There Is A Season - Intro

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If you have found your way here from my twitter account, please accept my apologies for the lewd activity that occurred as a result of my twitter account being hijacked today. Many emails and tweets have been sent to Twitter to try to rectify and stop the activity. There are no words I can say to express how upsetting this has been. (if you are so inclined, please email twitter at support@twitter.com and tweet @spam with my REAL user id and what has happened - thanks!)

Update - 6/24:  at this point, Twitter has only sent a few automated emails in response to the activity and nothing has been done to disable my old account of "thereisaseason".  The hacker changed the name to a very ugly name but my info is still there on the page.  nice - huh?  I hope Twitter will disable the account or delete it.  I have set up a new account so I can keep in touch with many of the 700+ friends I had made on Twitter.  If you would like that user id please email me at thereisaseason@gmail.com and I'll be glad to send it to you!   Thanks for all of your support and kindness during this time.

 

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Change of plans~

In less than a matter of 24 hours everything we've had planned for the weekend has been overturned.  Lu was supposed to go to the lake with her aunt and uncle but the power on the new lake house didn't get turned on.  Guess a hot lake house wouldn't be much fun? But we still had a barrel race to go to, that is until Lib started running a fever last night, head hurting, crying, shivering - you get the picture, right?  So, I'm thinking about now that a horse show in a heat index of 105 isn't the best place for her even if the actual barrel race is indoors!

Wow, my head was kind of spinning this morning and it wasn't because Lib had me up at 3a.m.  I was a little, maybe a lot, disappointed that everything we planned was being changed up so quickly.  Plus, Lib has been riding for points/standings and her last show she didn't have a good run so she needs to do some catching up.  Being on the couch isn't going to help those standings, ha ha.  Then a friend messaged me and said "so sorry for all the changes in your plans, but I'm certain that God has His reasons, even if we can't understand them".  It was at that moment, I stepped back and said "I got it God".  I messaged her back and at the end I typed "His Ways...."

The other day another friend wrote that she wanted "more Him, less her...less junk" etc.  I've learned more than once that if that's not my hearts desire or my goal, that God has a way of making it more about Him and less about me, my wants, my desires.  I'm trusting in His plan for this weekend.  If I can trust Him with my eternity surely I can trust Him with my weekend.

~His Ways....

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,"

 declares the LORD. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV

 

this is an older picture of Lib and her first barrel horse, who now has arthritis but we still have her.  I just love this picture and felt like posting it!

 

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Let It Rain....

It's pouring rain here today, buckets and boatloads of rain.  I'm reminded of a song we sang frequently at our former church....Our former church, that I miss so much.  Even if we had not moved the church would have changed soon enough when the pastor left.  That church has gone thru some real changes and is definitely not the church we left.  I miss the church we left, not the church that is there now.

I don't blog very much these days simply because I don't have a whole lot of time to sit down and try join all my thoughts in to cohesive sentences (ha ha).  The kids keep us very busy and the baby is sitting here as I type pulling all sorts of who-knows-what from the couch cushions.  Well, that's one way to clean out the couch.

We were excited at the thoughts of a barrel race today but the rain has ensured we will have time together as a family in another way.  Lib is only showing a few shows a month as she is showing in a different barrel racing circuit this year and sometimes there's only one a month.  This one was really close to home so we were looking forward to it for the past few weeks. 

Tomorrow we will be having Lib's birthday party.  It's a few weeks after her birthday but we were in Tennessee the weekend after birthday for hubs fishing tournament.  He didn't have a great finish but the girls had a blast at the resort's pool, where we had a cabin for the week. 

The girls have brand new pageant dresses and can't wait to give them a try.  The alterations are being completed on Lib's and Lu's is ready and waiting for the next one.

Today I'll be content watch it rain, spend time with my beautiful family and try not to ponder too much the things and people of which I have no control. Lord knows there are plenty of those things and people in our lives. 

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Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:5 and 18

meet Miss Alabama - Liz Cochran

Last night, the girls and I attended the crowning night of Miss Alabama. They enjoyed it tremendously. Pictured is the newly crowned Miss Alabama, Liz Cochran. Alongside her is her prelim pageant director from Miss Hoover, and our friend, Tim Gann. He also directs the Miss Center Point pageant, who was also a top 10 finalist. First Alternate was Miss North Jefferson County, Colene Burns.

"A Woman Insipired" online conference

June 8 - 11th

Arrangements for Randy Sandford

The arrangements for Randy Sandford are as follows:

Jefferson Memorial in Trussville

Viewing:  Friday 5-7

Funeral:  Saturday 2:00

 

I believe the family has requested in lieu of flowers that donations be sent in their name (The Sandford Family) to The Healing Place Church, Trussville Alabama.

Please continue to lift Cindy and the boys, Jane (Randy's mom) and the Franks up in prayer. 

 

The link to the obituary is below:

http://obits.al.com/obituaries/birmingham/obituary.aspx?n=randall-dane-sandford-randy&pid=127543866

Praying for the Sandford family....

Yesterday, a beloved father, husband and friend to many went to be with the Lord.  Randy Sandford was killed in a tragic accident as he was pinned by a train in downtown Birmingham.  We all attended church together at Cathedral and his singing ministered to many.  Randy's wife Cindy works close by me and I have been to lunch with her as another co-worker of mine is close friends with her.  I know the grief of losing a husband and father to your children.  I pray Cindy will feel the arms of so many lifting her up in prayer.  I pray for the boys to find guidance now from their Heavenly Father and grow in wisdom in the years ahead knowing their Father is with the Lord.

Please keep the family and friends of Randy in your prayers. 

The link to the obituary is below:

http://obits.al.com/obituaries/birmingham/obituary.aspx?n=randall-dane-sandford-randy&pid=127543866

Been a while....

It's been a while since I've been on my blog.  I won't make this long & I'm not even going to password protect it because it will be that uninteresting LOL.

Lu's T-ball is wrapping up so we will move on to cheering next. Lib is showing in NBHA's and small shows around the house.  She has placed pretty well in the Youth divisions and is hoping to go to Youth Worlds in 2010.

C. has had a few tournaments and placed really well in those.  He's been mentioned on the local news, had his picture on Bassmaster.com & his name in a few articles on Bassmaster.com.  He was even asked for his autograph, which was just weird to me!  However, the checks from those tournaments are not weird at all.

BB spiked a quick high temp yesterday and was really out of sorts.  Our pediatrician said to take her to the ER.  They think she may have had a mild febrile seizure.  They monitored her & administered some more medicine to get the fever down.  Once she returned to "normal" they let us go on our way.  It was a crazy afternoon.

The girls have some pageants coming up they want to do and both girls have new pageant dresses that they are eager to try out on stage!

C. has a tournament in Kentucky coming up and we may go up for a few days for a quick getaway.  We are also planning our beach trip and we are all excited about that since we did not go to the beach last year with BB being so young.

Dad is recovering from his surgery/complications and is in therapy a couple of times a week.  Please continue to keep Dad and Mom in your prayers.

That about sums it up for us.  I hope you are all doing great.  Take care, be blessed!

Prayers Needed....

Please continue to keep my Dad & my Mom in your prayers.  Dad has had a few setbacks since his surgery last week.  Your prayers are appreciated.

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