Happy Birthday to.....

JURNEY! She is now 15.. Who can believe it? I love her so much.. She is a great young lady. I am happy to have her as my daughter.

She is attending Calvary Baptist Academy, 9Th grade. She enjoys painting, drawing, cooking, cleaning, and playing with her brothers. She is looking forward to studying for her learners permit.

Happy Birthday my Jurney...

Love your Dad and Mom... xoxox

Proverbs 31:29 "Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."

First *SNOW*

It is SNOWING!! I love it! Well, as long as I do not have to drive far in it, I do!


Proverbs 25:13 "As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters."

Potty Training!

We have started to train Josiah. He is so cute.. I just want to squeeze him! I had to share it with all of you. Here he is clapping; because he just went pee-pee. During Christmas break, we are going to full out train. Right now, we are just getting him use to trying it out. He is almost 18 months. His brother, Joshua, was already trained at this age.


Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

I'm A BIG Boy Now!

I have been very sick with the flu. It was going around so bad, they cancelled school. That also meant no school for Mr. Joshua. Everyday though, he would ask if he could go. Today.. Praise be to God, I am starting to feel like myself. So we were cleaning.. Joshua comes out of his room looking like this. "Cheese!" he says. He also cleaned his room. I was able to capture this with the camera.

2 Peter 3:18 "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To HIM be glory both now and for ever. Amen."

Joshua's idea of cleaning his room.

(he stuffed it all in his bottom drawer)

Joshua vacuuming his room and loving every minute of it!

Healing Nicely

Josiah received a 2ND degree burn to his right hand 2 weeks ago from a motorcycle muffler. Our good friend was over showing us his very nice, very new motorcycle. Jaden had set the baby down to admire it and the first thing he does is reach over and touch the hottest part on the bike. He did not cry or anything.. well... not till about 10 minutes later.. Then there was not a thing that you could do to get him to stop. I tried cold water, ice, codeine... NOPE so I took him to the ER. They put some Burn Free ointment on his hand and told me to keep it wrapped and bring him back the next day for a re-check. ( The codeine took about 40 minutes to knock him out!)I did as they said.. Next day they gave me some silver something or other cream and had me put it on 2 times daily and keep it wrapped. That silver stuff is great it took out all the burn except on his palm. Now he is able to use his hand again... It looks great! Praise God that it has healed so well and did not ever get infection.

2 Corinthians 9:15 "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."

Happy Birthday to............

Joshua! He is 3 years old today!! Man does time fly right by! His favorite color is green. He loves trains. He always wants to pray when we have devotions or bless he food. He is a very busy boy. Now, when I say boy.. I mean all boy, total boy. He carries around bugs. He will put them down to use the bathroom and that is about the only time he will.
I took this picture Sunday at Church during his Sunday School class. I just love this guy. He has ran around all day today singing ..... Hapgy bifday to you, hapgy birfday make me cake... It is so cute. While I am teaching at the Academy he is over at a very dear friends house and they made a train cake together today. He had the best time. We are thinking of having a party maybe in a week or two.. Who knows. I know one thing though.. I love my little Joshua.


Joshua 6:27a "So the Lord was with Joshua..."

Welcome HOME... DALTON!

Dalton Brasel is on his way home right now, as I type, a full fledged MARINE!!! OORAH!

I can not wait to see him. His family left Tuesday, to drive to California to attend his graduation from the MCRD. He left on June 14Th, his graduation was today the 11Th of September. His mother was able to send me a picture message from her phone. So I got a look-see already of how much he has changed. Congrats to Dalton for finishing strong!

2 Samuel 22:35 "He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms."

Happy Birthday to.....

ME! I have been having a wonderful day! Zippidy-do-dah-zippidy-ay! Yes, Mr. Blue Bird is on my shoulder.. :)

33! I keep having to ask Ryan just how old I am.. The other day we had a visitor come to our church. I was talking to her, you know doing the greetings to you type thing.. and she says to me.... Your Pastor said that there were young couples here??... (Like she was not talking to one of them?) I do not feel old at all. I think she was like 20?! Who knows. UPDATE ON ME:

Lots is going on. I am now a school teacher at a Private School. Calvary Baptist Academy, I love it! I am so busy now with school things, but it is so good for my kids. They are around other children all the time now. *BONUS* They learn daily the things of God. No one is picked on, no is made fun of. I tell you, it is lots of hard work to be a teacher ! I would not change it for anything!

Happy Birthday to ME!!

2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

Happy Birthday to...

Jaden! He is now 12. We had a big surprise party for him with my family. What we did was we acted like we were just going to hang out as a family and watch a movie in me and Ryan's room. I turned up the TV all the way and everyone snuck in. When they were all there I told Jaden it was time to eat lunch and we would just have to watch the rest of the movie afterwards. Well when we walked out everyone yelled... SURPRISE! Jaden was so shocked he turned bright red. It was great fun.. Happy Birthday Buddy we love ya!




1 John 4:19 "We love Him, because He first loved us."

Big Boys Now!

Now that my dad is back at his own home, the little ones can have their room back.. This time it is CRIBLESS! Ryan spent days glueing this bunk bed set together, then he and Michael set it up. It took them hours, but they wanted to make sure that it was solid! Here is a picture of the boys enjoying the new beds. Josiah has the bottom and Joshua gets the top. They sleep all night on their own beds, in their own room. How nice this is.

Psalm 4:8 "And I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in saftey."