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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

My New Online Avon Store!

Hello my dear friends! I wanted to give you an update about what's newest in my life. I am now selling Avon! :) Exciting, right? I am really excited about it, and I like to tell everyone I know. I have always LOVED Avon products, and have ordered/used them for years. I have always been 100% completely satisfied and happy, and I know you will be, too. If you live close to me ( I live in Blountstown, FL) I can give you a brochure to look through. But I know many of my friends and family do not live close by, and Avon now has where you can order online. The products will be sent directly to you. Please stop by my Avon store when you have some free time, and take a look at all the wonderful products. Click here to be taken to the Avon store. Also, Christmas is coming up soon, and Avon has gifts for everyone on your gift list. Right now we are in Campaign 26, the LAST one before Christmas. Thank you so much for continuing to be a faithful reader and your time. Hope you have a wonderful day! God Bless!
Paige Tadpole

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

He will sit as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver!

Hello! I wanted to share something with you today that I received in my e-mail from a dear friend of mine. Sometimes we go through trials in life, and we don't understand why we go through them. All we know is that God has a purpose even if we never know while we here on this earth. I know life can be very discouraging at times, and when I read this e-mail, it lifted me up. It gave me strength and the assurance that God knows exactly what He is doing. Here is what I hope will help you today! I hope you have a wonderful day, and know that Jesus loves you!
God bless,
Paige Tadpole

Malachi 3:3 says:
'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.'

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.


One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the
group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.


As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities


The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says:
'He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.' She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined.

The man answered that yes,
he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed..

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, 'How do you know when the silver is fully refined?'


He smiled at her and answered,
'Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it.'

If today you are feeling the heat of the fire , remember
that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Please vote for Bethany!!!

Hi! Today I have a favor I am asking of you. I need you to help me vote for an adorable picture that has been entered into a contest. Bethany has entered a picture called, "My Three Chick-Fil-A Fans". Go to this link
and vote for her picture. Her picture is still in the top 20, but she needs as many votes to help her stay there. Anyone who has an e-mail address, and if you have more than one you can vote more than one time.

Bethany is an amazing artist, and is also having a contest to win a hand drawn portrait if you blog about her picture. Below is the picture she entered into the contest, and the other picture is one of her drawings.

Thanks so much and happy voting!!! :)
Paige


"My Three Chick-Fil-A Fans"








Thursday, July 9, 2009

CONTEST!

Hello! I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a contest going on over at Twintastic Creations You should head over there right now, and enter to win this oh so cute tote. These two girls, Amber and Angelina make these handmade totes, and sell them at an excellent price. Even if you don't care to enter the contest, you should definitely check out the many cute totes they have. Here is their link- Twintastic Creations.Hurry over to see this incredible offer.






Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Living My Life

Hello everyone!!! I hope everybody is doing well and having a wonderful week. I am finally taking some time to work on my blog once again. This post I wanted to share some pictures with you showing what has been happening in my life lately. Hope you enjoy them! :)

This is Jeremiah and I ready to go to church one Sunday. We go to "High Praise Worship Center" in Panama City, FL. We LOVE this church, and I always cannot wait to go. I always leave there with a Spirit filled heart, and having unbelievable joy that God is my Father. They have an awesome worship band, and the preaching is just what my soul longs for. So this is Jere and me taking a few pictures before getting into the van to head to church.















One day when Jeremiah was off work we decided to go to Blue Springs to go swimming. It was so hot, and we just needed to cool off. Blue Springs is a natural spring, and it's VERY cold. So we put our swimming gear on, and left the house with sunny, bright skies. But when we are halfway there it starts raining. It didn't rain very much so we decided to keep on going. We pulled into the park, payed our fees, parked, got out, and walked to the water's edge. Then everyone heard a loud boom of thunder, and everyone was ordered to get out of the water. All Jeremiah and I could do was sit there and look at the water we had almost been able to swim in. Every time it thundered it was another thirty minutes before anyone could get in so we finally left to go to Wal-Mart. Instead we bought Monopoly, went home, cooked hamburgers and fries, and played Monopoly all evening long.

On the way to Blue Springs


Jeremiah driving while going to Blue Springs


Jeremiah driving while going to Blue Springs


Bright, sunny skies when we left


Rained just a little on the way to Blue Springs


This was as close to the water as we came

Another picture of the water



I haven't posted any pictures of my cats in awhile so here are some I have taken recently. Hope you enjoy these. I don't have any recent pictures of Fluffy since she stays outside a lot of the time now. The pictures below are of Izzie and Midnight.







































Saturday, June 13, 2009

Introducing my Family!

Hi! Some of you reading my blog may not know my family very well or at all. So I thought I would take a little time, and "introduce" them to you. I won't go into great depth on each one because I want to post about each one of them in later blog posts. But I will tell you who they are so you can get to know them. I hope you enjoy!

Okay, so here they are:
Gregg Forrest Bullington (my dad)
Carla Faye Bullington (my sister)- 18
Jared Bill Bullington (my brother)-16
Mandy Anne Bullington (my sister)-14
Maria Rose Bullington (my sister)-12
James Greg Bullington (my brother)-9

I am the oldest out of us kids. I was born in 1988 and I am 21 years old. Carla is the second oldest, she was born in 1991. There are three years between us. Then comes Jared, he is the oldest son and the third born. He was born in 1993. Then there is Mandy, the fourth child, and she was born in 1995. Maria Rose is the youngest daughter and fifth child, and she was born in 1997. Last but not least is James Greg. He is the last child born, and he was born in 2000.

So that's a quick look at my family. Later on I will do separate posts about each one of them so you can get to know them better. But for now this is all you get. lol There are also some pictures below so you can put faces to names. Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
God Bless,
Paige

This is the family (without me) on Easter/2009

Gregg Bullington-the dad

Gregg Bullington-the dad

Gregg Bullington-the dad

Carla Faye Bullington

Carla Faye Bullington

Carla Faye Bullington

Jared Bill Bullington

Jared Bill Bullington

Jared Bill Bullington

Mandy Anne Bullington

Mandy Anne Bullington

Mandy Anne Bullington

Maria Rose Bullington

Maria Rose Bullington

Maria Rose Bullington

James Greg Bullington

James Greg Bullington

James Greg Bullington

My wonderul Mama, Miriam!

Hello once again! Today I want to share with you about my wonderful Mama. I have been having such a heavy heart lately from missing her so much, and I thought that I should tell you how wonderful she was. So here goes...

Her name is Miriam Anne Bullington, and she was the best mother you could ever, ever ask for. She dedicated her life to her children for her family was most important second to God. She never pursued a career, she never had a lot of money, and she did it all for her family. But I can tell you she was rich with love for her family. She wanted as many children as she could have, and ended up having six children here on earth and five children in Heaven. In the last two years of her life I know she survived for her family for that was the only thing on earth worth living for.

She was most definitely the Proverbs 31 woman though she would have been too modest to say that. She lived her life striving to please the Lord. She took the best care of us, and we all knew we were going to be okay with Mama there. She cooked everything homemade, sewed most of our clothes, home schooled all her children, and she did it all with a smile on her face. Whatever she did she tried to the best of her ability to make it the best for us.

She was one of my very best friends, and I could talk to her about most anything. I went to her with my troubled heart so many times, and she was always there to comfort me and give me wonderful advice that I cherish to this day. You never realize the wonderful advice until you are grown, and now I cannot tell her how wonderful she was. She always had time for each of her children, and would listen to each of us individually.

I would always tell her about my dreams about my future, and how I wanted her to be there for everything. I wanted her to help with my wedding, even wanted her to make my wedding dress. I wanted her to be there when I had my own children. I wanted her in my future, and wanted us to experience each chapter of life together. But God had other plans that to this day I don't understand, and I don't think I ever will. It cannot be reasoned in my mind that it was the right time to take her when she still had young children for her to raise. But I guess that's why I am not God. I believe that God has a reason for everything, and I am not trying to say that God doesn't know what He is doing. I am just saying I do not understand why. Why? That is a word I have so many times over the past two years, but I don't think I will have an answer to that question until I reach Heaven. There is a song called "Homesick" by Mercy Me, and there is a phrase in that song that fits perfectly right here.
"Help me Lord because I don't understand your ways. The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know. But even if You showed me, the hurt would be the same."
So even if I knew why my heart would still ache for her. So I am trying my very best to not ask God why, but to just look forward to the day when I can see her again. It seems so far away, but God said life is just a vapor. So I must patiently wait.

Maybe some of you do not know what happened to my Mama. In 2004 she was diagnosed with Lymphoma which is cancer. It was stage four which is the last stage of cancer. The doctors said she was so close to dying when they found the cancer, but God wasn't done with her just yet. She fought two long hard years, and never gave up. She told me that she was fighting for her family. The pain she went through was horrible, and I think if she had not had her family her will to live wouldn't have be so strong. But she did have her family so she fought with all her might. She never went into remission, and in the end of second year the cancer stopped responding to treatments. The doctors pretty much sent her home to die. Mama then tried the natural route, but it was just too late. On September 13, 2006 she left us and went to be with her Father.

Now it's been two years since she has been gone. I never thought I could go without her, that I could live without her. I have but a lot of it has been hell to go through. As time passes by I am sure many people have gotten over it, but not her family. She was such a huge part of my life, for eighteen years she raised me, and I just cannot get "over" it. I don't think I ever will. She was my Mama for goodness sake, and if someone can just "get over it" I would seriously think that person has no heart at all. I know Mama is in a better place, much better than here on earth. She is perfect now, and is in no more pain. She gets to be able to be with her other children now, and I am thankful she is in no more pain. I just miss her terribly, more than anyone could ever know. I have heard it all about how I will get to see her one day, about how time heals, about how now we just need to let her go and think about the memories. All those things are true, but none can ease the pain. Nothing will ever make the pain go away because she is GONE. And there's nothing I can do about it. I can never talk to her again, can never hear her voice, can never ask for advice, she will never be in my future. All the dreams I had of sharing my future with my Mama are GONE. That is why I hurt. And anything people say will never make that hurt go away.

I guess I just want to say that I love my Mama with all of my heart and always will. I never realized just how much she was apart of my life, and now I can't say thank you. I cannot wait to get to Heaven! I imagine when I walk through the pearly gates she will be the first person I see. I cannot wait for that long embrace when I get to hold her again. When I get to hear that sweet, beautiful voice again. Oh, how that will be glory! I will never be able to say how wonderful she was because I don't think there are enough words in the English language to be able to do that. But trust me when I say she was the BEST! I am so thankful God chose me to be the daughter of the best Mama in the world.

Lastly, I want to share a song with you that I cling to. It helps me when I am feeling down, helps me when I think I just can't go on anymore. It reminds me that one day I will get to be with Mama again, and to just hang on a little longer here on earth. I have already shared a phrase from that song with you. I hope it blesses you as much as it blesses me. Read the words, and listen to it on my play list that is here on my blog. I guarantee it will touch your heart!

"HOMESICK" By Mercy Me


"You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times. And at least a thousand times I have rejoiced for you. But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry, Is how long must I wait for you.

I close my eyes, and I see your face. If homes where my heart is then I am out of place. Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow. I've never been more homesick than now.

Help me Lord because I don't understand your ways. The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know. But even if you showed me the hurt would be the same. Cause I am still here so far away from home.

I close my eyes, and I see you face. If homes where my heart it the I am out of place. Lord, won't you give me strength to make through somehow. I've never been more homesick than now.

In Christ there are no goodbyes. And in Christ there is no end. So I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I have. To see you again. To see you again."

I LOVE you Mama, and I cannot wait to see you again!
Love Your Daughter,
Paige

~Below are pictures of Mama~

Mama and me

Mama and me

Mama and me

Mama and me

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Miriam Anne Bullington (Mama)

Mama, Daddy, me, Carla, and Jared

Mama, me, Carla, Jared, Mandy, Maria Rose, and James Greg

Mama, me, Carla,and Jared

Mama, me, and Carla

Mama, me, and Carla

Mama and Mandy