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Aiyana, her teammates and of course Jeter like Peter!

Aiyana and her sweet friend Daisy

Joel and Jeter on jumpy on the last game of soccer

Joel with daddy at their last game of soccer

Aiyana horseback riding!

Growing and going

Joel horseback riding

Jeter horseback riding

on a hay ride!

I have yet to see a cuter farm girl than this one... check out the dude next to her...HAHA!

We found the perfect pumpkin mom!

still searching...

Trying to pick the perfect pumpkin

Farmer mama and her two little helpers...ahhh!

How cute is that farmer and his piggy

Tampa Museum of Firefighters field trip with Victorious Life Homeschoolers in October 2011

kids sporting new pj's

Pastor's kids and homeschool art project with marshmellows and toothpicks... great idea from my great friend and awesome art teacher Karen Cone.

Aiyana excited to be in Islands of Adventure/Universal Studios

Harvest time is here...

It is already the 2nd week in November and I feel like we just got over September. October just flew by but a great thing happened in October. My mother-in-law turned 60 and what a beautiful experience it was to see her blossom into this age. She doesn't look it nor does she act like it and I am seeing that more and more in women today. I love that! For some reason or another I have more desire to speak with matured godly women now more than ever. I feel like God is giving me that to help me mature in Him. God is so tender in His mighty ways and I can honestly say that He has given me a heart to love my mother-in-law now more than ever. I loved the way she gracefully took on this new age. I am now 32 and have a ways to go but just seeing her encouraged me to know that age is really nothing but a number. It is truly what you make of it. I look forward to many years to come.

A life FREE of clutter

Your heart will be where your treasure is~Matthew 6:21

The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is, and the life that stays FREE of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. Being busy is not a sin! Jesus was busy. Paul was busy. Peter was busy. Nothing of significance is achieved without effort and hard work and weariness. Being busy, in and of itself, is not a sin. But bieng busy in an endless pursuit of things that leave us empty and hollow and broken inside--that cannot be pleasing to God.

One source of man's weariness is the pursuit of things that can never satisfy; but which one of us has not been caught up in that pursuit at some time in our life? Our passions, possessions and pride--these are all dead things. When we try to get life out of dead things, the result is only weariness and dissatisfaction.

by Max Lucado's Grace for the moment devotion

My prayer today is that I don't clutter my schedule and my being in pursuit for the things of this world, but only for the things of God!

Be Blessed and be a blessing!

Loving the Lord

I just want to take a moment and say how grateful I am for worship! It is incredible what happens when you pretend like no one is looking. Someone took this picture of my husband and I just going at it and not thinking about who is watching. My prayer today is that I never lose this moment and that my heart pounds for the Lord like it is in this picture.

Have a blessed week!

SET APART

The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:22-23
I read this verse in my quiet time this morning and as I thought about it and asked myself...do I have these qualities? My answer is 'sometimes.' You see it is very easy to find yourself in the whirlwind of this fallen world when we are not constantly renewing our minds with God's Holy Word. God reminded me that as a Christian, the Holy Spirit produces these fruits in me and in turn I will be set apart from this fallen world we live in. Then they might see that in me and praise our Father in heaven and be drawn to Him! WOW... it is not so much what we know, but what we do with what we know. My actions should be of that which the Spirit produces in me. If I lack one, I lack all! I want to be considered and viewed by others as a quiet and holy people. Holy...set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome.. How about you? Does this verse speak truth in your life.