Let it go....

Okay... I know it's been awhile and that seems to be the new theme for me here on my blog. Sorry! :(

This is just one of those blogs that I just share my heart! Nothing cuties and fun just from the heart. A few weeks back I told you that God had been really working in my life and trying to teach me in new areas. He still is and man is He good! I'm so grateful that He's a gracious and merciful God, aren't you? Cuz man sometimes I think I just don't get it. He's really been trying to drill into this thick head of mine just how much He loves me. JUST for me! Not for who I think I ought to be or who I want to be but JUST me! Could it be that simple? I really think so! He's also been teaching me to just, "let it go." Man this has really been hard for me. For some reason, I want to just fix it all... But every time I turn around there He is again, saying "let it go, Misty. Just let it go!" As most of you know, the last few years very trying and difficult. I went through some things in my life that just rocked this little preacher girls perfect world or at least my idea of it. And to be honest I've had a very hard time knowing what to do with all of it. The pain is very real and very deep and at times just suffocating. But God has been telling me and showing me, in that ever small voice, "Just let it go precious one... let me have it, let me love you!" I wonder how many others of you know, exactly what I'm talking about? Don't you know God must feel much like we feel as parents? Why don't they just trust me enough to listen to me? I know He has my best interests at heart but for some reason I want to hold on to that hurt and that pain. Why? Why do I do that? Why can't I just let it go and let Him have it? I just know that, at this point in my life, deep in my spirit, something has to change. I have to trust Him, maybe in way that I've never trusted Him before. I think there's alot of us out there that feel this very same way. Something has got to give. There's alot of hurting people and we need God to save us, save us most of all from ourselves! So today I leave you with this... Know God loves you and You are His prize possession, not for who you think you should be, what you've done or haven't done, despite the many mistake BUT just for who you are! You do know, you've never gone too far, right? He loves you so much more than you can imagine! We just have to let Him!

Just let it go....

Phil. 3:13-14 "....Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal...."

Landon Josiah...

These are Landon's Birthday pictures we had made today! He's did so awesome! I love them....

Mr. G.Q.

"Excuse Me! You want me to do WHAT?"

This one is our favorite

Just Chillin...

A little empish huh?

My Baby Brother got Married...

My baby brother got married on Sunday. It was a sweet little wedding. I was a proud sister! I'm so proud of him and the man he's become. I couldn't ask for any better of a brother. He's truly one of my very best of friends too. I love him so very much. I'm so happy for him and his new wife. I know he loves her dearly! She's a precious addition to our family. We think she's a keeper for putting up with him, he he he... We went to a park after the wedding for some pictures and here are a few of that I took that are my favorites.

Mr. & Mrs. William Riley Hamilton

January 25, 2009

My Sweet Birthday Boy

I know... I know... I can hardly believe it myself. My sweet baby boy is two! He turned two last Friday. Man where did the time go. It flew by, as I knew it would. It just seems to do that. I very distinctly remember saying how I wanted him to stay little because I knew how very fast he was going to grow up. And man has he. He's so stinkin cute it's just not even funny. I forgot just how much fun this age is, well and trying! ha! He's just like a little tape recorder following you around repeating what ever you say. It's so funny, for the most part. One of our favorite things he does though is, he's big into scaring you. If you go to the bath room. He runs and lays down outside the door and when you open it he screams and then just laughs saying, "i scare u!" It's so cute. He's quite the character. He loves Elmo and lately has decided that he's Cookie Monster. So he runs around pretending to eat up things like Cookie Monster would. We dare not miss Sesame Street. That's a sin around here. So mom has plenty on tape, for emergency situations. You never know when Elmo might make it all better. Poor thing didn't get to have a party for his birthday yet. We had planned on but we all sick so had to cancel it. He barely got cupcakes but at the last minute I made them. We ate cupcake at like 9:00 p.m. It was bad. But I felt so bad. At least he's little and doesn't understand. The rest of the kids are just appalled but he's okay with it. We've just been so sick, I haven't even been able to go get him a present. So we will celebrate it in a few weeks when we get better and are all germ free. I'll post more pictures of his actual party then. Since we sang to him that day. He's been singing. "Happy Happy to me!" "I tooooo" Did I mention how cute he is??? Oh okay! I guess I best run! The other pictures are just ones I took of him playing out in the yard on the play set. He loves it out there. Have a great day!

Take me away....

Okay for all you mommies... You'll totally appreciate this and get where I'm coming from with this one. I don't know about you guys but I NEVER have a moments peace, not even in the bathroom. Not even if I have to, excuse me, for lack of a better word, poo! They just don't care! They are right in there right in the midst of it talking ninety to nothin.... and now Landon is the worst, God forbid I should be out of his sight. I might just leave him ya know. Are ya feelin me??? Well, we've been passing this stomach bug around and I just didn't feel well, so I decided try to take a nap but gave up after about the third time one of the kids came to ask a question or discuss something with me so then I decided to take a hot bath. It was at the end of Landon's nap so I took the baby monitor to the girls and said listen for him and get him if he wakes up. Well... I hadn't even got the tub filled when I hear the door knob rattling. I knew who it was because see he can open all the doors now so I bought those door knob locks for the bath rooms and outside doors. So he stands there and spins them. So I quickly turned off my water and thought if I be real quite he'll give up and think I'm not in here and go play. I know I'm a bad mommy. But instead this is what I heard...

Landon: whispering- "momma"; "Momma"; "Mommy"
Again but different in case I didn't hear the first ten times... "Moommaa";"MOMMA!" Spin, spin, spin, spin of the door handle.

Then I hear little pitter patter of his feet run off and I think okay good he gave up. But no, I hear him say, "Hey-Bear!" (that's what he calls Hailey, short for Hailey bear) "Hey-Bear mear!" "Hey-Bear mear!" But she gave him no response so he gave up and came back. I think he was trying to get her help to open the door but she wouldn't help him. So then, I heard him sit down by the door and then I saw his little fingers run under the door. I still never said a word. I know, bad bad mommy! Then this is what I heard...

whispering again... "o momma... I nee see u"
"o momma... pweez" "I nee see u"
tap tap tap on door ever so gently...

I was trying so hard not to giggle, be mad or jump up and open the door because he was so stinkin cute. But I really wanted just a few quite moments! I know I was being selfish!

still whispering and tapping ever so gently "momma, momma... pweez... i nee uuuu pweez momma!"

So what's a momma to do? I got out and let the poor baby in. I mean, it was bad, he nee see his momma! I open the door and he said, "o dere u r momma, I see u!" as he hugged me. What's a momma to do?