LIBERTY

Well, after 5 failed attempts at trying to log back into my old account (I have a tendency to forget passwords), I'M BACK!!! I can't promise I will post all the time but I do know there have been many times I wished I had a way to share the happenings of that day. I'm going to try really hard to be transparent, but I know I will fail at times. Please bare with me as I start this. I have felt for a long time, that God has shown me things, BIG things, and I haven't been able to articulate them or I have just kept them to myself. I don't want to be that way. My hope, is that this blog will touch at least one person. If so, than my goal has been accomplished; however im praying bigger things will come from it. I want to give you fair warning, this blog is a long one. It may sound like a 2nd grader wrote it but again, I cant keep silent. I want to share when God shows me things or answers prayers.

I want to share with you why I decided to start this blog. Like I said previously, God has been doing amazing things. Recently, God has given me many opportunities to explain to my son Hunter (4.5yrs old) who HE is and the many different characteristics of God. The other night, in the car, we were jamming to this song by Shane & Shane called "Liberty". It has become one of our favorite songs to listen to in the car, because we can sing as loud as we want! During the song, I began asking hunter if he knew what the song meant, if he knew what the words he was so easily singing MEANT!!! I began to explain to him that, once you have accepted Jesus as your Saviour, you are now FREE, you are FORGIVEN, the sins you commit, Christ died for ALL of them. I wanted him to know, the world will try so hard to keep you living in shame and guilt (yes, I had to explain what those words meant) but that's not what God wants for you. He wants you to walk in victory, or as the song says, LIBERTY! I want to start him out, at a young age, explaining to him, what things mean. Explain to him who God is and what He has done for us. If you have never heard the song, here are the lyrics.......

 The Lord is the Spirit
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, now
There is liberty
And the Spirit lives inside of me
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, now
There is liberty, there is liberty,
There is liberty

For freedom You set me free
And yes, I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
And shackled my shame
You opened my eyes to see
I am free

When the spirit of the world
Comes to kill me and enslave me I will say
There is liberty
For the chains of sin that once entangled me
Have been broken, now I'm singing 'cause I'm free
There is liberty, there is liberty,
There is liberty

For freedom You set me free
And yes, I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
And shackled my shame
You opened my eyes to see
I am free

The storm rolled in
It was dark in the land
As the Son of Man
Was crucified
You don't take His life
He laid it down
He paid the price
And shed His blood

 It is done!
The veil is torn
He has won
And I am free
And I am free
And I am free
I am free

For freedom You set me free
And yes, I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
And shackled my shame
You opened my eyes to see

For freedom You set me free
And yes, I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
And shackled my shame
You opened my eyes to see
 I AM FREE

 

Now that you know the words to the song, im sure you can imagine the conversation we had in the car. It was at that moment, I decided I would think about blogging again. Then, we got home and all got ready for bed. I grabbed my Jesus Calling book and read the passage for the day and this is what it said, " Walk with ME in the FREEDOM of forgiveness. The path we follow together is sometimes steep and slippery. If you carry a burden of guilt on your back, you are more likely to stumble and fall. At your request, I will remove the heavy load from you and bury it at the foot of the cross. When I unburden you, you are UNDENIABLY FREE!!!!! Stand up straight and tall in My Presence so that no one can place more burdens on your back. Look into My Face and feel the warmth of my Love-Light shining upon you. It is this unconditional Love that FREES you from both fears and sins. Spend time basking in the Light of my Presence. As you come to know Me more and more intimately, you grow increasingly FREE"!!!!

 

As soon as I read that, I knew I was going to start blogging! I had just encountered Jesus himself, speaking to me. I did not want to keep silent. I was just so in awe of how God used this song to allow me to have a conversation with my son about what forgiveness is and how we dont have to live in shame, all bc Christ chose to die for us....we can walk in victory.;and then He reiterates it by giving me this devotional on the same day, just an hour after the conversation with Hunter. All I can say, is God is good and He does speak to his children, you just have to listen. So, Hunter, I pray one day you will truly know the power of the cross and what God accomplished for you and me that very day.

 

                           I AM FREE!!!!!

ps. I posted the song at the top. listen to it. my advice, turn up the volume!

Its been way too long

I would like to start out by saying, I have no clue how to use this, so im apologizing now, if my post or my backgrounds look a little funny. I am working on trying to start blogging again. once I have this thing figured out, I will let you know!!! Cant wait to get started. I have so much to say and to update!!

Allison

We started adding a tiny bit of rice cereal to his bottle at night. It seems to help him stay asleep longer and has helped him start gaining weight. MY poor baby is so little but my thought is that maybe God knew i couldnt handle a heavy baby. I can barely pick up Hunter as it is. I definitely have to build up my stomach and back muscles. I feel bad bc i have had some really bad back days and poor Hunter has to lay in his bed til i can manage to get him out :( His 4month check up is coming soon and i have so many questions to ask. I just hope they dont say something about how small he is. I dont think i can bare to hear another person say something. iIcant help it, i feed him all the time and he doesnt gain very fast. He is such a good baby though...he sleeps all the time and doesnt really ever cry except for when i first game him cereal. it upset his tummy for a week and he cried nonstop. All is well again and he is such a happy baby. He loves to smile and laugh when i talk to him. His favorite show is American Idol :) All those lights and colors really get his attention. He also loves to watch tv while he is eating....kinda like his dad!

THIS IS MY FAVORITE...HE'S HAD ENOUGH OF THE CHAIR!!

STARTING TO FADE :)

HE IS FINALLY HAPPY

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!!!

we had such a good day. we slept in, decided to go eat breakfast but Dans was done serving at 11 so we had to go to sonic..ugh, then we went to get the rest of my materials to make some presents, then went to church at 5. the sermon was awesome..check it out at austinstone.org, then we went to dinner with tac's brother and his family!! i thought the only card i got was from hunter but when i came upstairs that night to go to bed tac had put his card on the stairs. it was the first time he trully surprised me. i usually can guess when he is up to something, but not this time. he did such a great job for my first Mothers Day! i got flowers deliverd twice and chocolate covered strawberries on the final day. U need to check that out too...those strawberries were absolutely the best ive ever had..proflowers.com :)

this is us hanging out this past weekend...yes i was darker at the end of the weekend. i luv to tan, its my favorite thing to to! we had a great weekend hanging out around the house, finally doing some yard work. we also went to the batting cages, and made a putt putt golf course in our house.....the things u do when u have no money! i had alot of fun play golf. of course i lost the first time so we had to play again, but i lost the second time too :( my favorite hole was the one where we had to hit the ball down the stairs and into the kitchen. tac managed to get it in to shots. he hit the pillows at the bottom of the stairs and then the trash can...my husband has skillz:) i wish i had a picture of that too. im sure we will play again and ill post some pics of it.

Tac and I have joined a softball league with our bible study group! so far we have played three games and i have only been injured twice :) the first week i took off running to first base and ate it halfway there!!! it was the funniest thing i have seen in a long time. i was cryin i was laughing so hard :)..even the umpire was laughing. i do ok but im just not made to play softball. i try really hard so that i dont disappoint my team but they are real good are makin sure i dont feel horrible ;) tac and i have been goin to the batting cages so i can get some practice in. by the end of the league i want to have improved somewhat so they will ask us to play again! i have really enjoyed getting out of the house and getting involved in things around town. im sure i will post more pics of the team later on. we got to win a game first..hahahahahahaha

BATH TIME

Im not quite sure how to post pics on here without them messing up my layout so i apologize if words get cut off or taken to the next line :)

This was hunters third time at having a bath! i dont kow where my brain was when we bathed him the first or second time and why i didnt think to take pics....sorry hunter, ur mommy isnt good at documenting all ur life stages :) i know one day u will look back at this, just know that u got special treatment being the first born!!!...lol

March 8,2009 was baby dedication at our church! It was great to be up front with a bunch of other couples that just so happened to all be or use to be in our small group! I think it was baby season for all of us :) Hunters out fit was bought at the Gap...poor guy, his pants didnt even fit. they were size 0-3 months but still fell right off. we had to hold them up...oh well, im sure nobody noticed.

most of the family has gotten to hold Hunter by now!!! He has 17 cousins and 1 on the way...Congrats amanda!! he is growing bigger and bigger by the day :( i think it was about a week ago that he finally started sleeping longer. right now he sleeps about 6-7hrs at night!!! its amazing how sleep can make u feel soooo much better.

HE IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!

Hunter Warren Cozby arrived January 26,2009

He was born at 5:59pm weighing 8lbs 5oz and 19 1/4 in tall!!!

He is the most adorable little man ever and sweet as can be. I dont think i could be more in love. I find myself staring at him pretty much all day and night, and i cant stop kissing him. However, I do not enjoy the paranoia that comes with motherhood. I constantly worry about him at night and its hard for me to get any sleep. Tac and i are absolutely loving being parents and i love watching him talk to hunter and hold him, and feed him!!! Tac is such a good dad and i know he is just gonna get better :) Well im so glad to say that i finally was able to fix our camera and we now have pictures!!! Hopefully now i can find the time to update this more often...but right now its nap time!

These are a couple pics from the photo session we had with a friend. i would upload them all but there are way too many and i dont have the time. hope you enjoy all the new pics and hopefully the next time i get on here we will have pics of baby Hunter!!!!

here are some pics from my shower back home that my family gave me. it was a lot of fun to hang out with the people i dont get to see very often. it was so cute to have a shower close to christmas time. we got to inlcude alot of christmas stuff in the theme of the shower! i have some pics i took but my camera is still not lettin me download. that is on my list of things to do this week before the baby gets here.

here are just a few pics of the baby shower from Tac's family. We had such a good time and gots lots of stuff for baby Hunter! The next day we went and finished gettin all the stuff we needed and now we are just waiting for him to arrive. I am now 39wks and hopin he will come out soon.

These are just a couple of the pics we had taken. The others are still being edited, so when i get them back ill post more. Here i am 8 months!! I feel like the past month has flown by, maybe bc it has. We have had so much goin on that i never did take pics of my 7th month...sorry! As of today i have 7 wks left and i cant wait. I dont feel like i can get any bigger, but everyone tells me that I WILL :( Im not so sure that ill make it to the very end which is Feb 4th but we will see. I havent been feelin too good, and of course my back has started to really bother me. Hopefully i can make it to the end without drivin Tac completely crazy askin him to rub my back everyday. Well, i hope u enjoy the pictures and ill promise to put more up when i get them.

So it has been quite a while since i posted a new blog....im so sorry about that. We have been super busy and havent been home much. I did manage to get my house decorated for christmas but we didnt put the outside lights up this year. We decided that it costs to much and we wont be here enough for it to matter. Tac did promise to take me to look at lights this year since i dont get my own!! I went to the doctor today and everything is going good. He said the baby weighs around 3-4 lbs right now, and i feel every bit of it! I start going back every two weeks now which puts me back on the 23rd. I would post pictures of the past month but my adapter is still not working. I promise to have some really good pics up once we get this fixed. Hope everyone has a great Christmas!!!

Janna Banana got married this weekend!!!! She had such a beautiful wedding. I certainly enjoyed all the food :) Congrats Janna and Dylan :)

We went to visit Gigi this past weekend. I didnt realize how much she had changed in a month. We love her so much and hate to see her not feeling well. Please pray for her!!!