Pretty in Pink and Cute in Blue

My sister is visiting with her family

and I'm having a good time

with her and enjoying the sweet

memories we are making.

We took the girls out and snapped

some sweet pictures of them

sitting on a quilt with Easter eggs.

Look at that sweet smile...

And our lil men played with Woody

and Buzz over and over again.



Petitions to God for our Nation

March 6, 1799 John Adams our 2nd.

president and one who had a leading role

in persuading Congress to declare

independance, he issued a

proclamation establishing April 25th. as

"A day of solemn humiliation,

fasting and praying"

to repentance thanksgiving and the prayer

that the Lord would protect the

United States, that He would preserve

our country from the desolating

sword and spread peace and prosperity

among the nations of the earth.

Our church is having a prayer meeting on

Saturday, April 16th. at 5:30

A prayer to lift up our Nation to God.

PLEASE JOIN US

Bugs, Dandelions and "pop-ice" oh my

Enjoyed a pretty spring day outside,

family time is sweet. Making memories

that last a life time here is AWESOME!

Lil' man with his bug box...

Lil' girl with her net...

The boys have been asking for bug boxes

for some time now, and they finally

got one; and everything they can hunt

down and catch has been in the small box.

Blowing on a dandelion...

Eating a pop-ice, yummm...

Had fun finding and blowing on dandelions

and eating our home-made "pop-ice" as

my four year old likes to call them.

GOD IS GOOD



Our Baby Boy is Four...

Four years have already came

and gone since our baby boy came

into the world and a big boy, too!

6 weeks old

5 months old

20 months old

Happy Birthday lil' man!

He has been my solid as a rock

and tough all over lil' man.

Daddy is home, YAY!

My love made it back home to me

so we have been having alot of

family time together, sweet!

Here the kids are by my in-laws azaleas,

we are going to move the camper

to their back yard and stay there for awhile.

Spent some time at the park, got some CUTE

pictures of the kiddos by the bayou.

In a few more weeks the moving out will begin

so I may be off for awhile until we get

 moved out of the house.



"The Pain of Motherhood"

I read an article in a magazine this week

that I enjoyed and could relate to.

"I love my children so much that at times

it hurts. Mothering brings me so much

joy, yet it is the most frightening and

overwhelming task imaginable."

Oh these words are oh, so TRUE.

I find myself worrying over EVERYTHING!

When my kids are sick or hurting

I'm sick and hurting for them.

My oldest gets poison-ivy pretty

much every year, no one else gets it,

all because I got it when I was

pregnant for him, he gets it.

And this week it was around his

eye making him miserable...

Praying that all my teaching will

stick and they will grow up

loving/walking with the Lord.

My two younger boys found some

boxes while I was packing this

week and made helmets out of them

and had a play fight with sticks.

Makes me think of 

soldiers for the LORD...

And will they love me even after

all the mistakes I'll make

along the way of being a mom?

My lil' girl is always saying

"I help" and wants to do everything

I do, it's so sweet and loving

but, will she always want to help?

I just hope and pray God will give

me all that I need to mother them well.

Six Weeks Without My Love...

 Been 6 weeks now since my love walked out the door
to work away from home, which made me a "Single Mom".
  *The first week is always hard, adjusting to no daddy and
no help for me can get overwhelming at times. We had
an Ice Storm that week and my washer pipe froze...
  *Week two we see now that it's just the 5 of us and we
pull together and become a team, I guess really we just
get use to the idea daddy is not around...
  *Then when week 3 comes along I start slipping and it
gets harder doing it all, or it's trying to potty-train a lil'
21 month old girl! And I got sick so nothing got done...
  *Okay so I made it to a month now, and the boys are
doing terrible in school, it's a fight every day! Trying to
pack when the warmer out-doors is calling me, no help...
  *Then at 5 weeks I say "that is it" we stop everything
pack up the SUV and take that 4 hour trip to see daddy.

We had a good time; playing at the park, going shopping,
eating-out and just spending time as a "Family", we have
missed him these past six weeks. :~)

So thankful we went, but now its time to get back to work
going to be busy, BUSY for we will be signing papers and
closing on our house in about a week or so....it's time to
move out and start over making a home at a new place.