I love my man!!
August 18th, 2010
Len and I celebrated our 6th anniversary in June. This Fall will mark 8 years since we met and fell in love! 
We’ve been through a lot in the last 8 years together, and let me tell you (again): I LOVE THIS MAN I MARRIED!!!
Here’s SOME of the reasons why (not really in any order):
1. He LOVES Jesus, wants to serve him and is never satisfied with mediocrity of himself in this area.
2. He cherishes me, puts up with me and loves me despite myself.
3. He is an AWESOME Daddy. He decided that he wasn’t going to miss anything of his kid’s lives, since his Dad missed so much of his life by living several states away.
4. He knows when to be silly and when to be serious. He can make the babes and I laugh and he can cry along with us, whatever is appropriate!
5. He is a scholar, yet super humble about this. Someday Len wants a masters degree and a doctorate, but for the meantime because of our financial situation and time in life he waits and studies and reads on his own, deepening his knowledge on his own.
6. He often surprises me with flowers, notes of encouragement, back rubs and sweet hugs at just the right time!
7. He thinks I’m pretty, even when I think I’m just fat, haven’t shaved in two weeks, just woke up, have eye boogers and a half fallen pony tail, with morning breath.
8. He always makes sure I have a phone that will allow me to talk on the phone for as long as I want to with family who lives miles and miles away!
9. He wants me to be a stay at home mom and wife!
10. He supports and even helps out at times with my gardening endeavors!!
11. He is often in pain from rheumatism, but rarely complains for as much as he hurts.
12. He likes it when I cook a good meal.
13. He’s hot. He just is, I mean with his freshly shaven head and big bushy goatee…I can barely resist kissing him!!
14. He puts up with my crazy! Poor guy got a lot of that in the beginning when I told him to “go away” and “drop dead” and still every now and then he gets some of that crazy!
15. He rarely complains when his dresser is empty and has to search through laundry baskets to find clean clothes that are wrinkled.
16. He has moved our house around just because I wanted him to at least 15 times since we’ve been in this house (2 years).
17. He encourages my cake decorating hobby, even though I make a big mess in the kitchen and am usually too tired once the cake is done to finish it!
18. He gladly takes on the job of cleaning out the refrigerator most of the time, just because he knows I hate it.
19. He takes care of the mouse in the trap every time without complaint because I HATE MICE!!
20. He cleans the sink after he shaves so there isn’t crazy hair all over the place.
21. He wipes our babes butts just as much as I do.
22. He is always trying to better himself and encourages me to do the same without pointing fingers!
23. He forgives me when I’m quick to speak out of anger and raise my voice long before I should.
24. He supports our babes ambitions and takes every teachable moment to show them Christ.
25. His faith and zeal for learning is contagious even when I would rather be apathetic, I can’t because he is so into Jesus!
I feel as though I could go on and on, but you get the point! My Man is awesome! Love you, Baby!
Rainy Day Fun
July 25th, 2010
We’ve had a lot of rainy days lately. When its not thundering what does it hurt to get a little wet, right?
No Fear!
July 19th, 2010
Elijah has no fear of water. NONE. He loves water. He loves swimming, going under the water, jumping in, walking in, getting thrown in and well…basically just being in the water!
He has learned to swim with his life jacket on and is learning more and more all the time!
Here are some pictures that my friend took.
Moriah stays pretty close to Mommy. She does enjoy swimming somewhat, but she also enjoys staying out and watching. She has learned to tread water with her life jacket on, but would much prefer not to wear it.
Toy Story Babes!
July 14th, 2010
What can I say? My kids LOVE Toy Story!!
I posted these on Facebook, but everyone needs to see these!!
Cars! Cars! Cars!!
June 22nd, 2010
Elijah turned four this month! FOUR! Wow! I can hardly believe it! It seems like just yesterday that he turned three!
One of his favorite things to do right now is play with cars…he used to want to watch the CARS movie every day of the week and then it turned into Mater’s Tall Tales, and now, well, now he reenacts them! He’s memorized the lines from the movies and has quite a few of the cars and can pretty much reenact them! Mommy and Daddy, Nana and Grumpa (Len’s Mom and Step-Dad) encourage Eli’s cars craze and continue to buy them for him. He’s just so darn cute!
From the reenactments, it trails to let his great big imagination shine through! What an amazing imagination he has too! One minute he’s Rescue Squad Mater rescuing McQueen from a burning building and the next he’s flying though the air shooting lasers at the bad guys. The his dinosaur will destroy Radiator Springs and hold McQueen hostage until Mater comes to his rescue with the help of Doc! Or sometimes Sally tells knock knock jokes and sometimes they just race!
I love to just sit back and watch him play! My coffee table has become a cars table, but that’s ok with me! I don’t drink coffee anyway!!
June 4th, 2010
Well its been a while since I last blogged. So much has been going on that I simply just haven’t taken the time….oh yeah and I blog was broken for quite a while before it got around to fixing itself (I imagine someone did it, but it wasn’t me!)!
So now, here we are in spring, looking towards summer…the garden is planted. I’m so thrilled about this!! I do still have some plants to put in somewhere in the backyard, but hopefully that will be done today!
This weekend we are having our first yard sale! I’m so excited! I have everything ready a day early!! Whoo hoo!! It will be held at a friend’s house in Carthage, since our road is traveled at to high a speed for a great turnout…Anyway….I sure do hope we make some good money! It will all go towards our summer fun!
This weekend is also Elijah’s 4th birthday!! My oh my, where did the time go?! Moriah is 2 1/2! They are so much fun at this age! I wouldn’t trade a minute of it…well…maybe a few…:)
So there’s the update! I’ll try to get back to blogging!!
Jesus Loves Me!
March 1st, 2010
The kids and I recently realized I have a web cam on my computer. They love performing for it!!!
Famous
February 28th, 2010
Today in church, the music spoke to my heart, which was great because Moriah was a grump and I totally missed the message because she would not let me leave the nursery.
I’ve loved this song since I first heard it in college, but the thing that really got me to love it was my senior year of college when I was working a Christian book store. I had begun to loose my love for God. I had begun to be apathetic to life and to God’s calling for my life.
One day I was sitting in my favorite part of the store, the kid’s department, which was right next to the music, when I heard a little girl singing this song. ”You are the Lord, the FAAAAAMMMMOUUUSSSSS one, the Faaaaaauuuumooous one! Great is your name in all the earth!”
First of all: ADORABLE! The child got louder and louder and I had to get up and see her. So I peeked around the corner at this little girl, probably 7 or 8 years old singing this beautiful worship song at the top of her lungs. Wow. So I went back to work.
A while later I heard her ask her dad. ”Daddy, why is Jesus famous?”
Her father’s answer was tender and true. “Because he loves us so much that he died on the cross for us, even though He didn’t deserve that death. That’s why Jesus is famous.”
I have to admit that there are days I think more about President Obama and the in-pending doom of our economic system or about Governor Patterson and his stupid crazy ideas sometimes more than I think about Jesus. Sometimes I think about Karen Kingsbury and her next book that’s coming out or about Mark Driscoll more than I think about Jesus. Sometimes I get so busy with the day to day and think of nothing besides getting the house cleaned before the next set of company arrives.
Why though? Jesus is famous. There is no other name under heaven that is known more than his name. Jesus.
Crocheted Dish Cloth
February 27th, 2010
A good friend gave me a crotched dish cloth a bit ago. While it didn’t stay as pretty as it once was, it is by far my favorite of all of my dish clothes.
This past month some mamas from my very favorite forum (sorry I don’t share!) were talking about making some, so I decided to take the plunge.
When I was a kid my grandmother taught me a simple double crochet pattern and its all I’ve really ever done. Now I have never really done a ton of crocheting. In college a bunch of us decided we were going to crochet blankets in class and chapel and I finished it three years after graduation….
So I decided to start with a new pattern. :) Well, it was pretty different and I had to email an online friend to get the instructions without the code, but I thought I knew what I was doing so I started in!
About 15 minutes later, I had this:
Umm…NOT GOOD! LOL! So I had to start over and I was pretty sure I knew what I had done wrong, so I started over. A while later, I had this:
Now that’s more like it!! So after a bazillion and one interuptions from a handsome hubby and two adorable babes, I came up with this:
All it needed now was a some edging. Since the kiddos were in bed and my handsome hubby has his own hobbies, it didn’t take long to be finished.
Now I just need to make an entire stack! :)