Passed!

Wohooooooo I passed my PPR test. Only missed 7 out of 80 questions!! My score was 284 out of 300, just needed 240 to pass so I passed big time! It feels sooooo good to have it over finally. Now I just have to wait on the state to make it official and mail me my Texas Teacher Certification!! I am really wanting to stay in special ed so to do that I will have to take another test specializing in special ed content material, but its all good! I am certified now and can now teach PreK through 4th grade if I want and do special later! I am in so need of a break from all the studying and pressure I just may wait a while but I really havent decided yet. I guess when God is ready for me to take that test I will know it! God Bless!

Our 1 year Anniversary!

I have been SOOOOOOO Busy that I really havent had time to get anything posted on here! Last weekend Oct. 27th was our one year wedding anniversary. We went to Plantersville, TX (about 70 miles north of Houston) We went to the Texas Renaissance Festival. It is the biggest renaissance festival in the nation! And it was AWESOME! We had such a great time, we may go back next year it was defiantly worth the 4 hour drive there and 4 hour drive home! If you have never heard of Cast in Bronze, you MUST here it! Its incredible. We first heard it at the renaissance festival near hear in Fort Worth this past spring. Its an midevil instrument called a Carillon. Its a 4 ton instrument consisting of 35 different sizes of bells. Go to http://www.castinbronze.com/index.php to read the history of it and hear segments of some of the songs. Anway he was performing at the Texas festival last weekend too so we got to hear it again! I can just sit and listen to it for hours! And now I can! We have all of his CDs and DVD. Bruce bought them all for me last weekend! It was so good just to get away from Fort Worth and away from everything and just spend the entire day with each other no computers, no studying and no cell phones! Just the two of us! That doesnt happen very often so when it does I cherrish the moment!! I praise God for the oppurtunity! God Bless!

Garage Sales

LOL I havent been to garage sales in forever! Yesterday I decided I wanted to go to some in the neighborhood. Of course I made Bruce go with me, even though he really didnt want to but now he is glad he did! We hit the jackpot so to speak! We got a four piece fireplace set for the fireplace(that is soooo rarely used in Texas), some cool yard ornaments, a big comfy chair, a new keyboard for one of the computers, some Halloween decorations, some clothes, some office stuff(storage rack and file holders that I really needed) and the biggest thing, a almost new screen door that Bruce has been wanting to get for a while for his moms house. The best part is we spent only 6 bucks!! we paid for the fireplace stuff, yard ornaments and chair that was it. All the other things including the screen door were FREE! God Bless! We got to that sale and the lady was packing stuff up she told us anything we wanted we could have for free because she was getting ready to take it all to Good Will! The screen door alone would have cost us $120! God is good! He provides when you need it! It was defiantly a blessing for us and for Bruce's mom. Of course all day I kept reminding Bruce that he had me to thank for making him go with me! LOL!! I can't believe in just a few days we will be celebrating our 1 year anniversary! So much has happened in the last year and can only thank God every day for all the blessings he has given me. I am so blessed!

Voyage of Self-Discovery

V-O-Y-A-G-E

Visualize your goal

Organize the steps to get there

You must believe in yourself

Ask for help

Get motivated

Eliminate negative thoughts

Sonogram

God is Good! I had a sonogram today of my neck, arms and chest for any residual thyroid tumors or any new growths in the lymph nopes. The test was NEGATIVE!! No signs of anything at all!! The doctor said he didn't want to see me again for a whole year! Praise God! I do have another "big" test in December to check for any displacement of cells through the rest of my body. But the doctor said today that I really shouldn't worry about it. He said that about 98% of any cancer would be in the throat or chest and we know for a fact there is none there! Wohoooo!


For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:21-23

I am BLESSED

State Fair and the Train

For the first time in over a year I not only felt like I had the energy to spend the day doing something that I knew would be exhausting, I did it!! Yesterday we went to the Texas State Fair..and if you are not familiar with it man is it HUGE!!! The Cotton Bowl sets in the middle of the fair grounds! Its crazy! A state fair generally run 10 days..the Texas fair runs 24 days! So to avoid issues with driving in traffic and parking we decided to take the train! The TRE runs through Fort Worth and Dallas so we got on it in Richland Hills (about 10 minutes from our house) and took it to Downtown Dallas, there we caught the Dart which is the Dallas version of a subway system to get you around Dallas. The Dart took us to the fair grounds..one way trip was just over an hour and by car would have been longer and bonus of not having to find parking! Wohoo! It was the first time I had ever road a train and it was so cool! I told Bruce I was going to search for other things to do in Dallas just to take the train! HaHa. We had a good time at the fair, we watched dog shows, Frisbee catching dogs, weave pole racing dogs, aqua jumping completion, and dancing dogs! It was very entertaining! We saw the human cannonball and the dude almost missed his net on landing...Yikes! He saw the Marine Drum and Bugle Corp perform, that was a site to be seen all those Marines! Also listened to a Scottish bagpipe band perform. Bruce played some games on the midway and won me too stuffed puppy dogs. We only rode one ride...the bumper cars! LOL! It was blast slamming my car into his! We walked through the exhibits where he bought me a cross necklace that I so love! We left home about 8am and got back about 9pm. The biggest thrill of the day was I actually had the energy to get through the day, oh I was tired when we got home but it was a different tired than I have experienced the last year! It was a tired from being on the go all day not a fatigued no energy sick tired! A month ago I never would have made it through the day and it would have taken days if not longer to recuperate from that! Today I was ready to go again, but we spent most of the day cleaning the yard, mowing, weed eating and pulling weeds from the flower beds! I truly feel that the cancer thing is so behind me and nothing but good blessings are in my future. Praise God!

Is it really October?

OK so officially its late Sunday night so its still September..but in a few short hours it will be October! This year has flown by so quickly. So much has happened in the last 9 months. Its mind blowing! Feels like just yesterday was summer was starting and now its over and winter is on its way..well as winter as it gets here in Texas anyway! LOL! I think I have learned so much and grown so much in the past 9 months than I have in the last 9 years. I have survived numerous obstacles that have made me a better person. Did I know on December 31st 2006 when I was sitting in Eagle Mountain International Church listening to Kenneth Copeland preach about 2007 being the year of the OPEN DOOR, that I would reflect on that sermon over and over? No I didn't. But I sure have. So many doors have opened up to me that never before have been even cracked and for Bruce as well. I am closing in on that final test to become a certified teacher, something I have wanted to do for a long time but never had the means or opportunity to do. I have discovered that Special Ed is truly what I want and where I belong as a teacher. Is it a coincidence that I attend Eagle Mountain International Church and work at Eagle Mountain-Saginaw School District? I think not its was HIS plan all along. And after another job change for Bruce he is also finally getting to do what he was wanted to do since we moved to Texas. He likes being a stock broker and trader but is now getting the opportunity to become a certified financial planner. Praise God! HE is the reason for the open doors and the good things that are happening to us. Another door that has opened is the door to financial security. Two years ago, even most of last year we struggled, sometime barely keeping our heads above water. Today we are walking in the Blessing and that struggle isn't quite as strenuous. We are truly on the road to recovery in that department. The biggest Blessing to me personally in the last year has been a reconnection of a very special and dear friend, Tonya. After a few years of not talking because we simply lost contact we are now not only back in contact but picked up right where things left off not skipping a beat. God truly blessed me! Not only returning a great friend to me but a teacher in the way of God as well. And that blessing gets better each and every day because its one day closer to her moving back to Texas so we can be closer to spend time with each other. I know the day is coming and I am looking forward to it! Another lesson from God on patience...LOL...I know the day is coming that Tonya will be in Texas and that is OK I don't feel inpatient about it I know it will happen when God is ready for it to. See...many things have changed for me this year. LOL I also was healed by the power of God from cancer! Praise God! I have some medical tests coming up in October and December, but I am not worried, I know I have the healing power of Jesus with me and the cancer is gone! I am Blessed! In so many ways I am Blessed!