Park...Train...Ride...

We decided to go to the Staunton Park last Saturday and met up with Sam, Kelly, & Noah (my latest nephew) and Nathan's parents. I actually try to take London to the park every weekend. 1. Where else in the area does a two year olds fantasy of riding a train come true. 2. You get to feed the really noisy ducks and huge fish. 3. There are several locations of playsets. 4. On this one particular day there happened to be a back-hoe (Londons terms...Tractor) and lots of leaves on the ground (sometimes it the smallest things in life that can keep a toddler happy, seriously). 5. Hello, an hour of sanity and peace, priceless. So, I posted some pics. He really liked all the leaves on the ground and for a minute I think I even turned into a 5 year old again. Piling them up, kicking them around, and throwing them in the air to watch them peacefully float back down to the ground. Enjoy...

Sam, Kelly, Noah, and Juno

London in the Leaves!!

London with the back-hoe "Tractor"

Funny little boy...
So London has over the past month become quite interested in the potty thing and the fact that he has a pee-pee. For instance...

1. When wanting to sit for a mear 2 seconds on his potty you to must sit on the adult potty facing him and hold his hand (yes, we're clothed and not using the potty ourselves)

2. When changing diaper we must point to the diaper and say the following
London: DYE-PURR
Sara: Diaper
Laughing
London: DYE-PURR
Sara: Diaper
And this can go on for minutes (does not help us to get out of the house on time in the mornings)

3. He now knows where the pee-pees on animals our in our books so when reading bedtime stories he points out and says where the pee-pees are. No, this is funny but when it's a touch and feel book he wants to take my finger and touch the pee-pees along with whatever is touch and feel on the page (kinda crosses the line for me a little) but hysterical!

4. He knows when he's pooping and after he's pooped but still can't seem to figure out to tell me before hand. He just likes to come up to me patting his butt saying "Poop"

5. Okay, so I think its still okay to change in front of a two year old, right? The problem when changing in front of him is that he will randomly come up to me and point at my butt crack and say "Butt".

Lord, I hope its only a quick fetish!

The peace after the storm...

I was just listening to the song by Bethany Dillon "Hallelujah". God is awesome and through all the chaos and change of a new job, working full time, London in a new daycare and also adjusting to being there full time I have truly been able to say "HALLELUJAH". I still have great peace that I am where I am suppossed to be. The other Sunday we had a guest speaker at our church Graham Cooke and he spoke a prophesy of favor. I've listened in my life to many prophesies or blessings over me or the congregation in general. I'm always the one thats thinking "Lord, I need to hear your voice loud and clear, please let them say my name and have a word for me." It's never happened and I always walk away dissapointed. This time though I know he didn't say my name but I have never heard the words from someones mouth so clear before. We were even sitting near the back of the church and normally my attention span is so short that the slightest twitch from anyone distracts me from the service. This time though it was like I had noise cancelling head phones on where if there had been a cricket chirping I still wouldn't of heard it but Graham's voice was coming through a megaphone two inches from my face. For the first time I KNEW that his words were for me. Yes, he was saying them to the whole congregation and sure they were for everybody but they were for ME! I could hardly keep from crying the whole time he spoke and had to just close my eyes most of the time because they were litterally piercing my soul so feircely that it had a slight tinge of hurt. Like the old (the lack of faith to comprehend what He fully has for me and feelings of inadequacy to actually recieve it) was being cut out and restored by peace, love, vision, and only a small bit of the favor I would then continue to recieve over the next few weeks and am continuing to recieve. Getting all of this thru the sermon allowed me to then completely lay the burdens that I had been carrying for some of my friends and family that I love so intensely I couldn't bear then any longer. I felt God say "I've got this". Which I believe allowed some doors to open that I myself had been keeping shut by ways of control, fear, and uncertainty. I truly recieved God's imparting of FAVOR on my life! It has been an almost heavenly experience the last month. It has also been exhausting in a way trying to keep up with it all :) I did start a new job a week ago and London started a new daycare. Both seem to be transitioning smoothly! So "HALLELUJAH". God is awesome and very much in control! I believe that the flood gates ARE opened this new season!! Lets take it in!

Shoes of faith...

The other night I was staightening and cleaning out my closet and decided to organize my shoes. For most of you that don't know I have a shoe and purse fetish...probably over 60 shoes and who knows how many purses (bless my husband for letting me have 80% of the closet space). Everytime I buy a new pair of shoes, Nathan always says "How many shoes do you need?". Honestly I can't answer that. It's such a nice feeling when you find the perfect shoes for that top in your closet you haven't worn yet because you didn't have the exact pair of shoes! Well, I think I've found the reason why I buy so many shoes (not very conventional or spiritual but sounded good) (would also be a great name for a womens retreat). With my new outlook from my last blog, I am walking in faith that God's plan is not finished in my life. Therefore every morning I wake up and put on my perfect pair of shoes for my outfit, I am putting on my shoes of faith for the day that I will walk with faith and walk out God's plan for me for that day. As far as a great retreat name it would be called the "Shoes of Faith Conference". Everyone would get a cute minature shoe as their take home reminder! So may you all have "SHOES OF FAITH" today that whatever your situation or heartache, you will have shoes of faith to walk you thru it!!! Leaning on the scripture "For I know the plans I have for you, " declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11. AMEN!

Being Quiet....

I had dinner with a great friend last night (thanks Sarah B.)! We came to the conclusion that it is the obstacles, storms, and battles in life that prepare us for our destiny and calling in Christ! It really gave me a new peace and understanding! I also was listening to the radio on the way home yesterday and a song came on that said "sometimes He quiets the storm and other times He quiets the child". How prophetic is that! We all want our storms quieted but sometimes we're to be quiet and hold on to Him till the storm is over. He is faithful and I can feel a new season coming! Hallelujah! I love a new wardrobe therefore love a new season in my life. Out with the old and in with the new.