Camping Part 1

Picture Post! Few Memphis and Election night!

One of those days!

OK I know I should be blogging about our wonderful weekend at the campground but I am bugged right now with the fakeness in people! I just really sometimes wanna scream to the top of my lungs so unsuspecting people will know. "Do not let them fool you, they say one thing but do a completely different thing." I have dealt with this sort of thing my entire life and I believe there have been times were that could be said about me. HECK I bet someone right now thinks that of me. To that I would say its all about the fruits. My best friend Alli always is talking to me about our fruits what we produce. To say you can't be a total heathen and produce Christ like fruits. Just like you can't be Christ like and produce heathen fruits. You grow what is on the inside. The Bible says "from the abundance of your heart your mouth speaks" Pastor says something that I believe is so true. "Who you are in private is the real you" OUCH I just wish people would be real and stop putting on this big Ole fake front! I mean I just wanna scream take off that mask you got going on there. It's like Casting Crown lyrics "shiny plastic people in that shiny plastic steeple". I think if more people would be honest and say Hey me and my husband we fuss, I yell more than I speak, my kids they don't mind and I have one kid who tells me to shut up then more people would realize that its alright to not be perfect or at least pretend to be perfect. I know sometimes I think man I would love to blog about something but I always am afraid someone will read it and take things totally out of context or look down on me as a person. Well tonight I guess since its so late and I am in one of those moods I decided to be completely real. ha ha So that person I was just talking about that's me. Hubby and I fuss, I am just learning this whole submission thing, I scream more than I talk, my kids have there days where they just do not listen to a single word I say, "S" has learned to say shut up and knows how to use it in a sentence. I mean I know its normal to have a set of people in your life that know you on a whole different level than your acquaintances but let's be real not so that we can fit in with a certain crowd but that people see that we have issues just like everyone else we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I am who I am I am Lisa I talk when I am nervous, I do not have much of a filter, I am not the most mannered person in the world I do not know what fork goes where (Mrs. Schoedel would be heart broken) I burp a lot, I will talk about almost anything and not realize I should not talk about it, I do not send out Thank You cards oh and I laugh sooooooo loud its almost embarrassing for those around me.

However I will tell you what I am, I am a child of the King bought and paid for by the precious blood of Jesus Christ that he shed for me at Calvary's cross. I am totally and completely sold out to him and I don't care who I am around they are gonna know one way or the other who I serve. Second I am a wife who loves her husband more than she loves the air she breathes. I may not have the perfect marriage in other peoples eyes and by the worlds standards but this man is the greatest gift God has ever given me. I am striving each and everyday to submit to him no matter what the situation and learn my way is not always the best way. I am a Mother who adores her children and wants her kids to be the very best they can be and love Jesus more than there Parents. I am a daughter who admires and loves my parents. I can not imagine living a day without them. My parents are my safety from the storm of life. I am a sister ha not the best sister in the world but I love my sister's and I am so proud of the Godly women they have become. We have our days and sometimes our weeks where we fuss and go for the heart but when it all comes down to it. We are family and we are there for one another through good and bad. I am a friend not the best of the friends but I am a great listener and I normally try to understand where someone is coming from until it just completely goes against the word of God.

God has really been dealing with me on this part of my life. I have been letting people into that place of my life that should be only there for my husband. Not saying there was anything immoral going on, but just confiding in people when I should have been confiding in my husband and taking it to him and talking things over with him. God has been weeding relationships out of my life for some time now. I have just been being stubborn trying to hold on to something he had already told me to lay down. I finally after a long time realized I had to just let these relationships go because it was not what God wanted for me at this time in my life.(No matter how hard I tried to convince him that is was. just a quick note it does not work don't waste your time ha ha ;o) I feel like we are all something we are either called to planting, watering, or a harvesting. I think God has called me to water and I try to stick around and see things harvested and its not my job. I know that I am to water that special seed that someone else has planted and then allow someone else to harvest those things that had been growing in the them. I serve a mighty God who just had me get real on my blog. ha ha I guess its kinda like seeing a woman without her makeup. Its not ugly but it sure ain't pretty (Brooke don't you love English by Lisa b) hee hee. So there you have it I have taken my make up off and shown you the real me today. WHY because I don't want anyone to be able to look at my blog and roll there eyes at the fakeness.

I will write about our camping trip tomorrow right now its 11:26 and I am exhausted from a long day of driving to and from church then two services, but I have to say It was WONDERFUL to finally get to sit in the sanctuary and worship with the body of Christ. We take our computer and watch on the way to church to teach normally so these 3 services are a real treat for us because we get to worship in the building cause we all know we the people are the church. Anyway I could go on and on because Pastor's message was great you should totally download the pod cast from itunes. Well I am going to bed. Good night! Blessings

Election Day & Rain!

So last night was the election and Pop got beat by some 400 votes. I have to say I was a little sad but not because he did not win but for all those people that worked so hard for him and for my Mother in law who just really has poured her entire self into this campaign. They were so brave and put on a great front for all there supporter's last night at Carlisle. We had some cake and just celebrated the effort of all those people. Can I just say though I so disappointed in politics in general. I mean can we please focus on the issues and not all these personal attacks. It shows great IN-maturity on the part of the candidates and there supporters. We are above all else called to be CHRIST like in all that we do. If you do not support that candidate then don't support them but leave all the low blows alone. The Candidates Wayne Parker and Parker Griffith are killing me with all the negativity. Its so child like. I just wish that we could focus on the issues and that's it. UGHHHH Soap box hee hee.

Hubby and I filled out the paper work for all our permits yesterday and should be turning them in today. Its raining and I have to say I love it. I have to go out and buy the girls rain jackets because the to and from the bus they get soaked. This morning I put them in my car and we just backed to the end of the drive way and when the bus came they hopped out.

Oh I have a funny story about last night. My girls were at the party meeting all my in laws supporters and one of the ladies was super friendly and we just thought she was precious but she kinda freaked my girls out. She was just talking and commenting on how beautiful my girls were and that she loved there eye brows. I thought what in the world is she talking about and then on my last child "K" she said I just love your full eye brows I had mine tattooed on. "K" got this strange look on her face and was kinda wigged out. "K" walks over to me later and says "MOM" with the most horrified look on her face "oh my goodness she has a tattoo on her face of eyebrows" Hubby and I cracked up the whole way home about it.

Well today is a great day to organize since we will not be going out because of all the rain. So I am off to get the apartment straighten up. Oh My in laws sure could use everyone prayers! They are being brave and putting on brave faces but I know they are hurt. So if you could please remember them in your prayers for that and they are taking a much needed and deserved trip to the coast this weekend to relax and look a car's what else would a "B Family" do on a vaca. hee hee I hope everyone is sitting back with a good warm drink, blanket and enjoying the sound of the liquid blessing! Post more later! Blessings

Update!

We got beat the following round and headed back to Bama not before stopping off and eating a really good sit down meal. Ummm well I got the dreaded bubble and thought I was going to die. ha ha not really but breathing is not easy when you get one of those. Anyway we got home late and got our kids in the bed. Hubby and I were just happy to be in our own house with our own bed and take long showers. Those of you who have motor homes or camper's know that you can't take a long shower because the water supply is limited.

Also I wanted to clarify something for everyone. When my blog is locked down its not that I am trying to keep anyone out I am editing spelling errors or fixing where I have typed someones full name! Anyone that knows me know I can't spell and Hubby is sitting here cracking up at me because I keep using his name. I just wanted to make that clear for those that are feeling like I am being ugly. Just clarifying!

Oh yeah and My laptop bit the dust again. boooo dell stinks! Hubby wants to go buy a new one but I keep telling myself for the price of that new laptop I can furnish my new house with just about all the closet doors. So I am going to just keep coming back and forth from my Mother in laws and check it a few times a day. I get more done without it. So this is kinda a good thing. Well I best get back to the house "I left my iron on" ha ha That is sooooooo a quote from "S" favorite movie Hairspray but its true. I gotta get back I think we are going camping this weekend. Thanks to my friend Jordan ha ha she has put me in the mood for a campfire! I will try my best to keep the blog updated while I live without my laptop. Tomorrow is Election day so get out and vote oh and pray for the whole "B Family" as we end this long journey one way or the other. May his kingdom come and his will be done on this local and national election. Blessings

We raced the Million!

And are not millionaires. ha ha Hubby's Daddy called yesterday morning to tell hubby to enter the big race. I of course was stressed out because when we came to Memphis I was under the understanding we were only going to race the gamblers race and the twin 30's. So when Hubby got off the phone and told me what his Daddy told him my tummy went into knots. The kids and I decided we were going to have a day out of Daddy's way we would ride the golf kart out in the fields, we would play cards in the motor home, we would go watch our daddy race. Whatever we could do to keep ourselves busy and out of Daddy's way this is after all a huge deal. I prayed all day for my hubby for peace, clarity of mind, speeding reaction times, and most of all protection. Those of you who have hubby's do a not so normal sport or like to live on the wild side will understand. Its always an act of faith for me when my hubby walks out of the motor home and straps himself into that race car that goes zero to 131 mph in 5.12 seconds. It's always a day of prayer but today was a day of more prayer than usual! ha ha He was racing for a MILLION DOLLARS! I started thinking of all I could do with that money. I would pay for my house outright, pay for the completion of my sister's adoption, buy my little sister a house plus much much more. We went red first round which just means Hubby went before the light turned green so off to the buy back window he went and bought back into the second round. So the next round some man went red on him. So that put us into the third round well while Hubby was staging his starter went out and he had to go buy another one! WOW we have spent lots of money this weekend! ughhhh Anyway Third round he guessed his car would go 5.12 and a perfect light would be 500 well he was 499 red and ran dead on his dial in with a 1. If he would have been anywhere in the green he would have made it to the next round. Oh well we went to bed with even less money than we woke up with! ha ha ha

This morning so far he has won 1st round while "S" and I are laying around. I am so happy I have this laptop and my Verizon card because I was able to watch church this morning! Pastor Mark brought a great word this morning, the one thing he said and forgive me if I butcher this quote " When you are willing to change the things you should not change you end up changing the things you should not." This went right along with his sermon but to me it spoke of lots of things. Like if you are willing to change who you are to be with different crowds(good or bad) of people then eventually you are going to become one of those crowds (good or bad). If you are willing to change your moral fiber and your whole thought process because of a certain political party well you get it. It reminded me of the saying "You have got to stand for something or you will fall for anything" I read something the other night in my notes and it nailed me

1 Corinthians 15:33 (Amplified Bible)Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionship's (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.
In another version it reads "Bad company corrupts good morals" BAM right between the eyes. I am not perfect BY NO STRETCH of the imagination but Christ that lives in me is perfect. PRAISE GOD I am able to wake up and start over with a clean slate each and every morning. I may let the Father down and I may even let other people down but that's just it I am human I make mistakes. I have never ever claimed to have lived a perfect life. I will say it over and over and over. I am so undeserving of the blessings God has given me. I did all the things most teenager's do when they are young and stupid. I even have the "GASP" Horrific dreaded dum dum dum Tattoo" ha ha I say all of this for those few that read my blog do not come away from this spot thinking I think more highly of myself. I think I am a southern girl who mess's up on a daily basis but is forgiven, bought with and paid for with the precious blood of Jesus that he freely gave for me on Calvary's cross. My little thought process today.

So Hubby is up running second round and we just heard of one of our fellow racer's rig (top kick and trailer) burning up last night. Praise the Lord nobody was hurt but he did loose thousands of dollars worth of equipment and did some major damage to his trailer and cars inside. I told Hubby that on the way home tonight we will make sure we have everything unplugged so we do not have the same fate. Well I hope everyone is having a great week. I know we have had a great time here in Memphis and glad to see it coming to an end. I wanna go home and check out my hole in the ground! Get all my paperwork signed for permits and get our port a potty delivered! bahaha I am so excited about stupid stuff! OH OH OH "S" has learned a few things I am not proud of this weekend such as "shut up" and hitting. ummm I have pulled out my book but and reading again but ummm any quick tips on what to do? I have popped him in the mouth when he told me to shut up and he kept on saying it and kept on saying it I kept on spanking him and the more I spanked the more he said it. I finally just sat him in the floor in a corner and he went to sleep. I need some advice or an exorcist! Because I am really at my end with this mess. I guess I gotta watch my mouth because I know he is mocking me and his daddy! We say shut up all the time I did not realize how ugly it sounded until I heard it coming out of my precious little boys mouth! ughhh OK I am ending this post before I keep going and going and going. Write more from the great state of Alabama better yet my home sweet home! Blessings!

We own it & Memphis!

Well we do not own Memphis but we do own the land now and we have closed on our construction phase of our loan. I was so super excited to sit there and sign all those thousands of papers! See we are so fortunate that Hubby's parents owned the property behind them and told us we could have it to build. Today it was so funny to be sitting across from that great ol big lawyer office table. Anyone that has ever closed on a house or gone through some sort of legal proceedings knows what I am talking about. Anyway back to the story my Mother and Father in law were sitting across signing over there land and I realized yet again how blessed I am. Those of you who have known me for years know where I come from! ha ha Let me just say The "W" Sister's have been very blessed and come along way. My in-law must really love us because they are willing to put us up for free in there house till our house gets built on the land that they bought paid for and now deeded over to Hubby and I. God is just amazing he loved me and took care of me even when I was living a life full of sin and disobedience. Even when I was not faithful the father was faithful to love and protect me and give me much more than I deserve. TRUST ME I DO NOT DESERVE ANY OF IT! So we got it all signed and Praise Jesus my Mom in law did not have to go anywhere she staid around to play with "S" to keep him happy. We have started this great little game ha ha. I carry all the kids wallet pictures and pictures of there cousins (1st,2nd,3rd) ha ha I got a big family, aunts. Silas likes to play the name game. He gets the whole stack of pictures and tries to remember everyone's names and he actually does a really good job. So mom in law stuck around and they played the name game. I am so stinking excited now we have gotten this done we can fill in all of our permits and things well after we get the whole basement dug out! Hubby's uncle is taking FOREVER ughhhh FAMILY! ha ha That turd told me yesterday it would take about a year for us to be moved in to the house. I told Hubby and he was like nut-uh my Daddy in law thought it was funny because he knew he was cutting up with me. ummm NOT FUNNY FOLKS! :o) Speaking of finished houses I got to get a sneak peek of my BF's house and its AMAZING! She has had this vision and talked about it now for year's and now its finally happening. She should be moving her family in around Halloween! The cabinets are exquisite I love my cabinet maker from Flat Rock but may have to get a "QUOTE" from "A's" She really is into the old antique decor she loves French county style. I have said it before we are the best of friends but when it comes to designing our house's we are so opposite its ridiculous. We get a good chuckle out of how different we found we are in this whole building process. I know God has timed this so perfectly because now "A" is moving in just as we are starting our adventure and she is going to be a wonderful help even more than she already has been.
Well we left closing and picked up the girls from school took them to the library to get some books for our long trip to Memphis and for our 5 days here. We sent notes ahead of time to the girls teachers telling them they would be out of town Thur and Friday to please send there work for the week and there homework so they would not get behind. We have the best teacher's they gladly obliged and sent it all. "B" of course is already done but "M" I would not let her do hers just yet because she is grounded for a seriously bad day on Monday. She has to sit in the motor home and read and do home work all weekend. I know this sounds a little extreme but umm TRUST ME this punishment fits the crime. NOT a good time to be a fly on the B Family wall.
We headed out around 12:00 and got to Memphis around 4:30 ok for those of you who have been to Memphis you will understand this. Laura and I brought our girls up here back around the first of the year to see Hannah Montana and the Jonas brothers and while we were walking to and from our car we were approached by a homeless guy asking us for money and the police saw this going on and called him over to them. Well Laura I believe we saw the same guy today. We were at a gas station and he was going from car to car asking for money we of course only have debit cards and he reeked of liquor so we knew better. I was so dang freaked out being in this area because any of you that have watch the first 48 know that 80% of those are right here in Memphis. Ughh I was so freaking out it was not even funny. Hubby was dying laughing at me. I had the girls laying down "S" in his chair and I was sitting in the floor basically rocking back and forth in the fetal position. bahaha not really but you get the point I was feeling stress. Well anyway we are here at Memphis Motor Sports Park ready to have a blast. The weather here is amazing we have all the windows open in the motor home with NO GENERATOR. ha ha Its awesome. I hope my next post is titled we did it we won the Million Dollar Race. Do me a favor please remember my husband and the rest of these racer's in your prayers. I have been praying a hedge of protection around and about them as they go down that track. I realize its a crazy sport and that it could be very dangerous but he has speed in his blood. Well I best get in bed its not 10:00pm and we have a very long day of time trials and racing. Blessings