Lord Bless This Home

well i still could not sleep

2010-08-18T05:42:00.003-05:00

Well I still could not sleep so I decided to go ahead and do the beginning of our story about this pregnancy, here it is:

This is how I felt at the beginning of this pregnancy:

I was over joyed when I found out that I was going to be having another baby. On Christmas eve after we tucked in the kids for the night I noticed that I had some dark brown spotting and told Nick about it, I was really just in shock I don’t think I really knew what to do or to think I just remember being scared of the unknown. Christmas day was a blur NO bleeding but still wondering what had happened. The next night I had a lot of red blood and I again I told nick however this time I expected the worst. I really thought that I was loosing the baby. I just broke down in tears, I did not want this to happen. I cried myself to sleep that night.

I could not understand this. When we were taking things into our own hands and choosing to do things not to have kids we would pregnant. However when we finally took ourselves out of the picture and handed my womb over to God this happens. I just had all these thoughts going through my mind:

“Had we made a mistake letting God take control”

“Did we do something wrong, to deserve this”

“WHY, WHY, WHY”

“Did I hurt this child in some way”

“would God really allow this to happen, when we turned to him”

These thoughts and more just kept going through my head. We called an elder of our church and they had us out for dinner that night. I can remember praying for this child inside me not knowing if there was even one still there. We all took turns praying and then silence fell over the room, it was my turn I literally could not make any words come out of my mouth. My voice would not work. I just remember saying in my head over and over, “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN, LET THIS CUP PASS OVER ME, LET THIS BABY LIVE” I was begging and begging and crying and sobbing.

Over the next week Nick fasted for 7 days just as David had done in the bible until he knew weather his son would live or die. And I could do nothing but beg for the life of this baby, and lay on the couch doing little else at the request of the elders wife who had gone through this many times.

We had already picked out names for the new baby before this had happened, if it was a boy the name was going to be Joha Daniel (Joha being one of king Davids’ valiant warriors) and if it was a girl the name was going to be Abigail Faith. However after much prayer and fasting Nick came to me and said that he really felt as though we needed to change the names. If it was a boy it would be Samuel David (Samuel because he was begged for my his mother and David because he fasted and prayed for his son as well) and if it was a girl we would name her Hannah Faith (Hannah being the one begging for the life of her child)

I bled everyday for another week and a half before my insurance went through and I could go to the doctor. At my first appointment I had a sonogram to see how far along I was and to check the status of this little one. I saw this little peanut shape baby and heard and saw the heart beating and I broke down in tears of joy my baby was ALIVE! Through the tears I just remember thinking that that was the most beautiful little peanut shaped baby in the whole world, and thanked God. I drove home in tears however they were tears of joy now.

In total I bled for three weeks during this pregnancy.

Alittle over a month later the doctor did another sonogram and found that my placenta was covering part of my cervix, a partial placenta pervia and said that that could possibly have caused the bleeding, and that if it did not correct itself I would have to have a C Section at the end of this pregnancy.

It was as though everything was happening wrong with this pregnancy. I had forgotten that when you choose to Gods will you should expect trials. My placenta did move over time.

I will write up the rest of the story when I know the rest of the story!!

I've got butterflies

2010-08-18T04:33:00.002-05:00

It is funny how even though this is my fourth time to do this, I still get butterflies before I have a baby.

I am going to write up our whole experience with this pregnancy soon and I will post that.

I have to be at the hospital at 6:45 am today but I can not sleep. Please Pray that this labor goes quickly as I am sure to be tired from lack of sleep.

I will post pics of little Hannah soon.

Until then I will blog at you soon.

when will this stop?

2010-08-09T16:05:00.001-05:00

going on 96 hours of contractions, they say it is prodromal labor, I looked this up and can last for weeks before the real deal happens. (it is labor with no dilation) either way i am getting induced on the 18th i will have a baby soon :)

Where I have been the last couple of days

2010-08-07T10:09:00.003-05:00

Well Thursday night around 7 I started having contractions they were around 5 mins apart. By 10 they were around 3-4 min apart we went to the hospital around 10:45 and they hooked me up to the machine and checked me they were going in between 2-5 min and i was a tight 2. they told me to get up and walk for about 40 min. we did and they checked me again I was a loose 2 they told me to get up and walk for another 40 min and they were still every 2-4 min. and still a loose 2 but this time it did make me thin out some.

The nurse called my doc and he sent me home.

Even though this is my 4th baby I have been induced with everyone of them up till now and it really blew me away that I could be contracting every 2-4 min. and that they would send me home.

I contracted all day yesterday (Friday) they were around five min apart but were getting stronger then I had one hour that nothing happened and the next hour they were every 1 1/2 min. then they slowed down again to every 5 min. The nurse did say that she did not think that this was false labor just early labor.

But here it is Saturday and I am still uncomfortable and still contracting probably every 5-10 min. I can handle the pain I am just exhausted from the lack of sleep. I am ready to hold my little girl.

I have been praying that either they would stop all together and just let me wait 1 week and 3 days till my induce date or let them come on strong and get this done.

I am excited that I have had this experience and my husband feels more involved but geez lets do it or stop it. lol.

Hopefully I will be posting pics of little Hannah soon!

pics from Whataburger

2010-08-07T10:01:00.002-05:00

Here are the pics of the kids sporting the orange for free burgers, we did not end up getting a pic of Nick and I but thats ok.

Free Dinner

2010-08-03T22:37:00.002-05:00

So we went to whataburger for dinner because they had a special going on, "if you wore orange you get a free burger"

Well I am all about the free!! So we loaded up and all went I have pics but will have to post them tomorrow :( they are on my phone and the phone is dead so I have to charge it. I am also 2 weeks away from having little Hannah Faith and I am tired so I am going to bed!

Our Weekend

2010-08-01T20:22:00.002-05:00

We have been very busy this weekend, yesterday we cleaned alot around here and I redid my home management binder (I post about this later) then we had to leave early for church (we use rent a sanctuary from an existing church so we meet on saturday nights for our church then the whole church normally goes out to eat altogether) because on the last saturdays of june, july and august instead of going out to eat altogether we all go to a nearby park and play and eat there. (This takes the place of our normal church park day normally on a sunday afternoon but it is way to hot right now to meet around 1 and enjoy yourselves, lol) We had to go early so we could help set up and cook the hotdogs at the park.

It was very hot, being even more insulated than normal, but it was so enjoyable. See our church is a family integrated church and the average number of kids in 1 family is around 8. Some have more all the way up to 13 kids and all the way down to newbies with 1 or pregnant now with their 1st. Well at the park one little girl (of course I knew her we all know everyone there) came up to me and asked me to look at her arm cause it hurt. Then another girl came and asked me if I would help put her straw in her juice pouch. This just warmed my heart! Not only because they view me in a mothering role but because this is how I think church should be a large family everyone helping everyone. Everyone looking out for everyone. In fact when we have a baby dedication in our church (and that is pretty often. lol) It is said that the church has a responsibility to help and raise this little one and this is the first church that actually listens and obeys that.

Today we went grocery shopping. Nick went with us, he has for a few months been going with just to help me push the cart and load the van because of how uncomfortable as i am (I am truly blessed to have him as a husband) We then went to the apple store to get the new iphone4 for nick came home and ate then played until dinner. I made tacos tonight and this was the first time Job had had tacos all by himself and he ate for a long time rice and beans and all the taco fixins he was just to cute!

Well I have been having braxton hicks contractions for awhile (a few months) and they are getting stronger and also being more consistant, I go to the doctor tomarrow so pray that they have been doing some good in there lol!

Until tomorrow, good night

-Lisa

Well i am finally back again, lol!

2010-07-30T22:04:00.003-05:00

I think I have finally worked out my schedule to fit in blogging every day! Let me tell you I am very excited to be back. I have missed all of you wonderful followers and readers very much and I sincerely apologize for my absence.

Alot has been going on and I will fill you in over the next couple of days. So get ready for lots of stories and pictures!

The first and most important thing is that I am pregnant and due in about 2 weeks (man I have been gone from here for awhile).

I am really ready for this little one to come out, lol! We are having a girl and so just a reminder that will put us at 2 girls and 2 boys (and no we don't plan on stopping anytime soon unless God chooses to close my womb).

Halloween '09

2009-11-13T21:35:00.004-06:00

Well, I know this is a little late, lol! but hey better late than never huh.

Halloween is a busy time around here, we had Wills b-day (post to come tomorrow) the week before, Nicks dads b-day and our niece Natalie b-day is the day of halloween and then my b-day is the day after (Nov. 1)

So we went up to Oklahoma to Natalies 3rd b-day party and went to a fall festival up there, went out to eat for all of our b-days, it was a blast. Being with family is just awesome.

Here are a few pics from that night!

My fav superhero! This was the second year that will wanted to be batman, lol.
Natalie (our niece) as tinkerbell! little cutie!
Alyssa wanted to be a mommy for halloween, so I let her use one of our baby carriers, she loved it!Job was a baby and was pushed in the stroller by daddy, lol!! hahaha
They had alot of fun.

playpen play

2009-11-12T23:02:00.004-06:00

We do not have room in our room for a crib for Job and I am not ready to put him the kids room yet, so I set up the playpen every night for him to sleep in.

So every morning now the older two like to play with Job in his bed just like they used to do in my bed with him. here are a few pics, I am so truely blessed that they get along to well!

my little stairsteps
monkey in the middle
talking about what they are going to be playing (so funny, they just talk to Job like he is about the same age as them, no baby talk, they just include him as a peer)

Alyssas new Bible

2009-11-12T22:52:00.002-06:00

About a month ago we took the kids to the Christian book store and had Alyssa pick out a new bible, since she was reading so well. She picked one out and cried as we left without it, even after we told her our plan.

Our plan was that she set a goal, she was to read so many books and when she had completed this goal she would get the bible she picked out.

one month later she is done, she told me last night in bed that she had just finished her last book. So Nick and I took her to the store today.

She picked this one out even though it is not the original one she loved it more.

We are so proud of her for being so diligent in keeping focused on her goal, not giving up, and being so patient while waiting to fulfill her goal.

Aly cat with her new Bible
Will was proud of her too and made a funny face for a picture.

2 Wheeling it!

2009-11-12T22:39:00.002-06:00

The kids came inside the other day and said that they wanted their training wheels taken off, so I got the wrench, helmets and pads and we were off. Nick and I took them both outside and worked with them and in less than 30 min. my 6 yr old and 4 yr old were riding their bikes on only 2 wheels.

Nick and I both thought it was going to be so much harder than it was to teach them. We are so proud of them both for getting up and staying determined even with all the falling

Nick helping Will
Nick keeping up with Aly
getting Will back on the right path
Off on her own!

This was really the first time I have seen just how competitive Will is he was going to get this done because Alyssa was doing it. They both did great.

Meet NICK

2009-10-13T19:07:00.009-05:00

Name: Nicholas William

B-Day: November 28, 1980

Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Hobby: Reading, working with my hands (welding, building, etc)

Something interesting we may not know about you: I was a lifeguard for a few summers and a firefighter for 10 years.

Favorite holiday: Christmas

Complete the sentence, "In 5 years, I .......": want to own my own (secret, can't tell you), be in ministry full time and be able to read scripture in the original languages, never having to use an english version again.

I secretly wish: I could go on a sabbatical for a month of solitary study in Cambridge or Oxford

How big is God?: Undescribeably

Favorite Bible character: David- he achieved my goal, to be a man after God's own heart.

Meet LISA

2009-10-13T19:07:00.004-05:00

With perm
Without perm and with baby Job (2 months old)

Name: Lisa Marie

B-Day: November 1, 1982

Favorite Color: Pink then Green

Favorite Hobby: cooking, scrapbooking

Something interesting we may not know about you: my country accent gets even worse at night

Favorite holiday: Christmas

Complete the sentence, "In 5 years, I .......": .... hope to have even more children!

I secretly wish: that I could play the piano really well.

Favorite Bible character: Noah

Meet ALYSSA

2009-10-13T19:06:00.004-05:00

my princess mini me
the little momma

Name: Alyssa Grace

B-Day: February 19, 2003

Favorite Color: pink

Favorite Hobby: coloring

Something interesting we may not know about you: that i make cool things with books sometimes

Favorite holiday: christmas

Complete the sentence, "In 5 years, I .......": in 5 years , i will be 11, i will have really cool paint supplies

I secretly wish: that i had another baby doll

How big is God?: like a giant

Favorite Bible character: adam and eve, jesus, mary and joseph and baby jesus (i had to stop her, then she said but mom i don't just have one i like them all)

Meet WILL

2009-10-13T19:04:00.007-05:00

Name: Nicholas William II a.k.a. Will

B-Day: October 26, 2005

Favorite Color: blue or green no only blue

Favorite Hobby: Play with my train set

Something interesting we may not know about you: I can whistle really loud and snap to

Favorite holiday: my birthday

Complete the sentence, "In 5 years, I .......": I am going to read this book. (he was looking at a book when I was asking him these questions)

I secretly wish: i wish i likes red (goofy kid)

How big is God?: really big (while holding his hand up as high as it could go)

Favorite Bible character: Noah and Jesus

Meet JOB

2009-10-12T22:19:00.003-05:00

So my best friend in the whole world has inspired me to introduce my family to ya'll. I am going to start with my youngest JOB!

Name: Job Elijah, Little Bit, Baby Dude, Hurricane, Monkey

B-Day: November 17, 2008 (he is almost 1, can you believe that)

Favorite Color: anything mommy wants (what a good boy, lol)

Favorite Hobby: Crawling and eating and grunting

Something interesting we may not know about you: I am plotting to take over the world

Favorite holiday: everyday its all about me

Complete the sentence, "In 5 years, I .......": In 5 years I will punch back, errrrrrrrrgggghhhh

I secretly wish: I could walk

How big is God?: B-I-G

Favorite Bible character: which ever one my mommy is reading about

This is my Abercrombie pose
could you say no to me?

just a quickie!

2009-10-10T17:26:00.002-05:00

This will be just a quickie today, I was coloring with Alyssa in a strawberry shortcake coloring book and she said,"ohhhh that is fabulous mom".

my thought on this is when did I become mom and not mommy? This makes me sad.

Children are a blessing!

2009-10-09T21:46:00.002-05:00

Nick and I have talked alot about children. When we got married we wanted 2, then when I was pregnant with my second Nick said that if the baby was another girl that we could try for one more to try and get a boy. When I found out that we were having a boy, I was very said at the thought of not having any more kids.

Then we went to wanting 4 and then 6. We are now to point that we have given up on us deciding we have put that in the hands of God to decide how many children He wants for us to have.

Although we have discussed this many times, I have never sat and dwelled on it (in a good way). Today I did and I am excited about where I think God is taking us family wise. Don't get me wrong I am very happy with my 3 blessings I just feel that our family is just not complete.

Now if I am wrong and 3 is what God wants for us I will rejoice in His will (and for obvious reasons)(labor being the main one) but I do think that there will be more little blessings in the future.

So until then Lord give me the knowledge, organization skills, and patience in preparing to have a large family.

TV Buddies!

2009-10-09T21:38:00.002-05:00

Man O Man! LOL I was going through my pictures and found this keeper. This is probably 7 months ago but look how cute they look. Both watching TV.

Being Little Helpers

2009-10-08T08:59:00.002-05:00

Alyssa and Will wanted to feed Job. They took turns and everything.

In the picture Will is even showing Job to open his mouth. I am truely blessed that they all get along. With Gods help I hope this continues.

Happy Times

2009-10-08T08:53:00.002-05:00

So today as I was looking through my not blogged yet pictures I saw these and I just had to add them!

As you can tell by Job these were taken a few months ago.

How cute!
Look at those freckles. lol.

play ball, amelia bedelia

2009-10-07T11:22:00.004-05:00

Alyssa rides with me on monday afternoons to deliver some laundry and she brought a book. Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia this was her first amelia bedelia book to read so she had no clue what to expect. she began reading and had a smile on her face as she did.

when Amelia Bedelia went and put on a uniform Alyssa said, "that is a cool uniform but I hope she does not go out in public in that" I about died that was to funny.

I told her that all the Amelia Bedelia books are like that. That she is very silly and very very literal. Alyssa just got so excited and now she can't wait to read more of those books.

The plan

2009-10-07T11:18:00.002-05:00

OK so i know that i have been gone for awhile. i have been sorting somethings out, getting somethings into habits and i now believe that i can commit to blogging everyday.

please forgive me.

so for the next few days (if you follow my blog) i am going to be posting more than one post per day just getting alot of blog worthy stuff up to date.

My Boy!

2009-09-19T11:05:00.001-05:00

I took this picture yesterday! How cute is he? way too cute!!

Geocaching!!

2009-09-07T22:32:00.002-05:00

So we started a new family hobby, it called Geocaching! man is it fun! for those of you who do not know what geocaching is it is basically hiking and treasure hunting at the same time.

what you do is get on the website geocaching.com find a cache close to you put the lat and long into your gps and go hunt for it when you find it there is a log in it so you can log that you were there then you take a little trinket that someone left and you leave one as well.

it is so fun getting outdoors as a family with a mission. there are over 800 within 5 miles of my house.

the first one we found was trolls love pretty little stones and it was under a bridge (a walking bridge) ssssoooo ffffuuuunnnn!!!!!!

I am so glad that we decided to get into this because all you need is a GPS it is free to go and find these caches and today we love free.

I am so glad that we homeschool!

2009-08-24T13:50:00.002-05:00

today was the first day back for public schools around here. I was on facebook a few minutes ago and saw all these people complaining about their schools and teachers and everything else you can think about schools doing. it just brought a smile to my face and i was filled with joy because we homeschool and i do not have to deal with other people educating my children.

Thank you Jesus for allowing me to educate my children!

Job crawled

2009-08-22T17:07:00.002-05:00

so yesterday Job crawled forward for the first time. he has been crawling backward for awhile but has figured out that he can go forward now.

the funny thing is is that i will forever remember the first day he crawled because it was the the day that the dallas cowboys played their first home game in their new stadium, yes he is my son. how sweet it was for him to wait until then.

he still does not have it down totally but i give it a week and i will have trouble keeping up with him. he is so cute because he gets up and wiggles his little bootie then starts off.

he does really well going from belly to sitting up but the boy refuses to roll from back to belly, silly boy.

church

2009-08-15T22:50:00.002-05:00

we went to church tonight, the first time in a long time since we have been traveling a lot over the past month and a half. we go to a family integrated church that rents a church out on saturday nights.

we feel like a baby family (with only 3 kids) in the church because most families have at least 6 kids there. it is great. I feel such at home there and long for saturday nights.

going there makes me smile and i feel that i see what God has in store for our family.

good night and God Bless you all!

LARRY!

2009-08-14T23:52:00.002-05:00

So today grammy took the kids in the back yard to clean out a flower bed and Will found a frog! Alyssa asked if they could name it Larry he said, "yeah, thats fine"

Will kept asking if he could keep larry and I of course kept coming up with reasons why we could not, main one being that we don't have a place to put him, but i did tell him that i would keep my eyes out for an aquarium at garage sales so the next time larry wanted to play we could keep him safe.

Will held larry for at least an hour, well i say held he would let him down then catch him again then do it all over again.

He was very sad when we had to leave to go to the store, he just kept saying, "but i want him" it broke my heart. I praise God that I have a boy that is all boy!!

Me and my girl!!

2009-08-12T16:07:00.003-05:00

Just a quick pic of me and my girly!!

Oklahoma

2009-08-11T20:51:00.005-05:00

Ok so really I am catching up, we are all done traveling so the next few posts will be on our travels.

We went to Oklahoma to see my brother-in-law off. He is being shipped off to Iraq. while we were there we went to his fav sushi place "in the raw", it was so good

this place was right down town

nick took the kids over to watch the guy make our sushi (good homeschool kids, learning)
our "cool guy" kept giving the kids samples yyyyyyuuuuummmmmm
our sushi
this is what ash and chris got
the cousins eating sushi with their chop sticks, if you can see our waitress brought out these little things that hook the sticks together we have only ever gotten rubber bands put on them

right out the door of in the raw was the little water way that the tour boats go on so we walked a little with the kiddos. there were these ducks and they were so not scared of anything they wanted food
it was very pretty, we had to watch natalie she almost went swiming like four times
ok i know this is a weird pic but on the way back to texas we had to stop so i could nurse Job and we parked next to this field. As i was nursing we saw 5 field mice, so what did this homeschooling family do we stayed alot longer and just watched and i am so glad we did the whole time we were there we only saw 3 then as we stayed longer we saw 2 little bitty babies they were so cute what an honor to see Gods love and creativeness we had a great car ride home talking about the little mice family.

Creation Evidence Museum

2009-07-16T17:53:00.006-05:00

Well I do not think I will ever get caught up on blogging for this summer because just when I think I have time to sit down and get some blogs put up it is time for something else or as a mom I just think everything is blog worthy, LOL!

We were in Wisdom Booklet 2 and had the perfect spot to take a field trip, so we went to the creation evidence museum while learning about creation vs. evolution.

man was this fun and cheap. $5 per family or $2 per person (no limit on size of family). It is located in Glenrose, TX so it was about 2 hours away. here are some things that we saw, they also show a video for free for you to watch that tells about everything in there and about what they do.

This is a hammer made pre flood the story on this is incredible, they say that this hammer could not be reproduced today because the iron is so pure and has no bubbles.

this is a buffalo skull that the kids said i just had to take a picture of

this is a dinosaur footprint with a human footprint on it as well that was found in the paluxy(?) river bed. actually you can follow this one dino footprints for over a mile in the river bottom.

this is a model of noahs are pretty cool

a mammoth skeleton next to a dino head
this is a fossilized finger (eeewwww)

another dino footprint with a human footprint inside of it

human footprint thought to have been over 7 feet tall

the paluxy (?) river
the creation evidence museum. So much fun!!

Garage Sale find of the century!!!!!

2009-06-29T22:07:00.002-05:00

Sorry we have been going nonstop these past few weeks, I have a lot to catch ya'll up on.

First, we went to garage sale and found this huge tub of geo trax train set, it was the full set with two remote control trains and at least 6 of the expansion packs. Nick was not with me when I saw it and I did not want to get it until we talked (he has been wanting to get a train set to play with the boys and I did not want to get something that he would not like) I talked it over with him and at nap time went back and it was still there. we got it for $15.00 what find.

I sat it up while the kids were still napping to surprise them. Man it was like Christmas morning to the kiddos.

I could not pry him away from this thing. He just kept saying, "thank you mommy thank you!"
we sat Job right next to it and every time the train would go by him he would get so excited. (this was another garage sale find this day, the purple bumbo, I know it is purple but hey it was a dollar vs. $40 for a new one)
grandpa and daddy did not mind it being in the middle of the floor. look how big we got it (it actually staid there for 3 days) (until I just could not take it anymore, I vacuum everyday and I was going bonkers!!)
He was so funny, if you look at the picture above this one you can see where he was sitting and then look at this one and where he is sitting now he would move with the train. hahahahha
I finally got him to get into the middle so all he had to do was turn around in a circle. silly boy

my first rude comment

2009-06-13T04:30:00.002-05:00

So I knew it was going to happen, I have been reading Candys' blog for years and the comments that she receives are just horrific sometimes so I knew that when I started this blog that some people would just not be able to control their opinions.

Now I will not be doing this for every rude comment I receive but I thought this a historic event being that this is my first (and surely not last) comment like this. I also know that if I am serving God that I should expect persecution.

So here is the comment I received:

"Slightly concerned that someone who had made so many spelling and grammatical mistakes in their blog will be homeschooling.
I am a 26 year old primary school teacher and if my 12 year old students handed in assignments written the same way you write your blog I would be most unhappy."

For my concerned school teacher:

I thank you for your concern, I do agree that if I were writing a research paper or a book report I would need to be more aware of my spelling and grammatical errors however as it stands I am not I am writing my personal thoughts in a blog.

When writing a research paper or book report or anything else for that matter to be turned in to be graded you have certain rules you must follow. For a blog there are no rules, it is what you want it to be. Would you go to their diaries with a read pen? No. Because there are no rules for writing those.

With three kids and two home businesses that I run plus cooking and cleaning up I praise God and am just excited that I have time to share on this blog, so please excuse my hurriedness.

My dear teacher I pray you do not lose that keen eye you have for mistakes you will need in the line of work you are in, and know that I too will grade and correct my children accordingly when there are rules for them to follow.

Girls Night!!

2009-05-27T14:47:00.004-05:00

Well, the other night Nick and Will and the guys all went to the Rangers (baseball) game Nick said that Alyssa and I could go but I told him that I was going to use this time as a girls night! We had so much fun, praise God for little girls!

Her painting my toenails she picked the colors (yes colors) a pattern, she said that that is what she wanted and she wanted us to be twinkies!!
Me painting her little piggies
twinkies!!!! (I forgot I had the pattern on my toes and went to church with open toed shoes on and had to explain alot, lol) She loved it
We made cookies with girly colored sprinkles, although the guys ate most all of them when they got back, silly boys
Alyssa eating a pink one of course
We did our hair, sideways ponytails OH YEAH
Job was here with us because nursing babies don't do so well with out there momma
My #1 Girl
then we played barbies till well past our bedtime, lol

I am so glad I saved all my barbies from when I was a little girl to give to her, just remembering all the fun I had with them and to she her having fun with the same ones is just a joy! Thank you Jesus for letting me be able to have a girls night with my Alyssa.

Brothers, and it begins!

2009-05-26T16:36:00.003-05:00

Well the other day Will asked if I could put baby Job down next to him, so they could play.

Will telling Job to sit up straight for the picture, what a helper
Cheesing, look how long legged Job is, to funny (he is in the 95th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight, but the doctor does not mind b/k Nick and I are both little and he is healthy and strong)
Funny faces!
serious guys!
Then Will asked me to watch Job (to funny, I was sitting there the whole time) b/k he had to get something.

He came back with his sword, then he taught Job how to hold the sword and how to "get peoples with it"
What a proud big brother!!

Job did "get Will with it" (he kind of slapped Will in the face) and Will wide eyed looked at me and smiled and said I think he got it!! I about died! Jesus has given me one of those little blessed moments in time that I pray I will not soon forget, and I pray that the next few brother moments are this funny!

Dinosaur Valley

2009-05-18T15:11:00.009-05:00

We took the kiddos down to Dinosaur Valley in Glen Rose, TX on friday and man did we have fun. The day was spent laughing, splashing, fishing, looking, and for Alyssa and I shaking.

When we first got there the boys went straight to fishing but where they got down it was alittle steep so Alyssa and I went up the trail to see if we could find a easier way down to the water, well we found a little trail and then a smaller trail off of that Alyssa said she wanted to go first this time so she went ahead, she was maybe 7 feet ahead of me and I saw a snake! it was in between her and I on the side of the trail, I stopped and calmly said, "Alyssa calmly and quickly come to me" she looked at me and then at the snake and did just that I was so proud i meen this kid is afraid of everything and she handled this perfectly I must say I was pretty proud of myself to for not freaking out I meen I had Job strapped to me a snake in between me and my daughter and nick up the river.

After we got back to the big trail I stopped and said lets pray and thank God for protecting us and keeping us safe. We did. What a blessing it was not only to come out of that unharmed but also to show Alyssa that we can praise God for it as well. Then Alyssa prayed that everyone else would be safe from that snake as well (what a heart this one has).

Will fishing (we have created a monster, a fishing monster!!)
Daddy helping
Our fishermen

Daddy flyfishing

Playing
Monster ants these things were like an inch long
looking at the ants, goofs
Job looking at them looking at the ants, did you follow that?
there was a school field trip group at the dino footprints (acting a fool I might add, and the teachers just standing there doing nothing, I am so glad God has called me to homeschool) so we waited, patiently I might add I was a proud momma
Still waiting
DINO prints, very cool
this spot was loaded with footprints
daddy met us at this spot (for lunch) but before we ate he caught a bass

Job fell asleep at lunch
After lunch the kiddos and i sat in the car (AC) to cool down some and let Job sleep alittle I decided to drive around the park and see what there was and I found this little playground away from the main area it was in the campgrounds so Alyssa and Will played awhile no one was there and i could park the car right there next to the swings I also nursed Job here because of the privacy.
We then went and looked at the dino statues man were they big, the kids asked if i would read the signs in front of them (good homeschool kiddos lol)

I did however i skipped the 6 million years ago parts. lol

photo op
we drove around alittle more before our meeting time with daddy to swim before leaving and we saw this doe with her two little fawns. so cute God is so good.

swimming and swapping stories.
the kiddos in front of a footprint
The kids on the way back home I think we wore them out!! I joined them not long after this pic was taken!

What a great time we had, Thank You Jesus for giving us this time together learning and exploring as a family!

Bright Eyes

2009-05-17T15:14:00.002-05:00

Ok so I know that I have not blogged in a while (besides yesterday), but yesterday when emptied out my camera onto my computer of all the stuff that we have been doing I found this picture from a month ago when the temperature dropped. Here is Job with his little (Wills old) winter hat.

His eyes are so gorgeous. I love this picture!

ATI Homeschool Conference

2009-05-16T19:44:00.007-05:00

We went to Big Sandy, TX for the ATI Homeschool Conference. Man did we have a blast, just being around people that have the same mind set on raising their families, homeschooling, Christ centered I did not want to leave. Here are some pics of our week!

These two are of breakfast.

Nick and Job heading to the conference center to check out the book table!
Opening ceremonies!! This was awesome, very powerful.

After breakfast one morning, I was washing the dishes so Job played with his airplane.
Alyssa was in class and Nick, Job, Will and I started our sessions, which were awesome, so filled with motivation and knowledge.

There were like four or five rows of campers with these sidewalks in between them all the kids would just ride and ride their bikes and scooters on them it was like leave it to beaver days when people would let their kids play with out being overly cautious it was amazing!
The Duggars bus.
When we were walking down to the center Alyssa and her class were outside playing.
Walking into the main center.
Our home for the week, we got nicknamed the rocking chair people b/k Nick brought the wooden rocker, we know how to roll!
Alyssa and Will on their scooters!Will told me that Job wanted to wear his sun glasses so he put them on him and I guess Job really did want to wear them because he just lit up he loved it, can you tell?
They slept well!!
me with Job and my new wrap, it was awesome
this is just half of the childrens institute (Alyssa class) at the end of the week they sang three songs and they also quoted scripture.
Alyssa and her teacher
Michelle Duggar and I talked and she invited me and nick and the kiddos to her campsite for dinner.
I was making plates for the kids and Alyssa was holding Job and he was crying she asked me to take him Jinger was standing there and asked if she could hold Job
eating
Will and Alyssa holding Jordan-Grace Duggar Jordan is 1 month younger than Job
Cuties!!
Nick helped Justin make a stick for roasting Marshmallows
Nick making smores with Johanna Duggar, funny story Will and Johanna are the same age Will brought Johanna over to us and showed her his little brother then she took him by the hand and tried to take him in their bus so she could show him her little sister I had to stop them so funny. they were so cute together.

This was the best time I have had in a long time! I can't wait till next year!

i'm back

2009-05-06T17:13:00.002-05:00

wow what a great time we had, thank you all for the prayers for travel and no rain and great experiences.

i am happy to report that we had no trouble traveling to big sandy or back, it only rained once really hard (but we were in a session) and a couple of times it sprinkled but not enough to keep us from doing anything.

We met so many people and had so many great experiences, i will post some pics tomorrow. and go into more detailed story telling tomorrow.

We learned so much and got so much encouragement that I could not wait to get home and start implementing everything, even though i really did not want to leave because there is just something about being around like minded people that is just addicting.(in a good way :) )

Finally leaving!!!!

2009-04-27T06:47:00.001-05:00

Well I will not be around until next week (really saturday) but don't worry i will have lots of pics and great stories to share with you all when i return!

We leave today for our homeschool conference in Big Sandy, TX.

Hope you all have a blessed week in my absence!!!

My little man!

2009-04-22T14:19:00.003-05:00

OOOhhhhh how sweet! In these pictures he looks like such a little man.

Someone asked if I put his hand like that on his head, but no I did not it was on his belly he got startled, his hand flew up to his head and there it sat from then on. lol

I kind of found myself thinking ahead to teenage years and seeing him just crashed out from all the work and fun. Just had to share these sweet pics of our sweet baby #3 (Job)

Campo Verde

2009-04-17T11:31:00.003-05:00

More of our easter holiday....

Saturday night we went to our favorite mexican place to eat CAMPO VERDE. This place is the coolest they have real mexican food, decent prices and awesome atmosphere.

They are in the guiness book of world records for most lights in a restaurant and has a train that runs along the ceiling of the entire place so that every table can see it. (my kids fav)

phone booth at entrance (not working, just to play in)

my neice Natalie
the train
the train again (we actually sat in a corner so we got to see the train twice before it headed back to the other side of the restaurant, it came around about every 10 min.)
our table
Will posing (hamm)
Alyssa
Job slept the entire time (so I got to eat a hot meal, you moms of infants know what I am talking about)
She loved that light, she would not swing it just touch it (her mom, Ashley just thought that was funny)

We had a great time, but hey we always do when we go to Campo verde!! I can't wait until we get to go back!!

well i am finally back

2009-04-16T12:58:00.006-05:00

What an easter celebration we had, starting last friday ending on monday then with weather and computer problems tuesday and wednesday I am finally able to share all our happenings today.

so first things first....

Praise God for Dying for our sins, rising from the dead and ascending into heaven to be with our father and creator.

my hubbys sister and her family came into town for the holiday. My hubbys mother asked if we all would go to her church for their egg-stravaganza, it was a little chilly but we had a lot of fun

they had their egg hunts split up by age groups, Will and my niece went first.

Great job Will!

They gave out tickets for cotton candy, hotdogs, chips and a drink. You see what we got first :)

Job had fun watching, he is a great people watcher, lol.

pony rides
we they were done, Will had to pet his pony, funny boy

Alyssas age groups turn. Us waiting for them to say GO!

Natalie playing with the balloons.

Face painting.... Natalie got a bunny, then wiped it off silly girlie!

Will got a batman symbol

Alyssa got a flower

posers :)
then we made sandy candy (pixie sticks) in colors representing growth, clean heart, Jesus' blood, sin and heaven. It was pretty cool!

As we were leaving I got this family pic taken by Nicks dad.

master schedule explained

2009-04-10T13:12:00.003-05:00

I have had a few people ask what some of my schedule means so I will explain:

YBCR - "your baby can read"

this is an awesome program that I do with my two youngest

Cards - my cleaning cards

I am so much of a list person I know and instead of writing a to do for every day I use these cards I made. (I will blog about this maybe tomorrow or the following day)

My Master Schedule

2009-04-08T16:59:00.001-05:00

This is a link to my Master Schedule, i can not figure out to add my excel doc to my blog so you can view it without leaving my blog.

My Master Schedule

Blueberry Muffins

2009-04-07T17:17:00.002-05:00

Well for kid time today(more on this tomorrow) we made blueberry muffins today. It was alot of fun, although it was from a bag (I know someone gave it to me so I had to use it, most everything I do is from scratch but the kids loved it so who cares right) Will poured in the powder mixture Alyssa measured and poured the water then they both took turns mixing.

They said since kid time is me doing stuff WITH them i could put the mixture in the pan (they are so thoughtful) then i had to promptly give the pan back so they could "CLEAN" (with their little fingers) for me.

Kid Time is the best thing I have thought of for correcting bad behavior. I love my little acorns.(more on that later as well)

Mr. Frog

2009-04-06T22:18:00.003-05:00

Daddy got a new lawn mower and went out early in the morning, he came in and told us to come outside and this is what he showed us. Meet Mr. Frog!

Will is still in his pjs and his mohawk is not fixed (we were still eating breakfast)

Alyssa wanted to look at it but not hold it but man Will just jumped right in there, he is all boy.

This is it and a day late!

2009-04-01T23:04:00.004-05:00

This is it I call it the cuddle bug cover. It did not take that long to make it, the long part was actually making the pattern. I hope to have my website up and running soon with this and more products on it for sale. Wish me luck!!

and here is the peekaboo patch.

New Playground

2009-03-15T10:52:00.004-05:00

So one night last week I went to the store and I saw a sign (card board) on the corner I did not read it I just figured it was a garage sale sign. The next morning I went to the corner store and saw the sign again and again I did not read it, later in the day I went to the grocery store this time I read the sign on the way out and it said free swing set and child fort I just thought to yself that this was already gone because of how many times I had seen this sign, on the way home I saw the sign again and I said I am going to stop and just see if it is still there as I was driving I literaly got into an argument with myself of weather or not I was going to really go or not. Well I ended up winning (lol) nd stopped and sure enoug it was still tere. I went ome and told Nick about it he went and looked at it and brought it home so now when we go out side to play we have recess that's what Alyssa says. Homeschooling is so fun.

We just put it beside our old swing set because the new ones swings were about to go if you know what I mean and because they love the see saw. So we have the ultimate playground. I am going to this summer make a new canvas roof for the fort as the original got destroyed.

The Three Amigos

2009-03-14T15:00:00.003-05:00

Man I love being a mom of three. I was taking some pics of Job well then Alyssa and Will wanted in on some of that and I am so glad to because look at this pic. It was looking back at this pic and writing this blog entry that I am reminded how truly blessed I am. Thank you Jesus.

2009-03-14T15:00:00.000-05:00

Sleeping thing or playing thing?

2009-03-01T13:18:00.003-06:00

So we put Job in his jumper and he liked it alot.....

but the silly boy kept falling asleep in it. lol.
seriously the next 5 or 6 times i put him in this he would fall asleep. I am happy to say that now he will play in it with out falling right to sleep, he is so funny!!

My Baby is 6!

2009-03-01T10:53:00.006-06:00

Well i know that i have 3 kids and in another week and a half i will have been married for 7 years but just the thought of saying that i have a 6 year old just makes me feel old. lol.

we have decided that since we are wanting to grow our family to pretty hefty size we are not going to go all out on birthday parties like we have in the past. so what we do know is let the birthday child pick what dinner they want i make the cake and then they get their presents.

Alyssa picked tacos for dinner her favorite :) (moms too:) )

here is her cake. it was a strawberry cake with white icing. High School Musical 3 of course! dad added a graduation cap to the H which he was really upset with but i thought added a little something. Then when she saw it she asked me to add Zac and a heart! silly girly!

Job joined in and smiled and laughed at everything that was going on!
Grammy and Papa got her the new HSM 3 movie but if you ask her what they got her she will say that they got her "a HSM 3 birthday card that makes the music" she is just so cute and has wanted a birthday card that makes music for a long time. thanks grammy and papa!
Daddy, Job, Will and I got her an electronic dog game and the big present was Kelsey from the movie, she has all the characters except kelsey and zeke but hey we have to save something for christmas right!

Do you think she was excited?

She is turning into such a beautiful young lady! God has really blessed us with this one!!

Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!

i'm sorry

2009-02-27T08:49:00.002-06:00

well what can i say life has just been happening and by the time i have time to blog it is bed time and i am just pooped!!

but i think i have redone my schedule to blog everyday as i had intended. so i have a lot to catch ya'll up on and i will do this over the span of this weekend.

just a quickie!

2009-01-24T22:36:00.002-06:00

last night i went and got my hair permed, however i am not going to post pics yet because i am going to have them redo it on monday. it just does not have enough curls and when i say enough i meen any. it looks as i woke up and moused my hair and scrunched it, does that make since, nick was so sweet he said he liked it but then said it was not worth the money i spent on it so i went up to the salon and booked a redo (for free) on monday. hopefully i will post pics then.

WOW! :(

2009-01-21T21:17:00.002-06:00

I had to get onto Alyssa before I had Job every wednesday for having a bad attitude and acting out and then when i took off for having Job it stopped well when we got back into bible study she started acting up again so last week i went and looked into the window of her class and saw this little girl running and ranting and pulling on the other girls. so after that bible study was over i talked to her about the little girl, and found out that she thought this little girl was alot of fun, I then informed her that just because being bad may look fun does not make it right. Also that Alyssa needed to try to set an example for this girl so she could see how to act right.

well today when i picked Alyssa up from her class i could tell something was bugging her so when we got into the car i started questioning her like normal about what she learned about then i went into how today was with the little girl and she said that she did not play with her because she was not acting how Alyssa knew to act. and that one of her freinds and her actually told on this little girl. we talked about why and then prayed to god, praising him for giving Alyssa strength to do what was right even though it was tough and then we prayed for the little girl that she would see an example in Alyssa.

By this time we had pulled up to the place where i was getting lunch and as i opened the back door for the kids Alyssa is standing there with tears swelling up in her eyes and asked if I could pray with her again and of course i say yes and then ask why and she looked at me such hurt in her eyes as she says, "she said she hates me" and then started to cry hard. I started to cry as well and just hugged her. we prayed and went inside when we came out with our food to go home to eat with daddy as we were pulling out she said, "mommy why did she say that to me?" my heart sank i did not want to answer this in a wrong way and just crush her even more so i said a little breathe prayer and waited then said, "Alyssa sometimes when we do what God wants us to do bad things happen for example you were obeying your mommy like God commands and the devil does not want you to do what God wants so he made that little girl say that to you" then i suggested that we pray for that little girl again and we did. we talked all the way home about the devil and God.

I told her that when Will layed down for his nap that we would talk this over with daddy and she said why? your an adult (isn't she funny) i told her that her daddy is a very wise man and should be willing and wanting to take all of our worries to him because God has put daddy over us to guide and instruct us. she then said mommy ya know proverbs says alot of good things about being wise! lol!

I have always known that my mommy moments were not always going to be seeing their faces light up when i tell them we are making edible playdoe but that there were going to be those times when we were seriously going to have those talks when it just hurts you both i just did not expect to happen right know. :(

2009-01-19T17:00:00.003-06:00

Alyssa just insisted that i take a video of her as i was taking pics of Job so i did and she just started talking. just all out monologue style, it was so cute. she is just a doll. here it is.

sorry

2009-01-15T12:42:00.002-06:00

I am so sorry for the delay in blogging, i was off to such a good start. well long story short, WE have been sick. enough said.

ya know that is one of my biggest fears, is being out of commission. it happened a couple years back when i had my pace maker put in, i guess that was major compared to just a cold. but it seems as though if i get sick i get so behind on my household duties, and nobody understands i just want to lay down when nobody else is sick. i love being a mom more than anything but ya know moms should have the opportunity to call in sick somehow!! :) when pigs fly, huh:) my wonderful hubby helps out tremendously but he is not a mom and my kids are accustomed to how i do things like snug bugging them at night and such.

anywho i am better thank goodness! so i am back to daily blogging.

Potty Training!!

2009-01-10T22:17:00.002-06:00

Thursday morning as i was putting away the morning dishes Will walked past me and i could tell he needed a new diaper (by the smell) as i was changing him i said to myself, "i have had it, i am potty training this boy right now"

now when first got pregnant with Job he started pooping in the potty which i hear is backwards to poop first and then start peeing but i just figured thats just us alittle backwards. lol so after a few months of that i trie to potty train him. i tried to do it just as i had done it with my daughter by just putting some big boy undies on him and asking every so often with the promise of candy when the deed was done. but by the fourth day of going through every pair of undies we had in that same day while only having given out 6 pieces of candy in the 4 combined days i gave up thinking that he was not ready.

when the time came to have Job i tried again with no avail. after i had Job we went to mississippi and visited family and everyone over there has boys so i started asking what they did because by now i knew that he was ready but i thought that i must not be doing something right because he just was not getting it. everyone i talked to said to set a timer for 15-30 min and take hime to the bathroom sit him down and tell him to try, that little boys have to be taught what the feeling feels like.

in all honesty i was not lookin forward to taking my Will to the bathroom every 15 min. but on thursday morning i changed my mind. but i did know that this was not going to be easy. so i got will into his big boy underwear and took him to the bathroom and sat him down and he did not want any part of that so then i came up with the idea of instead of waiting until he got the going potty part and then teaching to stand up to go ahead the do that and treat it like a game (which i knew i could talk him into playing a game, he loves games)

so that is exactly what i did i went to pantry to get some cheerios however we were out but i did have some old stale rice krispies so i filled up a jar and took it to the bathroom and i told will that he was going to put some ceareal into the potty and he was going to get to shoot the ceareal with his peepee just like a water gun and that everytime he did this he would get potty candy (a tootsie roll) he got really excited.

he did really well that first day only having 2 accidents, then on friday he had 3 accidents (which started calling "ooppsyy" so when i hear that i know i need to bring a towel. now this morning i fought him just to get his underwear on he kept saying he wanted to be a baby and wear a hinny (diaper) after about 15 min of this i finally told him that there was no choice he was a big boy and that it was not an option and low and behold he started telling me when he needed to go potty before the timer even went off and get this we went out to eat with some friends at lunch and i put a hinny on him for this and when we got back he went to his room and brought out underwear and asked if i would help him put them on!!! i about died from happiness.

we shall see what tomarrow holds

Real SMILES!!!!

2009-01-07T17:00:00.005-06:00

today after the two older kiddos and myself got back home from BSF (bible study)(Nick kept Job) i had Job on the couch with me and Alyssa and Will were around him talking and laughing then Job started cheesing really big, I gave my camera to Alyssa and she snapped these pics of him. He has smiled at me for about a week but man nothing like this we were all laughing and Job let out a little laugh as well it was so sweet. Being a mom of three rocks. God is good!

Feed the multitudes

2009-01-07T13:34:00.002-06:00

well every tuesday morning nick i and the kiddos go to a church who has a ministry called feed the multitudes and volunteer our time there. the ministry feeds on average 350 families every week. we have such a good time there serving and praying for people who need and want prayer, our children pray as well for the people, Alyssa always wants to pray that people would learn more about God. and her pray gets answered every week (mainly because every week there is an evangelism message preached). see before they can get there food they have to sit through praise and worship and a church service then as there number is called they get in there car and form a line in the parking lot to get there groceries.

every tuesday morning Alyssa wakes up and asks are we going to feed people today?

Nick just was asked to join the discipleship team, so he is very excited about that as are we.

Health Insurance, who knew?

2009-01-05T20:33:00.002-06:00

I have a pace maker, did you know that? well i do. when Nick left the fire department he kept me on a cobra plan (health insurance) because i was pregnant with Job, well after I had Job the cobra plan stopped and for the time being i have no insurance.

today i called so many insurance companies and everyone of them denied me coverage because i have a pace maker. i have cried alot, i don't understand me being 26 years old and not being able to get health insurance for something that they put in me because they just did not know what else to do. everyone has been really nice about it saying they don't understand why they won't because i am not on medication for it and have not had any complications from it since day one of having it, and in the 7 years of being married i have only been to the doctor about 8 times not including the heart thing and having my babies.

every company is saying that i am going to have to go to the state for help in finding insurance which pretty much means i will probably have to go on medicaid. which i do not want to do because my OB does not take that. and we want to expand our family, we want a very large family and i love my OB. so tomarrow i will be on the phone again talking to the state trying to figure this out. wish me luck.

Tims' Birthday

2009-01-04T23:11:00.006-06:00

So today we went to my hubbys' best friends b-day party at the Incredable Pizza company, I had never been there so i really did not know what to expect. But man did we have fun. here are a few pics showing some of what we did. Prizes that we got with our tickets!
Alyssa, Will and Tims' daughter Kylee playing on the dance pad
Nick and Will in the gocarts, Will was so excited about this because everywhere we go he has always been to short to ride with Nick and now he is a big boy and can ride. He had a blast!!

Nick playing too!

Her goal was to win!
I was there too! see there is finally a pic of corse i took it to prove it, and Job to!!

Quick Funny :)

2009-01-03T22:08:00.003-06:00

sorry this will be short tonight as we just got in really late, hubby and the kids and i were in the car tonight and hubby and i were talking and joking with each other and he asked,"well, what are mommies for?" in response to a jab i said to him and from the very back of the van we hear my 5 year old girl say,"feeding and birthing". we about died. lol!!!

my age

2009-01-02T22:07:00.000-06:00

I dreaded turning 26 this past year. For most women the big year is 30, but for me it was 26. when I turned 25 I could have cared less, I did not care just a year older right, but when my birthday approached and I thought about it I started to feel so old, "why" I will tell you why, because I have had my drivers license for a decade and that sounds so old. I know some of you are just shaking your head at me but I can't help the way my mind works. lol anyway I just thought I would share.

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T18:43:00.000-06:00

So I know everyone does this whole new years resolution thing, I have never done this because it is always something you want to stop doing to better your life. So you start out strong (meaning for 1 week) then you lose interest. So instead of saying that my new years resolution is to start blogging I am just going to say that January 1,2009 is my start date for my blog.

I am going to use this blog to track our lives as God leads us, to share our homeschool with others, to share our savings with coupons and to just share my thoughts. So I want to say welcome to my blog.