Thursday, May 24, 2012
Trip to East Tn
We went on a trip this weekend and we had a blast! You did so many things that you would never have done before. We went to Cumberland Mountain State Park and we slept in a cabin that first night. We went and looked at the stars through a telescope. We were able to see Jupiter, Venus, Saturn,and Mars. Then after that, we went back to the cabin and spent the night. The next morning we drove to Pigeon Forge and went to Wilderness at the Smokies. We were excited because all the water parks were open. They were not supposed to be open, but God made a way for us to be able to go to all of them! Mikayla rode the storm chaser. She was very afraid but she took a brave role and got on the ride anyway. She "did it afraid" TWICE. Way to go Mikayla. Joshua did very well. He didn't throw any fits the whole weekend just about. On Monday evening when we were getting ready to go home we decided to go to a dinner show that night. We went to the Hatfields and the McCoys dinner show! It was Hilarious! Joshua says he does not know for sure what his favorite part of the weekend was but he says he loved every thing especially the Hatfield and McCoy's. Mikayla says getting on the storm chaser was her favorite part! However she really love the Hatfield and McCoy's too!!! We all loved that dinner show. It reminded us of the hoop Dee Doo at Disney World. I have attached some pictures of our trip I hope you enjoy them! I know that I really loved going on this vacation with my two beautiful children and my wonderful loving husband! I love anytime we get to make memories together.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Snowball this morning
I just wanted to post a pic of Snowball this morning after you left for school. He curled up on a stuffed animal that one of you left on the couch. How precious!! 
Monday, May 14, 2012
Your sister and friend
I was looking at this picture in my office and wanted to write about y'all!
Last night, as we were driving home from Jim and Heather’s house, Josh and Mikayla were talking in the backseat with all kinds of excitement. They were so excited that this is the last week of school and we are going to get to go on a family vacation to the Wilderness at the Smokies Waterpark/Hotel in Gatlinburg this weekend. Joshua and Mikayla proceed to make up a rap/beat box song about the last week of school and how they were excited to get to go on a family trip. Josh provided the music with boom shh booms and acka lackas (whatever kind of words you would call beat boxing. Haha so good he was at it) Anyway, Mikayla is a great singer so she was making up words and was good. They then proceeded from there to come up with a plan of action because they realized how good they sounded together. They wanted to record a CD of their music. J I told them I would help them if they would write down their songs and we get about 10 of them or more (depending on how long they are) We will try to record them and make a CD of their own music. They were all excited and decided today is the day that they will get their club together and write their songs. I realized Joshua and Mikayla work good together when they each do what they know best. Josh LOVES to make music and Mikayla LOVES to sing. God is going to use them together when they get older and HE has put that into them. I am so thankful to get to see God shape my children. I have often times messed up in my parenting skills. I have always tried to show my babies(that’s yall) just how much they mean to me, but a lot of times, I have been angry and ANGER NEVER HELPS ANYTHING if it isn’t given to God. Anger in and of itself isn’t bad, but when we use anger to control other people, it is harmful. I hope you guys realize this Joshua and Mikayla. I don’t want you guys to grow up full of anger and NEVER give it to God. People are going to upset you and things are NOT usually going to go just the way you like them to. As we learn to lean on the Lord for our strength, it gets better. Proverbs 3:5- Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding and HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS. The more we give things we don’t understand to Him, the more He can direct our paths. This is my prayer for you guys a lot. I want the best for you. There are a lot of things we have struggled through. I want to know at the end of the day that we have learned to TRUST GOD in all things. Ok, I am tired today, but I wanted to share my heart with you as I looked up at this picture on my shelf. I was thinking about both of you today and how the Lord is knitting you two together in a deep relationship. You guys will have a bond like no one else will ever be able to have in your life. Only the Lord can be stronger. You have a bond of not only being family, but you are FRIENDS! I love you and you are so precious to me!!!
Last night, as we were driving home from Jim and Heather’s house, Josh and Mikayla were talking in the backseat with all kinds of excitement. They were so excited that this is the last week of school and we are going to get to go on a family vacation to the Wilderness at the Smokies Waterpark/Hotel in Gatlinburg this weekend. Joshua and Mikayla proceed to make up a rap/beat box song about the last week of school and how they were excited to get to go on a family trip. Josh provided the music with boom shh booms and acka lackas (whatever kind of words you would call beat boxing. Haha so good he was at it) Anyway, Mikayla is a great singer so she was making up words and was good. They then proceeded from there to come up with a plan of action because they realized how good they sounded together. They wanted to record a CD of their music. J I told them I would help them if they would write down their songs and we get about 10 of them or more (depending on how long they are) We will try to record them and make a CD of their own music. They were all excited and decided today is the day that they will get their club together and write their songs. I realized Joshua and Mikayla work good together when they each do what they know best. Josh LOVES to make music and Mikayla LOVES to sing. God is going to use them together when they get older and HE has put that into them. I am so thankful to get to see God shape my children. I have often times messed up in my parenting skills. I have always tried to show my babies(that’s yall) just how much they mean to me, but a lot of times, I have been angry and ANGER NEVER HELPS ANYTHING if it isn’t given to God. Anger in and of itself isn’t bad, but when we use anger to control other people, it is harmful. I hope you guys realize this Joshua and Mikayla. I don’t want you guys to grow up full of anger and NEVER give it to God. People are going to upset you and things are NOT usually going to go just the way you like them to. As we learn to lean on the Lord for our strength, it gets better. Proverbs 3:5- Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding and HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS. The more we give things we don’t understand to Him, the more He can direct our paths. This is my prayer for you guys a lot. I want the best for you. There are a lot of things we have struggled through. I want to know at the end of the day that we have learned to TRUST GOD in all things. Ok, I am tired today, but I wanted to share my heart with you as I looked up at this picture on my shelf. I was thinking about both of you today and how the Lord is knitting you two together in a deep relationship. You guys will have a bond like no one else will ever be able to have in your life. Only the Lord can be stronger. You have a bond of not only being family, but you are FRIENDS! I love you and you are so precious to me!!!
Morning with Snowballl
You love your dog! You rough house with him in the mornings and it gets CRAZY here, but every now and then I see a sight like this and I have to sigh"awe, how sweet" we have had a lot of dogs but this has been everyone's favorite! He is three years old this month!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Funny things you have said
"Lemon sucks can quote you said
"I don't know! But it smells really good"- me
"yeah mom so does Pine-Sol!"
4/10/16 - Grandma said that we should sing a special song for our last day at Forbus circuit. Josh yelled out "yes it should be you're going to miss me when I'm gone."
2008- when we were playing Bible 2008- when we were playing Bible Trivia game, the question was "why didn't anyone like Zaccheas?" Josh quickly responds "because he was a wee little man" you are too cute! Haha I love it!
5/10/12
I am proud of you and your sister! I realize that sometimes, you want to get out of work. I know that working is hard, but I want you to know a very important lesson. If we don't work, we don't get the benefits that come along with hard work. If me and your daddy didn't work hard, we wouldn't have a roof over our heads, or a car to drive, or any of the various things that we have been blessed to have. I am praying that you soon learn this valuable lesson. This week, we have had a battle with the laundry. You decided that you didn't want to put the clothes away so you tried every way in the world to hide the laundry in various places. Oh my!!! Indeed, you have worked hard to get that cleaned up (see below)I love you. So many times, you have gotten into trouble and it's so hard for me to encourage you. I do want you to know I am proud of you. I may not be proud of some of the "actions", but I am thankful to have you as my son. God has big plans for yall. I am doing the best I can with all that I have to teach you God's love. It has been intense at times, but I trust that God will teach us together even. 
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
9/13/03 - 7/20/07 - from first page of baby book
9/13/03- Josh, I hope you know how much you are loved. You are a very special boy! I may not have much time to write in your book, but you are loved just the same as Mikayla. God has truly blessed me with you two.
1/4/04- A word came tonight @ church. You are anointed to be a prophet of the Lord (which we knew already) I don't really know how to train a prophet but I am sure the Lord will provide.
3/16/04- You are growing so big. you are soooo active. It's fun to try to hold you still. You want to be everywhere all the time. You are trying to crawl but just move around on your arms a lot. Look out for that walker! You are really out to get our feet in that thing. It's fun to watch you with Mikayla. You love your big sister so much!!You absolutely adore her. She adores you as well until you run her toys over then she gets mad but she still adores you. I love you bot so much. but as much as I love you, God loves you so much more. Don't ever forget to call on Jesus. He's always there for you!
2/7/06- Josh, you are a mighty man of God. You have lots of energy and you will go a long way if you will stay on the right path. I expect a lot out of you and your sister. You are awesome kids and mommy is so blessed to have taken care of you. I just hope as you grow up, you will see Jesus in me and not the devil. I love you and sometimes my focusgets off of Jesus and on the stress of being a single mom. It's wort it! I have wonderful childre.
4/10/06- This morning your wanted some icky charms for breakfast. "After my my eat my hold Bernie" Bernie is your stuffed zebra. You are so intelligent for your ge.
7/30-07- You have grown up so fast. You will soon be 4. I am amazed @ how smart you have become. Quite the little charmer. I am going to love you with all that I have. I am going to be getting married soon and you are so excited. Time loves you both so much. He can be a little harder on you than your sister but that's because we have to teach you. You will appreciate it one day. I love you!
1/4/04- A word came tonight @ church. You are anointed to be a prophet of the Lord (which we knew already) I don't really know how to train a prophet but I am sure the Lord will provide.
3/16/04- You are growing so big. you are soooo active. It's fun to try to hold you still. You want to be everywhere all the time. You are trying to crawl but just move around on your arms a lot. Look out for that walker! You are really out to get our feet in that thing. It's fun to watch you with Mikayla. You love your big sister so much!!You absolutely adore her. She adores you as well until you run her toys over then she gets mad but she still adores you. I love you bot so much. but as much as I love you, God loves you so much more. Don't ever forget to call on Jesus. He's always there for you!
2/7/06- Josh, you are a mighty man of God. You have lots of energy and you will go a long way if you will stay on the right path. I expect a lot out of you and your sister. You are awesome kids and mommy is so blessed to have taken care of you. I just hope as you grow up, you will see Jesus in me and not the devil. I love you and sometimes my focusgets off of Jesus and on the stress of being a single mom. It's wort it! I have wonderful childre.
4/10/06- This morning your wanted some icky charms for breakfast. "After my my eat my hold Bernie" Bernie is your stuffed zebra. You are so intelligent for your ge.
7/30-07- You have grown up so fast. You will soon be 4. I am amazed @ how smart you have become. Quite the little charmer. I am going to love you with all that I have. I am going to be getting married soon and you are so excited. Time loves you both so much. He can be a little harder on you than your sister but that's because we have to teach you. You will appreciate it one day. I love you!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
7/21/03
Josh,
You are soon going to be 3 years old. I have enjoyed you as a son and have been worn out by you, too. You keep momma very busy cleaning messes, but one day, I'll look back and wish I was cleaning up whole canisters of chocolate cocoa from the living room floor while you hold your little coffee cup with 1/3 cup of water and 2/3 cup of cocoa saying "Look I made hot chocolate" I laugh when I think of some of the things you do. (Not at the time though) Like the time you smeared my $15 tube of lipstick all over your face and said "Look, I'm pretty momma" Then when you see my face quickly turn red you say "It's OK momma, I'm pretty" How can I not cherish those memories? Or when you get food out of the fridge and try to make your own sandwich. (What a mess) What can I say? You keep momma on her toes. Not a dull day here (except of course when you are at your daddy's. Then I miss yall) Another funny time was when you decided to take the $40.00 wagon for a ride down the hill. You crashed into the bushes and broke the wagon wheel and said "I wanna do it again Momma"
You are soon going to be 3 years old. I have enjoyed you as a son and have been worn out by you, too. You keep momma very busy cleaning messes, but one day, I'll look back and wish I was cleaning up whole canisters of chocolate cocoa from the living room floor while you hold your little coffee cup with 1/3 cup of water and 2/3 cup of cocoa saying "Look I made hot chocolate" I laugh when I think of some of the things you do. (Not at the time though) Like the time you smeared my $15 tube of lipstick all over your face and said "Look, I'm pretty momma" Then when you see my face quickly turn red you say "It's OK momma, I'm pretty" How can I not cherish those memories? Or when you get food out of the fridge and try to make your own sandwich. (What a mess) What can I say? You keep momma on her toes. Not a dull day here (except of course when you are at your daddy's. Then I miss yall) Another funny time was when you decided to take the $40.00 wagon for a ride down the hill. You crashed into the bushes and broke the wagon wheel and said "I wanna do it again Momma"
Sunday, May 6, 2012
From Birth to Now....
I have realized how precious my memories of you and your sister are so I have decided to start your very own blog place to see letters that I can now put down at any time. I love you both so much and want you to always remember how precious you are to mommy.....Here are memories that are in your baby book and letters that I have written to you. I love you and I will date the blogs as I have written them.
Love,
Mom
Love,
Mom
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