Three Favorite Things!

If you know me at all you know that three of my most favorite things are my girls, Auburn University and taking pictures! Well today mom, Michelle and I took Lydia and Trinity to Auburn to take their pictures! We had so much fun and the pictures turned out really good! I am going to make a photo collage for my Auburn bathroom!!! :) Here are a few of them:

The Big Move!

Well, as most of you know, my family and I made the biggest move of our lives in December. Until then I had lived 18 of the 20 years of my life in Florida. And I hated it! I don't know if it was the HOT weather ALL year, or the distance from our family, or the closness to Gainesville aka Gatorville we have lived the past 10 years that so turned me against Florida. Anyways, needless to say for the past 5 or so years I have been praying hard that God would call dad to a church closer to our family. I pray that he would move us to Alabama but no where specific there. Well, lets just say that years and years and years and years and years of praying payed off!!! God called dad to his HOME church, Fairfax First Baptist, here in Valley, AL! God is AWESOME!!!
I first found out about Fairfax losing it's pastor when we got the monthly newsletter(we have always gotten their newsletter since dad grew up in that church and my grandparents are still active members) from them back in the fall. My dad brought it to me and told me to read the front page. It read, "Bro. Steve(the old pastors name also) resigns." I didn't catch on to what he was trying to tell me at first but after I did, boy was I elated!!! Long story short dad sent his resume and I tried not to get my hopes up because I knew that this was too good to be true. Well, if you know how the process goes when a church is looking at a pastor, you know how long it takes. Do you know how hard it is for this girl to keep her mouth shut?!?! Anyways, he was asked to preach a trial sermon and the church voted after the service that morning. Only 2 voted no!!! Don't you know how bad I want to figure out who those 2 were!!! But, it is probably better that I don't. Dad gave his resignition October 19 which was also homecoming at First Baptist Bronson. He didn't want to have to do it that Sunday but he had to. You would have thought I would have had a smile on my face from ear to ear but to my suprise I balled and balled! I think I cried louder than dad could talk. I LOVE my Bronson people and I will NEVER forget them. They were there for the 10 most crucial years of my life. And as I told one of them, if I was givin to option to go back and spend those 10 years that we spent in Bronson ANYWHERE else I would say no!!! I don't think my real family could have bee any more loving and supportive as they have been.
Needless to say this move has been a lot more harder than I anticipated. Two weeks after we moved I got really depressed and could not get off the couch. I was ready to pack my bags and move back to Bronson. Dad decided to let me go back and visit. That was the best thing he could have done for me! I truely enjoyed my visit and I didn't want to come home but after I got back to Alabama, I realized this is the best thing for me right now.
I can now happily say "SWEET HOME ALABAMA"!!! I love it here now. I don't have many friends yet but I do have two ladies that have loved me and made this move a lot easier for me! You know who you are and I can never thank you enough!!!
Just remember God does answer prayer. It may take years and years of praying hard but He will.

My Girls

If you know me at all, you know that my girls are the LOVES of my life!!! Lydia Grace is 3 and Trinity Brooke is 9 months. You have no idea how excited I was when I found out I was going to be a aunt. Lets just say I haven't shopped for myself since that day nearly 4 years ago. I LOVE buying stuff for them even though they don't need it. I get to see them a couple days every month and I always look foward to those days. They are my hope and joy! When Lydia started talking we decided that Hannah and Nana(what she calls my mom) sounded to much alike so we had to think of something else for her to call me. Michelle wanted her to call me HaHa and I decided that would sound like she was laughing at me. I think it was Daniel that came of with HeyHey and she caught on very quick. So to this day my name is HeyHey. And even my friends call me HeyHey cause they think it is funny. I am SO looking foward to the day when Trinity says "HeyHey!" I might have to buy her something special when she does! :) Anyways back to the point! Those girls are my life. It is so funny how different they are. Lydia begs to come to our house! She thinks PaPa's house is the greatest thing. Since we have moved she now calls it Papa's yellow house. Lydia is the smartest 3 year old I know. She can sing tons of songs, tell you who died on the cross and why He did, count to 10 in Spanish, say her ABC's and tons of other impressing things. But, the child WILL NOT go to the potty. She is as stubborn as her HeyHey. We have all tried tons of things(so if you have any suggestions I am sure Michelle would love to her them). Trinity on the other hand is a MOMMA'S girl! I think it is going to be a while before Trinity will want to come to Papa's house. She is the sweetest little girl I have ever seen. She smiles at every person that walks by. She hardly ever cries unlike her sister at that age. But she still doesn't sleep through the night. She wakes up 2 or 3 times a night and screams and screams(Michelle can attest for that. I have not yet been willing to get up with her.). Well, as you can tell by the book I just wrote :), I LOVE my girls and I thank God everday for the privelage of being their HeyHey!


Here are the girls in the swing on our front porch. As I said, Trinity is ALWAYS smiling.


Here is Lydia taking a bath. Isn't she BEAUTIFUL!!!



Can you tell Trinity loves taking a bath? HeyHey makes it so much fun!

While I'm Waiting

Your probably all curious as to why my Blog's title is "While I'm Waiting"! Well as most of you know, I'm single! I have never had a real relationship with a guy! I vowed to myself years ago that I was going to wait for that special one that God has picked out for me! Well, I guess it was a few months ago that the song "While I'm Waiting" by John Waller came out. The chorus says, "I will move ahead, bold and confident. Taking every step in obedience. While I'm waiting, I will serve You. While I'm waiting, I will worship. While I'm waiting, I will not faint I'll be running the race Even while I wait." I have made that my convanent to God, that while I'm waiting on Him to send me the man He wants me to have, I will worship Him! It isn't always easy and I don't always have the patience that I should but I KNOW that my God will never let me down!

"A women's heart should be so lost in God that a man has to seek Him in order to find her!"

My Testimony

I think it is appropriate for my first blog to be my testimony! Well, I'm a preacher's kid! I have been since day 1! I was raised in the church! Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, whenever those doors were open we were there! And I am SO thankful to my parents for raising me that way! Since I was born, my dad has pastored 4 churches. Macedonia Baptist Church, Okie Ridge Baptist Church, Bronson First Baptist and the one that he just started pastoring, Fairfax First Baptist! When he was the pastor at Okie Ridge, I claimed to have accepted Jesus as my Lord and I was baptised. But, it was until February of 2002 when we were at First Baptist Bronson that I realized that I was truely lost and I needed my God to save me. You should have seen the people's faces. The PREACHER'S kid, not saved at the age of 14?!?! I think they thought that PK's were born saved! :) Anyways, my God saved me that day and I have never felt better! My dad baptised me for the 2nd time but this time I meant it! I LOVE my God and I thank Him everday for saving me!