Long Time No See

It's after midnight.  I'm wide awake!  It's been such a long time since I've updated!  So much is going on in our lives.  I have a new 8 week old baby boy I am watching, Trenten.  He is soooooooooooooooooo precious that I think I felt an ovary drop and want to have another kid!  Ok, he really IS precious but I think we are good with 'One and Done' in the kiddo department!  lol

Tori and Roger just had their Bdays this week (Aug 9) and mine is next week (Aug 19).  Roger and I celebrated with a little date day today.  Went to the movies (Change Up - not worth watching) and the Freddy's for our dessert!  The Turtle Sundae!  Ooooooooh Heaven in a bowl - it was Deee to the Lish! 

Tori's Bday party was SOOO fun!  I made her a Rapunzel tower cake.  She loved it!  She, of course, was completely spoiled with gifts and had so many awesome friends and family show up!  We are blessed with some amazing people in our lives!  Thank you God!

Tori Jo with one of her BFF's Hayden!  They had a great time! 

SOMEONE was very happy with all of her presents!

Whewwww!

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!  I have been really stressed-out the last couple of months.  I had to become licensed - instead of registered - to do my in-home daycare.  When you become licensed the state comes out and inspects your home, paperwork, etc....  The fire department also comes out to inspect your home.  There is a ton of paperwork that needs completed.  Even missing one signature, etc... can cause you to fail your inspection.

A friend told me she "prayed that God would send a sense of peace over my home".  That, along with my mom's/husband's comforting words and many prayers from my MAPs group got us through this with a perfect 100% on both inspections!  God is so good!  He is so good to ME!  I am so thankful!  :o)

Of course we had to go out and celebrate Friday night!  We had a yummy dinner at Los CoCo's (13th/Tyler) with friends.  It was DEEEE-LISH!  They have a huge strawberry margarita that I somehow managed to drink the majority of!  It was a good night!

xoxo

Trolololol guy

There are NOT enough awesome words for this guy & his happy singing!

Olivia Newton John & ELO - Xanadu

One of my all-time-favorite movies/soundtracks.  I knew all the words/moves!

I love my husband

I love my husband.
He is a gentle spirit.
He is kind.
He is generous.
He is not controlling.
He has an easy, peacefulness to him.
He is a good daddy to our daughter.
He has a good sense of humor.
He is GOOD LOOKIN'!
He is my best-friend.

Happy

I am choosing to be happy right this moment.  I am choosing to be happy!

It is so easy to get sucked in to guilt or not feeling adequate, etc...  Isn't it funny how some people's actions can effect us so greatly?  I am choosing to not allow this....at least for right this moment....

I just opened my eyes and looked around at what matters to me.  I have a husband that loves me - I mean - he REALLY loves me.  I can actually trust this.  How crazy that it has taken me years of marriage to him to start to believe this!?!!  lol  I know...I'm a slow learner!  HA!

I have an amazing kid.  She is so kind and tender-hearted.  She is also a bull in a china shop most days!  I love that tenancity that she has.  Having her love is like being able to actually FEEL and SEE and SMELL God's love for us. 

It. Is. AWESOME!

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Sermon on Sunday talked about how early missionaries used caskets to transport their items overseas instead of luggage - since most of them were dead within 2 years!  How crazy!?  Talk about commitment to Christ and spreading His message?!  Now THAT is awesome!  I need to step up my game!

Better

At a gathering I attended some time back I overheard someone say they were ready for adult conversation (ie tired of talking about our kids).  For some reason that really hurt me to hear.  I guess this stage in my life is all about balancing being a wife and mom.  Both are new *jobs* I'm still getting used to.  I LOVE my new *jobs* - I'm excited to talk about them and share all the great news from them.  So it was hard to suddenly feel like what was so exciting and fun for ME to talk about was pretty ho-hum for someone else?!   Am I turning into someone boring now?  (Was I always boring?  lol)  Is my whole life revolving around my family/husband/child?  Isn't it supposed to be?  I'm still working through this one with a lot of prayer....It's good to know that God will never let us down and always gives us just what we need.

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Tori just started going to Kids Day Inn recently.  She goes for 4 hours once a week and LOVES it!  Yesterday they handed out Valentines.  She thought this was pretty fantastic!  (I hope she always feels this way about this holiday!)  When we were leaving I had a little boy tell me that Tori was his "New Friend".  I looked over at Tori - who was just BEAMING - and thought to myself "How cool is it that I get to be here for these moments?"  I am so very thankful that I have this amazing opportunity to be a stay-at-home-mom.  I am not missing out on a single thing that goes on in her life.  What an amazing gift my husband has given both Tori and I!  We are very thankful for him on so many levels. 

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Tori's teacher asked me to fill-in and bring snacks in a couple of weeks.  I am actually feeling pressure to bring a good snack - so as not to embarass my child!  lol  "Oh your mom is the mom who brought us boiled eggs!"  (Now how can THIS not be fun stuff to talk about?  Being a mom is pretty cool ya know?!)

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"So let's stop condemning each other. Decide instead to live in such a way that you will not cause another believer to stumble and fall."  ~ Romans 14:13, NLT