It’s official… I hired my first employee for Those Darn Books. It feels weird being an employer but I’m totally psyched about it. God has been so good to me and I hope I am able to help others and be a God funnel. Life is grand!
Kenny and I made a $500.00 extra principal payment this month on our house. Wow! It feels really good! I hope we’re able to keep this up and pay off our house early. If we continue as is without any extra payments, we should pay off our house by the summer of 2018. I will be 37 years old. Yeah, hopefully we can pay it off earlier than that. God willing!
One of the many cool things we did while in Texas was go to Fort Worth, TX. They do a longhorn cattle drive each day through downtown Fort Worth. The original cobblestone streets are still there and the cattle drivers wear the original cowboy garb from the 1800’s. It was pretty cool. Even cooler was getting to see the first indoor stadium ever built in the US. Turns out Mark rode there at one of his first rodeos in the 1970’s so that was pretty neat too. We also went to a sweet little museum located in the old Stockyard building. The curator let Kate get on a saddle and we took a picture. SO cute! 
Grandpa, Grandma and Kate in Ft. Worth
Livestock drive through downtown Ft. Worth
My beautiful baby girl
Grandma and Grandpa
Kate the “Cowgirl”
Our first day in Texas we just took it easy. The airplane flight was hard on Kate and I so we relaxed on Grandma and Grandpa’s front porch. I also took Kate around to the barn to see what a horse looks like in person. She was very timid at first. I don’t blame her. They’re pretty big and can definitely be a little scary.
Grandma and Grandpa
Kate rocking on the front porch
Kate ‘n me
Me, Grandma and Kate
Kate and I just finished a nice, long and relaxing trip to visit my Mom in Texas. They have a large horse ranch and it was great getting to visit and enjoy being in Texas. I will post pics and more details later. There were a lot of fun things that happened. I definitely miss my Mom. It’s hard being so far away from her. Love you Mom!
Honestly, life is hard. But God is SO good. I have been blessed with such a beautiful and loving family. Thank you, God! I know I don’t deserve it but I am so grateful.
Little Miss Kate and I went to the park yesterday. We are LOVING this weather! Absolutely beautiful!
Just wanted to let everyone know things are good in our world. We’re busy… VERY busy. But it’s a good busy, not a pointless busy-just-to-be-busy kind of busy. New things going on are:
- Kate is walking. Just a few steps (the most have been five) but she is definitely walking. SO cute!
- Kate just turned one. Look at my wonderful sister-in-law’s website for adorable pics.
- My business is growing.
- Kenny’s product is launched. Yippee! Now we’re ready for the sales to start rolling in.
- I have lost 40 pounds! I’m only trying to lose 8 more and then I’m gonna start working on toning up.
- God is SO good! He is a God that restores, heals, blesses, multiplies and is so faithful. I can’t imagine a life spent any other way than serving Him!
So, I’m making cold calls for my business today, which is always a hard task. But this made it oh so funny… I love the Internet!!! :-) Or should I say Internet Providings… ha ha ha!
This is such an awesome story! It’s so encouraging to see young people stand up for Christ and Christian values. We should all be praying for Tim Tebow. Satan will definitely be attacking him because of his faith and the fact that he’s living it out loud.
“Furor Brewing over Tim Tebow’s Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad”
Source: www.people.com