I absolutely love this song by Carrie Underwood. It is about faith and perseverance. I get goose bumps every time this song comes on. I look for the greater meaning in a song and how it speaks to me and this gives me hope and encouragement that everything will be ok.

This was funny! I really liked 27 dresses and did not know if this was going to be great or not but it was. I love Patrick Dempsey. I have seen several of his movies and he is a funny, romantic actor. At first I thought this was going to be like my best friend’s wedding which I hated because I thought Julia Roberts was cruel in her attempt to get her friend back. This was far from it. It has humor, romance and appeal. The main theme is you don’t know what you have until it is gone. Tom which is Dempsey’s character realizes his best friend is who he is meant to be with. He goes to share this news and she lands a big one on him, she is getting married. Thus Maid of Honor title. It has quite a few sexual innuendos but is fairly clean. It is the perfect girls night out movie. I just saw it with one of my good friends. Stephen does not like the “chick flicks” so I went with a friend. I definitely recommend this is you are in for a romantic comedy with a wonderful ending!

The results show was interesting to say the least. I love Fantasia but she looked drugged out or something. I think even the judges were a little perplexed by her performance. I also thought it was interesting that they played a Daughtry song during David Cook’s look back. Since they have been compared and all. I called it and so did everyone else and this is going to be the best finale ever in AI. I hope Cook wins but either way I will be happy and both will go far. I am sorry to see Syesha go but she will do well. She is a wonderful talent and beautiful too. See you next week!

Lisa Bevere came and spoke at our church this past weekend and it was awesome. Our pastor wrote his thoughts on her message in his weekly e-note. This was really good! I hope you enjoy!

My favorite of course was David Cook. Syesha I thought did a wonderful job but I thought it was more theatrical than American Idol. She will really do well on broadway. I also thought David A. did well. Maybe not quite as good as past performances but still great! I thought the judges were a little rough on the producers choice since they did not actually pick the song and I agree with Simon that David Cook won the night.

Stephen went out to his car to come home and it had been broken into. The passenger side window was completely smashed in. They picked the wrong car though because there was absolutely nothing in it. We have the factory radio in it after my nice stereo was stolen when we first got married. Nothing was touched. We seem to be the lucky car today because no one else’s was broken into. Stephen told me after he first went there cars were broken into from time to time.

If you can pray this is not too expensive, we are going to call around for a few quotes (we have 2-3 recommendations from his brother who is a mechanic) unless it is over 500 dollars we will not file a claim as our deductable is $500.

This could not have come at a worse time because we are having a lot of expenses financially this month and something else happened over the weekend that is going to cost close to $200 now this. It is really hard to have faith and keep on when this happens over and over and over again. It really makes you wonder what you are doing wrong. I know I need to have faith so keep us both lifted up as we did not need this. We are so close to getting this one card paid off and this really sucks!

We sing the ABCs and read but I did not know my 20 month old could recognize some letters. She read some of the letters off my shirt this morning. I its I and a its a and e its e. She was right. What a smart girl. She also knows several colors white, pink, yellow, and purple. She also can recognize blue for which she calls pooh. She is picking up so many things it is quite amazing!

My grandmother’s friend of over 55 years was diagnosed with malignant colon cancer yesterday. She is 79 years old and we are basically her only family. She was never able to have children and she was not close to her own family. Her husband died shortly after my grandfather. It saddens me. I have known her all of my life. She is like a second grandmother to me. It also makes me angry because she went to her doctor last summer with bleeding and he passed it off as something else and now we are here a year later with a huge mass and malignant cancer. It could have been prevented or caught early. Now who knows. I am praying for her healing. Please keep her and all cancer patients in your prayers.

Sarah received an accordion from a relative. Anyway, I did not know that Sarah had seen one on Stephen’s computer and said she wanted one. He said, “Well you need to pray for one. Ask God for one for your birthday.” She said “Mommy, I prayed after that. I asked God to give me an accordion for my birthday.” I have to say this is such a rare thing to get someone so it had to be God. My cousin has never had children and she felt led or thought this would be a great gift. Sarah has been playing ever since. She loves it and Hannah loves her playing. Hannah said last night after Sarah played “la la purty (pretty)” La La is music.. I thought this might encourage you in your faith or help you if you are asking God for something. He does not always answer our prayers the way we want but I thought this was so amazing that a 5 year old child believed God could give her an accordion and he did.

It was a great day. I was able to sleep a little late which is good because I was up part of the night listening out for the weather. We had tornadoes hit the state but fortunately it passed over this part of GA. Some parts were decimated. Anyway, my mom, grandmother, the girls and I went to our favorite Japanese restaurant. We came home opened gifts and had dessert. My mother gets me a present every year because she says I act like her mother sometimes since my dad passed away quite a few years ago. She got me 27 dresses my all time favorite movie and a small box of candy. My grandmother and Stephen bought me a small gift cards to Starbucks and Sarah made me a tea cup magnet and a bookmark with her beautiful picture on it. It was a lovely day. The only thing that would have made it perfect is if Stephen had been there. He has to work on Sunday’s.

I hope your mother’s day was wonderful too.