OK I have a few minutes, so here goes…

First of all, I have missed everyone soooooooooo much!!! I haven’t had time for anything or anyone lately and it’s so crazy… I am working full time – 45 hours per week – doing accounting at a local Monument company (can’t even begin to explain how hectic, crazy, and stressful that job is but oddly enough, I actually do love my job…) and I am also going to school full time – 12 hours per semester – at Regent University via their online campus, majoring in Biblical and Religious Studies… that’s right, y’all – I am so ready to move forward in my ministry!! In addition to those things of course I am still maintaining the ministry (www.StepInFaith.org) but I have some help now – THANKS TO TOLERANCE AND BROOKS, YOU TWO ARE WONDERFUL!!! – and I have actually had a pretty good amount of business for my web design company lately (also mostly thanks to BROOKS!) lol

I finished Contemporary Problems for Religious Leaders with an A- and I finished Theological Writing and Research with a B. I will be finished with Biblical Background and Interpretation next week as well as my Worldviews class. I had to write a 3000 word essay for Bib. Bg/Interp. on the interpretation and application of 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 which was difficult to say the least but I got it turned in Tuesday and then had to complete a 2000 word essay on Christian Theism and if/how it relates to the Shamanistic society that is becoming the Western world… that was even more difficult but got it turned in yesterday and I am so relieved to have those two papers BEHIND ME!!! My classes are hard and very ‘involved’… meaning that they take a lot of time and a lot of discussion, but they are VERY rewarding and I have learned a great deal since I started back to school in August!

OK enough about me… Barry had a pretty bad experience – he was told ON GRADUATION DAY, standing in the auditorium in his cap and gown that he was missing a class he needed to graduate. OK, can we say DEVIL GET BEHIND ME?! Back up just about 2 days… the Thursday before graduation, God gave Barry a vision in which he was able to actually SEE a demon attacking him (or trying to) but Barry said that the demon seemed to be extremely confused and even somewhat intimidated by the fact that God had opened his eyes to be able to see what was happening and when Barry called on God to help him, the demon too flight (in other words, was scared to the point that he was quick to flee!) So for some reason, Satan has been trying to break Barry’s faith/trust in God by presenting several bad deals in a very short time… the day of graduation, a pipe burst on the car we just got a couple of months ago and the ATM machine actually debited our account $280 but gave us NO MONEY… very very strange series of events, especially considering all of this was in the span of two days. So back to graduation, Barry’s whole family was up here to see him walk and he was basically told, “Sorry.” and sent home… He is now enrolled in the ONLY class he has left though so he WILL be a college graduate in February :) Awww… my baby is growing up LOL (GOD WILL GET THE GLORY, BEST BELIEVE IT!)

Briyana is getting so biggggg… oh man, she is gorgeous- so smart and so sassy! Yeah, all my girls are just like me … (Heaven help the world – there are FOUR of me LOL) She makes straight A’s in school and is a HUGE help at home… she loves her baby sister and she always plays with her and keeps her out of my hair so I can finish my work. She can be BAD as she wants to be at times but overall Briyana is a very sweet, sensitive, and GIRLY child… all in all, a very good kid! She is very compassionate and always prays for children who don’t have food to eat when she is blessing her food… she is so much like me in that respect- always worried about what others don’t have, even though we don’t really have much ourselves but I think she realizes that we have enough.

Tre is oh my GOSH… I don’t know what to say about Tre… that child is something else.  He is extremely active and drives me nuts most of the time, honestly. But he is a very sweet boy. I think he just gets bored very quickly because the child cannot sit still even in his sleep! He gets mostly A’s and B’s in school… he is a very smart kid but his teacher says that he is just basically lazy LOL He doesn’t want to apply himself- he would rather play (go figure) so he misses a lot of the lesson because he doesn’t listen while she is instructing the class. Hopefully he gets better with that because as he gets older, I am sure you can definitely see where this would cause a major problem LOL

Talia is my angel child… and as paradoxial as it may be, she is also as mean as she could be LOL She is always running up and kissing and hugging me and tells me several times throughout the day that she loves me and is always promising to be nice to everyone. Then, in the same breath, she is throwing a fit about everything LOL She can recite Scriptures left and right and every time she says anything about nature (the sky, the grass, etc…) she always makes it a point to let everyone know that GOD made all of that! She proclaims her love for Jesus and God DAILY so they have no question as to how Talia feels about them LOL She really is a sweetheart…

Avalyn is getting so big. I look at her sometimes and I am like WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BABY??? She is 15 months old now and is pretty as a picture! She is so funny and FULL of personality- she is a lot like Talia (Lord help us all!) but she is more playful than I remember any of her older siblings being at her age! She is so smart too… for at least the past 3 months, you can tell her to put something in the garbage can and she will take it and throw it away. It is so cute… you can tell her to go help the other kids clean up and she will go start picking up paper and taking it to the trash can! She still sleeps with me and Barry even though she has her own bed. I put her to sleep in her room but when she wakes up during the night, she comes and climbs in bed with us LOL Actually, for the past week, ALL of the kids have been coming and climbing in our bed during the night… LMBO Our kids are silly. Anyway, that is pretty much all I can think of right now and plus I have some work to do and then I am off to bed after I finish the laundry so GOODNIGHT TO EVERYONE!!!

Be blessed.