Thankful Thursday

This will be a short and sweet post. I am thankful for the chance to get to go to a Weekend.to.Remember conference starting tomorrow evening and going through Sunday afternoon with my dear husband. DON'T WORRY, we are not in trouble {marriage} you can go to these things if you are having troubles or not! But I will say the 7 year path we have walked hasn't been easy, and even the best relationship would have had trouble dealing with some of the issues we have! I am a pretty open book, but when it comes to our relationship it has been 'zip the lip'.

For some reason #7 {which came in August of this year} was very difficult for me. It wasn't a bad difficult, just hard for me to believe that 7 years of my life were spent married to my wonderful husband. After thinking long and hard I only came up with one 'thing' that I have done for more than 7 years...play in band while in school! I did that 5th ~ 12th grade and that counts for 8 years!

5 years of my life were before school
6 years of elementary
3 years of middle school
4 years of high school
1 year of college
5 years of choir
6 years of basketball
3 years of volleyball
1 year of track (wasn't my thing!)
8 years of band


Anyway, you get the picture...

I am very thankful for the Lord putting Handsome in my life...it has been an amazing journey, not an easy one, but we are both better people {I believe} because of what we have been through. It has allowed us to strengthen our believes and get back to why we believe like we do. We have been able to work through almost every 'value' one by one and evaluate what is right and wrong according to what the Bible says. I understand that not everyone agrees the way we do, but unless we are given a Biblical reason why we are wrong...nothing is going to bully us off of our stand for Christ. You know, I am not sure that either of us would have had the strength to make some of the decisions we have on our own...but God knew that! So ultimately this THANKFUL THURSDAY post isn't about how thankful I am to have a great husband and a chance to strengthen our relationship with this conference...it is about God, His Promises, and HIS TRUTH!

But in the mean time I want to 'shout out' to our dear friends Mark&Teresa for watching the kids from Friday at 3ish until Sunday at 3ish with the exception of Saturday evening for a bit then other friends Todd&Barb will have them! Honestly it will not be hard to focus on whatever the conference wants us to focus on because we know our kids could not be in better hands! WE OWE ALL FOUR OF YOU BIG TIME!

Thank you Lord for the blessings we have!