Happy Birthday America

I find it a little saddening to be wishing America a happy birtday. She has come so far but the path she is on is not a good one. All I can do is what I can do and then pray that whatever comes our way in the days ahead that God will be there with us and guide and protect us. So, many of us take for granted what we have here but I don't think it will be long before we will be in the midst of chaos and possibly war right here. On the brighter side, we spent our holiday weekend doing family things together. First, we went to the Monument parade. It's the best home-time parade I have ever been to which is alot of them since I am from Souther CA where there is no home-town feel. Faith enjoyed all the candy being thrown out to the crowd of kids. I had lots of fun taking photos. I took a photo of a dad and his baby. My son thought it was creepy to take pictures of other people but I had to explain I was being a professional photographer not a family picture taker. I was hoping to get some photos of firewors on the 4th at the Air Force Academy show but we went, had dinner, did the bouncy houses and then it proceeded to rain and then to hail. It stopped for a while and we debated about leaving for about 10 minutes. My sopping wet pants and cold feet did me in and I made the decision for us to go to Blockbuster and then home. As we were leaving the lightening was starting and later on we heard it rained a lot more. We were very glad we decided to leave. We would have been miserable. I will pray that there will be a next year that we can try this all over again. On a super fun note, Faith got her first bike. She's not so fearful as in the past and is ready to conquer it and learn how to ride a bike. The bike needs some training wheels as she's just not there yet to go it alone. Tristan went this week on a day trip with the church to the Sand Dunes. He climbed all the way to the top. We have tried this before the last time we went as a family back when Faith was 2 and my leg was in a boot. I can tell you walking in sand is very hard. He was very tired which I totally expected. All in all the holiday weekend was a not break from reality of working but now it's time to get back to it. I am very thankful to God for allowing us to have this country and this land and I pray that each of us would not take it for granted but be willing and able to make sure we are going on the right path and work together to do it. Amen.

God really laid one on me!

The other night hubbie and I went to bed to watch another episode of True Blood, a series on HBO about Vampires who come out of the closet and live openly with humans. I like the story line but have been disturbed more and more about the sexual aspect of this series. It is HBO so they show and do just about whatever they want. The last scense still pops up into my head and I am disgusted with it. It was a scene of basically an outdoor orgie with all the people being called to do this by some evil woman in the center of this. I closed my eyes trying to go to sleep that night but that scene popped up in my head and I had to open my eyes to make it go away. I immediately started praying to God for help and forgiveness. We shouldn't be watching stuff like this, is what God has been trying to tell me and I finally got it BiG TIME! I just am not going to continue to watch something that goes against my beliefs. This was 4 day ago now and it's still bugging me. Lord, I pray for release from these feelings and courage to just not watch these kinds of shows. Amen.