Praising God in the Gym

Well this is what Ive been doing alot lately. Ive been spending my afternoons working out. I have really missed biking and getting my much needed excersice, so I started up my winter gym membership. I of course have big hopes...you know the ones, getting fit, losing weight and training for the womens triathalon. But today it occured to me the best benifit might not be physical after all. I have had some amazing times of worship. My SIL Angie (By Faith) downloaded some great songs onto my new iphone when we were together for the holidays and what a blessing it has been. As you know Ive been struggling with the "worship" at our church lately and I think God is opening my eyes to some different forms of worship. I have had some great times of praise and worship and I have listened to some great teaching in the gym. Now if I could just learn to sing in my heart and stop belting it out. Ive been thinking that the headphones the other members wear are more to protect them from my singing than for their own listening pleasures. Praising God in the gym!!!

More fun in the snow

Fun at the Car Wash

What could be more fun than watching Christian experience the car wash for the first time. He and Papa were having a blast "squirting" our car! Love those boys!

The personal relationships of blogging

Blogging at its best! This picture cracks me up.....passing up "real"relationships, while were all checking on our "imaginary" friends!

Not really, we were all helping each other as we were trying to tweak little things on our blogs. Of course we were still unable to add a picture next to our name...how hard can that be????

Believe me I am so thankful for all my blogging siestas. I am thankful for my sister-in-law, By Faith Angie for introducing me to the workd of blogging and all you sisters. How awesome that we can spur each other on, build each other up, hold each other accountable, make friends and pray for many of our sisters who we may never meet until we are in Heaven, although Im hoping to meet alot of you in San Antonio! I have been blessed and have grown because of you all! Thank you and God Bless you!

Worship

Well this isn't exactly the problem...but I have some issues! I thought maybe some of my blog siestas could help me out.

I have always loved our church, I love everything about it. But lately I have been having a big problem...and of all things, with worship. So how big of a problem is it when you are so distracted by worship? Please don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like I need things to be exactly the same or that I can't handle change but our church is heading down a path that I am really struggling with. We have always had great worship leaders and worship teams, we sing mostly contemporary music, you know Amazing Love, We Exalt Thee, How great is our God, In Christ Alone...I could go on and on. But our worship team is starting to put some new twist to these old familiar songs, they are adding signature or personal style to my much loved songs. Not just a little difference and not just switching it around...it can change from one Sunday to another. You know just when you think you can catch on, they change it again. It seems more like a performance where we are watching and waiting, waiting to see what changes are coming.

And I'm so sorry but it has led me to be very distracted...each Sunday I try my hardest to have an open mind. I actually try to not think about it. I want to walk into church, I want to worship, I want to hear God speak to me, I want to fellowship.

So what does a siesta do? I'm trying but I'm losing faith. I don't want to be negative but I need a little advice. Worship is huge to me...I love to be drawn into His presence....I love to sing praises to my Father and to feel Him stir softly or in big ways in my heart. I want to feel Him and not feel moments of disappointment with whats NOT happening. Please pray for me!

16 Years Ago

This article appeared in the Farmington Observer on January 2nd, 1992!

Allyson M. K. came a little late for the tax man. But the wait earned her the distinction of being the first baby born this year in Farmington Hills.

"We were kind of thinking we didn't get the tax deduction, we didn't get the first born (in the country) but we got a healthy little girl with 10 fingers and toes." said proud dad C. K. "I think were the luckiest!"

Allyson was born at 10:00a.m. on Jan. 2 at Botsford General Hospital. Born five days before her due date, the little seven pound bundle was doing plenty of sleeping Thursday afternoon in anticipation of a visit from her two brothers, Christopher,4, and Loren 3.

Stacey started her contractions about 10:30p.m. on New Years night, and the couple headed to the hospital about 4a.m. Thursday morning. Although Chris and Stacey shared the other two births, this time dad got to cut the umbilical cord.

"It's a whole different feeling having a little girl," said Chris, a sales manager with N A S Co. "Of course I love my boys, but this is very special. She's going to be spoiled."

The family prepared for Allyson's arrival by sharing the experience through"It's My Baby, Too" class, where her two brothers visited Botsford and toured the maternity ward and learned about the hospital.

The K's have delivered all their children at Botsford and said several of the nurse's remembered them from previous births. "They're all great here," Chris added.

Well here we are 16 years later! It is so hard to believe that our baby is 16 today!

My how time flies, I remember "older moms" telling me how fast it would go...and I remember thinking, they're crazy I will never be out of sleepiness night, diapers, bottles and teething....but oh my gosh here I am, here we are. I'm now the older mom and our baby is now in driving, wearing make up and talking to boys.

God has given us such a gift. I am so glad that He chose Chris and I too be Ally's parents!

I am so excited to see what the next 16 years will bring us all. And just as I enjoyed the last sixteen I am going to enjoy each moment that we are given in the next sixteen, not that we won't have those bumps in the road....only this time it might be something like arguing about clothes instead of spilt milk or a fender bender instead of a lost pacifier and as far as the sleepiness nights....once the dating starts I'm sure we'll be back to those nights!

Happy Birthday Ally! We love you!