Happy Birthday Lauren...

My baby is 27 tomorrow! Her baby is 5.  He acts like it is his birthday, lol

I am posting these pics today because I am sure I will post pics of Lauren this weekend!  Happy Happy Birthday to my Lauren! June 29!  She has always been my delight!  Beautiful inside and out!

Coconut Creme Cake...

Prepare and bake one white cake in a 13 x 9 inch pan.

Poke holes while HOT.

Drizzle one can of Cream of Coconut  (Coco Lopez) over the cake, (be sure to get in all the holes).

Let cake cool.

Top with cool whip or Fresh Whipped Cream.

Top with/without coconut flakes.

Oh so good and Easy!

6804 LaCosta, Tyler, TX 75703

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Cousins...

We are all in trouble with these two!

My monster...

Cute cute movie!  Monster's University!

Sovereign...

Taken from James MacDonald's email this morning, Isaiah 45...

"In verses 4-5, the Lord continues regarding Cyrus, 

“I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me. I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,  that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.”

Now that’s the sovereignty of God and His rulership in this world! If God could use the life of a king who may never have embraced Him by faith, how much more could He sovereignly work through you?"

And I add from his email, Hope,

"Loved one, God is completely sovereign and entirely in control. When He wants to get something done, God can even reach down into the life of a person who hates Him, and put him in a position to accomplish His will and purposes in this world."

Sparkling Ice...

My new fav summertime drink, $1 at Fresh...

Summertime...

June Real Estate postcard...

To see or not to see...

Layton with glasses, no lenses...

He keeps me smiling!

Folks...happiness...

I love my mother and daddy, that is for sure... Waller took a couple of pics today at a wedding we went to!

Blessed to have my parents!

Tablescape June 9, 2013...

Tablescape by mother for her Sunday School ... Love Flora...

2 down, one to go...

Katie graduated from Robert E Lee High School tonight !  3 girls between Waller and I... Two down, one to go! 

Dennis the Menace #lookalike...

This lil guy hung out with me today... He will learn real estate from me, that is for sure... I said, "what does LaLa do for work?" ... Sell houses? I will teach you,  he said, "I already know how too!"... Lol

Tablescape June 2, 2013...

Tablescape by my mother for her Sunday School class...

Layton's School Program...

Can't believe he is 5 and going to Kindergarten this Fall...  My sweetie!

Grace Mobilizes Performance...

My Sunday School teacher sent this to our class this week, it is long but worth reading!  Take time ...

Grace Mobilizes Performance

My friend Steve Brown tells a story about a time his daughter Robin found herself in a very difficult English Literature course that she desperately wanted to get out of.

She sat there on her first day and thought, “If I don’t transfer out of this class, I’m going to fail. The other people in this class are much smarter than me. I can’t do this.” She came home and with tears in her eyes begged her dad to help her get out of the class so she could take a regular English course. Steve said, “Of course.”

So the next day he took her down to  the school and went to the head of the English department, who was a Jewish woman and a great teacher. Steve remembers the event in these words:

She (the head of the English department) looked up and saw me standing there by my daughter and could tell that Robin was about to cry. There were some students standing around and, because the teacher didn’t want Robin to be embarrassed, she dismissed the students saying, “I want to talk to these people alone.” As soon as the students left and the door was closed, Robin began to cry. I said, “I’m here to get my daughter out of that English  class. It’s too difficult for her. The problem with my daughter is that she’s too conscientious. So, can you put her into a regular English class?” The teacher said, “Mr. Brown, I understand.” Then she looked at Robin and said, “Can I talk to Robin for a minute?” I said, “Sure.” She said, “Robin, I know how you feel. What if I promised you and A no  matter what you did in the class? If I gave you an A before you even started, would you be willing to take the class?” My daughter is not dumb! She started sniffling and said, “Well, I think I could do that.” The teacher said, “I’m going to give  you and A in the class. You already have an A, so you can go to class.”

Later the teacher explained to Steve what she had done. She explained how she took away the threat of a bad grade so that Robin could learn English. Robin ended up making straight A‘s on her own in that class.

That’s how God deals with us. Because we are, right now, under the completely sufficient imputed righteousness of Christ, Christians already have an A. The threat of failure, judgment, and condemnation has been removed. We’re in-forever! Nothing we do will make our grade better and nothing we do will make our grade worse. We’ve been set free.

Knowing that God’s love for you and approval of you will never be determined by your performance for Jesus but Jesus’ performance for you will actually make you perform more and better, not less and worse. In other words, grace mobilizes performance; performance does not mobilize grace.

If you don’t believe me, ask Robin!

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Memorial Day Fun...

My kiddos... These kids jumped in the pool no less than 1000 times.... First long summer day in the pool... I did try and explain to the kids at dinner, Memorial Day... One of my questions was, "Do you know what a soldier is? They said "no"... I said, "Have you ever heard of Freedom?", they said "no".... Believe me , I was not getting far in this conversation... I think I kind of, sort of, got somewhere, when I said, jail... prison... Lol , oh well, got to start sometime. Precious kids...

To Stand...

Ephesians 6:13-18
"Therefore put on the whole armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and when you have done everything,
TO STAND."

Stand firm,
Belt of truth- around waist- your core!
Breastplate of righteousness- do right!
Feet- fitted with readiness-comes from peace.
Shield of Faith-extinquishes the evil one.
Helmet of salvation- I will live forever.
Sword of the Spirit- The Bible.
Prayer- all kinds of request and all the time.

I love the end of the verses, TO STAND. What this means to me is that if I do everything, Truth, Righteousness, Readiness, Faith, Salvation, Bible, Prayer... Everything, so, even when evil and problems come my way...

TO STAND... #StillStanding, #believingIwill Stand...