My Family.........

Can I say that I am BLESSED! This is my family. Wow! I am so amazed that God has given me this life. Adam and AJ play on the same summer league baseball team and we spent the day at the park on Father's Day. Packed a cooler with sandwich stuff and water....no sodas, the Naranjo family is eating healthier these days.....that in itself is a miracle! It is so great watching the boys play ball together. They have never been able to because of their age difference and being so far apart in grades in school. It was really a nice day, although Meghan bailed on me the last 2 hours of the last game. She was a trooper, but bored! Poor thing............whatever.........................

I want to share this with you all. I read it this morning and it is a little lengthy and I am copying it from Dr. David Jeremiah, it is really good and I hope you all will read it through....the title is

"Our Role"
For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered....and do minister. Hebrews 6:10
For thirty-three years, Augustine scorned the Christian teaching and prayers of his mother, yet she never gave up. She preached and she prayed; and she prusued until one day, when Augustine was thirty-three years old, he cried out in agony to God, "Remember not the sins of my youth!" He had at last embraced the Savior.
Having been saved herself, Augustine's mother no doubt knew that salvation was God's job. More importantly she understood her role as God's agent in her son's life: to teach him about Jesus and then pray that he would open his heart.
This is the role that we as Christians need to take on with confidence and zeal as we fulfill God's assignment to be fishers of men. The Bible asks "And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?" Romans 10:14 You and I are the answer. God has given us the assignment to tell people about Him, about His love, and about His Son, Jesus Christ. The rest is up to Him. In other words, while God is responsible for the results, we are responsible for the effort....... David Jeremiah

I think that speaks volumes of encouragement and truth. I really like the last sentence about how we are responsible for the effort and God is responsible for the results.
My prayer for myself is that I would start to take serious my responsiblity to God and His Word and not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ Jesus.........

Hope you all have a great week.....................Denise

Happy Birthday...........

Happy Birthday Tony Parker!!!
Okay, I know what some of you are thinking, TOTAL obsession! But in reality, I am just a regular Spurs fan who wants to send Mr. Parker a Happy Birthday greeting!!! I tried to tell the kids that we were invited to Tony's birthday party tonight, but I turned it down because we have 7 on 7 football, so we can't make it, they didn't believe me about the invite.........

Great game for those of you who missed game 5, lots of drama and my Spurs didn't look that great, looked a bit confused at times and I think the Suns had the nets rigged so that only their basketballs went in and the Spurs bounced out, terrible sportmanship, but the Spurs prevailed and that would be because they are the BEST!

One more note, I do agree with Robert Horry about Steve Nash's acting skills, very good, he showed some of them again last night. Now I do like Mr. Nash, but he isn't the sweet guy on the court everyone thinks he is............................Game 6, Friday at 8:30.....ESPN......will be missing Charles, Kenny and Earnie, but oh well.....

It is really hard to keep up the 2 blogs. I'm am just typing something randomly, so it will look like I am updating this blog when in fact I am not updating with anything important, other than to let everyone know that the Spurs play the Suns tonight at 9:30 pm on TNT.

Birthday continued.....

I guess you could say that this has been a birthday week for me, well, a 2 day birthday partial week. Had friends by at work and gifts and food on Wednesday and then skipped yesterday and today had a wonderful lunch cooked in honor of ME! Officially it was an "uncelebration" birthday party.

I want to do the Twelve Days of Denise like Catherine does the Twelve Days of Hanna in November for her birthday, but mine would have to be called the Eleven Days of Denise. Just doesn't have the same ring to it. So, Two Days with a Skipped Day in the Middle sounds good to me this year. Next year it will be called something else. I think in the year 2011 my birthday falls on Easter Sunday again. That will be a fun one. I love Easter.....................

I guess I'll go see if I need to wash the dishes, since this was an "uncelebration" for me.....

Thinking About............................................

Birthdays!

I remember when I was younger just waiting for my birthday to get here! It seemed like it took forever!!!! Kind of like Christmas and Summer vacation, FOREVER...........

All the big "birthdays", 13 years old, nothing like the movie "13 going on 30", could of been though, different decade. 16 was good, went to Disneyland, that was a lot of fun. I was a sophmore and my sophmore class trip was Disneyland. We lived in Phoenix, so the drive to Anaheim was like driving from Rockport to Dallas. We had a class trip because we were going to be the first graduating class from our new high school, so it was like being a senior every year!

Turning 18 was great, "Now I'm an Adult"!!! Yea, right! 19 was great, drinking age, legal, although I wasn't a drinker, not really, but I had a lot of underage friends that were and would beg me to buy beer, pre-Christian days by the way, everyone will be happy to know that I did not buy for those juveniles.................

Twenty-One was good, had my first baby 2 months later, sweet, Twenty-Four, second baby, absolutely wonderful, Twenty-Eighth birthday, third baby, a girl, a new friend, beautiful.........

Thirty, NO BIG DEAL people. I was very worried about that one, listening to everyone who had traumatic "horror" stories about 30. I remembered my mom turning 30 and crying all day in her bedroom behind closed doors. I was really afraid I'd be 30 with issues, but I wasn't and I'm sure Mando was thrilled that I made it through the day sound and sain! Ha!

Thirty-One was precious. Not because I had a birthday in April, but because I had a new birth on August 9th. I accepted Christ as my precious Lord and Savior and my life has never been the same. I can honestly and completely say the "new has come the old is gone". Sweet...............

Now, 39 was not so great, not only was my first born sweet baby boy graduating from high school, but all I kept thinking was next year I will be 40!!! FORTY!!!! FOUR-OH!!!! Where did that number come from. I am not one to get hung up in the "I must do everything I possibly can to stay young forever"! Not me, no way, age has not ever really been an issue, but 40 was becoming an issue. Just saying it sounded like a foreign language. Gosh, I was really getting "freaky" about it.

Well on April 9th I was going to a friends house for a quite family dinner and much to my surprise there were about 30 of my closest friends there. WOW! I had never been so surprised in my entire life. It was wonderful and it just made me realize how blessed I am to have so many people who love me and put up with me! ; )

Today I am 42..................................My first born "sweet baby boy" went to lunch with me yesterday and reminded me that in 8 years I will be 50!!!! NUTS!!!! So, I am not going to make a big deal about my birthdays anymore. Not that I really ever did. I enjoy others birthdays and celebrating my childrens birthdays are enough excitement for me. Considering I can remember like yesterday when I was turning their ages................so sad how fast time goes by...................Reminds me to really enjoy the day we are given.

Oh, the one thing I do do to avoid the "old" thing, is I go to this wonderful person to have my hair cut and "shaded" for lack of a better word. I gave into peer pressure at the age of 39 and decided to not go "natural". Glad I listened, although one day I will have to go "natural" cause my eyes will get so bad that it won't matter what color my hair is and I won't be able to hear anyone say anything about my "highlights" so it will not matter!

Newbie

I am going to try this "blogger" thing. I have a xanga account, but you can't post on it unless you have an account, so I figured I try this one because anyone can post and my dear friend Catherine is a blogger, not to mention Lisa Bearnson, Creating Keepsakes magazine, and I have posted on her blogs, much fun!

So, I will e-mail all my xanga friends and let them know that I have moved, again, after just starting up my xanga, but will still keep my xanga account so I can post on their xanga accounts, so there!

The picture is of Adam, Meghan and I in Durango Colorado during Spring Break, it was absolutely breathtaking, I want to move there one day, maybe!