Please Pray for Shawnna..............

Hey Blog friends this is Jeremy (Kelly's Husband) writing again but unfortunately not under celebratory circumstances this time. For those of you who have been reading Kelly's blog you have been praying for her friend Shawnna. She has survived breast cancer, liver cancer, and brain surgery among many other things over the past few years. Tonight Kelly received a phone call from another one of her college roommates letting her know that Shawnna has been in the hospital since yesterday and the doctors have said she has total liver failure. Kelly is on her way being driven by a great friend to be at Shawnna's bedside for her final few moments on this side of eternity. The doctors have said that she may not make it through the night but if she does she won't make it much longer. Please be in prayer for Shawnna's family, her 3 precious little girls and Kelly and her friends who are traveling to be with her. We don't have any other details at the moment but we will keep you updated as we find out more info. Thanks for your prayers.

Jeremy

Promised Pics......................................

As you can see, our first snow day was a great success. Cross certainly enjoyed the "sledding" and J I am sure enjoyed carrying him back up the hill. We had a little bit of a fit on the way in as the frost bite was of no concern for a playing boy. A sippy cup full of warm chocolate made things all better! Happy Snow Day everyone!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!!!!!

Hey Blog world! For those of us in the good ol' state of Tennessee, we are watching and praying (with a month's worth of groceries and a back up heating plan in tack) for the snow to keep on fallin! The weather said we may get 8 INCHES! I don't know what we will do if that really happens, but I promise, pictures will come!!!!!! Cross has never seen a "real" snow and I can't wait. He just went down for his nap a bit ago and I am hoping that when he wakes in a few hours that he will get the shock of his life. Did I mention pictures already, oh yes, pictures, scrapbook worthy ones, will be coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those were for all of you exclamation haters! hahhaha

It also occurred to me that any home town girls who were going to be stuck at home for possibly a month (please know the level of "freak out" we get around here) that you might enjoy a longer blog to pass the time and I just happen to have a longer one a brewing. I am thinking I just may have the time to knock it out. Both my babies are asleep, Snick close beside and Cross a little further away. I am looking out the living room window and it is now certain, my neighbor's roof is WHITE. Oh and did I mention I have some chili going? I know, I am so Martha!!!! I feel like a school kid I am so gitty.

Speaking of "giddy" and this is about as far off of the subject as one gal could travel, but I must share a new amount of joy and grace that God has dumped on our home and it is called "Cars" yes the movie! YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF............Mater is your new best friend and you can now quote the entire movie and it makes every bit of your heritage seem somehow amazingly wonderful. If you aren't from the south, you cannot fully appreciate all of the jokes and sayings, but Mater says at one point that "he useta cood whistle and he could get low on omm pappa mow mow ". Now, I am betting few people reading will even know what the heck I am talking about, but this southern heart has never laughed so hard in her ENTIRE life. That is actually from a song called "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys just in case you were wondering and I had to google it just to get my spellings correct and found an amazing version of it on youtube that I started to share until I noticed that the concert was in a church, but they had set aside a "dancing section" and then it was even too redneck for me!

Ok, where was I, oh yes, deep, insightful blog......................It will be difficult to reign you back in I know, but I love wisdom. Not just Mater wisdom, real nuggets of wisdom that make life so much easier and often cause it to make so much more sense. Often times wisdom tells you the "whys" in life or the "I knew their had to be a better way" and the Word constantly calls us to seek wisdom. So I thought I would share some with you guys. Not any of my own. I am only the young age of 30 so I don't have a lot of my own (regardless of my know it all ways). This is real wisdom, from real brothers and sisters in Christ that God has used to bless my life this past year so I just thought it for sure couldn't hurt to share. I will put them in list form as I am sure some of you are still dancing and singing.......

"My heart's on fire Elvira Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow"

Please don't hold this against me! hahhahhahaha

Ok, I can't do it, I am laughing so hard that even I can't get serious. So deep, wisdom packed blog to come, but for today................

Giddy Up
K

Father Daughter Purity Ball

Hey gang, many of you know that I am back at the Hope Pregnancy Center (may never be able to leave all together) and am working on the Father Daughter Purity Ball. I am calling all parents of (or anyone you know who is a parent of) girls ages 6th-12th grade. Our younger night is full, but there is PLENTY of room left in our older night and I just can't stand the thought of having this awesome evening, awesome night to build memories and make new commitments and not tell the whole Clarksville world to please come! The event is next week, Feb 6th and all the details can be found at www.friendsofclarksvillehope.com. Please go online and register or send this note to anyone you know who has a teenage daughter. Also, please be in prayer for this entire event! The Lord uses it in a mighty way. It is life changing. And we need HIM to prompt dad's to take their sweet teenage daughters!

Because of Him,
Kelly

Happy Birthday Ad!

I had to write and wish our sweetest niece a very Happy Birthday. It was actually yesterday, but we went out for dinner last night at a Japanese restaurant with a hibachi grill (fine taste she has might I add) so I wanted to make sure I had fun pics. If you look closely you will also notice a nice new set of pierced ears. The Bullock milestone of age 10 to get your ears pierced has now been met and she is the proud owner of a new set of girly necessities! Ad, I couldn't be more thankful to the Lord for allowing me to watch you grow into such a fine young lady! He has a great plan for your life and don't you ever forget it!!!!!!!!

Love,

KK

Hey Ya'll....................................

As my husband sits beside me screaming at the football game I thought this would be the perfect time to say hello. It is continuing to be brought to my attention about my overuse of exclamation points, so this will be the blahest blog I have ever written. I am determined not to be excited about anything and am using no exclamation points in this blog if it kills me. Oops, this will take a lot of backspacing. It just comes natural. So, the hubs and I have been on an amazing get-a-way this past weekend..........oh no, Bret Favre just lost, now there is much frustration brewing in our bed. Can you believe that the pilot on our trip home today gave an update on the game every 15 minutes and when we arrived in Nashville every male in the entire airport was crowded around a television. Guys are so weird!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, that's as long as I could make it! I was getting depressed!

So back to my trip, God is good, that is where we will start and that most certainly requires an exclamation point times two!! He rolled out the red carpet for J and I to take a long weekend trip (alone, no kiddo) to Texas! We had the perfect combo of time with some of our dearest friends who live in Houston. J got tons of guy time while I snuck away and spent a night at a little Beth Moore event with a great friend Emily. And then finally, the hubs and I drove to Dallas and spent the night in a super fancy hotel and went to church this a.m. at the none other than Gateway Church. The one I am constantly begging you guys to sign on and be blessed by their messages. The entire trip could not have been more perfect. I was more than thrilled to get back to my sweet baby boy who had most certainly grown an entire two inches no doubt in one short weekend.

I have thought about you all a million times. I was wondering how I could put Beth's entire teaching on a single post, but I will refrain. She even totally convicted me about "passing things on" before we even allow them to be pressed into our own hearts so I am going to refrain and make sure these things God is teaching me are pressed in tightly before I pass them along! I will say I am reading an amazing book........

"Secrets of the Secret Place" by Bob Sorge

I will equally refrain from posting about 100 quotes from that book and promise that I am attempting to press all of it in as well. I will say, it would do every Christian a whole heap of good to get this book, read it, and press it in daily for the rest of our lives. Well the midnight hour of 10:00 p.m. is quickly approaching so I better sign off. I love you all and I can't leave without telling you a line from a song we sang this morning.

He died the Lamb and rose the King.........................

K

Also, that is the Minute Maid Park that we got to tour and please make a close observation of the sunshine. I think I failed to mention that it was 75 while we were in Texas! Thank you JESUS!

And please tell me that someone else's husband was grumbling mightly over the ice skating that is now on television so that I will know for certain that I am not the only one! CRANKY

And yes, his sweet post a few weeks back most certainly did get him husband of the YEAR!

Ok, I'm really getting off now, nite, nite!