Nae’s Heart

Matt preached an excellent message last night on glorify god in all that we do.  As he was preaching, I started to ask myself, “Am I living my life to the Glory of God?”  There are so many things that happen each day, do I really give God the glory for the good and the bad?  Do I treat Him like He did a good job by blessing me or am I praising Him because I want to be a blessing to Him?  I am working on praising Him no matter what He brings my way, but I find so often that I fail.  Mainly because, I don’t feel like praising Him for the bad things!  I have found though that I grow more through the bad things than through the good.  I have found that I become more dependent when I can’t handle things on my own.  I want the Lord to be glorified through my life.  I want everything I do to be for the Glory of God.  I want the world to see Christ through me!

Okay, so I am sitting calmly on the couch in my downstairs apartment when all of the sudden things start shaking and falling off of the shelves.  Yes, we had an earthquake. If you have spent anytime in California you know that these are common but not happening even every month.  We had a 5.8 earthquake and it was close. actually about 30 minutes from my house.  It was felt all the way from San Diego to Las Vegas.  This is the first time I have ever had this experience on a bottom floor of a building.  It is way different.  I just talked to James and he is doing fine with the daycare kids so that is good.  I am going to try to get a hold of my parents.  The initial earthquake was followed by three 3.8 aftershock, two directly after the shock and one about 5 minutes later!  We had a crack in our patio that is a little bigger now and will probably have to be fixed as it supports the patio above ours.  Please let me know about your earthquake experiences from today.

Well as the title says, James and I are really busy!  Yesterday, I babysat Emma Thomas from 11:30 until 2:45. She slept most of the time since it was her nap time, but we had fun playing together before and after her nap.  We read books, played Princesses, and went to the “Park” (which happens to be the red carpet on the floor in their family room).  When Beth got back we all went outside and Emma played with the leaves on the ground while Beth and I talked.  It was a very fun afternoon.  After that I went over to the church and hung out with James until he was done working.  The daycare kids were watching The Incredibles and I love that movie so I finished watching it with them.  Then around 5:15 I went to Taco Bell and picked up some dinner for James and I.  At 6:00 we headed over to La Quinta so James could join Matt and the high schoolers in a game of soccer!  I took pics and read on the sidelines.  We got home around 8:30 and James worked on fixing something on Bethel’s web-site while I read.  We were both worn out!  Today James has to work at 10:00 and I have a friend coming over around 1:00  so I should probably go finish picking up my living room.  Hope all of you are having a wonderful day!

Well, I have updated the pages on my site.  I will try to keep you all informed about different things going on in our lives, but I may get busy and forget so forgive me ahead of time.  Feel free to comment and let me know what you think.  I really do appreciate the input.  I will try to get more pics up soon.  Hope you enjoy the new look and info.  If you would like any particular info let me know also. Happy reading!

Hope you all enjoy the new look.  Let me know what you think!  :)

Well, James and I are going to an angels game tonight.  I am soooo excited.  the last baseball game I went to was in SF and it was ‘07 spring break.  I am really hoping the Angels win.  James and I are doing good.  I am helping paint some classrooms at the church this week and James is, of course, busy working.  In August, we are helping out with Tent Camp. This is a time when Bethel’s youth group gets away for a few days and draws closer to the Lord.  I am very excited.  I got to go with them 3 years ago and have wanted to go again so this is my chance.  Hope you are all having a good week!

Well, I am definitely enjoying married life.  On a regular basis I cook, clean, and do laundry.  I have enjoyed having a few friends over and have gotten to go to the mall with some of them.  We are getting things settled in at the apartment.  James is busy working at Bethel.  He is in charge of daycare and is trying to find enjoyable activities to keep the children busy.  We have ordered some wedding pics and are waiting for them to come in the mail.  We are also busy working with the Junior High class on Sundays.  We are really enjoying spending lots of time together.

So I finally have a few pics up.  Check them out!  Our Wedding

Well, we got our pics from Heidi.  I am working on posting them right now.  I will include a link when I am finished.  The pics turned out beautiful.  Thank you Heidi!  

So I have bad news and that is that I am pretty sure we will not be getting any of our honeymoon pics.  The card is corrupted and all of the things we have tried have not worked.  Spencer is going to see what one of his friends can do, but I am not going to get my hopes up.  Please pray that something works!

The good news is that we will be getting our wedding pics from Heidi on Saturday.  We are really excited about seeing them.  She told me they turned out great.

Besides that, James and I are looking forward to our first holiday together.  Last night we hung out at Bethel’s fireworks stand until about midnight.  All of our friends from the military are in town and we have had fun seeing and talking to all of them.  Thank you Spencer, Joe, Michael, Kyle, Steve, Rebecca, & James D. for your service to our country.  And to all who are serving and haved served we appreciate your sacrifice.  May God Bless America!