Rock Stars!

Yesterday I finally took Kyley to get her makeover she's been promised for her birthday- a week late but hey at least she got it!

Lily got to have a makeover with her and both girls had a blast!!! Here is a small taste of what went on LOL




The girls were so thrilled and loved feeling like rock stars. Maybe we'll get to do it again before the store closes in January!

Merry Christmas!

The past few weeks and the few upcoming are super busy but I wanted to take time to post this for everyone!!!

Merry Christmas!

Happy 4th birthday Kyley Grace!!!!

I can't believe that my little baby is 4 years old! She's growing up so fast!

Lord, bless my child on this special day!

last day

Wow! Today is Kyley's last day as a 3 yr old! I can't believe my baby girl with be 4 yrs old tomorrow! What a beautiful young lady she's becoming and I can't believe that this time 4 yrs ago I was in the hospital getting ready to have a munchkin! and now I have TWO! wow! God is amazing and I can't thank Him enough for this journey He's taken me on!

Milestones and celebrations!

Well things are NUTS this time of year around here- but I"m going to try to remember to catch up as often as possible- so here's one big catch up post for now LOL

This past week we had Kyley's 4th birthday party! The theme was Hannah Montana and she had a BLAST ! Doe Doe and Daisy came to visit her at her party and all the kids loved them! She got so much stuff I can't even remember it all! Her real birthday is this coming Friday- so we plan to give her one gift from me and daddy and Elijah that day- but other than that we're done with birthday stuff !

This past weekend we also participated in the Millbrook Christmas parade! We all had a blast and hopefully I can post some pics up here soon!

And on to Elijah- last week Elijah turned 8 months old! He's such a big boy now! He says bye bye and waves, and he can clap his hands and he's trying sooooooo hard to crawl! He LOVES the christmas tree and all the lights- it is by far the best thing ever haha I can't wait until Christmas!

gearing up for plenty of celebrating!

This month will prove to be BUSY! here's the run down-
tomorrow we're having Kyleys birthday party!
Friday we have celebrate recovery, saturday a christmas parade and making white trash with miss debi- then next week we have a dance field trip Kyley's actual birthday and next sunday is the childrens church christmas play!
after that a dance recital, paw paws birthday, uncle ryans birthday and christmas. wow I'm tired just thinking about it!

How beautiful kids are- and how silly!

We just got home from picking up Matt from school- both kids were fully dressed, and I left them in the living room together to work on cooking something for the thanksgiving dinner tonight. Next thing I know I came to check my email and I hear Kyley blowing raspberries on Elijah's stomach and he's all happy... it didn't dawn on me that he just a few minutes earlier had on a sleeper and she wouldn't have been able to do this LOL.... Next thing I know, I hear Kyley exclaim... "MOM I opened his diaper and HE POOPED!" um...... *runs to see what she's done* She undid the dipe and then was running from him going DONT PEE ON ME!!!!! lol So I had to quickly change the diaper and get him clean... *sigh* what a silly girl she is...

Learning and growing... and praying God's word!

Today has been an awesome day, and I'm amazed at the awesome things that God is doing in our lives! I've been longing for some structure to my prayer life to keep me accountable and to help me grow closer to God and to seek His will more. A friend just yesterday asked me if I wanted to start a 7x7 prayer with her. What it is, is 7 prayers a day for 7 days a week over our children.... the link to the blog is here

I sat down last night and made up reminders with the prayers on them and posted them in familiar places to what they were pertaining to. The idea is, that at 7 given points in my children's day, I will pray for them. But I decided to take that a step farther- I decided that I will not only pray these over my children but over my husband and myself as well! I'm completely convinced that God delights when we pray His word and promises over His children and I intend to do so faithfully from this point foward. For my children, for my husband, for my family and friends.

My husband made the comment about how this could get legalistic, and boy could it, but I say, hey a happy reminder that I need to take time out of my busy day whenever I see one of my reminders to pray for my family... Praise the Lord for a reminder!

I can't wait to see what God is going to do through this renewed spirit within me to pray for His will in our lives!

Laundry...

Oh how I loathe laundry- I don't mind washing and drying it... it's the folding and putting away LOL
Anyhow, so the past two or three days that's what I've been doing, just tons and tons of laundry- folding, sorting, putting away, packing up what doesn't fit etc. And everytime I feel like I'm getting somewhere, another load finishes haha and if that isn't the case, Kyley has changed clothes 4 times that day and made a whole other load, or Elijah pooped all over himself or ... you get the picture! Anyhow- I say all that to say... I hate laundry- but thank God for giving it to us so we'd have things to wear!

Happy 7 months to my little man!

This week Elijah is 7 months old!  I'm so amazed at how quickly this time is flying by! He's eating big boy food- not a lot but he loves it when he does eat! He can sit up all by himself- he can say and wave bye bye... I'm so amazed at how smart he is! He is trying to learn to crawl now, he can hold himself up on all 4's but isn't good at going anywhere.  What a big boy he's becoming!!! Anyhow, here are a few pics I took recently to celebrate this milestone :)

I find myself...

I find myself highly unmotivated to do much today- I don't know why... it could be that my little man is in a snuggle mood? Quite possibly! I just love when he gets in these moods and he just wants to lay on mommy and stare up at me with those big brown eyes and smile.
I think back to the day I found out I was pregnant- and how many emotions ran through my head. I was terrified of what having two kids would be like. I was more or less freaking out. Then as the weeks went on and I began to feel him move I got excited... then I remember vividly the day we found out he was a boy.






Watching him on the screen was one of the most incredible moments of my life-but again I was struck with fear! I remember leaving Derek with his mom that day to watch a movie, and going to walk through the mall with Kyley to kill some time instead of being at home alone. I walked through the baby section at JCPenny's and I had a meltdown. Everything in my house up until that point was pink or purple, what would this mean? Blue everywhere in that store that day just overwhelmed me. I loved having a princess around and had no idea how I was going to cope having a boy around all the time... just seemed like something I didn't think I could handle at the time. Then came time for him to be born- and even then I wasn't sure I was ready for this challenge. I had a difficult birth, difficult time in the beginning with breast feeding and with not being able to see so I was very withdrawn from the whole ordeal in my mind. But I sit here today and thank God for blessing me with such a beautiful little boy. He is the exact thing that God knew I was going to need to get through such times. He's such a sweet, lovey dovey kinda boy right now and I find that I fall more and more in love with him every minute... Oh how he melts mommy's heart. So he sits here cuddled up on my chest just clenching my shirt and relaxing before he'll eventually fall asleep soon and I love it. Meanwhile in the distance I can hear Kyley playing with her barbies in her room- she's such a great big sister and even more than I ever could've thought she would be! I can't wait to watch them grow up together and grow in Christ... man what a sweet thought.

Boy am I slacking!!!

I have been awful about blogging lately- soooooo for your enjoyment- no more words... just a few pics :) hope you enjoy!

6 month stats!

Yesterday was Elijah's 6 month pedi appt.
He is 14 lb 3 oz and 25 1/4 inches long

He got 3 shots and he was such a big boy, he only cried out when they stuck him and as soon as she was done he was fine!!!

But now- the dreaded shots rear their heads in the form of how yucky my lil man feels! He's been running a low grade fever and just clingy since yesterday!

Quick updates and apologies :)

I've been slacking in the update department the past week or so- we've had a lot going on and most of us have been sick at some point or another.

First of all, today is Elijah's 6 month bday :) and Isaac Marcus is 9 months today as well!! sooooo Happy Month Birthday to you boys :) (pics will follow I'm sure)

Second, my sister is in the hospital and needs a healing touch from God. She's 32 yrs old and went in on Monday to have a triple bypass. Sometime Wed. it seems that an artery ruptured and she was hemorrhaging. They called the family in, said it was bad and they didn't know how long she'd make it. When I heard back that evening she'd went into surgery, and came out at least somewhat better and the bleeding had stopped, but the next day they'd moved her to another room and she was hemorrhaging again and having some sort of hallucinations. Please pray for her- she has 2 sons who need their momma.

Thirdly, my dad's uncle Carroll is in the hospital- all I know is they are giving him a few days and that he's having heart failure. *sigh* when it rains it pours huh?
Please pray for my family, my daddy especially as he's having a rough time I'm sure.

More updates to come later, but I've gotta make lunch!

Kyley loves to help...

Kyley gave Elijah a bath tonight- she had so much fun!!!

When daddy changes a diaper...

This is what happens when I leave it to a male in our house to change the diaper....

School

So, as of lately, Kyley has been obsessed with going to school. In the last few weeks she's learned to copy her name and has no started to write her name on her own from memory...
She recognizes the letters in her name and can call them by name.

She can also write and recognize a, b, c, s, and m

yay for my big girl!

Family photo shoot

Today we had a random photo shoot... here are the results... :