Starting a blog

So here goes....I usually don't do very well writing. I guess I will first start with telling you a little about me and my family.

I am the wife of a great husband and mother of 2 children. Zac is 12 and Maggie is 9. I am a stay at home mom with the perk of working from home to earn a little extra cash! In 2000, Maggie was born and I quit my job primarily to be a stay at home mom. A little over a year later my boss contacted me and asked me if I would like to do some of the same work I did from home! Praise the Lord! I have been working from home ever since. God is good all the time.

2009 was a very challenging year for us as a family, but we are starting 2010 great.

Here are a few things we are doing this year:

Bubba and I are going to Guatemala during spring break on a mission trip with Mission Firefly. We recently moved our membership to another church. Zac is participating in D-Now in March. I am so excited for the opportunities he will have to grow in his relationship with Jesus! Zac and I are going to Washington DC with the school in October. I am so excited to be sharing this experience with Zac.

The main reason for this blog was to share our experience and pictures of our trip.

Just a little history behind making the decision be involved with missions - I have had a desire to do mission work for a while now but was very comfortable where I was and really didn't know how to go about it....so I believe God allowed some situations in our life to allow me to test my faith or put my faith into action.

One thing that has really stuck with me that Billy said in one of our meetings was we need to make the comfortable uncomfortable- and that was me!

This will be the first time out of the country and 6 days away from our kids and I am nervous!!

We really wanted to go at Christmas but just did not have the money...so we started praying.

We recently reorganized some of our finances and were hoping to go during spring break. Well in the mean time we received a check for an overpayment of insurance for $980.00. Our plane tickets were 989.00. That was definetly a God thing! So I believe that was my confirmation that this is what we are suppose to be doing.

I really hope Zac has the opportunity to go this year. We will continue to pray. Maggie said she was not ready to take all those shots yet! Hopefully the pictures will persuade her to change her mind, but that is her decision! :)

More to come later!