Today, I'm Listening.

Today has been a really nice positive day. As I was cleaning my kitchen I started to worry, about anything and everything. If you know me than you know that I am a high stesser with anxiety. Then I was hit with another tender mercy and something that a wonderful man once said echoed through my mind. "The thoughts that you have, when you're not thinking of anything, tells you what kind of person you are." I was doubting, getting angry and sad, feeling overwhelmed and that is NOT the kind of person I want to be, it's not who I REALLY am. So I was brought back down out of the clouds of crap and just stopped. I instantly heard my girls giggling out in the back yard, Christian's little feet running across the floor, and smelt the sweet smell of Ember. The adversary will always play on your weaknesses but that will never compare to that still small voice, as long as you stop to listen to it. Today, I am listening.

Vlogging

I am here to announce that I am going to join the world of vlogging and I hope I don't regret it! lol

First Day of Preschool

First day of preschool and you can see the excitement on Noelle. The girls were so dang excited to go to preschool and be with other kids instead of staying home and have mommy teach them.

They sang "The Best Day Ever" from Sponge Bob  the entire walk there, I couldn't help but smile the whole way. With three kids in school now I certainly am enjoying my "Me time" while they are gone ;-) Life is moving on and up and I enjoy every milestone and experience and love watching my children grow up and into their own. It's going to be a wonderful school year! ;-)

Baby Boy's 1st Birthday!

My newborn is now 1!
It was such a beautiful day when Christian came to us and EVERY day since has been just as bright. Christian is one of lots of  laughs, energy, and spunk. He has hit his milestones early and I can tell he will bring us much more surprises in the years to come. I love this little man with everything I have, we are blessed to be his family. Happy birthday baby boy!

Christian's birthday was a lot of fun, he LOVES monkeys so that was obviously the theme. The Curious George pinata was a hit and it was really cute watching the kids beat the candy right out of it.

I spent a lot of time on the cakes and goodies. The monkey cookie cake was especially fun to make, the monkey bites (brownie bites) were a bit of a pain but yummy, and the green velvet cupcake cakes  turned out really good even though it felt like nothing was going right with them.

I had a lot of fun decorating and as I put everything up Christian ran around with eyes wide very excited.

I had Dippidee do his personal cake.......

and as you can tell, he loved it! He swiped at it as soon as he wasn't being watched lol

Singing him happy birthday was soo cute, I wish the video would upload.

Say CHEESE everyone!

Present opening was great and he was so sweet to watch, once again I wish the video would upload :-(

It was a great party, thank you to everyone who came! You made it a memorable birthday and we very much appreciated it!

Summer Up Date

Dylan had is scout camp and oh goodness had a blast!

They had a parents night where we all got to join them their last night for dinner, entertainment and a ceremony. It was worth the mile walk up hill, it was a very fun night!

We were all so excited to see Dylan and what he had been up to for that week.

The girls ran to him as soon as they saw him, all hugs ;-)

Their Flag Retiring  ceremony was so great and it honestly got me a little teary eyed watching Dylan with such commitment and honor.

  We were so proud of him, he will make a great leader. He LOVES his scouts and the leaders could not tell us enough of how much they love and appreciate him for all that he does and who he is.

Christian waiting for Dylan to come sit by him ;-)

 Kendall's sister Jaclyn and her family came and visited us all from Ohio and we all did lots of stuff together and had a blast! We visited the Dinosaur museum and saw tons of really cool things. 

I think D felt a little too old for this kind of pic, especially since he got to carry the diaper bag lol

I believe this was in the Inertia part of the museum, there were a lot of way cool  stations to test out in there.

At the end of the tour there was a water sand place for the kids to play in. There were little dinosaurs to play with and make them little caves and homes, it was cute :-)

Jaclyn and her kids got right in and played hard, it's never too late to be a kid!

D and Spencer peddling together to get the inertia thing working, only problem was D's legs were WAY shorter than Spencer's hahahaha

Then we were off to the splash pad and gardens at Thanksgiving Point, these two had a lot of fun together. I'm glad they are so close especially with so many years between them.

I had to put this in here, sorry to all of those who don't like spiders. I was sitting out side at my patio table and I looked over and saw this in one of my shrubs. I called for Dylan and he caught it up in a hurry. We tried to identify it but nothing or no one could tell us what kind it was. Still gives me chills looking at it.

and then of course my birthday. Yeah if you ask me, I almost look sad to be holding that big number LOL
Great summer!!!

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Fun and Sun

Finally this day we decided it was time to get out and have some fun and relaxation. Dylan took Christian in the water and poor baby boy got sprayed really hard..

Noelle was the rowdy one and went to every water station over and over again.

I wish I could get one good smile out of this girl.

He had soooo  much fun, he has always been an out door kinda dude.

See Noelle trying to suck up the water, lil sicko ;-)

Sadee hardly went in at all, but still had fun sun bathing.

nice 3 fingered peace sign bud haha

Christian stud

soaking it up

just having fun sitting and relaxing

Hey you :)

D and mom, we had a good time talking and laughing

Dylan is so handy, he made himself an organic grass bracelet haha 

my bohemian son ;-)

this is so Miss Priss hahaha

daddy showed up as soon as he could after work, it was a fun day :)