We closed on our new house on Friday Morning. My dad came and along with a army of people from the church we got it all moved by Saturday evening. WHAT A BLESSING!!!!! We appreciate everyone's help so very much. We had people moving out of the rent house and others cleaning at the same time. We feel so blessed and loved by our wonderful church family. A sincere thank you to all of you that helped, you will never know how much we appreciate and love you!!!

I was off of work yesterday and the kids and I managed to get the kitchen organized & I even cooked dinner last night. It will take a little bit to get everything done, but it is all coming together nicely.

We are so thrilled to have our own place and we give ALL the glory to God! Thank you again to all of our supportive friends - we love you so much. I'll post some pictures soon!

On another note, I am so excited about what God is doing at Oasis Church. We have seen God do some powerful things in our midst and we are believing him for even greater things. I'm looking forward to a great Wednesday evening service. How about you?

What a weekend this has been! I attended a wedding last night at the University of Texas Golf Club and it was so beautiful. The bride was beautiful as was her mother. Her mother walked her down the aisle and yes, I got choked up. The minister spoke of the bride and groom's love for the Lord and it was a beautiful ceremony. A cord of 3 is not easily broken! Congratulations to Mallorie and Aaron!

Today was a great day at Oasis Church! This morning's service was AWESOME!!!!! The presence of the Lord was in that place!!!! This evening we had our 2nd membership class and it was wonderful. It's so amazing to see the people that God has brought to us!! We are so thankful for you!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!! We are so glad you are here. A special thanks to everyone that helped serve our new members!

In honor of Memorial Day, Danny put together a video that honored all those that had served in the military from Oasis. It was wonderful. I am so proud of all of those that served and want to say thank you for serving our country. We love you and thank God for you and your families for the sacrifices that you have made. Danny was in the Marine Corp and I am so proud of him!!!!


Danny

I also want to say a big thank you to everyone who has brought us boxes, I have not had to go "box hunting" and for that I am so thankful. A special thank you to Gail for coming over and helping us take pictures off the walls and filling the holes, what a blessing!!!!! Also, a BIG thank you to everyone that has offered to help us move next weekend. Only 5 more days!!! Praise the Lord!!!!

I hope you all have a great holiday tomorrow. I LOVE you my friends and can't wait to hear your thoughts! Love & Blessings, Cheryl

Today we went over to office of the home builder and spoke to the consultants. They are so nice and so helpful. They had great news that all the paperwork is on time going through the process and closing will be on time. PRAISE JESUS!!!

We were so excited when we went over to the house to find that they had begun the "clean up" process. They also put the microwave, stove and dishwasher in today. They also put in the blinds! It is so exciting to see everything come together!

Thank you to everyone that has offered to help, what a blessing! Also, to all of you who have brought us boxes, thank you, thank you!!!!
We are so excited about what the Lord has done!

We had a great service at Oasis yesterday and I'm looking forward to a GREAT week! I can't wait to hear from you my friends. Love & Blessings, Cheryl

The Williams family is proud to announce that we now have a author in the family. Kylie has written her first book and we celebrated with an Author's Tea at her school on Friday as the children presented their published books. She not only wrote the book, but she also illustrated the book. Her book is titled "Our Family Vacation To Sea World". We are so proud of her. Ms. Gail & Ms. June also joined us at the Author's Tea and we all had a great time.



Last week we went to Abby's Field Day and she came home with a whole handful of ribbons. It's so hard to believe that we are at the end of another school year. Abby has one more week left and Kylie has 12 more days. All of the end of the year events only remind me of how quickly they are growing and how fast time flies. However, we are ALL ready for summer and can't wait to get into the pool!!!

On another note, I am so excited about service at Oasis tomorrow. I can't wait to see what God has in store. I have heard some fascinating stories of what God is doing in the lives of some of our Oasis family and I'm so amazed! Please continue to pray for the Watkins family, Kevin is supposed to have his next round of chemo this week. Also, please pray for Wayne & Sharon to sell their house! We are preparing to move in the next couple of weeks. Our closing is scheduling for the end of the month, please pray that all goes smoothly. We are so excited!!! 

I hope that wherever you are for church tomorrow that you experience the power of God. I'm expecting great things! How about you? I can't wait to hear from you my friends. Love & Blessings, Cheryl 

I got to call my mother on the way to church this morning and wish her a Happy Mother's Day!  I have always called her mother instead of mom. Danny always makes fun of me for calling her "mother" instead of mom, but it's always appropriate on this day..."Mother's Day!" I also want to wish my grandmothers and my aunts a Happy Mother's Day. You all have played a wonderful part in my life and I am so thankful for you!


Here is a picture of me and "mother" back in March on her birthday!

I've had a great Mother's day. My sweet husband took me to lunch today with friends and we had a great time! This afternoon we went over to the new house to check on the progress over there and things are coming along! This week they put up the fence, put in the bathroom fixtures and toilets and got the windows all cleaned up. Today we had a new surprise to find out that they had put in the granite counter tops in the kitchen yesterday. It is so exciting! I have already started packing and I am wondering how in the world we have accumulated so much stuff!!!

On another note, our dear friends David & Susan Watkins made it back to Texas today with their son Kevin. What a blessing and answer to prayer that they were able to make it back without Kevin getting sick! Please pray for them as they walk with Kevin through this journey! We are standing with them in faith and are anticipating great things!

Since it was Mother's day, Kelsey & Jon did the children's church and I was able to stay in the service. What a blessing! Danny preached a great sermon called "Sweep The House". It was so great!!! I am so thankful for our Oasis family, we have such a great group of people!!! We missed everyone that was out of town today and can't wait until all of us are back together again!

I'm looking forward to a great and blessed week! How about you? I can't wait to hear from you my friends. Love & Blessings, Cheryl

What a blessing it was to be in the house of the Lord this morning. We had a WONDERFUL service. The presence of the Lord was so strong in that place and so was the love of the people. I am SO very thankful for our church family. Please join us in praying for the Watkins family, their 28 yr old son was diagnosed with cancer this week. I am believing God to do great things in Kevin's life and body!!! God is moving at Oasis and we are so thankful for what He is doing in the body and who He is bringing to join us. We have a lot of great activities coming up which include Membership and Baptism. I am looking forward to it!

On a personal note....we have been talking about a shifting and a shaking going on...well, the Lord did some shifting and shaking this week in our circumstances and I am happy to say that we signed a contract on a new home this week!!! It was all God!!! I could seriously write a book on everything that fell into place for this to happen. Danny & I along with the kids are so thrilled that we will no longer have to rent, but will have a home of our OWN!!!!!! 

 
Our new home...a work in progress!

We are closing at the end of May and are so thrilled. To all of our Oasis family who has offered up their services to help us move, thank you, bless you, thank you.....did I say bless you?

We have been leasing from a wonderful couple that live in another state who are believers also. They are very sweet people and I feel like we have known them for a long time. Please pray for them that they will be able to sell or lease their home and that the Lord will meet their needs.

I am looking forward to a blessed week. I can't wait to see what God has in store for us. I am also looking forward to spending a little (hopefully) extra time with Danny this week as he is off! Thank you for joining us in prayer for the Watkins family and for Wayne & Sharon. I love you all very much and can't wait to hear from you. Love & Blessings, Cheryl

Thanks to all of you who helped with our Flat Stanley Project! We completed it tonight and sweet Kylie will turn it in tomorrow.


Here is Kylie with her completed project!

Flat Stanley visited Nana's work where he got to meet the General Manager, received an ID badge, got to learn about Water Quality and he even got to go to the lab to see samples of fish that were taken out of the Brazos River.
Flat Stanley in the lab with the fish.

Flat Stanley also visited one of my friends from high school who is in Nursing School. She took Flat Stanley to her clinicals. He ate some cookie that the nurses had gotten from the Great American Cookie Co. He then ate so much he got sick and had to ride in a wheelchair to the hospital. He even got his own hospital room. After the nurses treated him, he felt much and even climbed a radio tower!

Flat Stanley's hospital room!

Flat Stanley also traveled to Arkansas with my Aunt & Uncle to watch my cousin in concert.

My Uncle with Flat Stanley in Arkansas!


My Aunt with Flat Stanley in Arkansas!

We also received an e-mail from a friend of a friend in South Carolina - Thanks to Karen & Evelyn.

Thanks again to all of you who helped with our project. We REALLY appreciate everything you all have done for us.

On another note, our subdivision is having it's Spring garage sale this weekend. I have lots of junk to get rid of. Say a prayer that we will be able to get rid of a lot of stuff!!!! I also have some other very exciting news to share with you all very soon!! Hope you have a Happy Friday!!!!! Love & Blessings, Cheryl

Well, there's nothing like a "little" procrastination is there? We seem to have had a case of this come through our house. Kylie has a "project" due on Friday, (I hope her teacher is not reading this) which is really nothing more than something for mom to have to do. That is the honest truth. Anyway, they sent this letter home about a month ago and it seems that "Flat Stanley" (All you moms will know what book character I'm talking about) got lost in all the junk mail and school papers that lay around & here I am at the last minute scrambling. (No comments from the peanut gallery!) Seriously, I did not intend to procrastinate I just TOTALLY forgot about it until I read the teacher's update for the week on the internet this morning.  

The letter we received for the "project" which was to be mailed to a friend:

Dear ______________,

In school we read a book about a boy who got mashed by a bulletin board. His name is Flat Stanley. He wanted to go on a trip, so his family folded him up and mailed him to California.

I am mailing my Flat Stanley to you. Please take him somewhere and write me back telling me where he went. If you have pictures or postcards, send them too. I will take Flat Stanley back to school and share his adventures with my class. My parents will then display the letters, pictures, and anything you send on a poster board.

Thank you for helping me with this project. I wish that I could fold myself up and visit you.

I love you,
Kylie

Here is the Flat Stanley that Kylie colored at school:

She must have been in a hurry when she colored it and yes, his head is a little jagged from her cutting! Looks like he had "surgery". Wink, wink!!!!

So, this desperate mom would appreciate any of you who would print and cut out Flat Stanley and take a picture of him with you or your family having an "adventure". It could be anything from sitting on your computer at work, to eating dinner with the family, working outside, reading a book........ etc. You get the idea? E-mail the picture back to me at cheryl@oasischurchtx.com with a short paragraph explaining what City and State you live in along with what Flat Stanley is doing. I will print the pictures and post them on a poster board along with the explanations of what Flat Stanley is doing. I would appreciate your help SO very much!!!!! I need them back by Thursday morning so I can have time to print the pictures.

Thank you guys in advance for your help!!! I'm looking forward to seeing how many responses we get and from where!!! I'll update the blog later in the week (and possibly post your picture of Flat Stanley if that is ok with you, let me know) with what kind of response we received.

Hope you all have a blessed week! We are getting some much needed rain in the Austin area today. Be careful out there!
Love & Blessings to you my friends,
Cheryl

We had a great weekend!!! How is it that the weekend goes by so fast and the week goes by so slow??

Saturday night we had our first Marriage weekend for Oasis Church. It was a couple only event and we had such a great time!

Me & Danny before Marriage Weekend

We were so grateful to David & Susan for hosting the event in their home. It was a wonderful time of fellowship, food and teaching. Since the subject was marriage, we also enjoyed a few laughs as well. It was a great event! I can't wait for the next one! A couple of people left before we snapped some pictures, but I wanted to post these anyway!

The "Girls"

The "Guys"

We had a great service today! The kids started a new series called P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Something Happens! The kids really enjoyed it.

I'm looking forward to a great week! Another busy week ahead! Our community is having their Spring garage sale on Saturday and I have plenty of junk to get rid of!!! Kylie has something special this week at school on Friday and I can't wait to share that with you. I hope you all have a great week! I can't wait to hear from you my friends. Love & Blessings, Cheryl

I received an anonymous comment this week from someone saying they missed my blog. I don't know who it was, but thank you. I have also had people come up to me and ask me to blog. So, here you go!!!

It's honestly been sort of a strange season of life, the last year or so. Not all of it has necessarily been in a bad way. I try to share what is going on in our lives and maybe I "expose" us a little too much. I just am so proud of our little family, they are such a joy to my life, I can't help but share them with you. There have been some things that have gone on outside of our four walls that have made me reflect, cry and ultimately cry out to God. There have been times that I have just simply "pitied" down. But through it all, I am so thankful that He has never left me or forsaken me. God is so faithful and I am so thankful for what He is doing in my heart and life. I'm looking forward to what He has in store! I'm also so very thankful for my husband. I am so honored to have him in my life. I love him more everyday!

The other part of my not blogging has been that we have been SO busy with life!! I have been working a few more hours and Danny always stays busy with his work. Besides all of that, we have been really busy with the church and all of the activities that go along with that. I'm so amazed at what God is doing and who He has brought to join us. It's so exciting!!!! I'm really looking forward to the Marriage Weekend tonight. I hope you will join us!

On another note, here is a picture of the kids from back in March. We drove around for about 30 to 45 minutes looking for Bluebonnets and we could not find very many. But, here is our picture anyway!!!

Jon, Kylie, Kelsey & Abby

As far as the kids go.......Jon and Kelsey have been busy working on their schooling through the University of Texas. Jon has been doing lawn maintenance and Kelsey is gearing up for her summer babysitting job. Those two are so funny!!! They keep us laughing all the time!!!!!! The "little" girls as we so fondly call them are winding up another year of school. It's hard to believe how fast it goes by. Abby is finishing up second grade and we are looking forward to her field day in a couple of weeks. Kylie is finishing up first grade. We enjoyed her field trip to the Austin Science and Nature center this week. She also has her Author's Tea for the book that she wrote this year. She also has a field day coming up. Of course, they are ALL looking forward to getting back in the pool and all that summer has in store.

So, thank you my friends for loving me. You never know what your words of encouragement or kindness mean to me. I look forward to sharing many more tales of what is going on in our family. I can't wait to hear your thoughts!!!!! Love & Blessings, Cheryl