Sunday, June 29, 2008

Unspoken prayer request!

Hey guys
We just wanted to ask you to lift us up in prayer. We have a situation that has been dropped in our pathway and we need to pray for guidance with this situation. We know God has our backs but we want to do GOD's will not our will and we want our judgement not to be clouded. We want and pray for HIS guidance in this matter.
We will share as soon as we can with everyone. PLEASE pray if we have ever needed your prayers it is now:)
Thanks ahead.
Billie, Robbie and Rylie

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Love one another!


Here are some pictures of our Rylie Bug to share ...she is growing way to fast for her daddy and mommy...She is a trip...she tells you "I ash a tutu laaaaaveu nost" translated " I absolutly love you most" It is so cute how she says it. Kelly she also says "soup" for bathing suit like your boys. She thinks everyday she is going to the beach or pool. I try to tell her beach days are over for awhile and pool days are only when mommy is off, but telling that to a 22 month old is fruitless...
I wanted to share some thoughts on our message at church today ...

Love one another that was our topic of discussion from Jeff today at church. Love one another and God really brought it home to me today. It is easy to tell someone that you love them. I shake people's hand ALL day long at work. I am around people ALL day when I work and it is easy to tell some people that you love them, but sometimes it is not as sincere as it needs to be. For instance at church we all have been guilty of saying how are things or how are you doing..hey love you brother/sister and then keep walking barely giving some people the time to answer. We get caught up in the world around us. However God tell us to LOVE one another
John 13: 34-35
A NEW command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this ALL men will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.
It is here that he instructs us to love EVERYONE no matter the color, where they are from or who they are....WHY because He commands it and also because he loved us so much that he GAVE his LIFE for us...that is how much He loved us....and if we love one another then that is how people will know that we are HIS...not by how much we attend church or how much we give all those things are of course important but it is about how we love one another.
Now that is the easy part to love...here comes the hard part for some....
Luke 6:31-32
do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of them Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
There it is....it is so much harder to love on your enemies but that is what He commanded for us to do. There will be times whe nwe are scammed by people but that is not our worry God will take care of that for us and be our vindicator....we just must do as He commands and LOVE!!
I was just really moved by our message today and thought I would share...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

check out this you tube cardboard confessions

Check this out....Thanks to Kim for sharing...This is awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvDDc5RB6FQ

God Bless have a great day!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Our vacation to the beach


We went to Myrtle Beach this past week. We stayed in a 3BR, 2Bath full kitchen condo with Ellen and Brett (aka GiGI and Popa). We had not been to Mrytle in over 10 years and it was a nice trip. There was hardly any one there. It was nice to go to restaurants and there be no lines. The only time there was a small line was when we went to the aquarium and even then it was not that bad.
When we pulled up in parking garage we said we are here at the beach and I really think that Rylie thinks that the parking garage is the "beach" because she called the ocean "awa" (water) . Thankfully she LOVED the water, especially the heated lazy river. She got on her small float and just floated around the pool. She did so great this week. You know you worry about being away from her bed and trying to potty train, but she was a trooper she had one poopy in her little swimmers, because she didn't want to go in to the restroom. ( Rest assured she pooped out of the pool in her lil swimmers...thank God). We were so proud of her. She feed some fishes and some ducks at the aquarium.
Also the ocean aka "awa" was a tad bit cold so you should have seen all of us digging her out her own personal pool out in the sand and then filling it with water. She thought she was something else in there. Popa and Daddy was at her beck and call at the beach if she wanted more "awa" then they fetched it for her. It was funny. I have a lot more pictures to share but haven't had time to down load them as of yet. It is crazy I took SOOOO many pictures this time...she was just too funny this time around. She is getting such a personality and man it shows.
We had a great vacation, but as with all vacation they are just too short:( and of course we ate entirely too much....
Also this is a praise report for us as well. Robbie and I did the Dave Ramsey classes through our church and have been trying to budget and save as much as we can. It is a LONG process we didnt get into debt overnight and it will not go away overnight. Dave Ramsey would be proud in a way and then again not be proud of us. But we are proud of ourselves. We budgeted and paid cash for the entire vacation this year everything paid for. This is the first time we EVER paid cash for EVERYTHING....Dave would be proud of that, however he would probably had said stay at home, and not go and take that money and put on your debt...but we REALLY wanted to go somewhere for awhile. It was nice to get away for awhile and spend some QUALITY time together as a family. Kelly I know you are feeling me:)
We just pray that God continues to watch over our finances so that we can get out of debt and be able to do God's will with our money when he calls us to. We want to be able to be a blessing to others.

I take Rylie back for a follow up appt tomorrow...please pray for health and healing for Rylie she has had a rough time with that little bug she had.