Changes!

Hey there y'all!  There have been some changing happening around our house.  My family and I have been going to church again, which is something we really needed to do.  I have also gone back to work at Cato, a local clothing store. 
I originally started this blog to chronical the our family life and share everyday things with our families.   I have been feeling led to include more about my faith and my walk with Christ, along with my rededication.  I use the term rededication kinda loosely because I feel it is more of a "realignment".  I have always loved God with all my heart but I was not fully walking in alignment with God's path for me.   I could hear Him guiding me but I am rebellious and chose to walk just on the outside of His path. 
The Bible is my guide, both old and new testament, and I follow Jesus' teachings of how we should live our lives.  I'm not sure how this is going to work but I am trusting God to lead me where He wants this to go. 
Right now, being that it is the Christmas season, the children have been doing an Advent Devotional called the Jesse Tree.  I have found many resources for this devotional and I had picked two different ones.  The one that we are following the closest is from Faith Magazine and the other is from http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/11/update-free-jesse-tree-advent-devotional/  I have to say that next year, we will use this one exclusively!  It even has fully colored ornaments! Love it!!  Or maybe I will get creative and write my own...HA!!  Anyway, Chaos and Mayhem, my sweet children, are really enjoying the advent and look forward to it every evening.  I will post pictures of our wreath tomorrow with our ornaments hanging from it! 
That is enough for now... maybe something more tomorrow!



Melinda

She Lost It!!!

Sorry, I am a little late on my weeky post but what can I say... I'm posting now!!!  So this week hasnt been that crazy but we were definitley movin' and groovin'!!  Emma Lee has started gymnastics.  She started going about a month ago and is loving it!!!  She comes home and can't help but show off her cartwheels, and rolls, and the newest one ... a one-handed cartwheel!  I will post pics of gymnastics after her first family observation night.  Parents are discouraged from being there during class so I haven't actually seen her do anything on the "bouncy rug".  We also went to Family Worship Night at our church on Wednesday.  We really enjoyed all the music and the message that was given.  Emma also got to draw with pastels during the praise and worship time.  It is called "art fusion".  They are split up into groups and they all start their own drawings and then they switch and get to add their own take anad ideas to anothers drawing... so it becomes all of theirs!  She made the biggest mess and loved every minute of it. 

Oh yeah, back to the title of this post.  Emma Lee, my baby, had her first loose tooth.  And she asked me if I had one of those envelopes that have the tooth fairy on it.  Nope, those you can only get from school.  So what does she do?  She leaves her tooth alone all weekend and then Monday morning in school, she reaches into her mouth and pulls out her tooth!  Her teacher told me Emma said "Here's my tooth!! Can I have a toothfairy envelope now?"  Love it!!!

How adorable is that!!! 

See you soon!!

Melinda

My First Real Post in a Long Time

Hey there everyone!  We have been very busy lately!  But it is slowing down since the kids went back to school.  Emma is in kindergarten now and she is doing wonderfully, like we had any doubt about that!  This year Skyler is in second grade and he seems to really like his teacher and his class. 

I am trying to find my way through all the free time I have with the kids in school.  I have been doing some sewing and some knitting. And watching movies!!  Not the best use of my time but what can I say!! 

I have been making some crayon rolls for my mom to sell.  I have make five so far and have two more to do.  I have more fabric that I can cut for them but I think I might make some other stuff too!

Skyler turned eight this summer.  I can't believe how quickly time flies!!

I will be back next week with pictures of the kids and an update from our week!

Melinda

Alright ... so I lied!!!

Ok... so I haven't been posting every Thursday like I said I would!  We had a very busy year so far and it has gone by so fast!!  But I will be posting every Thursday starting this week!! 

We have been very busy with all kinds of activities that the kids are involved in.  We started going to a new church and my husband got himself a very good new job!  So life is moving forward in the best direction it could go in! 

See you Thursday!!

Melinda

Ok, so I am trying something different!

I, like so many other people, made some New Year's Resolutions! And no, one of them wasn't o lose weight, although one was to be a fitter, healthier person! One of my resolutions was to blog more often! Once a week.
Now, I realize that I am two months behind on this (already!) but I have decided to set aside some time every Thursday to do a post about what we have been up to for the last week.
I think that I am just gonna lay out what has been going on in the last week versus the last two months!
Last Saturday, Dan and I went to a Jaycee Barn Dance! We had a great time with out friends, Walter and Chanel Smith! We danced together which is something we haven't done in a long time! And afterward, we went over to the TA truck stop in town, that yeah isn't the most glamorous place but man they have some great food!! I had Sunday off from work, so we hung around the house and cleaned!! Of all the things a family can do on a Sunday, we spent the day cleaning! But man, we really needed to! We tend to be on the go so much that the house doesn't always get the deep down cleaning as regularly as it should so..... that was what we did!
The best day of all this week was Tuesday! And I say this with all intended sarcasm! Tuesday was my last day off for the week and I really was planning on enjoying it in my quiet house with the children at school and Dan at work........ well that's not what happened! We were woken up at 5:58 in the morning to the phone ringing... it was the school calling (with an automated system) to tell us that our precious little pride and joys were not going to be going to school! WHAT you say!!! Yes, we got roughly 8 inches of snow and my peaceful, quiet day was now shot all the way to you know where!! You know, and because they are kids, after breakfast, they just had to go outside and play in all of the precious white stuff that we rarely ever see out in our neck of the woods! Skyler couldn't find one of his gloves, Emma Lee was trying to go out in jeans with holes in the knees, everything was falling apart very quickly!! I gave Skyler one of my gloves, and finally wrangled her into another pair of pants, so that they could finally get to go outside in all the precious white stuff! Out they go....... 5 minutes later, they were trying to come back in because they were cold!! Well, yeah silly, it's snow!!!No... get back outside for more fun because it is all going to melt tomorrow! Yup, that was my response to them! And so out they go...... 25 minutes later I was able to coax them back into the house for some hot cocoa and dry clothes! They loved playing in it once they were so cold that they couldn't feel anything anymore!! It was wonderful to see them so happy... but true to form, the weather swiftly turned better on Wednesday, and the snow was all gone by 2:30 in the afternoon! Gotta love West Texas!!
Yesterday and today were really very quiet days without much to talk about! Nice, huh?! This morning was a bit of a whirlwind because ther seems to be no way that I can leave my MOPS group on time to get Emma Lee to school and me to work without being late!! But she made it, her friend Jake made it, and I finally made it to work!! Lucky me!!!

Until next time!! Next Thursday could be a doozy because it is Emma Lee's 5th birthday and I seem to be having a bit of trouble with it!