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.

Skate Dallas!

Skate Dallas .. Not so great

I was super nervous .. Not so great

I fell on my salchow .. Not so great

I got fourth place .. Not so great

The car ride on the way home .. priceless!

I had a figure skating competition in Dallas yesterday. My family and I drove down there Friday night and stayed with the people that lead my parents to Christ! It was so good finally meeting them! :)

Then Saturday we left their house and headed for Carolten, (where we use to live) and visited our neighbors! It was just like old times! I just love them!

Then we checked into the skating rink in Grapevine Mills mall, It was crowed and crazy!! I've never seen so many figure skaters all in place at one time!! It really got me nervous!

Fudruckers was just accross the street so we met some old friends there and had lunch! Hadnt seen them in a while! They're great Christian friends and it was good visiting with them again!

We stayed Saturday night at Taylor's mom's house. I'm glad I finally got to see her house and my family got to meet them! Everything there turned out great! Sunday morning and and taylor got up and watched Life Church online! :) I had never done that before! 213 people tuned in and 26 of them got saved!

Then it was time to get ready and go to the skating rink. I was already so nervous I wanted to puke! When I got there, there were a little less people but still alot! My practice went ok but I was feeling a little unstable and my feet were numb! It was my turn to get on the ice. I'm stressed, and nervous. My salchow is my first jump I do, and the jump that I've been able to land for like 6 months! Its not hard for me at all. But for some reason I fall. I get up with a smile and go on doing the rest. On the next 3 elements were the ones I had been strugling a little bit with; my waltz-toe loop combo, my scratch spin, and my back spin. But all of those I did perfect! I was a little confused as to why I fell on the easiest thing for me and did so well on my hardest things. .

Well dissapointed and frustrated I got off the ice and waited for the results. I got 4th. I was really upset. I've only competeted 2 other times and got first! This is my first time to screw up! But I guess its not worth winning if you dont have to fight for it. . There will always be another competition.

The ride home is about 3 1/2 hours. I was still frustrated and me and taylor we fighting. After talking with my parents they agreed to letting me ride in the car with him on the way home! :) (we drove right in front of them, haha)

For about the first 15 min we just listened to music and I wouldnt really talk and was just being subburn! (I can have a big attitude sometimes!) But after thinking about it I knew it was stupid and we werent getting anything accomplised! So I turned off the music, and just said, lets talk!

We had the BEST conversations! Those 3 1/2 hours flew right by! Everything we were arguing about was resolved in about 10 or 15 min of talking about it, then we just enjoyed our company the rest of the way! We talked about the weekend, and about the parts that were tempting, and about what we need to change so we wont temp each other so much. We also discussed our future, getting just information about what the other is thinking, or how they feel about things and just finding a common ground.

Everything just seemed so out in the open! And I finally felt 100% comfortable and myself. I could burp in front of him! We talked about picking our nose! We talked about farting! I let him look, and even touch my feet! I stuck out my tongue with all the chewed up donut on it! haha. It was such an amazing thing just to be so open with the one you love! - oh and that was another thing we talked about...

He almost brought me to tears.. telling me just how much he really loved me, and why he loved me and what he loved about me!! It was compliment after compliment! I just wanted to record it! I wanted to freeze time and soak it all in! He's such an amazing guy! I cant appreciate him enough! It breaks my heart how sometimes I get so cought up in what he might've done wrong, and then just look past ALL the priceless things he does right for me! I almost think he spoils me too much ;) but I'm lovin it!!

Anyway, I would never in a million years trade that car ride for anything in the world! We laughed so much!! He makes me so happy! We're such alike in some ways, we're just goofy and there to have fun! Its crazy how much you can show a person how you love them, without even kissing!

Garage Sale!

Hey guys :)


So for those of you who dont know..


I'M GOING TO COSTA RICA IN JULY!!!





Yay! I'm so excited! I'm going July 21 to Aug 4th with Teen Mania, which is through Global Expeditions and Ron Luce etc.


The trip is $2079 and I only have $400 right now..





I'm having a garage sale May 16th, 17th, and 18th, at Shannas. If you have anything laying around the house that you would like to donate that would be amazing!! You can either set up a time to meet me and I can get it. Or if you could just drop it by Shanna's if you know where she lives.





I'm so excited about this trip! (also a little scared) But I know God is calling me to go, and I know God will protect me! I know God will provide for me!





I just ask for your prayers!





Thank you so much!





(if you want to know more about the people I'm going with go to http://www.globalexpeditions.com/)





If you need to get ahold of me about donations for the garage sale, call 623-0520.





THANKS!





:)

MY STORY- PART 14 REDEMPTION

This is the last one for my story!!!

Over the months of healing I really started building a relationship with my family again. Me and my mom would acutally have conversations and not fight! We would go shopping and just enjoy each other! We became great friends. I finally got the relationship I had wanted all these years, just to have fun together and understand each other and trust each other!

After many weeks of praying I felt it was time to move back in! I told my family Dec 13th that I would move in on New Years! To start the New Year off right! :) and I did. It has been amazing the understanding we have for each other now! We respect ones thoughts, feelings and opinions! And come to think of it, we have really "fought" since I've been home!

The one thing I would change is time. There is only so much time in a day that I have to balance between God, family, work, school, figure skatin, dance, Taylor, Crawfords, all my girl friends etc. I wish I had all the time in the world to be with my amazing family and show them how much i really do love them! I'm not home enough at all and that is one thing I am trying to work on!

Well even though everything else is just going AMAZING! (ONLY because of Jesus my savior!) I still do struggle, I still have temptations, and hard times. But thank God for forgiviness! Everytime I fail, instead of just keep doing that, I just stand back up and run towards God. I do still go through dry seasons and wilderness tests, wondering if God still loves me! But its just silly when to think that when you actually step back and look at what ALL he has saved me from!!!

I hope you've enjoyed reading this! If you have any question please dont hesitate to talk to me. Love you guys so much!

ps. I give ALL the Glory to JESUS CHRIST! HE is the one who saved me! HE is the one who healed me! HE is the one who helps me through every day!!

~ Wendy

PROM 2008!!

Hey, so I'm taking another pause from my story, although I'm almost done! :)



Saturday night, April 12th, 2008 was my first and last Prom!! It was AMAZING!



Deleise took our pictures! :) (thanks Deleise!)



There are soo many great ones! but I chose a couple of my favorite to post! There are more on my myspace!



About the Dance: It was amazing! I spent thewhole day primping; getting a tan, and my nails done, and my hair done etc. He showed up in a Dodger Charger (the coolest car ever!) and took lots of pictures then went to eat at OPUS! It was supppperrr good!! And the restaurant was realllyy nice! Then we went to the dance which was at Will Rogers Theater. Let me tell ya, we had the best time! We danced our hearts out, but in a healthy manor. At times it was really tempting to do what everyone else was doing and dirty dance. But instead we would just salsa or rumba or tango etc. it was a blast! its amazing how he respects me soooo much! :)

He's amazing we've been together for a little over 8 months and its been the BEST 8 months ever! we havent even kissed! and decided to save that for marriage! and we've never yelled at each other. every time we argue we just talk it out.He treats me like a princess! i've NEVER EVER EVER had someome have so much respect for me!!!! its like i'm living out a fairytale ♥