Jesus & Coffee...

 

There's no better way to start your day than with reading your Bible, prayer and coffee.  Sometimes I end it that way too.  It gets my day started off on the right foot when I can start it off with reading my Bible and prayer so that I can tackle whatever comes my way throughout the day.  It's the quietest time of the day in my home too.  It gives me time to be able to reflect and process what the Lord is showing me through His Word for the day as well.  No matter how you slice and dice it time with Jesus is time well spent.  He will never leave us or forsake us.  His knows our beginning and our end.  He knows every hair on our head.  He protects, leads and guides us in ways that we would have never been able to fathom even if we tried.  My life is what it is today because of God's hand on my life and I never want to forsake having time spent with Him even if it sometimes has to happen later in the day depending on what we have on our schedule.  Nonetheless, making time for Jesus in my day makes my day complete.  

Signed Up for Virus Weightlifting Series 1 2025....

Tim is signed up for the NAOS1 Weightlifting Meet in February/March that's happening in Columbus, Ohio😊. He is so excited to be attending this Meet. He missed being able to go last year because they cap this event. It is one of the biggest Meets of the year. It runs along side The Arnold which will all be happening in the same building. Tim will get to attend that event as well to watch the power lifting side of things. He does Olympic Weightlifting which is very different from power lifting. This will be a really fun trip for us all.

Having a spouse...

No truer words have ever been said than these.  Scot is my constant, outside my walk with God.  He's a place that I can run to and be safe.  I'm so thankful to walk through life with him by my side.  He is one of God's most wonderful blessings to me and I'm so grateful to God for him.  He is my best friend.  I love spending every moment that we can together.  I think back to life before I knew him and I honestly can't remember what that was like.  It's like I've forgotten it like our Heavenly Father forgets our sins as far is the east is from the west and beyond.  I've put it so far behind me because with Scot I'm home.  I don't miss anything from my life before he entered into my life.  God graced me with the ability to put that away to remember no more because in scripture we are told that the two shall become one and that is exactly what we have done in our marriage and that is so very precious to me.  Scot has a strength that I admire immensely.  Everything about him just drips strength and you wouldn't know it to look at him either.  God is the central focus of his life and our lives together.  When making important decisions about life together we are so in tuned to one another.  I know that came directly from God above.  We are so different in personality but can make those important decisions because of how much God leads/guides/directs our lives.  God gives us such a depth of discernment so that we make the right calls on hard decisions.  Right calls that reflect on God's hand in and over our lives.  Never in my life could I have imagined a better husband to go through life with than the one that God blessed me with.  Outside of God, he is my everything!  So thankful, humbled and blessed beyond measure.  On November 11th we will celebrate our 18th anniversary officially even though we have already celebrated early with my mom and our son when we went to Angus Barn this past weekend.   God is good!  Life is good!  And no matter what may come or happen I will always say, "God is good! Life is good!" because He's the one who gave us this life!  Amen and Amen!!!

We Did Our Civic Duty...

Today we went and cast our votes.  Praying for all Christians to vote the Bible and not just a party affiliation.  I'm so over the party affiliation crap.  Too many vote a certain way because that's how their families have always voted.  Or they will vote for a woman just because they want to be a part of history that votes in the first woman president.  Those are crappy ways to choose who you will vote for.  Just vote the Bible and you will never go wrong as a follower of Christ.  Just saying.  

Weightlifting Article...

This is an article that was done on Olivia Reeves, our Gold Medal Olympian.  You may have to click on them to read them.

Celebration Dinner Last Night...

Last night we took mom to Angus Barn for dinner to do a belated birthday celebration for her, a celebration for Tim's wins at the Carolinas WSO Championships, a celebration for our 18th Anniversary early and a celebration for my birthday early.  It was one big culminated celebration.  They have already decorated for Christmas and boy do they deck out the place.  It was so beautiful.  My mom and I absolutely loved it.  It's our favorite time of the year.  Here are some pictures we took:

My guys clean up so good!

More Pics from States...

The photographer for the Carolinas WSO Championships took some great shots of Tim that we wanted to share with you here.  Enjoy.

My favorite photo of the Meet!  He'd just lifted 101kg/222#'s which was a Meet PR!

Ch..Ch..Changes...

So we moved Tim's medal rack from what used to be the school room/office to his teen cave + we've added a new medal rack for his weightlifting medals to go on.  He's so excited to have them all in his teen cave so that all of his friends can see them when he's gaming on his gaming computer...LOL! He is proud of all that he's accomplished in his young life so far and so are we.  

As you can see he had earned a lot of medals in his young life.  He can wait to make his weightlifting medal rack look like his TKD medal rack...LOL! 

We saw the Wooly Worm...

As you can see the wooly worm is black/brown/black.  According to what I've been told the black stands for cold and the brown stands for warm.  So it looks like we will have a cold/warm/cold winter ahead of us.  We've had that for so many years now.  We haven't had a good snow since Tim was a toddler.  That's been some time ago.  Maybe at some point we'll get to see more than a dusting to an inch of snow again.  It sure would be nice to have some real snow.  

Report Card for 2023-2024 School Year....Better Late Than Never....

Better late than never.  We had two deaths in the family (Popsie and Aunt Joyce) at the end of the school year before summer break this year and I totally forgot to post Tim's report card and certificate on here like I normally do.  Sometimes life just happens and things get missed.  Here it is now though:

 

You might have to click on them to enlarge them in order to read them.