Church~

I really enjoy going to Church on Sundays. I love going to my bible study. But I wonder if I am worshiping the "CHURCH & the classes I take" more then the LORD. I heard Joyce Meyers say this week on her show that we need to stop just going to church and really go to worship the Lord and include him in your everyday life! This really got me to thinking. I do listen to christian music and I do try to be a good christian but I hardly ever read my bible unless I am doing homework for my classes. I never study it on my own. I know that I love the LORD but I feel like there is more that I could be doing to really get to know him. (That was my new years resolutions) I feel like there is more out there then what I have with him!~
God Bless

FAT~

I know it has been a few days since I have blogged and I know that you r over Michael's birthday. But I really don't know what to blog about~
Last night was "date night" and Mike and I got to go out by r selves and we took the kids to Allders gate so that they could play with there friends. Savanah said she didn't really want to go but I said she had to so that mike and I could be alone and the was the end of it~ She ended up having a great time and didn't want to leave when we left.
The only thing I can think about is my weight!~ Every time I have to go to Alabama that is all that I think about until I go! And when i am there it consumes me. You see my sisters and brother step-mom and dad r all very thin and we r all FAT! I know the LORD loves me this was so I too should Love me but it is so hard. I was reading a magazine this week that said that and it is so true it is a AWFUL cycle.....Feel bad-eat- feel bad for eating-eat-and around and around we go! This is so true. I just wish I could STOP. I am a addict but to food and how do u just stop eating?
I was going to try to lose weight for the wedding but then I rethought all that and decided against that, because that would mean I would have to have will power & we all know that I have NONE!
I will try to blog more~ this week.
Talk to u soon
God Bless

Birthdays~

Today is Mike's birthday...and no matter what I do or give him he NEVER seems to REALLY like it or get excited about it. This in turn makes me upset as I feel like I can not please him. I got him sears gift cards and cup cakes from Starbucks. BUT I know how he will act- he will say thanks and that he liked it but he will not act as such! I am sure that this has something to do with the different times we were raised in but i have told him this hurts my feeling and I would think that he would change to make me happy!~ But every holiday it is the same thing-
Just had to let that out. Thanks for listening!
~N~

WEDDINGS

I have GREAT NEWS.....my brother Rock is getting married!!!!!! Ok let me back up just a minute and tell u who he is marring.... Brittany Lamburt is her name I hope I spelled her last name right.... She is so nice and love I could not ask for a better sister-in-law....And she love my kids which is a plus in my book tooooo.
They r getting married next month March 24th. So we will be heading down there in the next month for the wedding! O my gosh as I am writing this I am so happy I could BURST! ~
It is funny I was just getting read to "BLOG" about Sarah and how she called and told me about this p/t job and I think it will fit in with my life so much better then a full time job and how I hoped and prayed I would get it and then the phone rang and it was dad and he said ...I have some one that want to talk to you..... Ok let me tell u my heart stopped I thought who could it be.....Then Rock got on the phone and I said NO WAY I knew!!!!! I knew he was going to spend his life with the beautiful women! I could not say enough good things about BOTH of them..... She (BRIT) and I guess my sister britany will be graduating next week.....From beauty school and then let me just add I am VERY Happy for my sister brit toooo..... So there will be 2 BRIT SANDRETTO's o my that is going to get a little crazy~ But a good crazy-
Well my show is on and I wait all week just for it so I am off!
GOOD NIGHT! GOD BLESS!!!
~N~

And so what...

I realize that it has been a while since I have "BLOGGED". I really didn't know what to write for a while and then when I thought of something I really just didn't want to talk about it~
I really feel like Satin is attaching me why I am not really sure yet but I am trying to find out. it is partly because the sun has not been out for days and it is VERY cold here so when I don't have to be out I don't get out.~ ~
Well, 2 weeks ago Mike and I decided that I would quit my job I work at fitness world at the front desk and fill in in the nursery when needed. We had talked about me getting a job and working full time as a teachers assistant helping with children with learning disabilities. Which I believe that that is what the Lord is calling me to do. I still feel that that is what the Lord is wanting me to do but, I don't feel that right now is when he wants me to start. I feel as if he wants me to get to know HIM better!
I am really trying to get to know him and to change the ways I do things to the way he would do thing.
So, I talked to Andrea (she makes the schedule at work in the nursery) and then to Alicia (my boss) and I will be staying on at fitness world. I don't know for sure if this is what HE wants me to do or not but I needed a job and the situation came about that I could work one day and one night in the nursery and be the on call person so I took it. I really don't think this is where I will be for too long but until we decide if we r moving.....Which I think we r really leaning towards now~
The sermon in church was about moving past your fears to get to what GOD wants u to do. I really think that this is what and where he wants me to be and do~
I guess I will find out in the next couple of months~~~~
God Bless
~N~

Life...

Mike has been working at The University of Evansville for about 6 months now. He works on the grounds crew. He worked at a local tire company mounting tires for about a year and then decided that was enought of standing in one spot doing the same thing day in and day out, So he saw that UE was hirering for the grounds crew and applied and got hired on the spot. Before he worked at the tire place he worked at UE for a year. SO, it really was not hard for him to get on and he new most of the people he would be working with. Before he worked at UE he Owned and ran One of the Shell gas stations in town. It was a family owned business that he was buying with his brother from his dad. His dad was to help him run and take over the station and then retire when he felt that he had tough his boys all that he know. BUT, as u know things don't always work out the way we plan....His dad found out in Sept. I think it was of 2000 that he had cancer and would be dieing soon! Needless to say this was very hard on all the the family since I had just come into the family at this time I really didn't know Don Sr that well but what I did know of him was that he was a very kind and loving man. They thought that the could give him medican and he might get better but he didn't he passed away a little over a month later. This was VERY hard on MIKE and his mom. Of course she did not want to lose her husband. Now Mike was faced with running the business basically on his own his brother had another business to run that Don Sr had started for him. Mike is always trying to please and wanted to make everyone happy so he would try to do what his mom said what his brother said and what I said! ~~ This took a big tole on him and he had a nervous break down from all the pressure. I tried to support him and help him though this but, we ended up separating he moved home and I was left alone while he "figured things out". after 3 months we decided to give it another try and work on are relationship. It was not easy by any means we had both been hurt by what was said...But we sold the house we were in and STARTED OVER... And we have been happy ever since...yes, we have had a few bumps in the relationship but he has not moved out. Which is good for us.
That is why he has gone through so many job...He just can't figure out what it is he wants to do....He likes his job now at UE but, it is not the best paying job there is...I just pray that he can figure out what it is that the LORD put him on earth to do...
God Bless
~N~

My family of 5...

So, I guess I should have started out by telling you a little about my family. But I guess better late than never.
I will start with the youngest of the Cox's clan Sloan he is 3 but will be 4 very soon he is very BUSY!!! He loves to play with cars and being outside. He is in pre-school 3 days a week. (So I can get something done) He is so full of life I wish I had 1/4 of this energy.
The middle child is Seth he is 6 and is in Kindergarten. He is my book worm. He loves to read and watch TV. He is very sweet and loving. He played basketball this year for the first time and made his FIRST basket at his last game on Monday night. He says he loves it and wants to play again next year! I am so glad that we found the sport for him!
On to my first born Savanah She is 10 and is a DRAMA QUEEN. I mean that in the BEST way. She is so dramatic about every thing. She is in 4th grade and has the best teacher! She too played basketball and LOVED it. I am glad we found a sport she wants to stick with. She has played everything once I think! She is very good at all of them but says she likes bball the best. She is also in choir at church and school she is going to try to get a solo part in the church choir. She to likes to read and is Very Loving but you know when she is home unlike Seth.
ok i guess it is on to me....My name is Nikki and I was an only child up until about 8 years ago....Now I have 3 sisters Charity,Britany and Olivia. I also have one brother Rock. I know that it sounds crazy that in 8 year i got all these sisters and brothers but It was not as odd as it sounds my oldest sister is 25. When I was growing up me and my dad didn't talk. We talked up until the time I was about 8 and then all the sudden he stopped after getting remarried....I know now that the women he married (Pam) was just very young and scared and didn't really know what to do with a 8 year old girl...SO from the time I was 8 until 27 I think I didn't talk to my Birmingham family. Now though we talk and we r even thinking about moving down there. I know u r thinking I am nuts I don't even really know my dad (Rick) or step-mom or brother and sisters but that is part of the benefit of moving down there to get to know them better.
I am the mother of 3 very different and unique child. I am trying to raise them in a loving GODly environment. Although sometimes that is hard..
Last but not least is my husband of almost 6 years. Michael, he is a hard working man that loves his children even savy who is not his. He Coached both of the basketball teams for the kids this year and has now vowed to " NEVER DO THAT AGAIN" he said one is enough. Michael just lost his mom in August and boy has he changed for the better he used to never to talk to anyone even me and now sometimes u can not get him to be quite! Which is a good thing... I think he realizes that we r all he has so he better be nice to us....Just kidding I really thing no I NO that he loves us all. He would do anything for us. He is just a little slow at times!
Ok that is all of us.....I hope u enjoyed meeting us I will type more soon~
GOD BLESS
~N~