Happy Birthday, Gabe! We love you!

So today was Gabe's birthday! This is one of my favorite childhood campgrounds. This picture was taken this past year there at the lake. We had decided to take a vacation since I was coming upon surgery and would be out of commission for a while. Also I wanted to share some of my childhood with my daughter since this would be her last vacation as a todler and not another till she went to school. We left here on Friday and I had a complete hysterectomy the following Wednesday.

Tonight we had a small get-together at our friends house and we had a great time. We played a game and everyone left sore from laughing so hard. Its nice to party now that there is no more drugs and alcohol around us. Its nice to gather with friends who you can call (and have sometimes) in the middle of the night to pray with you or for someone you know is having it rough. Its nice to cook out and then lead the meal out in a prayer blessing the food and thaking God for such good fellowship. We surely did have a blast. This picture was taken at one of the lower places in my life. I had been very sick for a long time and had just within the year found out I had some cancer cells growing on my "female stuff". As usual, God steped in and made a way to calm the storm in me by making a way to let me enjoy the beauty that surrounds this picture for a whole week. During this week, He prepared this man to take care of my like even I had not seen in the 10 years we have been together. My husband was superman to me and for me in the weeks following this picture. He took the load physically and mentally from me and made my recovery as smooth and easy as could be.

I remember the morning we went to the hospital, Gabe had called our local radio station to request the song: "Me and God". I had never heard the words before but when I did hear them I just cried my eyes out. It meat the whole world to me that he could see and incourage me in this way. Me and God made it through that morning without fail. I was calm and I wasnt in a tremendous amount of pain like I expected and My little girl wasnt scared for me either (she is a worry wort). I couldnt have asked for much more at all. This was one of those times where I was calling these friends and asking for prayers. Its just truly a Godsend to have those kind of people in your life.