This is me and the kids cooking breakfast last weekend.
Friday, September 01, 2006
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Hyper space
These are pictures I took at a place called Hyperspace, which is like a generic Chuck E Cheese. The kids had a blast here!
Miss Elizabeth
Ms. Elizabeth suprised us with a visit the first weekend in July. She only got to stay for a few days, but it was so wonderful having her here. We went to the beach, where both the kids proceeded to get stung but jellyfish. Briannah got the worst of it, from the top of her legs to the bottom of her feet. But she was fine but the end of the day. We had a great time, and we even got crazy lost in downtown DC! (I did'nt think we'd ever get home!)
Cody's Clubhouse
Cody decided to make himself a clubhouse one day, underneath my quilt rack. Well then, he started calling for me and I kept walking around like "what the heck? Where is he?" I could'nt see him but sure could hear him laughing at me! Finally he moved just enough that I could see him. I grabbed my camera and took these pictures.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Easter Eggs
This is the day before Easter-Us and the kids making Easter eggs.........We had a really good time!
New Pictures!
I finally got the cord to go with my computer! So now I can put some pictures on and update! Love AMy
Sunday, June 04, 2006
So I got up today, and we got ready to go to church, and Tyson called to say he had the car seats in his truck. So we listened to some sermons on the radio, and I had my own praise and worship time. I have been studying Colossians Chapter 3 for the past two weeks, and it's really good. So I was suprised (but I should'nt have been) to hear a sermon today on Colossians 3. I so struggle with faith, not my faith in Jesus, just my lack of it in Him. It's so hard to just trust.....and believe.
"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."
We are to set our hearts and minds on things above. "Set" means to "seek or strive for earnestly". I look at that and think, Do I do that? Am I living a life that shows that I am continually setting my mind on Christ? Oh, and there I am saddend and brought to my knees is humility as I humbly realize I am so far from it.
My commentary says "Knowing that all wisdom is in Christ (col.2:1-5), Paul urged the Colossian Christians to continue in Him(Christ)(col.2:6-7), not being decieved by vain philosophies(col.2:8-10). Since believers are indentified with Christ, they are not to live under Jewish laws(col. 2:11-17), for that would only rob them of their rewards(col.2:18-19). They have died with Christ and hence need not sumbit to legalistic rules(col.20-23)."
"Furthermore, they have also been raised with Christ. So they should set their hearts on heavenly things (col. 3:1-4). "
When I am in Christ, and setting my mind on spiritual values, I will be putting to death all the parts of me that still desire to be part of worldly things. When I seek the values and virtues of Christ, I will be putting off the sins of the old life and be putting on the virtues and values of the new life (my new life in Christ). As my commentary puts it: "This in turn should affect their relationships with other members of their families and society."
Wow. Do I do that? Is my relationship with Christ something everyone sees? Or do they see something fake? Even more so do my children see a faith that is strong? Or do they see mommy lose control? Do they see me thanking God for everything? Or do they see me complaining or grumbling about what I don't have? Will they one day say that I was so in love with Christ that it showed in everything I did? Or will they rebel in their teen years saying that I talked the talk but never walked the walk?
The pastor at my old church has a fantastic saying, one I have memorized, because it is something I so struggle with. It comes from the verses in Ep. 4:22-24 that say "You were taught, with regard to you former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by it's deceitful desires, to be made new in the attitude of you minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true rightousness and holiness."
His saying is this " God wants me to be changing, to be more like His son, by putting off my old self, and putting on my new self, as a result of renewed thinking."
Lord, I thank you for bringing these truths to me again. Help me to seal them in my heart, and to meditate on them. I pray that I would put away my desires to please other people and that I would begin to instead follow and please you. I pray that whatever it is that you would have me to do here in the place that I am, that I would obey you, and that you would grow me and help me to change to be more like you. I pray that my children would see someone in love with you. And that they would in turn love and cherish you. I thank you that you have the ability and the power to change me, and that you also are there to comfort and hold me when I fail, and you pick me back up and dust me off and say "come on, let's try it again." Thank you Lord. In Jesus Name, Amen
"Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."
We are to set our hearts and minds on things above. "Set" means to "seek or strive for earnestly". I look at that and think, Do I do that? Am I living a life that shows that I am continually setting my mind on Christ? Oh, and there I am saddend and brought to my knees is humility as I humbly realize I am so far from it.
My commentary says "Knowing that all wisdom is in Christ (col.2:1-5), Paul urged the Colossian Christians to continue in Him(Christ)(col.2:6-7), not being decieved by vain philosophies(col.2:8-10). Since believers are indentified with Christ, they are not to live under Jewish laws(col. 2:11-17), for that would only rob them of their rewards(col.2:18-19). They have died with Christ and hence need not sumbit to legalistic rules(col.20-23)."
"Furthermore, they have also been raised with Christ. So they should set their hearts on heavenly things (col. 3:1-4). "
When I am in Christ, and setting my mind on spiritual values, I will be putting to death all the parts of me that still desire to be part of worldly things. When I seek the values and virtues of Christ, I will be putting off the sins of the old life and be putting on the virtues and values of the new life (my new life in Christ). As my commentary puts it: "This in turn should affect their relationships with other members of their families and society."
Wow. Do I do that? Is my relationship with Christ something everyone sees? Or do they see something fake? Even more so do my children see a faith that is strong? Or do they see mommy lose control? Do they see me thanking God for everything? Or do they see me complaining or grumbling about what I don't have? Will they one day say that I was so in love with Christ that it showed in everything I did? Or will they rebel in their teen years saying that I talked the talk but never walked the walk?
The pastor at my old church has a fantastic saying, one I have memorized, because it is something I so struggle with. It comes from the verses in Ep. 4:22-24 that say "You were taught, with regard to you former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by it's deceitful desires, to be made new in the attitude of you minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true rightousness and holiness."
His saying is this " God wants me to be changing, to be more like His son, by putting off my old self, and putting on my new self, as a result of renewed thinking."
Lord, I thank you for bringing these truths to me again. Help me to seal them in my heart, and to meditate on them. I pray that I would put away my desires to please other people and that I would begin to instead follow and please you. I pray that whatever it is that you would have me to do here in the place that I am, that I would obey you, and that you would grow me and help me to change to be more like you. I pray that my children would see someone in love with you. And that they would in turn love and cherish you. I thank you that you have the ability and the power to change me, and that you also are there to comfort and hold me when I fail, and you pick me back up and dust me off and say "come on, let's try it again." Thank you Lord. In Jesus Name, Amen
Saturday, May 27, 2006
What's going on?
Sorry it's been so long since I posted a blog.......Life has been busy! I also lost the cord that I needed to use to download the pictures on my camera to my computer.........so no pics till I figure that out!
The daycare is completly full now....the twins moved away, and I filled their spots with 3 two year olds, and another 5 year old. My days are full! But it's lots of fun, and as long as I don't fill my time with anything but my family, life is good. It's when I start filling it in with unessicary obligations that I get crazy stressed out. If it doesn't pertain to our family.....I don't do it! We also turned off the tv. For good. It was'nt a planned thing, but our cable wire broke, and so we have'nt had it for about two weeks now, and the kids are finding other things to do, better things to do. I was so worried. How silly! We still have our vcr for priviliges, but it's really wonderful how much time we have when we are'nt couch potatoes!
I am trying to get all of Briannah's offical Homeschooling stuff in order.........we officially start school this August, so I am trying to get all my ducks in a row.
Well, That's all for now, I'll blog again later!
The daycare is completly full now....the twins moved away, and I filled their spots with 3 two year olds, and another 5 year old. My days are full! But it's lots of fun, and as long as I don't fill my time with anything but my family, life is good. It's when I start filling it in with unessicary obligations that I get crazy stressed out. If it doesn't pertain to our family.....I don't do it! We also turned off the tv. For good. It was'nt a planned thing, but our cable wire broke, and so we have'nt had it for about two weeks now, and the kids are finding other things to do, better things to do. I was so worried. How silly! We still have our vcr for priviliges, but it's really wonderful how much time we have when we are'nt couch potatoes!
I am trying to get all of Briannah's offical Homeschooling stuff in order.........we officially start school this August, so I am trying to get all my ducks in a row.
Well, That's all for now, I'll blog again later!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Feeding the ducks
My brother has some ponds with ducks at his apartment complex, and the kids love it! (what kids would'nt ?) So uncle adam took them out to feed the ducks, (and so Cody would'nt terrorize the cats) and Aunt Teri went and got some great picture. There is also a great picture of Katy and Briannah. And one of Lauren and briannah waving Hi. Briannah loves the ponds cause they have fountains and it reminds her of Swan Lake. Go figure.
Aunt Dawn
Well, we went to see Pa Pa Bill (Tyson's dad) and see the fam there, and I got some really good pictures of the kids with Aunt Dawn. Now, no one argues with me about Cody looking like Tyson, but when you see the pictures of Briannah and Dawn, they look SO much alike. Those are just for the people who argue that Bri looks like me. Now I have proof!
At Adam and Teri's........
Adam and Cody are having a moment!
I had a great time at my brother's, Teri was great with putting up with us being there all the time! I know that was the last thing I wanted after having Briannah and Cody! After seeing the pictures of Addison, I wanted to come home so badly, and God just worked out the rest! I happened to have the following week off of daycare, we had just gotten the cars registered, my grandparents were kind enough to let us stay with them,(even though we probably were alot for them to deal with, they were fantastic!), and Tyson agreed to let me go, and it all worked out. There was some issues with my daycare parent at the last minute, but with the help of my grandparents, it all worked out in the end.
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