Turner Family and Beth Moore weekend!

This weekend Matt's mom, brother and brother's girlfriend came up to our house! We had such a fun weekend. We ATE so much, had a birthday party for Lisa, saw Halloween 2 at the drive-in (SCARY!), attended church, ate some more and did a little shopping! Here are a few pics from the great weekend!

Romeo really loves when people come to see "him"!

Lisa's birthday cake and presents! I got her new bedding!! I can't wait to see it on her bed at her new house!

Cute cake from Ricks, of course! (She is called Sissy by her family!)

Rick's is doing such a good job on all the doggie cakes! I am jealous that Romeo hasn't been on one yet! :)

She loved her Sam cake!

We had perfect fall-like weather this weekend! I am really so ready for fall! I have been dying to get out my fall decorations. I even went to Hobby Lobby this weekend and got a really cute fall plate to put up in my kitchen. I don't like turkeys or jack-o-lanterns but I love fall leaves and pumpkins!! As you may have noticed I really like modern furniture and decor so it's challenging to decorate for the holidays and keep it contemporary. Stay tuned to see what I come up with this year! I am having more company in 3 weeks so I am going to wait a couple more weeks to put it all out but the temperatures cooling down sure does make me excited for fall!

Also this weekend my church hosted a Beth Moore simulcast. We were one of 516 churches around the world to host this live event and there were over 90,000 women and maybe a few men that were in attendance in all! WOW! The simulcast was Friday night and Saturday morning and broken into 3 sessions. The message from Beth was about your heart's desires. It was so good that I thought I would share a few things that she spoke about.

Psalms 37: 4 Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Beth spoke from this verse all weekend. She had 7 points that she walked us through. She explained that a true heart's desire is a sustained longing. It is something that we have wanted for a very long time and is not affected by our mood or the moment. Without typing out all of my notes here are the 7 points...

• Nothing dictates our lives like our desires
• Beneath the desires of our heart is the heart of our desires
• Delighting in God adapts our desires into inevitabilities
• Nothing external can steal our right to delight! ( ex. jealousy, anger and worry can steal delight)
• Commit to make room for delight
• Nothing is passive about patiently waiting for desire to turn into delight
• Until faith becomes sight, trust God and do good.

I think the biggest thing that I was reminded of this weekend was that God hasn't forgotten me! Beth said these words, "God will trump our desires if glory or destiny is at stake." I know that He hears all of my prayers and already knows my heart's desires so I was encouraged that I need to continue to wait on the Lord!