So sorry I have been away for a while. I have been busy, busy,sick, busy,sick hubby, sick baby busy, I have missed you all! I had a women's conference (rocked my face off GOOD!) this weekend...(Fri, Sat) Sunday we had Bear's second b.day party (for my side of the family and all of our adorable friends... love you all!) and also a "Gotcha day" celebration. One year ago Saturday (the 25th) we received him into our newly moved into home. So we celebrated our having him a year and getting to love on him for a whole year! So... where to begin.
****Women's conference****
Every year our church hosts a women's conference that some of my dear friends are in charge of putting together (we were sadly informed that this was her "last year" to do this... hmmmm wonder if she'll stay if we tell her it was WONDERFUL AND NOBODY CAN DO IT LIKE SHE CAN!!!!) We will have to talk later then Ü! Anyway this year's theme was "Rain" out of Hosea 6:3...Oh just to read that. MmMMMM makes me want to drink it in DEEP into my dry soul (actually from beginning from verse 1-3 is GREAT)! I love these conferences. They give me enough to press on with my DADDY even longer. It is just what I need to continue on in the dry seasons! I love the community I am surrounded by!
The guest speaker happened to be the woman that led me to receive Christ as my Lord and Savior 6 years ago. A fun story really (some day when I am feeling up to a long fun story I will tell you all how it happened). So anyway She and her husband have moved from our church to do a church plant in Wheaton, IL and she came back to speak at the conference... How wonderful it was to see her again and hear the faith that drew me in in the beginning! I love that woman!
She was speaking at one point (because remember I am terrible at the whole picture I can only remember little segments and barely that... so bear with me) on us knowing God as our "owner; we belong to him" but do we know him as "our MASTER"?. OUCH! um probably not! I know I belong to Him but am I obedient like we wish for our children to be? Not by any means am I. She gave an analogy about a puppy they have recently gotten and she was talking about how she took the puppy out for "puppy time" and living on an extremely busy street they have to keep a very close eye on the puppy. She mentioned that there was a neighbor across the street that saw the puppy and was talking in an excited voice about her and it lured the puppy her way. Amy (The Speaker) had to run after the puppy before she got ran over to protect her and pull her back to the safety of their yard. After this she said she later was in prayer and God gave to her this analogy and told her " your puppy knows you as her owner but she does not know you as Master!"WOW! Makes me really think of where my walk with MY GOD is these days! How often do I "dismiss" my Father's voice just because I am "busy" with my own life and get into so much "trouble"? Too many for me to count. I want to hear God in my every action. Oh how I long for that day.
There was so much to process... I think I am still drinking it all in. I bought the CD's from the weekend of the whole conference so I can listen to it over and over again. There are break out sessions that we can attend and I attended the "Drought" one on account of that's what I am feeling right now. So on the CD set you can have all the sessions and get to hear them all! wooohooo. I am sure certain things will continue to press in my heart to share from time to time (especially as I listen to them over and over again)... but my mind is jumping on now before I forget everything that happened this weekend. So here we go.
The guest speaker happened to be the woman that led me to receive Christ as my Lord and Savior 6 years ago. A fun story really (some day when I am feeling up to a long fun story I will tell you all how it happened). So anyway She and her husband have moved from our church to do a church plant in Wheaton, IL and she came back to speak at the conference... How wonderful it was to see her again and hear the faith that drew me in in the beginning! I love that woman!
She was speaking at one point (because remember I am terrible at the whole picture I can only remember little segments and barely that... so bear with me) on us knowing God as our "owner; we belong to him" but do we know him as "our MASTER"?. OUCH! um probably not! I know I belong to Him but am I obedient like we wish for our children to be? Not by any means am I. She gave an analogy about a puppy they have recently gotten and she was talking about how she took the puppy out for "puppy time" and living on an extremely busy street they have to keep a very close eye on the puppy. She mentioned that there was a neighbor across the street that saw the puppy and was talking in an excited voice about her and it lured the puppy her way. Amy (The Speaker) had to run after the puppy before she got ran over to protect her and pull her back to the safety of their yard. After this she said she later was in prayer and God gave to her this analogy and told her " your puppy knows you as her owner but she does not know you as Master!"WOW! Makes me really think of where my walk with MY GOD is these days! How often do I "dismiss" my Father's voice just because I am "busy" with my own life and get into so much "trouble"? Too many for me to count. I want to hear God in my every action. Oh how I long for that day.
There was so much to process... I think I am still drinking it all in. I bought the CD's from the weekend of the whole conference so I can listen to it over and over again. There are break out sessions that we can attend and I attended the "Drought" one on account of that's what I am feeling right now. So on the CD set you can have all the sessions and get to hear them all! wooohooo. I am sure certain things will continue to press in my heart to share from time to time (especially as I listen to them over and over again)... but my mind is jumping on now before I forget everything that happened this weekend. So here we go.
****B.Day party/Gotcha day celebration****
The conference was on Fri night, and Sat from 8A to 3:30 P (but seeing I could not leave until I spoke with Amy and hugged her neck I stayed a lot later. I am so glad I did!). And then Bear's party was Sunday from 2-4. Talk about a BUSY weekend. On top of I HATE PLANNING PARTIES! I don't know if anyone has caught on to that yet from previous posts. Driving home Saturday after the conference I had to stop off at the grocery store to pick up last minute things and I felt real exhausted (you know how it is when you have been crying all weekend and have just met with Jesus! MAN THAT'S SOME GOOD STUFF!) and I used to be a pot head.... let me just say for the record JESUS IS WAY BETTER!!!).
Well I just seemed to keep fading! I got home and J fed Bear and bathed him and put him to bed. I was going to take a nap and then get up to do all the food that could be done ahead of time... and the cakes. I went to lie down and figured I had better not because I always feel worse when I nap ( I also dislike naps for some weird reason hmmm.). So I was going to relax on the couch and watch a movie to "veg out" for a moment or two until the "fog" wore off... but it kept getting worse until I literally felt like I was going to faint; puke and then faint. I took some pepto and rested on the couch and J... my wonderful Hubby, proceeded to make the cakes for me. I had to get up to separate the egg whites but other than that he made me stay on the couch until I felt better. So we got the cakes baked and I got to spend some good QT with him while I was made to sit still. Very rare occasion. Eventually all the cakes were baked and it was time to go to bed!! yay! The next day we were in the full swing of things. The theme for his party was bees... I got the idea from a magazine of a bee hive cake and it was too cute and witty not to do so I dared to make the beehive cake. I thought "what would be better than a little Bear digging into a beehive b.day cake???" so fun. It was complete with little pipe cleaner bees I made about a month ago. Then I made cup cakes with bees on them and two bears I decided we needed at the end of the decorating. We also made an 11X13 cake that had his signature Bear face on it (Thanks to Misti's wonderful brain. I was going to just leave it blank... She talked me into doing "his face".) All in all everything turned out great! LOTS of food and LOTS of cake.... and LOTSA, LOTSA PEOPLE! Here are some fun pictures of the whole Blessed event! Take in what you can and come back for seconds if you have to! I am still having to. I am thankful for the people using my camera to take pictures... I would not have had any if it were not for you!
*** Last but not LEAST ***
The conference was on Fri night, and Sat from 8A to 3:30 P (but seeing I could not leave until I spoke with Amy and hugged her neck I stayed a lot later. I am so glad I did!). And then Bear's party was Sunday from 2-4. Talk about a BUSY weekend. On top of I HATE PLANNING PARTIES! I don't know if anyone has caught on to that yet from previous posts. Driving home Saturday after the conference I had to stop off at the grocery store to pick up last minute things and I felt real exhausted (you know how it is when you have been crying all weekend and have just met with Jesus! MAN THAT'S SOME GOOD STUFF!) and I used to be a pot head.... let me just say for the record JESUS IS WAY BETTER!!!).
Well I just seemed to keep fading! I got home and J fed Bear and bathed him and put him to bed. I was going to take a nap and then get up to do all the food that could be done ahead of time... and the cakes. I went to lie down and figured I had better not because I always feel worse when I nap ( I also dislike naps for some weird reason hmmm.). So I was going to relax on the couch and watch a movie to "veg out" for a moment or two until the "fog" wore off... but it kept getting worse until I literally felt like I was going to faint; puke and then faint. I took some pepto and rested on the couch and J... my wonderful Hubby, proceeded to make the cakes for me. I had to get up to separate the egg whites but other than that he made me stay on the couch until I felt better. So we got the cakes baked and I got to spend some good QT with him while I was made to sit still. Very rare occasion. Eventually all the cakes were baked and it was time to go to bed!! yay! The next day we were in the full swing of things. The theme for his party was bees... I got the idea from a magazine of a bee hive cake and it was too cute and witty not to do so I dared to make the beehive cake. I thought "what would be better than a little Bear digging into a beehive b.day cake???" so fun. It was complete with little pipe cleaner bees I made about a month ago. Then I made cup cakes with bees on them and two bears I decided we needed at the end of the decorating. We also made an 11X13 cake that had his signature Bear face on it (Thanks to Misti's wonderful brain. I was going to just leave it blank... She talked me into doing "his face".) All in all everything turned out great! LOTS of food and LOTS of cake.... and LOTSA, LOTSA PEOPLE! Here are some fun pictures of the whole Blessed event! Take in what you can and come back for seconds if you have to! I am still having to. I am thankful for the people using my camera to take pictures... I would not have had any if it were not for you!
*** Last but not LEAST ***
Bear finally got a hair cut! It was getting way unrully and I have been wanting to trim it but we have to have permission to cut a "foster" childs hair. So I got permission to have it cut. My mother is a beautician so she got the privilege of giving her grandson his first haircut. (We of course saved his little curls for a keepsake). It is SOOOO adorable on him. Such a little man now. I love this little man!
There is so much more I could fill you in on but I will save your eyes for now and leave you to digest all this. The time is coming that I will give you more to fill up on.
Blessings to you all my friends and family! Love and peace be plentiful in your homes tonight (or today for those of you reading this in the morning.)
There is so much more I could fill you in on but I will save your eyes for now and leave you to digest all this. The time is coming that I will give you more to fill up on.
Blessings to you all my friends and family! Love and peace be plentiful in your homes tonight (or today for those of you reading this in the morning.)
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4 comments:
Sorry we had to miss the festivities but this Women's Conf coordinator took a 4 - yes 4 hour nap on Sunday! I would not have been much fun! I am glad though it all went so well. Glad you were blessed by the conf as well - but dear friend even though you are way to sweet, it is my last - I picked a good year to end on :)!
Adorable! We were there in spirit! Keeping Isaac out of crowds for awhile until he gets bigger. Miss you! R goes back to work next week so I'll be ready for girl time!!!
BRI!!! THAT is the CUTEST EVER bday party! And I really get into the bday parties I throw! I love the cakes, so, so cute!
I'm sad I missed the conference,sounds like it was great! I needed the time with my boys!
so-LG's baby shower cake, right after our adotion, was bumble bees and her room was, too! HA!
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