Cousins in Pajamas

Monday morning, my sister Aimee came over and watched my children so I could go to work for a short time. While she was here with three of her children (five altogether), this is what I saw. Aren't they sweet together. Sadie and Nate are almost five months apart. I hope they grow up loving each other like they do now (or is this a tackle gone bad...not sure). Sadie could care less as long as she can text her friends in MD. Shooting a text to ya Andrew, Malachi, Noa, and Kierney.

Love you All....Hope your day is GREAT!!!

Morning at the Park

A couple of weeks ago we had a morning at the park. Here are a few shots from that fun day. This was the day we also planned to take the girls to the Pumpkin Patch but didn't know that it was closed.....oops.


Mili LOVES anything that has a steering wheel. We are very nervous for 16 years old with her. We are hoping that the age for getting a driver's license will go up before that date.
Sadie enjoyed the playground and all it had to offer. She explored from one end to the other and Mommy was tired after chasing her over every square inch of it.

Mili loved these pipes. They made for great fun with a great amount of noise.....or music!

Mili played on one side and Sadie on the other. "Music" to our ears!!!

This day just happened to be a perfect day to be outside. As you can tell I am still behind on getting things posted but hope to do better.

Love to ALL......Miss our MD friends!!!

BALANCE????

I just put down the book "Red Letters- Living a faith that bleeds", by Tom Davis. It has taken me a very long time to read this book but considering all of the interruptions of moving across country, starting a part time job and taking care of a 3 and 1 year old the other days of the week. The important thing here is that I FINISHED it and it has CHANGED my life forever (and hopefully the future of many orphaned children as well).

For those of you who have yet to read the book. You MUST!!! (you can purchase Red Letters at Tom Davis' blog). It is an easy read on the eyes but very tough on the heart. As I was engrossed in this great book all I could see were the children roaming the streets in Honduras. Most of the children I saw there HAD families and at least ONE meal during that day but I now realize there are many more all over this world that don't even have THAT. I am trying to wrap my mind around it (I think my heart is already there.....for most of you that know me that is not surprising). My heart usually does "arrive" in every situation first. I am working now on what my mind needs to help my heart do with the information I now have from this book (and the Bible....this is a Bible based book with many scriptures). I am currently working on a "project" that could change how much money we could give to Children's HopeChest and to other organizations such as clean water, heifer project and many many more.

Blogger Friends PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for this "project". That EVERYTHING will fall into place the way it needs to so I can get started on it! More to come on that after more things are in play!!!!

I want to BLEED..... with my finances, with my family, with my time, and with everything I do. Sacrifice is the key word here, my friends. I have started thinking about each purchase I make and thinking "how many people could have clean water if I don't buy this and donate the money instead". Another question that crosses my mind often is "how many people could have medication that would keep them alive if I don't buy this and donate the money instead". I realize that we can go too far thinking this way and I tend to be an ALL or NOTHING kind of girl so the balance will be hard for me but it is worth a shot to help those that don't have all the luxuries we have EVERYDAY. What am I talking about....LUXURIES???....NO, lets just say FOOD, WATER, MEDICATION.....you get the picture!!!

Please join with me in this fight with myself....because really it comes down to selfish, human nature and we give in most of the time because we have the money and it is easy, but we could save a life if we just think about what we are doing and change our spending habits a bit.

I LOVE all of my blogger friends out there. Please don't forget to shoot up a prayer for me this week as I struggle with the balance of everything I have taken in and the "project" that could change many lives.

Love to ALL!!! More to come on this......

I Smell FOOTBALL in the Air!!!!

Oh how I forgot how GOOD it feels to be sitting on hard, cold bleachers with the smell of the crisp, fall air at a football game. I absolutely LOVE it. For those of you who don't know me or don't know about my past, I spent every Thursday night during Junior High school and every Friday night during High School in the football stands in many different towns through the five years Brian played football. It was like a second home for me.

Tonight was Mili and Sadie's first Friday night football game. My niece, Victoria, is on the dance team at her school (I will not mention her school name for safety reasons.....I believe in keeping our children safe from predators online). Anyway, she was so beautiful and did a FABULOUS, FANTASTIC, FANTABULOUS job tonight. We were SO happy to finally see her show off her dance moves (by the way the other girls did GREAT too but we are a LITTLE partial to our Victoria).

Here are some pictures from tonight!

Isn't she just BEE-A-UTIFUL!!!! Mili getting her hugs I promised she would get from Victoria. Thanks for coming into the stands to see us Victoria.....Mili would have been heart broken if we had to leave without a hug.

Looking at me because I kept yelling at her like an idiot!!! I am known to have a loud mouth....no microphone needed here.

In ACTION during the game. She is the one on the very end to the far right.

Halftime show.....It was WONDERFUL!!! Great Job, Victoria!!!

Sadie spent most of her time fighting over Uncle Jon or Aunt Aimee's laps with Nater!

You see she won out in most cases or at least got to share the lap.

Our little cheerleaders in the stands. Isabella and Mili were copying the cheerleaders moves.

As the night went on it got colder and colder and Mili was COLD by the time we left. Her and Isabella decided to hog the blanket.

We had a GREAT night!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE you Victoria. You did a GREAT job tonight!!!!!

Round-Up Day at School

Today was Round-Up Day at Mili's school. She enjoyed dressing up in her cowgirl clothes and just HAD to wear the hat (and the pink bow as well). She made a horse out of a wrapping paper tube and "tried" some beans and bread. Mili doesn't try anything new to eat...she has to be forced to do it at home.

Take a look at this cute little cowgirl. During her photo shoot she said....."cheese, cheeseburger, and celery (never heard of this one but it worked....maybe you should try that one Chelle). She must have gotten that from when she had her school pictures taken by Jeremy (she came home and said "at picture day, Jeremy took my picture...yea, his name was Jeremy). Such detail!

Love to ALL!!!