WOW!!!

Andrew has been talking about a dream he had now for MONTHS!  In this dream he says he saw an ‘upside down van’.  We at first thought he was talking about a flipped van but he quickly told us “No, not a wrecked van, it was a upside down van!”  We have questioned him to what he is referring to countless times but he really couldn’t seem to explain his dream to us.  We did get that it wasn’t a scary dream, he actually thinks it is rather funny.

Well, today when I went to pick Caleb from band Andrew pointed out the window at a red Chevy Impala and yelled “Momma, look the upside down van!  Dreams do come true!!”

Really?!?!

Well, it has been a LONG time since I have posted. We have been staying busy with Upward Basketball, which Caleb and Brayden have been playing. Last night was the closing program. We spent the evening watching an Christian Illusionist. He was AMAZING!!! The boys really enjoyed playing basketball and are already taking about next season. :o) School has been keeping the (and me) busy too. Brayden has started reading AR books and Caleb is working on his State Fair Project right now. He has to collect information about the state of Montana. Andrew is doing well in preschool. Kindergarten clinic is just around the corner for him. Not sure I am real happy about sending my baby off to school next fall but he is excited to go to the “big school” like his brothers. I know I have asked this question countless times on my blog but where does the time go?!?! In 10 days I am going to turn 33.  Wasn’t it just yesterday that I was typing up a post about me turning 30?  The days seem to get fuller and busier and faster as the boys get older.  Before I know it Baseball will be starting and we will be running all the time with that.  I am hoping to be better with posting on here.  I know it is hard to keep readers if I only post once every two months.  I do have a few great book reviews and giveaways planned in the near future.  So don’t give up on me or the blog.  I am still here — just busy living life and not seeming to be able to find as much time to blog about life! :o)

I leave you with few pictures from the last few weeks…

February Date Night

Josh and I have decided that our New Years Resolution is to take one night a month out for some “us” time.  It has been so nice to get to do that.  Two months down…

Brayden and the clown

We all had a wonderful time at Jayla’s sixth birthday party.  There was a puppet show, a clown and a pinata.

Andrew playing in the snow

Caleb playing in the snow

We have had LOTS of snow this winter.  As a matter of fact I saw today on the news that this February was the 2nd snowiest at 23.9″. The most fell in 1900 with 25.1″ of Feb snow!  WE ARE READY FOR SPRING!!!

Christmas morning Brayden woke up at 4 am telling Josh and I that Santa had been to our house.  I promptly had him climb in bed with us and asked him to go back to sleep for just a bit longer. :)  At 5:50 Caleb and Andrew were up and ready to open so we all got up and started in….

After opening gifts, Mom stopped by for awhile and saw all of the boys new gifts.  Then we had breakfast and Josh and Andrew took a nap. Then it was time to go to Mom and Dad’s for Christmas with the Spurlock’s!

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We were supposed to have Christmas with The Wiseman’s the next day, but some of the family was sick so we didn’t get to get together.  :(  But we did get together with Manda and her family and had pizza and opened gifts from each other. :)  (These pictures are from my camera phone and aren’t the best quality but you get the idea…)

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so bless to have such great family and friends!!!

Another Christmas has come and gone!  But it was a wonderful time spent with family and friends!!!

Barry, Molly and and the kids got home on Christmas Eve and we spent the evening at my parents house.  Emily and Blair came over and we had our Christmas with them.  We had chicken wings, shrimp, cheese ball with crackers, blueberry dip with cookies, and punch.

After dinner and opening gifts with Emily and Blair and the boys and Audrey opened their new PJ’s from Mamaw Debbie, she read Humprey’s First Christmas to the grandkids.

Then it was time to decorate some cookies for Santa!

On the way home we saw some lights in the sky that looked just like Santa’s sleigh with a red light and all.  The boys were so excited to see it!!! When we got home I read the Christmas Story from the Bible and we sprinkle the reindeer food on the front lawn.   Soon after the boys were tucked into their beds and ready for the morning to come!  Little Brayden was a bit to excited and had trouble falling asleep.  So it took Santa almost to 1:00 in the morning to visit our livingroom! Both he and Mrs. Clause were beyond tired….lol!!!!

I will post about Christmas soon.

While watching the news the other day Josh and I saw a clip piece on the big news stories from that last decade.  9-11, Katrina, and Obama topped the list of life changing events.  With tears in my eyes I asked Josh where 10 years had gone.   The last decade was a big one for Josh and I.  Our lives are not even remotely where they were in 1999!  Our biggest fear were computers crashing and the power going out when the clock struck midnight.  Little did we know!!!

Ten years ago we had been married for 3 years, Caleb wasn’t even a year old and I had all of my grandparents.  The last 10 years have held so many heart breaks for me.  In this past decade I lost my 2 grandpas and my Mamaw.  I lost my triplets to miscarriage, we lost Josh’s grandma, our first house and Josh had open heart surgery, just to name a few!

But amongst the lost we have had wonderful, great, awesome, life changing events too.  The birth of Brayden and Andrew.  The revile of God answering our prayers in our time of need.  Josh recovering  from his heart surgery in record time and doing better then we ever expected!  The addition of so many wonderful  people in our lives, like Margie and Beth.  And the reconnection with Manda, has been such a blessing!

We are nowhere close to where we were 10 years ago, but we are so much stronger in self and in faith then where we were a decade ago.  And I can’t wait to see what this next decade and God has in store for us.

Happy 2010!!!

We had fun playing with stamps from 1Love1Dream.com.  They sent us a ton of fun stamps to try out.  Including rolling stampers and self-inking Christmas stamps.  But they boys favorite stamps were the Christmas Flashing Musical Stamp.

We decided to make place cards for everyone for Christmas dinner.  Each person’s card has some fun stamp design on it.   I am sure that everyone will love them during dinner. 

Scrapbookers you have got to check out this website!   They have so much to choose from and every holiday is covered!  If you are looking from some great stamps or fun stamping kits 1Love1Dream.com is the first place you should check out!

I have a new favorite Christmas book!!!  Humphrey’s First Christmas Written and Illustrated by Carol Heyer.

This story tells us about the camel that carried the gifts from the three wise men to baby Jesus.  As Humphrey the camel is carrying the gifts he is very unhappy and complaining about being cold without a blanket.  Even after Humphrey gets a new blanket to cover his back he is still complaining about the heavy load he is carrying.  Until the make it to their destination and Humphrey gladly gives HIM his most dearest possession.

The book is beautifully illustrated!  The boys (and me) giggled out loud while reading the book, yet the true meaning of Christmas shines though!  You really need to add this book to your bookshelf too.

OK, so I sorta had to “rearrange” things for day 5 due to a scheduling conflict.  :)  Yesterday we were super busy.  We had to go shopping to pick-up a birthday gift, Josh took the boys to a birthday party, I went shopping with Manda while Josh and Caleb went shopping and mom watched Brayden and Andrew.  So, this yesterday morning we did our day 5 and yesterday afternoon we did our day 4.  A two for one special…

Only 5 days…We watched the new VeggieTales movie Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving.  It was a really cute movie, we all loved.

Only 4 days…We made COOKIES!!! (Sorry for the lack of pictures, we baked at Mom’s and I forgot to bring the camera.)  The boys help me make Peanut Butter Kiss cookies.  They were very yummy!

On days seven and six we had a two part project.  I think this was my favorite craft project in our three years of Countdown to Christmas.   We made dough cookie cutter ornaments.  I simply mixed together * 4 cups all-purpose flour * 1 cup salt * 1 1/2 cups warm water.  Rolled into 3 balls, one for each boy, and we started rolling out the dough.  My mom was here and that really helped make things easier.  After we rolled the dough out (about 1/8 inch thick) we let the boys cut out the fun shapes.  Then I baked them at 300 degrees for about an hour.

The next night we painted the ornaments with water color paints.

I think that they turned out GREAT!!!

Andrew’s

Brayden’s

Caleb’s