Funny Friday

Because I missed last weeks Funny Friday, lets make this

week extra funny.

Ok this one made me crack up! Maybe because my maiden name is Stephens with a ph, but...yeah.
I enjoyed this.

 I hope you all had a great laugh at at least one of these bad boys.
I promise it is the best to find these when im lying in bed about to call it a night.
I probably laugh 100 times harder then if it was mid-day.

It's Good Friday guys, so make sure 
you also reflect on our awesome God who saved us.
Thank you Lord for blessing us with humor and being able to brighten our days with laugher and joy.

Have a great weekend and Easter everyone.

1Timothy

This is the book I have been feeling God calling me to read as of lately and I am greatly enjoying it. I can not stress enough how important I feel it is to be spending quite time with the Lord every day. For some of you it may be easiest in the mornings, others at night. For me, I would have to say night time is easiest though lately I do it during Katies nap time. I always find myself refreshed and ready to face the next hour of my day. haha.
I want to share with you guys the prayer I had on my heart this morning.
It truly was what I need & I felt like God provided.
So, other women ( mamas or not) here ya go


Dear Jesus,
Thank you for today. Help me to find beauty in this day.
Give me the strength I need to get through the challenges that this day may bring forth.
Help me to have the grace and patience that today will require. Flood me with your calmness and
gentle spirit. I pray Lord that when I talk people would hear you and not me. Let it be your words on my lips.

Help me to be a good mother to my child. Help me be a good wife to my husband.

Show me what this means in the plans you have set for my life.
I give today to you.

Thank you for being by my side.

Amen.

Do you have quiet time with the Lord?
How's it going?
Any awesome devotion books I should know about?
leave a comment and let me know.
& as always, Happy Happy Hump day y'all.

This babe fell asleep on daddy last night.
Look at the cuteness.
P.S
Today is Troys birthday and I am beyond excited for a dinner out tonight.

I'm also super stoked because last year Katie was only 5 months old on his birthday and now at 17 almost 18 months she will be greeting her daddy with a big "hap-eee bur-day!"
;)

Weekend Recap: More birthday fun

I know, I know, I know.
I didn't post a Funny Friday last week.

Esh!
But, I will be bringing double the trouble (of funny that is) this Friday.

This weekend I had a nice little birthday party planned for Troy.
We went out for breakfast to the Crackle Barrel first thing Saturday morning, and then I sent him off to go Golfing.
He and a few buddies went to Fossil Trace Golf Course in Golden, CO.
It is a beautiful place. They did all 18 holes are finished up around 4pm.

During this time, Katie and I went on a little mommy daughter lunch date to our favorite place.
Chick-fil-a of course. ;)


Then we went to DQ and bought a delicious looking ice cream cake, and ran home to put it in the freezer ASAP.
You wouldn't believe me if I said on Saturday It was 70 degrees and then now, Sunday, It has been a high of 30 all day and snowing. Boo, no fun.
Katie and I then ventured to the party store to pick up some balloons to make the party snazzy! lol.
We had the get together with some friends and family at an amazing Pizzeria.
We spent about 3 hours or so just eating some deliciously good pizza and the DQ cake.
look at this delicious beauty.


I was so glad that I  could bless my man with a nice day & a nice evening.
He deserves it.

Don't be surprised to hear about more birthday fun, this Wednesday is Troy's actual birthday and I am taking him out for a yummy meal, and then the following Wednesday, he is going to the

Switchfoot concert!!!

Y'all, Switchfoot is a big name in this house.

They sing our life basically. lol

More pictures of our beautiful weekend.

If you follow me on instagram, you know I got some yummy goodness this weekend.

A red ball is serious fun!



How was your weekend?

When's the last time you...

Shared the Gospel?
Is that question too personal? I really don't mean it to be but, it is an important one to ask.
And trust me, I am asking myself. A lot.
In my last post I talked about being at my grandmothers house for a birthday party. My great grandmother who is 92! lives there as well.  Backtracking to a few weeks ago, I remember thinking "I wonder if my great grandma knows about Jesus." I must have forgotten about that thought, totally the Holy Spirit speaking to me, and I moved on with my day. Well, Saturday night before I fell asleep I found myself thinking again, "Does great grandma know about Jesus?" I didn't know but I knew I should find out. So fast forwarding to 5pm on Sunday I was saying goodbye to my GG.
I was standing there feeling the Holy Spirit telling me to talk to her about Him. And guess what guys... I froze. It seemed like once I wanted to talk to her alone everyone in that house was crowding around us. And before I knew it I found myself walking out the door and driving down the road.
Later that night I was talking to Troy about it and he said he knew I wanted to talk to her about Jesus. Say wha?
Yep,  he told me he could tell by how I was looking at her, that my face  said " I'm not sure when or if I will be seeing you again." I continued to tell him about the calling I felt God putting on my heart and how yet again, today I did nothing. He encouraged me to call her the next morning. Well, I finally was able to on Tuesday and 100% glory to God He gave me the strength to talk to her. Once again I could feel his presence in the situation. My grandmother called me at 12pm to talk to me about the numerous things we left at their house. I knew this was my opportunity. So, I told her to put my GG on the phone.
My GG is starting to struggle with Alzheimer's and Dementia. While this is extremely sad, Troy reassured me that during the time I was talking to her about Jesus, God would allow her mind to be clear and process what I was saying.
I said "Do you know who Jesus is?"
and...
She said "Oh yes, and I hope he knows me too."
Guys I was so happy to hear those words come from the mouth of my great grandmother who is 92 years of age!
We talked about heaven for a moment and then she started encouraging me and thanking me for asking her.
I was so blessed by the conversation.

You know, as a christian the most important thing we can do is tell people about Jesus.
It really is dealing with Life or Death.
Eternal Life and Death.


So, If any one stumbles across my blog and wonders what is this whole Christianity thing,
allow me to have the honor of explaining.

It is a relationship with Jesus.
& this is why.


God created us to be with him.
As one. hand in hand.
But,  sadly we sinned. humankind sinned.
That seperated us from the perfect God.
That sin, cannot be removed by good deeds.
We can't work our way back to Him.
God knew this.

So he sent his Son Jesus Christ.
& Jesus payed the eternal price for our sins by dying on the cross for us.
Jesus rose from the grave 3 days later.
He is alive today and seated on His throne in heaven.
He offers us eternal life.
Eternal life means being in heaven with God forever and ever.
Life that is eternal because we are eternal beings.
& if you except that Jesus died for you and ask him to come into your heart and be your savior and forgive you for your sins.
He will.
& it is done.
=)


I encourage you to not stop there, but to continue to live your life for him.

Spend time in prayer.
All prayer is, is communication with God.
& Go out, buy a bible or find one somewhere and read.
The bible is the word of God that he has given to us.


If you have any questions about Christianity or
Any awesome praise reports about a time God used you to tell someone about him,
message me or leave a comment below.

Have a beautiful Wednesday.
We are enjoying weather in the 70's over here!

Weekend Recap: Baseball, birthdays and late nights

This weekend seemed to fly by so quickly.

The highlight of our entire Saturday was going to the schools Baseball game. Katie had so much fun watching the batters. One of the parents brought their extremely friendly golden retriever and Katie was OBSESSED.
Here's a picture I was able to snap of Troy and Katie at the field.




On Sunday we had a relaxing morning at church and then we were out the door on our way to my grandmothers house.
We had a joined birthday party for my sister (Jennie) and Troy. The afternoon was filled with laughter and love. It is so nice to see all my family. Troy and I live about 30 minutes away from everyone so it doesn't happen that often. Katie ran out of energy around 3pm, she was lacking on the sleep side of things. She took one nap at the end of Church and that was it. So we called it quits around 5pm and headed back home.
Katie slept on the drive home, phew, and we quickly ran inside, grabbed our bunny (Budee) and headed back out to go to our friends house. We are involved in running the Youth group at our church with them. So we had a nice meeting and then we were just able to hang out and watch our kids play. We ordered Chinese food at like 9pm (no joke) and stayed until 11! I truly believe we are crazy for keeping a 17 month old out so late. I mean seriously, she is used to going to bed around 8:30.
Anyways, we finally were in bed and asleep by 11:30 and the Monday sunshine was peeking through the window in a matter of minutes it seemed.

How was your weekend?

Funny Friday

It's Friday guys!
You know what that means, time to laugh!
& get ready for weekend activities.


Haha, this one is too funny. & once again, if you guys haven't seen the Lego movie yet, you totally should.







so true right?

Haha, this one explains itself. (literally)


Did you enjoy a good laugh?
Any gut busters?
Trust me, when I go through these at 11pm, I am crying with laughter at every one of them.
lol.
I hope you all are off to have one fantastic weekend!
I am patiently waiting as these Colorado days heat up more and more.
Slowly but surely.
I'm thinking a good pool visit will be in our weekend agenda.
What's on your list?

Has this ever happened to you?

Have you ever experienced a random act of kindness from a complete stranger?  Something that just put a smile on your face for the rest of the day. 

 I have encountered a few pleasant people at restaurants who have given me a drink for free and lately it seems that people are really into giving Katie free things. A few weeks ago we were out at lunch when the gentleman who owned this restaurant decided he wanted to give Katie a free cookie of her choice,  a huge sticker and a fake tattoo.  We put the tattoo on her arm before we left and they snapped a few pictures of her cuteness.
She is by far the cutest advertising I have ever seen. Lol.

All that being said, the other day I was driving home and decided while Katie was asleep in the back,  I would sneek by the Starbucks drive thru. Randomly, as I was driving I thought "I should pay for the person behind me." Well, now I'm like "Ok God, was that from you? Should I pay for whoever drives up behind me?" I decided I would. Plus it was April fools day and so I figured it would be nice to surprise someone with something happy and when the employee says "that woman payed for your drink" they would think, " yeah right,  April fools." But no, really I did.  Lol -in hopes that it would totally make their day. 

Any who,  as I was pulling into the drive thru I noticed that their intercom was broken and you had to order, pay and receive your drinks all through the same window. There was no way I could really pay for the person behind me. So, I figured ok Lord,  next time.  (Heads up for anyone who wants to be behind me next time I head to Starbucks. Lol.)

I was unable to spread some stranger kindness yesterday but I look forward to doing it soon.
I really enjoy it when people you don't know or wouldn't necessarily expect to be kind and generous, are exactly that.  

Let me know if you have ever done a random act of kindness for someone or if they have for you. 

How did it change your outlook on the day? 

=)

Enjoy some of my babes beauty.
These are from different days obvi (look at the shirts)
but none the less, she looks fabulous.




She fell asleep with her head still in the upright position.
Too cute.
(yes, she that is a balloon string, she loves her balloons and one must always travel with us.)

Happy happy hump day!