Crazy Love Gamble-Style

On Sunday, I was asked to speak at our church (IN FRONT OF EVERYONE!!) about the lessons God has taught me through running and how it has strengthened my faith.  First off I was sweating buckets, I was so nervous!  I am not a fan of public speaking, it is not really part of my skill set.  I was terrified. Somehow, I got through it, here is what I said: Three years ago I could never have imagined myself running at all, much like pastor Terry, I saw it as a torturous thing to be avoided at all costs.  I was forty pounds heavier, with terrible asthma & three pins in my hip, it's just not something I could imagine myself being able to do. The Lord helped me push past all of that, and as I became a runner, I started to see that I was the only one holding myself back.   I wanted to run this race, to break through my fears and my doubts, to prove to myself that there is nothing that I can't do, but I did not do it alone.  As a new Christi...

 Life has been busy. I am so far behind on my blogging that I'm just going to do a little phone picture dump, in no particular order...  This is from a recent beach trip where my mom and her siblings got together with their cousins.  It was really fun.  We had dinner over at a beach house down the street and it's garage was stocked full of fun things, a pool table, ping pong, air hockey, darts, you name it!  The kids loved it!  We rented a kayak on D Lake and a big group of us got to go out together, the kids loved that too!  Check out all the fish!  We got to meet up with Gail for s'mores too!  The kids were a little crazy and emotional but we still had a good time.   On the way home from the fire I was carrying Norah when she said to me "You know mom, some people don't have legs and they can't walk." I smiled at her and said "Yes, and some people do have legs, should they walk?"  She thinks on t...

 Where have I been??  Don't know.  Life feels busy right now, but the good busy, where there's lots of fun things going on...Here are a few photos from this week, all from my phone. A little breakfast shenanigans...  Enjoying a sunny day down at Jamison Square, we met our good friends Gail, Keeley & Georgia down there.  I took some "real" camera photos too, just haven't got around to uploading them yet.  : )  Sweet little Norah  Sunbathing on me.  Love Gail!!  Here's one of the girls at Reedville Cafe, so well behaved.  : /  These are from a nice little walk through Cooper Mountain Nature Park, we love it there!  Ava was so excited to catch frogs, we caught several!  So pretty!!  Love time with my love. Here's a cute one of Asher & Audrey, playing in their little band.   And we will end with my favorite photo of the week...

Yesterday was pretty much Summer around here!! 74 degrees & so beautiful out!  Yay!  So of course I made the executive decision to not nap Norah and go to the park instead.  Why *her* so serious!?  Who's cute?  ME!  NO ME!!! (Tricky to get them to smile at the same time!)   They both are.  I wonder what Audrey saw?  What ever it was it must have been shocking!   : ) After the park, mom & I picked up Ava from school and headed over to meet D'auna & Alayah for some swimming.  The girls LOVED that!    We love Alayah! We even went out to dinner & John got to come too, so fun!  Days like this make me super excited for Summer, we are ready!!