Father's Day

Just taking time today to be thankful for the Dad's in my life!

My Dad is the best! I love him so much and have a great relationship with him. He gives so much and asks for nothing in return. Plus, he's an awesome Grandpa to my girls!

My FIL is awesome, too! I couldn't have asked for a better one. He's sweet to me and welcomed me into the family right from the start. He's also a great Papa to our girls :)

And my hubby! I love him so much and am so thankful for him. He's an amazing father to our girls and such a wonderful hubby too! LOVE HIM! :)

Philippians 1:6

I feel like my life was just flipped upside down. In a good way. A couple days ago, I watched the video below... Now I'm reading this.

I can't believe how wrong I've had it. After being a "Christian" for nearly my whole life!

I guess it started a couple weeks ago in church, our pastor preached on Christian Atheism. How people believe there is a God, but live like he isn't there. How what is really missing in most people's lives is a fear of God. I started to wonder if I had that fear. I have a lot of other fears, but do I really fear God? I'd have to honestly say, probably not. I know I've had some changes in my life and I believe that God has worked in me, but I don't think I was really fearful of Him.

Since then, I've been asking God to touch my life so that I will be forever "ruined" (Isaiah 6:5) and will never be the same. My sister-in-law started this group with her friends on FB where we girls can share what we've been learning in our quiet times, and just be accountable to each other. One of her friends, whom I would have never met otherwise, posted this video, the one below, and it really shook me. I really haven't know what has been going on in my spirit since I watched it. I knew it was something big. I just couldn't verbalize it. And I'm still having problems, so I apologize if this jumps all over the place.

Yesterday I started reading the downloadable book that I linked earlier and my spirit and heart and head were doing flip flops. I was struggling within myself to understand where God was taking me with this and was I ever really going to get it? And then, about an hour ago... God touched me. I have struggled with feelings of "I've never done anything really bad, and I'm decent to look at, so there must be some good in me". But the Bible tells us that apart from God, we can do no good. (Romans 3:12) At the end of Chapter 9 it asks us

"What areas in your life do you still feel have worth? Embrace the cross and allow Christ

to crucify thesWhat areas in your life do you still feel have worth? Embrace the cross and allow Christ

to crucify these things. "

I spoke to God about what was in my heart and still didn't really feel any change. But as I continued to read, God showed me the truth. He showed me the truth about being baptized. I was told, a couple years ago, that we need to be baptized in the spirit, and this is a different baptism than that of water, and that you will know you received the Holy Spirit because you will speak in tongues, immediately. This didn't sit right with my spirit and I have struggled with this line of thought since then. But NOW I KNOW!!! THANK YOU JESUS! God gave me understanding and I am so thankful! God showed me that I am nothing without him, and he gave me an awe of him that I don't remember having before.

I haven't finished reading this book yet, so hopefully I'll have more to say when I'm done!

Watch This

Please watch this! I pray that God will work in you and change your life!

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Day Nine!

We started out this morning by sleeping in. We didn't mean to. We were expecting the girls to wake up just after 7 like they had been, we'd get up and get ready. But no. I woke up at 7:45 and the girls were still sleeping. So, just got up and started getting ready, then the girls slowly woke up.

After a drive through the mountains we went shopping in Banff. It was so nice to walk down the strip and enjoy ourselves! We had lunch at BP's and then headed off. I just remembered... we had meant to go to the Cave and Basin... oops... next time.

Then we headed home! It's so nice to be home! I'm off to enjoy a nice bath and continue the adventure of The Hobbit!

Day Eight/Happy Mother's Day

Today started with... ME SLEEPING IN!!!! Again!!! :) I have a wonderful husband :) Then after I got up and had breakfast (he tried to give me breakfast in bed, but I can't because of not being able to eat right after I take my morning pill) we went to the hot springs again. It was so nice again. Relaxing and fun. We didn't stay as long because the wind was picking up and it looked like a storm was coming. After we left, the storm turned south... so we would have been ok, but it was time to go, anyway.

We had lunch, I talked to my Mommy and Trevor talked to his Mommy. Then it was nap time. FOR ME!!! :D I laid down with Becca and we were both asleep in no time. But, we didn't sleep as long as the other day. Which is ok. Then we got up and all went to the park. We thought we'd try a different one from the other day, but when we got there, there was only a slide. So the girls went down it a few times, and we walked to the other park.

After a while we came back and made supper. Trevor BBQ'd steaks, and I tried to serve up the rest of the food in the fridge.

The girls and I hopped in the jacuzzi tub again and had some fun with bubbles. Now the girls are running around and getting some energy out before bed.

Yesterday at the pool Samantha and Brooklyn were getting dressed after we were finished and there were a couple little girls getting ready too. One said to Samantha, "Where's your Mommy". I was right there helping Samantha, so she said, "My Mommy's right here! We love our Mommy!" Samantha was quite defensive about it. I thought it was so sweet! Totally unprompted love from my child :)

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I love you, Mommy! I wouldn't be who I am today without you! I couldn't have picked a better Mommy myself! I am so thankful that God gave me you, or gave you me :), and I always thank God for you! I'm also very thankful for the close relationship we share!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Day Seven

Wow! Today was an awesome day! It all started out with me sleeping in... again...(I have a great husband). Then we all got ready and headed out to some Hot Springs that are about 40km away. We got there an hour before it opened... oops. But we checked it out and decided to drive back to the ones that are across the highway from us. It was a nice drive. And it was good that we came back because I'm pretty sure we would have been rained out of the other one. Once we got there the girls had a snack in the car because it was almost lunch time and then we headed into the pools. It was so nice! The hot pool had a nice shallow area where we could sit with the girls and the cool pool had a shallow area and deep end. Plus they had life jackets so we could handle all three girls.

We haven't done the swimming thing very much with our girls, and I think it's because we grew our family so fast, but they are getting way better than they were. They were never scared of the water, but never knew to close their mouths when they hit the water. So their mouth would go in the water and they would breath in. Scary for Mommy! But that hardly happened at all today and they're getting so comfortable!

Anyway, we stayed there for 1 1/2 - 2 hours and then came back and had lunch. We were all pretty tired, but since it was getting late we weren't sure if we should put Becca down for a nap. We just turned the tv on and told them to relax. Becca fell asleep almost right away. I was just sitting in the chair wanting to sleep and Trevor told me to go lay down (did I mention I have a great husband?).

After that, and a short talk to Grandma on Skype, we decided to drive into town because I didn't have any groceries for supper. We got some groceries but decided to save them for tomorrow and we got DQ to bring back. Then we played some games with the girls and some games by ourselves and it was time for the girls to get ready for bed. I read them Psalm 139... quickly becoming one of my favorite Psalms... and tried to explain it to the girls. Brooklyn understood the most. Samantha seemed too tired to focus. And Becca kept saying, "God made the mountains. He's huge!" :) (which was off topic, but one we talked about anyway)