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My niece's Strawberry Shortcake birthday cake.

My Grandparents 63rd Anniversary cake.

My kiddos and me...

Mother's day was great! Here are a couple pics of my children and me. I am very blessed!!

Spring break...

I am a little late in getting this post out, but last week was Kendra's spring break. We didn't go anywhere so we wanted to do something a little special with the kids. We decided on the Fair Oaks Dairy Farm. This is a neat place and the kids always love the cows. Here are just a couple of pictures from there.

Kids in the play area....in the cheese.

Brand new baby calf we were able to see be born.

Benjamin's favorite spot, I think. He really enjoyed this play area.

Sweet are God's Promises

This morning in the wee hours I couldn't sleep so I decided to take advantage of my "quiet, wake time." I came downstairs and while I was reading my Bible, God gave me this promise. It was a real encouragement to me so I thought I would share it with you:

Isaiah 43:1-3 "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned. Nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord you God, the Holy One of Israel, Your Saviour; Verse 4 says also "Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you;"

My little boy is growing up.....

Benjamin now 21 months is making so many changes and is talking a lot. He got on his sister's scooter Sunday morning and started riding it...ever so careful and slowly...but actually riding it. It was so cute. I could hardly believe it...already.

Vanilla....

Last night our associate pastor preached on Andrew who was an "ordinary" man who brought people to Jesus. He likened him to vanilla ice cream....just plain icecream....ordinary. When he announced his message being on "Ordinary Vanilla Andrew" a little friend of Abigail's who was sitting next to me looked up at me and said "I like Milky Way". I got so tickled at her. But it wasn't only her that was hungry for Ice Cream after church. :) You'll have to ask Mike about it. :)

Just thinking.....

The last couple of days I have had Philippians 4:8 on my mind. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise; think on these things." This is one of my favorite verses because it really helps in my battles of the mind. Usually the things that bother me the most are things that I really don't KNOW to be true....things just seem true. Therefore, when I am bothered about something I try to ask myself..."Do I KNOW this is the case? Is it something lovely to think about? Is it of good report? Is it praiseworthy? I am amazed of the things I can clear out of my day just from this filter. WOW!! God knew what He was doing when He gave us this verse.

I Wish I Could Go up in the Real Heaven.....

These are the words of our 4 year old at bedtime tonight, while thinking about Heaven. I really don't know what brought it on, but she knows that heaven is "very Beautiful". We won't need any light. We won't even need to sleep. We can go anywhere we want to go. "We can see Jesus and give him a kiss and a hug". I know Jesus must smile to think of a child's anticipation to see Him. Oh that we would all have this kind of anticipation!! I really believe we will see Him very soon.

God Answers Prayer...

Mike's work has been very unsteady the last 2 or 3 weeks. We have been wondering how we were going to make it. Presently there are some jobs out there in the future, but not much right now. Mike said to me yesterday morning, "Let's pray together that God will send me three jobs today." We did. We prayed together and asked God for three jobs to come in yesterday. At the end of the day, God had sent in three new jobs. WOW!! We are so blessed to know a God who cares about our lives and He even tells us to come BOLDLY before His throne. I just want to Thank God and give Him the glory for what He does for us.

Belated Valentines

Mike's mom had sent the kids a box for Valentine's Day with lots of goodies. Valentine's day was really busy for us so we decided to wait for our dinner. We had our Valentine's dinner tonight. It was so much fun. The girls loved the "party". They were so excited when they saw the decorations. Here are a couple the pictures of our "I Love You" dinner.

A Great Day

Today we went to my parent's house so I could work on music. I had this great plan I was going to hook up to the computer and play the music then just tweek it manually. Well I finally got a cord that was supposed to work...but no it didn't, so I worked it manually for about 5 hours and was able to get 3 of the 4 songs well on their way to being done. YAY!!! Then I had shopping to do and a lesson to study for. It was a busy day...but productive!!

At about 10:45pm lifeline was coming in. Benjamin is very fascinated with airplanes and helicopters right now. He had a long nap and was still up so Mike asked him if he wanted to go see it. It's about a mile away. Benjamin just started laughing and giggling. He was sooo excited!!! He tried to tell me about it when he got back. It is cute to hear him try to say "copter, and ambulance". He is really changing and talking a lot.

Focus....

Today is a day that seems to be a constant struggle to try to stay focused on what I am doing. I am sure you all know what that is like. Holding a fussy baby, getting baths, lunch, Valentine cards filled out, and laundry and cleaning in the between times. But as I look around to see what I need to finish and how overwhelmed I get, I think about One who focuses on me when I can't seem to make sense of anything. I want to always stay focused on Him and thank him for wonderful opportunity that I have to be a wife, a mommy, a homekeeper, a care-giver, and treasure every moment of the children's little lives.

Valentine's Day is coming!!!

Kendra has a Valentine's day party at school on Thursday so we were trying to be creative with her Valentine card box. She decided that a helicoper would be nice so we put on the side. "Flyin high on Valentine's. It turned out cute. She put the letters and decorations on it.











Abigail decided that she wanted one too, so I did one for her so she could decorate it the way she wanted. I think she had more fun playing with all the little foam peices than she really did putting them on the helicopter.


















Benjamin got the little can. He is smart, though. I cut the little slit in the top and he pointed to it and said "Money". :) He knows what that's for. I got tickled at him, but I gave him a few coins and let him put them in. That made him happy. These are the finished products.

I'm Back Again

Hello, I am a back. Thanks to a nice little "BUG" I was away for a while. I just love computers!! :)

I took some pictures last week of the children in the snow. They were playing as their daddy was shoveling. They really enjoyed it.

Thought for the day....

Sometimes in life we face things that we cannot handle alone. I am thankful this morning to be serving a God who can handle life for us. I am doing my best to listen to His "BE STILL and know that I am God."

Psalms 9:9 &10 reads, "The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble. And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You."

The girl's products

Uncle Brian and Aunt Aimee sent the girls some craft items for Christmas and this is the finished products of the modeling clay. Thank you Uncle Brian and Aunt Aimee!!

Some pictures from Christmas time

Benjamin enjoyed his reindeer antlers.

Grandma was holding the girls under the mistletoe and Grandpa was on his way to get them as you can see below.

Gift time---the kids were fun to watch

Benjamin's embarrassed look. His daddy loves this!!

My Kid's Hero.....at least for a day!!

I had an interesting day yesterday when about 2:00pm, Kendra came running downstairs and said, "Mommy, there's a bat in upstairs. At first, I thought it was a bird, then I saw it was a bat. I ran downstairs as fast as I could." I began thinking fast...What should I do. I said "OK we will just stay down here and maybe it will stay upstairs." NOT ON YOUR LIFE!! It flew downstairs within the 20 second mark and the kids, screaming bloody murder, were sitting on the chair waiting for their Mom to do something. Do I have to say, I HATE those things???!!! I grabbed the only thing I could think of and socked the thing out of the air than hit it again to make sure it wasn't going to move. Next I called my hubby who was miles away. What could he do??? Oh well, it felt better to talk to someone. After disposing of the victim, the kids and I just sat for stunned for awhile. Let me just say...that was TOO MUCH excitement for one day!!!