Another Day Another Blessing

It's been an interesting last few weeks by far. Amy is now crawling which is kind of crazy to think that she's old enough to be crawling. She's going to be 8 months on Sunday as I turn 20. Laurie will no longer be able to say she has a teenager in the house haha. Amy pulls herself up on things so it definitely won't be long until she is walking and I'm going to have to chase after her.
I was laying down the other night and a song that I remember hearing over and over as a little kid. As I was listening to it, it made me tear up because it reminded me so much of my grandfather when I was his little girl.  Well I'm still his little girl, but anyways it is just an overall great song.

Butterfly Kisses 

There's two things I know for sure

She was sent here from heaven

And she's daddy's little girl

As I drop to my knees by her bed at night

She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes

And I thank God for all of the joy in my life

Oh but most of all

For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer

Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair

Walk beside the pony daddy it's my first ride

I know the cake looks funny daddy but I sure tried

Oh with all that I've done wrong

I must have done something right

To deserve a hug every mornin'

And butterfly kisses at night

Sweet 16 today

She's lookin' like her mama a little more every day

One part woman the other part girl

To perfume and make up from ribbons and curls

Trying her wings out in a great big world

But I remember

Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer

Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair

You know how much I love you daddy

But if you don't mind

I'm only gonna kiss you on the check this time

Oh with all that I've done wrong

I must have done something right

To deserve her love every mornin'

And butterfly kisses at night

All the precious time

Like the wind the years go by

Precious butterfly

Spread your wings and fly

She'll change her name today

She'll make a promise and I'll give her aways

Standing in the bride room just staring at her

She asked me what I'm thinkin'

And I said I'm not sure

I just feel like I'm loosin' my baby girl

And she leaned over

Gave me butterfly kisses with her mama there

Stickin' little white flowers all up in her hair

Walk me down the isle daddy

It's just about time

Does my wedding gown look pretty daddy?

Daddy's don't cry

Oh with all that I've done wrong

I must have done something right

To deserve her love every mornin'

And butterfly kisses

I couldn't ask God for more than this is what love is

I know I've got to let her go but I'll always remember

Every hug in the mornin' and butterfly kisses

As I listened to it last night and looked at the lyrics, I realized daddy could be replaced with mommy and it would make perfect sense.

I can't wait to see my family in two and a half weeks. I get to see family that I haven't seen in forever so I'm rather excited. My baptism is in well obviously that same amount of time and I'm looking forward to it so much. God's has blessed me so much over this time that I can't imagine sometimes as to why me. We have the tendency to ask that question, but we have no right to he doesn't answer to us, we answer to him. On that note I came to the realization not too long ago that what we do reflects not back on us, but back on God. So we truly need to watch what we do because it's not us we're reflecting it is God.

7 month picture :)

Had the opportunity to have So Long Solo do a house concert at our house!

She Loves her grandpa :)

Don't Forget to Tell Your Mom You Love Her!

I can't believe the anniversary of my moms death is going to be here in a little over a month. It seems weird that its going to be 8 years since she died, but I know she's looking down from Heaven smiling at her little girl. I know she'd be proud of the young woman I've become. Mom you've got a beautiful granddaughter named after the most wonderful woman. You will always be my biggest role model, not because I'm a single mother like you, but because you showed me the strength to live life. You showed me what it takes to be a strong woman in a world that does nothing, but bring women down. You showed me a woman of faith and that is the most important gift a mom can give to her kids. I hope that as Amy grows I can show her the same strength and the same faith that you showed me. Thank you mom, I love you and I miss you. But, I wouldn't be the young woman I am today without the help of God. HE changed my life around and even though I forget to thank him sometimes for that, He still knows.Thank you God for showing me that life is so much better with you in it.

Smile Is All I Can Do :)

Smile is all I seem to be able to do lately. Even when I'm having a bad day I can't help but smile. Why, you say? Why not, life hasn't been better in well ever. I having a future to live for, a happiness to look forward to a place of sweet perfection to look forward to. There's nothing not to look forward to in life with Jesus in it. God has done such a 360 with my life that I can't see why I didn't come to him sooner. He's given me day after day to live with my daughter, and now has given me a job that I am looking forward to starting in the morning doing what I love doing helping others. My baptism is exactly 38 days away and 37 days from my testimony and I couldn't be more excited.
Amy started crawling on Sunday and boy did it take a lot for this mommy to keep her tears back. She's still trying to get a hang of it and boy is it funny. It's more of crawl, fall, scoot and repeat. It's pretty amusing to watch. She's up to 19lbs 15oz as of last Thursday so she's probably hit 20lbs by now. She's 29 inches and obviously still growing. It's crazy she's so long that she has to wear 12-18 month clothes because of it. Though it's funny because her weight isn't quite in that size of clothes. She can put away a lot of food and I'm told babies have hollow legs, because you sure can't tell she eats so much. She had a slight relapse in sleeping all night, but has thankfully returned to that sleeping all night.
Well that's all for now. Have a blessed weekend :)

The Blessings Continue

In these past couple of weeks, I just feel as if I haven't stopped moving. Whether it's doing something here at home or out doing something elsewhere, I haven't stopped and given myself time to do a lot of thinking, praying, or meditating. Oh, how dangerous that can become if you let your life go on for too long like that. We all have busy schedules no doubt. Some more than others, but we MUST take time out of our busy schedules to make time for God. If we don't we, risks falling back into the past, back into that sin that we strive so hard to stay away from. 

I just realized yesterday that a year ago this weekend was when I started going to Alto church. It's so weird to think it has been that long already. A lot of people ask me why I moved to Michigan and a year ago I couldn't tell you, but today I can tell you that I moved to Michigan because that's where God led me to go. Even though I wasn't a Christian and didn't stop and listen to God for the most part, I somehow decided to listen to his calling for me to go to Michigan. Boy am I glad I did too. Alto is my home, and every person in church is like family to me. 

Last weekend Amy and I went to Taylor, MO. It took a lot of convincing to get me to go due to my eeriness of how people were going to take that I had a child. I had absolutely nothing to be worried about because God worked everything out. I stayed with an awesome couple, who ironically she was originally from Tremont (which is where I am from) and she joined the church as a single mom too. It was nice just to talk to someone else who had been in the same place that I am. I met some other awesome people, some other sisters who joined as single moms and even a dad who joined as a single dad. I didn't feel an ounce of judgment from anyone and that was definitely just a God thing. I can't thank God enough for the wonderful weekend I had.

As the day of my baptism continues to get closer, I'm becoming more, more excited, and less and less nervous. God is just continuing to strengthen my peace day after day. Only 42 more days :) Not that I'm counting. 

Amy is just continuing to grow and do more things. She had her six month checkup (even though she was 7 months on the 4th) yesterday. She weighs in now at 19lbs 15oz and 29 in long with a head circumference of 42 I believe. She wears 12-18 month clothes for the most part, but still fits into some of her 6-9 month clothes. She got four shots yesterday that included her flu shot and it hasn't been a fun past 18 hours. She never got cranky with her other shots, but this time that wasn't the case. Let's just say last night was a rather long night. 

I'm going to get that ball if it's the last thing I do :)

She loved chasing that ball across the floor

I will just take a minute and pose for a picture :)

She's figured out how to take the wooden piece out of the slider.

Aaron was trying to get Amy to crawl. 

I think she's going to walk before crawling 

Got some bed head going on :)

She likes eggs

Definitely become a poser for pictures

By what we have for dinner tells you if Terry is home or not :P