Taking the kids to the top of the mountains to find the BIG ONES Uncle Gene suceeded in his mission!

Wow a lot has happened since I left.  My little girls have grown up on me in the blink of an eye!  It seems just yesterday my oldest one was my youngest one's age playing and discovering all life has to offer.  Where do the moments go??

I am still trying to shed all the baby weight unfortunately I had shed it all and then stopped breast feeding!  Wow how I wished I would've kept that up.lol  (totally kidding on that one).  Some women do it for a long time I say more power to them.  I was always excited when that time was coming to an end. 

Anyway we've moved  again since my last post.  We are constantly moving but I am hoping for my Kindergarteners' sake we'll be staying here at least awhile.  I do wish we had a good church family though, that is the thing I miss the most. 

Well without further ado I shall try to find some recent pics of my two crayon princesses. 

Wow can't believe that after all this time I finally remembered my password to this account. I am still not sure how to get all the little details changed to be current again but hope to be blogging more soon!

The other night before bed she said, "Mommy do we all get castles in heaven?" "Yes," I replied. She then said, "Hmmm well I will have a whole castle to myself and your will have your own castle too?" "yes, Sweetie God has a castle for everyone that accepts him into their hearts" She then said, "I don't think I'll like that I don't like being alone so when I die I am going to take my pink pony with me to live in my castle." "That will be fine sweetie, I relpied, and we'll all visit each other and you can stay in my castle as much as you want." "well since the streets are made of gold I think I'll take my gold bear with me too because then it will match." LOL

Children are truly a blessing. I read where in India they won't allow a child's feet to touch the ground before six months because they say it's been so close to God it would be like disrespectful. I thought, it was a neat thought because at times they do seem like angels in disguise.

Wow it's been so long since I've updated this blog. Anna has started preschool and she loves it. I am so happy she is enjoying it so much. She came home the first day and said, "Mommy there's a little girl in my class who is mean and her name is 'Angel'. " It was so funny. She was so confused as to why she got the name Angel. lol Kids are so funny. She woke up the other day and started singing "I am going to preschool, I am going to preschool!" On the first day of going to preschool she was ready 4 hours before it was time to go and didn't understand why we couldn't leave right then. lol She is also in teamkids at church on Sunday nights and Awana's on Wed. nights. She loves both of those too. She enjoys the puppet shows at Awanas and she enjoys the fact that on Sunday nights it's all girls.lol Anna's First Day of Preschool. My husband and I are doing Financial Peace University on Wed. nights by Dave Ramsey who has a radio show that teaches you how to save money. Hopefully we will learn a lot and put it into practice. We are doing a bible study called Going the Distance and Enjoying the Journey on Sunday nights and that ends with a marriage retreat by lifeway in Memphis in Nov. We are both looking forward to that alone time together. We are so grateful that God has really picked us up in our marriage and is helping us in our journey. The surprising part I think for me was I was expecting a room full of people around our age thier 30's and instead there were only 2 our age and the rest were senior citizens some being married over 35 years. It was great. It showed me that we are probably getting a head start on what many people don't realize to "go the distance" it takes work. The fact that there were so many people who'd been married that long attending the class made me realize that we were on the right path. I mean if you want your marriage to last find some couples who've made their marriage go the distance and follow in their footsteps and that is what we are doing all because it's were God lead us. He lead us to a room full of people who will help us and nuture us in going the distance. Isn't God Amazing??!! My husband does "Daddy Dates" every Monday with my oldest daughter so that when she grows up she'll know how someone should treat her on a date. Their most recent one was the Disney Princesses on Ice. Here's Anna before she left for the show. They had so much fun together. I am glad they got to share that special moment together. I remember when I was Anna's age my uncle Bruce taking me to see sleeping beauty at the movies and I was so in awe. I can only imagion how Anna felt seeing them live. I know it's a memory she'll always cherish. I've also been missing my female friends and all the females in my Sunday School class get together once a month. We just got together the other night to pick secret sisters. I got someone I really like so I am very excited b/c a lot of them I dont' know yet. Then as God's extra icing on the cake for me when I got home my DH had mopped and cleaned the house!!! I couldn't believe it!! I was so thankful it was to sweet of him. He kept both of the girls and then worked like a dog to get everything clean while I was gone after working all day. It was a super sweet gesture. Anna is a dancing princess I am attempting to add a video of her new dances. She is so funny. I love my girls and I am so grateful that God saw me as a good mommy for girls that he blessed me with to wonderful girls. I adore watching each of them grow. Ava is cooing now and laughing and making me realize how quickly they grow up. I still can't believe my little Anna is in school. I know before I know what happened she'll be going off to college and I'll be holding back the tears trying to be strong as my little girl, and friend drives away.


We saw our Nephew Lawson get baptised the other day and we were so proud of him. Anna's seen him and her cousin Hailey get baptised now so hopefully she will quickly follow in thier footsteps as time goes on. They've both been good examples for her. Here is Lawson's big day.

Well I have been up since 3am. When I finally got my newborn down to sleep at 7 am my bedroom door is opened wide by my 3 year old declaring she's hungry. I get up drag myself to the kitchen and put on my coffee before my day starts in a full run. I do laundry everyday yet it's never done. I clean the bathroom everyday yet it's eternally dirty. My bedroom's a disaster zone since us and baby live there together adn theres not enough time in the day to take care of those things and pay attention to my 3 year old too. So things get left undone, uncleaned, and not put away but I don't feel guilty b/c time goes by so fast and I know they'll be moments when I wish the little pink room was a mess and I had someone to help with picking up all those little ponies. So I rub my eyes and smile as the madness begins. This video shows why it's all worth it.

Like most things in life I dread this too seemed much worse than it really turned out to be. I was so sad when my mom left b/c I didn't know how I was going to do everything on my own. However, Jason has helped out some and Anna has stepped up to the big sister plate and is very helpful. She loves her sister constantly wanting to give her kisses and telling her she loves her.

It's still hard at time to give her the time I think she deserves and get everything done that needs to be done but it is doable! I was so afraid it wasn't doable. However, I just needed to remember Phil. 4:13 I guess. It has been a very stressful trying time for me and my marriage. The moving, the isolation, and having a new baby on top of all of that. However, they always say if, "God brings you to it, He will bring you through it." I feel that I am on my way through it all now and I am very grateful. God has brought me to it and through it more than once. He is always faithful, not always easily understood but always faithful. lol

Well Ava is sleeping through her feeding so I am pumping and Anna is having TV time. We joined the church here and the Sunday school class has been bringing us meals. It was so nice of them. I've done that for new mommies everywhere we've lived in Ocala, FL and in Tampa, FL and when we moved here I didn't expect anyone to do it for me b/c we didn't know anyone here but guess what?? God had another little helpful surprise in mind and one day Jan a girl I'd met in my class just called and said I am on my way to your house to bring you a meal how do I get there. Then the meals started coming in from there. We've only been at the church a little while and we are already receiving blessings. God is good! Sometimes you just lose sight of that when you don't understand the circumstances around you sometimes. I know I did.

Well Ava's awake now duty calls!

Jason was reading them a bedtime story and Anna and little sis enjoyed it together.

When I took little sweet pea to the doctor they informed me that instead of the 21 1/2 inches that the hospital told me she was she was actually 20 and 1/2 inches. They said they just measure with a tape measure there and it's not as acurate as the whole lying down thing so lots of babies shrink when they come in for the first visit. Who knew?! lol She has gained wieght to 8 pounds though I weighed her a few days ago.

Things are going well she is changing sooo much. I have been pooped on, peed on, and vomited on so I am once again in full swing newborn mommyhood! It feels so nice. It sounds crazy and I guess motherhood always is a little crazy. lol

Anna has heard us talking about how small Ava's head is and has started talking about how big her head is.. lol We were taking a nap the other day and I gave her a small decorative pillow to lay her head on and she looked at me like I was crazy and said "mommy this pillow will never be big enough for my big head". lol She is so funny hopefully she won't grow up with to many complexes. lol

Here's some updated pics of the new little one.