All Womens Weekend

Ok so put 8000 women in the same building and what do you get? Still thinking? Okay so here it is. You get the most awesome, most blessed, most spiritual, most emotional, most loving, most eye opening, most uplifting, best worshiping you have ever seen!! The Extrodinary Womens Conference this past weekend at the Bilo center. I was so blessed to be able to go, at the last minute mind you. Then I had the best time taking my big sister with me. She and I haven't done that in a long time. I look forward to more time with her. It is so easy to drift apart when you have a family to run and things to do. Sometimes even your closest, become the furthest away. Then we had the best time worshiping Friday night with Charles Bilinsgly, and Rachel Lampa, and The sisters from Lord Song. Then laughed and laughed til we cried with Shonda Pierce. Then more amazing worship from NewSong. Everytime I hear A rise my love tears are like a water faucet. Then we got to go back on Saturday. We both went a little later, since we had babies at home that needed mommy first thing. But to hear Angela Thomas, man that was powerful. To fill God in the room with 8000 women, and see the stands almost empty and the alter full. She is an amazing women of God. I loved how she described every women as God's "Baby Girl" . I think I will sign everything that way now. Love Holly God's Baby Girl. I know I am the baby in our family and was a daddy's girl and still am most of the time. But to hear how precious you are to some one so powerful, so mighty, so faithful, and so uplifting. That is an awesome feeling. Then we had a lunch break and I walked around and talked to a lot fo the artist and speakers and writers. Then enjoyed taking pictures and listing to all the other womens blessing they had already gone through, and how thrilled they were to be there. We had more awesome worship with Charles, and more inspiring, God lead speakers that afternoon. Michelle was funny but very right on about life and God leading our lives, and being able to go through the battles with him. God does not take the battles away, he takes us through the battles, and then removes the hurt as we reach heaven. Then Stormie aw Stormie. So soft spoken, so beautiful, so loyal to what God has given her to do with her life. I was so blessed to be given "The power of a praying wife" , last year when I needed it. Praying through any situation is very important. But learning how it's not him, it's me and I needed to pray to be changed. Wouldn't you know that God changed Tim's heart while I was reading this book and he was saved!!!! Now that is power!! Since Saturday night Tim and I are reading her new book, "The power of prayer to change you Marriage." It is already been awesome, and Stormie hits it home in every word. The best part is that it gives Tim and I something to do together. The other awesome book she has is for children, and what does God think when I pray. It really helps out with all those little questions when children are trying to learn. Over all it was an amazing weekend. I look forward to next year!! Thank you to Jennifer, and Sande for the last minute tickets. To God for allowing my sister and I to go and spend this special time together and everything I learned and drew closer to him. Blessings to you all.

Living Loving Praying and Loving It

Ok so I have the best story to share. We had a wonderful service at church on sunday. I was so thrilled to get to share with the high school girls about how the Bible and God's true and perfect word is so amazing. Then we had our last class sunday night body building. It was awesome, no, that is not the right word, it was Beyond Imagination.... Our wonderful pastor shared his vision for our church and then we worshiped. I mean the real down on hands and knees, tears, weeping as the Lord sat with us and wept, it was,... well it was.... So I wanted to share what God lead me through during this time of prayer and worship. I love being a mom, and I love being a wife. Sometimes i do better at one or the other but not both at the same time. Then trying to get our home running, clean, and organized. Well after being ill lately, forget it, it is all a mess. I found God showing me where i am trying to make every excuse for why, and he showed me how it is very good to clean, it is really important to stay organized, and it is important to balance them all well. What he wants me to do is first LOVE HIM, and let him love ALL OF ME! whoooo! To JUST BE, to be on my knees, loving, praying, worshiping, leading, following, growing, sharing, but JUST BE all those with him FIRST. Then love my husband and share all of what I love about God with my husband first, I love him more than anything, but sometimes he gets left out. God broke my heart to love this man with all I have, with all i am , and with all I do, the way i love the Lord, I will love my husband. Then to love my children, but not just love them as I already do, but love them more than enough to correct them the Godly way, to guide them to him, to share him with them, to teach them how he wants them to behave, not the world, to allow them to grow to who he created them to be, not who I want them to be, to fall on my knees with them daily, nightly and pray for thier lives, their salvation, thier future goals and dreams. To love them through Gods eyes and teach them to love others through his eyes. LOVE this word is thrown around like air, but to truly get down to LOVING the way God loved, the way Jesus loves/d, HIS BLOOD , there is no greater love.

How precious are children

It has been a good week for the Owens family. Right now I feel very sad for the family who lost a baby boy this morning. I feel lost as what to think, say or do. i know everything is God's will with his children and that that sweet boy is in heaven with the Lord right now, but thinking how he left this world scares me and makes me feel so blessed at the same time for my children. Please join me in praying for this family and all families with children and realizing how blessed we all are to be parents..

Weekend Rewind

Okay so we made it through another weekend with all our hair. Ha ha No really after a rough week with my stomach, it was nice to have a good weekend with the babies. We just hung out at home Friday and watched funny movies. The funniest is watching Arianna and Hunter dance and Hunter will stop dancing if he thinks you are watching. So it is for sure that they both have my dance back-ground and rhythm but they have Tim's secret break dancing moves!!! You have to see he is really good. Then we went Saturday morning to watch the dancers at SMA and that was good, last year a bit better we thought. We left for a snack and to head over to AMRBC auction but I got sick again. So we headed home for some rest. Then we had a wonderful day at church, my pain aside, worship was awesome, the day 6 choir did really great, I love to hear them sing. Then our body building class was awesome and learning more about the church and waht the 21st century church should be. I think our church does an awesome job in all areas, but there is always room for improvement in any place. Which all lead to a great start for the week. School work went awesome this morning with Arianna, and watching her brain work and learn was really coll today. I love home schooling her and am so glad God lead us to this decision. I am looking forward to all the fun years of home schooling both of them. Looking to the rest of this week to be awesome. Jer 29:11

Our week in Rewind

So this week started off with a wonderful night of vacation to the ER.(Holly) In the wonderful SRMC waiting room, and after seven hours of waiting and being in pain, it ended early tuesday morning with lots of medicine but no real good results. Then having the headache of a lifetime from the morphin hangover, that is worse than any miagriane I ever get. School work went really well though, we started a new book, Considering God's Creation science. Arianna has loved this one this week. It started with God's creation of the seven days and even learned a new song with the seven days of creation. Then we are working on number recognition from 1-100, so that is not quite as fun but she is doing really well. We learned about a new state today and have started reading the Boxcar children series. So all in all the week was great. We had STS on Wed. after ballet, and then helped with new soccer season evalutions on thursday. Stayed in and learned how to blog...yeah!!! on Friday. Hunter is also learning a long side Arianna and we have been going through simple sign language and he has I love you down pat. Counting to twenty and all of his ABC's. Knows his colors and is coloring more than just scribbles this week.
I had this awesome prayer God laid on my heart to share with our youth girls at the beginning of the week. I was not sure at the time where God was leading it, but after getting a awesome response to it's helpfulness from one of the girls it was eye opening to see where God leads your prayers. So even though I am eating crackers, and ginger ale and THAT IS ALL. It is still a blessed week. We are looking forward to this weekend full of dance comp. and day 6 auction and Sunday service. This week will be one to look back at and say we made it to share the love of God for another week.

Happy Snow Day March 2nd 2009