One Year, 6 months down… A lifetime to go!

{ August 16, 2012 @ 12:13 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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                          So I’m two days away from having been married for one year and 6 months, and what a journey it has been! I’ve loved absolutely every minute of being married! If I could marry my hubby over and over again I would do it every day! It’s so amazing to be married to your best friend! I love the long talks we have, the laughter, even the arguments! We grow from each experience and I wouldn’t want to grow with any other person! Our Love is one of a kind! I especially Love the way he Loves me! The sweetest love I’ve ever known! Just had to share how grateful and happy I am! So glad God picked him for me to have!

Rene Ornelas, You are my best friend & my soulmate, I truly Thank God for Blessing me with You! Thank you for loving me, thank you for believing in me, praying over me, pushing me to accomplish my dreams! I hope I can and do  all those same things for you as you do for me! I’m so excited for the future, and I’m enjoying every minute getting there! I love you!

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day, as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever. These are the hands that will work alongside yours, as together you build your future. These are the hands that will passionately love you and cherish you through the years, and with the slightest touch, will comfort you like no other. These are the hands that will hold you when fear or grief fills your mind. These are the hands that will countless times, wipe the tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow, and tears of joy. These are the hands that will tenderly hold your children. These are the hands that will help you to hold your family as one. These are the hands that will give you strength when you need it. And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged, will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a simple touch 

Confessions of a young mom!

{ March 20, 2012 @ 3:52 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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So it’s not hard to see that I’m a young mom and wife. Yep, I started a little early but I won’t apologize for it. Although I do not condone in kids having kids, I do believe in making the best out of a situation. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for the two joys of my life! When I found out that I was pregnant with my first son Alex, I was petrified! Who wouldn’t be with their first baby?! I was young, nervous, and scared out of my mind about how I was going to raise this little baby. That day, I changed! I was never the party type so that was never a problem, actually I was always pretty mature for my age. (I think it comes with being the first and oldest child in the family.) When you know that you are going to become a mom, your whole mindset changes, everything goes from being all about you to being all about that little baby you are growing inside! Everything becomes so exciting! That is until you start to show a baby bump and everywhere you go you have people staring at you and dirty looks, nasty snarls and comments. Then it’s not so exciting anymore. People are can be really cruel. It’s funny to hear all your friends saying, “Oh! I will babysit with you!, It’s going to be so fun!” And when your baby comes, all those friends are no where in sight! It’s pretty lonely when you have a baby and everyone around you is applying to colleges and moving on with their lives. I can see where in some people resentment and bitterness grows inside. I know that if I didn’t turn to God, I would probably be in the same predicament that other women find themselves in. God has been my rock through everything, from becoming a wife and a mom!  I’ve learned a lot about becoming a wife and young mom. I’ve looked at my situation and knew that I had to do whatever it was that my child needed. He didn’t ask to come into this world and it wouldn’t be fair to him if I didn’t do everything possible to allow him a great life! When I got pregnant with my second little man, all that fear and worry came back! Thank God he gave me an amazing husband who provides so well and loves us so much! We went from family of 3 to family of 4 very quickly. My thoughts were, I’m married, I know what I’m doing, there’s no problem here. WRONG! I couldn’t believe even people in church were judging me! (AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ME!) I would come home and cry to my husband about how awful I felt. I loved my family so much, so why couldn’t people just see me as a great mom? Why did people have to automatically assumed that we lived in an apartment or that we probably lived in a low-income neighborhood and that we didn’t spend time with our kids. I didn’t understand. I remembering feeling so hurt one day, when I went to pick my oldest son up from Sunday School Class. I had my youngest in the car seat and I was gathering my rather rambunctious energetic 3-year-old, when one of the ladies had the audacity to say, ” Is there something going on at home, Alex isn’t like most of the 3 year olds, he doesn’t like to sit and listen to stories.” At that moment I was so taken back! How dare she say something like that to me!? I wanted to scream from the top of my lungs, “WHO ARE YOU!?” During that time I almost wanted people to come over to my home just to see that my husband does work hard, that we do provide everything for our kids, that we love them until they feel smothered! I’ve had to seek God to help heal my heart, forgive people and show me what to do. So overtime, I’ve learned that I have nothing that I need to prove to anyone! I know I love my kids, I know I’m a great mom. What matters most is that my kids know they are loved and that I teach them how to love God. So to all you young moms, don’t let harsh people bring you down! Don’t feel like you have to prove yourself to anyone. Focus on God, you and your family! That’s what is most important. If  you are a young mom and need someone to talk to, I love to talk! :-)

Blessings,

Lexi O.

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Dabbling with the Camera!

{ March 19, 2012 @ 11:27 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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Lately I’ve become enamored with photography! There’s just something about capturing moments that will never happen again that is soothing to the soul! I took some pictures of our close friends first baby. It was a spur of the moment type photo shoot, and I was just hoping for the best! I am pretty hard on myself when it comes to pictures and keep in mind, I am definitely not a professional. I started taking pictures for fun and found it to be so fun! I’ll let you be the judge of these!

Hopefully You all like these! I think i’ll be posting more pictures that I take!

Blessings,

Lexi O.

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Rough Patch Season

{ September 14, 2011 @ 9:08 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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So, have you ever been at a point in your life where you just don’t know where you are going or what’s in store for you?! I think most people come to that a couple times in life. I think I’m there right now. I’m stuck wondering what Gods plans for me are, and just trying to find the other part of me. The obvious part of me is that I’m a stay at home mom and wife to 2 amazing little boys and a great man! Yes I’m a little out numbered by testosterone but I’m loving everyday with these 3 special guys! I love all these things about my life, but often find myself wondering if what I am doing is enough or should I say Good enough…. I’ve had this dream since I was probably 7 years old of wanting to become a doctor. First thing people say to me when I tell them that is, wow that’s awesome but that’s a ton of school. Of course they are right, it’s about 15 years give or take of pure in the books school. Needless to say, I’ve been quite the procrastinator when it’s come to my school. I’ve actually been a big procrastinator on a lot of things, from important things to little miscellaneous things. No doubt that procrastination is an ugly habit. But this morning as I took my 5 year old to school, I heard a song that reminded me some great things that God has been trying to show me for awhile. God has a plan! Here are the lyrics to that song, maybe it will help people who are going through a little rough patch in trying to figure out what God has in store for them. :-)

Maybe tomorrow I’ll start over
Maybe tomorrow I will finally change my ways
Said the same thing yesterday
Don’t know why I’m so afraid
To let You in, to let You win
To let You have all of me

I can’t live my whole life wasting
All the grace that I know You’ve given
‘Cause You made me for so much more than
Sitting on the sidelines

I don’t wanna look back and wonder
If good enough could have been better
Every day’s a day that’s borrowed
So why am I waiting for tomorrow?
Why am I waiting for tomorrow?

Maybe today I’ll start believing, yeah
That Your mercy really is as real as You say it is
It doesn’t matter who I used to be
It only matters that I’ve been set free
You rescued me, You’re changing me
Jesus, take everything, yeah

I can’t live my whole life wasting
All the grace that I know You’ve given
‘Cause You made me for so much more than
Sitting on the sidelines

I don’t wanna look back and wonder
If good enough could have been better
Every day’s a day that’s borrowed
So why am I waiting for tomorrow?

Oh, I’m making this my moment now
To grab the hand that’s reaching down
To save me, oh, You save me

And I’m making this my moment now
To grab the hand that’s reaching down
To save me, oh, You save me

I can’t live my whole life wasting
All the grace that I know You’ve given
‘Cause You made me for so much more than
Sitting on the sidelines

I don’t wanna look back and wonder
If good enough could have been better
Every day’s a day that’s borrowed
So why am I waiting for tomorrow?
Why am I waiting for tomorrow?

I’m gonna grab the hand that’s reaching down
And I’m not gonna wait until tomorrow
Oh, tomorrow

Some pretty awesome lyrics huh? I have to trust in God that his timing is better than mine! He put desires and passions in my heart for a reason and God is the only person that knows when it will be time for me to get to where I’m supposed to be. The season I’m in right now may not be where I want to be, but it’s where God wants me to be to teach me things that will help me later for when I arrive at the destination he wants me to get to! All I can do is take the small steps through the doors that God has opened for me!

With that being said I leave you with this verse to Remus everyone he does have great plans for each and everyone of us!

For I know the plans I have for you, ” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
-Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

 

-Lexi O.

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Sin is like a dirty carpet

{ June 29, 2011 @ 10:45 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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I started to clean my carpets today… After a couple of months it was full of stains from my beautiful boys who have dropped milk or juice & every now and then maybe a piece of candy. And of course I’ll pick it up enough to where it’s not just soaking in but not enough to where it still doesn’t stain. So as I was sitting there scrubbing the floors I thought, sin is like a dirty carpet. How you may ask? Well think about it, every day we fall short, we say something not to nice to someone, we do an act of unkindness, a ton of things. We are not all perfect and god knows that. But eventually it starts off like a stain in your carpet, not a big deal. But as time goes on, you start getting used to not really noticing all the little dirty spots (sin) in your life. Until one day you look around and see filth, and you ask yourself, what have I been doing?! How come I haven’t noticed this, it wasn’t that bad before. But just like anything, it needs a good cleaning. Repenting is like cleaning your carpet. You start in one spot and as you start realizing it’s there and cleaning it up it goes away. When we go to God and repent he washes everything clean. We can feel whole again, clean again.
In Isaiah 1:16 (NLT) ” Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.”

Psalm 103:12 ” He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.”

Isn’t it great to know that he knows we aren’t perfect and yet he loves us so much to wash our sins away! I know I serve an awesome loving and just God!! Clean yourself today by going to God and turning away from the bad things of this world.

-Lexi O.

Racing Forward

{ April 25, 2011 @ 4:14 AM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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Do you remember being a little kid waiting for an Easter Egg Hunt to start? Remember feeling the anticipation, the excitement, the “I can’t wait any longer feeling”… All you could think about is getting as many eggs as possible.  Today we celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. As we thank Jesus for shedding his blood for our sins, somehow our world mixed in the easter bunny and eggs. And even though our children enjoy it and we enjoy watching them, I could only think of Christ as I watched my kids Race Forward to the Easter eggs. Isn’t that how we should be with our Relationship with God? It’s how we all feel when we are new christians, that feeling of anxiousness wanting to be so close to God, all that excitement. What about when the rubber meets the road? When things get a little tough? It should be our first instinct to race towards God, but naturally when things don’t go our way, we slow down. We make our problems bigger than our God. We often forget that nothing occurs to God. Nothing comes out of the blue and surprises him, he knows everything before it happens. We have all been in those situations where we are crying out to God “WHY?!?!” and in that moment, we can’t see the outcome, but once that situation has passed, we look back and see God’s fingerprints all over the situation. It’s hard to do when  you are in the moment, but we have to remember not to put God in a box. Having Faith is believing in the unseen, knowing and standing on the Word. Whether it be healing, finances, marriages, children, or employment, in his word he states

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” -Jeremiah 29:11

God has our lives planned out, a perfect will, glorifying him, all he is waiting for is for us to put our complete trust and faith in him to let his will be done in our lives. I challenge you to RACE FORWARD to the one who shed his blood for our sins and who lives today! No matter the circumstances you are going through, race forward, God is waiting with open arms for you!

<3 Lexi O.

Enjoying your spouse

{ April 15, 2011 @ 8:45 PM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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I’m here in California with my husband on our newly started couples trip. We have had such an awesome time just spending time with each other. After 2 babies we don’t get very much time to ourselves these days. So when we do get the opportunity to be alone we do soak up every second. This week I have realized just how truly blessed I am to be married to such an amazing man. God truly picked him out for me. I have realized that even though you get so wrapped up in your amazing kids you still have to take time out for just the two of you. It’s amazing when you feel like you have grown closer. The feeling is so refreshing. So many marriages end up in divorce today and I believe that the reason behind it is because so many people get married and spend so much time away from each other. A second thing that I think is very healthy for you is spending time with close friends, which we just spent the week doing. We had such a blast acting goofy and feeling like we were back in high school driving down the road squished together in the car jamming out to great music. Keeping a young spirit is never a bad thing and being able to do it with a great husband and great friends is even better. It has felt so nice to have “grown up” time and talking adult language rather than saying”hold on I have to go potty” hahaha. I guess the purpose for this post is just to brag a little about the great friendships and marriage that I have. I can’t say enough how blessed I really am to have the life I do. I do admit the I really do miss my boys and can’t wait to get home to them tonight. I guess it’s just a mom thing. So all you moms out there, I know it’s hard to leave your kids but even if it’s just an hour make sure to take time and spend it with your husband. Its such an amazing thing, don’t let the time you have pass you by. We only live once so love like there’s no tomorrow!!!

<3 Lexi O.

God’s Love

{ April 4, 2011 @ 3:37 AM } · { A little bit of everything! }
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Isn’t is amazing to know just how much God truly loves us? Isn’t it amazing that he allowed us to have free will? I’m sitting here tonight thinking back on today and how these last couple of weeks I’ve truly experienced God on a whole other level. He’s spoken to me through scripture, through people at church and to me directly. God loves us that he sent his ONLY Son to come and die for our sins! Who would honestly love you that much to die for the sins that you have committed? Only God!? Isn’t it amazing how he is a father to the fatherless, a healer to the sick, a husband to the widow, a financial advisor to those in financial crisis? He’s all of these and more! He loves us that much that he “Stands at the door and knocks?” To know he will never force himself into our lives but when we welcome him into our hearts our lives are changed and blessed for the better. I am often amazed and reminded just how much he loves each and every one of us that he knew us before we were in our mother’s womb? That we were fearfully and wonderfully made!!! How awesome is that?! Doesn’t it feel good to know that no matter where you came from,what circumstances you grew up under, you have a God who loves you unconditionally and who loved you before you were even thought of? I notice a lot of times that people are more scared of God because of the image they have of themselves. We all have some type of past, none of us are perfect and when you start to think “How can God love me, I did this.. ” Just look at what he says in his word:

Isaiah 44:22

” I have swept away your offense like a cloud;

your sins like the morning mist.

Return to me,

For I have redeemed you. “

How amazing is that? We are REDEEMED! THANK YOU GOD!

I am so blessed to serve such a loving giving God. And I pray that if you don’t know christ that this will encourage you to come to know him and receive eternal life with God. Come to know peace that surpasses all understanding , abundant Grace and Mercy that renews every day. God LOVES YOU! And he is patiently waiting at the door of your heart!

My Little Blessings From God

{ March 24, 2011 @ 6:01 PM } · { Being a Mom }
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So, I’ve noticed after having 2 boys that it’s extremely exciting and quiet nervewrecking! Some days are good, some days not so good. And both are completely day and night from each other. Alex was my laid back, chill baby. He’s still like that at the age of 4. Naelen-Joel, Well… He’s a bit different then his big brother Alex, He’s my baby that’s attached to my hip all day and night! It’s amazing! I love it, and i’m blessed beyond measure to have 2 wonderful little boys. Everyday they teach me something new. It’s amazing! They remind me to have an imagination even as a grown up. Looking at them and watching them, even listening to them talk shows me how innocent and pure they are ( even when I think they are trying to test my patience on purpose). God created them this way, and we sometimes get too caught up in our daily adult lives to realize they are not another one of our employees or friends. They are precious children who are looking up to us to see what they should do. The examples we set are the examples they follow. They truly reflect God’s love. Even when we get after them, they come back and return to us with nothing but hugs and kisses. When they see we are sad or stressed, they say, “It’s okay”. During these moments, I thank God. Being a parent is breathtaking. But remember to enjoy the silly fun moments. Don’t get too caught up in the stress and daily life. For these only come once and then they grow up. I have this poem in my home and when I need to take a step back, I read this:

“If I had my child to raise all over again,
I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.
I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.
I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.
I would care to know less, and know to care more.
I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.
I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.
I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.
I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.
I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.
I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.
I’d teach less about the love of power,
And more about the power of love.”

 

 

 

My Sweet Sweet Blessings

Hello world!

{ March 3, 2011 @ 1:34 PM } · { First Blog }
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HeY Everyone! So here it is, my first blog ever! I’m so excited to start a new little fun journey. Well i’m currently in my house writing this blog, thinking to myself, there are a million things i need to do. Especially find some socks for Alex who will be heading out the door to school soon. We just got back from our amazing honeymoon in the Bahamas and are still trying to get back into the flow of things. I miss the Bahamas like no other, but I missed my kids wayyy to much to go back right now. It’s amazing how before you have kids you can’t imagine your life with them, and when you have them you can’t imagine your life without them. Maybe in a couple months when they are driving me absolutely insane i’ll rethink that trip back! haha. These past couple weeks have been absolutely amazing! I’m so looking forward to what else God has in store for our lives!!! Well this was just a short little blog. More to come!

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