Sunday afternoon, which would probably work better for her. In that one I plan on going through the rest of the study and going into the next one talking about the Gospel! I'm really excited to get into that!! First obviously, she needed to understand completely that she is a sinner IN NEED of the Savior.

Thanks sooo much for all the prayers and words of encouragement! I will keep you all posted!

Bible Study

Tomorrow at 11 am my co-worker Sarah is coming over to do the first of the E-life Bible Studies with me!!! (I talked about her and all the questions she has been asking me in this post.)  I ask that you all pray for her heart to be open to the sin in her life that is separating her from the Saviour (that is what is being covered in the first study..).  Also, that God would give me wisdom to answer any questions she may have and to be able to explain things in a clear and concise manner.

Thanks for the prayers and I'm excited to see what the Lord will do in her life!

Thanksgiving Thursday

• For all those men and women who have given their lives in service to our country
• All the men and women STILL serving our country
• Yummy oreos ;o) (see previous post)
• A friend visiting for the weekend
• A wedding and baptism is planned for Dec 5 for Dennis and Lindsey!!!
• Cute movie AND clean (such a rarity these days)
• God working in lives in the midst of heartache
• A good refresher course and new ideas on effective prayer, its sooo easy to fall into a routine with prayer...(guilty as charged....)
• Kali still has both of her kidneys :o), there is a story with that one......
• A large group of family coming for Thanksgiving!!

GUESS WHAT?!

I was picking up some milk at Walmart after work and this is what I saw at the end of one of the isles.....

Of course I grabbed a box! These only come out this time of the year....if you havn't tried them before, go get some!!! They are delicious!!

I'm on a Quest....

The quest is to learn (maybe even make myself :o)....) to enjoy broccoli. Ever since I was a kid, I strongly disliked broccoli, even to the point of gagging on it (maybe that was a little dramatic, but hey, now you know how much I truly disliked it). I would refer to it as a tree, tasting the same as one anyways. As I grow older,  I know how good broccoli is for you, so I am trying to make myself like it. I keep trying it different ways to see if I can come up with a way I prefer it. So far I've tried raw with ranch, on top of a vegey pizza (which was actually pretty good, of course on pizza right?! lol), then today I had cheesy broccoli soup. I think the best one was probably the pizza, it had a pesto sauce then vegey's on top, it was pretty good! So I guess if worse comes to worse I will just load it up on pizza to get my broccoli, I wish there was a better way (healthier that is) to eat it AND enjoy it. I really want to like it but my taste buds tend to go against me! Grr....well I will keep trying.....

Any good recipes or ways you like it?!

Thanksgiving Thursday

• Two souls were saved this past week!!!! One was a man from the jail and the other was the fiance of the first convert from the jail! Dennis (the first man saved from the jail ministry since we have been here), got out of jail and he and his fiance (baby too) came to church, then yesterday she got saved! Praise the Lord!! Dennis even came to Bible Study tonight (Linsey wasn't feeling well..)! I'm excited to see how the Lord is going to grow in their lives!
• Modern conviences like cell phones and internet...makes it easier to keep in touch with family and friends :o)
• Sarah, my co-worker, (see previous post) having so much interest in what our families are doing over here, as well as what we believe....keep up the prayers and thank you all so much for the prayers already!
• A good message on "Stress" tonight, how fitting is that considering my new job?! Although, I have to say the Lord is really helping me to understand more, but it definitely does have its times of stress ;o)
• My brother is able to come over to our house for thanksgiving!! *Eeek*
• Delicious brownies, when you need a little chocolate....Mmmmmm :)
• Some really cool possible Christmas gifts found on the internet! Sweeeeet!

Can it be this easy?

Starting a new job your really not sure what to expect. One of the things thats really hard at first is getting to know new people and forming relationships with them. You kinda have to 'feel' each other out for a little while. The place I work for only has 2 other employees, besides me, working there. So its a pretty small business, although we have mutiple business locations in different states. Anyways, my co-worker Sarah has been asking me many questions the past few days about my "religion". (I really don't like to refer to it as my "religion", because its really not about 'religion' its about the relationship we can have with our Creator.) She was baptized Catholic but really has no idea what Catholics believe, a lot of the time I was informing her what they believe! She asked what salvation was (I kept refering to it), what I believe will happen when we die, questions like that. You have to just marvel at God bringing along this opportunity, you DO NOT get many people truly seeking like this and sincerely asking so many questions very often. She was under the impression that once she is baptized Catholic that you can't change religion's after that, which I explained to her was not the case. (I guess her sister wasn't baptized as a baby and was given the 'choice' of her religion and she was wishing she would have been able to choose.) She has asked lots of questions and I am trying to explain my beliefs to the best of my ability. I would really appreciate everyone's prayers for Sarah. She has a husband and three small kids as well, I am really anxious to see what God's going to do in their lives. Could this be the reason that God allowed me to get this job? If so, I am thankful that God is allowing me to tell her about Him and inform her that we don't have to go through a priest to talk to our Heavenly Father! Please pray that God would give me the words to say, be able to explain things to her, and even know when it is the right time to propose coming to church or even starting Bible Studies....thanks so much for the prayers! She seems sincerely interested in what I am telling her about my beliefs. The Lord is truly working in her heart and life!