Lately

It has been awhile since I last posted, so what have we been up to lately?

Playing with kitties,

Helping Daddy water trees,

Planting flowers and watching them grow (if you look closely you can see the green coming out of the soil).

Dressing up beautifully for church.



Coloring together.

Brenna has also been working on potty training, but I didn't think sharing pictures was probably appropriate. That's what we have been up to. What's been going on at your house lately?

Easter 2010

I know this post is a little late, but I wanted to share pictures of Brenna and Jake in their adorable Easter ensembles!

30 Day Shred, Again!

I started the 30 Day Shred once again on Monday. So far its kicking my hiney pretty good. After finishing it the first time around, my hubby and I went on vacation and I gained back all that I had lost plus a few extra pounds. Now I am trying it again and hopefully will have better results. I will try to update my progress again on day 10. I have also added walking daily to my routine, hopefully this will help lose some extra pounds!

3 years old

newborn

1 year


2 years

3 years

Three years ago today I went to the hospital to do my pre-admission paper work, had my car serviced and went to work on a normal Monday, and had a doctors appointment around 11 am for my 37 week check up. To my surprise my doctor sent me to the hospital to have an ultrasound, or that's what she told me, so that they could check my amniotic fluid level. Well low and behold I was in labor. My sweet, beautiful first born, Brenna Morgan, entered the world at 9:57 pm on March 19, 2007 weighing 7lbs 8oz and 20 1/4 inches long. Our lives have been changed forever by knowing this sweet little girl. I pray that she lives her life for God and that she becomes an incredible person as she grows. WE LOVE YOU A WHOLE LOT LITTLE PRINCESS!

Thankful

This year I began reading my One Year Bible again, and I am so glad that I have. As I read through the Old Testament I am reminded of how thankful I am that God sent his son, Jesus, as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. All of the many rituals, sacrifices and laws that were to be followed during Old Testament times makes my head spin, there were so many that I have no idea how any of the Israelites kept a single one. I know that many of the laws we still follow today such as the Ten Commandments, but I am so thankful that I don't have to go out to my flocks and find a male ram without defect to sacrifice, or make a grain offering or that I don't have to go through a priest to talk to God and ask for forgiveness. I am just so thankful that Jesus covers all of my sins and He can cover yours too if you accept him as your Savior.

Waterpark Fun

When we asked Brenna what she wanted to do for her birthday, she told us she wanted to go swimming. So, we thought about how to go swimming in the middle of winter, our first thought was to just go to Kearney (our nearby "city") and rent a hotel room for the night. Then Morgan decided that we needed to go to Omaha for a farm show so we ended up going to the indoor water park there instead. Brenna had a marvelous time, although her birthday isn't until the 19th, it worked out best to do it a little early to make sure Daddy wasn't too busy to enjoy the fun. Here are some pictures of our fun time, mostly Brenna just went down the water slide and cruised in the lazy river with Daddy. She had a blast!

So Not a Farm Girl!

The corn field in our backyard has been home to some neighbors cows for the past month. Today my husband stops by the house before heading to town to pick up a prescription and some milk, he tells me to watch the cows and make sure that they don't get out because they were crowding around the water tank (located basically in our backyard). So, I look out a few times, nothing to interesting just cows drinking water. I jumped in the shower real quick and when I got out this was the view looking into my back yard.

Below is the front yard by the time the neighbors got here to get the cows back in.

When I called my husband to tell him the cows were out, he asked me to go out and try to keep them off the lawn, ha ha ha is all I have to say. I tried yelling at the cows, shooing at the cows, swinging my arms wildly. The cows started to move, but those darn bulls just gave me an evil look and scared me just a little, so I gave up and came in. I was not raised around cattle and my husband usually doesn't let me get anywhere near his cattle, unless I am in the pickup being very quiet. I am so not a farm girl!