Christmas Family Pictures

Certified Personal Trainer

I have struggled with my weight for YEARS!!! Weigh Watchers...1200 Calorie diets...Metabomax diet...etc...After I had Alexa I didn't want to count or obess anymore. In January of 2008 the Lord told me in a blessing I would soon lose my weight. My prayers were that I would not just lose the weight but that I would keep it off. What would the point be if I just had to keep starting over. The Lord has taken me down an incredible path of learning and growth. I did lose weight last year before I got pregnant. The Lord blessed me during my pregnancy, helping me to be able to work out every day and to watch what I ate so that I only gained 20lbs for the whole pregnancy. I joined a gym last year while Ray was away, so that I could have at least that hour to work out in peace :) After I had Arwyn I began praying about whether or not I should pay for a personal trainer at some point. I felt good about it and planned on it around Christmas time. As that time approached it still felt good but something was different. I kept feeling like wait...wait...On the night of our ward Christmas party I couldn't go. I didn't have anything that I felt like I looked nice in. So I stayed home. I cried for almost an hour straight. I prayed that whole hour and I read my scriptures. I wanted to see my life through His eyes. What was I missing? I had been trying to work out and eat right but I wasn't really losing the weight fast enough for me. What was I missing? Then it hit me...I needed to become a personal trainer. So I went on line and researched it, prayed some more and had Ray give me a blessing. The Lord said this was the path he would have me pursue. So here I am taking courses to become certified in training and fitness nutrition. It is in this certification process that I am learning what more I could do to facilitate a healthier body for me. I am learning how the body metabolizes food, how to work out more effectively and how to eat better. And with this I can turn around and help other women. I was hoping to be done by this summer. We will see. Even if it takes me a year to ceritify and lose the rest of my weight, I am learning true life long lessons that will help me keep my weight off, stay healthy and help others on their own journeys.

Christmas/New Years Letter

http://www.facebook.com/#/notes/andrae-davis-griffin/our-christmasnew-years-letter/270841356211

maybe this will work :)

LOTS of pictures

Still here

Hi! It's me. I am still here. These past few months have been incredible, hard, wonderful, spiritual, WEIRD...so much. At some point I am hoping to be able to fully disclose all that has been transpiring. Do you still read my blog? I am wanting to be better at it this year. Christmas was wonderful. My Dad came. It is so interesting the road in the which the Lord has taken me down. 10 years ago I would have told you I would never see my father again, nor did I want to. But the Lord taught me forgiveness and understanding. I love my Dad. I appreciate the work my Dad has done to better himself and his life. For a long time I wanted my Dad to tell me he was sorry for what he did, and then I learned that that was between him and the Lord. I forgave him and let go of it, and the Lord healed me from the affects. My Dad told me he was sorry this Christmas. And he was. He didn't mean to hurt me or my family. I know that. He like so many others were victims of traditions, trapped in an environment that only encouraged the darkness and abuse. It didn't help that he is bi-polar and they had him on a high dose of Zoloft...125mg's I believe. If you know anything about meds you know that that combined with a bi-polar makes for a very explosive and not fun life. He has changed though. He went to therapy. He has a read books. He has faced hard truthes about who he was and he over came it. While he was here we had fun. He often expressed how much fun he was having. How different it was in my family than what I grew up in or even how he grew up. You see the dysfunction has gone back for generations on both sides. He said he could see how much I loved my kids, and how much Ray and I loved each other. No one fought. No one pouted or slammed doors. No dysfunction. It was great.

It all has ended in my line. No more abuse. No more of the lies, and manipulation and just truly pyscho stuff. My children, grandchildren, great grand children, etc are freed. I still have so much to overcome. Little things really in comparison to how far I have come.

I can not close this post though with out letting you know who was the instrument in my "success". The Lord led me. He gave me great friends who love me even though I am so very ...overly passionate and intense. Three angelic doctors...these doctors allowed me to discuss my personal beliefs about healings and the Lord...though some believed differently their objective approach allowed me the opportunity to fully disclose all my emotions. I wish I could list all the miracles in my life that have brought me to where I am that ultimately brought me to my healings. The Lord loves us. He is on our side. He is our biggest fan. It is not just a fun thing to say. It is real. Please if it has been awhile since you have really prayed, go right now and just let it out. Please allow him the opportunity to be your best friend. You won't find a better one :)


please click here for my story if you don't already know it
http://andraegriffin.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-healing-story.html

the accident

Today I was in a car accident...not just any accident...this accident...I was the second car he hit...it was a crazy long day...more pictures and more of the story to follow...we are all okay though...a bit sore but alive which is the most important part :)

Facebook

I have some more pictures posted on my facebook account...and I am too lazy to spend time trying to download them on here...so if you want lets be friends on facebook...look me up 'Andrae Davis Griffin'...hope to 'see' you there...

The pictures are from this summer...I will post life as is pictures on here from now on :)

And We're Back

Wow! Where oh where do I begin? It has definitely been awhile. Ray went to basic and AIT. He left April 6th and came back August19th. It was the most incredible experience for the both of us. We learned so much and both of our testimonies have been increased. I delivered Arwyn while he was away on July 10th. Let me tell you about crazy. I drove myself to the hospital. Not something you ever imagine doing. But the Lord was with me through it all. He was with me the whole time Ray was gone in a way that I have no words to describe. I know more firmly that my Savior loves me and that he is so very real.

I am still homeschooling. Ray is still looking for a job. But we have been blessed and all of our needs have been and continue to be met. I know the Lord knows that we don't have a job and I know that when it is time and his will, we will have a job. So until then we keep on! I hope you are all doing well and I look forward to keeping in touch!!

I am weird

Have you ever said something and then a bit later reflected and thought "what in the world was I thinking?". I do that more than I would ever want anyone to know. Sometimes I am trying to hard to be funny, other times I am trying to impress I guess. I made a comment the other day and realized that because I didn't have time to fully explain or make sure they understood I have been left with this overwhelming feeling of completey STUPIDITY. I am hoping time will heal this awful wound, but I fear just when it is healed my foot will jump in my mouth again.