Pictures Outside in the Backyard

Here are some pictures Eric and I took of Connor yesterday outside.

Pool Time.. once again.

So Tara and I went to our pool today.. it was fun... what was great about it, is that school is back in session now and we had the pool to ourselves.. it was nice. All summer the pool typically has been packed with people. Connor seemed to really enjoy it. I had him in chest depth and he was just a moving around like he wanted to swim... I think I should seriously look into swimming classes for him... as well as bigger swimming trunks... these got pretty small pretty quickly.

Photo Shoot

Connor is being so cute today; I just had to take pictures!... Enjoy!

Sleepy Connor

So I have been meaning to take a picture of this. I am sorry it is such a dark picture; I didn't want to wake him from his morning nap. He is just so cute sleeping with his rear in the air. He has been sleeping like this for awhile now... how cute!

News Flash

I am sorry that I haven't posted pictures lately, time has gone by so quickly. Eric and I are planning on going to the pool within the next couple of days.. where we will take some pictures. I am so glad that he is finnally home; he was gone for 10 days, home for 5 days and then back out for another 10 days., needless to say.. we are just so happy that he is home we don't think to take pictures.. just enjoy eachothers company.... for as long as the Navy permits. Atleast he has changed his job within the Navy that has left him with a less stressful job. Please pray for him, it has been really hard on him being away from me and his son.

Quick Quote

Here is a quick quote from our Church bulletin:
"Isn't it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don't want to believe, do, or say anything to get there? "

Salvation

Why should one be saved?

"What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"
Romans 3:9-10 KJV

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
Romans 5:12 KJV

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"
Romans 6:23 KJV

How is one saved?

Admit that you are a sinner

"Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Romans 3:23-24 KJV

Believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins.

"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Romans 10:9 KJV

Receive Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour.

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him"
Romans 5:8-9 KJV

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
Romans 10:13 KJV

Salvation is a free gift to anyone who is willing to accept it, without any works on our part.... time is so short. As God's word says:

"Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."
James 5:8 KJV

"Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. "
Luke 12:40 KJV

"Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is."
Mark 13:31-33 KJV

"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh."
Matthew 25:13

There will come a time, where there is no time left to be saved. Anything could happen? We are not guaranteed tomorrow.. we are only guaranteed the present. I pray for ALL of my family and friends (and other's I do not know) this day, that are not saved. This has weighed heavy on my heart for some time and a grieve for those that I may not see in Heaven. If you don't believe in Jesus or Heaven have you considered the thought that you may be wrong? Are you that certain that you really want to take that chance with your life?

Comforting Words to My Troubled Heart

I love how God's words speak to my heart
so I can understand why things are the way
they are.

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?" Matthew 5:44-46 KJV


"Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Leviticus 19:18 KJV

"That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5:39 KJV


"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "
Matthew 5:10 KJV

"If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified."
1 Peters 3:14 KJV

"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake"
Matthew 5:39 KJV

"Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my names sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed." Isaiah 66:5 KJV

"The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. " Psalms 18 :2 KJV

"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." John 12:25 KJV

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. "
Ephesians 4: 17-32 KJV

Family PIctures

Here are some family pictures that we have had taken since Eric has come back from deployment. .. enjoy!

For those of you that live in Florida...... and others as well.

I was just watching the news and this is a story here in Jacksonville.

NEWS ARTICLE

"A Jacksonville church's website is causing quite a stir on it's stance on same sex marriage.

It's created a website where all the names of the people signing the Florida marriage protection amendment are publicly displayed.

That amendment would have defined marriage as the union between a man and a woman.

A local gay-friendly church is holding a press conference to respond to the national media coverage over the publishing of names of people who signed the anti-family marriage protection amendment in Florida.

Christ Church of Peace, a congregation of less than 200 members in Jacksonville, Fla., has become the David to the Goliath petition supporters in the discussion on equal civil and political rights for all the citizens of Florida.

Of the 611,009 signatures necessary to place the amendment on the November 2006 ballot, only 455,363 were gathered by the February 1, 2006, deadline. However, the group sponsoring the petition initiative, florida4marriage.org, continues in its efforts to obtain the additional signatures needed to place the issue before voters in 2008.

The church's website is causing a stir in Jacksonville, as it lists all the names of people who've signed a petition in favor of banning same-sex marriages in Florida.

The website was launched last Monday by the Christ Church of Peace in Riverside. Church leaders say the website isn't meant to target or intimidate people whose names are on it. They say it's just a way for their congregation to reach out to those they may know on the list and talk about the issues.

Reverend Gary DeBusk says, "We felt that it was time that another side of the Christian voice is heard, the more progressive side that's about Christ’s love for all people. I would hope what we're doing would help fair minded Floridians to really think through and even if they have problems with gays, this isn't a gay issue, this isn't an equality issue, it's a civil rights issue."

MY THOUGHTS

It irritates me that the news media is calling this initiative anti-family. It sounds to me that it is anything but. It irritates me that people that call themselves Christians and are for gay marriage is that not oxymoronic? However more and more churches are going that way so they can appeal to more people.. and ultimately more people comes more money and isn't the love of money the root to all evil... to you see where I am going with this? How can a "Christian church" go directly against the bible they say they believe in... they must only believe some of the bible and just ignore the other parts of the bible. So these churches/denominations that are doing this I believe, are confusing the public on what Christianity is all about.

GOD’S WORD (THE KING JAMES BIBLE)

"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobediance. Be not ye therefore partakers with them" Ephesians 5: 6-7 KJV

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would PREVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.
But through we, or an angle from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.
For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servent of Christ." Galations 1:6-10 KJV

"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination" Leviticus 20:13 KJV

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine: but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teahers having itching ears: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3-4 KJV

AFTERTHOUGHTS

Check out this website http://florida4marriage.org/ and please sign and send in the petition to keep marriage in Florida only between a man and a woman. I know that this world is going to hell, but at least we can try to make it better until the roll is called up yonder!

Family Portraits.. Finally!

My Connor in his Crib

Hang'in out with Daddy

I am so blessed to have a wonderful husband and such an adorable, good little boy, I love them so!

Feeding Time

Hi there again.. feeding time at the Peter's Residence. Eric and I are trying to start solids with Connor... but he doesn't seem to really catch on... so we resorted back to the bottle. I guess it will just take time. Perseverance is the key :)