A Girls Night Out and a prayer request

**UPDATE ON ABBY: Surgery went well. She is home now with Amanda. They are going for a sleep study at Texas Children's Hospital and the doctors are going to go ahead an issue a sleep alarm that Abby will sleep on. It will go off when she stops breathing.. please be in prayer. If you'd like to leave kind words and thoughts here for Amanda, please do and I will forward them to her. You never know what an uplifting word can do.

First before I begin telling you all about the fabulous evening I had last night I want to ask for prayer for a special little girl. You all remember Miss Abby Grace right? She is the 2 year old daughter of my dearest friend Amanda over at Something Sassy Designs.
She was scheduled for surgery this morning to have tubes put back in her ears. As I've mentioned before they have seen a specialist and are trying to determine why she is having breathing problems that cause her to stop breathing in her sleep. Imagine being her mother, my dear friend, who cannot sleep a wink at night because she is watching her daughter breathe. I am asking you all to pray that God will totally heal this baby girl and that there would be no problem that can be found. The doctor who did the surgery this morning came out and told Amanda that there is definately a breathing issue and he ordered a sleep study right away. Those of you who are mother's can imagine what she is going through. If you would just be in prayer for this little princess we would greatly appreciate it. Here is a little picture of Abby Grace to keep in your mind. She is on the homepage of our website...she's our little model! ;)



Ok so last night me and my sweet friend Heather went to Proverbs 31 Ministires "A Girls Night Out." It was....AWESOME!



We were so excited to hear Kate Gosselin speak but the other speakers were so awesome as well. If you have a chance, you should check out the website. It's Proverbs 31 Ministries and it's geared totally toward women. It's a great resource. You might also check out other dates--Girls Night Out might be coming to your city!!

So the evening started out with Heather picking me up and we grabbed a bite to eat. It was so nice to sit at dinner and not have little ones crying, pulling at your shirt or throwing food on the floor! Can I get an "Amen" for girls night out?!? If you guys could have seen the two of us trying to get to this event you would have cracked up. Heather and I are ALOT alike. She and I had both been talking about this and both saying to each other, "I hope you know how to get there." She ended up driving.. she map quested the directions for TO and FROM. This event was ONE HOUR AWAY. We didn't realize just how far we were going..

She had me reading the directions which I was pretty nervous about. Don't get me wrong, I have a pretty good sense of direction. I mean, I could drive you to the mall with my eyes closed! But, I had never even been to this AREA of town before. So several times on the way we thought we were lost. At one point we were scared for our lives..she'll tell ya, we were in the GHETTO. And I do mean, ghetto. We're talking bars on all the windows type of town. So here we are, two little christian ladies, trying to find this HUGE church in the middle of gang-ville. Needless to say we did have a little prayer time in the car! I can't tell you how many times Heather or I one checked to see if the doors were locked.

So we made it there and we had a blast! Ayiesha Woods brought down the hizzy (this is my ghetto term for "house"). If you guys don't know her, check out her my space page Her voice is killer. She got is in the worship mood. Then there were two really amazing women who spoke. Their personal stories touched my heart. You can read more about them at the Proverbs 31 website listed above.

And then this man walks out on stage and the whole room gets silent. And you can see the looks on the ladies faces like, "What is HE doing here?" It was hiliarious. He said, "Ok, I know I'm totally outnumbered here; and before you all eat me let me just say that women rule the world." The whole room cheered and we loved him. Hah! He sang an amazing song by the group Selah called, "You raise me up" which is actually mine and my husband's wedding song. The main reason I am posting about him is because he said some really profound words before he left the stage. He said, "Ladies, you are each one special and beautiful in God's eyes..walk in the beauty of the Lord and be confident..for there is nothing more appealing than that to a man." So, needless to say, we loved him. ;)

And finally Kate came out! The room was cheering and standing and screaming! She is so beautiful but was even cuter in person. She was stylish and put together well. She had stilettos on which I was personally loving. She spoke well. We laughed, we cried. It was so neat to see her in person and hear her story. So many people say that she is too harsh or too crabby. I know that she can snip at her husband and be controlling but, if you had 8 kids how would you be?! She gave her husband alot of praise last night. It was overall a great time.

After it was over we ran to jump in line to have her sign our book. Heather just wanted a picture with her. I think we stood in line for an hour. As we were getting closer we kept hearing workers say, "Have your zoom ready." Finally as we approached the table there was this woman standing there yelling, "There will be no posing--we will take the picture as she signs your book!" She must have repeated herself 100 times and I'll be really honest and say that she was totally on my nerves. I watched as annoying lady snapped pictures when Kate wasn't even looking and handed the camera back and yelled, "Next!" I was totally annoyed. I know Kate was tired and had alot of people to see; but goodness, we drove an hour and we wanted a decent picture! So I chose to give up having her sign my book so I could get a picture while she was actually looking at the camera. Turns out that "annoying, yelling camera-holding lady" thought she would maximize time and let Kate sign someone elses book while she took my picture...but the other lady was kind enough to wait.



Here is a picture of me and Heather..


And No I did not know these two ladies but they sat behind us and the one on the right is the Mommy of these beautiful twin girls! They were so precious I had to take their picture! She is nursing twins..can you imagine? Did I really gripe about nursing ONE baby? And, they are four weeks old and she's already out and about! You go Girl!


And here is the line for the book signing..it was looooong. You probably can't see all of it.. but we were at the end and it was still long.



And finally, I took some pictures of Kate when she wasn't looking..WHAT? You would have so done it too! I took a picture of her shoes because they were cute. Sorry these pictures are kinda crummy.






And because I love conferences and am a total junkie for their t-shirts and books (which I do read by the way!), here is a picture of my shirt and my new books that I am totally pumped to read!





It was a really fun night..thanks Heather for the invite!! If you've never checked out the Gosselins website, you can do so HERE.