Praying For Mama Perkins

Please keep my family in your prayers. My sweet Mama Perkins, my dad's mother and my only living grandparent, is very sick. To make a long story short she has had several health problems (kidney and heart) but fell a few weeks ago and broke her shoulder. A doctor at the Griffin Hospital gave her a medication to help with her shoulder but it was had for her Kidney. What a stupid doctor!! She went into kidney failure and is not in Atlanta with doctors who know what they are doing... BUT she is still having lots of complications. She had surgery on her shoulder and really has never regained strength after. The kidney is still not working well and it's not looking good though we pray for the best. I just want her to be at peace!

My dad encouraged me to get a flight today and go see her this weekend. It's hard to hear that but the reality is I want to see her! I leave tomorrow, Friday, and will spend Saturday there with Brent, and spend the night with her at the hospital on Saturday to give my aunt a break and some much needed!

So pray for our family and safe travel for me (I always get so nervous leaving my family behind!) and for my sweet Mama Perkins! Thanks!


(Pictures from this summer)

Wellspring In The Farm Parade

We had so much fun being in our neighborhood parade on Sunday. HERE is the post on our Wellspring Partners Blog and a few pictures below...









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Our Trip To The North Pole

Today was a cold, rainy day so we escaped Myrtle Beach and headed to The North Pole... AKA Bass Pro Shop... to see Santa. It was GREAT... A "real" Santa (no faux beard), short line, FREE picture, they let you take your own pictures, and a FREE kids meal at their restaurant (not that I knew they had a restaurant but it was YUMMY!). Gammy came along for the ride and we had a great time.

As you can tell from the pictures Anderson was not so sure about Santa... Karoline LOVED him though and told him what she wanted for Christmas... A bike, Elmo tickle hands, and a princess castle. After our visit to The North Pole the kids took a good nap with Rudolph.







Our family picture with Santa- my poor mom and her inability to use a camera... sorry its a little blurry.


Gammy got the kids a Rudolph stuffed animal as a fun treat.


Anderson was looking over his shoulder saying "ohhhhh"... he didn't know what to think of the reindeer!

Newspaper

We were featured in The Carolina Forest Chronicle this week. We were asked early this fall if we would want to be featured in the "Home" section and we thought it would be a good FREE opportunity to talk about Wellspring and that I'm a realtor and sell Premier. Anyway, you can read the artical HERE and then click over to page 23 to view the second page...

We are decorated for Christmas... Are you?

My Girl

I LOVE this girl more than you know... She is so sweet, loving, kind, encouraging, cuddly,and MUCH MORE...

She is also demanding, stubborn, pushy, and IMPATIENT! ... I have NO idea where she get this from!! (Me... she gets all of this from ME!)

I see so much of myself in her, which is great, but these are also qualities I don't like about myself! I hate that I can be so demanding, stubborn, pushy, & impatient! These are qualities I pray that we Lord will continue to change in me as He changes my heart to be more like His!

So I struggle with how to deal with all of this... these qualities that I wish I didn't have but do. This has been my biggest prayer request for her and for me... I pray that as the Lord works on me He will show me how to discipline her in a way that she will grow up a little less demanding, stubborn pushy, & impatient!

Lord, help me... PLEASE!!

Happy Thanksgiving...

I'm playing catch up so there are a few other posts below this one...



We had a GREAT Thanksgiving! Brent, Leigh, Jackson, & Pressley came to visit and it was so much fun having the whole family together! We have not been together for a holiday since before Karoline was born so it was very special to me! We have had lots of good family time & the guys even got in a round of golf on Thanksgiving day.

Karoline has had so much fun with Pressley I cannot even begin to describe. They had two "sleep overs" that went really well, Pressley read to her often, they planned special musical performances for us... the list goes on! It's too cute! Anderson really enjoyed learning to wrestle around with Jackson! It takes another boy to keep up with a boy so they have had a blast... Here are some pictures...

Day before Thanksgiving watching Elf...










Thanksgiving Day...






















A Karoline, Pressley, & Gandaddy performance...

Pre(School)- Thanksgiving

Karoline & Anderson did a lot of cute projects at school leading up to Thanksgiving... Here are a few pictures...

The first is Anderson's head on a potato with hand prints that look like feathers= An Anderson Turkey :)


Anderson's turkey fan...


Not in the mood to be a pilgrim...


Karoline wearing her headdress, holding her turkey covered lolly-pop, and her Thanksgiving treat bag from their class Thanksgiving party...


Wearing her pilgrim hat...