The Wedding

It has been a while.... I have been so busy.  So here are a few pictures from the day. I have tons more but I am going to wait and share the professional pictures. This was getting ready.

The Bridesmaids and Flower Girl.

Waiting....

The big moment....

This is actually before dinner.... Prayer.

During the ceremony.
 

 

Daddy walking her down the isle.

 

The cake was beautiful. My friend made the cake....

 

This is me and my friend Brandy. She made the cake. We have been friends for 30 years. The cake tasted so good!  The day went very well. Of course their are always the little things that go wrong...but all in all we had a wonderful time. When the photographer gets the pictures back I will share some more with you.....

 

Blessings and Love to you all,

Amy Jo



A Mothers Reverie

We are officially one week away from Savanah being married! Today I am feeling sad about that and I am sure that is normal..... but all of a sudden it feels like time has slipped away.... My child is officially grown and things are about to change in a big way. 

There will be no more waking up and checking on her to make sure she is in her bed where she is supposed to be. (Yes I still do that)  Because she will be moving 12 or more hours away there won't even be weekly visits with her. I'm sure there will be many phone conversations but truly, it just will never be the same... and today my heart is breaking...

xoxo,
Amy Jo



Our 21st Anniversary!!

Wow has it been 21 years..... It has indeed!  Frank and I have been married for more than half of our lives. I can not imagine my life without him. He has been such a tremendous blessing to me. When we married we were very young. I was 16 and he was18. Sometimes it has been hard. But God is so faithful! He blessed our union and we have tried to honor Him in all of our marriage.(Falling short many times)  I am thankful to my great and all powerful Lord for his many mercies! Especially in my marriage.  When we first married I devoured Emilie Barnes books. She really spoke to my heart. She called herself a child bride because she to married at 16. I have all of her books on my shelf and will never part from them because of the encouragement they were to me in a time when I needed it so badly. Time has kept marching on and now 21 years has come and gone. Many changes have occured. People that were main characters in our life story has passed on and some have moved on....but Frank and I, we are still plugging on through this life walking hand in hand..... and I hope it stays that way for a very long time.

Love to you all,
Amy Jo



20th Anniversary!

A reporter asked the couple, "How did you manage to stay together for 65 years?" The woman replied "We were born in a time when if something was broken we would fix it, not throw it away"....

My husband and I celebrated 20 years of marriage this past week.... My, how time has flown....I had a special delivery that day. A beautiful bouquet of flowers...It was all in spring colors.... my favorite... Fall colors would have been disappointing to me... he knows me well...

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established. Proverbs 24:3

 Marriage is a beautiful and wonderful relationship and a gift from God. I have been so happy to be married to my wonderful, hardworking husband... he has been my best friend, confidant, and biggest encourager.

Leaning on God to guide our marriage I hope we have many more years together.....
"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." Isaiah 42:16



The Good Wife's Guide

I went on the http://www.timewarpwife.com/ website and found that she had a really wonderful ebook available. Since I do not own a kindle or a nook, I had to buy the pdf down loadable version.  It is called the Good Wife's Guide. I love this book. It is full of encouragement and tips for keeping the home.  The author has such a great way of  motivating homemakers to reach a higher plain.

I printed ALL of the pages and then put them in page protectors and added them to a spiral notebook.

I am highly recommending this download. It is offered at a great price. Printing it isn't that economical, but I thought I would want to refer back to it. So I printed it.

xoxo,

Amy Jo

Feminine Friday and The Best Husband in the World

Today for feminine friday, this is my daughter Savanah. She is wearing this maxi skirt from Target. She said they have them in multiple colors. It is that super soft and comfortable material. She looks lovely...smiles



I was doing laundry tonight and putting the clothes away. When I walked into our bedroom I saw this! This is the nativity set I have wanted for 2 years. My husband went out and bought it for me, and had put it in our room for me to find. I was over the moon excited!



So I immediately opened the box and set it out on our fireplace.

These dolls are so pretty. I don't think the camera does them justice.

The three wisemen are so beautiful. Their clothes have all the details, you would expect of wealthy men.

The Shepherd

I felt like I was a child again. Setting up my dolls for play. I know that Christmas was not Jesus' real birthday. But I sure do love having these little dolls to look at, and remind me of my saviors birth, and death and most importantly His Resurrection. They have this set at BJ's warehouse. If anyone is interested. I am so..... so.... excited.

Blessings,

Amy Jo

Heaven's Last Gift To Man

" A good wife is Heaven's last, best gift to man, his angel and minister of graces inumerable, his gem of many virtues; her voice his sweetest music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the sure balsam of his life; her industry his surest wealth, her economy his  safest steward, her lips his faithful counselor, her bosom the softest pillow of his cares, and her prayers the ablest advocate of Heaven's blessing in his head." --J.R. Miller Home-Making

Until We Meet Again,

Amy Jo

Choosing To Love Your Husband

"At a cocktail party the other night I looked across a crowded room and was taken by a stranger, in half profile, a handsome, terribly young looking man with a halo of backlighted curls. And then he turned and I realized that it was the stranger I am married to, the beneficiary on my insurance policy, the sport jacket, the love of my life. --Anne Quindlen

The above quote I came across in a little book I have on love. It got me to thinking about marriage and love, and what Christ teaches on the subject.  We all know the love chapter of the New Testament.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

 I love this scripture, although, it is one that is really quite hard for most of us. But you know in the light of our marriage it shouldn't be that difficult to follow these principles. After all we are  one flesh.  Ladies, do we suffer long and are we kind to our husbands? Are we puffed up or do we behave rudely toward him? Are we easily provoked when he is not doing things our way? Do we put his needs above ours? Are we always thinking of him first? We all have times when we fall short of scriptural exhortations. But it should definitely not be the norm. We should pray for our husbands and do everything in our power to be christlike toward him. He is the head of our home, and will be accountable to God for how he has managed his family. We should try to lighten his load, and not try to do things that would displease him or drag his name down.

Have you ever met a woman  who you know is constantly hiding things from her husband? It makes  him look bad because, he looks silly, and disrespected. Like he doesn't have a clue, because he doesn't. This woman is sinning against her  husband and Christ. We should be very, very careful on how we treat our husbands. Remember to love him even when he seems unlovable. Be kind to him. It is really our christian duty.  God gives us this beautiful relationship which he likens to Christ and the Church.  I know in my marriage when I am sweet and kind to my husband, he returns my kindness and sweetness 10 fold. 

I pray that it is like the quote I started with for all of us, may we look at the handsome stranger across our living room and realize it's the love of our life.....  our husband!

Until We Meet Again,

Amy Jo