I'M AN AUNT!!!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD FINN HAMMOND DAWSON!!!!!

You're SO loved!!

This morning at 12:05 am I was woken up by mother telling me Christi's water just broke! My mom, my sister and I all get up to go to the lakeside womens center!

Paul and Christi get there around 12:45 am and by 1 am Finn has arrived! Talk about a fast labor! We got there just in time! and heard the baby crying and saw them measuring and weighing him! He is the most precious site you've ever seen! And has the cutest laugh you've ever heard!

We all waited outside the room and let Paul and Christi have their time. After about an hour they said we could come in and we all got to hold him! He's just perfect! He has a perfect cute little round head and a perfect little body and is just soo adorable! I just wanted to take him home with me! :) He is 8.1 lbs. I dont really know how long he is.. but he's pretty small!

You have NO idea how excited I am to be an aunt! I can hardly wait for life to happen! :)

Welcome to our life Finn!

You Make Me Beautiful Somehow!

Sunday night I'm restless. I now have 2 guinea pigs and a hamster! Man! And I thought just having a gerbil kept me up all night! I sleep with earplugs, but even through the earplugs I could still hear my (sometimes annoying) little cute pets making a ton of noise! By 3 am I wake up and find my cd player under all the clothes and mess in my room :) And for some weird reasons the radio wouldnt work! I would only pick up weird classical stations and all I wanted was soft Christian music!! Well I keep all my cds in my car, so I dig under my bed trying to find my old old cd case of random cds I never listen to anymore. After a couple min of digging I find it and just flip back to what I call my "Girly Christian music" :) it was all the music I listen to when I was like 10! It had Point of Grace, Stacie Orico, Joy Williams, Nichole Nordman, etc. . I remember one of my favorites was Joy Williams. I pull it out and stick it in. Crawl back in bed and fall asleep for the remaining 2 hours I have to sleep :(

Monday morning I wake up bright (well actually it was still dark) and early to go to work! yay! -not really- So after getting ready, I'm grabbing all my stuff for the day and I just decided to grab that Joy Williams cd too. I run to my car and am off for the looong 40 min drive to work! (while still half asleep, ugh)

I put in that cd and instantly memories rushed through my mind! It was such a sweet sensation remembering and listening and singing those songs I once thought were the BEST songs ever written! haha.

Then I remembered track 9 was my favorite! I couldnt even rmember which song it was, I just knew I like that track. So excided like a little kid opening a Christmas gift I switch tracks quickly and listen joyfully! :)

This is track 9.. I want you to read every single lyric! :)

Never been a fashion queen

I wear dresses, I wear jeans

I’ve even been known to wear my heart on my sleeve

I’m just your average kid next door

A plain, simple mystery

I’m a self-proclaimed Daddy’s girl

With my share of idiosyncrasies

But You love me for me

(CHORUS)I’m just fine

I see a smile from Heaven

My Father is proud

I know that I am simply, fearfully and wonderfully

Made in You

You make it beautiful somehow

I’ve got old fashioned sensibilities

I believe chivalry still exists

And I can be a princess

Even when there ain’t no prince

So what if I’m right brained

I’ve got half a mind to disagree

I would rather write the book

Than go and read the movie

So even when I may not rhyme

You always give me reason…

(CHORUS)I’m just fine
I see a smile from Heaven
My Father is proud
I know that I am simply, fearfully and wonderfully
Made in You
You make it beautiful somehow

Got my elbows on the table

My mind up in the clouds

I know I’m getting better

I can almost hear You laugh out loud

The more I trust in You

The more I find

What You create is no mistake

It’s purpose by design

(CHORUS)I’m just fine

I see a smile from Heaven

My Father is proud

I know that I am simply, fearfully and wonderfully

Made in You

You make it beautiful somehow

After the first 10 seconds I'm already bawling! So many times I forget that God sees me as beautiful! So many times I'm sooo critical on myself, either I'm not patient enough, or too bitter, or too selfish, or not Godly enough, etc. I'm always finding and pointing out ever bad thing about me!! I sometimes define who I am with all the mistakes I make! Always finding the bad, not the good. This mindset and way of thinking just destroys me! It only takes a few days of thinking that way before I'm an emotional wreck, and discouraged, and depressed etc. .

This song opened up a whole new meaning to me! I realized that I am Gods daughter, His princess! HE makes me beautiful somehow!!

Through the tears I found peace and joy. I'm so glad that God is not like ANY other person on earth and will NEVER fail me, NEVER give up on me, NEVER let me down and will ALWAYS love me, ALWAYS think I'm beautiful, and ALWAYS call me His princess! :)

To hear the song, go to my myspace.com at http://www.myspace.com/uniquely_created_by_him

The Meaning of Prayer

How many times a day do people tell us whats going on in their life and our response is, "Oh I'll be praying for you!"?

Cause I know I do that ALL the time! I'm constantly telling people I'll be praying for them just out of curtesy but then 10 min later totally forget I even said that! This is something God has really been convicting me about! When someone says they're going to pray for me, I want them to really do it! But I cant remember the last time I constantly all week prayed for the people I said I would.

So, I now I'm trying something new, and would encourage you to do the same :)
Now if I say that, I mean it. I keep either a sticky note or a little notebook in my purse. And everytime I tell someone I'll pray for them, I write down their name, and what it is I'm praying for. Then throughout the day or week I'll pull out that note and just pray for them, even if its just for 5 min here and there. . .

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Last night megan and I were doing a coin drive for my mission trip again :) its always an adventure to see peoples reaction, whether pleasent or rude. And when we came to one door last night an elderly lady came. She was wearing what looked to be a nightgown, and her hair was messy. She didnt have any teeth and you could tell she was in pain. It just broke my heart first seeing her. . I then told her what we were doing and she was just so sweet! She explained how right now she's completely broke, but she's believing God that alot of money is coming in soon! Also she told us how she's giving to an orphanage and just LOVES to give to missions! Her heart was so sweet! She gave me a card with her name and number on it, telling me to come back and she'll write me a check for my trip, when that money comes in.

Well you could tell she was such a selfless person! You could tell she was not very prosperious at all, yet more willing to give than any other person we spoke to!! I told her I would pray for her. And thank God for my reminding sticky note! :)

But she has been on my mind ever since! Just her smile, and her generous loving heart!

It the people like Anne Wilson who remind me that their are just adorable selfless people out there haha. :)

God Bless her!

On a sidenote, I would encourage you all to do the same! Do you ever say that and then forget? Or am I the only one? haha.

love you guys.