Geocaching!!

Do ever want to do something fun with the family and can't come up with a thing to do? Well I have found it out ha ha! It is called Geocaching!! All you need is a vehicle, a GPS, gas, time and most importantly those you want to take treasure hunting. Geocaching which is pronounced "Geo-cashing" is an electronic way of treasure hunting. Someone hides a geocache and pin points the location in the system through GPS and you can go find it :) Here are the steps to follow to be able to participate in this nationwide fun activity!! You can go to www.geocaching.com and register for a free basic membership. After that you give them your zip code or the zip code you would like to go searching in. It will then give you a list of geocaches and you can decide which one you want and click on it. You then type in the coordinates of the geocache into your GPS and use your GPS to help you locate your geocache. Once you get there and find it you will sign the logbook of the geocache and put it back. Then you can share your geocaching stories and photos online with others to see.

I do not have a GPS system but I will be saving up for one as soon as I can and take my son on these little journeys! Go have fun trying it out and don't forget to come back and let me know how it went and what you thought about it :) Good Luck!!

Alabama drivers ranked 31st in national driving test!

I took the test available at http://www.nationaldriverstest.com/

My score on that test was a 70%. I know I can't drive one because I am biologically a woman ah ah and two I learned from my stepfather, who is a hippie from new york, and a my older brothers who had very fast cars ha ha. There is family joke that whenever something is wrong with my vehicle that I tell my dad and everyone says oh it is just a nut loose behind the wheel. :) I actually cried the first time they said that and begged them to tighten it so I wouldn't wreck. After awhile I caught on and felt stupid; however 2 weeks later as it so happens it was my brakes that was wrong and I wrecked on my way home from work. I didn't feel so stupid anymore.
Although i cannot begin to tell you how many tickets I have gotten, driving school I have attended and wrecks I have been in (most of them not my fault by the way Ha). The question asked was what was your first car and what did you want instead? After thinking about this really hard; I am glad that my family did not give me what I wanted. 1 because I wouldn't know how to work for what I want and 2 most of the first cars that parents buy kids are brand new and unsafe little sports cars. I have lost many classmates, friends and family due to car accidents and unsafe vehicles.
My first vehicle was that minivan in the picture. His name was "big blue" I remember that I had my first 2 and 1/2 wrecks in him ha ha and my first ticket!! It was the day after I got my license and my friend and I drove an hour and half to visit my grandma. On our way home we were driving through Huntsville, AL and I ran a yellow light--yup I got a ticket for it. That was my first driving school class ha ha I had to go to that the day I left for Florida with my friends for spring break! The first wreck was in my high school parking lot. I had just yelled at my friend "Lexi!! Get your butt in this van before someone takes you and my door with them" Ya I jinxed myself just as Lexi got in a girl came by in her little sports car and tried to cut through parking spaces to get out quicker and took my door with her. hahaha she left the scene and deleted voice mails and ripped up letters from the police so that her family would never find out. One week after we had gotten my door fixed Lexi and I were coming off of I565 onto Wall Triana in Madison, AL and a Holiday Inn van merged over on top of us. It took out my passenger side. I told Lexi she was bad luck and couldn't ride with me anymore ha ha.
It is Ironic that I always got speeding tickets with Jessica in my car and always got in wrecks with Lexi in my car. hahaha. I even was going through Winn Dixie parking lot with Lexi and I lost my hubcap on the curb hahaha that was my 1/2 wreck hahaha. Eventually, after it had gone through my parents, my older sister and me it had had it and decided to die on us. We sold it to some Mexicans for 300 bucks.
So, what was your first vehicle and what happened to it?

Who Am I?

     Everybody goes through the Name Game when they are expecting. It is ritual, it is life, it is culture! We inherit it from our parents and them from their parents and so forth. Some can win the game really early on and others do not win even after the baby is born and no name comes to mind. A name is not just a name it is part of an identity. I believe that God will whisper the unborn child's name to you if you ask him to.

   When I was pregnant I looked in baby book after baby book after baby book. My friends and family would send me emails and text messages with names and I could never decide. I worked at a huge law firm and had many many clientele there. I would go through names as people would call in with appointment and names of new clients as they fill out their paperwork and was hoping that a random person would walk in one day and have the name that was meant to be. However, it never happened. I was going into my 7th month of pregnancy and decided I needed help from the big man upstairs. I prayed and prayed for help to find my unborn sons name. It was three days later that I sat at my desk all alone in my office thankfully ha ha and the name Paxton popped into my head. I liked that it was unique! I said it out loud and in that instant my son kicked so hard that when I looked down I could see his little toes indented in my belly. Whenever I would say his name he reacted to it. I knew it was him, that was his angels name given to him from God.

   I am sure like me, some of you have met people at the store, mall, company party, friends event and so on; and like everybody you exchange names. Have you ever heard someones name and thought to yourself that they dont' look like that name? I have! I am guessing that these people were given the wrong name during birth ha ha.
 
    A name Is part of somebodys' identity; however people still sometimes even spend eternity trying to find out who they are. I know and can honestly say that I DO NOT know who I am. That is OK though because I am on the right path of finding that out. How about you? Do you know who you are?

    Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."

See Me, Nurse

You will NEED tissues for this one!!!! This video has opened my eyes greatly! I will never look at anyone the same again. Everybody has a story and a life they lived; that person is still the one and same even if they look different. We are spirit a soul with a shell that God loaned us. Like everything in life our shell grows old and dies then we go on to spend eternity with God. Most people don't see shells with a soul they just see an old stinky dirty person. God breathed life into us and our breathe is just on loan from him. Be thankful for your breathe and everyones around you, it could be taken in a split second. I really hope this doesn't upset you too much; it sure did open my eyes and means a lot to me.

Catalina Sandino Moreno~Que linda manito(Paris je t'aime ost)

When I was fourteen years old I moved in with a hispanic family and was a live in nanny for their three children. During those few years I stayed there I learned so many things. They are a complete different culture than what I had grown up in in my broken home and childhood. They were all about family, love, dancing, food and laughing. They taught me how to cook family recipes like for breakfast and some things for dinner and mostly desserts haha. I learned how to Cumbia and Ranchera, which I later became a competing dancer in :) I learned to play pool the right way haha even tricks on how to shoot from behind and with your eyes closed and all :) I learned what a family was suppose to be like and how to treat your kids. When I first got there the kids very much disliked me and did not do anything I said or wanted them to do haha. Throughout time I started to learn their language slowly but surely. They respected me then and grew to love and listen to me. Their parents were either out working or out dancing everynight at the club. I became their caregiver and was their for everything: learning to go potty, first word, sleeping in their own bed, good grades, bad grades, learning to hula hoop or play pool and so on. In that stage of life their abuela from Mexico came to visit with their tia and tio. They taught me this lullaby that I eventually was able to sing to them everynight. When I found out that I was pregnant I would sing this to my tummy and to my son when he was born. Now it is more of a morning song that we play a game with to get out of the bed. I hope you enjoy it and possibly have the urge to learn it and sing it to your children :)

Alberta teen dies of premature aging disease

Grab a tissue box--you will need it!!! This woman is amazing and lived a life of happiness! God gave her the gift of life and she was an angel put on earth to open peoples' eyes. I wish I had had the chance to meet her; to even spend 5 min with her. I hope she touches you just as much as she has touched me. She is Gods miracle and blessing..she holds a place in my heart!

Sculpting The Aging Process

To watch this man sculpt the aging process is amazing! Watching this opened my eyes up and to be able to watch a face start out one way and change so very much is just..A Miracle! I was flabbergasted and could not even blink! This man definitely got a gift from God is using it to teach others. It sure did give me a lesson I needed. Every wrinkle, every indention, every curve of the face you gain over time and it is a mark of wisdom and life. I will never look at another old man or woman again and feel sorry for the way they look I will now smile and know that they gained those over time to show what they have lived through. :)