Kenna got a red star for best defense...and she scored 4 points!! Way to go Kenna that is so awesome. Mylie gets the white star for most Christlike.

Glad that we live in a generation where we are constantly feed what is happening in other people's lives. These were the latest and greatest posts from my sister in love Misti.

I am so proud of the two beautiful girls that her and Steve are raising. You know they have done a great job when you are around these to precious girls. I am so honored to be their Aunt and to share their lives with them. They are really incredible and it's moments like these that just scream to the world how great they are. I love these two so much and wish we were able to part of their everyday lives. But we watch from the sidelines and they truly make my heart smile. I am so blessed!!

Control Freak

So I know that I have Control issues and I keep trying to rid myself of the need to control. Just when I thought I was getting better at it..BAM!!! Troy and I are currently looking for a new place to live. We are wanting to rent a house or a townhouse but every corner we turn leads us to disappointment. Every property I have found interesting or overwhelmingly excited about, the realtor has just got an offer for. We have two months until our lease is up and I should be able to say ok I have two months but instead I am freaking out and thinking...Great we will have no place to live.

So we are hoping something wonderful comes our way. Until then I will just be the spaz that feels like she is going to be homeless.

Christmas in the Frozen Tundra

This year Christmas was a little different. We spend every other year in Minnesota for Christmas but were missing part of the family so it just wasn't the same. The absence of Steve, Misti, Mylie and Kenna was greatly felt but we still managed to open presents all together via Skype. We were all really grateful for that.

I got to meet the latest addition to the Tarno clan and boy did I fall in love with that little guy. I forgot just how great little bundles of joy are. Briggs definitely stole the show around that house. It was so great just to spend time with everyone, especially the kiddos Breana and Briley. I really miss seeing them and they are such great kids. I am so lucky to be their Aunt.

Christmas day we spent at Aunt Nancy's and that is pretty much my favorite part of the trip. I love having the whole family get together and spend time with one another. I was plagued with a migraine so didn't have as much fun as I intended but still it was such a wonderful blessing to be there.

Danea, Mark and the kids were able to be in MN the same time so it was great to see them.

After Christmas we traveled up to Esko and had a blast hanging out with Desi, Tony, Stone, Dea, Gale, Heath, little Heath, Easton, Judy, Craig and Gene and Jill. I got to meet Troy's friends Mandy and Matt and just love them. We enjoyed our time there and then headed back to the cities.

We got to have multiple dinners with friends. We enjoyed haning out with Joe and Erica and meeting that handsome sweet little angel Alex. Then we had a great time scarfing down some Mexican food at my favorite restaraunt Don Pablo's with Karissa and Robert. We always wish we could see them more when we are there and will have to do better at it next time around.

We had such a sweet blessing by having dinner with Rhonda and Ed before they headed off to Amsterdam for a year. They are so near and dear to our hearts.

So overall we had a great time. We missed not having the whole family together but managed to enjoy to time with the ones we did have. I can't wait to go back to Minnesota for a visit. I really would love to see how fall is there. I have only endured the cold winters and the late spring.







This was Troy's little slice of Heaven!!!!

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Eight altogether I'll love them all forever and ever

Children are God’s greatest gift. Once upon a time, I wouldn’t have wanted to be an Auntie because I was not someone they would have been proud of or could look up to. When my first nephew came into this world, his little being completely transformed my heart. I had this burning desire to be better, to be more than I was and to create a new me. How could these little creatures stir up so much desire in me, how could he give me so much when I had nothing to give him. The day Joshua came into my life, I felt a love I have never known. He was simply perfect, and he was a gift to so many. I now have 8 nieces and nephews. I may not have known all of them from the day they were born but since the moment they have entered my life, they have changed my heart forever. They truly are God’s greatest gifts. Each of them has their own personality and each of them hold a special place in my heart. Their laughter and giggles lighten up any day.

Beautiful eyes, a tender heart and a smile that's very sweet. Before you came into my life, it was very incomplete. You always make me happy...And you make my world go around in everything we do together joy can always be found. I just want you to know and hope you can see that you're a very precious person that God has shared with me. My nephews and nieces, eight altogether. I'll love them all forever and ever.

Joshua and Braeden


Kenna, Breana, Mylie, Briley


Mia


Briggs

I am, You are

Read this somewhere and thought of the man I love...TT

I am a rose, you are my thorns,
clutching to me, protecting me.

I am the sun, you are my rays,
helping me to shine and to be all that I can.

I am a lake, you are my water,
filling me with ideas, dreams, and hopes for the future.

I am a tree, you are my leaves,
sharing who and what I am
and becoming an important part of my life.

I am a heart, you are my beat,
beating rhythmically to my happiness,
my fear, my sadness, my excitement


I am me and you are with me,
to share all that I am,
to share life, love, and happiness.

What Happens in Vegas

Troy turned 40 this year so of course we had to celebrate in stiyle. We went to Vegas along with some of our favorite people, Kati, Kate, Karissa, Robert, Kyle and Kylee.



I was a virgin to the strip and I have to say I am now addicted. The second we stepped off the plane back into boring ole Tejas, I told Troy I was ready to go back to Vegas!!! There is so much to take in, so many things to do and see and no matter how much you don't sleep you still can't take it all in. So there will be another Vegas trip in my future.

We had a great time and enjoyed many laughs. The old saying What Happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, well I am glad that for our experience there that saying need not apply!! We partied with the best of them but I don't think I have laughed so hard in my life. Riding the Duece was an adventure all on it's own with Memories I don't think we will ever forget.




We can
We can't even qalk
we can't even walk thE strip with alcohol ...and they walkeds from. kentucky
cannot operate machinery.. heavy blackberries now...big finger...little button
ridin' the deuce
how far is McKinney?...what do I have two kidneys?....hahahahaha
where u going to get it put at??? lol...
that's what she said
stop
I'm not doing that
we started with a guy and all of a suidden it was a girl
boob check
Meghan.... Vegas....enough said...
conversations of a 1 mile ride on the deuce.....
comments...what??? stolen blackberry!
its only fun if u make noises while ur doing it...

We had a great drunk trip back from Downtown to MGM. I will never forget this trip. We saw Zummanity which is the sensual side of Crique de Soli and it was amazing, very interesting, funny and quite entertaining. We had VIP access to the Ghostbar, which is just one big blur but all and all we had a great time and can't wait to go back. Glad we got to "GO BIG" for the hubby and celebrate his birthday. Good times!!

Finding Peace

It is so great when you can find peace with your past. I went through Pathways and that was my number one struggle, I let my past define me and control me. Once you rid yourself of all the negativity you will be amazed at the work God can do in you. I am so grateful I choose his definition of me now, that I am that God fearing woman that desires to live.

I have recently come to a strange road in my life. Where some people I thought could never be a part of me have reoccured in my prayer life. You may sever the ties with people, but the ones you truly care for you continue to pray God's will in their lives. Some people I wish never existed in my story, some parts I had cried out to erase, but through God's restoration I have learned that each part of the messy dirty past has made me who I am today. Some of those I will hold in my heart forever. I am so grateful that my broken road God can and will use to His Glory. So I have found that true peace and I am perfectly ok with who I was because its helps me be who I am today and what God will create in me tomorrow.

Pieces by RED.. Reaction by Meghan

Pieces"

I'm here again
A thousand miles away from you
A broken mess, just scattered pieces of who I am
I tried so hard
Thought I could do this on my own
I've lost so much along the way

Then I see your face
I know I'm finally yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to you in pieces
So you can make me whole

I've come undone
But you make sense of who I am
Like puzzle pieces in your hand,

Then I see your face
I know I'm finally yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to you in pieces
So you can make me whole!

I tried so hard! So hard!
I tried so hard!

Then I see your face
I know I'm finally yours
I find everything I thought I lost before
You call my name
I come to you in pieces
So you can make me whole
So you can make me whole



I have listened to this song many times in my life and every time I do I am moved. I decided to listen to it on the way to work this morning. My mind was flooded by memories. I remember being a shattered, broken person and trying so hard on my own to make myself whole again but only to be broken and shattered time and time again. Right before I was at my lowest (I guess almost a year prior) I started praying to God to destroy me. At the time I didn't quite know why I was praying that but I just kept begging him to shatter me and I think I was finally aware but not aware that I needed to be so helpless, so hopeless, so broken that I knew I couldn't do it on my own and that God would have to save me. I still can feel the desperation so fresh as if it happened yesterday. I seriously had lost hope and almost gave up on life itself..that I was so unaware that God was simply answering my cries, answering my prayers. Days, weeks and months I started contemplating killing myself just to rid myself of all the pain, the shame, the guilt, the depression, the anxiety and fear, but God was allowing me to feel everything I had previously begged for him to give me.

I feel sometimes that people who have not walked in the darkness can't fully understand how amazing it feels, how freeing it feels, how blessed it feels to walk in the light. The desperation for answers and for healing, the desperation to feel something other than brokenness and destruction. My GOD is so amazing, so loving so much more than I deserve but He is the only answer...He may have used other outlets to get to me other than church but one thing I know and one thing I overwhelmingly feel when I hear this song is...WE CAN NOT FIX THIS ON OUR OWN>>>WHEN YOU ARE DESPERATE AND DESTROYED THAT IS THE PERFECT TIME FOR GOD TO USE YOU AND HEAL YOU AND CREATE IN YOU A NEW LIFE. HE RESTORES LIFE, HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PICK UP THOSE PIECES AND MAKE YOU WHOLE. I am no longer lost, I no longer am meaningless, I am the daughter of a King, the daughter of the most high and the most righteous and I have been given another shot at life because my Heavenly Father saves!!!!

One of my favorite poems--from Love Jones

It is the color of light
the shape of sound high in the evergreens
It lies suspended in hills,
A blue linei n a red sky

I am looking at sound

I am hearing the brightness of high bluffs and almond tress
I am tasting the wilderness of lakes, rivers and streams
Caught in an angle of song

I am remembering water
that glows in the dawn
The motion tumbled in earth
Life hidden in mounds
I am dancing a bright beam of light

I am remembering love