Enjoying the moment

I just wanted to share thus picture. Micah was just laying on my lap and being sweet.

Now that Levi is in school, he is loving getting all the attention from me.

I am so thankful for this time. I didn't feel like I get to really enjoy him as a baby, but I am now. Even if he is still throwing fits and tantrums every now and then. Hoping to see the end of those soon.


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Brothers

Sometimes they get along.
Sometimes the don't.
Regardless they are bothers and the love each other fiercely.




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Well, I deicded it was time for a post.

I haven't been around a lot lately to post.  A lot has been going on for me personally.  God is pruning me, so I am feeling kind of quiet.  I think everything that has happened this past year has led up to this time and the changes that are churning inside of me waiting for me to accept them and put what I am learning into action.

They boys are so excited about Halloween this year.  Levi keeps asking what day it is and how many days before Halloween.  We will be here at the church doing a trunk or treating.

Tonight we took them up to Kirby High School for a Fall Festival.  They had so much fun, but they didn't want to leave and they wanted me to buy more tickets.  I think there is going to be another couple within the next couple of days.  I don't think we will make it to them all. 

The other day the boys were putting together this letter puzzle.  There is a picture and a letter on each piece and you have to match them together.  Levi and Micah were working on them together.  Levi found one that went together. He said "I am a genius!"  He was so excited and proud of himself.  I could do anything but laugh at him. 

He also busted out in "Tonight is going to be a good night"  the other night in the car.  I don't know where this kid comes up with this stuff.  He definitely keeps me on my toes.

I love my boys so much.  Hopefully I will be back and post some Halloween costume pictures. 

Another bad picture

This is another bad picture but I had to share.

The boys were all sitting at the table drinking with their costumes on. They love to dress up!

The best thing we have found is to wait until Halloween is over and you can pick up costumes for a couple of dollars to a dollar a piece. It is a great deal and endless hours of entertainment.


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This little boy loves to color. He is very intense when he does.



-He get my full attention now that Levi is at school all day. He is eating it up. It drives me nuts some times, but I have to remind myself that this is only temporary before I know it he will be in school too.




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I am not that person

Nope I am not that person.  I am not a lot of things.  I wish I could be better at some things than what I am. I wish I would do this or I wish i would to that. 

We have all said that to ourselves at one point or another.  I know I have and other that I don't want to admit.  I compare my self to other people.

All the while I have been wrapped up in my past.  In how I was not treated fairly in this, or I wasn't loved in this way.  Really the list could go on and on.  I don't want to name specifics for a reason and I will get to the reason in a minute. 

I am stopping!  I am not looking back any more, because I don't want to turn into something that I am not suppose to be.  I don't want to be bitter or angry (any more).

But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt Gen. 19:26

Here is this story we have Lot's wife who looks back and the city they just left.  God specifically told them not to look back.  God had saved them from a very sinful city.

In that same manner, God has saved us from a very sinful past.  He is doing a new work in us.

18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

~Isaiah 43:18-19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.

~2 Corinthians 5:17

You are a new creation!  The old person has gone.  Don't look back to it.  Remember where God as brought you from.  Don't keep looking back.  You aren't that person any more!

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.~Psalm 139:14

God made you! You are the person you are suppose to be. He great you for a specific purpose.  It is not the same purpose as those around you.  We all have different gifts.  We are all going to do them differently.  Don't compare yourself to others.  You aren't that person.

So what I am learning through all of this is be my self.  Be the person God created me to be.  He loves me and you! It is beautiful that we are all different.

He is still working and pruning on all of us!