OU vs OSU

Ok no doubt in my mind...... OU wins! But, I had a opportunity to travel with the Ringwood FCA to FCA gameday at OSU. We were able to see a football game, have a FCA rally and hang with other students within our school who share the same beliefs! It was a lot of fun, even though we were at a OSU football game. Lots of orange all around us, with a few crimson and cream shirts mixed within ~ Brave souls! The final score was 56 ~ 6, of course OSU favor. Makes for not much excitement but lots of touchdowns! The other team was Grambling State, known for being "The Best Band in the Land". They really put on a show! Anyways..... I may be an die hard OU fan, but I must say WTG OSU!

Ashley and SC at the football game!

"Bullet" the horse, rides after a touchdown!

"Grambling Band"

"Grambling Band" ~ A tribute to Micheal Jackson.

Inspired!

I'm so excited to share my fundraiser idea. Many months ago I had seen a very cool necklace that inspired me to start a fundraiser. With the help of CJ and LW I was able to start "More Precious Than Gold" last week. Thank you so much to the both of you, for your help and encouragement and support. After many hours of looking at beads and putting them together, I have been inspired by 8 necklaces. I have started with ~

Emily ~ an Asian design with an American flare

Ladybug ~ red, black with a white accent

Ocean Mist ~ ocean colors with a silver accent

Nature Inspired ~ green and brown

Safari ~ many pottery colors

Licorice Groove ~ black and white with a flare

Pretty in Pastel ~ pastel green, blue and pink

Iced Mocha ~ 3 shades of brown

I am very excited to share them with you. 100% of the profit goes to help us bring our "More Precious Than Gold ~ Emily" home. We hope you enjoy the necklaces and I thank you for helping bring Emily home.

Good Evening all!

I must share with you whats on my heart. I am overjoyed, overwhelmed, and over filled with Gods love. I have been preparing my heart for a Bible Study that God laid upon my heart many months ago. As we embark upon a journey through they fruits of the spirit tomorrow, I must share that I am really excited and scared at the same time. I so want to please God in all I do, and I know I can do this and will do this, but Satan is attacking me in all areas of my life. I must focus on Him and all He is going to do for me during this Bible Study. Tomorrow evening I, along with many other ladies, will begin a Bible Study entitled "Living Among Ourselves" (a study on the fruits of the spirits). This study is done by Beth Moore and I so LOVE her work and how God has used her to do big and mighty things. My prayer is that I will be open to Gods words and teachings. I think in my mind that I know the fruits of the spirit that I MUST work on, but I want to open to God and honest to myself with the ones that I felt were ok or better than ok. Lord, please speak to me about all the fruits of the spirit and let me focus on your will not mine. Thanks for listening to me, and letting me record my thoughts! May you all be blessed and remember to put God first in all you do and have. Love you all!

Our Sweet Emily~

What a blessing to be woke up at 1:30 in the morning...... No really it is when I hear "April are you awake?" I was thinking what and why? He said it again and I responded..... He then said "Get up we got pictures!" Well you can imagine that I was up and out of that bed in nothing flat!!!!! We have been waiting for these pictures for a long time, but the wait is over and so worth it! Emily's birthday was August 29th and we sent her a cake to help her celebrate and hopefully get some pictures. Well that prayer/wish came true. What a blessing to have organizations, like Ladybugs~n~love, serve adoptive families. They are truly a God sent gift to so many families that are waiting to hold their precious children. Thank you so much Ladybugs~n~love! Now for what you all have been waiting for ~ especially me and my family ~ God is so good to us, even though we don't deserve His love, mercy, or gifts. He still gives them to us, because He loves us so much. Thank you God for all the blessings you have given to us, individually and as a family. We are truly blessed. Now here is my sweet little girl ~ Emily!

She is a true "Mueller", she seems to love cake!

Happy Birthday Emily!

Mommy, Daddy, Ashley and Kaylee love you very much!

Stay Tuned!

I promise that I am still working on a video with my girls talent on it. I am having trouble uploading it onto the computer.... Please bare with me, and I WILL get it!!!!! Stay tuned!

Fair Week

We are enjoying the fair week so far. We have an event each night through Saturday night. Monday was bingo, and last night was the pageant? Both girls were in it and I will post more about it later. I am working on the video of Ashley's talent. I will tell you that Kaylee is Miss Cinderella 2009 and Ashley received Personality Plus and 1st runner up. I am so proud of both of my girls, they make me smile and my heart swells with love for both of them. They both did so well last night and well did all the girls. Congrats to all the winners. I must give a very special THANK YOU to Brian for all the hard work you put into "Popular". We are all very appreciative...... :) Also I must thank AF, Tina, LP and KR for all the support and help they gave me and my girls as well, I would have never made it with out them. Tonight was fellowship where we ate fried chicken and had live entertainment. I sang with two other ladies tonight. It is so much fun hanging with everyone as one body of Christ. Looking forward to the rest of the week! Keep checking for pics and a video of my two beautiful daughters......

PS..... No pictures of Emily yet, still patiently (at least trying to) waiting!

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Emily, Happy Birthday to you. Our sweet Emily turns 1 today. Oh how I want to hold her and kiss her and love on her. We sent her a cake, and we are waiting patiently on those pictures. We thank our Lord for allowing us to be Emily parents. I pray she has a wonderful birthday today, and that somebody loves on her..... alot!

Wait on Gods Plan!

Hello all, as I sit here in my living room checking my email at least once an hour, usually more than that, I sit and think about the journey we have been so far. It starts with the desire to adopt, and then wait on Gods plan, then thinking He changed my heart, wait on Gods plan, desire returns, wait on Gods plan, talking with husband once more, wait on Gods plan, take first step in adoption process, wait on Gods plan, here the news this little girl file has been sent back to CCAA, wait on Gods plan, pray and are given a glimpse of His plan and proceed with adoption, wait on Gods plan, fill out paperwork, wait on Gods plan, receive two referrals and making that most difficult decision, wait on Gods plan, receiving our little girls information and picture, wait on Gods plan, wait on PA, and still waiting on Gods plan. I know this seems like a lot of waiting, and yet it really has not taken us very long to get we were are today. As we wait for LOA, I think how much will we wait, and when I think of waiting, the thought comes to me "It is worth it" His plans are perfect, and as I look back there is no doubt that His plans are worth waiting on!

Now you ponder why is she checking her email every hour..... We are expecting pictures of our precious little Emily any day now! Also would you please keep D & T in your prayers during this difficult trial they are facing right now! Many blessings to you all!

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11

One More Step Closer

Much to my surprise, we are at our one month stepping stone toward our LOA (letter of acceptance). I am taken back to the moment when we first started our journey, and how excited I was and how blessed we were that God had chosen us to adopt. Today I am still excited and even more blessed then when we started. Our Gods plans amaze me every day, and how He knows each and every step we will take, exactly who will run into each day, the things we will say (sometimes not to His glory), the actions we make public, and yet He still loves us, and wants to spend time with us despite the things we have done.

As far as the one month anniversary (ha ha I feel like a teenager celebrating the 1st month of a relationship) we do now that it takes 60 ~ 90 days to receive our LOA, and although 1 month does not seem like a lot, it is to adoptive parents, because we know we are one month closer to holding our precious girl. How I long to hold her, kiss her, and just look into those eyes and say "Mommy's here". We pray that our LOA will be closer to the 60 days, and we will see Emily before the end of the year. I do know that the enemy is attacking, and all of our adoptive families needs prayers. So please continue to lift us all up in your prayers, because we all want to hold our children that God has chosen for us! With that we do know that we will see and hold them soon! May God Bless You Today!

Happy Anniversay!

Today is my parents 39th Wedding Anniversary! Happy Anniversary to you from David, April, Ashley and Me! We hope you have a wonderful day today, and may we honor you and thank you for all the wonderful things you have done for me and my family..... So many of the characteristics of myself have came from you, you taught me how to love, care, and put others first! Thank you for helping me raise my children, and teaching me so many things through the years! You are fabulous parents and may you be blessed today beyond your imaginations!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Emily's Care Package

We are so blessed to have found a organization to send a care package to Emily. Thank you so much to Connie, for sharing this company with me. Within the picture are books (6) and a doll for Emily. Candy and nuts for the orphanage care takers, and hopefully they will take pictures with the camera. This care package makes me happy and sad at the same time. I want to hold my little girl so bad, and when she receives the doll and books I want to be there to see her smile. We also sent a cake to her ~ to be delivered on or around August 29th. This will be a celebration of her 1st birthday. We do hope to receive pictures then, and will be able to see her on her 1st birthday. Emily ~ WE LOVE YOU. Thank you Ladybugsnlove, you are such a blessing!

YOUTH Time

Not much in our adoption journey happening as of right now. So I am posting on those everyday life events. Very excited to be joining our Youth group this Friday and Saturday to go to YEC. YEC (Youth Evangelist Conference) is for the Youth to encourage, train, and inspire students to see their school as the mission field God has given them. It is filled with loud rock bands, (don't get me wrong love these bands) which include Skillet, Group 1 Crew, Blue Tree and Jeff Johnson. This is a overnight event, with lots of Worship, teaching, learning, fellowship, fun and laughs. Looking forward to hanging with our Youth Group. :)

School Time~

Today we enrolled in school, although I am not in school, I seemed to have more paperwork to fill out then they did. Ashley will be a Jr this year (I know one of the hardest years) and Kaylee will be in 8th grade. The big 8th grade graduation this year, Jr/Sr Prom, college prep, and both of them will have many games (basketball, fast and slow pitch softball ~ Kaylee, and Fast and slow pitch softball ~ Ashely) Well we don't start school until August 13th, it feels like it should start in a few days. I think they are both excited as much as they can be........ I don't know about most of you, but every time I enroll my children, I feel even older, I know the reality is that I am, but I don't need the reminder :) Talk to you all soon!

Wicked

Hello All, I hope you had a wonderful weekend, spending time with your family, worshiping the Lord, maybe even cleaning...... We had a really good weekend, you might remember that we redone our bathroom a few weeks ago, and I said I had hoped to install a shower into the tub. My husband decided that this was the weekend. I am very excited to say, that we (mostly him) finished it Sunday @ 10 pm. We really didn't even fight, and pretty much agreed on the decision to be made.

I am also very excited about Tuesday night. I have tickets along with my husband to go see Wicked the Musical. I have seen a little bit of it in San Antonio, only seen the second half due to a severe asthma attack. So you can imagine that I am very excited about going again to that I can see the first half..... :)

Keep in touch! Thank you for your unending prayers..... They are appreciated. May I pray for you, if you are comfortable leaving something or would just like me to pray for in general. Please leave me a message I will be happy to lift you up, it is a privilege!

Our God is an Awesome God

I just want to say we serve an Amazing God. Who's plan are greater than we can imagine. He knows what is best for us, and orchestrated our lives to serve His plans, and worship and praise Him. Let us praise our Lord today for the works He has done this week. My life is so blessed because of my Savior who loves me, and I love Him.

Proverbs 8:17

"I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me."