From Trash to Treasure

So Sunday as Will and I are driving home from swimming when I saw this bright red thing in the dumpster at the church near our house and wellllll I made Will turn around and go back to see what it was---Okay people I know what you are probably thinking, eeeww nasty why in the world would you want something that has been in the trash??? And does this girl go digging in the trash on a regular basis?? Well in answer to your question, no I don't usually dig through the trash but this caught my eye.

We turned around and went back to the dumpster where I proceeded to see what this "red thing" was. It turned out to be a table!! It had a big hole in the center of the table but the table as a whole was very sturdy. Well it just so happens that I have a VERY talented husband who is good with carpentry so he is going to repaint and replace the center with a new piece of wood. I think that it is going to be a awesome coffee table for my living room when he gets it all done and best of all it was FREE :-)

I got to thinking about how the red table was like my life before my Saviour came in and took over. Without God there is a big whole that needs to be filled. The world will just toss you aside but God will come in and make something as sad as that "old red table" beautiful. He fills the hole and makes you a new person!! Isn't He awesome!?!?!

Anyways here is the "before" picture and I will post a "after" when Will gets it done. Use your imagination people. Its going to be great!!

Well I have absolutely nothing to write about. Isn't that amazing. I am getting really excited about my vacation with Will's family. We are going to Gatlinburg. I think that it will be lots of fun. I have only been one time and I didn't get to stay long. Will has been several times and says its really pretty.

Pam is back (our DON see blog "Too Big a Shoe to Fill") and I must say I am pretty happy about it! I actually really enjoyed filling in for her. The experience was really good and I got to learn a whole lot. It was a different side to Hospice I hadn't seen. I was able to learn so much from it. It was nice to have a change in pace from the normal day to day activity of seeing my patients. I am ready to hit the road again I suppose. But I guess that will have to wait till after I get back from my vacation. I was suppose to start going to see patients next week but our office manager is going to be out for a week so I am going to stay in the office another week and help Pam.

My friend Kristian is having a baby and I am SO excited for her. I know her baby with will be just precious! Her name is going to be Bella Grace (great middle name right!!??!) She is in need of lots of prayer right now because she is only 7 months along and and her water broke last night. They are going to try and keep her from going into labor for another 4 weeks or however long they can. So please pray that all will be well with both Kristian and sweet baby Bella. Oh, I know the reason I started think about Kristian and her baby was that I was going to do some sucker pots for her baby shower--which I am sure will be moved to a later date :-) This was going to be super cute and super easy!

First I bought some some plain pots (50% off at Hobby Lobby) and spray painted them

pink--for a girl :)

And then I used a stencil (Hobby Lobby) and painted on some white flowers--with the assistance of my FINE artistic hubby. After I painted them on I filled in the center with a light green and made some edging and lines on the petals of the flower to make it more realistic and then....

Tahh daaahhh! A beautiful cute pot to hold my suckers in! I am going to fill the pots up with white play sand and then cover the top of the dirt with little pearls--cause little girls like that kind of stuff :-) Then just add these super cute "Its a Girl" white chocolate suckers

wrapped in cello bags tied with ribbon---but candy making is for another day :-) Okay so I lied about having nothing to write about.

What a Blessed Girl I Am!

Ahhh life is great. As I write this I am lying on the couch watching my HUSBAND clean the house! Yes people I know what you're are all thinking "Man, what a lucky girl she is. I wish my husband cleaned the house etc. etc" And you would be right!!! I am a very lucky girl!! Well actually I like to think of it as blessed! I really been doing a lot of thinking over the past few days at work how blessed I really am!! Several of my girlfriends have husbands who are cheating on them. Well that got me to thinking about all the people in the world who had gone through a divorce or where currently living in an unfaithful marriage. Its so sad right now that the divorce rate is at an all time high. Over half the people who get married end up divorced! Scary right?? I think our biggest problem is of course is that God is not the center of our marriage. The world as it is right now is quickly spiraling downward. Sometimes I feel like we are living in a modern day Sodom & Gomorrah. Maybe even worse.

A lot of people no longer take it serious what it means get married. Men and women both are

tempted constantly by things on TV, the Internet and in magazines.

Its so sad that most people who enter into a marriage cant even trust the person that they are

married to. I can't even begin to imagine that. Every day I think of how very blessed I really

am because not only is my husband and AWESOME house cleaner ( ;-) ) He loves me so much

and I never even have had to EVER think about him being unfaithful to me. God really blessed

me when he gave me Will :-)

On a lighter note: Happy Saturday!!!!