Bleeding Ears

My children's new favorite thing to do is to make my ears bleed! One of them starts out "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" and the other joins in, so we get "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" in stereo. We are going to have a lovely choir someday!

God's Plans vs. My Plans

I have been thinking a lot today about where I wanted to be at this point in my life 7 or 8 years ago when I was graduating from high school. At that time in my life I knew Jesus Christ and had accepted him as my savior during my early childhood years, but I didn't know what a true relationship with him was. The day I graduated from high school my plans for my life were very much different from where I am today. I had planned to attend college far from home, in reality I went to college only 30 minutes from home. I planned to major in pre-med, then pre-physical therapy once I realized that it was going to be very difficult for a party girl to get good enough grades to get into medical school. After two years being in the pre-physical therapy program, I realized that that too was going to be a difficult road ahead if I wanted to keep up the partying. I was lost, I had no direction of what I wanted to do so I took a year off from school. During my year off I met my husband. Who would have thought, the girl that never thought about getting married, just serial dating, would meet such a great guy at the age of 20. I had not been to church or worshiped God corporately since I was 12, long story as to why,(it has something to do with my mom getting remarried). We dated for about 4 months and decided this was it, we were meant for each other and we got engaged. After our engagement we began attending church together (this is when I recommitted myself to Christ). I never thought I would get married, we were married about 16 months after we started dating. Wow! I started back to school the summer before we got married and decided on accounting as my major, I always liked in high school and thought everyone needs an accountant, right?
I never thought I would have kids, after a year of marriage my husband and I decided to try the "not trying, but trying to conceive" method. We thought that if it took awhile for us to get pregnant we wouldn't be putting too much pressure on ourselves to get pregnant fast, considering I was not done with school at the time. Low and behold it only took us one time of this method to conceive and 2 months after our 2nd anniversary our beautiful daughter was born. Around our daughters first birthday we started talking about more kids, once again just talking about another one and voila we were pregnant again. Our son was born 1 month after our 4th anniversary. And here we are today, me a stay at home mother of 2, who would have thunk it. I guess God did! God has far greater plans for my life than I ever knew were possible!

Brenna Says Vol. 2

Once again our precious princess has learned a whole new arsenal of funny sayings, so here they are for your enjoyment!

• Brenna says this when she is wearing a dress and twirling in circles, "Mama, I'm a princess, its a dream come true!"


• This is what she says when she does not want to listen to her Mommy, "Shhhhhhhhhh, be quiet, no talking!"


• Brenna says this when Mommy tries to send her to time out, "I no go to my room, I am happy in my eyes!"
• When you ask Brenna to put something down, this is said in a high pitched very annoying voice, "I gonna put it right here, Okaaaaaaay?"
• My favorite is when she has not seen her brother in a few minutes, "Where is my Jake, Mama?"

And there you have Brenna's newest sayings! What do your kids say that crack you up, even when they are being naughty?

Mr. Funny Face

RAINBOW CAKE!!!

Today I attempted to make the Rainbow Cake that Mckmama's friend made for her. It looks terrible at least from the outside, I am no cake decorator that is for sure. It tastes wonderful, except that I am now on a complete sugar overdose from eating cake batter and tasting the frosting. It was a ton of work, not sure if I will attempt this again or not. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Funny Saturday

For the past thirty minutes or so I have been trying to finish up the farm books to take to our accountant this week, since our office is in the basement my hubby was supposed to be upstairs with the kids while I finished up. My hubby came down to answer a few questions I had regarding the income, not a big deal, well he stayed downstairs a little too long. When he went back up to check on Jake, he hollered at me to hurry upstairs and what do I find when I get up there??? Jake had taken off or crawled out of his diaper (not exactly sure how it happened, we received some "White Cloud" diapers as a shower gift and I decided to put them on him today to get them used. He usually wears "Pampers" and has never gotten them off, even when his is only in a diaper) and he had pooped on the living room floor. I just started laughing so hard, I didn't even know what to do other than to get the mess cleaned up. Jake had gotten a handful of his poop and decided to see what it tasted like. I am still laughing right now thinking about this, just too funny and disgusting all at the same time. Needless to say Jake got a much needed bath and we will not be using this brand of diapers again.

8 months

Jacob is 8 months old today, wow has this flown by. I will have to update this later with a picture of him, I can't seem to find my camera. He now weighs about 20lbs and is 28 3/4 in tall. He is army crawling pretty well and is really enjoying the new scenery he gets to explore. He is completely on a bottle now and eats 3 solid meals a day. He is once again sleeping most nights from 8:30 to 6 or 6:30 Praise the Lord! Not much else is new with him this month. We are just so thankful that God has blessed us with his little life.