out of town / on the road...

me & the boys left friday after kaden got out of school.

we headed to texas for a surprise party for my mom.

the pretty cakes one of my sister-in-law made

9 out of the 21 family members

on SATURDAY my mom & i left the house at 5am to head 3 states over to pick up my grandparents.

we were in the car a total of 15 hours that day... yuck! it was great to spend that much time talking to my mom without any interrupts from kids. that made it worth it & also eating at zaxby's!!!

my dad had kaden & brock all.day.long by HIMSELF! he kept them busy with games at chuck e cheese, micky d's, park, throwing rocks in the lake, cici's. when we got home my youngest had some new art work on his face...
OUCH!

SUNDAY we hung out as a family, sherri gave me & the boys haircuts, christain snuggled with all the kids & everybody wanted to eat vanilla wafers & milk with me. and use the same milk as me... GROSS!

being with my family is always fun & the boys just LOVE seeing & playing with all their cousins. (and of course grammy & pops too) (and all the aunt & uncles - ha ha)

at my house anytime the boys play basketball, football, scoccer, whatever they play together it ALWAYS turns into a wrestling match.

if you have boys, is it like this at your house too???
this time dad got involved... and won!!!

this is the sermon series we are doing at ignite for the next 6 weeks.

chad has chosen 6 different students to pick a movie that impacted them & then they speak about it.

last night a sophomore talked for about ten minutes about & encouraged us all from the movie, "chronicles of narnia"

so good.

the one word he choice to talk about was called "CHASING."

i think it was no accident that the night before i started a book & the first chapter all it talked about CHASING God.

it doesn't matter that i'm a busy mother, have a dirty house, floors that need to be swept, dirty dishes full in the sink, laundry to be put away, children not obey... CHASE God first & all other problems will seem small because i first had time with Him.

last night the student's words were simple, but motivational.

and challenging.

i've known it for like forever that God wants us but it stuck last night & that one word... CHASING i can't get out of my mind.

this is what God wants... He wants us to CHASE Him. He wants us to be passionate about Him & for Him.

so a new journey has begun today... will you begin to CHASE God too???

not sure???

i'm not sure if this is a little crazy, a little strange to some of you or just cute to me because he's my little baby.

this is what i found when i got out of the shower this morning...

my 2 year old playing a game on his dad's iphone.

its one of his favorite things to do when chad is home.

over & over we here him ask/saying, "game, game"

and to me its just crazy that a 2 year old knows how to do it!!!

chad can just hand him his iphone, he knows how to unlock it & then find the game he wants to play.

i think i'll call it CRAZY CUTENESS!!!

finished...

so one of my goals/resoultions for 2009 was to read atleast 12 books... 1 book a month


at first i wasn't sure why choose this as my first reading for the year or why i bought it besides it being like a dollar at mardel's. (i tell you - i love good deals wherever i can find them!)


but so glad i did... it made me smile, cry, learn that my life isn't so bad after all & challenged me to be better at being a mother, a friend, wife, church goer.

the whole book is just little 3 or 4 page story of life lessons she has learned about family, friends, relationships, having a baby, losing a job, college journeys, vacations & many, many more.

she puts her lessons & stories into such simple & easy to relate to illustrations that really get your attention & make you think.

i HIGHLY recommend this book to be added to your reading list... if you have one!

LOOK...

just look what i did this morning why helping (or atleast i thought i was helping) kaden get dressed for school...

i put his shoe on the wrong foot!!!!!!!!!!

i tied it & was helping on the other shoe before he noticed & told me.

so funny!!!

we all had a good laugh this morning because of it!

i'm blaming it on lack of sleep... ha ha

CAUGHT...

i walked into the house & CAUGHT brock eating something.

i asked him if he had been eating chocolate. he laughed & smiled REALLY big & said no.

the evidence all around his mouth tell me differently...