This past weekend we went to Lotte World. It is an indoor and outdoor amusement park, we of course stayed inside only with the teen weather setting in. It was fun for the little bit of time we were there. We went after 4 when it is really cheap and got to ride a few rides and Audrey had a good time in kiddie land playing. Didn't get her on any rides this time but she loved the play areas. So much to climb on and you can visit Cinderellas house and other fairytale lands. She loved the play area with big giant trees and bears and even a very large Alice to climb on.
Some of you know that our car finally died around Christmas. We needed to make a choice on if we were going stateside to pick up the Volvo or just get another car here to make it through 1 more year. After saying out loud how much it would cost for fights, registration and travel to get the car from CO to TX we decided to get another junker. Collin found a 98 Chairman that was being sold from a COL he works with and scooped it up. I didn't get a chance to see it until the next day but when I did I was pleasantly surprised. It is old and run down looking and again no CD player but it is not difficult to see that back in its day it was a luxury car or as a W5 put it "A gangster car." White on the outside and black leather on the inside with a brown marble like trim for the center console. It comes with built in sun shades on both back windows and the review mirror which Audrey greatly appreciate! Oh yeah, and a bonus we found out after committing to the car.... those black leather seats are heated! Hey it might be a junker just to get us through the year but it is a nice junker.
And a made a plan for me at the end of the year. I always break my "I want to lose weight in the new year" Idea. I usually can't stick with it but mostly I just never get into a good routine and before I know it it's October again and I figured with the holidays it is time to forget it and get ready for next year. Well late December I made a plan to start eating better and taking care of myself better. I figured if I started before Jan 1 I would already be in a routine and if I didn't set a weight goal and just set a goal of being healthier then I currently am then I really can't go wrong. Well, I know it is still early but I am losing weight, working out, and eating healthier. (Which by the way eating healthy is expensive.) Here we are well into January and I am NO WHERE NEAR FAILING!
As some of you know we have been having some difficulties settling down in a church. Well we think we found our temporary church home. It is Chapel on base. It couldn't be closer then what we are looking for. It is a good size church not big but not small and it has a nursery nursery. In fact as soon as we walk into the nursery Audrey and Miss Kim are busy in play. I don't even have a chance to finish signing her in before I am forgotten for the next hour, and that is fine by me. There is a place where I feel so safe to leave my daughter and I know she is happy. On our first Sunday there she cried when I picked her up to leave. Made my heart smile. There are 2 services that we would attend at this church. The early service has 2 pastors who rotate out and I of course have my favorite already and the great thing is, is that if we miss the early service there is a second service that we like almost as well. Many of the qualities that second service holds, is that of Collins liking. I like it just fine too but, I will be making an extra effort on Sundays to get up and get going to the early service.
One thing that blew me away from the second service is that there is a large amount of leadership in the church. It is just great to see that we have these high ranking decision making leaders in the Lords house!
On the first Sunday of the year we did something very cool. We all got a piece of paper and we were to write things on that piece of paper that we wanted to make right with in the new year! It could be the name of someone who we have trouble dealing with, someone who has hurt us, or burdened us and we just can't get over them or forgive them. You could right down things that you wanted to rid your life of like anger, lying, swearing. Anyway after we wrote these things down we were to walk up front, when ready, and set our papers on fire. Once we had a good flame we were to drop it into a pan so that it could burn and our burdens could be given up to the Lord. This was what I thought genius and a great way to start off the new year! Now some of you may have an idea of things I wrote down. Some of you are probably right. One of the topics on my list, yes I made a small list, I have been battling for awhile now. Well this past week I got my healing! The battle is over! Its amazing the things that can happen when you let go and let God! Sometimes we often think that we see healing or deliverance in others lives, and no matter how hard we pray we ever get delivered from our hardships. It's easy being a Christian and seeing others get the answers. Sometimes though you just need to give up trying and tell God that you can't fight it anymore. You can't deal with the anger, the stress, the addictions, the co worker anymore and let Him know you are handing it all over to him. I know I did and the chains of my biggest burden has been lifted!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
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