Thursday, March 29, 2012
In-n-out burger
Okay, so I've always wondered why I feel very sick after eating at In-n-out burger. I haven't eaten there in a long time but since I would always feel sick afterwards, I decided to only get a grilled cheese sandwich and have a few fries. When I would do this, I didn't get sick. Well, I just found out the culprit of the pain....it's their beef. Their beef is 60/40! Seriously, my body must have been working overtime trying to digest all of that fat! Looks like I will stay away from their burgers for the long term =)
Monday, March 19, 2012
6 years....and counting=)
You know that old saying "time flies when you're having fun" ? Well that is soooo true! I can hardly believe that me and my husband have been married for 6 years as of yesterday! It has been so full of fun, even during the times when we were stressed out, and I wouldn't trade it for anything!
To celebrate our anniversary, we went out to dinner on Friday night because Saturdays and Sundays are just so busy for us. Robert took me to the romantic restaurant "Season's 52", at Scottsdale Biltmore Fashion Park, and I was impressed with the classical elegance. Dinner was not only served in a wonderfully romanic ambiance but the food tasted amazing. My filet mignon was perfect and Robert enjoyed his venison, said it's the best he's had. I will post pics soon.
After dinner we walked around the Biltmore Fashion Park for awhile and window shopped before changing into our comfy shoes to go play a game of laser tag. We hadn't played laser tag in quite some time and it was a blast!!! (no pun intended). Our evening was perfect and we enjoyed spending the evening together planning for the future. Of course, we always plan for the future but it seems like when we are alone we can really discuss our "road map" in better depth.
When we returned to pick up our little ones, Josiah was fast asleep in "auntie" Cheramee's arms and Rachel was rambling about "uncle" Jon and "auntie" chyra....she had a blast! THANK YOU so much to Cheramee and Chyra for watching them! Oh, and for Jon sharing his new bride with our little kiddo's for the evening=) Rachel and Josiah absolutely adore ya'll and you're just awesome!
We met in 2002 at Youth Camp in California. He was a cabin monitor on the boy's side and I was a cabin monitor on the girl's side of the campground. We didn't begin courting until 2003 and quickly learned that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together serving the Lord. We were married on 3/18/2006 at Truth Tabernacle in Modesto, California (that was where my father pastored at the time), thus beginning the "Robert Lee family". Together we have quite a testimony to pass on to our future generation. I was raised in the church and though have had the same struggles every other young person has had, have never once thought about "sewing wild oats"...Jesus is just too precious to me and I would never cheat on him like that. Robert on the other hand was not raised knowing the things of the Lord and was involved in a lot of actions that caused heartache and pain, however was witnessed to by a cousin (Thank you Jesus!) and received the Holy Ghost, was baptized in Jesus Name, and all of his old sins were washed away! Now, we hope that between the two of our testimonies, we can create a home full of the Fruits of the Spirit so that our children will see Jesus in us!
To celebrate our anniversary, we went out to dinner on Friday night because Saturdays and Sundays are just so busy for us. Robert took me to the romantic restaurant "Season's 52", at Scottsdale Biltmore Fashion Park, and I was impressed with the classical elegance. Dinner was not only served in a wonderfully romanic ambiance but the food tasted amazing. My filet mignon was perfect and Robert enjoyed his venison, said it's the best he's had. I will post pics soon.
After dinner we walked around the Biltmore Fashion Park for awhile and window shopped before changing into our comfy shoes to go play a game of laser tag. We hadn't played laser tag in quite some time and it was a blast!!! (no pun intended). Our evening was perfect and we enjoyed spending the evening together planning for the future. Of course, we always plan for the future but it seems like when we are alone we can really discuss our "road map" in better depth.
When we returned to pick up our little ones, Josiah was fast asleep in "auntie" Cheramee's arms and Rachel was rambling about "uncle" Jon and "auntie" chyra....she had a blast! THANK YOU so much to Cheramee and Chyra for watching them! Oh, and for Jon sharing his new bride with our little kiddo's for the evening=) Rachel and Josiah absolutely adore ya'll and you're just awesome!
We met in 2002 at Youth Camp in California. He was a cabin monitor on the boy's side and I was a cabin monitor on the girl's side of the campground. We didn't begin courting until 2003 and quickly learned that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together serving the Lord. We were married on 3/18/2006 at Truth Tabernacle in Modesto, California (that was where my father pastored at the time), thus beginning the "Robert Lee family". Together we have quite a testimony to pass on to our future generation. I was raised in the church and though have had the same struggles every other young person has had, have never once thought about "sewing wild oats"...Jesus is just too precious to me and I would never cheat on him like that. Robert on the other hand was not raised knowing the things of the Lord and was involved in a lot of actions that caused heartache and pain, however was witnessed to by a cousin (Thank you Jesus!) and received the Holy Ghost, was baptized in Jesus Name, and all of his old sins were washed away! Now, we hope that between the two of our testimonies, we can create a home full of the Fruits of the Spirit so that our children will see Jesus in us!
Monday, March 12, 2012
Josiah's tooth, parties,....
I have been meaning to blog about Josiah's tooth but have not had a chance since life has been going very fast the past few weeks. He finally had a tooth break through the gums last week and already is learning how to use it....teething bisquits! He absolutely loves the fact that he can now enjoy theses fun "cookies" and makes a huge mess all over his face but has the greatest time=)
Robert had a day off of work yesterday after 14 consecutive days of working, we were pretty happy that he finally had a day off......even though Sunday's are so busy that it's not really a day "off" it still was nice to just be doing the usual Sunday "work".
I need to upload pics. Me, Rachel, and Josiah went to a birthday party both Saturdays the past two weeks, one was for Bradley and Daniel Carrasco, the other for Ethan Lipkin.....of course Rachel had a blast at both and now thinks that her "happy birthday party" (as she calls it) is coming soon. I will post pics as soon as I download them =)
Robert had a day off of work yesterday after 14 consecutive days of working, we were pretty happy that he finally had a day off......even though Sunday's are so busy that it's not really a day "off" it still was nice to just be doing the usual Sunday "work".
I need to upload pics. Me, Rachel, and Josiah went to a birthday party both Saturdays the past two weeks, one was for Bradley and Daniel Carrasco, the other for Ethan Lipkin.....of course Rachel had a blast at both and now thinks that her "happy birthday party" (as she calls it) is coming soon. I will post pics as soon as I download them =)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Thank you so much Jesus!
Ok, so I just have to share. Only a few actually know about what I'm sharing below, but now it's time to use it as a testimony!
For almost the whole past two years the company my husband works for has been very slow. They have had business but not very much and so along with me having to take furlough days (time without pay) because of the State's deficit, my husband in addition to taking a 20% paycut also had to take some time off without pay. For some reason though the company has not gone under, while other's have. Of course it has been a daily prayer of ours that God would bless the owner with enough wisdom to keep the business going.
Now, fast forward to two weeks ago............we were dreading filing taxes, at last we decided to just file and get it over with. When we filed we found that we made $25,000 less than we did in 2009! As you can imagine we looked in awe at the bottom line final amount we brought home and said to one another "how did we make it?". Somehow God worked it out to where we had a roof over our head, food on the table (thank the Lord for spaghetti!), clothes on, gas in the tank.. (the list goes on and on) without any government assistance at all! Oh how we would have loved some assistance but alas, they look at gross income instead of net =( Needless to say we actually get a small tax refund this year! Woohoo! AND we qualify for all kinds of homebuyer incentitives now since our gross income was less. BUT now for the really good news.........Robert's work is busy! They are actually so busy right now that they can't keep up!!!! The bid requests are flowing in and they are rushing to get bids out. Robert is the lead and only finisher in the shop and is swamped with work! He was just told that he can work as much overtime as he'd like because of how busy they are!!!! Thank you Jesus! Seriously, we were just thinking the other night that we wouldn't be able to make it much longer with the way gas prices are and then Wham! God drops down a bunch of overtime! I'm bout' to have a Holy Ghost shout down right here at my desk.............don't worry, at least I'd be able to explain it =)
Have a great day and know that the Lord knows just how much we can take!
For almost the whole past two years the company my husband works for has been very slow. They have had business but not very much and so along with me having to take furlough days (time without pay) because of the State's deficit, my husband in addition to taking a 20% paycut also had to take some time off without pay. For some reason though the company has not gone under, while other's have. Of course it has been a daily prayer of ours that God would bless the owner with enough wisdom to keep the business going.
Now, fast forward to two weeks ago............we were dreading filing taxes, at last we decided to just file and get it over with. When we filed we found that we made $25,000 less than we did in 2009! As you can imagine we looked in awe at the bottom line final amount we brought home and said to one another "how did we make it?". Somehow God worked it out to where we had a roof over our head, food on the table (thank the Lord for spaghetti!), clothes on, gas in the tank.. (the list goes on and on) without any government assistance at all! Oh how we would have loved some assistance but alas, they look at gross income instead of net =( Needless to say we actually get a small tax refund this year! Woohoo! AND we qualify for all kinds of homebuyer incentitives now since our gross income was less. BUT now for the really good news.........Robert's work is busy! They are actually so busy right now that they can't keep up!!!! The bid requests are flowing in and they are rushing to get bids out. Robert is the lead and only finisher in the shop and is swamped with work! He was just told that he can work as much overtime as he'd like because of how busy they are!!!! Thank you Jesus! Seriously, we were just thinking the other night that we wouldn't be able to make it much longer with the way gas prices are and then Wham! God drops down a bunch of overtime! I'm bout' to have a Holy Ghost shout down right here at my desk.............don't worry, at least I'd be able to explain it =)
Have a great day and know that the Lord knows just how much we can take!
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
11 pounds and counting...
Okay, so I just wanted to share my little victory in the "the battle of the bulge", lol. As only some of you know (I haven't really shared my battle with many) I have been doing weight watchers religiously for the past 6 weeks. I have not "cheated" at all, except for actually having a hard time using all of my daily points. I have reached a loss of 11 pounds! I am so excited! It has actually been pretty easy and I have changed my eating habits in a healthy way. I am now only 19 more pounds away from my goal weight! As of now, I am back to the weight I was right before I got preggo with Rachel =) I think I will celebrate with some chocolate frozen yogurt this weekend =)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Bus outreach and Village Inn
A few weeks ago we gathered all of the kids that rode the buses to Sunday School for a picture. Our purpose was that Village Inn was so kind to donate pies to us for a luncheon that the bus outreach teams did a few weeks ago. We frequent VI at least once a week and so have gotten to know the manager and several of the waitstaff very well. They are wonderful people and so when we asked for a donation it was almost an immediate yes! In return we promised that we would take a picture and have a plaque made with the photo on it to give to them. The manager said that she is so touched by what we have told her about the bus outreach and we hope that one day she will come and visit, and bring her daughter with her. So whenever you kneel to pray for others please remember them also=)pressing on.....
Okay, so I officially have 3 credits left to finish my BLS degree!!!!! Woot woot! I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I am working on my final capstone project and then I am scheduled to graduate in the summer, but I'm going to actually graduate in the Fall so that I can spend some time with the kiddo's this summer. I'd rather be a little relaxed this summer have fun in the sun =) instead of working on my final credits. I am soooo excited that I can finally move on to the Master's program and hopefully have an opportunity to work from home teaching online courses within the next few years.
On another note, our church has been in revival for several weeks now and finally has had a powerful breakthrough this last week. It all started on Tuesday night and has been nearly non-stop since then. It is so wonderful to feel liberty and victory at last! God is so good!!!
On another note, our church has been in revival for several weeks now and finally has had a powerful breakthrough this last week. It all started on Tuesday night and has been nearly non-stop since then. It is so wonderful to feel liberty and victory at last! God is so good!!!
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