Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
My precious baby is 4 years old!
Our little Miss Miah turns 4 years old on Friday, but we celebrated her birthday yesterday. She requested a PINK PRINCESS PARTY, and that is what she got. (Although she wanted her friends to play dress up with her, and they didn't want to, she started to demand that they play dress up, so I had to step in with a lesson on being bossy.) "It's my party and You'll do what I want to" was her mind set, but she adjusted her attitude quickly and had a great night.
I will post pictures as soon as the computer gets fixed.
Thank you to everyone who came to her party. Miah is a shining light in our life. She is very girlie, very silly, very emotional, very helpful and full of love. She has a very shy side and also a very out-going side, which she switches between quite quickly. She loves to play dress-up, play with stuffed animals, especially horses, bears and puppys. She also loves art! She paints with her brothers almost everyday.
It is hard to believe she is my youngest and she is now 4 years old! Awesome and Sad all at the same time.
I will post pictures as soon as the computer gets fixed.
Thank you to everyone who came to her party. Miah is a shining light in our life. She is very girlie, very silly, very emotional, very helpful and full of love. She has a very shy side and also a very out-going side, which she switches between quite quickly. She loves to play dress-up, play with stuffed animals, especially horses, bears and puppys. She also loves art! She paints with her brothers almost everyday.
It is hard to believe she is my youngest and she is now 4 years old! Awesome and Sad all at the same time.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Homeschool Christmas Party day!
Well, last minute I realized that today was Jalen's Christmas party at school, so I needed to come up with something fun for Cameron, Miah and I at home, so no one felt left out. So total last minute, we made chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles, and then we had left over melted chocolate, so we threw in raisens and almonds, WOW, those were good. My favorite part was watching Cameron help Miah. He is so sweet with her. I am thankful he has a little sister to look out for and teach and be gentle with. I think it is good preperation for him for later on in life. But, what also blessed my heart was that, even before we were done, Cameron saw a neighbor walking her dog, and he grabbed a pretzel, threw on his shoes and chased her down to wish her a Merry Christmas and give her a chocolate pretzel. Then he made up a big plate to take to our friends across the street, and he made a homemade Christmas card, or should I say "crismis" card for them.
Then we picked Jalen up from school and he had all sorts of Christmas crafts and little treats, but the first thing he did was give a treat to Cameron and Miah. (He told me on the way to school that if he got any treats he was going to ask the teacher if he could bring one home for his brother and sister too. I figured his teacher would say no, but I loved his heart.)
(Now, I am praying for a snow day tomorrow!!!)
Then we picked Jalen up from school and he had all sorts of Christmas crafts and little treats, but the first thing he did was give a treat to Cameron and Miah. (He told me on the way to school that if he got any treats he was going to ask the teacher if he could bring one home for his brother and sister too. I figured his teacher would say no, but I loved his heart.)
(Now, I am praying for a snow day tomorrow!!!)
Friday, December 12, 2008
Update on my photo's
Well, figured out that my camera is fine, it is the computer that is not allowing me to transfer my photo's in. So for the past month I have not been able to transfer any new photo's. So I may have to do my Christmas letter without photo's. :(
Thursday, December 11, 2008
SO MUCH TO SAY... SO LITTLE ENERGY...
Really Cool stuff to share, but I am low on energy and on my way to sleep, BUT, wanted to say a few things.
Colossians 1:28-29
We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.
It has been such a blessing seeing my children so excited for Christmas. They are seriously the most generous children I have ever known. They keep going through their closets pulling out things to wrap up and give to others. It is humorous and heart warming. They all love to give. We are trying to teach what is appropriate to give and what isn't without squelching their enthusiasum. So far as long as it's clean and it still works, I say sure!
Last week, Jalen kept asking for me to take him to the "Dollar Store",(which, around here, it should be called the "More than a Dollar Store") Anyways.... finally I took him. See my children get allowance money each week and I knew Jalen had been saving his for quite awhile, and so he knew exactly what he wanted to buy. He saved up $10.00 and he walked right into the store, walked right to the spot where this special item was, and he grabbed it, walked up to the counter and used every dollar he had plus his change for tax. He used all but .20 cents. He bought a big nerf gun thing. He wanted to give it to his best friend Luke for Christmas. We went right home and he wrapped it up and made a card. Two days later we went to Lukes house and Jalen gave him the gift. It truly is more blessed to give than to recieve.
I don't know who is looking forward to "Christmas break" more, me or the kids. This year I think I am more organized than last year and also doing things simple and looking forward to our little family traditions. And I am so looking forward to seeing family! I love how excited my children get to see their extended family. They love people, especially family, and it brings me so much joy to see them loving their extended family so much.
Today was truly one of those days when I must admit that I have the best kids in the world. I really do. Sorry to all you proud mama's out there, but I really do believe that mine are #1. :) :)
Colossians 1:28-29
We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.
It has been such a blessing seeing my children so excited for Christmas. They are seriously the most generous children I have ever known. They keep going through their closets pulling out things to wrap up and give to others. It is humorous and heart warming. They all love to give. We are trying to teach what is appropriate to give and what isn't without squelching their enthusiasum. So far as long as it's clean and it still works, I say sure!
Last week, Jalen kept asking for me to take him to the "Dollar Store",(which, around here, it should be called the "More than a Dollar Store") Anyways.... finally I took him. See my children get allowance money each week and I knew Jalen had been saving his for quite awhile, and so he knew exactly what he wanted to buy. He saved up $10.00 and he walked right into the store, walked right to the spot where this special item was, and he grabbed it, walked up to the counter and used every dollar he had plus his change for tax. He used all but .20 cents. He bought a big nerf gun thing. He wanted to give it to his best friend Luke for Christmas. We went right home and he wrapped it up and made a card. Two days later we went to Lukes house and Jalen gave him the gift. It truly is more blessed to give than to recieve.
I don't know who is looking forward to "Christmas break" more, me or the kids. This year I think I am more organized than last year and also doing things simple and looking forward to our little family traditions. And I am so looking forward to seeing family! I love how excited my children get to see their extended family. They love people, especially family, and it brings me so much joy to see them loving their extended family so much.
Today was truly one of those days when I must admit that I have the best kids in the world. I really do. Sorry to all you proud mama's out there, but I really do believe that mine are #1. :) :)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Misc. ramblings by Jenny...
Can you believe I filled up my mini-van today for $27.00? Absolutely Crazy. Crazy Good. I wish I could stock up, buy some big tank and store up enough for the next 20 years or so. (but that might be a fire hazard to have in my back yard.)
Heads Up! For those of you checking your mail everyday, just hoping and waiting for a Christmas card from us, well this year we are doing something different. We are going green. We will be doing all Christmas letter/cards/photos by way of email or through this blog. So you can stop running to your mail boxes checking for our card! :)
Snow... sure is pretty, but I think we have enough.
Dishwashers... ours died the end of October. It was old, but worked great, until the day it died! We did the old fashion method for over a month, but thankfully got a new one installed a few days ago. We shopped around, so many to choose from, we seriously bought the cheapest good one we could get. We found one with the basic good features, no bells and whistles, but got it really cheap. And it works GREAT. I can not imagine a dishwasher that cost $1,000 more working any better than ours did. Thank you God, and Thank you Mom.
Water... Drink more, it's good for you!
Christmas Shopping is not really on my radar this year. I've done a tiny bit. And I have a tiny bit left to do. The Christmas budget is small, so it helps not to think about it. The more you get out in the stores or look through all the sale flyers, the more things you see and think, oh so and so would love that, or gee I want that! So my plan is simple, don't think about it, don't go out to the stores and don't look through the flyers, and just focus on family gatherings and what we can do as a family to help others and thank God everyday that we are healthy, that all our bills are paid and that we both have great, fulfilling jobs.
God is Faithful, I am thankful, Merry Christmas!
Heads Up! For those of you checking your mail everyday, just hoping and waiting for a Christmas card from us, well this year we are doing something different. We are going green. We will be doing all Christmas letter/cards/photos by way of email or through this blog. So you can stop running to your mail boxes checking for our card! :)
Snow... sure is pretty, but I think we have enough.
Dishwashers... ours died the end of October. It was old, but worked great, until the day it died! We did the old fashion method for over a month, but thankfully got a new one installed a few days ago. We shopped around, so many to choose from, we seriously bought the cheapest good one we could get. We found one with the basic good features, no bells and whistles, but got it really cheap. And it works GREAT. I can not imagine a dishwasher that cost $1,000 more working any better than ours did. Thank you God, and Thank you Mom.
Water... Drink more, it's good for you!
Christmas Shopping is not really on my radar this year. I've done a tiny bit. And I have a tiny bit left to do. The Christmas budget is small, so it helps not to think about it. The more you get out in the stores or look through all the sale flyers, the more things you see and think, oh so and so would love that, or gee I want that! So my plan is simple, don't think about it, don't go out to the stores and don't look through the flyers, and just focus on family gatherings and what we can do as a family to help others and thank God everyday that we are healthy, that all our bills are paid and that we both have great, fulfilling jobs.
God is Faithful, I am thankful, Merry Christmas!
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