Just gotta laugh

Sometimes you just need a good laugh. Hope you enjoy this picture!
Love you all..

Freedom in God

The last 6 days have been draining!! My brother-in-law passed away at the age of 46. Stephen Lee Crabtree was a sweet and loveable man. He was great to my kids and they loved uncle stevie. I have felt my twin sisters pain. For thoes of you that don't have a twin the sayings about feeling each others pain and thoughts etc is so true. I have been brave and there for her yet our thoughts about his passing have been the same....PEACE!
After seeing stephen in the ER after his passing, we were not sad. Yes there were tears but those of selfishness and those of our not wanting him to leave. The Peace is that we know that he is dancing and praising God. He is also running all the sound and lights...lol! My sister, Pam, is a very strong women and she will make it thru it.
She will continue to work Virtual Media and as we talk everyday we see the path in which God is laying for her. She is not making any major decisions right now, but is taking it one day at a time.
We are praising God for the FREEDOM he has given us and with that comes Peace and Comfort.
Please pray for my family as we deal with things this year and her business that she will run.
Love you all-

Birthday Time!!!!!!!!

What a birthday I will spend. I will have to spend it painting the rental house. We will get it going this week. We have invited some people to help us so that it can get done quickly. It will be more fun this way. We have water so we will have a bathroom at least. We are going to order pizza and have some fun along the way. This is not my first choice on how to spend my birthday, but oh well. You gotta do what you gotta do. Fun comes later....
If anyone reading this wants to help me then just give me a call or leave a message. It would be very appreciative.
Happy birthday to me......( sing with feeling will yall!) Happy birthday to mee...........
(crashing of symbols) Happy birthday to Pat....... happy birthday to me!

Later my people

Birthday month!!!!!

July is the B-day month in our household. Tomorrow is Douglas' B-day and he will be 45! He actually took a day for himself this year. If you know him at all you know he will not do this alot.
So today is his day. He did the dentist appointment and then who knows.

July 26th is my birthday and right now I have nothing planned. Maybe a day at the beach with my twin. This would be good. I don't spend my birthday with my twin every year so this may be a great year for us to do that!

Happy B-day to all that have them this month....(so you can't say I forgot)!!!

later-------

Just when you think your going to relax....

do you ever go on vacation just to wish you were back at work where you can rest??
This 4th it seemed a lot of things happened and we had to adjust.
We spent the best part of our time at Douglas' brothers house in West Columbia. He lives on a pond and the kids went fishing. They all caught a really big catfish. I am talking at least 10 lbs. I am not kidding. Lon and his friend Mark get excited about doing the fireworks over the pond. Neighbors even throw a big party and call them to ask if they are doing fireworks this year. It is cool. Now you have to understand these are not little roadside fireworks. These are professional and huge over a small pond. It was great! It was impressive as always! This was the great part of my vacation.
Of course, what goes up must come down. Our renters in our rental house moved out last week and this was the first chance we got to go and take a look at things. Can you say "losers" out loud and be depressed too. We have lots of water damage to the house and have our homeowners ins to help us pay for the repairs. I think we are looking at over $5000 worth of damage. I don't understand how people can not take care of something that doesn't belong to them. It is just sad.
More for us because this is where we raised our kids. We are thinking about selling it, but now may not be a good time to do this. Please pray that we do the right thing.
After the ins guy left i did feel a little better, I met with a plumber friend of mine and I think he made me feel even better about the situation too. There is a lot of work to be done. Then the decision to rent or not comes to our plate. This all is stressing me out! AHHHH!
But I noticed today as I went to Publics' today for sushi that I was smiling and feeling good about life. As I looked into many peoples faces in the store, they didn't smile back. I guess the difference is I know with all the things going on in our lives, God is the one in control. I can't change what the renters did to the house, but fix it and go on. I can't take that stress away so I might as well be happy today and do what I can do to glorify him.
The song, "Don't worry....be happy" comes to mind!
I hope you all have a great week.....love you all.