Our Annual Family Trip to Orlando

Hello everyone! We hope that you are having an amazing summer. Last month we had the opportunity to travel to Orlando, FL to celebrate Cree Victoria's 2nd birthday! Since I am pregnant with baby number 2, I just wasn't up to hosting a birthday party with a slew of children. So we decided as a family that we will do yearly vacations to celebrate the kids birthdays instead of having a party. Well, at least until they are old enough to say we want a party. So we took our parents, our daughter Brelyn, my best friend and Cree's Godmother Keri, her husband, and 7 year old son with us. We found a super deal on Spirit.com for $72 round trip! Now I know what you are thinking, Spirit Airlines is one of those budget airlines that charges you for everything. We've flown Spirit before so we knew what to expect. I told my Bestie Keri who never flew Spirit that when she gets on the plane "to sit down and don't ask for nothin" LOL!! I was joking but serious at the same time because they charge for drinks and snacks and there is no wifi. The flight from Atlanta to Orlando is a very short flight anyway so we already had breakfast at the airport. We made sure that we packed light and right so that our baggage fees would be at a minimum.

We stayed at the

Contentment

As far back as I can remember, I've always had a love for nice things. I don't know if it was the stories my father told us about his hot rod 55 Chevy he had in high school, dreaming about my uncle who lived in LA, or maybe the people my parents worked for that had big beautiful homes that we often visited. My parents worked hard to make sure my brother and I had nice things and a loving home. If there was something that my father wanted us to have that was really expensive, he would figure out a way to get it for a cheap price. My brother and I had nice motorcycles, cars, clothes and many other things. What people didn’t realize was there was a story behind the glory. Some of the fancy cars we had, we bought with a bad motor and my father would spend endless amounts of time showing us how to repair it. There were countless other times where our parents found a way to bless us with nice things along with spending time with us.

Our Love Story

We finally got a chance to sit down and record our love story for our YouTube Channel. You can find our channel - Shawn and Jennifer Spears on YouTube.com. Make sure you give us a thumbs up and subscribe. 

Wait on the Lord

As a child, I was always persistent. I was going to make something work whether it was the right thing for me to do or the wrong thing. My mother and father called me "hard headed." As I was observing my baby girl Cree the other day, I told my wife "this isn't good." She replied, "what isn't good?" I said Cree is hard headed and wants to things the way she wants to even if it hurts her, just like me. My wife replied, well lets pray that the Lord uses that persistence for his glory. My wife has a special gift of optimism....she is able to look at any situation and find the positive. I began to ponder and meditate on this because that bothered me to watch Cree continuously do things that would endanger or hurt her after being told no. My oldest daughter Tiara is a lot like me too. We both are determined to use our own strength to make something work because we don't want to be patient enough to wait on anybody including God.