Happy New Year 2014! Where DID the time go???

Wow! I just re-discovered that I use to blog! How time flies.  It was refreshing and amusing to read my own posts. I think I will blog again. I have now moved to Wimberely Texas, have been here almost 1 year and a half and wonder, Where did the time go!!!! What events have passed?  Well, in one year, I moved, got a GREAT job (well I thought it would be great),  got to buy a beautiful home 3 blocks from my brother,  then got terminated from that GREAT job (NOT), got a new job at a grocery store,  my dad died, my daughter got married, have been church searching, trying to find my way and embrace our new life. 
So as I read the previous paragraph, I see in black and white, exciting times, great times, horrible times, joyful times, sad times, challanging times. Challanging times!!! Wow! Revelation time for me again... Did the horrible, sad times, challanging times last forever?  Were there blessings in between, sunshine after the rain, laughter after the sadness?  Of course, God didn't hang me out to dry. 

Okay, God has been there all along, He has walked me through, carried me, held me, comforted me, blessed me, gave and take away.  I have discovered blogging again!!! It was fun, it was creative and it was a way to share and laugh at myself through the hard and happy times.
Hello again.

"Cop Episode" at the Anderson house early this morn

Just wanted to post our adventure early this morning.

We were sound asleep and I kept hearing a big bang. Since our water heater has been making loud banging noises, I thought, well it's probably going to finally quit. Then the noises got louder and louder. I woke up Greg. He gets up, Abbey follows him and all of a sudden I hear "June come here" .. The first thing that came to my mind which was really stupid and made no sense was, hey maybe there is a deer or some wild life out on our deck :-) .. I walk over and he says, " Grab the dog (instead of barking, she was thinking someone was coming over to play) - Call 911! " Well I ran into the bedroom because I had NO idea what was out there .. thinking maybe some guy with a gun or something! He told me that there was a guy at our front door banging our storm door into our house. He opened the door and said "Hey man what's going on?" The guy told him he was beat up. I couldn't believe he opened the door!!! but he did shut it right away. He said when he saw the guy in just his underware and didn't look angry, just disoriented, he didn't feel threatened. He handled it very well.. alot better than I ever could! When I called 911 I was so scared that when I gave my street address, I only mentioned the house number. The dispatcher was very calm and helpful to my anxiety. Kudos to our 911!!

3 cop cars pulled up. He wouldn't cooperate and they took out a stun gun. They finally got him to cooperate and handcuffed him. I was so relieved once they took him away. The cop came back to our door and reassured us that they would be taking him to the hospital and then jail. He was suspecting alcohol and some drugs.

Well, Greg and I were trying to figure out WHY out of ALL houses in our neighborhood, would someone just come up to ours??? But God has a reason for everything. Maybe it's so we could pray for the guy. Or maybe he was protecting the neighborhood houses because none of the houses on our block have a storm door. If someone was to open their front door, who knows what could have happened. We don't know, but God does and I am glad he protected us and has his hand on us.

The History of Aprons (Good Old Fashion LOVE)

A friend of mine emailed me this today and I thought it was pretty cool! By the way, can you guess who is in that picture? Come on!

Enjoy!

The History of APRONS I don't think our kids know what an apron is.The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.Send this to those who would know, and love, the story about Grandma's aprons. Or it can be a good history lesson for those that have no idea how the apron played a part in our lives.REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw. They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron ..... but Love !!

The picture is June Cleaver :-)

I think I'm getting hooked on Facebook!

That's is one of my favorite socks she has in her mouth that I just bought 3 weeks ago. Another one destroyed!!! That dog is a little terror. But I love her so...

Geez, I just realized that I have been on Facebook for about 2 hours. Time passes so quickly once you get started. One of my friend's back in high school added me as her friend but her first name is different and I am confused! ? ! I knew her name was Roni but her name is now Carol. So now I am confused. And I am afraid to write to her and ask if this is Roni?? How weird that would sound. Anyways, I am just juggling my thoughts around and probly making things more complicated than they really are.

I don't have much to post tonight, only it was a typical Monday, couldn't wait to go home and relax in my own comfort zone. And eat cheese doodles. And rest my back/shoulder/neck. My friend gave me some samples of phenocane for pain from the health food store. I hope it works.

Hope everyone had a nice day today. The Lord bless you and keep you, may the Lord's face shine upon you.

Wise Men Still Seek Him

Last week when I went with friends snow shoeing at the Isaac Walton Inn, I had to get a picture of these really cool snow sculptures. I just thought that was a cool thing to see and a great statement! Didn't have much to post on my blog tonight so I thought I would post this.

Oh well I kind of did have something else to reminiss about from yesterday. Before leaving for work, I proceeded to warm up my vehicle in our garage. When I came out after 5-7 minutes or so I discovered that I had left the garage door closed. I freaked! I thought I was going to die from carbon monixide poisoning. So I drove to work and called Greg to tell him just incase I die, that's what happened. Although I tend to over react (ya think), it is WISE to make sure you don't expose yourself to any more carbon monixide that you have to. Do you know that everyday we are exposed to that invisible odorless gas? I spoke to one of the OES (office of emergency services) employee next door to our department and he gave me an informative booklet on carbon monixide. I have a new routine now. When I go out in the garage to warm up my car, I am backing it out onto the driveway. That is my exciting blog for the night.

God bless and be careful. LOL ...

Just had to post a pretty sunset picture from our cruise after that MRI experience!! :-)

See the picture of the above MRI machine? Doesn't it look cold and gloomy?? Well yesterday I had the chance to experience that lovely procedure. I had 2 MRI's in a row. What fun. NOT. It was the weirdest experience. After being injected in my shoulder with a contrast dye, which felt like a really heavy ache like charlie horse, they put me in the above machine for 40 minutes. I felt like I was the star in a building renovation. It was very noisy, constant clanging and banging. It was cold, dark and LOUD! They give you headphones and a choice of music to listen to to drown out the noise. I chose Christian music. Although the noise drowned out alot of the music, God was faithful and gave me a few of my favorite songs that played. I kind of got emotional in there thinking, God knew how nervous I was that he knew my favorite songs to comfort me!! I never considered myself claustrophobic but I still closed my eyes through the entire procedure just so I wouldn't become it! 40 minutes in there seemed like it was never going to end. Then they rolled me out, gave me a minute to go to the bathroom only to come back and go through it again for my neck, another 40 minutes. When I came out and saw light again and knew it was over, it was an awesome moment! It was finally over!!! Yay! I find out the results on Friday. I give God the praise because I really felt prayers being lifted up for me through it all as I asked people to pray. It doesn't take much for me to work myself up. I did my best to focus on God while listening to his words in the lyrics. It is so true that God's word gives you peace. I also prayed for people while I was in there. It is amazing though how through magnets, it shows all of your insides. I can't wait to see the results on Friday and hope and pray it is not anything serious and that I don't need surgery OR another MRI again!

Snowshoeing at Isaac Walton Inn Today

What a beautiful day today! "Our group" went to Isaac Walton Inn snowshoeing and cross country skiing. We also took on a free horse sleigh ride. It looked like it was going to be a cloudy gray day but Dori, our weather prayer warrior prayed for nice weahter and God came through once again! He parted the clouds to reveal a beautiful blue sky and sunshine! We had a fantastic day. There's nothing like being outdoors in beautiful God's country! I faced another fear today by walking across a snow covered swing bridge. We all took turns except for one who chickened out. I'll give you a clue:
It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day! We ended our day at Los Caperales for dinner in Columbia Falls.

Getting back in touch with my Blog

Okay, so I haven't blogged in awhile and I really miss it. It was a way for me to unwind after my day and I discovered that I really enjoy writing. I joined facebook a few weeks ago but it's just not the same as blogging. In fact some of it is stupid. I did get in touch with one of my high school buddies though which was cool.
Some escapades from the last time I blogged was
1. Greg and I went on a cruise to the Bahamas and Grand Turks Island last November with my brother. It was a birthday present for me back in June. We had an awesome time! One pic above is Greg at Grand Turk and my brother and his girlfriend with the bahama lady vendor, she was cool.

2.We had a really nice Christmas, nice and quiet at home with just the fam. We decided to see Marley and Me that night and while the movie was cute, the ending was so sad. She dies and to me it was way to graphic. I came home and loved on my dog who looked exactly and reminded me so much of Marley. To me dogs to me are little angel companions that God puts in your life to bring you joy and unconditional love. No matter what you do your dog adores you and never gets tired of you. They love you to pieces with no strings attached and you just can't help but love them back. Okay this blog is going wishy washy. I guess I am in a wishy washy mood. God bless whoever may read this. Although probly no one will :-( .... how do you get people to read your blog??

Breakfast at the Samaritan House, the homeless shelter in Kalispell

Today I served at the Samaritan House, our local homeless shelter with a bunch of ladies from our church bible study. We cooked and served breakfast and learned alot about this awesome place for the homeless in our community. It was such a blessing to be a part of. My heart is so stirred up to help more. It is so true that when you bless others and forget about yourself, it brings great joy to your heart! I was amazed at how God provides through this awesome couple that head this ministry. Everything is provided by grants and donations. They only serve dinner and cereal for breakfast. We made breakfast burritos and danishes from Costco :-) .. It stirred us ladies up so much that we all decided we would like to be part of this and cook and serve them dinner once a week. So we are going to make this all happen. If you want to learn more about the Samaritan house, please go to their blog. There is also a great video clip at the bottom of their blog.

http://homelessintheflathead.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday Greg

Today is Greg's birthday. I won't tell you his age, only a clue that he is eligible for a senior discount. He wanted to go to Famous Daves for dinner tonight, but when we got there it was packed. So we went to the Mongolian Grill. I asked the waitress if since he was __ __ could he get a senior discount? She said he can have a choice of cheesecake or Khans Cake. He was going to pass, but me the kind loving wife chimed in "Oh no, you have to at least try the Khan's cake" I heard it was to die for. IT was AWESOME! ! Holy Cow, it was AWESOME! You would have thought it was my birthday, huh.
Anyway, he enjoyed the dinner and cake. In a few minutes we'll break out the Rosauer's Birthday cake I got him. I pray Greg makes it double the years he is today. If you can guess Greg's birthday, you can come over and have a piece of his cake. ,,, if there is any left.
Greg looks awesome for his __th birthday and is an awesome guy, I must say. He makess me laugh and has a heart of gold. Happy Birthday Greg! I sure wish he would blog, because he won't even read this :-(

God is so awesome!

Even though this picture of Abbey has nothing to do with my blog, I just had to post it because I just love it. IT's a reminder of summer and how it is pretty much gone.

I just want to praise God in this blog for all the good news I am hearing from friends. It really blesses me to hear good things happening when my friends step out in faith and let God work in their life. My friend back east whom I consider my sister who fell away from God called me tonight and said she went back to church for the first time in along time last week. Already she has joy back in her spirit. She has her masters degree and is working at a diner. She told me she really feels God is humbling her by putting her in this position to see how hard other people have it. The people she is working with are really mean and grumpy, especially her boss. But she is standing strong and sticking with it. My best friend went for counceling today with our pastor for her marriage! I am so thrilled she went because she came back so encouraged. It's gonna be cool to see what God does. Then to hear Stacey got a great job with great hours, pay and even has a backup babysitter for when school is out, a worry she had when she took the job. And the skating ministry that Todd and Stacey are starting.Then Greg gets our mortgage statement and our payment went down $90.00! We just got a car payment so with the cut in mtg pymt our car payment will only be 45.00! Thank you Lord, for being so faithful to us when we fail you daily. When we take a step of faith and reach out and obey you even in baby steps you just blow us away! I pray for all of my friends reading this that you will show yourself mighty in their lives and plans and show them that you are greater than anything in this world and can do abundantly more than we can ever imagine! Turn our hearts and dreams passionatley toward you and your plans for our lives and make us into the people you created us to be. In Jesus Name Amen!

Driving and driving and BEARS Oh MY!

We were on vacation for a few days and headed up to Waterton National Park. We go on our bear searching spree every year there.. We drive and drive and drive - over and over-- up and down the same roads and !Voila ! Happens everytime, we see tons of bears. This year we saw a total of 12. One with 3 cubs, One with 2 cubs, One with 1 cub, One single bear and then 2 grizzlies (we saw the grizzlies at Many Glacier) but don't bring it up to Greg because the rangers came out during the bear jam in the park and ran them back into the woods with a shotgun (or whatever you call it) to chase them away.. Greg was LIVID and even told one of the rangers he ran into in addition to the clerk in the gift shop how unfair that is, when you come to the park to see wildlife and they try to prevent you from the fun.. :-) Sore subject for Greg!
We didn't get pics of those grizzly's but here's few shots of the some others. We had a good time.

My best friend went to heaven on July 7, 2008

Well it's been awhile since I've blogged. Life is hitting us hard these days. We took our dog to the vet on Monday as he wasn't feeling good and threw up a corn cob July 4th. We thought he may have had a stomach obstruction. To make a long story short he had a tumor the size of a kickball on his spleen really close to bursting. We had to make a decision to put him down. It was the hardest thing we ever had to do. Greg, Sarah and myself went to Kelly Rankins office to say good bye to him after I got out of work. It was the saddest thing, something I hope we never have to do again. I looked him in the eye and told him he was a good dog, kissed him on his nose and told him he'll be seeing Jesus and we'll meet him there someday. I couldn't go to work the next day or even walk in my back yard. I couldn't pray or read the bible. But I did ask God to please give me some kind of sign that he is ok and to please touch me in some way. Well at 6:00 our doorbell rang and 2 little boys about 11 or 12 were trying to promote a Christian radio station by selling books for a donation. The book he showed me was called " Your pets and your health" and he said to me "If you ever lost a pet and wondered if he was in heaven, this book is about a story of a guy that loved his dog that died" I teared up and said to those boys "You guys were angels sent by God" and told him what happened with my dog. One of the boys lost his dog too about 1 year ago and I could see the sadness in his eyes. I took the book, gave those kids a hug and praised my Lord for answering my prayer. I truly felt God came to my door that day to lift my spirit. The book is about this man who wanted to research in the bible what God says about pets that die, where they would be and backed it up with scripture. I read parts of it last night and have no doubt that Grizzly is in heaven and I will see him again. Although I miss him terribly, God gave me the strength and turned my sad spirit into joy. I told so many people today at work today and used that as a witnessing tool. Some people got chills but when my God does something so extrodinary like that I have to give him all the glory. He is so awesome!

A unique mailbox

While we were in California last weekend, Greg's parents took us to something "We had to see"

while driving around his old neighborhood. That made us laugh so hard! What an imagination someone had for a mailbox!

Attempting the "Heel"

I am on a quest to get this puppy to heel!! I LOVE to take walks and thought how enjoyable it could be to take nightly walks. We are having a hard time cooperating. I have tried the normal collar, a halter collar that goes around their belly, even ran to Rosauers last night to buy a chain choke collar and now today at puppy school I discovered the Halte collar (spelling, I am not sure). It's the 2nd one to the left. Our teacher, who I refer to as Aunt Marie (the female version of the dog whisperer) had me try this before I left. Kind of like a gentle leader, it goes around the nose so when they pull, it tightens their muzzle and is suppose to slow them down. Did it show her down????????????? Hmmmmmmmmmm... a little I guess in between trying to pull the dang thing off with her paws. I don't know how this will work out. It looks really uncomfortable. I will try to get a pic of her tomorrow with it on to post on the blog. I am worn out. I feel like I am in kindergarten all over again. Dog training is alot of work. I wonder what kind of "revelation" I can get out of dog training. Me and my revelations.... I got one, it's like God trying to teach you things and when you don't learn, he uses different things to bring you to learn what he wants but the more you fight, the longer it takes to learn the lesson. If you would just submit to it, live would be a lot smoother sailing... kind of like heeling :-)

Anyway, to all of the mothers reading this, have a Wonderful Mothers Day and Be blessed! Sarah had one of her old high school friends come to my door to deliver a rose to me today since she won't be home on Mothers Day. She is on her way home driving from LA, to San Francisco to Portland, to Spokane to Kalispell -to be home late Monday. Please pray for a safe trip and peace for the mom waiting to see her home safe and sound.

Beautiful Montana

Yesterday we went to Glacier. What a gorgeous day! We are so blessed to live here, just a half hour away from Glacier Park. When I looked at those mountains, that sky and the calmness of the water, I couldn't help but think of God's splendor and majesty. I just read a cool quote from Max Lucado: "If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need." Meditate on that one.

New Sunglasses

My friend stopped in one day last week to see their dad who works at the jail and I ran into them as I was getting off the elevator delivering the mail. Aren't they adorable!!! They were so proud to have me take their pic with their sunglasses! I told them I needed to take their pic so I can put them on my blog. And my dear friend Stacey just gave me directions on how to get a picture from my cell to my blog! Thanks Stacey! I am learning something new every day!

Revelation - People are watching

Wow, I had a revelation today as I was having a conversation with a friend. I work for the county and one part of my job is delivering the mail to all of the departments. There are always attorneys hanging out in the court areas discussing things to one another. There is one attorney that I see alot and he is very loud, obnoxious and has the foulest mouth. He seems so unprofessional to me. I hate being around him because everytime he is up there he is cussing to one of his collegues and everyone hears him. I guess when I think of an attorney, I somewhat want to have respect for someone in a position like that. It is a profession I would want to admire, being the knowledge and education they have . If my daughter went into law and became an attorney, I would be very proud of her. Not saying all attorneys are upstanding individuals but you get the drift, right? Well as I was discussing this individual to her and how he got on my nerves and how unprofessional I thought he was, I stopped to think for a moment while I was listening to myself talk. I thought, as a christian, that is how people want to see us, maybe not professional but disciplined, talking nicely and kind, not cussing, etc. For someone to see us acting the opposite dissapoints them in a way. I had to stop and think even thought I didn't tolerate this certain individual and what he was doing was unprofessional and obnoxious, I can be that way too in my christian walk. It made me realize that people are watching me and expecting more out of me. I want to leave good thoughts with people when I walk into a room. I don't want to discredit my belief in God and have them mocking me as I walk away. And I probably should be praying for this guy too. That is what I wanted to blog about tonight.

Prayer: Lord Jesus help us to be the fragrance of Christ wherever we go. Thank you that you forgive us so freely when we come to you and repent and that you are not a harsh judge. Help us to lead a good example to others because of the grace you have given us. Amen.

The Group

Well, here is the "Group". Us friends that meet every other Sunday. It's really cool how God put us together. We started meeting for a fellowship/bible study group at our home from our previous church about 3 years ago. We kind of grew on eachother and decided to have dinner every other Sunday. We all ended up at Freshlife Church too! We take turns on who brings a meal and dessert each week and then follow up with a Max Lacado bible study book on Ephesians, trying to keep in line with our teaching at church. They've gotten us out of our sheltered lives and showed us outdoor life such as hiking, cutting down Christmas trees, cross country skiing and fun stuff, even shooting a real gun! They are quite a group. That one at the head of the table is a real character, if you see her WATCH OUT! Actually, they all are quite the bunch!

So moving along, tonight was my turn for dinner and I made homemade Calzones. John thought it was called Cowzones... hahahahahhaha... They are kind of like Stromboli for those of you who aren't from the East coast and have no idea what Canolis are either... I made one with pepperoni and the other with sausage, peppers and onions. Dang, I wanted to take a picture of them to put on the blog!

I'm going to try something new and put a poll on my blog. Question- What IS a Canoli?