Prayer

About a week ago I attended a local church's DNow weekend as a leader for 7th grade girls.  This has been my 6th or 7th DNow that I have been a leader for.  To think when I was in high school and attended these as a student I would always tell myself how there is no way I would ever be able to do that.  Well now look at me HA God  had another plan in mind.  This past weeks DNow weekend was on prayer.  I had never done a whole weekend on prayer.  But I loved it! It was so refreshing and it was something I really needed to hear myself. The theme verse for the weekend was "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who sees in secret.  And your Father will reward you." Matthew 6:6.  We focused a lot on how when we become a Christian we inter into a relationship with Christ, and when we are in a relationship with anyone the key thing we do is communicate.  Praying is our way to communicate with God and one of my favorite verses is; ""Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.  The scripture that we went over in our small groups with they youth was in Matthew 6:9-13  we went through each verse on how Jesus gave the disciples the model prayer and on how we should pray also.  It was a great weekend with these girls and I pray that the got something out of the weekend.  Even though 7th grade girls can be challenging God gave me the strength to show these girls how we are to live like Christ and to live our lives to glorify God. 

2010

2010...Wow what a year! This past year has been a great year and a very sad and trying year at times.  It has also been very busy with going to school, working for 2 families, making cakes, and very involved with our children's ministry at our church.  This past year I have made new friends, lost old friends, became closer to a few friends, and re-connected with old friends!
In this past year I have lost 2 people that I was close it in my family.  My great grandmother went to be with the Lord in February.  She was a wonderful woman who taught me many things and was there to take care of me when I would have to stay home from school because I was sick.  She is dearly missed in my family.  Then in October a dear man that was close to my heart went to be with the Lord.  He was my Uncle Bill.  A great man who took me out on a date for my 16th birthday and would call to see what I was up to.  His death was and is hard on me.  But to be reminded of how temporary this life is here on earth and that they are up there now with our Lord Jesus Christ! What a sight that would be! How one day we all will get to spend forever with our Lord glorifying His Name together!
I have greatly enjoyed working as a Sunday School teacher in our nursery at my church.  In the time I have been in there I have watched our class go from 1 baby to 10!  We have been flowing with children in our class and it has been a true blessing to welcome new visitors to the church and love on all the babies in our church and watch them grow.  I have several "buddies" in our room and at times I can never sit down on the floor with an empty lap or even just one child, at times I have had 3 or 4 little kids sitting in my lap.  The kids are great and so full of joy!  One thing I love about being in this room is that when we have visitors with children I can get to know these families.  God has truly given me a heart for little ones,  they are just a joy to work with and always make me laugh!
This year in 2011 I look forward to see what the Lord has in store for me.  I am starting my last semester at Ivy Tech and will graduate this coming May!! I can not wait to be done with school! In February of this year I will be going to Jamaica on a mission trip with a women's group at my aunt's church to an orphanage to love one the children.  I have always wanted to go on a trip like this one and God has finally opened the door for me to go.  This summer I get to go on a cruise with one of the families I work for! That will be a new experience for me.  Then finally there is another trip in the making for this summer!  I am not going to reveal where just yet...but I will give you 2 hints 1.) It is far away and 2.) It has to do with a link I have added to my blog recently about a ministry.  A good friend of mine and I are praying and applying for a 2 week mission trip to work with orphans and we are both excited! I will have more information soon on this trip.

I hope everyone had a wonderfully blessed 2010 and pray that for the things to come in 2011!
God Bless!

My Summer...In A Nutshell

Ok, where do I begin...I can not believe that tomorrow will be September already!! I feel like I just keep getting busier and busier as the days go by. So I am going to try and give you all a little peak to what my summer consisted of...be patient because this will prob be a long blog but I'm sure with plenty of pictures!
So here I go.....MAY

We had a family get together at my grandma's the first picture is of all of the girl cousins with our Uncle Bill on his "No Girls Allowed Truck"...The second picture is of two of some new little cousins.

I also got to meet a new little cousin of mine, her name is Leah

My mom, sister, and I took a nice girls week down to Florida and spent some time at Disney World Magic Kingdom, and Epcot.  We also went to Sea World.  Got to meet another little cousin Victor.  And spent a relaxing day at the beach.

 

Abigail and I went put putting (It was her first time)

We spent some time at the park and made art on the sidewalk with chalk.

In June I went to Mexico again; the pictures are of me with a power tool, me learning how to wire the electricity! That was fun! Then a Picture of the group with the house all done!

 In July my friend Megan and I did our first craft fair and here is a picture of our lovely table.

I got to go down to Tennessee to visit a good friend of mine Joanna.

The rest of the summer was full of wonderful times spent at the pool with Aiden, Saylor, Abigail and Julia (some of the kids I watch).

We also went on a few walks.

Abigail got her Pinkalicious cupcakes for finally getting potty trained!

Went white water rafting with the college group at church and stayed on a lake in Georgia and went canoeing.

Took Cooper to get a hair cut.

Did some yoga on the Wii Fit with the girls.

Did lots of hair. first one is Julia and Abigail, the others are of Saylor (we finally got her hair up and its been fun).

Then we also had some dance parties with Aiden and Saylor to Hillsong Kids Dvds.

Well there you have it, a short version of my very busy summer.  Now that classes have started back I am trying to juggle school, working for 2 families, and starting a little business of cakes with a friend, and helping out at church.  Lets just say I am always on the go.  I am looking forward to May because that means I will be done with school for good!! I can't wait to finally get this over with.  I hope you all have enjoyed reading about my summer...I also made many cakes but you can see all of those on the sweetlysimple7.blogspot.com  ENJOY!

Sweetly Simple

My friend Megan and I are starting a little company called Sweetly Simple!  So far on our blog we have all the cakes we have done recently! You should check it out.  Let me know what you think and if you are in need of a cake in the future let us know.  We are in the process of getting our business cards.  Here is a link to the blog:
www.sweetlysimple7.blogspot.com

New Cakes

Here are some recent cakes I have done.


Here is a Flower Cup Cake Cake.  It was for a little girl's 3rd birthday party (theme Tinkerbell)

Here is a Fishy Cake for Julia's 8th birthday.

Aiden's 4th Basketball Birthday Cake.

Sacred Laughter Quilt

I have been meaning to post this past September.  I have post before of a lady I know that has had ovarian cancer and we have gone on the Ovarian Cancer walk with her.  Well I am sad to say that she went to be with the Lord September 4, 2009.  She was a wonderful lady to be around.  Always full of joy and laughter.  She was a servant for the Lord and a role model for all of us.  She will is greatly missed.  But she is singing up in Heaven (she had such an amazing voice and sang all the time in church).  Here are pictures of a quilt my mom and I made for her when she started to get really sick.  We finished it in enough time for her to be able to enjoy it keeping her warm while she was home.

Long Over Due Update

Wow! I am so sorry I have neglected to post in a long time.  But this past semester has been very busy with all my classes, work, and stuff with the church and family.  I am very excited that there are only about 4 more weeks of this semester of school left! Then I only have 6 more classes to take and I will be done!! I'll finish up my Associates Degree next May!

One exciting thing that has been going on is that I have posted some pictures of some cakes I've done lately.  Well I have been getting a lot more cakes to do :) I will have more pictures later of my resent cakes.  This has been so much fun to do on the side for a little extra cash.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter celebrating that Jesus Christ paid the price of our sins on the cross and is now RISEN!!  What a mighty God we serve!! Our church had our Easter egg hunt this past Saturday with infants up to 5th graders and we had such an amazing turn out! We had over 300 people come!! God is so good, I pray we were a good witness to those families and planted a seed if they did not know the Lord.  Now hopefully we can get that many for VBS this year ;)