heros and 52 years of marriage.

tonight i went to the taste of texas with my family and my grandparents and celebrated pawpaw's birthday and their 52nd wedding anniversary. o how neat it was to experience this. we had a very very nice steak dinner and a awesome joyous evening! my grandma is my hero. she is one who has made me the person i have become and for that i forever grateful. i am thankful. they both always made me feel welcomed and loved. there was lots and lots of encouragement. strength. to the best grandparents a granddaughter could EVER have~~love you with the deepest part of my heart, your granddaughter bonny deanne.

NMM

i did not indulge in the nail salon and treat myself to a nail refill. i most certainly did not wait til the last minute tonight to figure out dinner. i certainly didn't take wonder how on earth i could get 5 kids + me to church on time sunday morning!! more to come! off to prepare my menu last minute dinner!

thankful

Haiti this is just aweful. i have been watching the news too much. being consumed. wishing i could do more other than just pray and maybe donate a couple of dollars here and there! i wish i could bring a child home and take care of that child!! bathing clothing and most of all, feeding that child. no child should ever go w/out food. @ bible study we are learning to think of 1 word to best describe our hearts in 2010. i picked THANKFUL. there is so much to be thankful for. i don't have to look around a whole lot to see that!! what word will you choose to best describe your heart????

baby clothes.

today i rest in the fact that my husband and i will be able to get pregnant! most of my baby clothes went to the local pregnancy help center. the rest, well, hopefully i can find someone that can take some clothing and make a lil blanket out of it!!! so i can touch and remember in the latter years the premie stuff that pete used to wear!! this is so hard~o well! no more starting over, diapers, 2 kids in daycare etc....i will go and get my nephew!!! thank god for tied tubes!

it's been a week already

i have came up with a new goal. i am a smoker. i told myself i am not smoking in the car anymore. today was my first day and i am so proud of myself. i am very pleased to know that mikey and tristan is going back to school tommorrow~the 6th. thank you god. we have added an addition to our family. a chihuahua! 5 months old. white and tan. her tail is longer than her body. when she wags her tail, her whole body just shakes. too cute. she has been a joy to have. her name is daisy. she really hasn't been one to be barking all the time at just little things. petie loves her to death. it's so cute. we have moms group next monday and i couldn't be any more excited and ready!!!

out with 2009 and in with 2010

well 09 was a good year. i will make 2010 the best year. i vow to myself and kids to do better~ i vow to give myself QUALITY TIME. i will get myself out of the house(weather permittinig) with the kids. i will do better and focus on them and not the house! house comes after bedtime! i have vowed to take my 18 days of vacation before december of next year. i will use up all my 50 hours of sick time. i will take off when my kids are off (boss lady has to approve). this year is going to be all around better!!! so here's to us 2010~~ be good~~~

cookies 101

after reading every step of the receipe, very disappointed my cookies, didn't turn out the first time. pete had to wait a while and retry my dough!! o well. today was the best day eroff ever! i went with my brother and his maternal grandma. we went to eat @ a mexican restaurant, mall toyrus and best of cavenders. i saw the cutest pair of cowboy boots ever! a little bit above my budget, i have decided not to buy until later! they did have a pair of Justins~working boots just like what daddy wears the sales lady muttered. are you kiddin'? those are some serious toddler work boots. but o so darn cute!!! petie, santa will be bringing those to you for your o i got it, birthday!!! the kids have some awesome presents to receive from Santa!! i just feel really on cloud 10 b/c my brother and i had some bonding time, all of it was time spent thinking about my children! it was just a great day. i love you brad! you rock.i am so proud of you!

5th grade Christmas party,i am not POLITICALLY CORRECT this holdiay

i passed a sign on an automotive shop yesterday and it went a lil something like this~~WE ARE NOT POLITICALLY INCORRECT~~WE SAY HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS~~i do not dare call it the "WINTER PARTY"i will be a lil rebelious right now. i am off to get supplies for mikey's christmas party on friday morning!! i am so excited. i have to make 3 dozen cookies and get some grapes and napkins and h20!! i am getting antsy to go shopping but i just have to be still and patient right now for the funds to get in the account!!! our family is gonna have a special christmas and that is it! we are gonna have presents and spending time w/ family, and the best gift of all, Jesus Christ was born. he was born and died to save us from our sins!! that in and of itself is the best present of all!!! i have spent some time going thru clothes and baby items. i have some maternity stuff as well. so i am going thru and half will go to the pregnancy help center and the other half i have decided to drive downtown houston and drop this stuff off to the star of hope mission!! i am so excited!

keeping christ.

in christmas is what my moms group was about on monday @ the church. our theme is joy in motherhood. the speaker was our wonderful pastor's wife, Mrs. Jo Beth Young. whenever all the decorations are gone. find.joy. whenever the christmas tree is all down, find.joy.with.your.kids. keep the joy is what i should say. keep the joy being a mother. i truly hope that i can do that. first it comes from the heart. then tonight i read blog about peace. this post was written for me to read and be remined of god's peace. i so truly feely rejuvinated by that post. she was explaining what peace meant. right now i just really feel like i need strength right now. for anyone who stops at this blog, please say a little prayer for me! thanks.

giving thanks.

i am thankful for god that truly continues to bless our family. i am thankful for the health of children. i am thankful for our vehicles. our cars to get us to work. i am thankful for our home. i am thankful for our family that helps us with the kids @ the drop of a hat. our health.

NMM

all this past week, i have been on scheduled vacation. i have not been in pj's more times than not. i have not let my all of our laundry pile up. i have not just barely gotten by with dinner ideas. we certainly did not eat 99 cent coney dogs b/c i didn't feel like cooking yesterday. i certainly did not use the excuse that the top of my foot feels broken so i am just gonna lay here on the couch and watch TV. what is your NMM? link it to mckmama's site. this is therauputic!!!

no more baseball

well that sums it up! no.more.baseball. we lost last night. 13-7. mikey got on base 2x and struck out once. dang fielding mistakes again! we had a great time though!! just relaxing some more with my vacation time. getting stuff done that i wanted/needed to. mikey has teacher luncheon tommorrow so i wil be there with soup and pasta salad in tow! what fun that will be! i am excited. friday is my meeting @ the school for the Christmas party. i will not Winter Party!!! hehe. which is ridiculous to begin with. o well at least they can have a party of some kind. this is mikey's last year @ elementary school and i WILL NOT MISS any part of it if i can help it!!! another thing, stellan he is progressing after his very risky procedure. stop by and drop a word of encouragement! mom is there alone with stellan. i am sure she could use every bit of her comments to lift her spirits!!!!o well. off to the store to get my stuff.

heaviest of hearts

over this weekend, i went to check on Gavin Owens. god bless his sweet family. i do not know this family personally, but their 2 year old just stole a huge piece of my heart. i keep finding myself going back several times over the past few days checking on him. my heart just is so sad for this family. i did a 5K walk in honor of Gavin over the summer with a family here in houston. getting back to our weekend however, we had a game on saturday and grandpa bobby and unca brad came. then we went to eat dinner! that was a huge treat. on sunday, loaded up the kids and went to church. afterwards, we played a game parents vs kids. just what the doc ordered for my spirits. there was so much laughter and just spending quality time with my boys! so so much fun!

gavin owens.

you have come to my blog. great! please go to www.gavinowens.com and say a prayer for their family as this little boy is loosing his battle with MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE! his family needs to lifted to Lord today. my heart just aches for this child. in memory of Gavin. may you rest in peace little one.

play ball and vacation.

we have been cleaning and getting ready for our first game of the tournament today! enjoying the beautiful weather here just outside of houston texas. i just wanted to come on and say what a awesome week busy week this has been for me. god is so great to me and my family. i had a parent teacher conference w/ tristan's teacher this week. he is right on track academically, behavior is still a small challenge! his teacher is awesome! and mikey's conference was friday. that went well too. got some discouraging news and some wonderful news. out of all the kids in mikey's class, he is the only one who truly wholeheartedly asks the teacher if he can help do anything. he is on the safety patrol and doing well. he is also in a class called CML it's a math league, class. they are not graded however it is extremely dificult problem solving for math! he is doing ok. he didn't want to participate at all wednesday. so i am having to sit down w/ him and pound it in his brain about not quiting!! both of these kids are so smart! and i could not be any more proud of my children! i am out on vacation from this weekend til next monday! i am interviewing for a part time job @ toyrus on monday as well. go me.. here we come bills!!!

pre AP classes, honor roll student

mikey brought home a report card w/ all A's and B's on it! i am so proud of him! he is in a special math class right now CML, if he continues through the whole year he will be rewarded and will also be able to go to AP classes in the sixth grade!! i am so proud!~!!

game ball, safety patrol and a little boys heart

well first thing first. mikey had a great game tonight. lost by one meaasly point. 9-8. mikey got the game ball, 3 key outs on second base. 2 runs on the board never struck out, and he was last @ bat, he hung in there foul tippin the ball when he got a piece of it, not swinging @ the balls either! so good. then he tells me mom i am in safety patrol. coming from a kid that says that's too neirdy mom i am not gonna do that! i am such a proud mother to a terrific 11 year old boy! thank you jesus for this wonderful gift you have given me. a child that will open doors for elder ladies, mom w/ kids hanging off her purse, a boy that says mom, that was nice of you to take that lady home. it's hot outside. a brother who is the best big bother in the whole world. a brother who has BUBBA on the back of his cap b/c that is what his youngest brother calls him!!!! i am so proud of my son each and every day!

one more prayer request

there is a little girl, Elle. yeah, you saw her on my sidebar. please go and click on the link and lift her family up in prayer. she had heart surgery. and just as cute as she can be!!! she will be soon going to a step down unit. Elle belle i just had to share ya hon!!!!

19-2 and a moment of silence

raro!! baseball game thursday nite. we got our butts handed to us that nite. we won the first game....13-4 though. i am so proud of mikey. he played awesome @ 3rd base and catching!! the very last play of the nite, mikey caught the strike. so there was no error on that play! go mikey. mikey has the heart of being catcher. mikey will put himself out there to do what it takes to catch that ball. mikey hussles like tommorrow to get the ball back to the pitcher. well when he has a runner on 3rd, he will hunt them down and try and tag em'. the coach really picked up on that and mikey was gloatin'. we got home thursday nite, i said a prayer w/ mikey and incorporated our next baseball game in that prayer. he was silent off to sleep. meanwhile, i stood next to his bed, just watching him drift off. and tears came to my eyes because i was such a proud momma. he is really maturing now he will whole heartedly into his baseball business. mikey won tickets to the texans game. pete now thinks he is a football player/baseball player. i am going to see if we as a family can have a baseball prayer/moment of silence for those who don't believe. what do you think? please leave a comment and let me know if i should take it all the way to the coach for this. i am going to come up w/ a baseball prayer for every game!! also, please pray that my parent teacher conference for tristan goes ok on monday. the teacher just says that she is doing a conference w/ all the parents.

our life has just started and a quote from my 6yo

@ the baseball diamond this fall season!!! yippeee..go angels. mikey has his first game in the AM @ 9am sharp! my six year old and i were talking earlier he says mommy, god is a special guy! that's awesome to hear that come out of my chid's mouth!!!