Day 17 of 365

Today Jose and I have come to Mt. Berry, Ga for a "Courageous" Marriage Retreat. We are so excited to grow more spiritually in our hearts and in our marriage! Let the learning begin at Winshape Retreat!

Day 16 of 365

The one behind all this blogging Madness!!!

JUST ME!!!

Love to all,

Carrie

Day 15 of 365

Maybe you all need a laugh today! This is something I see every morning on my way to work. It really makes me laugh out loud! I would love to know if the City of Savannah really approves this paint job!

PRAY

STOP!

AND

PRAY!!!

NOW! PLEASE OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS PRAYER! EVEN IF YOU'VE NEVER PRAYED BEFORE! PRAY FOR EFFINGHAM COUNTY! ALL THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND PARENTS FOR UNDERSTANDING. PRAY THE DEVIL AWAY FROM OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STUDENTS AND OUR SCHOOLS! THE GLORIOUS ONE HEARS OUR PRAYERS! AND HE NEEDS TO HEAR THEM ALL NOW!!

SO PLEASE PLEASE PRAY!

Love to all,

Carrie

Day 14 of 365

My sweaty soccer player.

2011 Soccer Jamboree. Go Goalblasters!

Love to all,
Carrie

Day 13 of 365

Another day ... another storm in Rincon. So far we have been lucky and have not had much damage...Praise the Lord. Yesterday the top of a tree in our backyard snapped right off. Thankfully not landing on Jose's shed a/k/a his Man Cave or more importantly our house!

Love to all,
Carrie

PRAY

Dear Friends and Family,
(in Effingham County, GA, surrounding areas and across the U.S.)

I come to you all today, and just ask for you to PRAY for our community.

The Effingham County Community has experienced a lot of tragedy and pain the last couple of months/years. Most of the things we just don't understand. It's so much for our kids to comprehend, much less understand. We are all asking WHY? Why our community? Why our kids? I know, as a Christian, that we are not suppose to be questioning God. But at this point, with so much pain and tragedy, it's hard not to.

I'm trying to keep in mind John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulations. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Today, if you are reading this, I ask that you STOP and say a special PRAYER for our schools, our kids, the teenagers, all the parents, the counselors/teachers and our community in a whole.

WE NEED IT!

We need God back in our Schools, our Homes our Lives! PRAY, pray, PRAY - the evil one has us on his radar and we are in control of how much power he has! Never cease praying and fully rely on GOD!!!!!!

Love to all,
Carrie

P.S. to hear video - go to bottom of Blog and pause Play list!

Day 12 of 365

Eat. Spit. And be happy!

Our Sunday lunch at the ball park!

Love to all,

Day 11 of 365

Our weekend is filled with sports...starting out early this morning! Tristan is playing in her first travel softball tournament. So let's Go Lady Sharks!

What a great thing to see before our first game! Both teams to center field and praying! God is Good!

Love to all,

Day 10 of 365

Well I've made it to 10 days!!!!! I can't believe I've actually found a few minutes of my everyday to stop and do this. But it's been really fun! Every time I pull out the phone to take a picture of something the family says in unison - UGH - is this for the BLOG!! So they might not last the 365 days of picture taking - but hopefully I will be here!

((Just an FYI - If you find this boring or not so very informative enough for you - there is no need for you to come here and check us out! As most of you know we don't have ANY family close by to watch over us, spend daily time with us or to watch the kids continuously grow.......this if for them (and close friends that care :))! They can keep up with us daily and feel like they are close by!))

MY BOYS

I'm so very PROUD of these 2! The one on the right is our Strong Christian Spiritual Leader in the house, and the one of left is growing into such a fine Chrisitian young man! Jackson has such a great Christian Mentor to follow everyday and I LOVE IT!!!! Last night this is them before going to a Father/Son Banquet at church! NOTHING is more important in a boys eyes, than to be LOVED AND ACCEPTED by their fathers!! The love and the bond that these two share makes my heart smile daily! God - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THEM!

Love to all,

Day 9 of 365

The last few years, months, days have been very difficult in our County. Everything has just really hit home lately. Teenagers, every where and in our County, really need our prayers RIGHT NOW!! Life is obviously not easy nor breezy as it should be at that age! Our schools need to show the LOVE and offer some major counseling to these students. Not only do we all need JESUS in our hearts, but we need to be sharing his LOVE with others for them to FEEL HIS POWERFUL LOVE.

Parenting is not an easy job. But telling your kids how important they are, how proud you are of them, showing your love by hugging them and kissing them daily is VERY IMPORTANT! I try to do these things to my kids everyday. I know I'm not the best parent in the world - in fact I'm sure we all have our faults - but kissing and hugging them and telling them I LOVE THEM is something I do every chance I get!

I ask myself everyday...........

Will these 2 ever know how much I LOVE THEM and CARE ABOUT THEM!!!

Love to all,

Day 8 of 365

Well today is DECADE DAY for Homecoming week!

and YES HE CHOSE THE

80's!

(it's not so easy to dress a boy in 80's....but I think he will have a very fun day today)!

Love to all,

Day 7 of 365

Well its homecoming week at the middle school. Don't you remember how much fun that was? Everyday a different theme......

Well today is "Tacky Day"! Jackson was up late last night trying to come up with a tacky outfit ..... never knew tacky could be so hard!!!!

Love to all,

Day 6 of 365

Very busy weekend leads to a very stressful Monday!  Lack of sleep, lack of food = me screaming!

As I tried to mess with this blog tonight and change some things it  only made my day more stressful. I wish things on computers would go the way I want them to!!

So here I am STRESSED AND PULLING OUT MY HAIR!

Love it all,

Day 5 of 365

Our life.........Another day at the ballpark!

My boy playing 1st! Love him!

Love to all,

Day 4 of 365

Serious about his GATORS!!!!

Love to all,

Day 3 of 365

I feel like I always have eyes watching me when I'm running around in the morning like a "chicken with it's head cut off"!

Come to find out I do!!

Love to all,

Day 2 of 365

So this is what I came home to last night......

I guess I'm LOVED!!!

My lover is mine, and I am his. - Song of Solomon 2:16

Love it all,

Project 365

Today I was reading a friend's blog and I see where she is starting a project with her families daily memories. It's called Project 365. I just loved the idea so much, I've decided to copy her (only after asking her for permission first)!

The purpose is to document a year of your life by taking a daily photo. There is a whole website designated to this....but me, like my friend Bethany, have decided to just do it on our Blogs! Hopefully, I can stick with it! I know I'm crazy just adding something else to my (crazy) daily schedule, but it sounds fun. So I will try it! Now if I skip a day, week, month - please don't hold it against me....I've obviously gotten sidetracked!!!!

So here starts Day 1 of 365 - The Ramirez Project 365

Honoring First Responders

Sgt. Dan Flood, Brother Bob (our Pastor) and Jose

In honor of the 10th Anniversary of September 11th, our Church had a very nice Memorial/Tribute Service on Sunday night. I was an amazing service. Not only because of the wonderful purpose it served, but because Jose gave his testimony. Out of a congregation of over 600 people I don't believe there was a dry eye in the place. I'm so very proud and blessed of the Christian man/leader Jose has become.

"WE WILL NEVER FORGET!"

Love to all and God Bless,

A Proud 'Momma' Once Again....

It's time for me to do a little bragging (again)!

My Daddy-O (aka Jose) got himself, yet another, award! He makes me so proud!

In July he was awarded: The Public Safety Humanitarian Award, from the City of Rincon. Not very often is our hard work acknowledged in our lives....so for him to receive this award was very rewarding! I am so very proud of him and all he does in his day to day activities Protecting & Serving our Community. He is so good at what he does, but most of all HE LOVES WHAT HE DOES and that makes a big difference!

If you come across anyone in blue - pat them on the back and tell them how much you appreciate all they do for your community. I promise it will make a difference in their day!

Love to all,

Carrie

P.S. and yes he calls me 'Momma'!