Winter Health Challenge

I am so blessed to live where I do. It is a small town that has grown considerably in the last 10 years but it still has the small town feel. We have excellent schools and the community is just amazing. My Husband has lived here since he was in Kindergarten! There was only 1 elementary when he was in school and now there are Eight Elementaries!! WOW Anyway...Focus Loren ;) Focus

I heard about this thing called the Winter health challenge and have decided to join in! We met last week for the first time! Our Family doesn't watch much TV but one show we do not miss is BIGGEST Loser Well, the speaker last Thursday evening was Season 8 winner Danny Cahill. He lives in a town about 15 minutes from us and was invited to be the guest speaker. Also on the Season 8 was Sean Algier. Sean works at the Church that is Hosting the Winter Health Challenge. So Sean and Danny have remained friends and let me tell ya, these two are funny!! Danny shared some great tips and was full of encouragement.

Some of the hi-lites that Danny shared were:

Lose your Quit! - what have you given up on? Why are you ok with quitting? Say good-bye to quitting and Press On!
Lose your Regrets! - Don't live your life regretting the past...learn from the mistakes and move on! Stop looking back!
Lose your Lies! - Do you believe the lies the enemy tells you? The Lies you tell yourself? The lies others tell you? STOP IT! Listen to what and who God says you are!
Find your Why!!- Why do you want to accomplish the goal you have set ?? When you find your "why" set it before you to remind yourself of the goal...your inspiration to continue on !!

I am really excited to do this Winter Challenge! My friend Stephanie from StephTmomof3 is my accountability partner! In doing the health challenge we are given opportunities to go work out at many of the gyms for FREE. I NEVER realized how many work out facilities we have but goodness gracious it is ALOT! I can't wait to see which one we like. My husband is doing this as well so I can't wait to go work out together! WOOHOO

WHO KNOWS.....Maybe I can look as good as Danny does once he lost all his weight? LOL

Mondays Musings

Well Winter has arrived and BOY is it COLD It started snowing around 2:30 and just flurried all afternoon yesterday. We didn't get any accumulation but there is more on the way today so we shall see :)


I put a roast and some potatoes and carrots in my crockpot today! Can you say YUM!! The wood is piled up and ready to make a warm fire in the fireplace this evening and Papa will be picking up our Rylee to come spend the night!! CANNOT WAIT ♥

Church was awesome! God is doing some UH MA ZING things @ LifeChurch.tv! I am sooo excited to watch it all come to fruition!

My Honey will be traveling for business this week....If you don't mind, can you say a prayer for safe travel please!! Thank you all so much!

Went to my grandsons baby shower this weekend! Now we just need for him to arrive :) NINE days and counting....NO, I am NOT excited at all ;) LOL

Here are just a few pics of the shower

Krista with Bentley's cake :)


My Mom, Krista, Rylee, and Jenna....Oh how I love them all soo much!


My Mom and Rylee watching it snow :)


My Mom making a bib for Baby Bentley...such a cute idea


Jenna and Rylee


My Beautiful Mom and my Sweet Rylee ♥


Some of his gifts waiting to be used!!



How was your weekend? Hope it was blessed!! Love you all xoxo

Spiritual Sundays ~ Revealing Truth

Charlotte and Ginger are two wonderful and godly women. They host Spiritual Sundays each and every week and if you would like to join in, I know you will be blessed by doing so.

I have heard it said a few times in my 44 years that when we are doing something we shouldn't, sometimes, we are blind to those actions and how it affects our lives, and the lives of those around us. Now, don't get me wrong, there are those times when we know EXACTLY what we are doing and continue anyways. But those times when we are Blinded and then the truth is revealed......WOW!! We are shocked at how in the world we had acted that way for so long and never knew it!

I have a VERY outgoing personality. VERY! Over this past year, I became just the opposite. I withdrew. I allowed some hurts and offenses to build and keep me in a place of isolation. As my husband put it....My Spirit was eroding. He was right. It was. There is no need in sharing the why's of the situation, but what I feel the Lord wants me to share is this:

There were times I would feel the Lords prompting but I didn't know what specifically to do. I didn't have a clear Word until one day recently, I was having a conversation with the Lord. I spoke to HIM saying "It seems as ......" As I began sharing my thoughts on my situation and I spoke those words, my Spirit resonated immediately. I knew I had gotten to the root of my issue. I began asking Jesus to help me as well as taking Spiritual authority over the situation. The spirit of isolation had to go. The spirit of resentment had to go. The Spirit of fear had to go. Not only did these need to go, but I had to ask the Lord to replace them with HIS Spirit of Forgiveness, Boldness, Peace and Love.

The Freedom that comes when the Lord moves on our behalf ~ The Joy is truly UNSPEAKABLE.

I know the enemy wanted nothing more than for me to stay in my place of isolation. It grieves me that I stayed there as long as i did. Oh, but for the grace of God. Truly, His mercies are new every day and HE washes my sins as far as the East is from the West! I am soo thankful that HE loves me enough NOT to leave me alone. To continue to speak, to nudge me until my ears were finally opened to the truth and my heart was receptive as well! Praise be to God!

What about you? Do you feel the Lord nudging you? Are you struggling with a situation? If so, SEEK HIM. WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
HE will show you. He will reveal the root and allow it to be exposed so that healing can come and restoration can too.


For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms Ephesians 6:12

1 Coritnthians 3:16-18
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit


For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

TGIF ♥

I LOVE Fridays Don't you?? My Friend Kim hosts Friday Funnies and while I love Fridays they are always better if you can laugh!!

I asked my kids to help me with my Funny this week and Jenna chose this Lowe's Commercial !! Hope you enjoy it!



Happy Friday my Friends!

JOY ♥

It is the 1st Count it all JOY post of the year!! YAY! I hope you can join in and share some JOY too! Join Angel here

I shared with you all yesterday about my Bible Reading plan. I am reading two plans right now. One of which is the 21 Day fast plan since our church is doing a 21 day fast. The reading was Psalm 119 and the FIRST two verses were about JOY!! Isn't that just too cool! I love it!


Joyful are people of integrity,
who follow the instructions of the Lord.
Joyful are those who obey his laws
and search for him with all their hearts


I am sooo happy to be able to have Rylee back here with us now that I can lift her and do what a two year old needs to do :) LOL Sooo she spends Monday nights with us and then I have her all day Tuesday and usually Krista will come over after she gets off work and have dinner with us! She is going to have our new baby grandson (Bentley) in 14 MORE days!! JOY JOY JOY!


Oh the Silly Faces of Rylee :) Love her soo much ♥ Fills this Noni's Heart with JOY





I won a giveaway @ Beth's blog and received my Starbucks card! Beth also sent some adorable Christmas tea towels and such a sweet note! Thank you Beth for bringing JOY to my day!!

Have a Jesus JOY-filled day my friends :)

Reading Plans ~ Got one?

LifeChurch.TV is an Amazing Church. Craig Groeschel is an amazing Pastor. Besides being an amazing man of God as well as an amazing Author and Teacher he has created an online Bible Reading tool that allows us to have Gods Word at our Fingertips at any time of the day! Not only can you read Gods Word but you can CHOOSE a reading plan that best suits you! Or if you want to add in a reading plan for a further in depth study you can do that as well! There are apps for your cell phone, IPad, Nook, Kindle you name it pretty much you can download it :)

I know for me, If I don't have a plan it is far too easy to get off track and I hate that! With YouVersion you can keep notes, or email a verse to someone if you feel the Lord prompting you to share HIs Word with them! You can even Hi-lite a verse for yourself if you want to, isn't that AWESOME!!

If you want to check it out and start your own reading plan go here and begin TODAY :)





May Gods Word Breathe Life into you today :) Love you all

It's a New Day er I mean Year

Happy New Year Everyone ♥ Can you even believe it's January and 2010 is GONE!?!?!






WE had such a great week with my Honey at home and the kids out of school. Spent time with Rylee, Got to go see my Nana and eat at one of the best chili houses in America!! Fred & Reds is a TINY whole in the wall restaraunt. It has a U shaped barstool seating that holds about 10 on the sides and 6 across the end. When you walk in, you scan the bar to see who looks close to being done and you literally stand behind them til they are done and get up. If you walk in with a group, don't count on sitting together because the chances are very unlikely that you will! At times you will run into nice people who notice you are with someone and might just offer to scoot down one or two depending on how many are in your group and how many just got up! But the FOOD!! OH my! Spaghetti Red ~ Spaghetti or some may know it as "three way" spaghetti with chili! YUM! The restaurant started in 1923 but moved to its current location back in 1943 and hasn't changed much since then! When either of my parents would go home to visit their parents we would almost ALWAYS end up in Joplin having lunch @ Fred & Reds! So of course, in honor of my Daddy we had to go! My 90 yr. old nana sat up @ the bar, had herself a burger and enjoyed it as much as we did. I can remember going with her parents ~ My wonderful and oh how I miss them ~ Great grandparents "Mama Fay and Floyd" Truly, I have been going since I was a just a wee one ;) It brings such wonderful memories and the food well, it is DIVINE!

We got all our decorations taken down and the Christmas lights will be off the house today. We went to a movie, shopped (had to spend some of the gift cards ya know!) slept in, stayed up late! We "raced into the New Year" on New Years Eve. As the week ended and the year came to a close, we spent some time reflecting on this past year and sharing our hearts with one another as we look ahead to what God has in store for 2011.

Yes, I could share a long list of Resolutions.....but in the end it really isn't what I want to accomplish. It is what God wants to accomplish through me. So as we begin this year I pray that all I do will bring Glory & Honor to the Lord. That no matter what, in my trials and in my victories, they were God ordained. As Jesus said in Matthew 26 beginning in V.24

Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

"Don't be in such a hurry to go into business for yourself. Before you know it the Son of Man will arrive with all the splendor of his Father, accompanied by an army of angels. You'll get everything you have coming to you, a personal gift. This isn't pie in the sky by and by. Some of you standing here are going to see it take place, see the Son of Man in kingdom glory."

Bless you all my Friends! Happy New Year ~ I can't wait to see what God has in Store!

Coffemate giveaway!!

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I'm sure you will want to head over there and join in on this one!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ~ Spiritual Sundays "A Clean Slate"

I have thoroughly enjoyed a book(daily devotional) I received for review recently. It is Billy Graham's Unto the Hills ~ A daily devotional. I just had to share today's devotion with all of you.

A CLEAN SLATE

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10

Did you ever have the experience in a school of erasing an entire blackboard? When the slate has been wiped clean, it is as if nothing at all had ever been written on it.

This is what God does for us when we come to HIM confessing our sin. First John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

How many tmes in your life have you wished you could start all over again with a clean slate, with a new life? Resolve right now to allow God to wipe your slate clean by confessing your sins and letting HIM give you a brand-new start.

The apostle Paul did this when he said, "Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" Phillipians 3:13-14 RSV


Our Father and our God, I come to YOU conscious of my sins and failures but confident in YOUR Love and Mercy toward me. Thank you for giving Your wonderful grace and forgiveness to me and for wiping the slate of my life totally clean. Let me start all over with YOU and live in YOUR purpose for my life, now and forever, through Jesus Christ my Savior. Amen.

Happy New Year to all of you! I pray this New Year will be one in which you experience the Lord in ALL you do. He Loves and Adores each one of you.

Thankyou Charlotte and Ginger for another wonderful year of Spiritual Sundays! I can't wait to see how the Lord uses this blog to bless the lives of those whom HE brings in the days ahead! May you both be blessed for your willingness to share HIM with all of us!! I am so thankful to be a part of this each and every week! To join in go here

TGIF ♥

I just LOVE Friday Funny day!! Kim hosts this each and every Friday so head on over and join in on the fun!! I just loved the Carol Burnett show didn't you!! Tim Conway & Harvey Korman were so hilarious!!




I pray everyone has a Safe and Blessed New Years Eve!