The Center of God's Will: As the Autumn Leaves Fall....

.....how much more does God's Grace fall on us each day???? I looooove Fall!!! Although this year it feels like we went from Summer straight to Winter....oh please fall, come back to me!! Well, lots of stuff has been going on...hence the absence of my writing on this thing! First we took a vacation to the Coast, my beloved hometown, the beginning of September. We had so much fun!! We were blessed to visit with many friends and friends that are like family! I got to see my Beloved Ocean!! And we had beautiful weather!!! I don't think I would change a thing about our vacation. And then, the day after we got back from vacation the boys and I packed up and went to Baker City for a week. We had a lot of family coming to town there that I hadn't gotten to see in ages! So it was like a week long family reunion! It was great! The only downfall was the flu bugs that we came home with from my mom's daycare...oh well, it was worth it! Should have pumped us full of Airborne but I did not think of it in time!

The week after we came home from my Mom and Dad's I went to a Woman's Retreat at Ritter Hotsprings! So much fun!!! We had the whole place to ourselves! And the Guest Speaker was Your's Truley!! Yep! God did a little stretching on my heart! I have always said I am not a speaker, I like nothing about getting up in front of people and talking! But my God is sufficient for ALL my needs and when he asks me to do something In His Name, he promises to provide. Well, as it turns out....God spoke through me and all the ladies said that they couldn't tell that I was nervous at all. And guess what......I didn't speak once.....but twice!!!! He is soooo GOOD!

Then the next week we spent a few days in Redmond getting the house ready for winter! Fun fun!!!! Last weekend Norman's best friend and wife and kids came to minister at our church. Even though it was a short visit, it was so much fun! The kids led worship and did AWESOME and Norman's best friend delivered the message! God is good to us! I thank Him so much for the blessing of wonderful friends! Anyways, so sorry about the length of this! I am going to post some pics of our vacation......hope you like them! Sorry there are so many pictures but I couldn't pick just a few!! There were so many good ones! And FYI they go from the end of the week to the beginning of the week in order :0)

Me and my Bestest Friend Linda Lou at the Scrap store! We spent all day there scrapping together! It was so much fun!

Death of the "Ducky Shoes"! Did you know that when heated these shoes do not melt, they shrink!!

My proof that "Yes, I was on this vacation too!"'

It was 80 something degrees at the lighthouse and the flies were horrible! I kept swatting them off of me and Sammy but when you stop for one second this is what happens! It was so gross!