3 Round

Friday night we had Game Night. Something that I really enjoy hosting on a regular basis. As I was getting the house ready for guests and game space, I found out that we were only going to have maybe 4 or 5 guests. Well Charades and Catch Phrase are great, great games, but with only 4 or 5 people.. it's just not AS fun as it could be!! So on the basis that game night could be a dud... I thought about canceling or readjusting game night. We planned for maybe a little bit of games and then maybe a group outing to the movies. Then some great friends showed up that I wasn't for sure were coming! A couple more were able to show up sooner than originally planned and that equals a fantastic game night with 10 people!


As we considered Catch Phrase or Charades...  Mary Rachel and Andrew mentioned this game called 3 Round. 3 Round is amazing --- You can play with groups of 2,3, or 4, but you want more than 2 teams. Then each person writes down 3 nouns and puts them in a bowl. 
Round 1. A team starts. One person from the team has 30 seconds to try and go through as many words as possible from the bowl in Catch Phrase format (saying anything other than the word on the paper and no motions to get your team to guess it). Once 30 seconds is up, you keep the words your teams guessed and the next team goes. You continue this (switching players when your teams goes again) until all the words are out of the bowl. Tally up the scores for each time and then put all the words back in the bowl. Round 2. Same process with same words. Instead of Catch Phrase format, you are only allowed to describe the word with ONE WORD. Go around until all words are out of bowl again. Tally up your scores and put all the words back in the bowl. Round 3. CHARADES TIME! Same process, but no words and only motions!


-- The most Fantastic Game Night Ever! It was EPIC! We hope to have many more!

What a Week!

This past week has been a whirlwind for sure!

Tuesday morning I had the consult with the surgeon and scheduled the surgery for Thursday afternoon. Wednesday was full of getting life/school together before going under. Thursday came and after 4:45, I don't remember much! :) Now I'm on the road to recovery, able to sit and stand on my own and going to attempt class tonight. I am still very sore and slow. My body will take anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months to adjust to being gallbladderless and then my insides should start functioning normally. And oh golly gee am I glad to be sleeping in my bed again! Three nights on a couch in the same position gets old fast!

In the past week we signed some papers to move along in the name change process. Sooner or later we'll change to The Henrys! That kind of looks funny... I'll get used to it.

Monday, Korey started seminary! He and Jeff left at 4:30am Monday morning headed to Ft. Worth. They had a class at 8am and at noon (Old Testament and Elementary Greek). Korey loved it. He is really looking forward to this semester and I am so happy for him and proud of him!

Today, I start my last semester of undergrad! Yipee! I am really excited to be back in the swing of school. I really enjoy classes and routine and love the girls in my education sequence. It'll be a great last semester and I didn't really want to share it with my nasty inflamed gall bladder anyway!

I feel so blessed in this time of sickness and recovery. I really appreciate the thoughts, prayers, and company of everyone. Thank you!

May the Chief end of your new school year and in times of whirlwinds be to glorify the one and only (not OU) Christ! :)

Lookin' good... for who?

Korey and I recently had a conversation about why we wanted to be fit or eat right. Through the discussion we agreed that if your goal for working out or eating healthy is to look "hott" or "more attractive" or "feel better - then those goals are selfish and misguided.

Yes it is okay to want to be healthy, but you should want that for the sake of taking care of the temple that God has given you. A temple that is still rightfully His and His alone. God does not care what your physical body looks like, for he looks at the heart. (1Samuel 16:7) It's okay to be healthy and it's okay to want that, but the chief end should be to glorify Christ by up-keeping the temple He created. Then beauty and attractiveness to God come from what he sees in your heart.

Korey and I also covered how looking better and being in better shape could be to impress your spouse. After finishing Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney today, I realize she had a lot to say about outward and inward beauty and so does the Bible.  Mahaney mentions that it is okay to be beautiful to our husbands, and to our husbands alone. This supports the point that Korey and I had made in discussion. You shouldn't workout to look better than that girl down the street, or to look nice for that job interview with Mr. BossMan. If not solely to glorify the God of your body, looking better should only be for the pleasure and eyes of your spouse. And if you are to be looking better you need to be available to your spouse. (Don't be a tease!) The Song of Solomon is filled with the expression and admiration of each spouse's beauty.  Our husbands, were attracted to us for a reason when we first met, and it's good to try and keep up with that. Later, Mahaney mentions scripture from Peter which reminds us that outward appearances aren't the only way to show beauty, but also our attitude and character.

1 Peter 3:3-5 "Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands.."

The more I want to mention things - the more I think you should read this book!

 It was loaded with scripture and really opened my heart to better serve and love the Lord through serving and loving my husband, Korey. 

Chief end of eating healthier may be to feel better, but I am keeping my eye on Christ. I want to glorify Him. To glorify Him, I need a healthy temple to live in and loving heart to serve with. 

Adios Bladder of Gall

The past two weeks have been filled with pain, cramping and weakness along with way to much quality time in my bathroom. To spare you further details that I'm sure you would like to bypass - I'll just explain the past few days. I had tests Monday morning to see my gall bladder and it's ability to function. The ultrasound didn't show any abnormalities so I was then sent to radiology.  There, I had hydroxy iminodiacetic acid pumped into my veins. I then laid on a table under a huge radioactive camera for an hour. After an hour, they hooked up a drip to my IV of something to trigger my gall bladder into functioning. Over the next 30 minutes, we were suppose to see my gall bladder shrink and/or completely disappear on the screen. It didn't really change at all - but still had to wait for the results to be analyzed. Got the call today saying - "Your gall bladder is no good and we're going to have to take it out."

 It's a tiny booger, but causing a lot of issues!!

So now I am waiting for the call to schedule the surgery. I'm ready to feel better again - but haven't had surgery like this before. It's a simple procedure and should be a short recovery - but surgery is surgery and Grey's Anatomy probably doesn't help soothe my mind (Little Grey's Mom dies from the hiccups).

God is so powerful and so perfect in his timing. Summer school ended on July 23. I had my first "gall bladder attack" on July 25 (I didn't know that's what it was at the time). I've been feeling nasty since then, but haven't really had anything big going on. I've been working for my Mom every two weeks doing payroll and still cleaning the offices, but haven't had anything else till school starts the 23rd. I've recently listened to a sermon where the pastor mentioned that it's okay to pray for the little things, too. This is a little thing, but I thank God for the timing in this medical issue. On top of school starting the 23rd, Korey is going part time at ATT on Sept 1. This means that I am switching insurance from ATT's to OU's and well OU's doesn't quite cover as much as ATT's. There are many things that God works out perfectly... actually - all things he works out perfectly. I just recognized this one and truly appreciate it and thank Him for it.

I'm ready for school to start and I am ready for some regular routine in my life. While I wait for surgery, I get to try to have a no-fat or low-fat diet. Fatty foods are what cause the gall bladder to work and therefore cause me pain and yuckness. Finding no-fat is kind of hard... low fat is easier, but still difficult. It's all been an interesting whirlwind and while being sick and on my route of getting better - I will aim for the chief end of glorifying Christ above all.