Wordless Wednesday

Mommy & Me Dance Class w/ Tippi Toes

Mommy and Rylee have been going to a Mommy & Me dance class for 5 weeks and having a great time. Yes, Rylee is too young and really doesn't get what its all about. I am very willing to admit that but I love doing girly things with her (especially since we do so many boy things with Gunner). It is actually great therapy for her arm, it gets her to stretch that left arm and put it in positions (beach ball, sunshine, airplane) you don't always do which is building her range and strength.

She is being a little fish who at the moment is sleeping on a rock but when she wakes up...she will take a shower and brush her teeth and remember each time that she's a fish...fish don't take showers so "let's go swimming, let's go swimming". For the record, Rylee is generally a snoring fish! They are dancing to the Laurie Berkner song Goldfish if your dying to hear the song and have it stuck in your head for days go ahead and click [Goldfish] and you too can be a little fish.

Rylee is really just there for "sticker time" which is at the end of the class and she is required to do a plie before Miss Brittnay will give her a sticker. It is so stinking cute.

So if you momma's are looking for something fun to do with your girls I would highly recommend Miss Brittnay Friske of Tippi Toes. She is great with the girls. I don't know her fall schedule but I know she will have something going!

Playing Cowboys {and cowgirl}

Oh if I could attach sound to these pictures! (I know I know...VIDEO but I don't have a video camera that I really like and I can't keep one more piece of technology sitting around at hands reach)

Gunner has been into playing cowboys since we saw Toy Story 3 this weekend. It's a hoot to hear what he comes up with! Force fields, bad guys, lost horses with their sticky shoes on...it's awesome! Ed built a 'fort' for them to 'devise a plan' on how to get the bad guys and to rescue the horses that had found themselves on the ceiling...those darn sticky shoes!

Rylee will not be left out. She is all girl 100% of the time...even when she's shooting the bad guys! (and she's a great shot!)

Deep Thoughts by Kathy

I've not posted in a while (pretty sure that's how I started out my last post) and I've been having some deep thoughts that I thought I would bang out and see what I came up with.

This past Friday I attended a funeral for one of my dearest friend's Nana. I had met Nana a couple of times and I can say that after meeting her only those few times everything that was said about her at her funeral was true. She loved her family. She served those she loved. She lived a long life and loved and served right up until the point she could not do that anymore and at that time she willingly went with her Lord to live forever.

I had not decided if I was going to go to the graveside because Ed and I had planned on having a date night and I wanted to get back in time for dinner and a movie. But as it turned out I had more than enough time to go. Living in Tulsa I can say that I don't feel like I see very many funeral processions. I'm guessing I see more than I realize but because very few people follow the funeral procession etiquette I probably zoom by and don't pay a bit of attention. The funeral was in Guthrie and I can say they have it down. The police had every intersection blocked for us to drive through without stopping. Each police officer stood with their hat off probably not in "attention" stance but a respectful manner to the family as they passed. Traffic going with us and oncoming traffic came to a complete stop as we passed. I even saw a woman who was riding her bike pull over and stop until we had all driven by. It may seem simple and even unnecessary or not realistic but for me it was a breath of fresh air. It was as if each person who stopped and let us pass said "your world is being rocked and instead of going on about my busy life I'm going to stop and show a moment of sympathy and respect for your loss." In the culture we live in life does not stop for anything. Until you loose someone you love and then everything is pushed aside and you are forced to take a day or two to slow down and remember what life is suppose to be about.

I was reminded at Nana's funeral life is suppose to be about family.

This morning I was able to attend a Women's Luncheon at our church and hear Claudia Walthall (click her name to read the Walthall blog) speak about the journey God has taken her on the past 4 years...4 years can that be right? Claudia challenged us to remember the story of the feeding of the 5,000 in John 6 (yep...she was in Thailand and I was in Broken Arrow studying the same thing! I absolutely love BSF and the immersion into God's word and the unity of hearts as believers all over the world walk through the same study each year...why didn't someone invite me sooner?) OK back to what Claudia had to share....do you think that Andrew or the boy with the fish and loaves (or the mother who packed that lunch for that matter) had ANY idea what Jesus was about to do? Or did they just come in obedience and then look to Jesus to do the multiplying? And after it was all said and done (or fed and gathered as left overs) did they sit back and say "WOW! Look what we got to be a part of because of what we were willing to give!" We all have something to give. How often do I see how little I have to give and instead of saying "Lord this is what I have today" I say "I don't have much so I'm going to hold out until I have a little more to give"? I'm not giving Jesus much opportunity to multiply when I do that. How many miracles have I missed out on because I have not been willing to give what I have. Claudia also said something else that stuck out. If your calendar is filled with "to do's" you probably aren't doing what God has planned for you. If its filled with things you can do without his resources you probably have a full and busy life but it leaves little for you to give in order for him to multiply. He intends for you to do the things that will take him and his resources to accomplish.

I was reminded today that life is about giving whatever we have to offer in order to allow God to work.

Well, Gunner is up from his nap so I'm out!