Weekend at home

I am so happy that we had a family weekend at home. We started out Friday night with Billy headed off to a meeting while Tanner and I just chilled and hung around the house. On Saturday we were up early for a 5k race for Kidney Disease out at Greenway where Tanner had his 2nd birthday. Then my girl Ashlee and I headed off to HOT POWER yoga. It was awesome. With all the pounding I put on my body with running Yoga feels so nice on my muscles and boy did we sweat. I love doing Kerry's body sculpting classes too. I know what I am asking for for my birthday. Packages for yoga and body sculpting. It feels so good to run hard and fast then slow it down with an awesome all out body workout. I am so into trying new things these days. How awesome it has been as well as spiritual to take such good care of myself and pushing myself to do new things like running a marathon. After that we came home and enjoyed the beautiful day by playing outside, working in the yard, and going for a bike ride. I love my home. We were invited over to Ashlee's to celebrate Mel's birthday and her niece and nephews too. She made us a delicious Tilapia dish with mango salsa and brown rice. YUMMY!! Plus we had yummy coffee. I guess there is a reason we are such good friends. Our love for GOD, coffee, and running! :) I love Ashlee and so thankful for her in my life. She has been an amazing friend!! On Sunday off to church with my boys and lunch at firehouse. I heard an awesome message today. Stop making excuses and live intentional. Feelings are not fact. We can make plans but Jesus will determine our steps. I read this out of the book I am reading. "What we value is what we love and sign importance to. Often we do not take responsibility for what we value.John 12:43
New International Version (NIV)
43 for they loved human praise more than praise from God. (I am taking all of this from the book I am reading on boundaries.) I only write all this to confess it because I want to live my life that my actions line up with my heart. I am not completely there yet. God is working on me and my daily communion with him is helping change my heart about a lot of things. I posted a quote from Dr. Modders only because I liked it. Not because I have it down. I am working really hard at having clear cut boundaries in my life. They are not there to control but to be the healthiest me I can be. Well back to our weekend. We came home and Tanner took his nap and I packed him up to stay the night with his meme and grampy. I know how much they enjoy him and glad that we can take him over there to spend time with them. He is there now and so thankful they are so good to my son. Tanner is at such a cute phase. His vocabulary is off the charts and I enjoy being able to have full conversations with him. I love having lunch with him, playing in the back yard, watching him cook me things on his little BBQ grill, reading to him, and just plan kissing his face to death. There are some nights I go back in his room and get him out of his crib just to hold him and rock him some more. I am feeling so affectionate these days with my boys. I love when Billy holds my hand in church or rolls over in bed just to scratch my back. He is affectionate too. :) Both of my boys make me laugh. (AND YES THEY DRIVE ME CRAZY AT TIMES TOO) That is the point! You take the good with the bad. In part of Pastor Ron's message today he said " If you are waiting for the perfect job, spouse, kid and so on and so on you will be waiting forever" Billy and Tanner are not perfect. I LOVE them. We love because he first loved us. 1John 4:19" In other words we learn to be loving because we first are loved. After you feel safe being around people who believe that truth and grace are good your values will start to change. You will begin to see that taking responsibility for yourself is healthy and taking responsibility for another adult is destructive. I do not have to live in fear. Boundary setting is a large part of maturing. We can not really love until we have boundaries. Individuals with boundaries are not frantic, in a hurry, or out of control. They have direction in their lives. The reward for their wise boundaries is the joy of desires fulfilled in life. Their investment in the years God has given pay off for them. boundaries define what is me and what is not me. I love me today. I am God's daughter after all!