Forever Beloved

Faith, Love & Truth

random things…

ten totally random things making me SUPER happy today…

1.   biggest loser starts next week  🙂
2.   super fun senior session tonight with a sweet girl and her puppy
3.   pumpkin candles
4.   warm chili with cornbread
5.   finding a new exercise class that i can do BEFORE work (i know, it’s freakish)
6.   candy corn chapstick
7.   meal planning monday is on it’s way back  🙂
8.   gorgeous golden fall sun
9.   how blessed my life is
10. the most AMAZING family and friends ever

out for now
~kisses

weekend recap

we had a great weekend but i went by way too fast (don’t they all)…

friday i left work early and went for a cut & color…i decided to go dark for the winter (and to try and make my hair semi-healthy)…i am in LOVE with it, jade is not…she said it looks emo/goth…

once i got home we headed off to the varsity game, i had pictures to take at it for a client…it was a GREAT game and i got some amazing shots (and i took over 300 pictures, geesh)…we were all worn when we got home that night…

saturday morning joe and joey had to run and pick up the cheerleading uniforms that were in…while they were gone jade and i got ready to head to ladies tea…the tea was AMAZING and had the best food & fellowship, i just adore my church family ♥  when we got home from the tea we did a small bit of cleaning (just enough for me to put out my fall decorations) and then we headed off to clearfield…out to dinner and then to the big rig truck show and truck pulls…love me some truck pulls

sunday was pretty busy…we had church first thing in the morning and then had about 2 hours until we had to leave for the peewee football games…so in that 2 hours we started sorting the 500 celebrating home orders for cheerleading…ok, there might not quite be 500 but it sure feels like it!  the entire rest of the day, from 3 pm on, was spent at the football field…sometimes i think i should just pitch a tent there

out for now
~kisses

where were you…

“We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again. We have refused to live in a state of panic or in a state of denial. There is a difference between being alert and being intimidated and this great nation will never be intimidated.” – President George W. Bush, 2001

it’s funny how thinking back to that day you know EXACTLY where you were and what you were doing…i was at work sitting at my desk when a woman came in and said “a plane just hit the world trade center”…at first we all thought it was just a stray plane that wrecked into it…it didn’t take us long to learn differently…soon after we heard of a second plane going into the other building…we all rushed to the only office in the building with a tv…i stood in that office, crammed full of people shoulder to shoulder, and watched as the towers fell…the room was completely silent as people tried to wrap their minds around what was really happening…we then heard of the third plane and we were told they were closing the building…i work for a state agency so they erred on the side of caution and closed the building…

my first thought, once i realized we were under attack, was i wanted my babies in my arms…i wanted them with me so i could protect them…i wanted to hug & kiss them and keep them safe…i wanted to be surrounded by my family and have my husbands safe arms around me…i left work and went straight to pick my kids up from daycare…i took them home and spent the rest of the day snuggling and cuddling…

i was never more proud to be an american than i was that day…that evening we got out our american flag and hung it on our front porch…basically every home or business you drove past had either a flag hanging or a sign showing their support for america…

that day we bonded as a nation…that day we knew, as a nation, that we needed God, we needed prayer and we needed hope…it is a wound that is still so raw for so many americans and i would imagine always will be…what have we learned since then?  how have we grown as a country?  how have we healed, or how have we, in our hurt, turned around and hurt others?

*~we will never forget~*

out for now
~kisses