Aren't these raspberries beautiful, this is another of God's blessing to me. I purchased three flats of raspberries for $13.00. That was a steal. I was so excited that I made freezer jam and froze some of them and then I am saving some to make a pie. I can tast it now. Yum.

Emily and Alex are "helping" me cook supper. It sure made for an interesting experience in the kitchen. And don't worry if you should ever come to eat at my home, I do disintfect my countertops. They always teach you to wash your hands when working in the kitchen but no one said anything about washing your feet. :>}

I have been having a rough few days between just not feeling as eneretic as I would like and the kids seems to be in rare form so I got out my book of Bible answers for every need and started to look for something with reference to frustration or dealing the kids and just couldn't find what I wanted. The book did open to Thankfulness and I started reading there and then I went to the subject of Praising God and I found these verses. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised. Psalms 113:3 This is not a request or a suggestion but a directive, telling us this is what we are to do, there is also this verse; Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Psalm 150:6 God is so good and I have much to be thankful about and I want to always praise the Lord even in the time when I don't feel so great or am having a rough day with cranky kids. I want to always be ready to praise God no matter what.

Praise the Lord, praise his Holy Name

He is merciful and gracious

He is almighty

He is bigger than our problems

He will never let us down

Lets just praise the Lord

God's Many Blessings

Everyone can look around them and see the many blessings that God has given us, even in the midst of a time when things look bleak with inflation of gasoline, food, or anything you might need to buy. God has given me such a peace during this time of having less, but in reality he has given me so much more. He supplies my every need, he even gives me the desires of my heart. This summer the Lord has helped me to try and see the ways I can lessen the financial burden on our family and he has given me resources that I would never have come across without his intervention. Recently a friend of mine called me and told me she had someone with flats of strawberries very inexepensive, I was able to get 2 flats and make strawberry freezer jam, now I don't have to buy the expensive store strawberry jam. Another blessing is the how God is making my garden to grow and start to produce wonderful vegetables. I picked a cucumber(a favorite) longer than my forearm, I also had a wonderful zucchini that long also and I lost no time making 2 loaves of delicious zucchini bread out of half of it the rest will be delicious with our supper. If you want to try something really good grill your zucchini, oh so delicious and healthy. My garden also is holding the promise of many tomatoes and peppers. I am so thankful for what the Lord is doing for us. I took some pictures to show you the blessings God has given.

I should not fail to mention the Lord has opened doors for me to find ways to get the kids school curriculum at a discount and free shipping, this is also something he destinctly promised to me that he would take care of this for me. In the past I have been someone who would fret and worry about everything. I would worry about my kids all the time, when I was with them or away. I felt I had to push to what I wanted or needed because if I didn't it would never happen and now with God in control I can relax and no that when the time is right he will let me know and give me a peace I could never have understood before. The Lord is wonderful and his ways are beyond my understand but always right on time. Praise the Lord for his many blessings.

The following slideshow has some pictures of the kids at my Aunt Charlene's having fun dressing up as a clown. Also some pictures of Megan's b-day. Another fun day was at the Creation Museum with their friend Korty Frankenberry. I hope you enjoy. Oh, yeah also our afternoon with Tim and Christal.

Happy Fourth of July

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalianable right; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness . . .

This is such a great day in our history to remember when our forefathers of this country came together to take a stand and declare their independence. It was not only political freedom they desired but freedom to serve God as they so desired. As we all know those freedoms are so precarious to us at this time as the changes in our government and the evil forces out their who do not want the Church of Jesus Christ to florish and proclaim the Gospel of the One Who Died for our sins. As it says in Romans 8:35-39 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Therein lies our true freedom. Our freedom is in Christ and without Him we have no freedom.

Not only celebrate in merriment and festivities but also pray for our country and thank him for the freedoms we have at this time.

God Bless America!