Okay readers, so it has been a while since the Greenwoods have blogged. Life has just had so much going on. The calendars have been full, but it has been great. We've had company visit our new place, gone to 2 Express baseball games (which Haley LOVED!!), had a Women's Service...which always takes a lot of time and planning on my part, celebrated a birthday and Mother's Day, got to see our newest nephew, had more company over and recently have been planning and preparing for the women's retreat. Needless to say we have been to busy to stop and blog, but good news for all......WE ARE BACK!!! Woo Hoo!!!
I must say though in all of our busyness it has been great to look back and see how truly blessed we are. To be able to have a nice home and have people come to visit us, and provide food and shelter to our family while they come in from out of town is so awesome!!! God has truly blessed us!! We also were able to take our girls to 2 Round Rock Express baseball games. For those who don't know, the Express is the triple-A affiliate team for the Houston Astros...basically they are one step down from the majors. Anyway, our girls love to watch baseball...especially Haley....so it was so nice to be able to take them and see them enjoy the game and all the activites there too. We haven't been able to do something like that with them in 2 yrs, because Travis was working overnights and it really put a halt on us being able to do some things with our girls as a family! We are really enjoying this time and season we are in and are very thankful that God is blessing us with times like this. Having time to do things as a family has also been great as our niece just had turned 3 and we were able to go as a family to her birthday party. We've even been able to have company come stay with us...even had our newest nephew and the rest of his family over this holdiay weekend (he's 3 weeks old..and adorable!!)....which last year with Travis working overnight we wouldn't have been able to just have company come over sit and fellowship and all, because he would have had to sleep during the day.
We are just so thankful to God and for blessing us with so much. Sometimes we don't always see the blessings that God is showering on us until we stop and look back on it. So maybe this time of no blogging has been exactly what God needed for us, so that we could look back just over the past couple weeks and see all of the things he has blessed us with in such a short amount of time. So many blessings in such a short time....think about all the blessings our Lord has showered over you. Some are obvious (cars, homes, jobs etc), and some like time may not be as obvious till you stop and think about it.
Take some time out today from everything to "Count Your Blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done. Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings see what God has done" as the song so wonderfully says!!! It's okay to take time out of your day to just stop and reflect on the good things God blesses you with and then, be sure to take the time to thank him!!!
We serve an awesome God who loves us so much and I for one am thankful for the "so much...." he has blessed us with!!!
Have a blessed day of "so much...."!!
Jessica
