some recent pictures

For once I am only a day behind in posting about our weekend. This weekend we were up in Decatur for Paul's 10 year high school reunion. We had so much fun going to the high school football game and hanging out with some old friends. At the football game I got to see a lot of my old basketball coaches and just coaches in general. One of my old coaches even paged me over the speakers at the football game to come see him in the press box, it made me feel special. My sister, brother in law, and the kids (aka taters) were at the football game as well. I went to show off Faith & Brayden to our friends. I even got asked if they were mine, especially Brayden with his wavy hair like Paul's. Mom and I went shopping on Saturday and it was so great to just hang out. I had not been to Decatur since early July, and that is just abnormal for me, but I guess to my credit I have been extremely busy. Being back around my family made me sad, made me sad that I don't live in the same city, even Paul asked if I wanted to move back and I said no. I love Birmingham, I love my house, just miss my family, and for now it's just the way it has to be. I hope one day my family will move to me, maybe that's just me being selfish but hey what can I say, who wouldn't want to live when there is a whole day of the year dedicated to the love of Homewood.

I am also uploading some pictures of us at the Alabama vs Arkansas game. We had a lot of fun at the game with our friend Nicole despite the rain. That morning we even found out that we had iron bowl tickets, so I am pretty pumped about that. Must also say War Eagle since we were in T-Town.

Today was a blah day, I seem to have those more often then not, but I am feeling better after a long bubble bath in our new jetted tub. I know jetted tubs might have been a thing of the 80s and 90s but man I still love them. This week my husband expressed his feelings on paper regarding our situation with infertility. I have never read, heard, or felt all the emotions that he expressed to me. I hope to get his approval and maybe post it on the blog. I know that I have a few followers that are going thru the same thing, and I believe it will be beneficial for them, our friends, and our family, so look for another post later this week.

My sister, Michelle, also gave me some encouraging words from a Bible Study that she is doing. These are her words and quotes from her email. I enjoyed reading them, so I wanted to share. I hope you all enjoy.

...I am doing the Bible Study "Anointed, Transformed and Redeemed" by Priscilla Shirer, Beth Moore and Kay Arthur. It was ironic, or should I say, a God thing, that this weeks lesson was "Moving Past your Devastation" and she specifically wrote about miscarriage on one particular day. That was helpful.I like to listen to the songs like "Praise you in this storm" and "Hold My Heart" and "Broken". I've always related to songs and I guess Christian ones are the best right now to listen to. ...I can only imagine the frustration and aggravation that you go through. So many times, we think "Why Me Lord" or " Could you at least do this one thing for me?" All I know is that there is a bigger picture. I just would like to see it laid out and not just all the mixed up puzzle pieces! We know that God is faithful and we will understand one day. I will share with you some of the things I highlighted from this week. Hope it is helpful to you. These are in random order:1. Nothing has the capacity to cause more destruction in a believer's life than an occurrence that makes us question everything we thought we knew about God. A heart can shatter in so many pieces that we don't think even God could put it back together again. Sometimes we are so upset with Him we feel like we wouldn't even let Him if He tried. Sometimes we halt our progress and refuse restoration just to spite Him.2. Satan has no greater agenda than to talk you and me into believing that God is not good after all.3. Not every good idea is a God-idea.4. When God doesn't appear to bless your plan to do something for Him, consider that He wants to do something for you instead.5. David's awed moment with God over how far He'd brought him came after the nightmare with the ark.6. God's ways will always be higher than ours, but we don't have to understand Him to settle the matter in our hearts that we can trust Him.7. Even with out all the answers to my questions, He is the answer to my life...

I hope you all enjoyed the reading. Have a great night. Samantha