Tuesday, May 31, 2011

POOL TIME

 TODAY WAS FINALLY "HOT HOT HOT ENOUGH" AS CARTER SAYS, TO GET THE POOL OUT. THE KIDS WERE SO EXCITED. JAYCIE CAN EVEN GO DOWN THE SLIDE BY HERSELF THIS YEAR! THEY HAD A BALL! I HAVE A FEELING WE WILL BE SWIMMING A LOT THIS SUMMER!
 HERE ARE THE KIDS LAST SUMMER IN THEIR POOL! MAN, THEY HAVE GROWN SO MUCH!





A COUPLE MORE

 HERE ARE THE PICTURES FROM MEMORIAL DAY AT EMILY AND ADAM'S! 
ENJOY!



 HE SAID CASEY HURT HIS FEELINGS.
 PLAYING HORSE SHOES



 FRANKIE





Monday, May 30, 2011

MEMORIAL DAY!

 TODAY KELLY AND SHANNON INVITED US OVER FOR A COOK OUT AND TO SWIM. WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME AND ENJOYED THE GOOD FOOD, GREAT FRIENDS, AND LAUGHS IN THE POOL! THE KIDS WERE GREAT AND ALL GOT ALONG SO GOOD! WE REALLY ENJOYED OURSELVES! A BIG THANKS TO KELLY AND SHANNON FOR HAVING US! THERE'S NOTHING LIKE TRUE FRIENDS!

AFTER LEAVING KELLY AND SHANNON'S, WE CAME HOME TOOK NAPS AND THEN HEADED TO EMILY AND ADAM'S FOR ANOTHER COOK OUT WITH OUR FAMILIES! WHAT A GOOD TIME AND WONDERFUL FOOD WE HAD THERE ALSO! YUM-O!!!
THANKS EM AND DA FOR HAVING US OVER! WE ENJOYED IT!!!
 GLAD I HAVE NOTHING TO DO TOMORROW. I'M EXHAUSTED!






JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT OR ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ALWAYS!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Sunday, May 29, 2011

1 FISH, 2 FISH, RED FISH, DEAD FISH

 HERE'S MY SWEET BABIES THIS MORNING BEFORE CHURCH. 
LAST TUESDAY MORNING CARTER WOKE UP AND HIS EYE WAS MADDED UP AND WELL HE ENDED UP HAVING PINK EYE. WE GOT SOME ANTIBIOTIC DROPS TO PUT IN THEM AND IT FINALLY WENT AWAY. WELL JAYCIE WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND THE FIRST THING OUT OF HER SWEET MOUTH WAS "MOMMY MY EYE HURTS" SURE ENOUGH SHE HAS IT NOW! SO THE DROPS GO IN HER EYES AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL GET RID OF IT BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GETS IT! SO NEEDLESS TO SAY GENE AND JAYCIE SKIPPED CHURCH THIS MORNING SO WE WOUDNT GIVE IT TO ANY OF THE OTHER KIDS AT CHURCH AND THEY WENT TO WALMART AND THEN MET US FOR LUNCH AT OLYMPIC!
NOW, ON TO OUR FISH STORY. WE HAVE BEEN PROMISING THE KIDS A FISH FOR PROBABLY A YEAR NOW. IVE JUST BEEN TRYING TO HOLD OFF AS LONG AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THAT WOULD JUST BE ONE MORE THING I HAVE TO FEED AND TAKE CARE OF. WELL CARTER HAS BEEN REALLY ASKING HER LATELY SO WE TOLD HIM YESTERDAY MORNING THAT IF HE DID REALLY GOOD AT HIS SOCCER GAME THEN WE WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO THE PET STORE AND GET HIM A FISH AFTER THE GAME. WELL HE GOT OUT THERE AND DID HIS ABSOLUTE BEST AT HIS LAST SOCCER GAME SO STRAIGHT TO THE PET STORE WE HEADED! CARTER PICKED A GOLDFISH AND JAYCIE GOT A WHITE GOLDFISH. WE BROUGHT THEM HOME AND SET UP THEIR FISH BOWL AND WE DECIDED TO KEEP IT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE FOR A LIL WHILE SO THEY COULD WATCH THEM. WELL I WAS IN THE KITCHEN NOT PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO THE KIDS AND FISH WHEN CARTER STARTS YELLING THAT JAYCIE JUST POURED HER ORANGE SODA IN WITH THE FISH. SURE ENOUGH SHE THOUGHT THEY NEEDED A DRINK. SO FRANTICALLY I GOT THE FISH OUT AND CLEANED THEIR BOWL OUT AND STUCK THEM BACK IN. WELL AT DINNER SHE DECIDED THEY WERE HUNGRY AND FED THEM HER CORN. SO ONCE AGAIN I HAVE TO CLEAN THE TANK OUT. SO THIS MORNING WHEN I WENT TO CHECK ON THEM IN CARTER'S ROOM, JAYCIE'S WHITE FISH WAS JUST FLOATING. GREAT, A DEAD FISH IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS! NOT LOOKING GOOD. LEAVE IT TO MY DAUGHTER TO KILL A FISH THAT QUICK. IVE ALREADY COME TO CONCLUSION THAT JAYCIE WILL NEVER BE PICKED TO BRING THE CLASS PET HOME FOR THE WEEKEND. LOL! ANYWAY, WE TOLD THE KIDS THAT THE FISH WAS JUST SLEEPING UNDER THE ROCKS FOR NOW AND GENE'S GOING TO GO TRY TO GET A NEW FISH SOMETIME SOON. IM JUST GLAD IT WAS JAYCIE'S FISH FLOATING THIS MORNING AND NOT CARTER'S. HE HAS A VERY SENSITIVE HEART LIKE MINE AND HE WOULD HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD AT ALL!

WE HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL MEMORIAL DAY SPENT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

SOCCER AND AN EXTRA PRAYER

 TODAY WAS CARTER'S LAST SOCCER GAME OF THE YEAR. HE DIDN'T PLAY MUCH THROUGH THE YEAR BUT TODAY HE WENT OUT THERE AND GAVE IT HIS BEST AND KICKED THAT BALL! HE RAN WITH HIS TEAM AND DID SO GOOD! WE WERE VERY PROUD OF HIM. JUST WISHED HE HAD DONE THAT ALL YEAR LONG. HE WAS THE VERY YOUNGEST ON HIS TEAM THOUGH SO MAYBE NEXT YEAR HE WILL DO BETTER. CARTER WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT HIS TROPHY HE RECEIVED!
 LOVE THOSE TWO SO MUCH!
JAYCIE AND DADDY BEING SILLY.
THIS WEEK GENE AND I WILL BE CELEBRATING OUR 4 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY! THOSE 4 YEARS WENT BY SO FAST! I LOVE THAT MAN MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY!


TODAY I'M ASKING FOR A FAVOR. I AM ALWAYS PRAYING FOR GOD TO KEEP MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS SAFE, HEALTHY AND HAPPY ALWAYS BUT IT LOOKS LIKE I MIGHT BE THE ONE IN NEED THIS GO AROUND SO IF YOU HAVE ANY EXTRA PRAYERS, PLEASE SEND THEM MY WAY. I'M WAITING ON SOME TEST RESULTS AND I'M LEARNING I'M NOT A VERY PATIENT PERSON. IN A TIME LIKE THIS, ITS SO EASY TO DOUBT WHAT GOD IS DOING IN MY LIFE BUT IN THE MIST OF ALL THIS, I STOP AND I THANK HIM AND PRAISE HIM! HE IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ANY DISEASE OR MEDICAL CONDITION THAT WE MIGHT EVER HAVE TO FACE. HE WILL NEVER GIVE US MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE AND IF GOD LEADS YOU TO IT, HE WILL LEAD YOU THROUGH IT. 
IVE BEEN HOLDING ON TO THIS VERSE TO GET ME THROUGH THIS WEEK WHILE I WAIT. 
"DO NOT FEAR, FOR I AM WITH YOU; DO NOT BE DISMAYED, FOR I AM YOUR GOD." ISAIAH 41:10
AT THE WOMAN'S CONFERENCE I WENT TO, A GUY SPEAKER SPOKE ABOUT THIS SAME VERSE AND THE MEANING IT HAD IN HIS LIFE AND I WILL NEVER FORGET HIM READING THIS VERSE AND HE SAID, THERE IS A COMMA AFTER DO NOT FEAR, AND IF YOU DON'T NEED THAT COMMA RIGHT NOW, YOU SOON WILL, SO PUT IT IN YOUR BACK POCKET AND KEEP IT. MEANING IF YOU AREN'T GOING THROUGH A TOUGH TIME RIGHT NOW, YOU SOON WILL. ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS HE WAS SO RIGHT. WE ALL WILL NEED THAT COMMA ONE DAY, YOU JUST DON'T EXPECT IT TO BE AS SOON AS IT COMES. 
 SO LIKE NATALIE GRANT SAYS IN HER SONG "HELD" IN WHICH I LOVE, THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE LOVED AND TO KNOW, THAT THE PROMISE WAS, WHEN EVERYTHING FELL, WE'D BE HELD! 

THANKS FOR THE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS. WHO KNOWS, IT MIGHT NOT BE ANYTHING, BUT WE DO KNOW ITS ALL IN GOD'S HANDS AND HE IS THE HEALER!

Sunday, May 22, 2011

CARAVAN

 
I AM SO PROUD OF CARTER AND JAYCIE TODAY! THIS MORNING THEY RECEIVED THEIR CARAVAN BADGES THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING SO HARD TO GET ALL YEAR! THEY HAVE DONE AN AWESOME JOB! THEY BOTH ALSO GOT A CERTIFICATE FOR HAVING GREAT ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH!  ALL THE RUSHING AROUND EVERY SUNDAY AND WEDNESDAYS ARE PAYING OFF :) THANK YOU LORD FOR MY SWEET AND SMART CHILDREN AND THE TEACHERS THAT HAVE THE PATIENTS TO WORK WITH THEM EVERY WEEK! THEY ARE LEARNING SO MUCH ABOUT GOD AND IT DOES MY HEART GOOD!

Friday, May 20, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM !!!

 TODAY IS ADAM'S 27TH BIRTHDAY! MAN, HE'S GETTING OLD!!! LOL J/K! WE WENT TO THEIR HOUSE AND COOKED STEAKS OUT ON THE GRILL AND HAD BIRTHDAY CAKE. WE ALSO ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS AND MADE SMORE'S! THEY WERE YUMMY! CARTER SAID "THIS IS MY FIRST CAMPING TRIP" IT WAS TOO CUTE! HE HAD A BLAST.













EMILY DIDN'T GET THE MEMO THAT IT WAS BLUE DAY! HA!
WE WERE GETTING READY TO LEAVE TO COME HOME AND JAYCIE DECIDED SHE WANTED TO GO HOME WITH UNCLE JJ AND AUNT KRYSTLE. SO THEY TOOK HER HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME TO SPEND THE NIGHT. I TEXTED KRYSTLE TO CHECK ON HER A LIL WHILE AGO AND SHE SENT ME THIS PICTURE AND TOLD ME SHE WAS DOING JUST FINE! I HOPE THEY MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT OK BUT I THINK THEY WILL!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADAM AND BEST WISHES FOR MANY MORE TO COME!!!