New beginnings!

Hey everyone,
I haven't been on in a really long time because when we moved I lost my login information! (I can be a bit forgetful!) Since the last time I posted there has been a LOT of BIG changes!
 First of all, we moved to a different house. It's not very big, but it is fine for us. We are renting, and our landlord is a pretty good guy. His son shares in the rental properties and he is a pretty good guy too. The neighborhood is nice and we like it here.
 We home schooled both of our boys through high school. Our oldest son, Riley, plays the drums in church, and is now married to our new daughter-n-law, Britney, and has a one year old daughter, Amaya, and a two year old son, Ayden, ....SO we are also getting used to being a Mother-n-law and Father-n-law and Papa and Memaw! We do love our children and our grandbabies! The only problem is, now Riley, Britney, and the babies are all getting ready to move to Texas! Now we have to get used to them all not being around! We sure are gonna miss them! It will seem weird without them here. I have a feeling there will be a few tears in the following days! :-) Riley and Britney are both 20 years old and are wanting to eventually be youth Pastors. We would appreciate your prayers for them as they go through this new transition in their lives that God will lead them, protect them, draw them closer to him...closer to each other....and closer to their loved ones. We would also like you to pray that God leads them to a great new church and great new jobs there that will support their little family. Riley does a great job on drawing, is interested in martial arts and spent several years doing martial arts, tumbling, and soccer when we lived in Arkansas. He also played baseball for a few years.
 Our younger son, Joshua, is 17 years old (almost 18) and he recently got his GED and is looking into going to ITT Tech in Tulsa Oklahoma. He is on the Teen advisory board for a Christian TEEN Magazine called Devozine. It is a devotional magazine for youth and youth Pastor's written by youth! Here is a statement from Josh: "I'm really looking forward to what God's going to be using me and my life for! So far I am a Teen Advisory Board member for Devozine [devozine.org] and a User Support Advocate for YouVersion [youversion.com], as well as having the honor and privilege of being a Junior Volunteer at Eternity Fraternity here in Wagoner! I can't wait to see what amazing things God has planned for me next! :D" Josh also runs the sound at our church, helps in the kids class, plays the bass guitar sometimes, ministers sometimes at our church and at the local Christian youth center, plays the drums sometimes, is an assistant coach/helper for our children's ministers five year old daughter's soccer team and sometimes helps with our fourteen year old daughter's soccer team as well. He also helps me some with our two daughter's homeschooling and online school. Joshua is dating our Children's minister's daughter, Amanda. They are a cute couple. Joshua is interested in graphic design, business administration, and things like that. When we lived in Arkansas, he played a lot of sports! He did tumbling, played soccer, basketball, and baseball. He helped the teacher a few times in Riley and my husband Roger's martial arts class. 
 Our oldest daughter, Stevie Jean, is 14 years old. She will be doing online school this year and will be in the 8th grade. She will be doing soccer both through the Wagoner soccer club and through the school. She leads our praise and worship at church, helps in the kids classes, loves music and loves to sing.She has a passion for photography, art, and pretty much anything creative! She has a heart for God and is a very giving young lady, full of compassion. She has her own blog which you can get to by clicking HERE . She also used to play soccer, do tumbling,  and play basketball and softball, when we lived in Arkansas. She loves to exercise and push herself! She promised her daddy she wouldn't have a boyfriend until she is at least 15 years old. 
 Our youngest daughter, Angel, is eleven years old and I am still homeschooling her. She likes to do photography too but is just learning how to do it. She likes to draw sometimes, plays soccer, and used to play soccer, basketball, and softball, and do tumbling when we lived in Arkansas. She plays the bongos in church sometimes and she can also play the regular drums and the electric drums a little. She is excited about doing school this year...I hope she keeps that attitude throughout the year!...it will make school much easier and more enjoyable. lol 
 Our big changes that we have had since last time I posted is that we moved to a new house, changed our churches name to Impact church, our oldest son, Riley, got married and has two babies...making us new grandparents, our son Josh got his GED and may be starting ITT Tech, our oldest daughter, Stevie Jean, is starting 8th grade online this Monday, and I am now down to homeschooling one child! I have had 4 children, plus usually many extra children, at home 24/7 for most of their lives!...This will be A big change for me to get used to! lol Also, my husband, Roger, got a new job at a Christian college. He also works a couple of days a week at a grocery store and Pastor's Impact Church.
 Well, I guess this catches us up on what has went on for the past couple of years since I last posted. I will try to post more often now! Hopefully, my post won't be so long next time due to not logging in for so long and I'll keep up with my login information this time! :-) God Bless you all and have a nice day! 

Peanut Butter Bread!

Peanut Butter Snack Bread... just apply a little jam, and who-la.... PB&J! lol


Okay so here is the recipe:

{this is for 1.5 lb. loaf}

* 1 c. water
* 3/4 c. dehydrated milk
* 1/3 peanut butter [I used crunchy]
* 1 egg
* 3 c. bread flour
* 2 Tsp. honey/agave/sugar (which ever you use)
* 3/4 tsp. salt
* 1 tsp. active dry yeast
* {optional 3/4 cup chopped peanuts}

I did not put in chopped peanuts, because I used crunchy peanut butter.
Yummy goodness!

Food Frenzy!!!

Hello,
My Daughter is just trying something new....She doesn't know how it will work out though.
If you want to see Her personal blog click here .
Food Frenzy is a place where you can share recipes or where you can get recipes from other bloggers I hope that you enjoy it and she does to ... and if you have any advice for Her that you think might help then please feel free to comment and I will tell her ☻ She will try to post new Recipes on the second Tuesday of every Month starting on May 11 ☻

The Day I wore My House Shoes To Church!

Thank you Peach for giving me the idea to write about this funny moment as a Pastor's wife!
I was getting ready for church a couple of months ago and I got completely dressed except for my shoes. I was waiting to put them on til the last minute! I was still going around comfy in my house shoes. My husband was getting ready and we were rushing our four children to hurry up and get ready as well. We had to take the church van around and pick up several members of our congregation and get back to the church in time for me to type up some papers in the office and print them out and for my husband to teach the teen Sunday school class. Well, everyone was finally ready and we rushed them out the door to the van. As my husband and I were walking out and locking the door behind us our eight year old daughter looked down at my feet and then she gave me a very funny look and said, "Mama, why are you still wearing your house shoes?" I looked down and gasped and said "I need back in the house". I quickly ran in and changed my shoes ☻ and we headed off to pick up those we needed to pick up and I was very thankful that my daughter noticed my shoes before we left! Of course, my husband couldn't wait to tell the congregation all about it! They thought it was hilarious! I thought they would never stop laughing and teasing me about it. A couple of weeks later my husband had me take my house shoes to church in a backpack and go out in the fellowship hall and change my shoes. Then he had me come in the sanctuary and walk up on the platform so everyone could see and get a good laugh!

Pajama Day
Well, I told you about the time I wore my house shoes to church so now I guess I better tell you about this past Sunday evening, when I almost walked out the door in my PAJAMAS! Yes, I did say "IN MY PAJAMAS!" ☻ We had our morning service and then a dinner at the church after morning service. It had been a long day so far, good but long! I had not been able to get much sleep the night before so I was pretty tired! Right when I almost fell asleep my husband told me it was time to get ready for church. We began to rush the children around to get ready and we headed off to our bedroom to change clothes ourselves. Well, somewhere along the way I got sidetracked. When I went into our room my husband was dressed and headed for the door so I turned around and followed him and said "come on kids it's time to go!" Then I looked down and realized I WAS STILL IN MY PAJAMAS! I quickly ran in and got my clothes and changed as my husband stood there and laughed at me. I looked at him and then I started laughing too. Our children didn't know anything about it this time until my husband told the congregation about it! Again, they laughed and thought it was pretty funny! My husband told the congregation that I'm trying to take "Come as you are" to a whole new level! ☻
The things us Pastor's wives go through!!! ♥lol♥

What do you do?

♣ As you all probably know St.Patrick's Day is on March 17 which is this coming Wednesday.
Will you be wearing green? ☻ Or are you going to be pinched? ☻
Do you decorate your house in Green?
Do you have a special dinner like the Irish do?
or do you act like its just another day?
↓ What I do ↓
♣ I WILL be wearing green because I do not like to be pinched lol ☻
♣ I might If I have The time ♣
♣ Me and my Family don't have a special dinner or anything but we do like to celebrate St. Patrick's Day ♣



♥ How do you celebrate Easter?♥
April 4th is Easter Sunday as you all Probably know ☻

What do you do ?
Do you color Easter eggs with your Family?
Do you decorate your house with paper Easter Eggs?
Do you do Resurrection eggs every night with your family?
Do you Read the Easter story to your kids?
Do you go to Easter morning service with your family and/or friends?
↓ WHAT ME AND MY FAMILY DO ↓
♥ We color Easter eggs with our family every year. ♥
♥We might decorate if we get a chance.♥
♥We do Resurrection eggs every year.♥
♥ We read the Easter Story to our kids and talk about how JESUS rose on the third day.♥
♥We always go to Church but especially on Easter Sunday.♥
↓REMEMBER↓
♥♥♥ It's not about the Candy or the eggs but it is about JESUS our savior dying on the CROSS and then RISING on the third day ♥♥♥

Well, here I am again. I can never think of anything to write about. I'm new to this whole blogging thing and right now I'm trying to learn how to do it and think of good things to blog about that others would be interested in. I am finding it really hard to try to juggle homeschooling, being a pastor's wife, health problems and all kinds of other things and still do a good job and get them all done. I feel like I'm overloaded and overwhelmed and am not doing good at anything. I'm sure some of you may have felt this way before also. I have several books that I've been thinking about writing but I can't seem to ever get enough time to get started. Whenever I do get a break it seems I'm so tired I just can't seem to get motivated to work on the books. I'm hoping to catch up with everything sometime and get started on those. :) However, I would like to talk about some positive things and not sound like I am complaining about everything, so, please give me some ideas of what you would like to see on my blog and I'll see if I can write them up and get them on here. I sure wish I knew more about blogging and how to come up with better blogging ideas.

First Time Blogger

Hello everyone! I am a first time blogger so it may take me a while to figure all this out. Hopefully I will be a quick learner. Maybe some of you can give me hints and tips on blogging. Maybe you can give me some ideas of what to write about. I hope I will be able to think of things to write that will make this blog interesting but I'm a little nervous that I won't know what to say on here. If you know me very well then you know I talk a lot so it's a little strange that I am nervous about not knowing what to say. LOL. As you know, I am a Pastor's wife and a Homeschool mom so just feel free to give me some ideas that you would be interested in hearing about.