Let's Party

Again, I can't believe it has been so longed since I blogged. The time is just going by so quickly. Really an uneventful week. I did switch children on Thursday to babysit, I had Holt instead of Reid. Shirley had a funeral to go too and there was no way I was babysitting 4 children under 4.

We had a bible class party Saturday. We had a good turn out - about 6 couples. We rented a blow up castle for the kids to play on or should I say dads to play on. It went really good and the hot dogs were great!!

We went to church Sunday morning and Sunday night. I did have a weird thing happen to me on the way home from church. We were riding in the van and out of no where I got extremely dizzy where I had to close my eyes and the world was just spinning around me and anytime I turned my head or walked it hit me again. It was like that until I went to bed. But I prayed for healing so whatever it was is gone and I woke up fine. I did warn Cody to watch for slurred speech.

Tonight I rented a movie based on a book by my favorite author - Frank Peretti "The Visitation". I am glad to see people other than myself are interested in making his books into movies.

So the kids are in bed, I am going to have some "steak" and watch my movie. Oh yeah, when I was in high school Sam's carried these steak burritos that were sooooo good. After I graduated high school and was going to stock my freezer with these awesome burritos they no longer carried them, but THERE BACK !!!!!
Needless to say I am a happy women.

God Bless!!

Busy Week

I didn't realize how long it has been since I blogged. I had a busy week. Monday was the same staying home doing laundry etc. Tuesday, Ladies Bible Class, which I enjoy so much. Getting to visit with the older women of our church, getting to see all the young mother's my age (mainly it is girls from my bible class). We usually go out to lunch afterwards, which is nice to sit down to a meal and just visit with adults. I also watched my baby nephew for about an hour so my mother-in-law and father-in-law could go play golf. Wednesday, more laundry, playing with the kids outside. Oh, yes, and reading a new book my secret sister got me. It was House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. I haven't read anything from Ted Dekker before, but Frank Peretti is one of my favorite authors. My all time favorite books of his are This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. I like all his books but those 2 are my all time favorites. Anyway, I got the book Tuesday and finished it Friday night. I love to read. I am surprised with 2 kids that I was able to get it read that fast. Thursday I went to church and helped make packets and such for the additional classes they have added to our toddler and under classes for Sunday and Wednesday Bible Classes. Friday one of my dear friends came over with her kids and we talked and they played for a little bit then we went to McD's for lunch. Had a good visit but that was probably a bad idea. School was out for Good Friday and so there were all these older kids running over all the little kids on the play area. It was a little nerve racking.
Saturday, Cody and I went to Levelland to look at mini-vans. We had been looking at night around Lubbock but couldn't really find a newer used van for the price we wanted to pay. Cody had called ahead and there was a dealer ship in Levelland who had an '05 Chrysler Town and Country for the price we were looking for. We went and test drove the van. It was really nice and clean and drove great. We told them all we had was our trade-in and we wanted our payments to be what we were already paying. I prayed for favor and now we are the proud owners of a new to us mini-van with the stow'n go capacity. It is great and will save us so much on gas compared to our Expedition.
Sunday, we went to Church and had Easter at my house with my mom and sister and her kids. Last night we went to my in-laws and the kids hunted eggs. It was fun.
Today, I am busy doing laundry and cleaning house. We are having our Ladies Bible Study at my house tonight and Saturday our Bible Class class party at our house. Cody asked me not to be my perfectionist self. It is hard but I will try not to be too obsessed with everything being perfect.
I hope you all had a blessed Resurrection Weekend. Praise God and God Bless you all!

We are back!!

We left Thursday morning a little after 10. We dropped a present off at my in-laws for a birthday party we were going to miss. Then we dropped Elizabeth off at my mother's. We made really good time and Thomas did great. He watched Elmo all the way there. He did take a nap from Abilene to almost Weatherford. We left a huge wind storm in Lubbock, caught some rain in Weatherford and lots of wind in Dallas but not dirt with the wind. We were told we hadn't missed anything weather wise while we were gone. Just dirt, wind and cold.
Cody and Larry worked out Friday morning while Karen, Jenna and I took Thomas for a walk to a park in the neighborhood. We ate lunch and Thomas and Cody took a nap while I worked on the 2 lessons for the bible study group I go to.
All went well. The doc said Thomas' eye looked great and to come see him again in a yr. He predicts Thomas' second surgery will be at about 1st grade. I am praying for complete healing with no sign of pstosis. We met the cousins for dinner at PF Chang's Chinese Restaurant. Very good. So much better than buffet. Thomas really had fun with all of them but especially Jenna. He would get her to read to him and if she wasn't around he would always ask where she was and go look for her.
This morning Cody, Thomas and I got ready and went to Cattle Baron's for breakfast. We then went to the Ft Worth Zoo. That was a lot of fun. I took lots of pictures of the animals to show Elizabeth. I think sometime while it is still cool we will bring both of them back to go to the zoo and the botanical gardens. The kids love to walk and look and smell the flowers. I think it would be a lot of fun.
I have to say the trip was really nice too for Cody and I. He listened to Acapella there and back while I listened to Michael W Smith and Carmen and read my BVOV mags. It really lifted me up and encouraged me to increase my time in the word and work harder to walk in love.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers. It really meant a lot to us. We love you!

Well it is Thursday morning. I have had my shower and am waiting for the kids to get up. We are leaving for Dallas today. Elizabeth will be staying with my mom. She is really excited. They have 2 labs and she loves it when pappy plays catch with them. Plus, she will be the only child so she will get lots of attention.
Poor thing, she has been complaining that her tummy hurt and since she get constipated very easily we always are asking if she needs to go poopoo. Which had been getting better but her last 2 were really big and hard (sorry!) so since we were going to be out of town I thought we should just get her looked at. Well all I can say is she is really full of it. Her colon is completely full, she has a huge gas bubble in her stomach and is really full of poop. So we have been giving her MOM and a stool softener and will do that for 10 days and see how its going. But we prayed about it so I know she will be fine.
One thing that is so cute and blesses me so much is Elizabeth thinks about people when we pray. Last night she thanked God that Uncle Don was healed by the stripes of Jesus. And she always wants to pray when one of us is sick. It really blesses me to see her have a relationship with God and know to pray at such an early age. I wish I had that when I was her age.
We are going to stay with Cody's cousin in N Richland Hills - we stayed with them when Thomas had his surgery. They are really great people. We see them every year at the family reunion so this will be a nice little pre-reunion.
Oh, by the way we are going to Dallas for a follow-up of Thomas' plastic surgery last year for pstosis of his left eye (droopy eye lid). The lid isn't covering his pupil anymore but his eye doctor feels that it is still a little low. I still have had children & adults ask what is wrong with his eye. It upsets me only that I don't want him to ever feel like there is anything wrong with him. It really isn't as bad as it was. But as a mom you don't want them to ever have insecurities. So I just pray that he doesn't and hope that the surgery he has at about 4 (they will take muscle from his leg and put it into his eyelid) will be perfect and no one will ever know he had a droopy lid.
Well, we are about to leave so write to you later.

It needs to be said...

I am a Christian women. I believe in the Lord my God and Jesus Christ my Savior with all of my heart and soul. I write about things in my blog that pertain to my life and the people in my life. Jesus is the biggest part of my life. I would not be where or who I am today without Him. I tried it on my own and I didn't do a very good job of having a good and happy life. In fact, I honestly had no joy in my life. Jesus has given me that here on Earth and I know I will receive it when I go home to be with Him.
I do not force my beliefs on anyone, but it is my duty as a Christian to tell everyone anyway I can about the good news. I also do not condem anyone who does not belief, I pray for them. That if it is not me, then someone else will enter their life and they will hear the truth from them. I celebrate my life in Him everyday and to deny or omit Him would just not be who I am.
God Bless you and I pray many blessing upon your lives and family.

Plan change...again

Everything started out well. But I am sometimes a fly at the seat of your pants girl...that doesn't always work. Everything was going well with moving Elizabeth's bed into Thomas' room with a couple of changes to modify the bed, but Cody was trying to help Brice and let's just say, Cody is not a handy man. He decided we should just use one of the frames we already had. So we took the sides of Elizabeth's old day bed, painted them red and put them on the bed frame from the day bed. It looks really cute. But where I was going to use Thomas' convertible bed and one of the other mattresses from the daybed-trundle bed..well, that didn't work, because the convertible makes into a full bed not a twin bed...so we are going to have to buy her a new head and footboard anyway. But that is okay with me. That way I can get a really cute girly bed. So if anyone wants to buy a convertible baby bed, let me know.
Cody I think is better about the situation before but he did tell me next time he would listen to what I am saying and we would discuss it. See, I told him everything I was going to do and he never really complained or questioned it. So I feel no guilt.
The kids are asleep and probably Cody is too. I will take a shower and get ready because tonight we are going to the ABC Rodeo. The kids should love it. Yes, Sesame Street was a treat for the kids too. But our friend that went with us her son started throwing up at 11 last night and Thomas has had some diahrea (sp) so they may have caught something off the chair they both licked!!
Shower time!!!