MORE SNOW!

Loads of Love

This is my mother and her mother

Had to put the bathrobe and slippers on him atleast once for the picture :-D

Send The Rain

I love this song and just had to share.

Not in the mood...

Well Justus got a suit for Christmas and we put it on him (against his will)

He still looked handsome....

Spaghetti face!

I have been "wearing"my baby in the moby wrap because it's his favorite place to be. And the other night I made spaghetti for dinner and.....I missed my mouth. OOPS!

Jonah is definately loving being a BIG brother. This is not a great picture because it was taken with my cell phone but I had to act quickly to capture the moment.

And one last picture of me...I don't really like taking (or posting) pictures of me so this might be the only one you see for a long time. :-D

I have a dream...

...of a family closet. Or some sort of organized system for the boys clothes. I won't lie the laundry can be a little overwhelming at times. If it weren't for my husband being the "laundry king" there is no way I could keep up.

Our boys are all 2 years and 8 or 9 months apart so that means they are usually wearing 2 sizes apart. So every other size is in our attic. We store their clothes in rubbermaid bins mostly all the same sizes in one. Shoes and all, as they grow out of things. It's a little annoying to me that we have to put them up there one year and bring them down the next. I wish we had the space to keep all the clothes down here on hangers or in drawers labeled by size and organized by season.

I have this vision of a room lined with dressers and wire racks on the walls. Clothes hung so neatly and shoes lining the floor. I guess it won't happen as long as we live here. But hey I can dream can't I?

Snow pops

I got this new recipe for "snow pops" on another mom's blog. We love them. Bake a cake and crumble the cake and mix in 1/2 cup of icing into a dough texture and make cake balls. Chill them in the fridge or freezer for a while and then stick sticks in them to dip in white chocolate and add sprinkles before it hardens. We used red velvet cake but I'm gonna try chocolate next time.

SNOW!

We got snow on Christmas day for the first time in 100 years here in Georgia!
Jaron went outside first but by the time I got Jonah dressed and ready Jaron had already come back in and was back in his pjs. He did not like the cold and was not going back out.

So we bundled them up good in 3 pairs of pants and 2 pairs of gloves, 2 shirts, 2 hats and a jacket. Jonah looked like Ralphie on the "christmas story" movie.

Jacob showed him how to eat show!

Jonah fell once and cried a little but was not ready to come in...

Jacob went down the slide on our swing set and once his fingers were frozen he was ready to come in for hot chocolate.

It was pretty seeing everything covered in white on Christmas morning and the boys had fun but it's all melted now....maybe we'll get some more soon.

Presents and Pillow Pets

Jonah is now comfortable holding Justus....for a few seconds

Daddy is in love

Jacob is my little helper...always getting a passy or a burp cloth when he needs it.

Jaron LOVES his pillow pet he got for Christmas!

And the gingerbread train was fun to make...and eat!

Jonah also has to sleep with his pillow pet EVERY NIGHT!

Justus slept through the whole thing....he got new clothes and diapers but we didn't bother wrapping them because it's not like he could open them....and we needed them before Christmas.

Jaron loved his Woody costume too....we made a video of them all opening their gifts but blogger wouldn't let me download it. I think 7 minutes is too long. In the video I asked Jaron what was his favorite present and he said "I love all of them"

It was so cute to watch them open everything....

Jonah got a new car to drive and he keeps telling me "see ya later, I going to the store"

They got more than enough for Christmas (like always) Thanks to all their grandparents!

Every year before opening gifts we read the story in the Bible of baby Jesus and how he came into this world. We want our children to know the true meaning of Christmas and always make that priority.

He was 20 and I was 18...

I met Chris a few weeks before he left for basic training. I was going into 12th grade and tired of getting hurt in previous relationships. I made a decision to stop trying to find "the one" for me and start praying for God to send me a husband. A mutual friend introduced me to Chris and we kept in touch through letters while he was in basic training from June to Sept. He came home and we were inseperable. We went out to eat one night and he proposed to me in the restaurant. I said yes and we were so excited that we couldn't even finish our food. We left there and went to the closest payphone to call my dad. (no cell phones back then)

It was a strange feeling....my head was saying "you barely know him" and my heart was saying "I love him and if he leaves for the army when will we get married?"

It was very hard the day he had to leave for Korea. I was finishing high school and engaged to be married. I wrote him letters daily. He wrote me a lot too. I of course saved all the letters and pictures we exchanged during that year. He came home for 2 weeks on mid tour leave. We visited his family in New Hampshire on a 20 hour road trip from NC. He went back to finish his tour in Korea and I stayed home finishing high school and working at McDonalds saving my money and planning for our wedding. I graduated in May 1998 and he came home in October and was stationed in Ft. Benning, GA. We saw each other every weekend and we got married (in same church we met in and the same church I got saved in) on December 26, 1998.

And here we are 12 years later with 4 boys and still in love...

I am so thankful for my handsome husband and his dedication to the Lord.