See you in a while!

OH no! I will not be blogging for a little while until we get settled in our new home.

Blessings on my friends and family. Love you all! A little prayer for the four of us loading up and driving 3 vehicles for nearly 9 hours in the snow today would be appreciated!

Until later!!! Amy

A Merry, Merry, Christmas!

Wonderful, wonderful Christmas.

So many pictures.

There was...SNOW, laughter, great food, surprises...Rachel, hot cider and lots of coffee, warm fires, apples to apples, dominoes, no electricity, a helicopter flying around, dogs everywhere...love you Lucy and Gus and Sugar, lots of hunting and three dead deer, a longhorn snuggie and other great gifts, twinkling lights, Chance...the jerk (so not true), great steak meal...just ask Colt...:(

missing McCoy's on Christmas morn, football, naps, and lots more.

It was well...Wonderful.

Mom's sweet tree
Chance...he always makes me laugh

Debra. Sister and friend.

These boys fill this big living room up!

Dad...the fire builder!

Benjamin Bunny.

Sidney.

Ky...opening her Christmas. She is a sweetie.

And the stocking were hung by the chimney with care.The family. We are all goofy, but some more than others. :)

Zane in his new shirt that his Mama will not let him wear in public. HA!

Lovely snow fall on Christmas Eve morning.

So gorgeous

Christmas Morning.

It has been a long time since I have seen these.

Hats that Mom bought in New York for the boys.

This is where we all took turns standing for several days. Ahh...

William got his Toms shoes. He was so happy.

Brad...snuggie.

Wes...Red classic underwear. They came in handy on the hunting trips

The Walker Family

Mom in her warm blanket Debra gave her.

They did not hide good enough or the hunters were great shots.

Probably the later.

Suprise! Rachel came for a visit! She is beautiful inside and out. Thanks for coming to see us all Rachel!

Lots of laughter.

Hugs

Mom's tree. I love it.

Lucy and Chance

Our backyard when we finally made it home. Beautiful.

Blessings on your week! We will be moving on Wed. Whew...

I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas...It Came True!!

I think it has been at least 20 years since we have actually had a white Christmas. I could not get my pictures to load so I put one on that looks like our snow this morning. It started snowing at about two in the morning and just stopped right now at 2:30pm in the afternoon. We lost power this morning at 6:00am and it just now came back on.

It was pretty funny how all of us coffee drinkers were figuring out how in the world to make coffee without electricity. We boiled water on the fire...etc. You can imagine. It was quite hilarious. We take alot of comforts for granted let me just say.

Anyway, one good thing is when all the heat you have is one fireplace everyone stays right together in a 15 foot area. There was lots of good conversation and laughter, book reading, game playing and napping. No tv or anything electric going on. It was very fun and enjoyable.

Blessings on your Christmas Eve. We are loving our White Christmas... where the tree tops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow...

Moving...

Hey! Good morning on this lovely day four days before Christmas! Do you recall the post about that beautiful tree that held a secret? The secret is...we are moving into the lovely trees of East Texas from beautiful West Texas. Below are a couple of pictures of our new home.

Sid has been blessed with a wonderful job and we will be closer to Will and to DaddyBob in this new location. He will be working with incredible people and is so excited about his new position. It does mean we will be further from my family but still only 5 or 6 hours away from them. We have sad hearts about moving away from this sweet little town we are in and leaving great friends here. We have had such a blessed time living in Shallowater and watching our boys play football and basketball here. It has been a wonderful place to live. Leaving friends is so terribly hard. We will miss our church family and the families that we love and have gotten to know through Shallowater High School. We are so blessed though that 10 years ago we lived in the beautiful town that we are moving to and so we have some cherished friends that we will be able to be with again.

God is good and is constant and is awesome. We are thankful for a good job in these difficult times when so many are struggling with loosing their jobs.

I also wanted to post these great thoughts and my father-in-law sent us a few days ago.

Jesus is Better than Santa
Santa lives at the North Pole.
JESUS is everywhere.
Santa rides in a sleigh
JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.
Santa comes but once a year
JESUS is an ever present help.
Santa fills your stockings with goodies
JESUS supplies all your needs.
Santa comes down your chimney uninvited
JESUS stands at your door and knocks.. and then enters your heart.
You have to stand in line to see Santa
JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.
Santa lets you sit on his lap
JESUS lets you rest in His arms.
Santa doesn't know your name, all he can say is "Hi little boy or girl, What's your name?"
JESUS knew our name before we did. Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too. He knows our history and future and He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.
Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly
JESUS has a heart full of love.
All Santa can offer is HO HO HO
JESUS offers health, help and hope.
Santa says "You better not cry"
JESUS says "Cast all your cares on me for I care for you.
Santa's little helpers make toys
JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.
Santa may make you chuckle but
JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.
While Santa puts gifts under your tree
JESUS became our gift and died on the tree.
It's obvious there is really no comparison.
We need to remember WHO Christmas is all about.
We need to put Christ back in Christmas.
Jesus is still the reason for the season.

May the Lord Bless and Watch over you and your loved ones this Christmas 2009
And may He prosper and bless the work of your hands in the New Year.

Blessings and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Amy

21 Years.

Why even think about a second honeymoon......when there's no evidence that you two have even finished your first!

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

Light In The Darkness

Good morning. I feel numb. Body and mind. This is not really a bad thing, just a fact. JoAnn is gone and it does not seem real. Getting older is not easy and seeing people that you love age and pass away is not easy, but it is life and it is ok. I am just thankful this morning for God's unconditional love and for His comfort and for His plan of salvation...and on and on. I am just thankful that I am His.

Psalm 18:28

You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

Loved watching Wes play basketball last night. He has done such a great job this year. Quite the player.
This was what I saw yesterday at about seven in the morning out my back door. God just puts on a show every morning. Thank you Father for the light...

This lovely tree holds a secret...I will share it with you next week. Can't hardly wait to tell you.
Blessings on your day...and let's spread His light to everyone we talk to!

She's There...

Phil. 3:20&21

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

JoAnn Walker went into the arms of Jesus last night. Sid's Mom has been a light in this dark world to so many people. There are not enough words to describe how she has furthered the Kingdom for God and for how she has touched and loved so many.

How do you put a person's life into words? You can't. JoAnn is our first parent to loose. I woke up this morning thinking that something was missing. To not have this lovely person on earth anymore cheering us on and encouraging us is really hard and well, strange. She is woven so tightly into our hearts and the fabric of our lives. But, the beauty of in the midst of sadness is that we will continue to live growing closer to our God because of her guidance and love and her total tunnel vision of living to glorify God. In every conversation and every card that I can ever remember, she always brought the thoughts and words around to God and how awesome He is and how we can better live to serve Him.

I thank you God for my mother in law JoAnn. Oh, how she has made Your footprints on my heart a lot bigger. One of the last things she told us at Thanksgiving was that she would be waiting for us in heaven. She had one of the most beautiful smiles God ever gave to anyone. I can't wait to see it again.
I love you JoAnn and I will miss you.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:3-9

JoAnn could not see Him with her eyes, but she did see Him vividly with her heart and loved Him fully with great inexpressible joy. Blessings. Amy

Memorial Service: Friday, Dec. 11th, 2:00 p.m.

A&M Church of Christ, College Station, Texas