Meeting Kim, Debra & Lisa...What A Vacation!

I wanted to share this slideshow of our time that we spent with Kim, Brad, Kelsey, Jeffery & Brody...plus, the added joy of having Debra and Josh with us and then meeting Lisa a few days later.

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Slideshows To Come:
Beach Vacation Pictures
Family Beach Pictures
Orlando

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Meeting Lisa! What A Joy!

I was given another blessed opportunity on Friday, July 31 when we continued our family vacation in Orlando, Florida for a couple of days.

I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Lisa Shaw of Sharing Life with Lisa and we spent a couple of hour together.

I can't begin to tell you what a breath of fresh air she is...I could have sat there all day and soaked her in like a sponge!!!

She is as dynamic in person as she is on her blog...there is nothing fake about this powerful, godly woman!

I would have loved to be able to spend all day with Lisa but with it being our family vacation and we had tickets to hit 3 parks in 2 days...I had to keep it to a couple of hours.

I wanted to just keep hugging her, listening to her and sharing the similarities of our lives together.

It still amazes me how God is bringing Christian ladies together from all across the country and how much we have in common. Many of our lives are so much alike, our joys, pains, ups, downs, heartaches and victories...from our past to our present.

Only God could put something this amazing together...through blogging. To honestly think in January 2008...I didn't know what blogging was or how it worked.

If you would have told me that one day I would develop true friendships via the Internet, drive 13 hours to meet and stay with some of these ladies...I would have told you that you were crazy.

I am so thankful for being introduced to blogging and the wonderful ladies that I now call friends. I plan to continue to strive to meet more in real life and I know those meetings will be just as memorable as the ones that I had over our vacation this year.

I have met 4 precious ladies so far and they are:

1. Laurie Ann - A Magnolia's Heart Beats

2. Kim - Homesteaders Heart

3. Debra - Clothed in Scarlet

4. Lisa - Sharing Life with Lisa

Meeting Lisa was truly a joy for me...next time, I want to meet her husband and daughter plus spend much more time together. I'll be back ladies...I promise.

I love you, Kim, Debra, Lisa and Laurie Ann...you each hold a very special place in my heart!

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Blessings Far Greater Than I Could Have Imagined!

Kim, Debra, me and Biscuit...the Red, White and Blue Ladies! We didn't plan this either...it just happened...I didn't notice it until Kim pointed it out later in these pictures.

As many of you already know, my family just got back from our vacation to Florida. This was one of the top 5 vacations that we have ever taken...we made memories as a family and friends for life.

I have so much that I want to share so I am going to break it up over the week...don't want to bore you.

Kim from Homesteaders Heart opened her home, family and their hearts to us for 4 days at the beach. You try to imagine what someone would be like, sound like and how things will go but you never really know until you meet them. I am no different...the closer that we got to their home...the more nervous I became. I wasn't worried about liking them but was worried about them liking us.

We immediately felt a kindred spirit with them...we are all believers of Jesus Christ and that made us family before we became friends.

Monday...Debra from Clothed With Scarlet came down with her son, Josh to visit and meet us for the first time too. Kim's friend, Kathy also came over to go to the beach with us.

I couldn't have asked for anything more that what we had...we received the warmest welcome, a beautiful cottage to stay in, hospitality just oozes from Kim and Brad and it was like see old friends after being apart for awhile. They truly have the Spirit of Hospitality! Oh...the food was wonderful too...Kim is an awesome cook.

Our cottage in their back yard...it was cozy, beautifully perfect with a twist of privacy...little bit of heaven on the eastern Florida coast!

Proof that Roger dried the dishes after dinner that Kelsey washed. What an amazing young lady that Brad and Kim have...she is adorable, precious, sweet and her smile will light up the room.

4 days earlier...we were strangers and now...we are friends for life...we will be back...I promise!

I can't thank Brad and Kim enough for the enormous gesture of opening their hearts and home to a Sister in Christ that she has only know through blogging. God is so good and I am so thankful to have been given this opportunity.

Thank you for the memories that you help create for my family that will last a lifetime...precious memories, but more so...new friends...in real life...for all eternity!

Have a wonderfully blessed day!

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