Goals

2 Chronicles 15:7

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

When you ask me what plans I have for my future, my usual answer is, "ask God". Surely I have dreams and desires, I just don't know what all of them are, and my dreams change often. 

I know I want to grow in my love for my Lord and Savior every day of my life. I never want to lose him, and I want to lead my family in a great example of Christ-like love! I want to know my bible in and out and know how to relate it to this crazy-real world.

I pray that I will be an amazing, out of this world wife in my husbands eyes and that I help God keep him happy for always. I pray we show our children, and this world a true marriage on THE ROCK. I pray we forever remember our hard times so that we know marriage does take work, and we have made it through entirely too much to ever quit on each other.

Right now we are actually trying for a second child. I don't know if it is so much trying as it is not-not trying! Haha! We both hope for a boy, but know that a girl would make us just as happy, as we've been shown that before. The both of us just want to have a good pregnancy experience now that our relationship is stable. We want to see what God had in store for us when done his way.

Mainly I pray that when and if God blesses us with another baby, that we both love our children just the same even though they will have come from two completely different times in our life. I pray we don't let our feelings toward each other in the past harm our first-born any more than they have and that forever she feels loved just the same as a possible new child. My heart hurts thinking about all the things she didn't have that a new baby might have. I know it will shape her personality, I just hope it is in a positive way!

Concerning my husbands military career, I hope he stays happy with whatever he chooses, and that the Lord make a way if it ever be that he may need to get out and venture into a career outside of military life style. All I know is I want him safe, happy, and confident in all his choices.    

When it comes to my career, I want to have confidence in myself, and be happy as well as support my family. Like most, I'd love the dream job. Thank the good Lord that I am in the beginning process of this as I started with Mary Kay May 9, 2013. I have so many possibilities and it is all up to God and how much work I put in. My Mary Kay short term goal is to get my Perfect Start Pin, Power Start Pin, and my Pearls!!! Within the next year I want to achieve the second level of car bonus and get the MK Mustang! I would love to be able to retire my husband off of my MK income and help my children through College wherever they might want to go, if they want to go.

I want to make it out of the country, even if it is just once. Mexico or Canada would even be fine with me, I just want to be able to say I've been elsewhere.

I want to start a Fundraising Foundation one day, I just do not know what for quite yet.

I hope to gleam Christ' love everywhere I go and be humble all my days.

Sadly, I know I am a sinner and sometimes I will just have to apologize to my Lord and the people I hurt along my life journey. I can only pray to receive forgiveness, and repent!

Mary Kay!

MK MY WAY!

So, I just recently began my new career as a Mary Kay Sales Consultant and I am beyond excited! I love all the things I have learned about this company! I get to play with make-up and earn money, cars, jewlery and trips around the world?! HECK YEAH! Seriously I cannot wait to see where this takes me. I know I need it to get out of my box, and it seems to already be helping with that. I told a lady I saw at Wal-Mart today that I loved her hair and she about had a heart attack that someone complemented her. I think we all need more nice surprises like that. I think I want to start saying something nice to total strangers more often, just put a little pep in their step.

Here are some fun facts I bet you did not know about Mary Kay:

This year was the 50 year anniversary.

The company is based on the belief of putting God first, Family Second and Career Third!

Although Mary Kay Ash is deceased, her son still runs the company to ensure it goes the way Mary Kay Ash wanted it to.

Working for Mary Kay, one receives 50% commission.

Although make-up companies are not required to be FDA approved, and most are not, Mary Kay is FDA approved!

Mary Kay was one of, if not then the first make-up company to stop testing on animals!

Also, Mary Kay has been open to teaching other companies how to trial their make-up without testing on animals! How many companies now-a-days share their secrets to success?! Not many!

Those are just a few things I have found out over the past few days. I hope to grow with more knowledge in this business every single day! As for my main goal, it is to win and keep this beauty posted below by my birthday next year. June 24, 2014! I want the Mary Kay Mustang!!! (There are three levels of cars and the mustang is in the second level) I will achieve this!!!

MK My Way

Satisfaction

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst".

When asked to describe a moment in my life that I felt the most satisfied I actually stumble quite a bit. Once my grandma got ahold of me I was raised to be a perfectionist and I really feel like that could be considered a disease! It is very rare that things happen according to plan in REAL every-day life! Perfectionists are set up for failure in my opinion. 
The closest to being completely satisfied I believe I have felt is end of summer going into beginning of fall of 2009. I had just started dating my husband and had my first office job and just felt like life was perfect, other than the fact that my fiancee at the time was away at basic. I feel like God makes even the most perfect moments imperfect just to remind you that this is a real world and real perfection takes very hard work.

Zodiac: Cancer

Jeremiah 27:9

So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, "You shall not serve the king of Babylon".

I have never been one to believe in zodiac signs or symbols of any sort. While I do think they are fun and it is interesting when most qualities or characteristics match up, I know that they are nothing to count on. The only thing in this world to believe in as having a place to tell you how your life will be is through God Almighty. 

Easy as that. 

My Dirty Thirty

John 14:21

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.

1. I am a firm believer in Jesus Christ and his Father.
2. I am a sinner.
3. I have been married for almost 3 years.
4. My husband and I have a 2 year old! (26 months!)
5. We are praying for God to bless us with a second child!!!
6. I am a stay at home mama!
7.  I became a Mary Kay Consultant on May 9, 2013!
8. I'm currently hoping to receive a MK Mustang by May 2014!
9. We have a Pit-bull and a Chihuahua.
10. I graduated highschool.
11. I completed one year of college at UT Arlington.
12. My husband is in the US Army.
13. We are from Texas and have be stationed in Washington (state) for 3 years.
14. Next month we are going back to Texas! (He is getting stationed at Fort Hood!
15. I love all things musical!
16. I have high anxiety levels. (I do NOT keep calm!)
17. I love to read but don't have much time for it.
18. I love working out! (once I get half way through my workout).
19. I am terrible at eating healthy.
20. I play COD in my down time.
21. I believe a walk through the park can fix any mood.
22. I am independent.
23. Since having children I have become lazy when it comes to my appearance, and I hope to change that!
24. My husband and I host a group through our church called Marriage On The Rock, based off of biblical principals of marriage.
25.  I rarely drink, the main time I drink is to flatter my husband, as he likes it when I cut loose. (haha!)
26. God saved my marriage.
27.  I had my first car accident (as an adult) at the age of 16.
28. I spun off of the road during my most recent road trip during an ice storm in the middle of Wyoming in a high wind zone. It scared me to death.
29. I am not crafty, but have crafty ideas.
30. I. love. to. two. step.

Religion

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

My take on religion is this exact Bible verse. Love is all that matters! I am christian, and I am God-fearing. The thing that I love about following God is that His Word tells us over and over to love others. God loved others, sinful nature and all, so much that he sent his one and only son to die for all of those who had sinned, and all of those to sin in the future. Jesus was constantly trying to help sinners see the way to a happy ending, he hurt for them; he loved them. Just because someone does not follow the same beliefs as me, my religion still tells me to love them, to forgive them of their trespasses. For that, I am grateful. A world without forgiveness would be a very harsh place, considering we are ALL imperfect.

Drugs and Alcohol

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

 

When it comes to alcohol, I am not a fan. It rarely comes without side-effects and usually leads to bad choices. Once or twice a month I do drink a Mikes Hard or two, usually at home and just with my husband, because he uses it to let loose and misses our old crazy days where I would drink too. After becoming a mom drinking became no fun, and it is obvious why. Early mornings mixed with late nights make for a grouchy family all around, through in something that makes you disoriented and there are too many openings for good intentions to go bad.

Although I am not a fan of alcohol I do not mind if it is something you are into! Mind you, I will part myself from irresponsible use of alcohol because I refuse to take part in the craziness that easily accompanies it.

 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

 

Drugs are a definite "no-go" for me. Even when it comes to prescriptions I remain weary. I just feel like God intended for us to live a clean life and many humans have "addictive personalities" which can carry us too far from our original intention and use of the drug in the first place.

Again, I do not mind what you do with your time, but I will part from any situation that is not controlled, and chances are I will feel very uncomfortable in any situation involving non-prescribed drugs.