2nd Annual Drug Free Parade at BBCS

This week we had our Drug Free Week at the school I work at. It was our 2nd Annual Drug Free Parade that we do around our neighborhood. We will have a story in the paper coming up soon, so you can check that out!!! Heres some pics!!

Also the kids decorated wagons and threw out water balloon yo-yo's, candy, and animal balloons to the neighboorhood. We had flag carriers, a drummer, cheerleaders and our own little JROTC. We had so many kids absent because of all the sickness going around. So we had some parents come out and help with it all.

Birthday Cake

So this year for my birthday, I wanted to make one of those fondant cakes that you see on TV. I looked some stuff up and asked a friend who does cakes how to do it, and what I needed to do. It didnt seem to bad. Well....It wasnt as hard as I thought it would be. I didnt have alot of items and didnt have the money to go buy it, so I "ghetto" did it, lol. But for my first cake, and trying to hurry and make it, I dont think it turned out so bad. I think the circles should of been smaller and of course its not perfect and smooth. The sad part is it...I didnt eat it, lol. I dont like cake all that much. I had a bite of it, but I really dont like how fondant tastes. Its not good at all, or maybe what I bought wasnt good, lol. But i thought it looked pretty.

You can tell its crooked and slanted and not smooth. I dont think I have the patience for this kind of a thing, lol

You can see the candles at the bottom. Well i bought these candles but I didnt want to punch holes all in the cake, so I got some extra fondant and put em on it.

More pics of Dallas trip

Me and hubby, on my birthday night

After the comedy club, we went to this restaurant and we sat outside and it was perfect weather and so beautiful. This was outside decorations.

I just love taking pictures of buildings

This was at the 6th Floor museum, where JFK got shot

Ate at the Spaghetti Warehouse




Pic of me.... :)

I love the detail of this building

Oh, Hong Kong Gardens...this is a hole in the wall restaurant, that I have been going to since i was like 3 or 4. This was my moms first Chinese restaurant that she ever went too.

She made my day

Rachel, I think you need to be a writter, not to be funny at all, but you write very well. Now on to the blog itself, you are such a strong person to have gone through what you have gone through at such a young age.I do believe that you are going to live for a long, long, time, and that me and you are gonna still be talking on the front porch when we are 70! I know you and Mark are going to have BABIES. I just dont know when, only God knows that. You are the strongest Christian woman I know and I am glad you are my friend. =)


Thanks Rebecca!!! You really made my day and reassured me that God is on my side and he will give me the desires of my heart!!!
Heres a link to my friends blog....check her out!!!
http://rebeccalovesjoshhamilton.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

I turned 24 on October 4th. My husband took me to Dallas for my birthday, just me and him and we had a blast. We went to our favorite restaurant down there, that I have been eating at since I was 4 called Hong Kong Gardens and we went to Sam Moons and I got me 2 purses. We also went to a comedy club down there. One of the comedians was Theo Von from Road Rules on MTV several years back. We got to meet them and take pictures. The next day we went downtown and ate at the Spaghetti Warehouse and we went to the JFK museum...which that was awesome. We went to the same floor that Oswald shot him.

Here are some pics that I have done.....I am going to post more later.

Dave Ashley Comedian

Theo Von

I forget sometimes that Im a cancer survivor

Its true...most of the time I forget that I am a cancer survivor. I know that I have had cancer and I worry most of the time that its going to come back and I'm going to die young. Just recently has it controlled my everyday life. Its not fun. I think to myself...for the rest of my life, I'm going to have to worry about it coming back, anywhere in my body. Cancer runs in our family like water goes through a fountain. My mom died of ovarian cancer, and she had skin cancer. My grandpa had colon cancer, my great aunt had breast cancer, my great uncle had bladder, skin and died from lung cancer. And of course I had kidney cancer. The sad part is, is that they are all different types. This is just my mom side of the family. I don't know my dad, so I don't know what runs over there, if anything.
Lately, I had some problems with thinking about dieing all the time. I thought about death and not living a long life. I went to my Dr because I was having some pains one time, and this was the time around my yearly exam, in which stresses me out to the point I'm sick. I lost 7 pounds that week. But i went to the Dr, and I made a list of everything that was wrong with me. He looked it over and then ripped it up in front of my face. He was like, this is all have to do with stress. He told me, to stop stressing and give it to the Lord. That i need to stop thinking about dieing so much and enjoy TODAY. He told me that the Bible says Tomorrow isn't promised, so why waste your time worrying about dieing when you can enjoy living. I knew all these things. I guess it had to take a Dr to tell me and put it in my head. Some of my friends also told me that Worry is not from the Lord. That he wants us to give him all of our worries. And they told me that death is not from the Lord....that living is. I know where I'm going when I die. I don't know why I worry about it so much. I'm not done living my life. I do not want to leave my grandpa or husband and I want to have a family with my husband.
But I have been better lately. I have turned it all over to God. I still get those aches and pains and wonder what they are...and i jump and google them, wondering if its something bad. Its not a pleasant life to live. But I have gotten better. Their right...tomorrow isn't promised. I know that my health is my weakness and I let the stupid ole devil get in my head and let him tell me all these things so i can worry. And now i know that i have allowed him to do it...i catch myself and rebuke him in Jesus name away from me. I don't want him to control me, to make me doubt myself, to make me thinking theres something wrong with me, when the great Lord has let me live another day healthy.
When i found out i had cancer, it really did change my life. Since then, I let the Lord lead my path for me. I gave it all to him. I knew then, that no one here on earth could cure me. That was the closest to death I have yet to experience and it was scary. To think, that it could of spread all over and for me to take chemo and to be sick and with a weak immune system. I was so scared. I was only 19 and 3 years before that, I saw my mom go through it for 2 years and then die. But God blessed me sooooo much. I did get my kidney taken out, but that's it!!!! Praise the Lord!!! My Dr's told me that they don't think I should take chemo, and that it was my choice, but they believe they got it all!!! Since then, every year, I have gone and taken my yearly exams and nothing has came back.
I have felt like God has told me I'm going to get pregnant. I feel in my heart and have faith more than ever that me and my husband will have our child that our hearts desire so much.
God has been really and truly good to us, and has blessed us beyond measure. We have grown into this amazing Christian couple and we sit down and hold hands and pray together now. We never did before. We feel closer to God, and we don't argue anymore like we did. I know I appreciate him more than ever, and I don't take him for granted like I have.
Please keep us in your prayers, as we try for a baby. That we will have a healthy baby, a healthy pregnancy and a healthy mommy, daddy, and family. And please keep me in your prayers about my weaknesses, and that I wont let the devil get to me.
Thanks for listening!!!

July 4th

Yes....July 4th. I just now got them off of one of my memory cards. July 4th this year was a remembrance one. Me and my friend went swimming and got all burnt, and then came home and with the hubby all cooked out on the grill. It was such good food, and good times spending with friends and family. Then of course me and my friend went and watched the fireworks, and it rained....but not just rained, it poured!!! But most importantly we got really good seats. We went on top of a parking garage and got the best seat in town. Here are some pictures!!