Today was another great day.....Dad and I finished up our window job and since we knew we didn't have a full day of work we went garage saling. Yup! You heard me....my Dad and I went garage saling! This was a first for us...and we had a blast. I found a ton more bargains and we found some yummy baked goods for our mid morning snack. I found lotsa fun tools for Gabe's birthday....when I brought them home tonite he picked up the toy drill and walked around trying to drill things and would say: "Paw-Paw! Paw-Paw!" he is such a grampa's boy ;) I also had the chance to run to my friend's house that I hadn't seen for a long time and got to see her little ones that are getting big and catch up...it was so fun.
yesterday was great too...I didn't end up working with Dad so instead I babysat for Keegan while Barb went with Mom to her MRI appt. Even though both Gabe and Keegan are busy, onery little boys, they had so much fun together and it was so nice to have someone here to play with Gabe. I also got the oppurtunity to rock him to sleep. It just seems when your own kids are so young you don't get to enjoy other kids like you used to because your own take so much of our time up. So I put both my kids down and was able to cuddle with the little guy. He is an absolute doll. It's so cute, he doesn't say tons of words (that I have heard at least) but when he sees a picture of Blake, he will say, "Bubba!" It's so precious. Tonite I ran out to the grave to put a little cross that I had found. I sat for a little bit and enjoyed the sunset and looked at some of the pictures they had put there. When I got back in the car, my Alan Jackson CD was playing and the song was "When We All Get to Heaven". I just had to cry and thought, I just can't wait to get there to see that boy again....I miss seeing his smile and hearing about his great hunts. And as we drove away, with tears running down my face, I just prayed that I too would be worthy enough to enter those gates....and run on the streets of gold.
"Sing the wondrous love of Jesus, Sing His mercy and His grace;
In the mansions bright and blessed, He'll prepare for us a place.
While we walk the pilgrim pathway, Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when traveling days are over, Not a shadow, not a sigh.
Let us then be true and faithful, Trusting, serving every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory will the toils of life repay.
Onward to the prize before us! Soon His beauty we'll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open, We shall tread the streets of gold.
When we all, get to Heaven, What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus, We'll sing and shout the victory."
~E. E. Hewitt
Friday, May 9, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Dear Gabriel
Dear Son...
Today is your second birthday. You have been such an incredible blessing in our lives and we can't imagine life without you. You are the cutest little boy we ever saw and we love you so very much. There are so many reasons why...
1- You say the cutest things with your own language.
2- You are very full of expressions like no other....when you were a baby, people would comment many many times how many cute expressions you had and how often you would change them.
3- You make us laugh very hard.
4- You are so very energetic, but you sleep oh so good!
5- You loved to be rocked to sleep as a baby, then became Mr. Independent and now just in the last couple weeks you are getting all cuddly with me again.....you like to be held again...and Mommy loves it when you wrap your little monkey arms around my neck and hold me tight.
6- You love playing with water....you are infatuated with water bottles and love to make messes with them.
7- You love watching your praise and worship "vees" (movies)
8- You learned how to pray very young and are so good at reminding Daddy and Mommy if we forget.
9- You love watching Daddy play the drums at church.
10- The first words out of your mouth when you wake up in the morning are: "Daddy! Paw-Paw! Tractor!" It absolutley melts my heart.
11- You love on your little sister so well...although sometimes you squish her a little too hard and she squeaks. She adores you!
12- You love riding the four wheeler, tractors and anything that moves.
13-You aren't talking in full sentences yet but this past week you started saying "Daddy, car, school" Yes, Daddy drives his car to school....you are so smart!
14- You love flirting out your bedroom window with the girl next door that is close to your age. Just yesterday I came into your bedroom to see you jabbering out the window and when I looked out, Ellie from next door was sitting below your window jabbering back. Later on in the afternoon I heard her yelling: "Little boy! Little boy! Where are you? And you went running to pick up where you had left off. I think I'm going to have to watch you very closely Mr. Man!
15- You are Mommy's big helper and love to follow me around the house.
16- You LOVE LOVE LOVE to clean! We vaccum frequently and you have your own vaccum, dust pan, broom, and duster. I hope you stay with this obcession!
17- You would live outside if I let you and the minute a car door opens, quicker than lightening you are sitting in the driver's seat trying to make it go....who teaches you these things?!?!?!?
18- You are still allergic to dairy products, but we are believing God for a miracle and that you are being healed even now of this.
19- You are very tall for your age and super skinny....we can count all your ribs no matter how much Mommy tries to fatten you up!
20- You LOVE boots.....and are quite the little cowboy, you wear them constantly!
21- You love hats and just today Mee-Maw gave you 2 new ones and when I went to check on you at nap time you were wearing them backwards.....I don't know who taught you that, but you'd rather wear it backwards than frontwards. I think it's adorable!
22- You love to lift your hands and worship Jesus and when someone asks you where He is, you point to Heaven and to your heart....May you never ever forget this!
23- Your smile lights up the world and you have so many of them ;)
24- You like to do very onery things and push Mommy's buttons, but I still love you.
25- Just today you started shaking your finger and saying No-no....and I had just told someone last night you didn't know how to say it....Your Auntie Sandy taught you that one!
26-You are the bestest little boy in the whole wide world and I love you up to the moon and back!
We thank God for you every day. Happy Birthday Gabriel Paul!!! Our little GPS ;)
Always yers....Mommy
Today is your second birthday. You have been such an incredible blessing in our lives and we can't imagine life without you. You are the cutest little boy we ever saw and we love you so very much. There are so many reasons why...
1- You say the cutest things with your own language.
2- You are very full of expressions like no other....when you were a baby, people would comment many many times how many cute expressions you had and how often you would change them.
3- You make us laugh very hard.
4- You are so very energetic, but you sleep oh so good!
5- You loved to be rocked to sleep as a baby, then became Mr. Independent and now just in the last couple weeks you are getting all cuddly with me again.....you like to be held again...and Mommy loves it when you wrap your little monkey arms around my neck and hold me tight.
6- You love playing with water....you are infatuated with water bottles and love to make messes with them.
7- You love watching your praise and worship "vees" (movies)
8- You learned how to pray very young and are so good at reminding Daddy and Mommy if we forget.
9- You love watching Daddy play the drums at church.
10- The first words out of your mouth when you wake up in the morning are: "Daddy! Paw-Paw! Tractor!" It absolutley melts my heart.
11- You love on your little sister so well...although sometimes you squish her a little too hard and she squeaks. She adores you!
12- You love riding the four wheeler, tractors and anything that moves.
13-You aren't talking in full sentences yet but this past week you started saying "Daddy, car, school" Yes, Daddy drives his car to school....you are so smart!
14- You love flirting out your bedroom window with the girl next door that is close to your age. Just yesterday I came into your bedroom to see you jabbering out the window and when I looked out, Ellie from next door was sitting below your window jabbering back. Later on in the afternoon I heard her yelling: "Little boy! Little boy! Where are you? And you went running to pick up where you had left off. I think I'm going to have to watch you very closely Mr. Man!
15- You are Mommy's big helper and love to follow me around the house.
16- You LOVE LOVE LOVE to clean! We vaccum frequently and you have your own vaccum, dust pan, broom, and duster. I hope you stay with this obcession!
17- You would live outside if I let you and the minute a car door opens, quicker than lightening you are sitting in the driver's seat trying to make it go....who teaches you these things?!?!?!?
18- You are still allergic to dairy products, but we are believing God for a miracle and that you are being healed even now of this.
19- You are very tall for your age and super skinny....we can count all your ribs no matter how much Mommy tries to fatten you up!
20- You LOVE boots.....and are quite the little cowboy, you wear them constantly!
21- You love hats and just today Mee-Maw gave you 2 new ones and when I went to check on you at nap time you were wearing them backwards.....I don't know who taught you that, but you'd rather wear it backwards than frontwards. I think it's adorable!
22- You love to lift your hands and worship Jesus and when someone asks you where He is, you point to Heaven and to your heart....May you never ever forget this!
23- Your smile lights up the world and you have so many of them ;)
24- You like to do very onery things and push Mommy's buttons, but I still love you.
25- Just today you started shaking your finger and saying No-no....and I had just told someone last night you didn't know how to say it....Your Auntie Sandy taught you that one!
26-You are the bestest little boy in the whole wide world and I love you up to the moon and back!
We thank God for you every day. Happy Birthday Gabriel Paul!!! Our little GPS ;)
Always yers....Mommy
Beauty
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty,
you will soon find yourself without it.
Your life will be impoverished.
But if you invest in beauty,
it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright
If you foolishly ignore beauty,
you will soon find yourself without it.
Your life will be impoverished.
But if you invest in beauty,
it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
~Frank Lloyd Wright
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Isaiah 30
"Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound
of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you.
And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water
of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
"This the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand
or whenever you turn to the left.
Then He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground,
And the bread of increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful."
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
You shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound
of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer you.
And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water
of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
"This the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand
or whenever you turn to the left.
Then He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground,
And the bread of increase of the earth; It will be fat and plentiful."
Thru the Floods and the Fires
Dad and I were talking yesterday on our lunch break...
About how the farmers burn off all the excess of cornstalks before they plant.
Sometimes the floods that come thru leave a mess and more burning than normal is done.
But after the fires and culivating...a rich dark soil is revealed so that the farmer can plant.
Isn't this how it is with us? It's thru the floods and the fires that we are refined...the old is burned away...we are stirred up so that new and fresh may grow deep in us...and the outcome will be beautiful. Take heart...there is purpose in it all.
About how the farmers burn off all the excess of cornstalks before they plant.
Sometimes the floods that come thru leave a mess and more burning than normal is done.
But after the fires and culivating...a rich dark soil is revealed so that the farmer can plant.
Isn't this how it is with us? It's thru the floods and the fires that we are refined...the old is burned away...we are stirred up so that new and fresh may grow deep in us...and the outcome will be beautiful. Take heart...there is purpose in it all.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
POOPED!
Do you know what Pooped stands for??
Literally so very tired that you cannot get yer butt motivated to take a shower even though
you are very very dirty.....and even the stench of yer stinky feet drifting upward into your nose hairs cannot get you moving towards cleanliness.
So today I started working with my dad again. We installed 11 windows in a record time! It was sooooo much fun....i so love doing contruction work with him. And the weather was beautiful...actually hot! and i got a little sunburn ;) yipee!
Then tonite when I got home, we sat down to supper right away as my hubby informed me all the men in the house were starving.....good thing I chose crockpot meal! Then we put the kids in the double stroller, made it as far as our friends a couple houses down and hung out there awhile chatting.....then only made it around the block before it was time for the kids to go to bed.
It's so nice to have Daddy back to play with!! Yeah!
A HUGE thank you to aunt Jen who came up to help Mom watch the kids today!! You are the greatest auntie ever!!!!
For those of you that know my mom, if you could keep her in your prayers...she has been having shoulder pain for quite awhile now, had a cortisone shot and therapy which helped for awhile but now it's like her shoulder is frozen. She is in alot of pain and cannot move her arm.
Okay....my smelly feet are prodding me outa the chair towards the bathroom. Hava good night!
Sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite....which makes me think: why do we even say this phrase? With how tiny those little creatures are (jason and i watched a nasty video about how microscopically small they are) and how fast they are, there's nothing we can do to stop them...except of course, wash your sheets often in warm water ;)
TFTD: "Trust....Delight...Commit...Rest...Wait....Fret Not..." Psalm 37
Love n Hugs....Laura
Literally so very tired that you cannot get yer butt motivated to take a shower even though
you are very very dirty.....and even the stench of yer stinky feet drifting upward into your nose hairs cannot get you moving towards cleanliness.
So today I started working with my dad again. We installed 11 windows in a record time! It was sooooo much fun....i so love doing contruction work with him. And the weather was beautiful...actually hot! and i got a little sunburn ;) yipee!
Then tonite when I got home, we sat down to supper right away as my hubby informed me all the men in the house were starving.....good thing I chose crockpot meal! Then we put the kids in the double stroller, made it as far as our friends a couple houses down and hung out there awhile chatting.....then only made it around the block before it was time for the kids to go to bed.
It's so nice to have Daddy back to play with!! Yeah!
A HUGE thank you to aunt Jen who came up to help Mom watch the kids today!! You are the greatest auntie ever!!!!
For those of you that know my mom, if you could keep her in your prayers...she has been having shoulder pain for quite awhile now, had a cortisone shot and therapy which helped for awhile but now it's like her shoulder is frozen. She is in alot of pain and cannot move her arm.
Okay....my smelly feet are prodding me outa the chair towards the bathroom. Hava good night!
Sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite....which makes me think: why do we even say this phrase? With how tiny those little creatures are (jason and i watched a nasty video about how microscopically small they are) and how fast they are, there's nothing we can do to stop them...except of course, wash your sheets often in warm water ;)
TFTD: "Trust....Delight...Commit...Rest...Wait....Fret Not..." Psalm 37
Love n Hugs....Laura
Monday, May 5, 2008
Not Ready Just Yet
Today Gabe came to me and said "I poo, I poo" which means he has done his duties and needs his diaper changed. But today he had not...so I said, "Want to go on the big boy potty?"
He smiled big, laughed, and took my hand....He led me to the bathroom, pulled down his pants...and we proceeded to sit. He jabbered non stop...played with the toilet paper....nothing happened. I tried encouraging him.....nothing happened...he proceeded to touch everything and that was it....I was done. I think it is so nasty (even though I clean often!) for little kids to be dinking around the throne. We'll try again another day. I'm not pushing it yet.
I thought afterwards how so much we are like this with God. He says we're ready for something in life....takes us by the hand and stands right beside us the whole time. And how many times, we procastinate, dilly-dally, get off the path, get distracted, then sometimes, we just give up. We think we're not ready for whatever it is. But really...it doesn't matter. As long as God says it's okay...go on...we can do anything...For with God, all things are possible! Our minds are the battle ground...so we just gotta get Jesus in focus...and put up the blinders on either side of our eyes and have tunnel vision: For Jesus. Great things happen then....when we say Yes to God.
He smiled big, laughed, and took my hand....He led me to the bathroom, pulled down his pants...and we proceeded to sit. He jabbered non stop...played with the toilet paper....nothing happened. I tried encouraging him.....nothing happened...he proceeded to touch everything and that was it....I was done. I think it is so nasty (even though I clean often!) for little kids to be dinking around the throne. We'll try again another day. I'm not pushing it yet.
I thought afterwards how so much we are like this with God. He says we're ready for something in life....takes us by the hand and stands right beside us the whole time. And how many times, we procastinate, dilly-dally, get off the path, get distracted, then sometimes, we just give up. We think we're not ready for whatever it is. But really...it doesn't matter. As long as God says it's okay...go on...we can do anything...For with God, all things are possible! Our minds are the battle ground...so we just gotta get Jesus in focus...and put up the blinders on either side of our eyes and have tunnel vision: For Jesus. Great things happen then....when we say Yes to God.
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