Atlanta Trip

I have so many pictures that I would love to put on her in a slideshow form, but they would probably be only entertaining for me... so I have spared whoever is reading this and put just a few together on a collage to share. We went to an Atlanta Hawks game, Georgia Aquarium, World of Coke and then lastly, but not leastly, American Girl. I will put up highlights from the trip with the pictures soon :)

Payton's Adenoidectomy

Well Payton had her surgery yesterday. After waiting for 3 hours for them to take her back into the surgery, things finally went quickly and with no complications. Dr. G said that her adenoids were a size 8 on a scale from 8 to 10. They were huge and needed to come out ... we are hoping this is going to be a major change for her with her coughing and breathing and infections. Thanks for the prayers.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

So much to catch up on...

There are so many things that I want to write and so many pictures I want to post, just for my sake of course, but I honestly don't even know where to begin. This year has been a whirlwind already. i can't believe it is the end of march already. that is just amazing to me.

i mean seriously, i don't even have pictures of our snow day, or emi's gymnastics meet, or birthday parties or anything!!! i can't keep up. it is going to have to be this or facebook..... well facebook is definitely something that i am "addicted" to and that my husband calls "the devil". because of my phone, i am always checking on what everyone else is doing and i truly become almost obsessed with checking on everyone all the time. i think i need to do something about that... blogging is healthy for me and helps me put stuff down so i won't forget it. i want to take some time and update everything. and i want to take some time to catch up on my scrapbooking. any one game for getting together to do this???? it of course would be more fun if we could have a girls time to scrapbook and talk and drink some wine, i mean grape juice of course ;)

blogging it is... hopefully by this weekend i can do this.

for now, pray for payton. she is having her adenoids taken out in the morning. not a big deal i know ,but still it is one of my babies and i love to know i have people praying.

Payton's First Soccer Game

She had so much fun. Didn't quite grasp the concept, but she ran and smiled and I think she will enjoy it.

Where does time go???

I cannot believe that it has honestly been this long since I have even written ANYTHING on this blog. So much has happened and so many pictures have been taken, and I haven't put a single one up on here :( So when I actually sat down to post something, I just kept asking myself where all the time went. These were just a few of things that I could come up with...

dreaming of sleep but not actually getting any
chasing kids around the house
gymnastics
soccer
Bible Study
cleaning the house (well moving piles from one place to the next)
laundry
laundry
laundry
looking at my sewing machine and the fabric i have to sew... but not actually getting to :(
facebook (i know i know)
my iphone (has spoiled me!!!)

so much more, but i want to really pull myself together and catch up on this blogging thing. i love doing it and i love looking back at things that happened and this is a great way to do so. so hopefully, with all the wishful and hopeful thinking i can have, i will be back on board with my blogging here in the next few days. :)

Reciting Scripture

I have been wanting to video the kids reciting Luke 2 for some time now. I am just now getting around to it. So here is each of the girls quoting their scripture. We are picking different passages each month for them to learn and so they will have it in their hearts for later in life. Will post videos each time we complete one. So here goes...
(and sorry Emi looks so funny before you press play....)

Emi


Payton


Graci

This Makes Me Happy

I don't know about you, but I have this one thing, mine happens to be this coffee cup, that just makes me smile every morning when I use it.

If / when something happens to this cup, I will be crushed.

This cup represents and symbolizes so many things for me.

* Strength
* Dependability
* Beauty
* A new morning
* A fresh start
* Happiness
* Joy
* A loving home
* Sacrifices
* Family Devotions at the breakfast table
* Love
* Friendship
* A special bond

You see, this cup was one that my mom used when I was younger. It is one that probably didn't cost much and probably didn't mean a thing to her. But because it was hers, it means so much to me. I am not and have never been a morning person... this cup, as small of a thing as it is, helps me to remember how joyful my mom was, and still is in the mornings. It helps me to remember all the sleep my mom sacrificed for me and my brothers. It helps me to remember the family devotions we did at the breakfast table at 6:45 before school. It helps me to remember all the small things and big things my mom did for me. I love my mom and I thank the good Lord above for her everyday. I appreciate her more and more the older I get the older my children get.

So mom, thanks for giving me this cup (it's been in the cabinet for years since I didn't drink coffee until this last year) even though you had NO idea it's significance. I use this cup almost every morning and the girls are seeing it now. I hope and pray that I can be half as great of a mom as you are!!!!!!