WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO?

PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY PRAY - PRAY - PRAY!!!!!! A good friend reminded me of this great advice! Why do we forget and "lean on our own understanding". I am acknowledging my imperfect ways and am prepared to let Him direct my path! I am quite certain that I will repeat this many times over my lifetime, but right now is the time I am in and God is leading! Awesome!

Tagged

I've been tagged...one word only!
ONE WORD FOR EACH ANSWER. IT'S HARDER THAN YOU THINK!!!
1. Where is your cell phone? van
2. Your significant other? handsome
3. Your hair? greying
4. Your mother? loving
5. Your father? caring
6. Your favorite thing? harmony
7. Your dream last night? sad
8. Your favorite drink? coke
9. Your dream/goal? Christlikeness
10. The room you're in? den
11. Your fear? hurting
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Belton
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? confrontational
15. Muffins/donuts? Donuts
16. One of your wish list items? vacation
17. Where you grew up? UMHB
18. The last thing you did? drive
19. What are you wearing? sweats
20. Your TV? off
21. Your pet? outside
22. Your computer? humming
23. Your life? dreamy
24. Your mood? gloomy
25. Missing someone? Desperately
26. Favorite pastime? talking
27. Something you're not wearing? shoes
28. Favorite Store? none
29. Your summer? hot
30. Your favorite color? red
31. When is the last time you laughed? Yesterday
32. Last time you cried? Today
33. Who will/would re-post this? mary michele - you better
34. Four places I go over and over: Lakewood, Church, work, wal-mart
35. Four people who e-mail me? Mom, Grandpa, Mary Michele & Clients
36. Four of my favorite foods? Crablegs, Lobster, Cheesecake, Brownies
37. Four places I would like to be right now: Bed, Family, Vacation, Spa
38. Four people I tag? Heather W., Mary Michele, Anyone who wants to!

UMHB Homecoming and campus crawl

The boys rode with Mike in the Campus Crawl - caravan from UMHB to the football stadium before each home game. Mike was pulling the band in his trailor so the Boys rode in the cab with Mike. They thought they were so big and had a great time. After mike having to work all morning he went home to catch up on things there so I stayed at the game with the boys and tried to catch up with some friends. We hung in there until half time and the score was in the 40s to 0 and we were winning. The boys love the idea of football games but do not actually watch. They spend the time running around and it is usually exhausting for me so we left and came home where Noah sported this lovely outfit. I love his confidence.

Halloween Activities 2008

The boys totally picked out their outfits this year. Noah was a hard sell. I wanted him to dress up as Noah and pull a wagon full of animals. How cute would that have been - NOPE - Spiderman won! Liam went as the cutest motorcross guy ever. He loved it. We spent the evening going to our Church's fall festival and then trick or treating the neighbors and then coming home and answering the door to our own trick or treaters. We also carved our Winnie the Pooh pumpkin and had a wonderful time. We recently painted our small pumpkins but since it was officially not halloween anymore we just called it a fall craft. I will post pics of those later. Enjoy the show!

Calling all Family and Friends - Missing Tooth to Report

On Thursday, October 30, 2008 I had a first. Yes - a first as a mom. I am now a mom of a boy with one missing tooth. It came out at school right after recess according to reports from my ultra brave 5 year old Liam. According to an afadavit delivered by the aforementioned subject the tooth had been loose for several weeks and despite the subject in question's father's best attempts to lour his son into schemes involving door knobs and string the son was not disuaded. The missing tooth was found as it fell backward into the subject's mouth and the tooth was quickly obtained and logged as evidence in the nurse's office while the subject reportedly smiled the biggest smile possible. The subject decided upon an orange tooth treasure chest for safekeeping and subject's mom tried to hold it toghther as it was proudly displayed at the close of the school day. After careful consideration and much detective work it was decided that pressing charges was way out of line. This thing happens all the time. So in the best interest of the parties involved it was decided that a specialist would be called in to dispose of the evidence - in this case the front lower left tooth. Our specialist - aka: the Tooth Fairy - arrived sometime that night to remove the tooth and left a mighty fine compensation for Liam. It is noted that we now have one more loose tooth so our specialist may have to be called in for a followup rebuttal visit. We will see. Right now we are just glad it was settled in a peaceful manner. And as always - no one got hurt.

Kids at work

Lately the boys are obsessed with cleaning. Some of you may say - This is fabulous - can things get any better -well before you go ahead and name me the luckiest girl on this planet - hold the phone. Cleaning to a 5 and 3 year old is not what you might say - totally helpful. When I had them help me clean the kitchen floor they got down to their underwear and began dumping spongefulls of soapy water on my floor as fast as I could wipe it up. Also, Noah helps clean by taking sponges around the house and cleaning anything he desires. This includes fabric on the couches and the wooden chairs around the kitchen table. Not to mention the woodwork on the wall. It is also translated to the out of doors. By this I mean the brick on the house, the garage floor, my car - you guessed it. This is an area where this might be helpful, but alas - they love to use soapy sponges - they are not that great at the prewash - the rinse or the dry. Also, Liam loves to clean windows, but does not understand that once you soap them up it is just as important to dry them and even more important to clean your sponge so you are using clean things to clean with. Oh well - they are so sweet to want to help I correct where I can and where I am laughing too hard to do that I take pictures. I love my sweet McCarthy Brothers Wash Car ( Noah is naming their business this name).

Kitchen mini makeover

Earlier this fall Mike and I finally tackled the kitchen - well mostly mike - or all mike. We finally got rid of the not too pretty wall paper and painted. This is what we came up with - we painted and did trim work. Now all that is left is - flooring, window blinds, countertops, cabinet hardware and lighting. Fun hun - but it is a start and already looks tons better. By the way - the art work that is in the one picture - Mike made it from a picture we found on line. He is so talented and I am convinced that there is not anything he will not try if he wants to.

What Noah Does while Liam plays Soccer

Ok - some have asked what Noah typically does when Liam is playing soccer. Sometimes he pics flowers, sometimes he plays with Jessica (friend) and sometimes he just kicks back - litterally. This pic was at the game we played against our great friends son Keagan. Too funny! Thanks Heather for pointing it out to me so I could capture this for some fun!