Wow! That's a long title isn't it? Okay I've been told that I'm a slacker (in so many words). I'm sorry, we've been so busy, you just can't imagine. It seems like when we get one thing done, something else comes up.
First of all, end of June we attended part of family camp. My family was only able to go to the nightly services, because we were leaving for vacation on Saturday morning. But the nightly services were really good. Bro. Brian Odell from North Carolina, was our Evangelist and he did a really good job. There were many people blessed including myself. I've tried to post pics of a march that they had one night, but blogger won't let me put any pics up. I'll try to post them soon.
On Saturday June 30- July 6 we went on our first family vacation in 3 years to Pigeon Forge, TN. We had a really great time. We did a lot of shopping (my favorite). We have been wanting to start camping for a long time. All the youth at our local church go camping and we don't have a tent. So we've been looking for a nice one that was pretty reasonable, so we could afford it. We went shopping at the Coleman outlet and looked at the one on display that was an 10 x 12 for $150.00. And we were looking at buying that one, because it had a lifetime guarantee, since it was a Coleman and guaranteed leak proof. Then we looked a little more in the store and they had a display with another
Coleman tent that was an 11 x 17 and the regular price on it was $189.00, they had it marked down to $60.00 that day only. And we started not to stop in there that day. I'm so glad we did. It's a much nicer tent that any others we've seen and much bigger for the price. We haven't went camping yet but are looking forward to it after the Assembly.
The kids (including Will, he he), rode go-carts and bumper boats. We played Putt Putt every night, just different courses. There are so many to choose from up there you could probably play different ones for a month. We went to the Dixie Stampede for the 5
th time. We go every time, it's one of Dalton's favorites. We also went to something that they have new there called the Miracle. It's a 3 hour Musical play that tells the life of Christ. I was really
surprised. It was really good! They follow along right with the Bible. It was a blessing. They showed Satan being cast out of heaven and the fight between the evil and good angels. They showed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, Jesus' birth, many miracles of Jesus, and His death and resurrection. Madison despised the Devil all the way through the play. She said I don't like that ole devil, he's mean to Jesus. At the end, they had all the characters out in the hallway and she just had to meet Jesus, but the devil was beside him and they were both signing autographs. Well Madison gets up there and says I want Jesus' autograph, but I don't want that mean old devil's autograph. Well they didn't hear her and they both signed it and needless to say she was not happy. It was too funny!
Okay I think that's enough about vacation.
On July 9
th, as many of you know my mom went into the hospital with major heart trouble, and high blood pressure that was not coming down. Her doctor told her that her health was so bad that she could lay down to sleep and not wake up. None of us knew it was that bad. Her blood pressure had been bad for so long, that part of her heart had enlarged and started beating 3 times faster than what it was supposed to and the other part of her heart couldn't keep up.
Well immediately we called everyone we knew to start praying.
When she got to the hospital, the heart doctor told her that there was no doubt that she probably had multiple blockages in her heart and possibly a blood clot. They were going to start test the next morning. Our local church started a round the clock prayer all night. Someone was praying each half hour or hour that night. When they did the first test the next morning, they found NO blood clots nowhere. Then they did the 2
nd test, they found NO blockages in her heart except one artery was blocked 25% and they can fix that with medicine.
The 3rd test is what scared us the most. They had to get her heart back in
rhythm, so they had to STOP her heart completely and shock her back to life to get it back in rhythm. The day after the test we found out that they lost her on the table and couldn't get her back. They shocked her 3 times and the 3rd time they had it turned up to the max and she came back alive. God really kept his hand on my mom. He has really touched her during all of this.She is doing much better now. She is still real weak and recovering, so please continue to pray for her. Thanks to everyone who prayed, you are a blessing to our family!I'll try to post again soon! I'll also try to post those pics when blogger will let me. Hope everyone is doing good. Love you all! Until next time.........
Madison was so cute marching, that's her in the blue jean dress.
Dalton loves to march. He marched the whole time, from beginning to end. I know they marched around that building about 50 times or more. Dalton is in the red shirt.
This is Madison pouting. She was sooooo tired, she said, and she definitely did not want her picture taken, as you can see in the next picture. She's still a cutie, though.
This is Madison pouting. She was sooooo tired, she said, and she definitely did not want her picture taken, as you can see in the next picture. She's still a cutie, though.
