Good Morning Wednesday

I leave for camp in two days. I got 95% packed last night, thank the Lord. I just have a few last minutes pieces of clothing, then all the stuff for my cabin. Borrowed a sleeping bag from mom. Need to buy batteries for the flash light. Happy sigh, I am so happy to be going to camp. Mom is watching my animals, and my neighbors will be keeping an eye on things around the house. I just need to clean and get everything loaded. I am going to one of the most beautiful parts of Idaho (atleast in my opinion) too. Beautiful country up there. Mountains and more mountains with rivers that wind through it all and lots of lush green grass. *Happy Sigh, again!* Not to mention mountain air. I wish you could bottle that stuff and make it a candle.

My little nephew, granted he isn't so little anymore, received the Holy Ghost at TYC last night. PRAISE the LORD!!! I cried, oh, God is so good! I am so very happy for Noah. He reminds me so much of Damon, in how he looks and walk. He has the Damon walk. I pray he continues to get all of Jesus he can!!

In other news, my friend is getting married July 4th, so right after I come home from camp, just a few days later we will be heading out of town again. This time to Oregon. I pray they have a great marriage full of God's leading, guiding, and blessings. It should be a pretty wedding, held out in the country at her parents farm. Pretty neato setting if you ask me.

Well kids, I need to get off here and get ready for work. I am proud of myself for blogging. ha! ;)

I Am So Bad

I have been lacking as a blogger. :( sadness. Work is so busy right now, we are in the middle of summer program. Camp is coming up. Plus, weeding. I am pretty sure, that my front flower bads are in all out weed rebellion towards me. haha. Needless to say, it is just so busy, praise the Lord! I like busy-ness. Well, that is it for now. I hope everyone is doing great!

Kudos to Mi Madre

Excellent dinner tonight!! Roast, potatoes, green beans. YUM-O!!

not much goings on. working and going to church, and life is grand. :) Really, routine is under appreciated. each day contains blessings. I am so thankful to the Lord for His everyday help, guidance, mercy, and grace!

I hope you all have a great weekend. :) Its coming soon.Speaking of soon. Camp starts NEXT week. WHOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I am soo so so, excited. :) I haven't been to a full camp since 2004. Anyway, thats all folks. Night and loves.

June 14th, 2009

So a few weeks ago, my friend Sylvia asked me to be with her in her delivery room. She felt like I had a way to getting in her face and getting her to focus. Ha, imagine that. Me, in your face?? ;) Anyway, this was a VBAC and she was a bit nervous about complications, etc.. It was just to be her husband, Sylvia, and me. Needless to say, having never seen a live birth and not really knowing a whole lot about the birth process, I was nervous myself. But I knew I needed to be there for my friend. After a false labor on Friday night, we assumed it probably would be Monday sometime as she was only dialated to 4 and the contractions were highly irregular at best. Well, last night around 10:00 PM I got the call that her water had broke and they were admitting her to the birthing unit. So I got my stuff ready and headed that way. I got there shortly after 11 and labor really seemed to pick up from there. Her goal was natural. I had to keep her focused on that goal. She didn't really like me at a few points, as you can imagine. She received only one does of something through her IV to take the edge off the contractions, but no epidural. I had people praying, because as I said (even though, its NOT about me at this point) I was nervous I would even know what to do and how to help. The Lord really came on the scene. All credit goes to Him. Not only did He help me, but He delivered Sylvia of all her fears and gave her a beautiful birth. She went from a 4 to a 10 in a few hours and hardly had to push and little Sophia was born at 3:54 am weighing 7lbs 10oz. She is a beautiful baby girl, with lots and lots of hair, and looks a lot like her big brother. The nurse said I was a great coach, and I could definitely be a Doula. And you know what, that's God, and I am so thankful. I read a little book, had what i saw from baby story, and some knowledge of what I saw from a beginning of labor with someone else, that was it. HE helped all of us in that room. I am so thankful that God loves and helps His children!! Welcome Sophia!

Random

Admittedly, I have become a facebook fan. Took me awhile to get to this point, but there it is. Thus, I haven't quite been blogging/commenting as much. I need to get ready for work, but wanted to put a quick little something down on my blog so I don't feel like I am neglecting it quite as much.

Lesson one, multi vitamins. I am not consistent in taking them. They make me SICK. Nauseous. BLECH. Well, today I was a good little girl and took one. The only ones thus far that have not made me sick are my flinstones chewables. I can't find them. So I took the regular vitamin after eating almost all of my breakfast and I can still feel the nausea coming. So gross.

Two, the "everything" bagels with roasted vegetable cream cheese, are delicious. Really.

Three, I have two most played songs in my car right now, Oceans from the Rain, and missing pages (well, I play them alot, not sure if they are the MOST played). And I REALLY like that group. Amazing I tell you. Especially the story behind them. I haven't listened to all of their songs, so I am not giving a thumbs up to everything, but these two and the new praise CD are awesome.

Lastly, I hope you all have a great day! That you would put your hand in the Hand of the Man who can calm this stormy sea of life.

Two Years

It is hard to believe that it has been almost two years since my wonderful husband went to Glory. I am missing him :( Say a prayer for me and the family. It is wonderful for him, but still hard on us. I still love him very much.

Austria

Bianca and Me

Here is a my friend from work, Bianca. Her last day was this past Friday, she is heading back home to Austria :( sad for me, but yay for her. She missed her family and was ready to get back home. Her husband worked for his company as a engineer here in the states, and apparently travels all around the world for them. She was one of my favorites. Very sweet girl, and awesome accent. They have a beautiful accent I tell you. Makes the German language sound so elegant. Should I ever hop a plane (yeeeah) to Austria, I have my contact! I will miss this chick!

Batteries

Tricky little things, they are.

So at almost midnight last night my smoke detector started going off. I was all sleepy and ready for bed. It went off, I reset it. And, repeat. Well I finally took the battery out, but that didn't fix the problem. So I called my local dire department and had a huge firetruck outside my house at 11:45 with four firemen show up, just to tell me, it's the battery. They replaced it, and now I will need to replace all of the others soon. He said batteries need to be replaced about once a year. So praise the Lord, there wasn't anything for my fire alarm to really go off about. :)