Little Update

Hello everyone! I'm still trying to finish college in December, but it seems like I will have to over do it with my classes in the summer. I'm not sure I can do that, so as for now, I'm playing it by ear. I've been taking another 6 courses this semester, three of which are Education courses. I was accepted to the program in the winter and I am taking a class on Teaching in the Diverse classroom, Human Development and Student Learning, and Instructional Planning (with observation hours). I'm also taking a Reading course and English Pedagogy course. All of which are overworking me, plus I am doing the work study this semester again and it's getting very difficult. I'm planning to stop working but not sure how to get out of it now. My kids are growing and growing!! Both of my older ones are in Middle school 6th and 7th now and my babies are in elementary, 3rd and 4th. They are so independent and lovable!! My hubby is still working hard to provide for us and I love him so much for that...I'm still praying for him to be home more often though. Today I was able to put in my first observation hours at Palmview High School, I was in a Senior English course and I absolutely loved it!! I can't wait to be the teacher for those kids! It gave me the push I need to keep going and finish! God has been good to me!

I know, it's been way too long. I've been way to busy with my family, church and college, I can barely breathe. I'm in my junior year in college now, if all goes as planned, my goal is to graduate next December. I'm taking 6 classes currently and this is taking much of my time. These classes have been quite a learning experience so far. I am really enjoying learning so much in my liturature classes and well, all of them. I'm taking Discriptive Linguistics, Creative Writing, American Lit I and American Lit 2. I am also taking an education class and a film and video editing course that is way too fun! My kids are growing way to fast and it is hard to keep up with them. Yesterday, I was making Aaron's bed while he was getting dressed for school (I have been making them do their beds for a few months but decided to hurry things up and I did it for them) and he stopped before going out of his room and said, "Thank you, mom." I was so happy to hear him say that without me asking him, "aren't you happy mommy is helping you?" He is growing up, as Vianney is as well. She came home today crying, saying she doesn't fit in :( my heart was hurting for her and I comforted her as much as I could....I love them so much. I miss my husband more and more everyday. It never gets easier.

So it seems I haven't had time for blogging...just quickly, Christmas and New Years were different this year, my brother...minus Ben came to TX for a week or so! I totally loved spending time with them and there families...we hadn't done that in forever! I see them in the summer, but don't spend too much time with them, so this was nice. After Christmas this were so busy it seems like a big blur...with New Years celebrations and wedding preps...then 1-3-13. Vicky and Bernardo's wedding...from cutting meat the day before to pictures through out the wedding and cleaning up after...I'm exhausted from just talking about it!

Forever and a day...

Wow, it's been forever!! I had almost forgotten I had this blogspot. But I'm coming here today with the need to vent. Please don't mind me. My life lately has been great, my hubby is just amazing and my kids are all doing well in school and well, I've been keeping busy with leading, back-up and missionettes at church and housework of course. Don't even now where to start. Our pastor was diagnosed with stomach cancer a couple months ago so that impacted my life in a big way. Marta Campos also just past away yesterday from stomach cancer. Our lives pass so quickly and at times we don't take full advantage of every situation in our lives. There is no need to get so angry with the most retarded things in the world!! Why do we focus on the way things should be? Why can't we just move along and accept changes that happen, in each situation do our best to make the best of it, or if its someone else, help him up if you can and if not, pray for him and "move on!" Let's not dig a bigger hole please! It's amazing how sometimes we stumble and fall and instead of getting up, checking why we fell and learning how not to fall again, we stay down and cry and have a tantrum until out lungs give out!! Then we get up try to run and keep falling because we don't think we need to learn what we did wrong because we do everything so perfect there is nothing left we need to learn! Wow...it's amazing. Lets be a little more humble ppl! Matthew 23:12 Says: Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Oh God please forgive me for feeling so annoyed with some ppl, I don't like it when ppl feel they are more than someone else...I guess we should all be more humble...including me. God is so amazing, he is so merciful, our pastor has been healed from the cancer, he has gone though the quimo and its almost all gone! I truly believe God has amazing ness planned in my life, family and church, can't wait to blog about so many more wonderful things He has done for us...stay tuned, I will be logging more often :). Goodnight for now.

A New Experience

So, Hi! It's been a few months and I was going to write this down on a piece of paper but decided I'd blog about it here instead. You all know how great God is in my life...I can't stress that point enough. Well, last Sunday He showed Himself to me in the most amazing way.
Sunday August 7th, 2011, I was awaken 30 mun b/4 my alarm rang to get ready for church, so I felt like it was God tugging at me to get up and pray, (previously I've asked God to wake me up so I can give Him more time in prayer, I have a hard time getting up in the mornings). So I say "yes Lord, I'm up" and I begin to pray and just praise him, after about 25 min, I just began to Worship Him and I felt His presence so strong in my body, I began to feel as though I was not in my body anymore, I got numb from head to toe, couldn't move anything but my eyes, it was as if I was in another dimension...just an all around amazing experience, I was aware of what was around me, I just felt like I was not there, I thought for a moment that maybe I was dying because I began to feel something cold from the top of my head running down, I felt it come down to my lips and they just started shaking, I started breathing very heavily, I can't explain how I was feeling, comforted, hugged, loved, at the same time, yet scared for my kids...if this was the end for me, how where they going to react to seeing mommy laying there, lifeless? I said, God, but my kids...but if it's Your Will, it's my will...I closed my eyes and I remember seeing darkness but a large ring of light and I wanted to see it closer and the next image I seen was very fuzzy but looked like millions of bodies around and in the light...I tried to see closer but the next think I know it was gone...I was back and it was over. My body was covered in a cold sweat and weak for a couple minutes. I just began to weep and thank God for this amazing experience and want to seek Him more...

Sad Day

Today I am sad. Can't put it all out there today, but just know that life's changes are tough sometimes...hard to take in.
Here is just a verse that I had been thinking about in Spanish James 5:12 if you want to look it up in English:
Pero sobre todo, hermanos míos, no juréis, ni por el cielo, ni por la tierra, ni por ningún otro juramento; sino que vuestro sí sea sí, y vuestro no sea no, para que no caigáis en condenación.
In other words...do what you say you are going to do, do not do otherwise. And if you claim to be a Christian, practice what you preach. Don't lie, cheat, or wish wrong for others. Finally, don't be someone whom you are NOT!! It's worse to do wrong knowingly!! People can see right through you, even though you think they only see your outer shell...I still love you but wish you would stop. For the sake of us ALL!!! PLEASE and Thank you! Ok, I feel better now...bye.

OMG'sh

Soo, today was a crazy day!
I went to bed about 11:30pm, 20 min later Brianna came to my bed with a cold, so I have her some meds and tried going back to bed. Well, when I was falling asleep I heard ppl (girls)screaming outside frantically!! Then there were 3 gun shots! A car drove off while there were still ppl screaming. My heart wanted to stop and I didn't know what to do, so I got up and checked to make sure my door was locked and kids were asleep. I looked out Vianney's window and seen a girl sitting on the curb, crying, uncontrollably and a guy was by her. He called the police and I heard him say they killed his friend!! I later seen the emt and police cars arrive. This happened at the house to my immediate right, the one I shared (b/c we finally got the fence put in to separate last yr) the back yard with. Anyways, just wanted to let you know what happened last night I would have never thought would happen so close to home. So because of this my whole day was off...then we had elections at church tonight and I was chosen to be one of the deaconesses from our extension! What a privilege to serve the Lord in this way! I am also the new ext. Missionette coordinator...so it will be an interesting busy year :)

New Opportunities

Well it's Feb, 17th today...Valentines just passed, had a good time at the banquet, gave up out crowns this year, was nice to spend the evening with my hubby. Here is a pic of our fab evening :)

December elections I didn't get anything this year. I decided to let go of choir...it was time to move on. We had extension elections yesterday for Misioneras and Pescadores and Missionettes. I was 2 ppl away from becoming the Pres of Damas and tied for vice. Then I ended up with Coordinator for the extension of Missionettes. I'm excited for the new opportunities and ready to give it my all! I'm still helping with the grupo de alabanza that is always awesome to Worship God in that way...which is my passion!! I really love my church family and am excited for the things God is doing in our church!
Many prayers have been answered, God is soo good. I love my hubby, I love my kids, I love my family! I'm happy!

Inspired

Last week my kids and I went on a load with my husband Hector to Washington State where I got to see some of my family who mean a lot to me. While I was there I received a message quite clear to me. We drove by a huge lottery sign in Oregon which read 330 million!! I immediately thought about what "I" would do with that much money. The first thought was CHURCH!! Being that we just had some pretty, um, tense elections, regarding finances. I thought the first thing I would do with the money would be pay off all the churches and buy all the necessary things we need and then some, maybe buses, gyms, redo the whole church in San Benito and redo the auditoro!! But then I thought...wow, THAT WOULD BE WAY TOO EASY! Then the message came...
Can't you see what I am doing?! This is just a trial you MUST overcome to get from point "A" to point "B". You need to go through this to learn. And yet you have not. You have decided to try to move forward on your own two feet, rather than let Me be the one to guide you along the way. And then you "think" you are in My Will.
Can't we see that this is what life is all about. Trials come to our life and we need to get through them "with the help of God". They come to help us learn how we can rely on God and how with Him we can get through. He wants to see what we do with what comes our way, do we stray or do we stop and let Him take the wheel. Why do we feel that we can do this on our own? Yes, we say from the mouth out, sure I asked God to help me, but do we? Do we really get on our knees and plead for our church, family, health or whatever we need. Sometimes that's all He really wants, for us to truly seek Him. I think everything would just fall in place, the money would just come, problems within the family would just fade and make us stonger, we would heal in an instant...but NO we just dig, and dig and dig and the hole gets soo big, we don't know how it happened or if we can get out of it...till we sit down on our behinds and just think, WOW, Lord you are the ONLY way out! You are the only one who understands me, the only one who can resolve this! And when we do...His arms just open up and He'll say, "here I am my child, I've been waiting for you to come to me, I love you and will never leave you."

I just feel sad that many people don't see it that way, they choose to take things in their own hands and don't care who they hurt a long the way, they have things interfering with their Spirit and choose to ignore it and try to fix it by moving away. Um, sorry, but you need to fix it, not run away from it! God has been so good to me, he has brought be through some really tough things and I guess sometimes you have to go through things to learn and to GROW! His Spirit is the best thing that has happened to me...and saddening Him is the worse thing ever. I don't want to do anything to sadden His Spirit in me. I wish we all thought that way. But I guess that's life...you live and then you learn. Hopefully we all learn before it's too late.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
John 4:23,24

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21

Update!

Well it sure has been a while since I've poured out my heart on this blog!! I guess the truth is, with Facebook, it's so much easier to say what you are doing and move on. You don't have to sit here...thinking what to write! But these past few months I have been through some tough times in my life and I have chosen not to "expose" my self on fb, twitter, or myspace anymore. I've been hurt by many things ppl have said to turn things I have written into something I did not mean to say. It's amazing to see how some ppl feed off of these posts and make them into something they are NOT!! And at the end of the day, I really don't care what anyone has to say about things I choose to post or not, but I would rather close doors that can cause ppl to rumor! It's all good, I chose to learn from this and move on, I was affected but I'm not going to dwell on it! I know, ppl will be ppl and some just truly can't help it. Gotta just love them anyway, but close some doors along the way. Our pastor here at church said the other day, we should try not to talk to ppl who never have anything positive to say. And when you think about who you are talking to in your daily life and realize that some ppl are just criticizing and pointing fingers ALL the time, you just got to cut the cord. Its so tough sometimes but, hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I have entered a new level of closeness with Christ and I just want to elevate to be closer and closer to Him...I don't want any distractions and I think I'm getting rid of some of them :) God has been soo amazing to me, He has opened my eyes to so much more than I could have ever imagined and like never before want more and more of Him. I don't claim to be the perfect person but I am trying to be a better person each and every day.
Today we had an amazing presentation of our "Noche Mexicana" with choir. I think it sounded amazing! I received many compliments on how we sounded and am very pleased with how well everyone did. I am thankful to God for His presence in my life tonight...He is so sweet and amazing and I love feeling Him with me!
I miss my hubby soo much!!!! He is in WA for harvest, left around the 6th of September, so he has been gone 2 weeks tomorrow. I hope the next few weeks passes super fast so he can be home soon!! I am so thankful that my kids are doing well and have been very healthy and have been doing well in school.



This is a family picture we took at Aaron's 3rd Birthday party.

Dear Blogspot...I wanna go home!

Love,

Sandra

Summer time in Washington 2010

Soooo I've so been slacking on my blogging...I really need to try to stay on track!! Well, I'm here in WA enjoying my summer with my mom and dad and Eric. This year has been more eventful than last summer here. I really have been having a great time, we've gone to silverwood, then to tri-cities several times, aquatic center twice and to Orman's pool once. Today dad got a 4 ft pool from craigslist!! It's soo cool and I'm soo looking forward to swimming in it! We set it up today and had a bbq, it was nice.
As for my kids, they are just having a ball!!! They love it here! Vianney told me she wanted to stay here for school!! I'm ready to head home, I just have lots of things on my mind, like lil' Hector's therapy's and school registrations for the kids...getting ready for school to start and Aaron's party. I wanted to start choir soon...we'll see how it goes.

My birthday!!

So the 3rd was my 33rd Birthday!! Yay me!! Lol, just a little minor excitement there! I really don't feel that old but I'm totally excited to be this old and have received as many blessings in my life as I have. God has been so good to me and I am grateful for His abundant love for me. My day was good, I went to the gym in the morning and went out for a lunch date with my honey at Chili's where they brought me an amazing desert that I'm still drooling over! Check it out!! Mmmmmmmmmmmm...


So this is my hubby and I on our lunch date!



Then I finished off the day by going to church and giving a class to my "Girls Only" class in church...it was a good day :) Thanks to everyone who called, text or sent me messages on Myspace and FB...made me feel super special =)

Been a while! But I'm back =)

Can't believe it's been so long since I've made time to sit and blog!! I guess sometimes you get so caught up in the everyday of life to sit and type. I have had an amazing past few months! So much has happened to me that I can not begin to write it down or explain! God has blessed me with soooo much and I am everyday more and more grateful to Him! My kids have been through many ups and downs with sicknesses since last year but nothing major, they have all been doing great in school and that is much to be grateful for. My hubby had his birthday in November 09 and we spent it in Mexico which was a lot of fun, took him for his birthday to "Las Enramadas" it seems to be becoming a tradition because we have done it for his birthday for years now...here is a couple pictures from that day...





Then December was fantastic because I got to have my parents here and that's always a big part of my year, I don't get to have them all year so I really enjoyed the time we got to spend together. Christmas was busy with choir and all but I didn't have to do much because it was only extension choir who sang in Mex and we were all practiced already. January 5th was my bro-in-law Josias' wedding and that came out good then after that Hector started work again. Can't complain God has been so good to us and He has also given me a need to seek Him more this year. I've been trying to give God the best of me and instead of quantity, quality. I have decided to let go of some jobs I've had in church, I've let my Sunday school class go and my G.O. class go because I have felt I need to give 100% to choir this year. I love to work for the Lord in all I can but I don't want to give less because I have more, does that make sense? Well it seems to be the right thing to do at this moment and unless God tells me otherwise that's the way it will be. I have some great plans for choir for Easter and am planning a nice drama musical this year that I want to make super impacting!! I'm very excited for this new year and what it has in store for me. :)
I've also been working out at the gym for a few months now, I started in October, having done some "Slim in 6" for over 7 weeks and got no results I decided to go to the gym instead. That started out great, I lost 5 lbs the first month, 5 lbs November and then I was off for over 3 weeks in December and gained 3 lbs!!!!! So I started again the middle of January and am hoping for results. I must admit I have lost some will power and feel like giving up but I think it's due to the fact that I haven't been sleeping well lately, I need to be more careful of the time I am going to bed because I feel the lack of energy when I am not well rested. I definitely need to work on that!! I promise to do my best and see if I have results.
Anywho, I just wanted to mention that I have been blessed with the best kids ever and the most wonderful, amazing, loving, incredible, handsome, funny, caring, husband ever!! I Love You and thank God for your existence!! Thank you for being you and all you do for me and our family, don't ever change!!!! Muah!!







True Love Always =)

Es una aventura Dios mio....

Y es una aventura conocerte,
caminar y obedecerte, y vivir por ti.
Es una aventura estar contigo,
caminar y ser tu amigo, y vivir por ti.
Y es una aventura cada dia si te tengo a ti,
si te tengo a ti.

Es una aventura, el mar puedo cruzar,
camino sobre el agua, si tu conmigo vas,
es una aventura cruzar por el umbral,
que lleva a lo imposible si tu conmigo vas,
Si tu conmigo vas.

Es una aventura que no acaba,
al confiar en tu palabra y seguirte a ti,
es una aventura cuando creo sin importar
lo que yo veo por que estas ahi,
es una aventura cada dia si te tengo a ti,
si te tengo a ti.

Es una aventura, el mar puedo cruzar,
camino sobre el agua, si tu conmigo vas,
es una aventura cruzar por el umbral,
que lleva a lo imposible si tu conmigo vas,
Si tu conmigo vas.



Te amo Señor.

Back to school...

Wow, it's been 3 weeks since the kids started school and I still have not had the time to sit down and update my blog!! I really need to start disciplining myself to do this more often. Well, my internet was down for over 2 weeks and I'm barely getting my routine down again. Kids have been doing great, I'm especially proud of lil' Hector because he received his first progress report and he is doing great he's averaging a b+!! I was also busy with our 16 de Sept cantata with choir, we got ready in 2 weeks but it came out great!!! I am so greatful to God for that! It's been so good to be back home, we've had some ups and downs but God is good! Kids have been doing good, haven't had any emergency meetings for kids being bad at school, so that's a good thing ;) Weather has been totally weird, wants to rain but it doesn't. Haven't had too much rain this yr, we should be getting some this week. Nothing like the past 4 yrs. Missing my hubby like crazy, he's in WA awaiting the potatoes to start and will probably be there for the next month... :( Well, that's it for now...

Very Busy Summer!!!

Wow, I feel like It's been forever!!! Well, I guess it HAS been over a month since I've posted anything!!! I have had a very busy summer as I know most of us have. We have recently been struggling with keeping our business up this past month and finally decided we needed to take action and do something about it, it just couldn't go on as it was and we chose to stop our business that we have had over 5 yrs now. I know things always happen for a reason and God has something better for us. Hector started driving for JLG Trucking and I know God will continue to provide for our family and things will go up from there. At times I feel like such a failure with all this but I know that it will just get better from here. You live and you learn.
So our first load with JLG Trucking took us through CA and to WA for my cousin Alex and Blanca's wedding. We barely made it there on Friday night and the wedding was on Saturday. It was tough on my hubby but somehow we made it. We had lots of fun at the wedding one of the highlights of the wedding was taking pic's with all my cousins don't know why but I just really love being with my family, it always brings a smile to my face and enjoy everyone's company, here are a couple pic's







I <3 U Mari!!!



Then another highlight was Valerie's bridal shower the very next day, which I also enjoyed because I got to spend time with family and take some fun pic's:










Anyhow, then I spent the next week in Othello, sent Hector back to TX with the boys and I went to Women's Camp with the Misionera's from Church. A special thanks to Crystal for taking care of Brianna and Jennifer for taking care of Vianney, love you girls!! It was a lot of fun and I got to spend time with my lifelong friends, that I hadn't spent time with in forever. God was really good to me at camp and blessed me very much.







Then the following weekend it was off to NE for Valerie's wedding, which was another fun time...



We also got to spend some really fun times with Efrain and Betty at their house chit-chatting and just having a good time and got to spend the night in their very beautiful home in Alliance, thanks again guys, you really know how to host your guessed. We really felt at home and comfy with you. Then it was off back to WA, we drove straight there and made it by the next morning and slept I think maybe 2 hours, and off we came to TX. Our trip was so overwhelming but nice at the same time...it seemed short yet it was almost a month! It's so good to be home none-the-less and get my life back to norm.



August 3rd Aaron had his 2nd birthday for which I am very greatful to God because he has kept him healthy and safe (besides his broken leg, lol, which is healed already) I <3 U Aaron!
Kids start school on monday and they are super stoked!! We went to meet the teacher night tonight and they didn't want to come home! Lil' Hector kept begging me to leave him there, lol. Wow, hope they always enjoy school that much!

VBS

Last week was Vacation Bible School!! What a fun/hectic week! The theme was "La Busca del Tesoro en todo Tiempo" which is in search of the treasure at all times. So it was all decorated like if we were in the jungle, all very nice. It was an awesome experience. I was the choir teacher and it's all set up like school, each child's class has to go to different periods...like, first they will go to P.E. then next to art class, then choir, then story time, then memorization of verse period. So I was teaching the songs all day with different classes. I felt that 45 minutes was way too much time to teach 1 song each day, so I found myself explaining what the song meant with each class to pass the time and ended up preaching for a good 20 minutes with each class. I seen how the Holy Spirit worked through me...it was a wonderful spiritual experience, and fun all at the same time! Now that it is all over I am excite for my cousin Alex's wedding next weekend...as soon as Hector gets home from NJ we will look for a load to WA...here are some pix of VBS...

It was a fun week, I went with Hector to Denver (for father's day) and have to admit it was an ok roadtrip!! I always try to make it fun and enjoy myself but the last few years with the kids it just get so hectic! But this last trip wasn't too bad! I guess the kids are getting older and I don't have to worry about bottles anymore and only one is on diapers so it's not too bad! I really enjoyed having family time and just getting away from home. We didn't make it to WA yet and I guess it's ok b/c I have to prepare for a long trip in July, going for Alex and Blanca's wedding and to women's camp. It'll be fun! So here are a couple pix of our fantastic family trip...

Summer break!!!

Summer break!!! Ok, so the kids are out of school and tomorrow we are leaving with Hector on the truck to Denver, it's going to be Father's day on Sunday and we want to keep him company on his special day, we were not able to be with him last year so we decided to go with him in case he doesn't make it home for Sunday. The kids are super excited to go and to tell you the truth I am too, I normally don't like to travel but I am looking forward to the change in scenery!! I'll try to take pix and post them when we return...