Look What I Found!

This weekend, my man and I planted my Vegetable Garden. Delight! I so missed having a garden last year. Well, I had a garden, but my garden was made up of weeds. {Sigh!} This year, I carefully marked planting day on my calendar, made sure to reserve the date, and counted the days. Saturday was the day. Yippee!!!

While my man finished weed eating around the raised beds, I pulled a few weeds that were left in some of the beds. All of a sudden, I looked up to see something come flying out of the vegetable bed containing the most grass. It was lightning fast...so I thought it was a field mouse. My man was wearing headphones, and couldn't hear me call for him. What was I to do? I waved my arms like some crazy woman to try to get his attention. Finally, he looked just as I grabbed what was frantically fleeing the vegetable bed.  It wasn't a mouse:

It was the sweetest, but much afraid, baby bunny. I giggled with delight.

 

So precious! And to our surprise, there were two!

We had fun loving on them for a while.  What a fun surprise.  Before tucking them safely back in the burrow, I promised them that I would leave the tall grass in the vegetable bed that housed their burrow but only if they  promise to not eat my tomato plants. I think they grinned from ear to ear.  We will see what happens!  

One Act Play Regionals Here We Come!

Hannah and her fellow cast and crew perform in the Regional UIL One Act Play Competition today! I am soooooooooo excited for them! They are one step away from advancing to the state competition. You know what they say: Break a Leg!!!

(Hannah is the "old lady" pictured in the top right. She is wearing a hat. Doesn't look like her at all does it? Ha!)

Feeling Foggy

Mornings that are a bit cool, afternoons that are warm, and the hope of rain brings the fog. There's something about the sun breaking through the fog in the morning that I just love. I'm thankful I didn't miss it this morning.

Sweet Surprise

Last week, my doorbell rang while I was home for a quick bite of lunch. My sweet friend Lyn greeted me at the door with a special surprise. She is the proud mommy of the newborn donkey Louisa that I had so much fun taking pictures of. "Happy Easter!" she said and handed me this:

What a sweet friend and delicious baker!

She totally made my day...what a blessing to count her as my friend!

One Act Play Advances to Region!!!

What?? You haven't heard the news?

Hannah and her fellow cast and crew advanced in the Zone, District, and Area One Act Play contests!!!!

It's true!  That's my much older looking, youngest daughter, playing the part of Mrs. Osgood in Suite Surrender.  Really, that's my Hannah.  She looks older than her mother in these pictures.  Ha!

Love the braces!  Too fun! We are so proud of our baby girl...so proud of all of them!!!  They are one step away from going to State.  Wow!!!!

Angels Watching Over Me

Do you remember that song from the 80's by Amy Grant? This part of the song keeps playing in my head: 


God only knows the times my life was threatened just today.

A reckless car ran out of gas before it ran my way.
Near misses all around me, accidents unknown,
Though I never see with human eyes the hands that lead me home.
But I know they're all around me all day and through the night.
When the enemy is closing in, I know sometimes they fight
To keep my feet from falling, I'll never turn away.
If you're asking what's protecting me then you're gonna hear me say:

Got His angels watching over me, every move I make,
Angles watching over me!
Angels watching over me, every step I take,
Angels watching over me....

Friday afternoon, I picked up Hannah early from the District Track Meet.  My Freshman daughter made it to the Varsity Finals in discus and I made it just in time to see her throw.  Before we left, her coach told us that she placed 5th or 6th.  I was proud of her, as always. 

We made our way quickly to the Matthew West and Casting Crowns concert...which was amazing.  It was the perfect start to our weekend.  On the drive home, my baby girl and I had fun talking about the week's events and our favorite songs at the concert.  We stopped to get some lemonade from Chick Fillet-A and then made the drive home.

About 25 miles from home, on the interstate going 75 miles per hour, the truck in front of us slammed on his brakes and veered into the inside lane.  As the truck moved to the inside lane, I watched in horror to see a car driving in reverse headed straight for us!

I remember thinking the car was going extremely fast and in the outside lane, just like us.  I too slammed on my breaks, steered towards the inside lane while trying to avoid the truck that was right in front of us, and trying to avoid the car going in reverse who had now steered its car and was coming straight at us.

I remember grabbing Hannah's arm, stepping on the break with all my might, and steering my car towards the median and bracing for the impact I knew was inevitable.  I thought that I was screaming, "No! No! No!" at the top of my lungs, but Hannah later told me that I didn't scream at all....I must have been screaming on the inside!  In the split seconds that followed, I saw Hannah's precious life flash before my eyes as I noticed a semi truck quickly approaching us from behind. 

Somehow, in all of God's mercy and grace, God caused the truck that was in front of us to get out of our way, the car that was going full blast in reverse turned back into the right hand lane, and the semi directly behind us now was able to stop before crashing into us.  What should have caused serious damage...or worse I fear, didn't happen.  God saw it all and took care of us as only He could! 

I had the shakes as I pulled back into the middle lane and looked in my rear view mirror to see so many cars swerving into the bar ditches and median trying to avoid the speeding car that was driving in reverse.  My phone had hit the floorboard as we had slammed on the breaks, but we were able to dial 911 using Hannah's phone.  The phone rang 15 times before they answered!  The dispatcher on the other side wanted the make, model, and license plate of the car...seriously?!  It was pitch black and all of this happened at 75 miles per hour.  I was just thankful to have avoided it all by the grace of God.  No, I didn't know the make or the model or even the license plate.  I only knew the mile marker.  Hopefully, they were able to stop the driver before any serious damages were done. 

Hannah was so brave the whole time and she tells me that I was too.  I didn't feel so brave when I got home and was shaking and dry heaving over the very thought of what could have happened.  It sickens me to even write about it now! 

I'm thankful for how God so graciously took care of us and reminded once again to not take life for granted.  Each day is a gift....and each new day is filled with new mercies and His great faithfulness. 
"The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22.

Prom Tables

I didn't mean to leave you hanging from last week's, I think it was last week's, prom post. The centerpieces were finally finished and it was time to decorate.

My camera was already set for group photos, so I simply snapped these two images with my Iphone:

I thought the centerpieces went pretty well with the decor of the beautiful atrium. And this year instead of giving students commemorative wine glasses, I don't like the message that sends, we opted to give frames instead...I really like this idea.

We put together all of the animal wrapped columns...I burned three blisters on my fingers in the process with the hot glue gun.  My instinct was to put my finger in my mouth to cool the burn, I'm so thankful I didn't.  A burned tongue too would have not been fun at all!  I didn't take pictures of the food tables or the chocolate fountain because I was too busy once prom began.

I had fun taking portraits of the Juniors and Seniors and the Prom King and Queen.  We didn't just take traditional pictures.  I thought this was more fun:

Here is one of the portraits that I took.  Yes, we had a serious shot too, but the student seemed to like the mustaches that Hannah and I had made and I did too:

It was a fun night, but I am soooooooo thankful that I had my Rachel to help me. We were crazy busy and on our feet from 5:00 until we fell into bed around 1:30 that morning. Whew!