Battling

We are in the middle of a crazy battle.
Derrick spoke Sunday night and brought it. I have been chewing on it all week and God has been showing Sean and I so many "battles" going on around us. It IS so important for us to take up our "Armor" for what is raging around us. In our homes, our marriages, our children, our friends, our extended family....Satan is out there to Kill, Steal, and Destroy.....His primary goal. Scary. And when we are down and unprepared, we are going to be attacked.
Subtly.....Killing
Sneakily....Stealing
Slowly.....destroying

I love the picture Derrick gave us Sunday of standing in the gap for our family. When one of our brothers or sisters are being "beat up" AS thier brother and sister, jumping in and fighting for them/ or with them. We need this. We need to be fighting for each other. Including one another in our lives and our battles, otherwise we are out there on the battle field fighting and intense war.....alone. Thats not how it should be. We were created for community. Sharing. Living together. And fighting together.

Eph 6:10-12
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the FULL armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, agianst the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

There were 5 in the bed...

and mama said, EVERYONE OUT!!!

Seriously, last night 5 people in our, what used to seem like a big queen sized bed, now feels like a shoe box, bed.
Heres a rundown of our night. Us and the Lances go to see Dark Knight, amazing movie. It was one of those movies that Sean and I are literally talking about the whole way home...... getting home....laying in bed....yep, still talking about it. So anyway, get home at midnight, say goodbye to Guiddo and Cassie (thanks guys), feed Ryder, and are getting into bed at 12:45. 3:30, Ryder wakes up to eat, of course. 4:14 Skylar comes in saying she wet the bed (what is going onwith her???). 4:15, Caleb on her heels come and crawls in saying hes scared. So i am like "NO. You are NOT scared! Go back to bed, now!" and he cries and insists on being scared...so i give in (its freakin 4 in the morning!). And then Skylar, who is now all cleaned up and changed (thanks babe, your awesome) comes crawling in with us. Five in our teeny tiny shoe box bed. We are getting a King, i dont't care what I have to do to get it!

And we are all up at 7.....

I'm telling ya, coffee is my salvation.

What the.....

This is Ryder, spitting up. Mid-air. Crazy.
So Seans mom was looking at him at grabbed my camera just to take a normal picture. And as she snaps it, Ryder spits up. I know, Nasty....but halarious at the same time!!

Re-Cap

Super busy week, way behind on blogging....but last week we had our annual vacation to Pismo...however, this year we camped at Lopez Lake. 20 miles outside of Pismo Beach. Awesome vacation with Seans family. We tent camped for a week (thank you Lances for lending us your 8 man tent...our little 4 man, would have been a little tight!). Anyway, since our disaster Memorial Weekend Camping, i have been DYING to camp. So camping we did. We had a great time, riding at Pismo dunes, shopping at Pismo, great food ie: Seans campin food/eating out at our traditional places in Pismo. Ryder, being 4 weeks old did amazing. He was barely put down the entire week... I LOVE being with family. The kids are off running endlessly with their cousins, and Ryder is being passed from grandma, to aunt, back to grandma, back to other aunt....love it.

So we came home and ended up bringing Seans nephew back with us. Seriously, not a better 12 year old boy out there. He is so good and so easy and helpful. Super enjoyed having him here with us this week. But boy were we so busy. Waterworks Park, Sea-Dooing, walks, bike-riding, Kids Kingdom (which is apparently to young for a 12 yr old....thought it would have been more of a hit...not so much), and trip up to my family's churhes Bible Camp at Lake Almanor.....yah, busy week....actually busy couple weeks. I am so looking forward to getting back onto somewhat of a schedule.

Vacation

We are heading out on vacation tonight. We are going to Pismo. We go to Pismo every year with Seans family. I am really looking forward to it. However, I am deathly sick. I think i am going to be seeing a lot of the tent the first couple of days. We are driving through the night tonight....and my body feels like it has been run over by a dump truck.

Scooter Envy

This is my dream. I have to work very hard not to covet. I see them on the street, daily...i covet. And then I think to myself, "Rebecca, you have three kids, this is not practical".....doesn't matter. I don't want to live practically. I want a Scooter. Doesn't necesarilly need to be this one, i will settle with a knockoff.....I just want a scooter. I need to find a way to make $1,000. Any ideas?

Alive

This past pregnancy (so glad to be able to say past) was such a killer for me. I was pretty much in continual pain the entire time....pain I am not allowed to talk about publicly...but basically a ton of pain. It hurt to do everything, all the time. But what are you going to do while trying to chase around two other kids and just live life? You gotta push through it, and basically move on. And I don't know if from the pain, or hormones, or what, but the last few months I felt SO unsociable and unmotivated to do anything.

Now, 2 weeks after having Ryder...and really immediately after, I feel so alive. Back to myself, which seems like its been so much longer. I can't get enough of having people over for dinner. I want to cook for people every night. And going to things througout the week no longer seem like chores. I can't really explain it other than I just feel so alive, and it feels soo amazing!!!

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together wih all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowldege--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."


-Eph 3:16-19