God is Always helping me on my way

As I have said in a previous post, God led me to community bible study in November and it has been such a blessing. It has blessed me in spirit, friendship, and understanding of the word. Over the last couple days it has been tenfold, yesterday I had help and love I had been needing for months... it touched me in a way I can not describe and I feel as if I have REAL sisters in Christ!
I had another need that I never expressed to anyone or to our loving Father, but Today as I was reading our commentary for our bible study I was overwhelmed with how he answered it and overjoyed when I truly heard him during my prayer. Basically it was that prayer is not a monologue IT IS a dialogue... I had truly never heard or thought of prayer like that before. I had known it was our way to talk to God but I always thought he would answer in other ways.
My best friend had been coming to me for advice for a situation she had been dealing with, I had given her my opinion but felt it wasn't enough and told he answer that prayer and led me to a verse to share with her. Then she said a verse to me that was one thing I have been working on lately and I know I have been better about. Just 3 examples how God is always helping us on our way each and everyday. I am going to leave you with that verse.
~*~ Ephesians 4:32 - Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. ~*~

We Got It and Are In!

We got our new home and are living in it! I feel so incredibly blessed that we are able to move and be where we wanted to be. I know a lot of prayers went up for us and I am thankful! It feels amazing to be somewhere that really feels like home and we havent even started decorating or doing any of the many projects that we have ahead. I really enjoy projects like these so Im excited to start tackling them. I will also probably be asking for input if I can't make up my mind which is very likely to happen! :)
Pictures of the new house with no furniture

 

Living Room

  

Living Room 2 (same room different view)

Master 2

Master Bath

Guest/ Princess' bath

Office/ Guest Room

Princess' Room

Upstairs Hall

Entry

Kitchen 1

Kitchen 2

Laundry Room

1/2 Bath

 

Somehow the playroom pic never made it on here. 

Update on Life

LOTS and I do mean lots has been going on here! Shortly after my last post we booked a 6 day/5 night Disney world vacation staying at Old Key West with fre dinning also my Sis3 and her daughter (who was 8) went with us. It was a great vacation and we had a ton of fun and loved watching princess experience all of Disney's magic while there we celebrated our 5 year anniversary!! Our present to each other was DVC otherwise known as Disney Vacation Club, which is Disney's timeshare!!! This was HUGE!!! We had always wanted to own a piece of the magic but we definately didnt think we could do it this soon. We have our first vacation as members booked for this Dec 9-15 and I am so so so excited! I can not wait to see Disney in all of its Christmas glory.

When we got back my husband decided it was time to put our house on the market so we did just that. We had no activity on the house so we went on with our lives as normal. My Sis(2) and I decided to join a community bible study right before Thanksgiving. It has been one of the BEST decision I have made. Having support of these sisters in Christ has been such a rewarding experience, I enjoying seeing them and talking to them when we meet and I really enjoy the way I have been feeling as well, as far as outlook on life. We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving at home and a great Christmas!!! After Christmas, we finally got some activity on the house a wife and her realtor came out, then the wife brought her husband back out! They LOVED it (so we are told) and we now have a contract and our currently just waiting to hear from the woman who came to appraise the house as long as it is the right amount for the couples loan then we will be closing Feb 9th! We have also put a contract on a brand new, new construction home in a neighborhood in the area we want to be in!

 I am thankful and blessed how God has blessed our lives! We serve such an awesome God, always looking out for us and never having to worry knowing he will take care of it all. Now, I know this post is very upbeat and I am having a very happy sort of day! Life is not always rainbows and butterflies and we have had a lot of uncertainy with tryin to sell the house even know we are waiting for the appraisal and it is not easy waiting but we are putting it in God's hands and having faith! ~Isaiah 41:13 For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.~ this verse has been my rock during this time... it has really helped know Jesus is always there to help me in my way. So I am staying strong and just hoping to hear something soon.

Another Closet Down

Cleaning out the Closet

 This is exactly what I did today both mentally and physically. My dad came over to watch Princess while I got to work on her closet. (I wish I would have taken a before picture) You have to understand that in order to get in her closet I would have to squeeze in the door while it was pressing me into the door frame. First I got in and took everything that was on the floor out. I then rearranged the things on the shelves and grabbed some of the little things on the floor and organized the shelves. I vacuumed the floor (We have been having a mouse problem in the winter, UGH) and disinfected the floors. Then I worked on putting everything back in the closet so that I could get to everything and I would be able to actually open the door. I only took 1 thing out and am getting rid of it. After 1 1/2 hours of working hard I was done. This is all about of my cleaning + things I said I was working on.
Here are the results:

Mentally~ Recently and I do mean recently, We (my graduating class) had a classmate pass. He was involved in a really horrible accident and just couldn't hang on. He has a 3 year old daughter. This made me start to really think a lot ever since I heard he was in the hospital actually. It really changed my outlook, 1) some of my problems are a little petty and I'm going to try to just let them go. I have so many reason not to let them get to me. 2) I really think that the Hubbie and I should sit down and make a will and look into life insurance for me. Hubbie has life insurance. Just so that if something were to happen Our wishes for Princess would be taken care of.

Time for a much happier note, we mailed out Princess' First Birthday invites. I am getting ready to get on Amazon and order the last couple things needed for Princess' for Vacay. Also going to order My mom's mothers day gift so I can give it to her before we leave. Hubbie did end up taking off the Friday before so now we are leaving sometime Friday!! We have 9 days!! Single Digit!!! Woohooo!!!! We are so ready to be on vacation. I also finished the onesie I was making for my friends' baby shower.
 

What do you think?

Hope everyone has fabulous days! Stop and say a prayer for all the families affect by all the Tornadoes that hit this week.

Busy Busy Busy

First, I want to tell everyone that the yard sale went well. I made a little over $100 which is my vacation spending money! :)

I have been super busy lately. I am planning and preparing for Princess' first birthday party(May 21), getting things ready for Easter, getting a couple things to sell at my MIL yard sale(April 30), making a onesies for my friend baby shower(April 30), giving the house a SPRING + some cleaning, and preparing for vacation(May 7).

Easter, We are going to church, then to my mom's for lunch and the Easter Egg hunt. I have to make a side dish and make sure I have the pack n play and everything so we will have a good time. Its princess first easter and Im excited but we arent doing anything for her since we leave for vacation less than 2 weeks later.

April 30, I am trying to get the few things together that I missed when I did the yard sale with mom. I am not looking to really make any money just want to get the stuff out of the house and declutter a little.
Baby Shower, this is my friends second baby so I got her diapers, baby powder and Im making her a onesies. (I will post a picture).

Traveling for Vacation :) ~ We were originally trying to leave around midnight on May 7, but now my hubbie is thinking he is going to take off Friday, so now my In-Laws want to see about leaving around 8-9ish pm on Friday evening. To me this is hilarous because they wanted to leave at 2 am originally and did not want to even think of leaving at 12. LOL The reasoning is tho, that my FIL had hip replacement surgery a couple weeks ago, he will be 7 1/2 weeks past when we leave, so this way we could stop more if we need to for him to get out and strecth, Im GREAT with this idea because thats more time that Princess will be asleep in the car and not awake.

Giving the house a Spring cleaning + is self explantory.

Princess' First Birthday Party ~ I already did the invitations just have to mail them out. I am hoping most will call and let me know ahead of time so I can get all the plates before we leave for vacation. I really want to have all the paper goods done so thats one thing I dont have to worry about until we get back. I know what I am doing for the cake so I need to get the stuff for that as well. I also need to get working on her tutu for her party.

Preparing for Vacation ~ I am tryin to buy things ahead like travel snacks, drinks for the room, dry goods for the room, and things I will need for princesss (sunscreen, baby shampoo, etc) I also went ahead and got her a smaller stroller so we would have more trunk space. We found her a new carseat and its already installed and she LOVEs it! I also got her a new snack bag. (I thought I had a pic of the carseat)

 

Im super excited about vacation and can't believe we only have 16 days until we will be there! :) What I am most excited about tho is in 19 days my princess will be meeting Mickey!!!!!!!!!! and I will be in my HAPPY place!

Having a Yard Sale is Stressful

This Saturday, our local middle school is doing a yard sale. My mom got us a spot for it. For the past two weeks I have been trying to get things together, inventory, and priced. I love my mom but doing this together was not the greatest plan. Our prices for one are way off from each others. I dunno maybe I just stressing for no reason. The main reason I am doing this sale is to clear out a little and make some money for FL! Yay, sunny, warm Florida just a month and a day and we will be there. Back to the sale, I have made signs and figured out what tables too take and everything but Im still stressing that something will get stolen or something. I dunno know.