Mtn Climb!

Well I did something Sunday that I can't believe I did!!!

Rodney and I stayed at the Heber house all weekend and on our way home Sunday we thought we would stop and stroll up the mountain...well we had done that a couple of time and we just get to were the Rocks start and I was always saying, I don't think we need to go any further..." Well Sunday I guess I was feeling a little adventurous!!! And there was two older men with their two grandkids that were like 6 and 8 (Yeah so in my head I was saying if they can do this I can...) So I put my fears of getting stuck between these rocks and having to have a helicopter come and get me out...or falling and hitting my head and busting it open and having to be carried down...or worst Rodney getting hurt and me having to take control the situation - yeah right they would end up throwing me off the cliff...behind me and TOOK a go at the climb!

I will not say that it was easy - in fact yesterday I was sore! but WE got up there and it so PRETTY...I have some pics...It was worth the climb.

We stayed up there for a while just enjoying the view and the breeze...so nice

THEN we had to come DOWN...Rod and I make a good team b/c we helped each other figure out how to get down without just taking a leap...

I never thought I would do it and I did and I want to do it again!!!!!!!!

Worthless Info...

July is National Hot Dog Month!

Well...

Okay I am in Wal-mart returning a baby gift I had bought (found something else much better) and I have a bag full of film that I am going to have developed...as I stand there and wait for the cashier to do the return she turns to me and says, WELL WHEN IS THE BABY DUE! I turn around makesure she really is talking to me...have this really blank look on my face and say, "WHAT?" I rub my belly and say, "I'm not pregant? Do I look pregant????" then the girl plays it off as that returning the dipers and all the film...which at the time I laugh off BUT Why would you ask if you were expecting with RETURNING Dipers and a bunch of film that would mean that you already had the BABY!!!!!right??? Come on,now I am worried!!!! I have been 135lbs for the last 5 years...I have only gained for a very short time up to 140 and then I guickly returned to 135...I think today I will start to watch what I eat b/c I actually am overweight if you go by what the ideal weight is for me at the dr. office and hope for no more comments like this! I am glad I am starting today b/c last night I was at the twins b-day and ate way to much CAKE!!!! I am happy with myself, but yeah I wouldn't mind being at least 10 lbs lighter...can't hurt anything...Also I have the new bike and a perfect sidewalk...what is my excuse?????

Fishing Trip...

Well we went fishing Sunday afternoon...and I didn't catch anything like in this picture:) I was ready to go home and actually I had already gotten into the truck turned the a/c on and was saying, "COME ON" When I heard, "Get off your lazy butt and get down here...I have something to show you" That is the biggest bass I have seen in a while! We threw him back so maybe next time he will be HUGE and I will get him!!!!!

No, not Jennifer, just JENNY!!!

Have you ever had those phone calls Where this happens?

The phone rings you answer, "Hi! this is Jenny. O hi Jennifer how are you... "I am fine but it is just Jenny..." O sorry about that, ,but anyway I have a question about, whatever, JENNIFER

UUURRRRR - I am been Jenny my entire life NOT JENNIFER...I don't understand what people get by trying to call you the correct name not a nickname...and in my case it is my name....

Anyway just gripping my heart out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I feel better and can get back to WORK!!!!!!!!!!

T.G.I.F.

Well here we are again...Finally Friday! Even with a Holiday in the the middle of the week I am still Thankful it is Friday...

I think it is just knowing that you don't have to get up and get ready to do anything. I am usually up but I move from the bed to the couch and watch tv...which I don't usually do alot of during the week. And also that is when Rod and I spend our time together...during the week we see each other but not really enjoy each other just kinda in the same house I guess you could say...anyway it works

O let me tell you what we are doing now...btw we didn't buy any fireworks this 4th which is crazy for us b/c Rodney has always spent too much money and then was sick b/c it was up in flames so quickly, but this year NOTHING...and I didn't care we went and watched them and that was fun...now getting back to what I started Rodney went and got up bikes to start riding...Yeah I am excited UNTIL I tried to ride...Let's see it has probly been 10 years or more since I have rode and I haven't done any kind of excercise in atleast the last year so it was an experience...Where we live there is a little side road and I take off well the has like 20 or more gears and I never have really used them so that was a small problem...I get to the end of the road and think okay I got to get back HOME...so YEAH I have to get off and push up the hills...Thank goodness there is only one...I did make it home but I died when I walked in...And Rodney Mr. Muscle and I can do anything the very first time perfectly! was like what is wrong with you I though you were just going the short side road...I just smiled and walked away...

Anyway I am going on and on...last night I did the same short ride and didn't have to walk up the hill!!!!YEAH I call that process :)

Getaway!

Rod and I got some much need time away last weekend...we left Friday night and went to Springfield, MO stayed the night then got up and went to the BassPro Shop...It is huge! I remember going when I was little...but now there is alot more stuff. there is also more animals and kinda like a walk through wildlife exhibit there...We left there about 2pm and was on the way to Eureka Springs...We stayed at the Crescent Hotel (the ghost must have been on vacation) where we had our hour Massages (aaahhhhhhhh) We stayed in a Balcony Room and the view was so nice...We always eat at the Balcony Restaurant in the Basin Park Hotel, can't beat it...plus you eat out on the balcony so you can people watch :) Anyway we went around to the shops and walked to all the springs and walked through the gardens...go to www.myspace.com/jenrod for pictures - it was so relaxing. We made to home Sunday afternoon and we crashed...well caught up on all the laundry you have when you get back...I hate that part!

Taken back...

I was taken back to my childhood today...I love it when that happens :)

I was getting some letters ready to mail out and with the postage increase I have to add more than just the regular one stamp...

One stamp is a 5 cent stamp and it isn't one of the fancy just peel and stick you have to lick it and stick it :)

Well that is what took me back the taste of the stamp...remember those book you could get and have the stickers inside...I thought of sitting down and do that...awe the good old days...

Father's Day

Well Yesterday was Father's Day and I didn't even see my Dad!!!

So why not blog about how great he is and maybe get some brownie points?????

He is really great...no joke...I have to say no matter what happen with anything I can depend on him to be beside me. I think it is that "Daddy's Little Girl" disease...I may not be that little girl anymore but I don't ever want him to think that he isn't loved and needed...even though I'm married and Rodney is great, I got to chose Rodney and it was a decsion for us to make to get married...God chose me to be my dad's daughter and I am so thankful for that...he knew exactley what we both needed...Dad's are giving a great gift when a child is born...they can take that and live for that child or continue to live for themselves...this is a choice they are givin...mine took his chance and lived for me...so THANKS! And look at it this way you got the BEST daughter in the world...RIGHT...

A Litte Side Note: Mom you are great too...I started feeling bad b/c I didn't write on Mother's Day...Love you both!

Rodney helps a red fox...

You never know what is going to happen at work when it comes to hauling concrete...

Rodney called me this morning and said he had done his good deed for today...first thought was he was being sarcastic and he had done something bad...but he said him and some of the guys were out looking at some rock piles and up it a tree was a red fox. It was about 15 foot up in this tree and it was stuck in a fork...back feet on one side and the front on the other...I can just imagine it up there trying to get out so hard and no matter what it did it was just getting wedged in there worse and worse...How and why it was up there is a unknown maybe there was some tasty birds or something I don't know...the poor thing was just stuck and needed a boost and that is where Rodney came to the rescue...he use a long pole that he found in the shop and pushed the little foxes butt up and as soon as that fox could get some footing he was gone like lighting...

Why go to Church?

Why Go To Church?

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:

"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual
nourishment!"

All right, now that you're done reading, send it on! I think everyone should read this! "When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, "Jesus, could you get that for me?"

The Living Bible:

His name is Bill. He has wild hair, wears a T-shirt with holes in it, jeans, and no shoes. This was literally his wardrobe for his entire four years of college.

He is brilliant. Kind of profound and very, very bright. He became a Christian while attending college.

Across the street from the campus is a well-dressed, very conservative church. They want to develop a ministry to the students but are not sure how to go about it.

One day Bill decides to go there. He walks in with no shoes, jeans, his T-shirt, and wild hair. The service has already started and so Bill starts down the aisle looking for a seat.

The church is completely packed and he can't find a seat. By now, people are really looking a bit uncomfortable, but no one says anything.

Bill gets closer and closer and closer to the pulpit, and when he realizes there are no seats, he just squats down right on the carpet.

By now the people are really uptight, and the tension in the air is thick.

About this time, the minister realizes that from way at the back of the church, a deacon is slowly making his way toward Bill.

Now the deacon is in his eighties, has silver-gray hair, and a three-piece suit. A godly man, very elegant, very dignified, very courtly. He walks with a cane and, as he starts walking toward this boy, everyone is saying to themselves that you can't blame him for what he's going to do.

How can you expect a man of his age and of his background to understand some college kid on the floor?

It takes a long time for the man to reach the boy.

The church is utterly silent except for the clicking of the man's cane. All eyes are focused on him. You can't even hear anyone breathing. The minister can't even preach the sermon until the deacon does what he has to do.

And now they see this elderly man drop his cane on the floor. With great difficulty, he lowers himself and sits down next to Bill and worships with him so he won't be alone.

Everyone chokes up with emotion.

When the minister gains control, he says, "What I'm about to preach, you will never remember. What you have just seen, you will never forget."

"Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible that many people will ever read!"

I asked the Lord to bless you as I prayed for you today. To guide you and protect you as you go along your way.... His love is always with you, His promises are true, And when we give Him all our cares, You know He will see us through.