Green Toys Feeding set giveaway!

This is the sweet mama who lovingly donated lots of her liquid breastmilk gold to Kate for a few months...she's doing a giveaway! Go check it out and enter..! :) Or don't..cause that gives me better chances. haha..:)

http://tinyurl.com/24t5dv6

A night out..

Last night my Dad came and ate dinner with us, and then Luke and I headed out for our free date night. Luke's parents had given him a GC to Applebees for his birthday..we used it on his actual birthday night for all of us to go eat dinner, but there was enough left on the card for he and I to go and get dessert....but we decided to take an idea from our friends(Kelly and Tyler) and go to the book store to let our dinner settle before ingesting more..:) We ended up sitting and flipping through the "Awkward Family Photo's" book. They have a website so we'd seen some of them but we sat there and laughed soo hard that people were looking at us...haha..Then we went and got dessert...it was nice and also awesome that we didn't pay a penny for our night out. We rarely have the funds to splurge on dates and we're trying to learn to be more creative when it comes to time as a couple and special things.



Isn't she just the cutest??


Him too!


The kids all trying to play the Wii...Noah and Kate haven't fully figured it out yet. :)

Something that stood out.

Not this past Sunday but the Sunday before that when we met with some Brother and Sister's in Gainsville, one of our new sweet friends was sharing about some of her frustrations with her attitude and a friend of her's had led her to the passage about what love was(1st Corinthiants 12:4-8a)..God is love and Jesus is God(still have a hard time wrapping my brain around how that works! haha), and so she was instructed to read it as though it was talking about Jesus.

Jesus is patient and kind. He is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Jesus does not demand His own way. He is not irritable, and keeps no record of when He has been wronged. He is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Jesus never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance. Jesus lasts forever...

If we are dwelling and living IN Christ all we have to do is allow Him to have expression in our lives and step aside to make room for Him. We are Christ's expression on the earth(Gen. 1:6,7) and I know I do a pretty bad job of representing Him sometimes. I'm trying to learn to set aside Kayla and welcome Him to talk instead of me..To love unconditionally instead of my conditional love..

In other news...

This past weekend was fun. We were fighting off a cold of some sort but we all seem to be on the mend now thankfully...just a little congestion and one little runny nose left. Saturday we went to get the boy's hair cut, went by and got me a few things of clothes and went to the park for a little bit.

Sunday we decided that since our kids would be in close contact with other small children that going to meet with the Body of Christ wasn't the best idea..so we stayed home and just lazied around all day...Then went and enjoyed Rita's with Erin/Wesley/Dad...thankfully I haven't heard of anyone getting sick over there...yay! :)

Monday morning started out early for me. I'm NOT a morning person..I've said it before but its totally true. But I needed to go to the dentist and I needed to get up and go as early as I could so that Luke only had to miss out on some of the morning work while watching the kids. Went for my first cleaning in like I can't even remember when. I'm almost always in for some sort of work so just doing a cleaning is usually pushed aside. I don't remember cleanings being that painful! Maybe its cause I haven't had one in forever but it hurt SO bad and it was a bloody site to say the least. They thought I had gingivitis it was so bad..but thankfully I didn't. They did find 4 cavities which they basically already knew about since my last visit. They went ahead and filled two yesterday and was thankful when they mentioned that one of them was super close to the nerve but they had put some stuff in there to help it reminerilize instead of just doing a root canal. They said I'd had cold sensitivity because it was so close but honestly I have only had it be uncomfortable like twice...so I'm hopeful that I won't need another root canal. I got back next Monday to get the other two filled and then its just deciding which next big thing needs to be addressed, like one of my molars needs a crown cause its got a tiny little crack in it..but they weren't concerned about it because the tooth and the filling itself looked so good. :)

Threw myself a pity party yesterday when I was watching everyone post pictures of their children going off to school. Part of me wishes I was in on that experience but thankfully one of my friends encouraged me and now I'm ok. There is a lot of fear of the unknown when it comes to schooling Olivia..I think once I start I'll be ok. :) It also helped that all Olivia's curriculum came in yesterday. I was AMAZED at the amount of stuff they sent. I mean I literally have everything I need outside of regular paper and maybe some crayons..they sent magnets, rain gauges, safety goggles..more books(regular reading type) then I could imagine, dry erase boards(with everything that goes with it), a magnet board and lots of little magnets with numbers and letters on them, blow up globes of the continents and of constellations, and lots of actual school work books. It made me so happy and I can't wait to be able to get a book shelf hopefully this week that I can put everything on and have it all organized.

Bzzz....

So I'm this member of a thing called BzzAgent..you sign up, take a couple survey's and then they pick Campaigns for you. They send you a whole kit full of coupons and products to try, review and give out to other people. I love it..its fun getting to try products and get to leave feedback and tell people about them.

This past week I got sent 5 packs of Orbit Gum(in different flavors) and a whole bunch of B1G1 free coupons for them. We've really enjoyed testing out the flavors and sharing the stuff with friends. My favorite is their BubbleMint. It taste almost exactly like Double Bubble but with a minty flavor too. Its hard to describe..haha..

There is no benefit to me in terms of getting paid or "I get points if you join" type thing..its just for fun and getting to try out stuff...so no worries. I'm not trying to hit anyone up..haha...but if anyone wants a B1G1 coupon for their gum let me know and I'd be happy to mail you one! :)

Don't take things so personally..

I'm learning how to be better about not taking things personally. Its so easy to tell people when I've said them that it wasn't a personal comment, but I know other people have said things for the general public that I've taken quite personally. I have to remind myself that everything that gets said in life isn't an attack on me as a person.

Though it has made me more careful about what I say because I realize how things can be misconstrued now. I think this is especially easy when it has something to do with spirituality. When you believe something so wholeheartedly, and someone makes an opposed view it shakes you to the core of your beliefs and doesn't make you doubt those beliefs so much as just offend what you believe.

God has stripped away everything I thought I knew about Him, church, family...and is rebuilding this beautiful picture that HE wants me to know, and not just know, but LIVE. Its so humbling. Almost painful...and yet in the midst of it all the purging and the Refiner's fire, I want nothing more but Him.

What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
Philippians 3:8

Birthday's!

This week is my Dad's and Luke's...so Wednesday Erin and I are doing a nice big dinner for them all. Basil Lemon chicken and pasta, salad, and 2 different kinds of cake! :) Super excited about celebrating..! My brother is also coming in to work with the fella's for a while so almost my entire family will be here!(Sans Mom....we'll miss you!)..

However I have much to do today in preperation. LOTS of general house cleaning, bed sheet changing and setting up a place for Ms. Kate to sleep..and some baking to do.

Thankful that His grace is sufficiant for me. :)