A Great Week

We had a wonderful week. Rusty, Ashley and Braylee came for a visit and to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. Braylee is so cute. Ashley and I had a relaxing day of manicures and peidcures and a massage.

Jake out shot Brian, Rusty and Ethan. Jake really enjoys shooting. I am so proud of him. Jake's Birthday is August 30. He will be 13. Yes a teenager.

Ethan had a great ride at Billy Bob's. Ethan will be riding again tonight.

School starts Monday YUCK!!!!

I will add pictures asap.

The lady reading this...

Dear God:

The lady reading this is beautiful, classy, strong and I love her.
Help her live her life to the fullest.
Please promote her and cause her to excel above her expectations.
Help her shine in the darkest places where it is impossible to love.
Protect her at all times, lift her up when she needs you the most,
and let her know when she walks with you, she will always be safe.
For all you women out there!!!!

The Power Of Attitude by Mac Anderson

The Power Of Attitude by Mac Anderson
(excerpt from the book)

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING...

William James, over a century ago, said, "The greatest discovery of this generation is that a human being can alter their life by altering their attitudes."

William Ward said, "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the handcuffs of hate."

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan

PASSION...

Wherever you choose to go. Go there with all your heart.

ENTHUSIASM...

Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth. -Sarah Breathnack
DREAMS...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Chinese Proverb

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE ...
..."It is never too late to be what you could have been." Dreams are free, and just having them can make your life worth living.



DO IT NOW...
The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible. -Rich DeVos

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction -Harry Truman



EXPECT THE BEST...
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maughn

Life - changing Law... You become what you think about. Simply stated ... if we choose to think positive thoughts, we'll get positive results...

ATTITUDE...
Whether you think you can, or think you can't ... you're right. -Henry Ford

First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us - Dennis Waitley

ATTITUDE IS A LITTLE THING THAT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.
Whatever your destination - success, purpose, peace, or other desire - attitude is the fuel for the journey there.

Thanks to Simple Truths - the gift of inspiration.
www. simpletruths.com
---Simple truths have wonderful books full of inspiration---
Enjoy!!

A veteran is someone who...

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' - Author Unknown

Reasons Not To Mess With Children

Reasons Not To Mess With Children


A little girlwas talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.The little girl
stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'. The teacher
asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?' The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.' Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.'

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to'honor' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that
teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?' Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.'

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several  strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?' Her mother replied,
'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white..'
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Mummy, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?'

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. 'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say,'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's dead.'
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.' 'Yes,' the class said. 'Then why is it thatwhile I am standing upright
in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?' A little fellow shouted, 'Cause your feet ain't empty.'

 The children were lined up in the cafeteriaof a Catholic elementary  school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note,and posted on theapple tray: 'Take only ONE . God is watching.' Moving further along the lunch line,at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note,  'Take all you want.  God is watching the apples.'

---Thanks Larry for this funny email ---

Try...

You maybe disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try

Helen Keller

Helen Keller Quotes . . .

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.


As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.


Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.


College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.


I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.


Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.


It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.


Life is either a great adventure or nothing.


Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.


Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.


Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.


Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.



People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.


Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.


Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.


Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.


Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.


So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.


Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!


The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.


The highest result of education is tolerance.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.


The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.


The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.


The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.


The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.


There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.


To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.


Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.



Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.


Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.


We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.


We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.


We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.


What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.


What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.


What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.


When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.


While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Butterflies.........

MAY GOD SMILE ON YOU TODAY!

STAY YOUNG

Stay Young


We all need to read this one over and over until it becomes part of who we are !

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Try everything twice.
On one woman's tombstone she said she wanted this epitaph:
"Tried everything twice.loved it both times!"

2. Keep only cheerful , positive friends.
The grouches pull you down.
(Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)


3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.
Never let the brain get idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop..'
And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!


4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud.
Laugh until you gasp for breath.
And if you have a friend who makes you laugh,
Spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.

6.. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on.
The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.
LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love:
Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.


8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county,
to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
I love you, my special friend.


11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance.And if you don't send this to at least 4 people - who cares?
But do share this with someone.

Remember! Lost time can never be found.Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

THANKS TERRI FOR THIS EMAIL

Special Friend

Sometimes in life, you find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop; Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is Forever Friendship.

Thanks to Terri and Sandy for this email