Follow along on our journey and watch baby grow. :)
My name is Joy Gabbert. I'm married to the most wonderful man in the world! Theater is my passion and coffee's my drink. I like to turn old things into new masterpieces. My God is the one true God! I aspire to encourage other believers to be a light to the world. I hope to accomplish a few things through blogging: 1. Enhance my writing skills 2. Give and get great housekeeping ideas 3. To meet my readers where they are. It's real life, people! Lets live it together!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Update
Hey everyone! I have been so busy these past few months.
It is nearing the holiday season so Starbucks has been very busy. On top of that I am the stage manager for OBU's fall show "The Diary of Anne Frank". And to top it all off my husband and I found out about two weeks ago that we are going to have a baby. :) We are so so so excited!!!!
Our first appointment is Monday the 15th. I think right now I'm about seven weeks. Prayers are welcome. This is our first pregnancy so we are a little lost on what to expect. We have books and our family to help but the Lord is the best guide.
That's all I can post right now. As soon as my life calms down a bit I hope to get better at this thing.
It is nearing the holiday season so Starbucks has been very busy. On top of that I am the stage manager for OBU's fall show "The Diary of Anne Frank". And to top it all off my husband and I found out about two weeks ago that we are going to have a baby. :) We are so so so excited!!!!
Our first appointment is Monday the 15th. I think right now I'm about seven weeks. Prayers are welcome. This is our first pregnancy so we are a little lost on what to expect. We have books and our family to help but the Lord is the best guide.
That's all I can post right now. As soon as my life calms down a bit I hope to get better at this thing.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Call to PRAYER
Today I was getting caught up on my facebook stalking when I saw that one of my friends posted this on her wall. I read it and was brought to tears. Our country and our world needs lots of prayer.
Twenty weeks pregnant with twins, but last week she had an abortion
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:23 EST
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August 13, 2012 (KellyClinger.com) - Wednesday is late term abortion day at Orlando Women’s Center (the clinic where I had my abortions 12 years ago). When I first started visiting the sidewalks of abortion clinics to pray and minister, I had no idea that late term abortions were even legal. I remember hearing about the Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 2007 and assumed (like most) that this stopped abortions late in a woman’s pregnancy.
Shock can’t even begin to describe my feeling when I first counseled on late term day. “These girls are so pregnant,” I kept thinking to myself. Of course that’s silly since there’s no such thing as being a “little pregnant”, but I couldn’t get over the size of their beautiful bellies so full of life. These women have felt their babies kick. Many of them even know the sex of the child and this is sometimes the reason for the abortion. These girls have carried these babies for six months. They are more than halfway done!
I just cried and cried. I couldn’t even speak at first. Not only is the size of their bellies overwhelming but the hardness of their hearts is just as shocking. I began to think about family members, friends, and co-workers of these girls who know they are pregnant. Is our society so lacking of accountability that they will return to their lives and no one will think this is a problem?

Click ‘like’ if you want to END ABORTION!
This past Wednesday my friend John posted a picture of a girl who arrived at OWC to abort her twin baby girls. She already had daughters and didn’t want anymore. She was about 20 weeks along, but because she was pregnant with twins, she had a big belly. Within a few hours, the picture went viral. I began to get phone calls and emails from friends who had no idea abortions like these happen. Many offered financial help and many offered to adopt her babies. Thousands of people all of over the world were praying that this girl would change her mind…and thousands were saying the picture was a hoax or that what she was doing was illegal.
I found myself repeating over and over again, “Abortion is legal in America up to the day you give birth.” In fact, in our nation’s capital, there are two doctors who “specialize” in abortions this late in pregnancy. One of those doctors has been working with a suspended license for several years. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban only stopped the use of that procedure late in a woman’s pregnancy. Now, as long as the baby is dismembered before removing him or her from the womb, it’s perfectly legal. Look up the laws in your state. Keep in mind that in any state that has exceptions for the health of the mother, this can mean that if a woman has bad heartburn that’s a threat to her health. A late term abortion starts around $2,000 and can go up to about $15,000 depending on how far along a woman is in her pregnancy.
I’ve been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. They have piles and piles of hair shaved off of Jews in the concentration camps. They have millions of pairs of shoes belonging to children who were killed simply because they were Jewish. The pictures of thousands of dead bodies piled on top of each other are shocking and appalling. At one point I decided I couldn’t look anymore. I was disgusted that this could happen without a revolution rising to overthrow a government that would accept murder as status quo.
I know it’s controversial to say this, but abortion truly is the holocaust of my generation. What if we had the bodies of 50,000,000 babies piled on top of each other in a museum somewhere? What if we took all of the clothes they will never wear and toys they will never play with and you had to pay to see them? If each of us had to watch a late term abortion, surely there would be a revolution, right?
After the Holocaust ended, German civilians were taken to Buchenwald concentration camp to see the atrocities that happened there. Over and over they were heard saying, “We didn’t know.” Now, because of the internet and social media, we have no excuse for ignorance. The hands of America are covered with blood…perhaps her eyes and ears are covered as well.
The girl I mentioned earlier ended up aborting the twin girls in her womb even though we had every kind of help she would ever need ready for her. She admitted that she didn’t want girls and that she had no compassion for the babies she was carrying. Through a two day process, she actually had to go into labor and deliver her sweet babies into a toilet. Abortions like these happen all over the country every day. I hope that this girl’s picture made many so outraged that they are provoked to do something. When I spend hours on the Planned Parenthood sidewalk alone, I want to cry out “WHERE IS THE CHURCH?”
“America will not reject abortion until America SEES abortion.” - Father Frank Pavone
Reprinted with permission from KellyClinger.com
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Saturday, August 11, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Planning a Wedding?
Hey guys! So today I would like to share some back yard wedding ideas. My wedding turned out to be so beautiful and I will never forget how much fun we had seeing everything come together. If you're trying to pul off a backyard wedding here are a few helpful hints:
1. Try to make sure the yard you're working with belongs to a close family member (preferably your own or your parents). This will insure that you can do almost everything that you want without running into the issue of the owner not allowing you to have say sparklers, or birdseed, or to drill a little hole in a tree to hang decorations. Try to cut out as much stress and arguments as possible.
2. Be flexible. Even though the wedding is to celebrate the union of the bride and groom, it is also a union of two families, so you will be getting a ton of opinions and people wanting to help. At some points I did have to stand up for some things that I wanted even though everyone else thought it looked weird, wasn't the color they wanted to wear, etc.
3. Delegate, delegate, DELEGATE!!!! This was the best thing I did for myself and my family. I planned almost my entire wedding with Pinterest so I could just send a picture of something or a link for a how-to to my family and friends that were helping and it got done. I did very little when it came to getting things done for the wedding, mostly because I was away finishing my undergrad. But when I got home all that was left were a few little details that were the fun part. Like making signs, programs, bunting, and sampling the menu. YUM!
4. Try to save your parents, grandparents, or yourself as much money as you can. You can cut back expenses in many areas. Try to use as many friends and family members as possible. I wanted my wedding to make everyone feel like they had a hand in it. I think it made them all feel important and that they weren't just there to watch but also to be involved. I asked all my aunts and a few friends to bring a different dish for a bbq. They were so excited and more than willing to help. I used a close friend as my wedding planner, another for grilling, and my husbands Uncle performed the ceremony. We also bought most things from the dolor store or hand made it from scraps. My entire yard was decorated by old antique pieces we borrowed for my cousin. And we also had a friend who is a photographer take our photos. You will have to compensate some or all of the people that help but you will most likely be able to work out a great deal! Just remember your resources.
Here are a few of my wedding plans:
Food- Barbeque Chicken, Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, BBQ Pulled Pork, Garden Salad, Potato Salad, Macaroni Salad, Soda, Lemonade, Iced Tea, Coffee, and Water.

My sister and another one of my friends made our wedding cake. It was a carrot cake. Two days before the wedding my sister made all the layers. they day of the wedding they staked the layers and only put the frosting on the joining areas on the outside of the cake. We then provided a bowl with extra frosting for those who wanted more. I however, don't like frosting very much so just the little bit on the edge was perfect! We topped it with a Willow Tree cake topper. It was beautiful. :)

We also had a S'mores Bar available. My Dad made me a long skinny box that I filled with coffee beans from working at Starbucks, lined about six bunsen burners, and provided roasting sticks. It was a huge hit and it's cheep.



We bought all our flowers from Safeway and Costco. We then arranged them ourselves and tied then with some string and ribbon. Mine had lace wrapped around as well.
Our guest book was a hand made quilt with pieces for our guests to sign with keys to a happy marriage.
We made our own photo booth with hats and mustaches for props. We also had Cornhole, Ladders, and Checkers.



Here are a few of our pictures taken after the ceremony
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Oklahoma Fires
There are fires all in the surrounding area of where my husband and I live. One of our friends and her family had to pack up and be ready to evacuate. A few of their neighbors houses and barns were taken by flames but they were spared. However, there are more that 56ish buildings that were taken. A few fires have been contained (the ones just down the road from us), but three others in the surrounding areas are still being fought. The county just next to us is in an evacuation alert. Please pray for the families that have been hit and also those who still don't know if they have a home to go back to.
Earlier today my husband and I were driving around trying to provide water for the firefighters and victims. We ended up getting stuck in traffic and helping a few people who's cars overheated. We are trying to do anything we can. If you have any extra clothing, toys, furniture, appliances, etc. You can help.
http://www.news9.com/story/19195456/how-to-help-oklahoma-wildfire-victims-firefighters
If you would like to help out the wildfire victims, here's a list of locations you can stop by to drop off donations:
• 7321 NE 23rd Street, OKC.
• 11500 N. Hudson, OKC.
• 7105 S. Anderson, OKC.
• 8029 S.E. 29th Street (Sheriff's Substation), MWC.
Oklahoma County Commissioners Brian Maughan and Willa Johnson will be accepting donations for fire victims for the next week at the following located in Oklahoma City:
• 11500 North Hudson.
• 7105 South Anderson.
• 7321 N.E. 23rd.
• The Sheriff's substation at S.E. 29th and Midwest Boulevard.
Donations for victims in the Cleveland County grass fire can be dropped off at the Church of Christ in Noble located at 101 N Main St. in Noble.
My Starbucks is also collecting donations. We are located on I-40 and Kickapoo, Shawnee.
My Starbucks is also collecting donations. We are located on I-40 and Kickapoo, Shawnee.
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