He has Risen, He has Risen INDEED!!!!

Happy Easter!!

Sad Friday

I want to be honest, I don't care for Good Friday. Every time I hear about Christ's death, it just makes me sick to my stomach with everything he had to go through and I always cry when I hear about the sacrifices that he made for me. ME! I still can't get over this, he did this because he loves me. I'm so grateful, but so sad that he had to endure this.

But I love Easter!!! I can't wait to write on facebook- "He has Risen, He has Risen INDEED!!!!"

I can't wait for Sunday, but I know we need Good Friday to get to Easter. its such a catch 22! Thank you Lord!!!

weight struggles

the struggle is real! I HATE food, but I absolutely LOVE it! LOL! sure wish I could cut food out cold turkey (pun intended), but alas I cannot.

so I need to lose 5 pounds this week, the end of the month is next week and I have yet to weigh in and I'm freaking out. so this week this is my motto:

I'm kicking butt with God and I'm taking names!!

If you need to find me, I will be working out like cray cray!!!

if you have food issues too, I would love to hear them, its good to know I'm not the only one, although I feel like it all the time! Shouldn't I have this food thing figured out after 3.5 years with weight watchers. ugh. going to bed......

so yeah, i saw MWS in concert last night....

sooooooooooooooooo good!!

my momma and I are big fans, so I took her for her birthday when he was in st. cloud last night. it was such a fun night and I just love his voice, and he is so handsome! darn it, yes he's married, and he's 58, but certainly doesn't look like it. kinda reminds me of the crush I have a on Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plumber from Sound of Music!) they are both handsome old men and not Christopher Plumber now, but what he looked like in 1965!! and MWS teeth are so bright, I could see them from how far back we are.

I forgot that he wrote a song for the girl who died professing her faith in the Littleton Colorado school shooting and he told us he couldn't figure out an ending, so he reached out to her parents and asked if it would be okay if the song ended with bag pipes, and they said that was her favorite instrument. I had full on tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgX0tghvz4A

It really made me think if I were in that situation, what would I say? I would love to say that I would proclaim to love Jesus, but how scary to actually have a gun pointing at your head with that kind of question. wow.

how fitting that Easter is next Sunday, when we see Jesus suffer the most horrible death for me, and you, and everybody.

Hope you all have a great Easter celebrating this incredible gift.

fun weekend with loved ones

so my weekend was awesome! yesterday I got to witness my sister in her element at a book appearance for Truest with some teenagers in there own book club. It reminded me of the "book club" we did when we were younger, although we only did it because we wanted to read our neighbor Amber's books, because they were so much better than our selection. we even legit set up a library system and made the old fashioned library check out cards that went in the inside pocket of books. When I saw the teens that Jackie talked to look at us puzzled when we brought those up, well its safe to say that I am officially old! LOL!!! fun times, and mom came to so it was a fun Sommers girls day! and it was beautiful out, so I painted my toenails and went for a walk in flip flops, in March, and yes I live in MN! i'm shocked too! although its supposed to get cold this week. darn it. but I can't complain, it's been a pretty great winter, and by that I mean tame when comparing it to other years!

today was a super relaxing day, and then I went to Church tonight with my dear friend Lori, which was awesome! and one of my favorite worship leaders was singing tonight, so that was awesome and the message was soooo good!!!

how was your weekend?? did you remember to set your clocks back an hour? I know it sucks. what state is it that doesn't have to do this, like Arizona or something? uber jealous!

PS finally my watch is set to the right time. I keep it ahead one hour when we are supposed to "fall back" in the fall because we go to Florida in December and they are an hour ahead, and also I don't know how to fix my watch! LOL! so there is that too!!