God Gave Me You

One of my favorite songs currently. :)
Makes me smile and thinks of my dear wonderful husband.
Thank you for all you do. For me, for our children.
Thank you for being my hero. I love you.

The "still small Voice" of God

  

Earlier this evening I had a couple of kiddos fighting over who loved mama more. Then just as I was rocking Sarah before bed, Caleb comes in & sits at my feet to listen to the song that I was singing her. :) Its times like these, I know why God put me here. I'm so very blessed to have such amazing children. Who I know will do even more Amazing things, because they Love the Lord, just as much as their mommy and daddy do.

 

A couple of pictures from our Halloween Trunk or Treat

FTF

My absolute favorite thing today would be this little guy~

This is my nephew Colt, and today is his 3rd birthday.

the cutest, sweetest, charasmatic, well spoken TOOT I know.

Uncle Rob, Aunt Hollie, Cousins Sarah and Caleb Love you

BUNCHES. Have a great birthday Colt!

You're Pretty AWESOME.

WFW

Life flies by so fast, in the blink of an eye.

So, it is truly hard to get to spend time with the people

in your life that matter the most.

Jobs, Future Plans, Appointments, Life gets in the way. 

We've heard it all before.

No one is to blame.

I confess that its hard for me that my parents, and close family don't get to see me and my family all the time. And, That I don't get to see them on a daily basis. I love being surrounded by family, and so do my children.

I thought about something today...
Enjoy and be pleased with the ones that are able to express their love to my children. So, its the littlest moments/memories that mean the most.

Fall Cookies by Sarah

I.E.~Roberts Grandmother, called me the other day just to see if Sarah would want to make cookies today. I thought what a sweet gesture of her! Sarah loves doing things like that. I also think its great that Sarah knows her Great Grandparents, and enjoys their company.  All of mine passed away before I could really KNOW them or remember anything about them. And boy! she had a blast....its the little things...

Its not really WHO makes them feel special. It's that there is someone there in their life that DOES make them feel special. It could be a best friend, teacher, youth pastor, counselor, etc.

Caleb is learning about "initiative." What a great word.
Personally, I want to take the initiative to not let life get in the way. Life's too short, so I'm making sure that I'm one of those "someones" in my families life that makes them feel extra Special. I want to be a present in their life, and make a Godly difference.

Sarah, Goofy Girl

Just playing around at home.
Boy, that mane needs to be tamed. :)

Dinner and a Cake

Here's some pictures for those that love pics that I took at Sarah's Birthday Dinner w/ a few of her family. Thanks for all who came!!! She truly loves and cherishes everyone of you that could and couldn't be there tonight. Here's to another year with this precious girl.

On the way to eat!!

Grammies and Sarah

Sarah's Mimi

Yummy Cake

Too Cute!

The little helper of the night.

"Sarah's" - it was what she was saying when she
saw papa bring the presents from the car.

Birthday Girl.

Such a pretty smile

Helping Clean up the paper w/ Mimi. What a big helper! 

Not happy that we weren't opening the gifts to "play"

Inspecting

Waiting on someone to give in and open one for her.
She really wanted the Crib she got open.

Cake Time

Happy 2nd Birthday

YUMMY

Mom and Caleb

bouncy houses, and birthday wishes

Loving the jump house! He went 3 times, and wanted even more. :)

We Headed out to TLC for a night out, A National Night Out actually. Its an annual event, and we were able to go Tuesday night as a family. It was the San Angelo version of the Night Out Against Crime. The event brought out fire, police and emergency personnel to the events to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships, and send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are a safe place to live. The events were sponsored in part by H-E-B, Target Stores, and Concho Valley Cares Coalition. At the Church they had $1,000 giveaway and several other door prizes, food, booths and information for the school and preschool. It was a good event and we enjoyed our time together.

The kids were so tired when we got home, but I got a few minutes before bed to sing Happy Birthday and slice into Sarah's birthday cake I had made her earlier that afternoon.

  

Excitedly opening presents!

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Ready to dive in!

 

she blew the candle out like a champ!

 

You think she liked the chocolate cake?

Brother, enjoying Sarah's Cake :)

Singing Happy Birthday to his sister....
Cutting up and having a good time celebrating Sarah's day!

We Love you, our little princess! You had such a great day!

Love you to the moon and back!

two. years. old.

My little girl turned two today. i didn't want to write this post!
 We are so very proud of the little girl she's become so far. I can't ask overall for a more well mannered, easy going, sweet, loving little girl.

She adores her brother. I never really expected with their age difference them to get along so well.
But, I have been pleasantly surprised. :D Shes in the (not)sharing phase. :( AND, its a work in progress.
Of course, she's got a wonderful brother and he does help.

Just a few things I need to remember, but will post to share with all of you:

Sarah loves to dressup, shop, try on shoes/clothes/jewelry
She loves animals.
She is starting to find her voice/personality. Shes a complete NUT.  (very social, class-clownish, wants to be everyones friend.)
She will say hello to complete strangers. Loves just about anyone. Though, She has days when she wants nothing to do with males at all.

She can say so many more words now without her paci!
Table, bowl, cereal, cookie, juice, apple sauce, car, van, truck, hello, kitty, tv, couch, sit down, puppy, stop, go, supper, knows her name, Cabah (caleb), dorie (dora), nap, bye bye, help please, excuse you, goodbye, bless you, bath, bubbles, potty, poop, hold me, tee tee, hot and cold are clarified, plate, spoon, cup...etc.

She knows her features (eyes, nose, mouth, toes, hands, legs, ears)
She's trying to jump. She's a daredevil. She's not afraid of anything execpt the dark.
She loves to dance.
She would rather play in her brothers room than her own. HOwever, She loves Micky Mouse (mee-mouhse), Hello Kitty, and Dora (Dorie).


she's still working on potty training. Seems like she's going to do it at her own pace. :) which is fine with mommy. Certainly don't want to push her.

*more updates on weight, etc to come. Her checkup is Nov.1

Cooler days

Its been so nice the last few days, and the kids have been dying to go play. Who can argue with the beauty and comfortable weather that God has blessed us with?!

Caleb playing with his dump truck

Sarah Loves the slide.

sickness stinks

My poor Sarah bear can't catch a break! Double ear infections last week and a viral mouth infection this week. Hopefully she'll feel better before Aunt Jeannas wedding on Saturday!

Big Girl :)

pretty gilrl

this was taken this morning, and she was more than willing to "cheese" for the camera.


Can't believe she's less than a month from being 2!!

her version of acting like a monkey..

Complete with monkey sounds!

picture with mommy.

(sorry, no makeup :( )

Last Day of Summer

So these have been on my camera for ages since its been out of commission. I took these the last day before school started.

They had so much fun in the back yard this summer in the pool and slip and slide.

Ok, so my camera is finally fixed. Going to be posting new pics and updates soon!

After a very LONG wait, we've finally gotten a sneak peak into our family pictures that we took back in April. Laura Riggs was nice enough to take some time out of her busy schedule and go out with us one Saturday, and get some nice shots of the kids, Rob and I.

If you are on Facebook, they are linked to Robert and I, otherwise here are a few and the link where you can see them!

More

Calebs Thought for the day.

Thought of the day:

CALEB: "Mommy, when I get bigger, Can I have a girlfriend?"

MOMMY: LOL. "why do you want a girlfriend?"

CALEB: "You know why!"

Just between us, I haven't the slightest clue!!

But I thought this was a cute conversation.
:0)

FTF, A couple

These are just a COUPLE of my VERY favorite things. :)

Happy Friday