Brandon saved my life tonight.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am DEATHLY afraid of spiders. Big, small, it doesn't matter to me.. they are all the same. I have my husband spray and spray and spray the house to make CERTAIN I will never come face to face with a spider. Sometimes one or two slip through the major barrier of pesticide we have. If I could, I would walk around with the con-cop-tion strapped to my back and a wand in my hand to blast those suckers away. I honestly think that spiders are from the devil. They are evil scary little suckers! Tonight, there was a HUGE spider crawling on my kitchen counter as I was trying to cook dinner. The type of spider you would run into if you were out in a field.. the brown big scary looking kind.. you know what I am talking about?? I think they call them wolf spders.... well...Brandon so calmly walked over and without saying a word killed that sucker! I honestly believe the spider was wanting to eat my face off... I swear I could hear a hiss come from the spider as my husband wrestled him to the ground and saved my life. Honey, thank you for saving my life!

ATP

Today Brandon is in Tulsa Oklahoma taking his ATP test. It begins at 10:00 am and is a 3 hour test. I am certain he will pass with flying colors. I cannot express how proud I am of my husband to taking the final step in his career. This will open so many doors for you love.

Us

Every where we go we always take a picture like this. I would imagine we have about 50 pics of this same pose -- just one of those things we have always done!

My sweet husband.

This past weekend we celebrated my husbands 36 years of life. His son was with us so we went all out. Snack foods, cookie cake, fruit, whatever the kiddos wanted. I went to the store and got all the fixings - including the candles for the cake. After we were finshed with our feast of nothing but the bad carbs..my husband looks at me and asks... what year was I born.. I told him, he said.. then that would make me how old??? I said.. 36. Look at the candles!

Joshua is singing so loud... can you tell??

Jon-Collin thinks he is at a rock concert.

Those boys crack me up!

This is copied from my other blog.

In Celebration of your Birthday Honey.......

I love your laugh and how you get so easily tickled and you laugh until you cry.

I love the way you have a level head - but NEVER take life too seriously.

I love the way you charish your family time, and make the best of it.

I love the way you still act childish at times, it sets the tone for our children to be silly too.

I love the way you smell when I cuddle up next to you in bed.

I love the stepdad you have become to my son, he looks up to you and so do I.

I love the way you still allow Joshua to sit on your lap like he did when he was a small boy.

I love the way you come home from work, and find me first to give me a hug.

I love the way that you call every time you fly just to keep my mind at ease.

I love our code words, silly sayings and private jokes that no one else knows.

I love the way you play basketball with our boys and slam dunk, and trash talk them like you are their age again.

I love your loving heart, and the way you still tear up speaking about difficult things, or watching intervention.

I love you.. just the way you are.

finished my book

I have finished my book, I didnt blog about it because it got very personal. I thought I would now use this blog to encourage my husband. And type all the ways he enlightens my life.

My wedding day... July 11, 2002

I thought I would post a couple of pictures of mine and Brandons

wedding day 6 years ago.. gosh we look YOUNG! That was the best day of my life!

Day 10 - unconditional love

Day 10 was on Friday.. so I have 3 days of blogging to catch up on... but I will start with this one... I learned that there are three types of love. Phileo -Friendship, eros - sexual, then there is agape love - sickness and in health kinda love... for richer or for poorer kinda love, for better or worse kinda love. The kind of love that is true love. The kind of love that God loves us with. That is what I want for me and my husband. I must say... though.. I am only 1/4 through this book and I have seen a HUGE difference in my home. There is a calmness - that stems all the way through to everyone. I have even seen my son taking HUGE steps in watching his attitude. Brandon is fabulious and I see him smiling more. There is more laughter - less yelling, more hugs, less door slamming, there is more talking things through and explaining - less claming up. It is totally amazing what happens when you let go and let God handle things completely instead of trying to sort it all out yourself.

For my love dare, I was to do something that proves that my love is based on my choice and nothing else... something that I dont normally do. examples..wash the car, clean the kitchen, fold laundry..... SO... (dont laugh) I decided that I would .....put my check in the bank instead of carrying it around with me for 4 days and him finally asking where it was so he can do it. I texted him when I did it.. he was SHOCKED! hahahahaha...

He who trusts in the Lord, lovingkindness shall surround him .. Psalm 32:10