Random Me

Shannon tagged me to post 6 random thoughts about myself. So before I sign off of the world wide web for the week I thought I would give it a shot.

1. I enjoy one cup o' joe in the morning. Only one. With two HEAPING tablespoons of
creamer and one HEAPING TBS. of Hot Cocoa. Yum!

2. My favorite CD right now is Addison Road. LOVE THEM! My favorite song is What Do I
Know Of Holy

3. I got a new rotary fabric cutter and while I was opening it I somehow threw it in the air and
cut a sizable gash in my left thumb. Yup. Kind of diminished the joy of starting a new sewing
project. Just to let you know....Those blades are SHARP!

4. My favorite holiday food is cornbread dressing.

5. I am a crier. If you cry...I will cry. If you do something nice for me...I will cry. If I watch a
Hallmark commercial...I will cry. When my children come and give me hugs or kisses of their
own accord...I cry. When my feelings get hurt...I cry. When I am tired...I cry. When I am
frustrated...I cry. When I am angry...I cry. When I am happy... I cry. I cry a lot.

6. I like to plan things. I stink at following through. And I am not very organized, but I would
like to be. And I have LOTS of ideas of how to be.


I am probably not going to tag anyone...it's a holiday week. But go ahead and do it if you want. Just link back to this one and comment that you did it!

Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all!

The Plague '08 and a catch up

Hopefully today is the last day we will miss out on life outside the walls of our home due to the plague that has decended. It has officially made every person under our roof puke, numerous times. Not to mention the other side effects. Believe me, you don't want to know!

The irony is that we had lots of company come and go this week. My house was very clean. Was being the key word in that sentence. But let's get caught up.......

Dan's ordination service was last Sunday. Dan's parents flew in from VA. Angie and cousin Luke drove up from Austin. Mom and Dad came in from Floydada. Uncle John and Aunt Rachel came for the day from Garland. It was so special. Dan's Dad, PopPop, delivered the charge and it meant so much to Dan and I that he was able to do it. My Dad, being an ordained deacon was able to participate as well. I highly misjudged my ability to hold it together. I tell you, hearing my Daddy pray for my husband, well, there are just no words. I am about to cry just thinking about it. Uncle John, PopPop's brother and wife were able to come and participate as well. It was so meaningful to have the support of our church, whom we love dearly, and the support of family all there to celebrate God's call on our life. I think it will be one of those times in life that you ALWAYS remember.

I have a picture or two of the weekend, I think, (my camera is dead so those will come later.)
Sunday ended with the beginning of PukeFest 2008. FaithLyn got sick that evening. Then everyone left Monday morning. It was an all around great weekend. Since I celebrated my 30th birthday the Thursday before everyone arrived we did some more celebrating that weekend. Mimi and PopPop cooked me a killer steak dinner Friday night and we did some celebrating on Saturday, too. I try to enforce a manditory birthday week. It worked out pretty good for me this year. Until my insides decided they wanted to be my outsides. But no one wants to hear about that.

On my actual birthday we had lots of fun, too. I got a yummy cake from the local bakery and Dan lined up some FREE babysitters so we got to go have dinner all alone. It was nice. My house was clean because I had company coming, I got dinner out, and chocolate cake!! What else could a girl ask for!

Oh and I forgot to document that Olivia went on her first trip to visit Nana and Papa with out us! When Mom and Dad left on Monday morning they took Luke, Angie's son, and Olivia with them. They are both 3. You can imagine how much fun they have had this week! But Angie arrived at Mom and Dad's yesterday so the fun is over now. A Mom has come to restore order. They were both pretty sad to lose the control. hehe! I miss that little girl pretty bad. But I must say......it has been significantly more quiet this week!

What fun! Minus the puking. That was NOT fun. Now I am trying to catch up on my 15 loads of laundry so we can join the fun at Nana and Papa's for Thanksgiving tomorrow! Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Enjoy the family time, turkey and football, or what ever you to celebrate!

Happy Birthday, Aunt Patty!!

Many happy wishes for you!

I hope your day has been as great as mine!

It's the Small Blessings that Add Up A LOT!

I like to remember the goodness of our Savior. That's one of the main reasons I have this site. I have a few goodnesses I would like to get down for the sake of posterity and family history.

Blessing #1 We lost our first tooth in the B Casa this past weekend!

Blessing #2

This one is WAY over due......Back in August Elise read her first book! She is catching on pretty darn quick, too!

Blessing #3

Dan is going to be ordained into the Ministry this weekend! He is already licenced and now he will be an "official" minister. Now all the bulletins will say: Youth Minister - Rev. Dan Bragdon. Both of our parents are coming in and Angie and Luke are also coming to celebrate with us. You can come, too, if you want! We would love to have you join us!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

3:00 pm

411 S Wall

Iowa Park, TX 76367

Blessing #4

No picture for this blessing. Just a story.

If you know much about our history you know that God is OUR provider. He helped us get through college with almost no student loans. He provided us with a PERFECT job one month after moving in with Dan's parents after college graduation. He made a way to pay for the birth of our beautiful baby girl born without maternity insurance. You get the picture. The list is incredibly long of how God has provided and used many of you to help meet our needs and love us in very special ways. Today is just one more little chapter in that story of loving kindness. Dan drives a red car. That red car is, in and of itself, a gift of loving kindness given in our time of need out of love and generosity. It drives him around faithfully. The other day the red car got a flat. We left it parked at the church overnight. The next day Dan took the tire and got it repaired. Fast forward about 5 days later. Today Dan got a phone call. Someone has paid a local company to replace two of the tires on Dan's little red car. It was not more than two weeks ago that I mentioned to Dan that we probably needed to look into getting new tires for his car.

The gratitude I feel is a lump in my throat.

"Who am I , O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?" 2 Samuel 7:18

A Little Daycation: Wichita Mountains

Get OUT and VOTE!!!

I JUST VOTED!!

Have you!?

Voting is what makes this wonderful nation wonderful! We have a say, a voice, and no matter what you may think.....IT MATTERS! It WILL be heard! OUr democracy stands on the belief that we as a people are educated enough and care enough to run ourselves! We elect our leaders. We elect leaders that stand for our beliefs, standards, ideas, ideals....

With media telling us what to do and think in every area of our lives all too often we unfortunately leave the work up to them...or sadly we vote based on who LOOKS best, or whose name we have actually heard. I have done it myself. Those local elections don't get much media so I vote according to party or whose sign I have seen more prominently. Shame on me! It is my right to vote. Women weren't always allowed the right. We weren't seen as Educated enough or we were seen as too emotional to make an educated decision. We as a nation have become appathetic to the glorious rights our nations freely gives us. We have not recollection of the cost that these rights so dearly cost our forefathers. So we vote according to whim or we fail to vote at all. Granted I have felt the despair of feeling like my ideas or thoughts on the "issues" won't matter much but what would our nation be if EVERYONE took this defeatest attitude? Are we going to let our nation succumb to SURIVAL of the Fittest or Loudest or Best Looking? Is that what we as a nation want? Do we even know what we as a nation want?

Well- Today is your day to have a say. Your vote will count IF you cast it! If you fail to cast your vote then you have forfeited your right to moan and groan about the outcome!! IF you care about the outcome then put your toosh in action and do something about it! VOTE.

No matter how this election turns out...I am at peace. I have cast my vote. I vote PRO-LIFE. It is the most important issue to me. That is the beauty of our government. I can vote my conscience and you may vote yours. And at the end of the day when all the dust settles I can go to sleep knowing that whatever the results are....I serve a God that is bigger than any President, Government, Bigger than any issue, cause, Disappointment, Victory, Man or Woman! And my trust and peace lies in HIS Glory and Majesty. I choose to let my life reflect HIS glory with HIS help and no matter what my country decides HIS will is victorious and I can rest in His sovereign plan.

SO- get out there and make your vote count!