Thankful Thursday!

So today I am doing a Thankful Thursday! I haven't wrote in awhile so I need to catch up too but today I am most thankful for (other than my husband and my sweet girls) is my brothers! My brother SPC Joshua Shoemake returned from spending a year deployment in Afghanistan. I am so happy he is home safe and with my sister in law! I know she missed him as I know what it's like to be in her shoes! Matt has not been deployed that long but the feeling is just the same. He has been through a lot while serving over there, we are just happy to have him home. Not everyone is as lucky and for those we pray for them and their families.

I am also thankful for my bother Jonathon. I haven't seen him in a little bit but love him just as much!

I'm thankful for my family! I have an amazing husband who does so much for me and the girls! We are so blessed! For Lent I gave up a few things and I can already see a change in me and it's what I needed. I chose to give up things that I really have struggled with and that I feel like really have a hold over me. I gave up processed foods, grains, soda, all things really bad for me. I used to never think twice about food and for some reason it's like now food has a huge hold on me! But no more and what better way to think of it like this...if Jesus died on the cross for me the least I can do is give up those things for him! And it has really helped! I haven't thought twice about eating those things or having soda! I have also started training for a 10 mile race in September at Walt Disney World in FL! I found a running plan on line: 10 Mile Running Plan and I am on week four of it and wow I am loving it! I have lost weight (which was not really my reason for this running) but I know by September I'll be where I want to be! One of my new years resolutions was to lose 50 lbs this year and I believe I might lose more! I have God on my side and when I'm running I can definitely feel him there with me every step I take. I ran four miles the other night without stopping which was HUGE for me! I can not even begin to say how humbled I am right now for our heavenly father! I do not deserve any of the blessings in my life I am nothing but a sinner saved by God's grace! Which is the most amazing thing to be thankful for!