I Am SO Ready For Fall!

Awe, Fall! Autumn! Such a wonderful season!! I am SO ready for it!! I have some serious fall frenzy going on!

Today's weather is low 80's with no humidity! It's been this way for about a week now, and I am loving it!

All I can think of is fall! Fall decorations - no, I haven't already decorated my house with fall decor and been burning harvest scented candles!! ;) Fall cooking - no I haven't already put soups and chili on our menu! ;) Fall colors, the smells of all the wonderful spices, the scenery of the beautiful mountains, the sound of crackling leaves as you walk, the freshness of the air, the nice cool breeze... awe, I can go on forever!!

I am also super excited to try all new recipes for my hubby and kiddos!!
Homemade Tomato Soup
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup
Homemade Chicken Tortilla Soup
Taco Soup
Chili
Pumpkin Chocolate Cookies
Chicken Tortellini Soup
Homemade Veggie Soup

Hope they all turn out well!

So long summer, hurry in Fall!!

Another Visitor!

To add on to our "wild" visitors... A BOBCAT!! Yep! That's right, a bobcat!

Dan told me about our new visitor this morning, the cat was at the maintenance building where he works, then this evening the boys and I were returning home from the grocery store, and there in our driveway was this ADORABLE bobcat waiting on us!! I hear that they are not as nice and cute as they look, but it was still very cool to see! I couldn't grab my phone quick enough to snap a picture, but I'll try to have it handy for next time!!

Eat Pray Love

What an incredible weekend!!! It was a Girl's Weekend Out!

Morgan, Jesse, Devon, Mary, and myself all met up in Lexington for the Beth Moore Living Proof Conference! Man, it was awesome!

For now, here are some pics. I will get all my notes and thoughts about the message on here some other time!

The worship was incredible! Probably one of the best worship experiences I've ever had! There is nothing like 11 THOUSAND women worshiping our Lord! I love seeing all generations together worshiping and in His Word together! At one point I glanced over and saw a women, probably in her late 80's, and though you could tell her body was frail and fragile, her hand was raised in worship to our Lord! May seem silly, but I absolutely love moments like that! It is just such a beautiful picture!

I also love to just listen for a moment! There is something so powerful to just listen to a group that large in worship! It's like a small glimpse of Heaven!

In this picture the guys were doing some Southern Gospel tunes. Now, this is not my style of music, but it was still awesome seeing all the "older" ladies standing, clapping, and stomping their feet!

Beth Moore

This weekend was awesome, because it was a nice break from work and yes, even a nice break from my precious boys and sweet hubby! And, it was awesome being in the city again! Oh how I miss the city SO much! The mountains are beautiful and all, but I really miss the city life! I don't realize how much I miss it, until I'm there again! The downtown streets of Lexington are beautiful! Yes, BEAUTIFUL! :) Close access to Starbucks is a beautiful thing! ;)

Now I'm back home with the guys. Back to burping, random gas, super hero's running around at every waking moment, and tickling mommy attacks!

I Wouldn't have it any other way!!

Clear Creek Bible Baptist College was founded in the year 1926.

All these years, decades, and all have known the way of the one-way roads through-out campus. That is, until the Poe Family arrived. This is the result of a dear guest of ours!

That's right! One of our guests couldn't figure out the one-way roads, so now after 84 years, they've had to paint directions on the roads!! :)

It has Just About Been...

one year exactly that we've been at Clear Creek! :/ :)! Not really sure how to feel 'bout that! Man, has ALOT went on in this first year!?!? Great Times, some pretty rough times, but all in all, God has totally blessed our family! He has made us stronger, and has continued to strengthen our faith in Him.

Classes started back up this morning at Clear Creek and Dan is looking forward to getting back into the swing of things! I'm pretty interested in some of his classes myself... Youth Retriets; Cults & Religions; Sounds like pretty cool stuff!

Anyways! Thanks for continueing to follow our blog as we continue through our journey of our crazy faith!!

Philippians 2:14-16a

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life.

It was a stressful and frustrating day at work today. And through my stress and frustration I complained and argued, which were the roots of my gossip about the person who caused my stress and frustration! Complaining and arguing lead to gossip, which lead to anger and judgment, all of which is exactly what this crooked and depraved generation feed off of. And through all those things this crooked and depraved generation will put fault on you, which dims your light. And in the book of Philippians, Paul doesn't say, "Oh yeah you should shine as stars." No, the Word says that in which you shine like stars in the universe. Assuming that we are already shining like stars for His glory! We must be ever so careful how we handle our life situations on a daily basis, because this crooked and depraved generation is watching our every move!

Instead of sinning through our frustration - which is oh so easy to do, we should obey Philippians Chapter 2 and "do everything without complaining or arguing so that [we] may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which [we] shine like stars in the universe as [we] hold out the word of life!"

Funny how far a bit of stress and frustration can go, isn't it?!?!

Back to School!

My Big First Grader!!