Thankful Thursday on Monday

My friend Rett asked me how my weekend was and after I told her she told me I had to blog about it and I have to say I agree with her.

You know when you have those God moments and there is just no other way to explain but God. That was our weekend this last weekend.

As most of my readers know Chris flips cars to help with our income. He buys used non-running cars and fixes them and sells them. Chris had bought a Cadillac a month or so ago that needed a new engine but those engines aren't cheap and we hadn't had the money yet to look for one. This weekend I found a Cadillac on Cra*gslist that had been wrecked. Chris just knew God had this car for him. We honestly had no idea how much the guy wanted for it but we borrowed a truck, rented a trailer and headed out knowing God would have us coming home with this car.

We were supposed to be at the guys house at a certain time and we were early so we went camera shopping. We have desperately needed a camera and with my blog and us selling cars we needed a camera. We walked into the store and the camera I had wanted was $50 less than anywhere I had found online. We then told the guy we wanted it and the only one he had was one that had been returned but nothing was wrong with it. So this meant they took a large amount off the camera.

We then went to go see the car and the people were honestly the nicest people ever. They sold Chris the car for 1/3 of what that motor is worth. It's funny because when Chris got back in the truck we looked at each other and talked about how friendly these people were. Who knows, maybe they were just angels in human form because God knew we needed that motor. I know it sounds crazy but we strongly believe God has a plan behind ever car we sell.

God has also blessed us big time about giving us some realities of food we had never thought about. I'm not ready to go into detail on here yet what God is teaching us (you would think I was a wack job) but God is teaching both Chris and I that Satan can be behind a lot of the foods we put in our bodies.

We are only a week and a half into our 90 day journey with God but it's amazing how much God will share if your willing to listen. Have you taken the time to listen to God lately?

Ultimate Blog Party!

Hi,
Welcome everyone! If you don't know what the Ultimate Blog Party is then just click the button below to learn. I signed up for it on my giveaway blog but I'm having so much fun I wanted to add this blog.

For those of you that are here from the blog party let me tell you a little about myself. I am married to the most amazing man ever and he is truly my best friend.

After 4 years of infertility God blessed us with this amazing miracle pictured below.

Nine months after the birth of this miracle we found out God had given us another miracle.

Two years later we found the most beautiful face of a little boy waiting for a family. After many weeks of us praying for this precious boy to find a family God let us in on the plan that he was our child and not someone else's. Our 2 little ones are only 7 months apart so the are our "virtual twins".

So right now we are blessed with 3 miracle children and only God knows how many more we will be blessed with.

Right now I am on a 90 Day Journey with God to try to find out how God wants to use me, learning to feel better by intense exercise and eating healthy foods (I could use some family friendly healthy recipes) and trying to organize my life a little. My best friend and hubby and another friend are along on my journey and we are having a good time.

I would love for you to follow along as I share my passion for God, my family and the 147+ orphans around the world.

I also have a very fun giveaway blog and you can see the links to the giveaways at the top of this page. I would love for you to stop by and sign up for the fun.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun at the party!


PS These are our fur babies.

My Mom Opened has a Etsy Shop!!!

OK guys, you have to go check out my mom's new Etsy shop!!! It would just make her day if you hearted her shop while you were there.

Anyone Know What To Do With This?

This is a picture of the spot Chris is working on for our very first garden since we've been married. We both had gardens when we were children but that was a loooooooong time ago.

I really would love if you gardener's could give me an idea of what we're supposed to do know, what to plant next to each other and any other wonderful tips you have.

Here is a list of things we want to plant:

PEPPERS, PEPPERS & more PEPPERS

Carrots

Sweet Corn

Cucumbers

Onion's

Pumpkins

Tomatoe's

Sunflowers and some other flowers

PLEASE HELP ME!!!

PS How do you keep the bunnies out? We have bunnies living in our yard.

What We've Been Up To

Here are my cuties pie's all dressed up for Easter. The girls are in their Poppy Dip dresses and they even got to pick out the fabric.

This is a picture of the cousins right after the Easter Egg Hunt. The kids just love it when they get to be together.

I started my 90 Day Journey with God last Friday and it has been wonderful. I started with a 2 day cleansing fast which wasn't easy but I felt wonderful at the end of it and I didn't have any cravings for bad food or coffee afterwards. Actually I used to drink 8 cups of coffee by 11:00 AM and I am down to 1/2 a cup a day now.

As a family we are eating very healthy now which is just wonderful. I am not the only one in the house trying to eat healthy. Chris has really been wonderful and is really in this with me and being so supportive.

Chris and I are doing P90X and yes it is HARD but it is soooo much fun too. P90X is a very intense work-out 6 days a week for 90 days.

We have been painting which was one of my goals for this 90 days. We are also getting ready to start a chore system in our house that I am very excited about.

Anyway we have been super busy but with God's help we are making some big changes in our home and it is good.

I couldn't end this post without leaving you with an adorable picture of Kai Kai.

Wow!

Sometimes you read a blog post that just leaves you speechless. If you go to my bloggy friend Adeye's blog you will find one of those posts.

Adeye has been on a very hard journey of faith to bring home their 2 new children and they are finally in their momma's arms.

I know she would love it if you would leave her a kind comment. It gets very lonely when your away from your family in another country.

Thankful Thursday (I know it's been awhile)

OK, I totally need to do Thankful Thursday today! I have to deal with some real parenting issues this morning and to be honest it just stinks! I am sitting here with butterflies in my stomach because of what I have to do this morning (let's just say that one of the kids has learned some hard lessons these last couple of weeks about consequences of actions). OK enough of that.


The other day after we got home from Paigie's surgery we were sooooooo tired. We hadn't slept the night before because Chris heard something in the night (the boiler) and then we couldn't go back to sleep. We honestly felt like we had major jet lag like when your walking in that fog.

We put the kids to bed and Amaya and Jaxson started crying and crying because they forgot their nightime buddies at grandma's house. We really did not have the energy at all to go get them from grandma's.

Chris said "oh, I'll go get them". When he got back this is what I saw:

I am so thankful my kids have a daddy that will run to grandma's to get stuffed animals for his kids even when he's beyond exhausted.

God gave me a good man!!!