Choices

I have choices, every second of the day, to serve my Lord. To honor Him with my speech and with my thoughts, with the way I love those around me and the way I worship Him. Every moment, there is another opportunity, and I want to use as many of them as He will allow. In fact, Scripture tells me that one day I will stand before Him, and I will (symbolically) hand the King of all Kings a tattered scrapbook of my days. It is up to me to decide what the pages will reveal.

from Angie Smith "Bring the Rain"

A Couple of Firsts!!

Cohen is finally warming up to Olivia- Which I love, but I think it is pretty safe to say that little Miss O was not a big fan of her brother--But hey it's a great start :)



Of course it's not Davids first time in the snow but it was the first time this year that he used his snowboardand fell on his butt onto some ice


Cohen, on the other hand did NOT like the snow - i think he thought his legs were gone for good

On friday we went to the Pacer game and it was Cohen & Olivia's first time, and as you can tell from the photos Cohen loved it and would not take his eyes off of the court!!

I thought I would be good at this

If you know me, and most of you do, you know that I can talk with the best of them. I mean I seriously get annoyed with how much I talk (and I know you do too) that my head continues to tell my mouth to "Stop Talking, Just Stop, Stop for just a bit, Words will always be around so slow down with the talking" I hear everything inside my head, but my mouth has a mind of it's own. I don't even have to be talking about anything important
And usually whatever I am talking about isn't.
And I wouldn't say that i like to hear the sound of my voice, because when I listen to my voice on voicemail or something I can't stand it....... so basically you get the point.. I am a good talker and rambler (just incase you haven't figured that out by now)

So I naturally assumed that I would be good at this blogging thing..... WRONG... I draw a blank sooo many time. There is so much I want to write or I try to write but when it comes to typing it out... I just can't do it. I get stuck, and it is soooo ANNOYING.

Not to mention I have been reading a lot of different bloggers lately and let me tell you there are some amazing ladies out their that know how to blog!!!! Am I intimidated?? probably they write so well and use such descriptive words-- I just capitalize my words to make it "creative"

Anyways to you ladies who rock with the blogging please keep it up - I love it
And for all of you that read my blog - I will continue to post pictures with some descriptive text beneath, and will continue with my talking in person-- oh Lord help us all!!

Scary Night

We had to take Olivia to the ER last night- Cohen has the croup and she had a fever and was having a hard time breathing so we were afraid that she might have the croup as well. So we called our doctor and they recommended taking her to the ER- so last night at 10:30 on the coldest night in 5 years-- we took our precious little 5 week old to Clarian. Praise God she did not have the croup but bronchilitis (i obviously don't know how to spell that) they gave her a breathing treatment and she is doing okay-- We have to keep giving her breathing treatments but she is going to make it :)

She was a very very good baby today - even with the hard night and she has just been so precious and smiley today so I thought i would share these photos and video!!

A new photo is needed!!

Olivia is a month old and this picture I guess isn't even the newest but I do love it so, so I picked this one to post!!

She is changing so much all the time - and I can't believe she is 5 weeks tomorrow!!

She is our amazing little girl so I just had to share :)

Happy Birthday Mom

To all the other mom's out there-- I am sorry- but I have the bestest of them all :) She is so amazing-- and I think I find new ways of being thankfull for her all the time. She has the best heart in the world and loves with everything she has- And even though people say it all the time... it is true your appreciation for your mom grows when you have your own, and you realize just how much they loved you and would do anything for you!! Having a daughter I think had brought that to a new level. And I now pray with all my heart that I will be Godly example to my Olivia as my mom was (and still is to me)





She is Amazing and with ALL my HEART mom

I LOVE YOU

So I don't know why

but I go forever with out writting any posts- and then there comes a day, a special day- when Cohen actualy takes a nap, and Olivia decides to not eat every hour and I can sit online and look- and when i look at other peoples stuff (blogs i mean) it gets me thinking-

what I am thinking now is that i want traditions, traditions that i can pass along to my kids that they will remember a lifetime. But why do i feel stuck? I feel like I have no traditions of myself to pass along , or to simply just create with them?

So does anyone have any good traditions they want to share :)
I promise when my kids fall in love with your ideas I will give all the credit back to you :)

Happy 30th Steve

i love you baby hot wing sauce and all!!

How will I ever do it??

Okay so this may be the most journally (is that a word) post I have written- so here it goes......

Having kids is such an amazing thing, and yet it is the most exhausting thing ever! I have two little ones, and one big one, and I am dying....... How do people do it? how did all my aunts that have a million kids do it? how do those moms that walk through the grocery store with four kids climbing on her and she seems fine do it? I can barely do it with 2 1/2 ( and i say david is a half because he is so grown up and independent ) that he is sooo easy ( until the 10 year old attitude creeps in, but that is a whole other post)

I know that I am a good mom, but it is soo easy to doubt all of that when you feel like it takes me all day to get a shower accomplished-- it is a whole new world by adding one more little one to the bunch - and i know with time it becomes easier but at this point- there feels that there is no end in sight--

so again I asked - how do all those moms with lots o' kids, still have their hair,their sanity, their teeth brushed, And a shower