28 on the 28th!

So, today I am 28 on June 28th. That means it's my Special birthday. Since I was a kid and somebody told me that your special birthday was the day you turned the age of the day, I have anticipated my 28th. So, this morning I did some thinking before I started my day. What exactly have I done in the past 28 years? And why have they gone by so fast? I then began thinking of the top things that I could recall. Like for instance, Asking Jesus in my heart. It was June 1995, I was fixing to be 8. It was at VBS at Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Pride, LA. Bro. Mitch Harris was the pastor. Also that summer my baby brother was born. He just turned 20 on the 25th! Or, the summer I worked for Judson Baptist Retreat Center in Jackson, LA for Debi & Eugene Morris. I was a Girls Camp Counselor for 4 weeks. Awesome experience. This is when I knew God was calling me some way into the Ministry. Another memorable moment: Going 41-1 with the Silliman Lady Wildcat Basketball team my Senior Year of High School...WONDERFUL Memories. I was not a starter but I was part of the Team. I even have a Championship Ring (I'll show it to you if you ask!) Starting College at Northwestern knowing that I was going to be an RN for the rest of my life...then I met Bubba Mills...the love of my life. Finally (ok...just to let you know I am crying my eyes out right now) feeling like I knew what God wanted for me. Knowing that HE had called me many years ago to be a Minister's wife. June 14, 2003 walking down the aisle at Lanier Baptist Church seeing Jack George Mills III waiting for me. Scared to death I was but knowing this is what I wanted more than anything! I'll never forget hugging my dad good bye that day...or thinking that there was balloons on my car only to find out that they were condoms and that my now brother in law Jon Parker had blown them up (GROSS! and how innocent was I to think they were balloons!) August 3, 2005 my world changed forever again...Makayla Grace Mills all 8 lbs. 8 oz 21 inches came into this world. I have never felt so much love for a person that I had just met! And then to loose a person I had grown to love, respect, and cherish so much on April 3, 2006...Jack G. Mills, JR (Bubba's dad). Nobody will ever replace that man in my life. He was the one I would call when I didn't think Bubba should get his way when we were having an argument! hahaha! And to let you know, he always looked at both sides equally! August 27th, 2007 moving to Clara Springs Baptist Camp. Now knowing EXACTLY why God made me....and what HE created me for. Finally understanding my place in Bubba's ministry. And loving every minute of it! And then again...January 27th, 2008 Jenna LaFleur Mills (8 lbs 11 oz, 20.5 inches) came into our life. I was so scared I wouldn't love her as much as I did Makayla...but I fell hard with that first cry (that sounded like a baby pig). Blessed is what I feel right now recalling just a part of my life. Blessed that I have the most awesome parents, siblings, and grandparents that started this legacy! Blessed that I married into such a wonderful family. Blessed to have the friends God has chosen for me! Blessed is what I've been for the past 28 years...what is God going to have for me for the next 28 years? I just hope I can cherish it all. I'm thinking in just a few weeks, my heart will fall in love again with yet another precious little girl! So, a very special day today...I'm 28 on the 28th. I just pray that God feels that way about me today...that I am special...fearfully & wonderfully made!