Life...a precious gift!

So this morning I had a few reminders that there is someone always watching over us!


I awoke to my alarm this morning (5:00 a.m.) and hit the snooze button like normal. The thought of, "this is not NATURAL to be awake at this hour" kept running through my head! I could hear the rain really coming down outside..then a thought came into my mind, Renda you need to leave early this morning for work. First let me just say, Um its too early to be thinking, let alone comprehending what was being said. So I just said, "OK" and began reading the back of my eyelids. Again that thought came back: "Renda, you need to leave the house at 6:00 this morning, you need to allow extra time to get to work in this weather!" This thought kept coming back every time I hit the snooze button. So I decided I needed to get up and get ready for work!



I was off to work at 6:00 a.m. and the traffic wasn't heavy like normal. I was feeling better good! Every day I take the same route to and from work. On my daily route I have to go through a little mountain pass. Nothing too big, but there is a hillside and a little cliff on the sides of you. So I have gotten pretty comfortable with driving this road and its doesn't really bother me.



So as I came up the hill, the fog was really, really bad. The fog was so bad that I had to slow way down and could barely see anything in the front of my hood. I was thinking how grateful I was for listening to the spirit this morning. Well at the top of the hill traffic all of a sudden came to a dead stop. I was the last vehicle in the line of cars and had time to get into the other lane. We were on our way down the hill, keep in mind, this highway has two lanes with a cement center divider. There was no extra room!! Since traffic had stopped, everyone used caution.


Well about halfway down the hill there was a accident. A SUV had flipped over and was in the ditch next to the hill. There were about three cars behind the SUV that were facing at the hill , several cars on the side of the road. Keep in mind, there is about 30 cars on a two lane highway in foggy, rainy weather with no ROOM to do anything.

My heart sank! I had just come so close to causing an accident myself with the way traffic had stopped, now, right in front of me was one! WOW, I didn't stop, several people had pulled over to assist these poor individuals and there was no where for me to pull over. I was coming to the bottom of the hill and a police car was racing to the scene. Then about five minutes later, there were another police car and ambulance racing to the scene.

I felt like I was in a dream, I couldn't believe what had just taken place. I was grateful for listening to the spirit, for my life, and being kept safe!! I called Joe right after I got to work to tell him that I Loved him and Joey! Wow, I kept thinking how blessed I truly was!

So in the news, the accident happened at 06:15 a.m. (5 minutes before I got there), no one was hurt. The news also advised that the road was closed for 90 minutes while waiting for a tow truck to come! Not only had I missed the accident, but I missed the traffic. If I had left the house at my normal time, I would have been caught in the middle of the traffic jam and extremely late for work.

I will say that I kissed and hugged my family a little harder yesterday!! It has made me think how truly blessed I am to be alive and how precious life really is! We do not know when it is our time to go, but I will remember always....Life is a precious gift and is not meant to be taken for granted! Make sure you give your loved ones a BIG hug and KISS!! Life is truly too short!!

Thanksgiving Dinner!!

Joey enjoying the fine feast...if you look carefully on Joey's plate there is something missing.... any ideas? It is TURKEY!! the kid only ate potatoes, corn, rolls, and CHIPS!!




























The boys kept talking in a "fancy" accent. They had fun putting their glasses up and toasting to each other. They kept saying, "fancy"...the boys had a great time!!

This is the feast!! We went to some friends house for Thanksgiving dinner after Joe's parents festivities. We had a great time!! We ate and ate some more...the boys watched a movie and the girls went shopping!! We had a wonderful dessert bar, I didn't get a picture because we left the boys home a lone with the goodies! At least we did get to try some of the yummy desserts!!

A little B Ball - on Turkey day!!

We enjoyed a little bball before the grand feast!! We met with Joe's family at the church building for dinner. It was fun to play ball with the boys!!

Friends Come to visit!!

So we had some friends over to play. The girls were scrap booking, minding their own business, when we went under attack!! So then it was WAR!! The boys against the girls..if you ask the girls we won, if you ask the boys they won... All in all it was a great time by all!!

Joey was so done with me taking pictures, they kept shooting me cause they were ready to play!!

Pack Meeting!!

I just had to put these pictures in..the boys decided that they needed to pull their scout leader. Noticed how many scouts it took to pull one leader. It took a total of 6 to pull him. The boys enjoyed pulling the leader as much as each other!!

I have a BEAR in my house!!!

Joey has advanced to a BEAR!! He started Cub Scouts last year on his 8Th birthday and has enjoyed it!! He started as a Wolf and has moved up to a BEAR!!

I don't know who was more excited, Joe or Joey? Joe was super excited for Joey!! Joe could barely sit still, the awards part took forever to get too...I thought that Joe was going to jump up and take over to give Joey his awards.

When you advance the boys get their face painted. Joe got to paint Joey, Joey was super excited!

The ending game was that each kid would pair up and one would pull the other down the court on a towel. At the other end of the court, they would switch. The boys used a rope to pull each other. This was a blast!! I think that the parents enjoyed watching this event as much as the boys enjoyed doing the activity.

Joey got the smallest towel possible, (him and the other kid were one of the tallest there) the other boy did a great job pulling Joey, Joey could barely stay on the towel.