Spending time with my love

This morning has been wonderful. Chad and I got in late last night from Blake's (Friend) birthday at Dave and Busters and decided to sleep in this morning. We slept and woke up and decided to fix french toast and turkey bacon. We made it together:) I guess I never realized how simple it was. 4 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 tsp of salt and sugar. Cooked it on the griddle and added cinnamon afterwards. Yum! While eating I forced Chad and Clay to watch the original 90210 on Soap network. I love it and you know deep down you do to so don't judge. It's on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They laughed of course but they endured. Which reminds me yesterday I watched Lifetime for the first time in awhile. I was watching a movie about a girl who had a baby when she was 16 and they moved to another location to get away from everything. The girl's mom pretended it was hers. While this was going on the school that she moved to their were two teachers there that were having a really hard time getting pregnant. She became very close to the teachers and decided to have an open adoption so they could have a child. Of course I was sitting on the couch just crying when she gave the baby to them and what do you think Chad was doing??? Laughing hysterically at me. I hate watching things with him. Comedies I don't mind but movies like that...no thanks. I don't even attempt to watch Extreme Home Makeover with him because I am pretty sure I cry during every episode. Happy tears of course....
This Friday we leave to go skiing and we are so excited! Borrowed all of the gear we need and we are set! Bring it on North Carolina! Hopefully it will be cold this week. Judging by how it feels right now those chances are pretty good!
I get to see Johnny and Angelica this week (Cousin and Cousin-in-law) and hold their baby for the first time! Cannot wait to see them and hold Baby Boston:)

On the menu for today: Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup (Family Favorite)
1 and 1/2 lb- stew meat
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
1 6 oz can tomato paste
1 can of Okra, tomatoes and corn
1 16 oz package frozen veggie soup mix
2 potatoes cubed
salt and pepper to taste

Trim the meat, place meat in pot (6 quart), cover with water I usually fill about half with water in my big pot. Cook until tender. Add all other ingredients in no particular order and cover. Cook 1 and 1/2 to 2 hours. I do some jiffy cornbread along with it:)
This is really really good:) Enjoy!

SonRise and Leap Year

On Sunday Chad and I began our hunt for a new church home. It still saddens me to say that and accept it. However, driving 45 minutes to church is not going to work forever. Our hunt began at SonRise Baptist Church in Newnan. We were very pleased. The worship time spoke directly to my heart. I grew up worshing to contemporary Christian music. They do not have a choir- they have a band (which Chad and I liked). We felt very welcomed. Everyone was very friendly. The Word of God was amazing and we felt a connection with the pastor. We decided were going to attend for a month and get a feel for the Worship Service and then try another. We want to make sure that we are in the right place:) Exciting times ahead!!

On Monday I spent some much needed sister time with my Jenn. We went and had lunch together...and I'll give you one guess as to where we went...La Parilla of course! After that we went and saw Leap Year. Fantastic! Predictable but nonetheless a good romantic comedy. I was beginning to feel that I was being a little over emotional the last couple of weeks but Jenn made me feel better. During the previews they showed one for Letters to Juliet. As I am watching, I begin to tear up but I'm not looking at Jenn because I don't want her to laugh. I hear a sniffle and look over and we were both crying. It made me feel better:) Thanks Jenn! Now back to Leap Year. Amy Adams once again, incredible! I told Jennifer I think that she is our generations' Audrey Hepburn. Elegant, sophisticated and beautiful. I still love Audrey Hepburn but it was an observation I made after watching this movie. Matthew Goode was perfectly cast for this role. He nailed it! All in all I don't think you will be disappointed :) I had a wonderful day with Jennifer and look forward to many more days like Monday!!

Blessings

I was truly blessed this morning when I came to work. I won't go into details but please know that God is always there and he always all-knowing. He got my attention today and it was such a humbling experience. I am honored to serve such a Almighty God. He reminds of this daily! Hope everyone has a wonderful day and remembers all of the blessings in your life:)

Stupid Saturn!

I have learned it is not wise to say you are going to start saving money. Let me explain why I feel this way. It never fails something will inevitably happen. For example; when you are attempting to leave work on a Friday and your car will not cooperate. Friday was the coldest day we have had in Georgia this year. I panic because that is what girls do when it comes to car trouble. I called Chad who fortunantely had the day off because of the freezing temperatures and ice. The Jump start-Failed. With the help of a few others we pulled my car, behind a Truck, into the heated barn to leave over night. We immediately think we need a new battery. We test my old battery and buy a new one. We head back to work Saturday morning and install the new battery. Still nothing. We then ask my wonderful father-in-law to meet us up there with his trailer so that we can get it home. Chad and Joey push he car while I am driving it onto the trailer. Mission accomplished; Only problem is that I couldn't get the door opened. The sides of the trailer were too high. Lucky for me I get to crawl through my back seats and go out the trunk. One of my co-worker saw me doing this as they were driving by so obviously they stop to see what on earth is going on...Had to go explain all of that to them. I have a reputation to protect ;) We finally got my car home that day and from then on; trial and error. We FINALLY got my car to start tonight! Praise!

Moral of this story: Don't say you want to save money.

Church Home

     Last Sunday was a sad Sunday for me. Chad and I have been doing a lot of talking and we decided it was time to find a church that is closer to us. We love First Baptist Church of Jonesboro but it was hard for us to be involved being 45 minutes away. Chad asked me about it awhile ago that he wanted to be more involved. If you know me you know that our church and Sunday School class are very important to us and this was not easy for us. I have attended FBCJ since I was 5 and telling our Sunday School our decision on Sunday of course brought me to tears. I know it is something that we need to do and I know God is telling me that it is time but it does not come without sadness. We love hearing sermons from Pastor Mel and being a part of such a wonderful Sunday School class. I keep reminding myself its not like I am not ever going to go back but it is going to be really strange for me this coming up Sunday. Every Sunday after church we go have lunch with my family and watch football, play the wii or just relax. We thoroughly enjoy this time with my family and will miss it greatly. This time will be made up:) I love spending time with my family and no one cooks like my mom:) There will be Sundays after we get out of church that we will go hang out with them and Sundays that we meet halfway for lunch. Everything is changing, good changing but changing.
     We are going to visit SonRise in Newnan. It is very close to the house and I started looking at their website since September. I was able to meet the pastor of the church on Monday. He led the devotion at Chick-fil-A. I heard nothing but good things from him and about him. They have more of a contemporary worship service which I think I will enjoy so much. They have a Recreation facility and offer Co-ed softball which is a great plus for Chad and I. I am looking forward to their style of Sunday School or their mid-week Bible Study. I did not make any New Year resolutions because I never keep them. Instead, I am hoping that God will lead us to the church he would like for us to be a part of. It will be an interesting journey but I know this is the right move for us. I will keep you posted on our journey to find a new church home.