A Spiritual Makeover and July Happenings

"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.  Jeremiah 32:17

I have been so behind in my blogging!  I have been busy taking care of myself. God has been doing a spiritual makeover in me and it hasn't been the easiest thing to go through, but I am thankful for the changes he is bringing about in my life. 

I'm learning to carry my own backpack, so to speak, and learning why I have spent most of my life overweight.  I have joined Weight Watchers and am joining a local running group to start training for the Houston half marathon.  I'm super excited to see what God has in store for my and Lesh's life.  He too is training, but for the FULL marathon.  I may change my mind later and train for the full, we shall see!  I have lost a total of 13lbs that I have worked hard to shed.  I have a long way to go but with WW, the running group, a great support group of friends, and of course God I hope to finally conquer the extra weight I've been carrying around for years!  Just like Jeremiah 32:17 says, Nothing is too hard for our God!  I know that his great power will help me to overcome.

Now on to the fun!  Nathaniel is an absolute hoot!  He is such a character!  He is charming and a big flirt with the ladies! Today at church he was watching people come into church and he would give the men serious looks, but the second a lady walked through the door he would put on a smile and throw his hand up to wave.  He also tries to get girl's attention in public places.  He is something else!

Nathaniel loves to play in the laundry basket and read his books.

Nathaniel loves to eat his snacks at his picnic table that my mom got for him.

He especially loves this puppy and will carry him all around the house.

On Friday we had some friends over to watch the Riff Trax for The Lord of the Rings.  What are Riff Trax?  It is an audio file that you down load from their website and they have hundreds of them.  Basically you play the audio at the same time as the movie and it makes hilarious commentary about the characters, the storyline and so on.  It is so funny and makes the movie 10 times better!  We told everyone we were doing a meat and potatoes night so everyone brought food to go along with the theme of the movie.

These are mashed potato cupcakes my friend Mindee made!

They are actually vanilla cupcakes with caramel sauce on top with a square of laffy taffy on top to look like butter.  Aren't they great?!  Quite tastey too!

Meatloaf!

These were actually sugar cookies with cinnamon and sugar.

These were rolls made with potato flour and were yummy!

Cheesey mashed potatoes!

And of course our fancy ales!

Yesterday we celebrated my Sister-in-Love's birthday and had a blast! 

Whew! That was the longest post I have ever written!  I told you I was way behind!  I'll try not to go so long next time.  Blessings!