Merry Christmas and wrapping up the year!

Merry Christmas everyone! It's been a very stressful year but also many blessings. I am so thankful for the love of God in sending us his only son for us, Jesus! I am especially thankful he poured his love out on me with snow. It's my first white Christmas. I am also so thankful for my children God has blessed me with and a new husband and awesome new marriage God is growing us up to be for his Glory. I pray that 2010 will be a year to grow in the Lord and bring him honor and Glory in all we do and above all....I pray we are filled with his spirit so others will see Jesus living in us.


I made this Christmas wreath a few weeks ago. It's real and I made it for free from left over tree stems from our tree. Amber went outside and picked me some holly buds. I have wanted to make one every year since Jason and I married almost 9 years ago but I finally did it this year.

Jason took me to a bed and breakfast back in November for my birthday. Its called the "Iron Horse Inn" and it's located in Granbury, TX about an hour from were we live.
It is a beautiful historical home!
We stayed in the cottage because we had to bring Madison with us. It was perfect!


All original lighting from the 1800's




All original wood work and fire place!





Me and my Maddie



Old tub that you better believe I took a soak in hee-hee


Merry Christmas!

Alyssa riding her bike in the house, they all did lol
Shannon--Michael loves these pj's

He is using his new flash light Grandma and Poppy gave him every chance he gets!
Our Christmas snow man!





My beautiful snow white! Uncle John and Aunt Em made her Christmas Day!!
I wish we would have gotten Michael's face when he heard his police car!
My sweet snow baby :0
Alyssa's choir at church. They did so well!




I love you all, enjoy the pics till next time!

Wrapping Up The Week and and a kidnapping

Well, we wrap up last week with a smile and some laughter. On Friday Jason played with the boys and handcuffed them. They were so excited to be the bad guy lol. But first we will start with Amber being kidnapped. This was all I expected it to be....lots of drama!

Here is where we begin. Amber is officially a YOUTH now! How did this happen so fast? If you don't already know, we are members of Wedgwood Baptist Church. The leaders sent a letter to all the parents asking permission to kidnap our kids for breakfast. We made Amber get up at 6am and boy was she cranky! She demanded to know what was going on. She was soon to find out....hee-hee.



This was not a happy teenager!



Next--the bus showed up, I opened the door, and Lisa Jackson came running in and Amber screamed "What?!... Okay, now I'm scared!" and before she could finish her sentence Lisa snatched her up and she screamed "MOMMIE, MOMMIE HELP ME!!!!!" and screamed all the way out to the bus!



Excuse my pictures, I was holding Madison and trying to take pics....Jason was holding Michael and Michael was laughing. He thought it was funny.


This is my favorite picture! AND the reason she is already dressed is because Jason and I made a mistake. She was supposed to remain in bed and they were supposed to wake her up...oh well. At least she had no idea what was going on anyway. Jason said it was just as well since she shares a room with Alyssa...however, Alyssa can sleep through anything!



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The youth room






Here are some ramdom pics

She loves her mommie


Me and my sweet baby


I think Madison and I were thinking the same thing here hahaha


Jason took this picture of me....the reason it's so bright is because this is my halo shining all around me....sweet... innocent.... me... hahahaha (right)


Jason hog tied Amber




Grant and Tom







Until next time!!

Our first week

This week Amber and I started baby sitting. So far this week as gone pretty well considering Amber got sick, but I have kept up with things pretty well. Homeschooling will bring about it's own set of challenges but I am ready to fulfill the commitments I have made to home school our kids, our Friends three kids, and care for them. They are like family to us so I am thankful for this opportunity to try something new and to help them out as well. Also, the boys call me Aunt Rebecca. I feel like they are my little nephews.

Madison pulled the toy on her bouncy seat for the for the first time this week. She worked pretty hard. She will soon have her motor skills learning more and more. Michael is having a language explosion lately but I will save those for a special post about him and celebrating his 2nd birthday.


Michael loves to help around the house....although, this isn't quite what I had in mind at the time hahaha.


We started some school work with the boys. Amber decided to do an educational craft with them. She called it the "Alphabet Tree"...I am very proud of her she was creative and did a great job with them. Tom is 5 and holding the red tree and Grant is 3. His favorite color is orange.




Michale loves to play with and help take care of Wilson. Michael is a paci supporter. He is slowly weening himself though.




This is a random pic but Amber saw this at a neighbor's house and told me she found her dream car in her favorite color so she took a picture hahaha! All she kept saying is "That's such a sweet car! I want one!".


Michael trying to feed Wilson. He is very nurturing.






And lastly, the kids had fun destroying the living room making a tent and playing all sorts of games. They did very well cleaning it up when asked too.



It's Thursday and I will most likely make the effort to blog weekly on Sat mornings. I think this will help me stay committed with a routine.

Random pics

Love those cheeks!


Miss Madison hanging out with me.


Michael likes to play with Alyssa's baby




Alyssa set up tea for us




A baby bird hatched on our back porch

our little cutie

She is 7 weeks and 3 days old. She makes some funny faces and funny noises.