So the other night I went in to check on the boys after they had fallen asleep and I didn't find them in their bed.  


This is where I found them.





It ended up being a disaster in the middle of the night because they both freaked.  They couldn't get out, but they weren't fully cognate.  We went in there and got them out from underneath their bed and put them in out bed.  


If the boys had their way they would sleep with us every night.  I can't let the do that, because neither Steve nor I sleep well.  It makes from very restless sleep.  They love to sleep right up against you.  They both end up sleeping against me, well,  I am not sure why but they just do.  Steve doesn't sleep well, because he doesn't have his space.  (yes!  He has to have his space)  At some point, most of the time, they end up in bed with us.  


I just thought it was funny that they were sleeping underneath their bed.   Sometimes I really do wonder why I bought them bunk beds, they end up sleeping in the same bed most of the time.  You just never know with kids.  


I wouldn't trade them with for the world! 

My Favorite Things Friday

I have decided that on Friday's I am going to try to start listing some of my favorite things or favorite moments that have happened this week. Here are a few of my favorite thing:

Getting kiss and hugs from my boys.

Having my nails and toes painted.

Playing "football" with the boys.

Listening to praise and worship music.

Having worship practice at church....Yes it crazy, but we always have fun.

Having a clean house.  There is just something about it!

Close friends with whom you can to about any thing.

Burning candles.  I love the flicker of a burning candle, plus it makes the house smell good.

Here are a few of my favorite things, what are yours?  Share on your blog and come back a leave a comment and I will visit your blog.

Love Never fails

That is a hard statement to digest.  It seems like in life we are let down by people around us all the time.  It could be a parents, siblings, kids, grandparents, friends, and spouses.  It seems like they always let us down in some form.  

But God's love never fails.  He is always faithful.  He is always right on time.  He doesn't come in our timing, but his own.  He cares about our every need and he is never too busy.  He wants to hear about the smallest thing that is bothering us.  He loved us so much that "He gave his one and only Son"(John 3:16)

Nothing can separate us from HIS love, even if we run away He still loves.  

If we reject HIM, He still Loves us.

If we deny HIM, He still Loves us. 

If we curse HIM, He still Loves us.

So in sort the Love of God is the most amazing, hardest to comprehend thing on the planet!

Here are two of my favorite songs

The first one is by Brandon Heath "Love Never Fails"

This second one is by Jesus Culture "Your Love Never Fails."  

They are one of my Favorite bands!

Read 1st Corinthians 13. It challenges me every time I read it.

Unredeemed

I found this video off of Angie Smith's blog.  If you haven't ever read her blog before hope on over and read her story.  She is an amazing writer and has a book coming out in a couple of months.  Her husband is one of the singers in the group Selah.


This song minister to me.  I pray that it will you also.

This year we have been watching the Olympics.  It has always been one of my favorites times, wether it is the summer or winter Olympics.  I love rooting for Team USA, and the underdogs, if TEAM USA doesn't make it to the finials.

I love the perseverance that these people have and the sacrifices that their parents and family have made so that they can be there.  Just the story of each individual person that is there.  They all have the same dream to make it and win the gold.

I wonder what goes on in the mom's mind when they there children competing.  

I wonder if it is close to this commercial.  

Early mommy memory

Do you ever have memories that you just look so fondly back at and just laugh at yourself or the circumstances surrounding you?  Well, I do.  There is one that I would like to share with you today.


Levi was about six weeks old.  He either slept in the bed with us or in his bassinet beside the bed.  He had started sleeping through the night at about six weeks old. 


I woke up this particular night in a panic.  Levi was over due for a feeding and had not woke me up yet.  I was in frenzy!  I was yanking back covers,  Looked in the bassinet beside the bed.  I woke Steve up "I can't find the baby.  He isn't in his bassinet. He isn't in the bed.  I can't find the baby!"  This all happened in a moment.  We both went from dead asleep to a panic.  We thought we had lost our new born baby.  


So Steve looks under the bed and all through the room.  Then we walk out the room and into the nursery, flipping the light on.  Then turn and looks and me "He is in the baby bed! Go back to bed!" Neither one of us had remember that we put him in his room. 


Steve and I laugh about this memory all the time.  It is so special and something we can share with the kids when they get older.  

We finally got snow!!!

This as been the snowiest winter Arkansas has ever had and we hadn't gotten any of it until one day last week.  We really only got about an inch of it.



I love watching the snow fall.  It is so beautiful.  There is just something peaceful about it also!

The boys absolutely loved the snow!  They were so excited to get out and play in it!

Levi found some arms for the snowman.



Micah rolling a ball for part of the snowman!  He loved doing this



When I went in there was only one snowman.



When I can back out there was a snow family.



They even asked daddy to make a baby one, because they want to have another baby.

Not sure that that one is going to happen.

I think the snow was gone by noon.  Maybe next time we will get more next time! =)

The number is getting smaller!

I am so excited!  This week I loss three pounds.   I weight every day, but I am only concentrating on the weekly loss.  Your weight varies from day to day.


This weekend,  I didn't do very good.  We went out to eat Friday and had pizza.  Then Sunday we had a chicken stripe dinner.  When I am eating these foods,  I am not eating as much as I use to.  Portions are a key also.  I weigh and measure everything I eat.


I really do try to not eat sugar and processed bread.  Natures Own makes a sugar free bread.  It is good, but it takes a little to get use to.  We also eat natural jelly, made by Smuckers.  It also doesn't have sugar.  We eat all natural peanut butter.  A good little snack it to get a white or brown rice , jelly and peanut butter smeared on the rice cake.  It helps if you are having a sweet craving.


I saw this on The Biggest Loser,  They were talking about chewing come will help with cravings also.  I was curious so I started trying it.  It really does help!  I thought that was a great tip!


Oh yea, I am also 37 pounds away from my goal of 50 pounds.  I love seeing that number getting smaller and smaller.


I am also planning on taking a picture ever month or so that I can see the difference.  I just haven't don't it yet.  I am always the one taking pictures.  I rarely have one taken of me.

wishful shopping

These rugs would look beautiful in my living room.  They are way out of my price range right now or even in the next couple of years.  If found them all at Target.  It is one of my favorite places to shop.

Rugs are just really expensive and I am not in a place in my life where that it worth spending that much money one something that I know is going to end up stained.  Life with two little boys is never dull.  I just don't want to stress out about them playing on it then getting made because they messed it up.  I will one day find a rug for my living room until then...I will continue to window shop. 

Ordinary Moments

Most days, I don't feel like I have anything blog worthy to write.  My days are filled with fixing breakfast lunch and dinner, separating fights, laundry, giving baths, cuddles in the morning while watching TV, coloring, reading books, tickling.  Some days I get drug down in the moments of very day life.

I am been in a bit of a mommy funk lately.  I haven't been enjoying these moments of the ordinary life.  I feel bad for these moments because there are people who long for these moments.  They want a baby or babies with every fiber of there being.  There are mommies who just want there ordinary moments because their kids are sick. Here I am with two most of precious gifts and they are perfectly healthy.

I don’t know why I get this way some times.  I don’t even know if is normal.  We stay home most of the time.  Except for on Thursday we go the grocery store, Wednesday night we go to church, and then on Sunday go to morning and night services at church.  Some times our family is the only people we see through the week. 

I am a on the go type of person.  We could not be at home most at the time and I would be okay with that.  I love to go visit people, fellowship, and just have fun.  My husband says “You should have married a jet setter or a rich man.”  Ha!

We use to live in Little Rock and we were gone all the time.  We went and ate out and went to see family.  We went to church and we went to a very busy church too. 

Now we live in Amity and it is a much slow life here, very country life style.  I love it here.  I truly do I love the people.  I am just not use to the slowness of it.  This is my life now!  It is all that I have.  I have to use it for God's glory.  I don't think that am doing that right now.  

I want my kids to know that I love them.  I want them to look back at  their childhood and have more good memories than bad.  For them to say "Mom and Dad made the best of what they had."  Life doesn't have to be busy with things.  I am going to back the best of these ordinary moments.

Just have to have some quiet time

Micah got really quiet and usually that is a bad sign. So I quietlly got up to see what he was into and this is what I found




He was playing with is toys in his bed with his mattress pushed off as far as he could get it! Ithought it was rather cute.

I asked him "what he was doing?" and he said " playing baby and sister."

Some times you just have to have some quiet play time by yourself .


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two more pounds down

Well,  I have loss another two pounds.  I am not 40 pounds away from my first goal.  I think I have said this before that I am taking this fifty at time.  I don't really want to post how much I wight but I am about seven pound from a mile stone that I am aiming at.  I haven't seen this milestone since Micah was born.


I loss a lot of weight right before I had Micah.  I loss any where between 20-30 pounds.  I don't remember exactly how much.  We were on a weight loss program called Prism.  We where doing it with our church in Greers Ferry while we where youth pastors.   It is beautiful place to live.


I am basically trying to do the same thing as the Prism weight loss program, but not paying the money.   You count your calories and eat NO sugar, if you eat sugar is in it has to be the fifth ingredient.  You also can't what white process flour.  So you eat whole wheat and whole grain bread and cereal.  For me I will be eating 1300-1500 calories and day.  If you weight under 250 pounds you eat 1100-1500 calories.  Men and 100-1500 calories also.  I don't know as much for them.


So here is to starting a new week.  I am hoping to do better.


My weight gain didn't happen over night and it is not going to come off over night.

one pound loss

This week I have loss one pound this week total.  I my weight this week has gone up and down.  I think some of it my have to do with the stress that has been going on this week.  I am not sure. I haven't eaten bad.  I think to that maybe my body may be in a little shock from all the weight loss last week.  I don't know.  I am going to keep on and I will get there.

One of the key thinking is Drinking a lot of water.  I drink any where between 4 to 5  20-oz bottle of water a day.  I know that you are suppose to drink 64-oz of water a day.  (i think it may just be liquid)  I am staying a way from caffeinated drinks all together.  I am not having any sugar drinks either.  So I am pretty much only drinking water.

I also wasn't able to work out two days because of my dad being in the hospital.  I was up there with him and my step-mom the whole time.  I think that may have hurt too.

So I am 42 pounds away from my goal.  I am hoping that this week will be a better week.  This week is Steve's birthday so I am going to have a big temptation with his cake.  It is an Ice Cream Cake from Dairy Queen.  It is SOOO good!