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Happy 4th of July!! I love the 4th of July, it's one of my very favorite holidays! So what does everyone have planned for this weekend? My family and friends are coming over for a picnic tomorrow so I am looking forward to that. The weather guy says it's going to be hot and muggy! PERFECT!!! LOL
Happy 4th everyone...stay safe!

Today I am.....

Today I am grateful for all my many blessings...except for that wolf spider I just found and killed in my basement......LOL Are wolf spiders in all parts of the country? :-)  I'm not a fan!  Happy Wednesday everyone!!  I'm still working on an update post and still trying to get around to visit everyone!!  Hope you are enjoying this time of year.  I love it! The warm weather, the fresh fruits and veggies, that it doesn't get dark till later and I can sit in my backyard garden and have a nice dinner and the lightning bugs that are slowly coming out when it gets dark and they light up the sky! Love it all!!   That's it for now, Have a great day. I'm off to run some errands and find a good Summer book to read!

PS...have no idea why this pic is showing so big.......

Because God loves Me........

Because God Loves Me 1st Corinthians 13:4-8

Because God loves me He is slow to lose patience with me.

Because God loves me He takes the circumstances of my life and uses them in a constructive way for my growth.

Because God loves me He does not treat me as an object to be possessed and manipulated.

Because God loves me He has no need to impress me with how great and powerful He is because He is God, nor does he belittle me as His child in order to show me how important He is.

Because God loves me He is for me, He wants to see me mature and develop in His love.

Because God loves me He does not send down His wrath on every little mistake I make, of which there are many.

Because God loves me He does not keep score of all my sins and then beat me over the head with them whenever He gets the chance.

Because God loves me He is deeply grieved when I do not walk in the ways that please him, because He sees this as evidence that I don't trust Him and love Him as I should.

Because God loves me He rejoices when I experience His power and strength and stand up under the pressures of life for His Name's sake.

Because God loves me He keeps on working patiently with me even when I feel like giving up and can't see why He doesn't give up with me, too.

Because God loves me He keeps trusting me when at times I don't even trust myself.

Because God loves me He never says there is no hope for me; rather, He patiently works with me, loves me and disciplines me in such a way that it is hard for me to understand the depth of His concern for me.

Because God loves me He never forsakes me, even though many of my friends might.

Because God loves me He stands with me when I have reached the rock of despair, when I see the real me and compare that with his righteousness, holiness, beauty, and love. It is a moment like this that I can really believe that God loves me.

Yes, the greatest of all gifts is God's perfect love.

Courtesy of Dick Dickinson.

I posted this a few years ago and had found it looking back over my blog.  It's an oldie but goodie and one that I need to hear from time to time. Hope everyone is well and safe. Will try to do an update post on what's going on in my life soon!

Easter, a Birthday and Women of Faith!!

I'm a week behind in posting my Easter photo but better late than never!! That seems to be my motto lately..... Here's the three munchkins on Easter right before we had brunch with Great Papa.  It's getting so hard to get a decent photo of all three of them anymore. No one will hold still for me to take photos!  :-)  It was a good Easter weekend, very busy with family but so good!

And my son, Jimmy had a birthday last week so we all went out to eat dinner at one of his favorite places here in Cincinnati. It's a good thing they put us in the corner and that it was a busy place because these three were bouncing off the walls. Probably all the cake and cookies we had!  :-)

And last weekend I got to go to a Women of Faith event in Columbus, Ohio.  I've never been to Columbus and it's just two hours away from me. It's a great city and this event is AWESOME!! I loved it!  The funny thing is I went all by myself, I might have been one of the few women who were not part of a big group there and they put me right on the floor in a really good spot and I was next to the camera guy(who was so sweet to me) and Natalie Grant's body guard, who might have been the body guard for all the event speakers and singers. I never did figure that one out.  I (and the other thousands of women there) cried when Angie Smith told her story of her sweet baby girl and Sheila Walsh is just a terrific speaker. It was just a great time of learning and drawing near to God and I hope to go again next year!!
That about sums up the past week.  Not much planned for this week so far except getting my hair done and starting a work out routine and my regular work schedule(ha!). I hope to get out in the yard this week but the rain has been never ending here in Ohio. My poor little new bike is getting no action these days...the rain has to stop sometime, right?  I hope everyone has a great week planned!! Happy Monday!

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter!!  I love Easter and the WHOLE meaning of it. I hope everyone has a wonderful day planned with family this weekend!. I am going to Easter service tonight at my church and to Easter brunch with my Dad tomorrow and hopefully(if the weather cooperates) an Easter egg hunt with the grands tomorrow afternoon.  Busy weekend but so much fun!!  Happy Easter blogging buddies, I hope you have the best day!  P.S.  I took this photo at our Cincinnati Zoo this week( on one of the few days without rain and storms), they have Zoo blooms every year at this time. It is so beautiful!

Getting ready for Easter!!

We're getting ready for Easter! The girls came over today and we colored some eggs, they had a ball. Just a little over a week left before Easter and today felt like a beautiful Spring day! Love this time of year and I can't wait to get out in the yard and plant some flowers! What do you have planned for Easter? Happy Spring everyone!!

What I've been doing for the past month and a half!!

So I've been a bad blogger again!! LOL I really do love blogging and I do miss it and I miss all my bloggy buddies. I know we still catch up through Facebook but it's not quite the same, you know? And I really have no excuses other than life's been busy. So here's a few things I've been doing since the last time I posted. Warning...lots of photos ahead!! Hey it's almost two months of stuff!

First I had a birthday and celebrated it with all the special people in my life!!

Watched Cameron at his first soccer game. I just have one thing to say about that....it was one of the most fun mornings I've had in a long time!!  Haha.... Have you ever watched a bunch of three year olds learn to play soccer? 

I went to watch Maddie in her big dance recital.  It was so much fun!!

I bought a beautiful pink bike. It has a great basket on it too that's not in this picture. I rode bikes when we were on vacation and forgot just how much I loved it!! It's so much fun, riding and feeling the wind blow in your face. We have lots of hills here in Cincinnati so it's a challenge to ride it here.



And then there was one of the most relaxing and fun vacations I have had in a long time. My friends and I went to Hilton Head for a week and these last photos are of our time there. We really didn't do much but walk the beach and rides bikes. It was wonderful!!
So how's everyone been?  Aren't you glad Spring is finally here and Easter is just a few weeks away!! Hope everyone is healthy and doing well. I really think this was the longest I have gone without blogging and I'm going to try and post more but I can't guarantee life won't get in the way again!!  I'm also back at Weight Watcher's trying to lose some of the weight I put back on since I became a lifetime member. So far I've been losing about 2 pounds a week, which is good!!  So there you have it---almost two months in a few paragraphs and photos!! Happy Monday everyone!!