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Yesterday was crazy! We got up at 4am to be at Ultimate Electronics at 5am. We went there, Circuit City, Target, the mall, Best Buy.... we stopped a couple of time in there to eat left overs and refuel on Starbucks. :-) Philip and I also found a great deal on a LCD TV, so we bought it! It's a 46" Sharp 1080p LCD (flat screen). That's right, I know what all that means. I'm excited about it!

In other exciting news, we leave for the cruise tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to TRY and post a blog and some pictures and maybe even video while we're there :-) I'm EXCIIIIITTTEEDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is going to be busy! We're going to grandma Martin's at noon. (First we're dropping off Daisy at my parent's though) then we're headed to the Redburn's at 2:00 then to the Atchley's at 6:00. Whew! Tomorrow morning, of course, we'll be waiting in line at some store waiting for the perfect bargain. hah. I always like shopping on Black friday though.

Friday (after shopping) I'm going to try and workout in the afternoon one last time before the cruise. We're going to have to get completely packed Friday too. Saturday we're hopefully going to have lunch or dinner with Abby and Riley and then go to my parents' to watch the OU vs. OSU game (which is a big one for us). We're probably going to spend the night there Saturday night because our flight leaves at 6:00AM Sunday morning!! This is going to be a busy (but FUN!) next couple of days!!

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OU lost to stupid Texas Tech on Saturday. I almost cried. For real. Oregon (#2) LOST on Thursday which (if we'd WON) would make us #3 with a REAL chance at going to the national championship this year. Bradford was injured almost right away, and our second string QB was really no good. That hurt us a lot. We still could go to the Big VII championship if we beat OSU next Saturday.

We leave for the cruise on Sunday morning!!!!



Here is our itinerary! I'm super excited :-) Philip is off work Wednesday - Friday this week for Thanksgiving and then the WHOLE next week for the cruise! We're going to have so much fun the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I can post some pictures and blog a little while we are on the cruise. I'm not sure if you can get online on the ship or not... ? I'll find out.

We started putting up our Christmas decorations. Yeah, it's a little early.... but we wanted to get it done before the cruise, because we won't be back until Dec. 3rd. We bought some fun net lights for the bushes and blue "pearl" lights for the house. I think Philip is putting those up Wednesday. The Christmas tree is up and decorated and I even wrapped some presents last night! :-)

We're motivated again to get Monavie going. Philip has been talking to people like crazy. It's just such an awesome product... I want everyone to know about it!!
www.monavie.com

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Pretty much every morning before work, I watch "The View". Well, I have it on while I'm getting ready for work. It's hard for me to stomach a certain liberal loud mouth's viewpoint sometimes, but she is usually evened out by Sherri and Whoopi (not that Whoopi isn't liberal, but she is usually neutral on the show). Anyways, yesterday I was so excited! The day before, liberal loud mouth (we'll call her LLM) was talking about how stupid it was that the mayor (or governor, I can't remember) in Georgia had a group prayer for rain at the state capital. Then the next day in Georgia, guess what happened? RAIN! LLM had nothing to say yesterday on the view, other than to make some kind of stupid joke to cover the fact that she was caught with her foot in her mouth. hahahaha, God said, "Really? You think prayer is stupid? CHECK THIS OUT!" Praise God! I'm also thankful Georgia got the rain they needed :-)

Today I'm off work. I'm taking Daisy to the groomer's in a little while and going to workout with Trisha. It's ALSO time to put up some Christmas decorations! I think we should get them up before we leave for the cruise, because when we get back things will be hectic with Christmas :-) We leave in 1 week and 2 days!

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I was reading, "For Women Only" yesterday. I've read a lot of this book so far, but not all of it. I read a really interesting chapter. It was prefaced with a warning to pray. This chapter is, I guess difficult for women to read. It was about making yourself look good for your husband, just because. Even if you're not going out, even if it's just you and him at home. Apparently (through her surveys and research) this is something that is very important to me, but something they feel REALLY uncomfortable talking about with their wives.

Now, growing up I've always been taught "it's what's on the inside that matters". I still believe this to be true. And the bible backs this up in many instances,

1 Samuel 16:7 - "The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."

Proverbs 31:30 - "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting: but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

For some women it's easy to let themselves go (physically) with these bible verses in mind. It seems that trying hard to maintain a body that is eventually going to perish, is pointless.

As I was reading, I noticed how men value their wives and their appearances. They want women to look nice for them, it shows our husbands we love them. This is, obviously not to say that we have to be a size 2. Simply showing an effort (overweight or not) shows our men that we love them enough to look good for them. This is a biblical standard as well:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20, "...don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s."

We are to glorify God with our bodies, in everything we do. Taking care of our bodies and pleasing our husbands with them is commanded of us from God.

God,
Please keep these verses fresh in my mind. Thank you for blessing me with my amazing husband. God, it is my prayer that my body will always be glorifying to You and to my husband. Show me ways to honor You with my body and spirit.

Amen.