My Handyman!

Remodeling inside is 100% complete but the new window made the siding on the outside not meet up anymore... so now he is working on that...

He is pretty Handy!

Thank you for all your hard work!

We are loving this fall weather!

You know when....

You know when it's Basketball season again

When

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Your house smells like Mint from all the gel she is using on sore muscles...

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You read on the Internet how to clean basketball shoes without ruining them...

Shoes must stay, smell MUST go!

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You buy a Scentsy pot for your child's room to rid the house of sock smell....

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Your child can hardly get out of the car in the mornings for the purse, book bag and work out bag she has to carry.... oh yea and a soft cooler loaded with Gatorade. (I am that Mom)

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Before you can commit to anything during the week you have to check the crazy practice schedule to see if she has an early or late practice or in the middle

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You are washing the same practice uniform again EVERY night!

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You see this.... even though her knees are okay we are trying to prevent any Osgood Schalters flare ups...

Yesterday started week 2 of practice.

Pray for a good, no injury, no accident year for the Gnarrell!

Birthday Recap!

We kindof decorated Kacey room for her!

14! Wow!
I think this is where she was saying, Are you going to help me clean this up?
I had made mini dirt cakes for her team, she had late practice so we took it to them after practice and they sang to her.

Then we went to eat for Kacey and Mom's birthdays!

My beautiful lady

I pray all her wishes come true and I pray she stays grounded in her faith and continues to grow strong in her relationship with Christ.

I think she is a pretty special young lady.

Kacey and Paige

Present time.

Proud Grandparents

And sister too!

Excuse my house I had mopped the night before!

Kacey is # 33 and that was my dad's number all through school for basketball and football. She loves it.

Grace got her a snuggy!

Sister Love!

You can't read it but around the basket ball it has I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me and has scripture on the back.

Hope you had a special day baby girl.

umm, not so much a baby anymore, but always will be mine and her dad's!

I remember before she started school I would always take off work on her birthday and spend the day with her... now she is more busy than we are. We are proud of you Kacey and Love you to the Moon, stars to the Mailbox and back again!

Happy Birthday Kacey!

Happy Birthday Kacey!

We love you!

I can NOT believe you are 14! where has the time gone?

Wonderful Wednesday!

Today I am an emotional basket case!

I am full and it is overflowing..

This has been a good morning...

A morning where I can see God at work so clearly..

where a song can speak to me so loudly....

Today was See you at the Poles, to see my NOT morning girls up and ready early because they don't want to miss it...

To see the front lawn of the elementary full of kids, PRAISING GOD!

For safety reasons the Jr. High had theirs in the gym... Kids streaming in.. Intentional, on mission for Christ, I'm full.... I'm thankful....

To hear two differant people this morning, say are you okay???

and to be able to say, Yes, I'm great, I'm just full!

To live where I am blessed to live

and worship where I'm blessed to worship

I'm blessed to have my wonderful Husband and beautiful girls...

I'm blessed.... I'm thankful and today I'm full

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvuxFdM3S58&feature=artist

I love this song....
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Some of the Lyrics:

Teach me to number my days
And count every moment before it slips away
Taking all the colors before they fade to gray
I don't want to miss even just a second more of this
It happens in a blink
It happens in a flash
It happens in the time it took to look back
I try to hold on tight, but there's no stopping time
What is it I've done with my life
It happens in a blink When it's all said and done
No one remembers how far we have run
The only thing that matters is how we have loved
I don't want to miss even just a second more of this
It happens in a blink it happens in a flash it happens in the time it took to look back
I try to hold on tight but there's no stopping time
What is it I've done with my life It happens in a blink
Slow down, slow down Before today becomes our yesterday
Slow down, slow down Before you turn around and it's too late
It happens in a blink it happens in a flash it happens in the time it took to look back
I try to hold on tight but there's no stopping time
What is it I've done with my life
It happens in a blink

I don't want to miss one precious second of life,
One day when my girls are grown I'll have that spotless house
but for today, this is what matters... this is what counts and I will never get today back.

Happy Birthday to my Sweet Momma!

Happy Birthday!

Sweet Babies!

Thank you all for praying for the Kelley's please don't stop...

Some sweet girl pictures I've taken but hadn't had the chance to post...

Enjoy!

Sweet Babies Sweet times!

Saturday!

This has been a busy Saturday!

Picture of the start of Project : I'm tired of being embarrassed over my flower beds!

30 bags of mulch and we ran out before we finished!
Before: Mulch but after we weeded... It was bad with all the house projects it was sorely neglected. More than ever before...

After:

Much Better

Hmmm now the sidewalk needs pressure washing... oh well another day!

And now for Pizza and the game... Hmmm so far not much of a game our tigers are getting stomped!

Maybe the second half will be better! Not sure it could be worse...

Happy Saturday!

Friday!

I am so thankful it is Friday even though at 6:30 this morning after Greg and I had both asked last night repeatedly are you sure you have all your homework. Grace says Oh Momma I forgot... three Math workbook pages later I have fixed her hair as she worked.

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I am so thankful it is Friday even though when get in the car and she says Momma do you have your check book.. I think my book order is due today... Me: When did you get it Her: Monday. Me: Ah no... learn to give it to me earlier it is too late... Hard lessons

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I am thankful it is Friday even though between both girls they have 6 test today! Thursday's are study nights at the Narrell household...

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I am so thankful it is Friday and we have a quite weekend planned and hope it stays quite and we stay out of the ER...

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I am so thankful it is Friday and both kids are home all weekend... Much needed R & R.

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I am so thankful it is Friday and even though Kacey isn't 100% she is better! Praise the LORD!

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I am so thankful it is Friday and we do NOT have to go home and do homework tonight... I am sick of HW! I think I help do more and check more now then I did when I was the one in school!

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I am so thankful for my Godly Husband and my girls... Thank you Lord for one more day!

Just another day in Paradise

No other place I'd rather be!

Spanish Holiday!

Yesterday was "some" Spanish Holiday. 200 yrs ?? anyway, Kacey's Spanish class had a party to celebrate. We made spicy chicken dip and she took some chips and the class partied..

Another Mom/teacher took this and sent it to me. MP and KC

God's Building Program

My devotion this morning was about God's timing and his plan...
the last paragraph is so powerful...

It reads on more than one occasion I have had to admit that I don't have the foggiest idea about what He is up to. He is God and I am not. (WOW - He is God we are not~ why do try to control what is not ours to control) I don't understand: (a Mom of two sweet girls injured - a family that loses its connection to one another, or a sick child that can't get back to normal, and our church family broken and trying to figure out how to heal) What I do know from the Scriptures is that God has a unique purpose for every person and for every thing that happens to us. I have come to the conclusion that either He is the sovereign God, totally in control, or He is not in control at all (which I do not believe at all). He is in total control... nothing is a surprise to him. He knew where our church family would be today and he has it all under control... if we only let him.

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Here is the whole devotion in case you want to read:
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on a rock. MATTHEW 7:24
This is a true story.
In the 1870s, when the citizens of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, began looking for a piece of property for a new Methodist church building, their sights fell on a nice piece of elevated land where the structure would be reasonably protected from coastal flooding. But the landowner had more lucrative plans for the property and declined their offer.
So the church was built on another site and dedicated on September 16, 1876. Within a matter of days, however, a monster hurricane reached landfall at this precise location. One casualty of the storm was the brand-new Swan Quarter United Methodist Church, which was lifted up off its pilings by the surging tide of storm water and was carried north—floating, intact—and then inexplicably east, eventually coming to rest on the very tract of land its leaders had originally requested. As legend tells it, the property owner came with trembling hand to sign over the title deed to the church.
Yes, God is in control. Since 1968, as I have attempted to walk with God, on more than one occasion I have had to admit that I don't have the foggiest idea about what He is up to. He is God and I am not. I don't understand: infertility or the loss of a child, a chronic or terminal illness, the death of a young mom or dad, and a thousand other things that make zero sense, humanly.
What I do know from the Scriptures is that God has a unique purpose for every person and for every thing that happens to us. I have come to the conclusion that either He is the sovereign God, totally in control, or He is not in control at all (which I do not believe at all). He made us to trust Him, regardless of the circumstances. And that is reflected in the new name of that Methodist church in North Carolina that God moved to solid ground: Providence United Methodist Church.

WHAT A WEEK ~ and it's not over!

Thursday ~ I am so ready for some calmness! Aren't you? Has your week been crazy as well!
Ours started on Saturday night when I was all excited over a night where we were all going to be at home, TV, football, life was calm and quite... cue the scary music!

Kacey had gone with a friend to a tennis tournament, she didn't play only was there to watch and cheer her on, and for the mall trip afterwards! On their way home she started getting a dull headache, and had been a little dizzy off and on. She has lots of sinus trouble so she thought nothing more of it.. In a span of about 20 minutes I got a text saying come get me, I feel bad to Stephanie calling and saying Paige, she is sick..... She said one minute she was sitting on the couch playing the next laying crying with 103 fever.... WHAT! I was almost there when her mom called and I helped her to the car, all while she was staggering and crying holding her head... We went straight to the ER. She wanted her Daddy ~ literally and so within 15 minutes he had dropped Grace off and was with us...
Strep negative
flu negative
Urinalysis good
They took X-rays and sent her home with Antibiotics, new sinus medicine and fever/pain reducer. I've never seen her that sick... She went home and slept. Fever broke still nursing a headache on Sunday and by Monday was complaining more of throat/stomach pain. So on Tuesday we went to her dr and he was convinced it was Mono but Praise the Lord it was negative so it seems it was a bad sinus infection/and she had a virus, even on Tuesday her tonsils and lymph nodes were swollen and she is still complaining of pain under her shoulder blades, and ribs pray it exits soon and that No other Narrell's inherit the sickness!

Thankful Thursday!

Today is the day that the Lord has made so I will rejoice and be glad in it!

I read this on a blog this morning.....

I've heard it said before...The most miserable person is not an unsaved person. It's one who has been redeemed by the blood of Christ but has fell out of fellowship with the Lord.

WOW! Please Lord keep me close! I don't want to be discouraged I want to keep my fellowship with you fresh and renewed! Keep me on the path YOU have for me.

Have a great Thursday all, I promise to try to blog more soon, I've been a little busy lately! :-)

Furniture!

I forgot to take a picture when it was all white...

I bought a old wicker cabinet to put in the bathroom to store all the hair bands/rollers/straighteners and everything else that girls need!

So here is a picture mid process.. when I remembered.

And I also found this set of furniture for Grace, I wasn't sure she would like it but when I took her back to look at it she loved it! It was the dresser/chest of drawers/two night stands, and the bed.

It also had the matching bed but it was a full size and she wasn't ready to give up the extra room from having a twin so we have it in storage for the time being.

This is my favorite piece.

And the cabinet is a little larger than I had pictured but it serves it's purpose!

Happy Monday.