Rocker Rocks On @ 10!!!!

Happy Birthday my prescious Birthday surprise!!! 10 years ago I had an amazing birthday gift by having Rocker on my birthday. I had no clue it was my birthday that day I went into labor. All I remember is after I finished pushing and the doctors put Rocker in my arms my Knight wispered "Happy Birthday Mommy". In my exhausion I smiled thinking it was his official birthday until my Knight leaned over and said "Today is Jan. 27th honey...it's your birthday!"

All the nurses and doctors were flabbergasted that I had no idea it was my birthday. Oh, how tired I was that day. Rocker made me work really hard on my birthday.

You are an amazing blessing to me and our family. We would be lost without you. I love you so much and am blessed to share my birthday with such a gift as you. You just didn't want me to ever celebrate alone. Growing up I had my twin brother, Uncle Brad, to celebrate with and now I get to celebrate with you. How blessed I am!!!

The Signifigance of 33

Tomorrow I turn 33. I don't mind it as much as I thought I would. I thought my 30's would be difficult to accept but I am really enjoying this time of my life. Today while I was at work the team (the Founder, Director & Ministry Assistant) helped me celebrate my birthday with cake, cards and prayer. It was a beautiful moment for me. Their sincerity and love brought me such profound peace and joy. One thing that was mentioned was my age. They reminded me of how significant 33 is. The Founder of Teaching The Word Ministry, Brother Key as he likes to be referred to in emails, shared how he took his 33rd birthday as a year of identifying with Christ in his 33rd year. See Christ was crucified when he was 33. Leading up to that time though, it was a year of understanding His full purpose and destiny. He knew he would be united with His father through his death and resurrection.

In Jewish tradition a child, especially sons, were not referred to as sons until 30 years old. That was the age when a father stopped calling his son a child and now called him his son. It was the year that the father recognized the son's ability and responsibility to take charge of the fathers household. Hmmmmm...doesn't that remind you of a time in the Bible?! Jesus was estimated to be 30 when he entered his ministry. Many believe this because at the time of John baptizing Jesus, God spoke "This is My Son in whom I am well pleased." The Jewish people of that day would have recognized that as the Father giving the Son authority over the household. That would also confirm the age of 30. You could also not be recognized as a priest until you turned 30 as described in Leviticus.

So here I am pondering my age and wondering what will this year bring? I am excited and nervous about this new revelation. Christ did many great things at 33 but more importantly he died to himself for the purpose of redeeming creation. He laid down his life for his Father. What is it that I will be dieing to this year? How will the Father allow me to connect with Jesus at 33? I don't know what it will be but it will be interesting to look back next year and see what the Lord did. I also find it significant that Scott and I are celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary in two weeks. Wow!! Numbers, numbers, numbers. Nothing is a coincidence with God!

Shaggy Is 11 Today!!!!

Today is Shaggy's 11th birthday. I am amazed! Say it ain't so...I just gave birth to this bouncing, beautiful little baby only weeks ago. He can't truly be 11. He has turned into such a handsome amazing young man that makes this mama proud. He also makes his papa proud too. I love hanging out with him and laughing with him. He is a wonderful young man.

Happy Birthday Shaggy!! We all love you so much. Do you realize at 11 you are almost as tall as your dad? I am starting to get you and your dad's jeans mixed up. I wonder how tall you will be at 14?! Yikes!! :)

31 Crazy Things About Me!

So here it is a list of crazy things that make up who I am. Maybe you knew, maybe not. I saw you guys do this on other sites and thought it would be fun. I don't know after this one you all might be leaving by the droves when you see just how crazy I can be. Here we go in no particular order....

1)I have a loom and love to weave. Although I don't often because of the kids and being busy.

2)I have sheared a sheep and it lived to baa another day.

3)I was a professional cowgirl riding in the rodeo for barrel racing and calf roping. Doesn't mean at all that I was any good, just had lots of fun.

4)I was president of my high school FFA chapter(Future Farmers of America). Of course that comes in handy now.

5)I used to drive tractors, plow fields, plant crops and spread manure (cow poopy).

6)I would love to be in a play but I have horrible stage fright. In high school I was just the producer.

7)I have actually won national public speaking contests for 4-H and FFA. Now I can barely stand in front of people with out passing out.

8)I have a weird fear of sharks. I can actually spook myself in pools, lakes, and rivers. But I love the ocean. I always swim with people further out than me.

9)Like Krazy Klingers I hate shaving my legs but even more I hate the idea of people seeing my hairy legs.

10)My all time dream is to summit Mt Everest. However with the fact that it takes approx. 2-3 months and $60,000.00 I see it as a far off dream.

11) I like to water ski but scared myself last time because my ski fell off and flip upside down. The fin was sticking up and I just started screaming Shark! BTW I was in a river in NY.

12) I am a cartoon junky. I love Scooby-doo, Generation One Transformers and GI Joe.

13)I also love cartooning. My favorite cartoonist/comic book writer is Stan Lee. Rocker and I draw for hours together.

14)I am a burden barer or what some call highly sensitive. I can easily pick up others emotions, pain or feelings and take them on myself. I constantly have to release them back to God.

15)I love riding motorcycles and maybe one day will get another.

16)I absolutely would love to get a tatoo!!

17)I used to show Horses, beef steers, pigs and even chickens.

18)I rode at the PA Farm Show many years ago in the rodeo there.

19)I love history. I love learning about wars and battle. One of my favorite books is Beyond the Band of Brothers.

20)Favorite authors are JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. I reread many of their books every year.

21)I wanted 5 boys before I had children. Now I am content with 3.

22)I love snow and winter. My favorite thing to do in winter is build snow forts.

23)I love video games to the point where I hog the game time up for myself.

24)I like action movies like Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Batman Begins.

25)So is anyone really reading this. I am running out of things!!!

26)My dream is to work with children in ministry and become a missionary to missionaries. Reach out to those on the field instead of have them come home for issues and difficulties.

27)My most embarrassing moment was in college when I passed gas at a baptism. Not my own baptism someones else's and believe me everyone heard. I definitely had to claim ownership of that one.

28) My two favorite people in history are George Washington and William Wilberforce.

29)I like to write poetry and read poetry. Kind of a closet thing I do. It's a good way for me to be expressive when I am spending time with God.

30)Yes I really do want to go hang gliding sometime.

31)I am holding on to all hope that we will be blessed with one more baby. I would really like a baby girl. I can't go into much detail here but I can not physically have any more children so it is something I am asking God to do miraculously in my life.

There you have it evidence of my completely insane world!!

Count Down to 31

Wow, sorry about the venting session yesterday. Thank you for your encouragement! I needed some time out. I do that often if I begin to throw a tantrum or pity party I put myself in time out with the Father.

I was thinking about this weekend and turning 31. I remembered how last year turning 30 was such a big deal, or so I thought. I actually likened it to Y2K. Do you remember that? Everyone racing all over declaring the end of the world because of a possible computer glitch. You were told to buy MRE's, generators and even stockpile food. It was crazy. In the end we hit the new millennium with out even the lights flickering. Well that was 30. A lot of fuss and no atomic bomb blast or anything.

I am realizing that the older I get the more my body does take a toll. I have always gone by the motto your as young as you feel. Most of the time I feel like I'm in my twenties until last year.

Last year for my birthday my Knight took me skiing. We both love to ski and I have been skiing since I was 9. My dad would take us kids to the Poconos every year. I decided that I was going to start snowboarding. Two years before that I started trying it out and wasn't to bad, not great either but it was fun. So let's do that again I thought. So for those who don't know anything about snowboarding your bindings on a snowboard do not release like skies. You are utterly and completely at the mercy of your snowboard when you fall.

The night went well and I was getting the hang of it. Of course I stayed on the bunny slope. Then I decided I wasn't doing to bad so lets jump up to the next level. Now my head was kind of getting big and I truly believe I was having delusions of grandeur. I went up the lift got off with out falling this time so things were going well. Boy, I'm pretty darn good!! I am one hot snowboarding chick or so I thought at the time. The Lord has an amazing way of showing us how bloated we can get about ourselves.

I creep up to the edge with my board teetering over the lip of the slope and look down. Not too bad, I can handle this. So I jump and head down. First turn pretty good. Second turn a little wobbly . Third turn I a realize how fast I am going and that I have lost complete control of what I am doing. Then without warning I lose it and begin to tumble head over heels down the icy descent. There was no mercy and I could not stop. Thankfully I finally came to a grinding halt. At one point I literally thought I would become like a cartoon and form a human snowball. Laying there on the slope a group of teens stopped and asked if I needed the ski patrol. Trying to gather any shred of dignity I had left I untangled myself and let them know I was fine.

Well after kicking my snowboard down the rest of the mountain I came to the agonizing realization that my body is no longer twenty, it is defiantly in it's 30's. Ouch that hurt. So for this year I thought I might take it easy on myself. Anyone one for Hang Gliding?

Birthday List

OK. So my Knight asks me the other day to make a Birthday List this year. He said I could list anything that I would really like for my Birthday this weekend. Anything. I reassure him that I don't like wish lists and I don't care about my Birthday. Get whatever you want me to have. Really, I don't like wish lists its just a personal issue.

No, my Knight says I must. I can't think of anything. I've got it, "Why don't you just use the money you would have spent on my gift and put it down on our debt." We are trying desperately to get out of debt by the end of this year. We are very close to paying it off and we just might make it. But no that idea is shot down quickly. He insists he must buy me a present this year. "How about a gift card to OLD NAVY?" This is the only store I willing go to. "No, no gift cards!!" he protests. So now I try one more time to appease him. "How about a Play Station 3? "I love video games, I mean LOVE them. I haven't had one since I left for college. That would be wonderful. There! I asked for something I really wanted.

Boy you should have seen the look on his face. It definitely was not the right answer. The lecture of why I should not have a video game system went on and on. So now what? We were back at square one. I finally told him what I wanted and he said it was too much money. Well, when did he put a price limit on this list?

Now we enter the discussion with his thoughts of what I want. Let me see......an Ipod. "No, that is what you wanted for Christmas my dear." A new fly fishing rod? "No my old one is fine dear!!!" A Kitchen Aide? "Well like I have said in the past, that would be wonderful if I actually had a counter top in my kitchen to use it on!!!" So as you can see this whole evening just spiraled downwards finally crashing into a fiery mess. I still have no list and I am very afraid to even ask my Knight now if he still plans on getting me a present this weekend. So help me. If you have any good suggestions for a birthday gift let me know ASAP. We might need to make an appointment with Pastor Thom or Pastor Shawn for this one.

By the way, is this just us or do you guys have moments like this in your marriage?