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3rd Birthdays in Heaven are the best!! We miss you, we love you, and there is always one chair empty at our dinner table for you!! We are still so proud of you!! Happy 3rd Birthday Savannah Brooke!! We continue to be Blessed and Happy, let God know how grateful we are to Him.

Love ya, Mom

Sneek Peek... LOL

Will post about our Family Halloween time soon!!

Waco Livin...

This is how we shower in Waco! LOL No, not really the kids were playing in the water and he was just cracking me us sitting in that wagon like a bathtub! The kids had a great time that day!

I got my haircut since I was back to putting it in a bun everyday!! LOL New hair color to come soon!! I have an AMAZING tan right now -we have spent our summer days by pools all summer and because I don't think it rains is Waco! I think it gets cloudy and right before it rains God says PLAYIN!! LOL Please pray for our house to sell-we are ready to make Waco our home!!

We Started School in Waco...

They are so wonderful!! This was the "We like our new school" Dairy Queen celebration!!

I am done takin pics Mom

CJ-at his building.

Drew the mighty 2nd grader!

Sweet lady

Standing at the sign!!

Well in June we packed up and we moved to Waco, Texas!! Jon had been here since February and it was well worth it to finally all get to our new home!! We haven't sold our house in Oklahoma (BOO) yet but it will happen! In mid July we were in a pretty bad car accident on the way home on I-35 and I will never get frustrated at the people on the side of the road for causing rubber neckers ever again!! It was however the first time I realized how far we were from family!! I called my Mom right after the accident and she said we will come and get you!!! I politely yelled YOU ARE 6 HOURS AWAY!!! LOL It was a really scary moment. We totaled the car in front of us and we were pretty close to having ours totaled also! No one was hurt thank God, and Drew cried and said " I loved this car" and I began to cry and said So does Mommy! I believe we were truly protected. God is really good. Alright! The kids started school today and my youngest (here on earth) started Kindergarten. What a wonderful gift of life he is!! CJ is so brave, Drew so strong, and Madison so graceful. I love em. We are excited to see what the school year brings!!

You are my Sun, You are my life, You are My Hopes and Dream, Everything is Right...

When the world falls apart, and you fear for your heart, there's a tower of peace, it's still the cross. Wow- This song came out a couple of years ago by a group called Far From Home- or better known as FFH. Something just jumps out at me everytime I hear that song. Maybe because I have had several earthshaking moments like that over the last couple of years. Where I felt my world was crashing in around me, and absolutely no where to go but down on my knees. Then, I am guilty, yes I felt guilty because I would think why now? Why choose Him now? Over and over God reveals Himself to me, and still I question His love for me. At this moment I am going through one of the most difficult things I have ever been through apart from losing Savannah, and let me tell you there have been nights on my face; crying out to a God that I feel I set on a shelf until He is needed in a "crisis" whether it be a crisis of faith, trust, or life, and my confession is that I have conveniently left my saviour on a shelf. The last 3 months have been a rollercoaster and last week while brushing my teeth God said to me " I got this" and it was so clear it stopped me in my steps and shook my soul, and the shackles of fear, discomfort, betrayal, ignorance, were stripped from my spirit, and I am Free. I will be a believer that will allow God to reveal Himself whenever He would like- and I won't put boundaries on Him- because He is Bigger.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

Skate Night

Well this is a naughty, I don't want my picture taken face!! He cheers up for the rest of them! He just would rather make funny faces with the big boys!! It was skate night last night for the big kids school and we go pretty much every month, and I skate with them most of the time~ LOL, but I mostly hold CJ up and he has clipped me and we have both gone flying before! LOL These pics we sent to Dad who is working in Texas! We are ready to move but are being very patient for the end of the school year, so we do lots of fun things to keep us busy!! So fun, and I lost 3.2 lbs this week!!! WOO HOO!! God is good, All the time!!

Also, I looked at these pictures and said someone needs a tanning bed!!! Oh Summer we miss you come back!!!!!

It's Bad, It's Really Bad.... I May Never Recover... :)

Well, I have survived the first week of Jon being in Waco and me home by myself with the kiddos. The most eventful thing I did this week was rent a storage shed. It wasn't until today that the craziest thing happened!! I decided that I would try to take the kids out and look for things for the house. I have a really hard time asking for help with my kids, since they were babies I have had a very hard time letting them stay with anyone but family. Don't get me wrong we have paid a teenage babysitter but I really can count on one hand how often we have done that. I just think that if they go with us they learn how to act in public. That is just me. Anyway- my mom and I were driving looking for a food place with a playground. First let me say I am shocked that I agreed to that because I hate those places!! Dirty ick! I can't tell you the last time someone has gone in with some cleaner and wiped those slides down!!! Let me then say= they did today!! LOL
It took us almost 30 mins to find a place that had a playcenter. Thanks to the urban legend of the kids dying from the water moccasins in the ball pits, needles in the ball pit, and yucky other things that I will leave out for the faint of heart. Well we got to the food place and this is how it happened! I told the kids that they needed to put their coats and shoes at a table while I ordered food, and then they could play. In the meantime my mom has gone to Subway because Weight Watchers is nicer with a sub than food from fast food. LOL We sit down to eat and Drew eats just fine, eats about half of his meal and wants to play some more. Fine, while they play I can have some adult conversation with my mom, plan and plot about the house, and just relax a little. About 15 mins later Drew comes down the windy slide with this weird look on his face. I looked at him and thought oh heavens get a napkin he sneezed!! It looked like a giant line of snot- BUT it was worse!!! He said "Mommy I threw up" I said what?! He had thrown up on the huge, windy, purple slide and every child that was sliding with him slid through it!! IT WAS A VOMITPALOOZA! I grabbed him and took him into the bathroom, and asked him how long his stomach has been hurting and he said it doesn't it smells like poo poo up at the top and it made me sick!!! It ran through my mind What was I thinking? This is awful!! Oh what is in that playplace that is making that smell? OH HEAVENS!! I ran and told the manager about the throw up and the poop! UGH! UGH! UGH!! Then I am apologizing to parents whose children had throw up on their clothes. It was horrible!!! Horrible- HORRIBLE!!! So, then I asked them to send people up to find out what was contributing to the poop smell up at the top of the slide!! When we were leaving they were sending workers into the play land - play area with disenfectant to clean it up!! So, yes I have become the mother that had a kid yack in a play land, but I made sure that it was cleaned up!!!! Gosh- I hate those places!!!