Prayer

Our house was robbed this weekend and I would ask for as much prayer for our family as you can lift up. This will take some time to heal, but through prayer and petition I know we will heal. Thank you everyone for all of your prayers and concerns. Thank you God for my kids and my safety.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I am thankful to God most of all for this wonderful life he has allowed me to live. I am thankful for a wonderful husband who loves his children and his wife with all his heart, and two amazing children that bring me hours of joy and laughter. I am also thankful for my family and friends who bring continuous love and support. Thank you God for all your many blessing and may we be thankful everyday!!!!

Goodnight Mom Poem!

I found this poem and it just made me crack up laughing. Sometimes this sums up my day!! It is to the tune of the book Goodnight Moon. By Sarah Jio


In the messy green family room
There was a telemarketer ringing the telephone
And a crying toddler because his sister just popped his red balloon
And a picture of-

The cow jumping over the moon (which someone colored on with permanent marker)
And there was a missing teddy bear, and a girl with gum in her hair

And one to be scolded
And laundry to be folded
And a very hungry spouse
And something stinky in the house
(that no one else seemed to smell)

And a comb and a brush and a colicky baby who just won't shush
And a frazzled mommy screaming #*%#@

Goodnight messy room
Goodnight scribbled-on moon
Goodnight cow getting out while she can
Goodnight telemarketers and the popped balloon

Goodnight long-gone teddy bear
Goodnight cereal bar smeared all over the dining room chair

Goodnight spitup
And goodnight leaky sippy cup
Goodnight much-too-little house and goodnight grumpy spouse
Goodnight comb and goodnight brush and goodnight to a certain 2-year-old who just needs to hush right now I mean it

Goodnight Elmo
Goodnight toys we'll pick up tomorrow, or the next day
Hello chardonnay and TiVo- "me" time finally.

Our kids could have been twins!!

Growing Boy!

I have been teaching Chase his colors for a while now, but he is finally starting to master it. Just about 100% of the time he gets it right. Well, Chase's sippy cups change colors when they are cold. His cup has a purple top and a blue cup bottom when room temp, and filled with drink it is all purple. The other day it was filled with apple juice (of course) and I asked him what color it was. He said the top was purple but the bottom was blue. I corrected him, but he insisted that he was right and I said forget it. Later he came to me with the room temp cup (now blue) and said "See mama, its blue." Well I stand corrected!!!!!

Saturday night I was trying to get Chase to bed while Mariah was screaming her lungs out. I was trying to rush the bedtime routine and I told him that if he hurried up and went to bed he would see Grammy and Grandaddy(my parents) in the moring at church. The next morning he woke up and the first thing he said was "Church mama, see Grammy and Grandaddy." What a memory, so much for bribing him at bedtime, he will surely remember.

As Mariah is growing I am seeing how big Chase is getting. I miss my little baby boy, but I am enjoying every new experience of preschoolhood with him. This picture reminds me of my baby munchkin.

Mariah laughs

This video was taken the beginning of October. Mariah was just starting to laugh and make sounds.

Brother and Sister

Mariah is starting to react and respond to Chase. She watches and follows him with her eyes, and she is starting to laugh and giggle at the things he does. It is so cute to watch the two of them interact. Chase really loves his baby sister, and that is such a blessing. He says all the time, "Oh yaya, I love you." In other news, Chase's tantrums are getting better, I think. Please continue to pray for peace and patience for Chase and I.

Mariah Pics

As all of you know I love to take pictures, maybe to much. Here are some new ones of Mariah! Enjoy!!

Special Memories

While searching through stuff this morning, I came across a camera memory card from my old camera. And thank you Jesus, I found some pictures of Chase. (Our computer crashed a couple months ago and I lost every single picture of chase up to 2 years old - no I did not have them backed up). I am so thankful that now I have some of his baby pictures back. Jordan had erased the memory cards, but for some reason that one still had pic on it, a God thing. Well here is a video I found of Chase as a baby. I love these old baby memories.