Yipee! Daddy Has a Job!

Here are a few of our pictures from our celebration! We went of for ice cream after finding out last Friday that Barry did not lose his job. It was a wonderful answer to prayer after A LOT of praying:) Yea God!

What's a celebration without friends right?
Lori and Liana joined in the fun!

Sydney and her ice cream.

Liana, a.k.a. "Lollie" and the girls.

Last but not least... Barry! He looks very happy,

don't you think??

God is good!

Girls will be Girls

Yes! Girls will do girly things... like put smiley faces and hearts
after their name. I could not resist taking a picture and posting
this. It is so girly and it seems that not that long ago I was
putting hearts on my i's and after my name. Is this the point
when you start to see your life come full circle? It makes me
smile :-)

Who's Got a Fat Lip???

We went to Wonderscope during Spring Break and towards the end of our visit Molly slipped while trying to climb up on a picnic table and cut her lip with her tooth. I am really not even sure how it happen and I was standing there... but anyway she has a nice fat lip to show for it!

Playing with the wind machine at Wonderscope.

Wonder Woman or Just SuperMom???

This is for all those Wonderwoman Super Moms! I was thinking recently how as moms our lives change from being single or married with out kiddos. It is drastic change but can be humerous too when you think about it. I was reading an article in my Parenting magazine not too long ago about how as a mom we do things now that we would never dream of doing or attempting prior to kids. For example... flying, when you see you child about to fall or drop something, we can literally 'fly' across the room to catch child or object. How about, Super Hearing? Can't you tell exactly what your children are whispering to each other in the next room or whether or not they are jumping "quietly" on the "no-jumping" furniture! I can tell you my children are amazed by this... so am I actually. You probably didn't know it but I am a master juggler... yes I know clowns can juggle but just the other day I was making supper while making sure Molly did not fall off the counter while she was poking toothpicks into cupcakes as well as helping Sydney manuver her Webkinz in their virtual rooms on the computer. What about when you children are sick... our ability to move our child from a carpeted area to a non-carpeted area at the Speed of Light in order to save the carpet from "the flu bug". Amazing right??? When I was little I did want to be WonderWoman and actually had the WonderWoman underwear but I figured that would be as far as it went. Little did I know that as a Mom, the Lord gives us amazing talents and abilities to be a SuperMom... which is a much better life than WonderWoman... a fictional character! So to all those moms who feel lost in the daily routine, just remember that really you live a life with super powers that only moms can appreciate!

TuTu Cute!!!

Molly in her new tutu I bought from a friend of mine,
it is so cute!


She was mad when I took it off of her to
put on her pjs

Just so cute!

Birdseed Biscuits, Cowbells and Playdates

I am combining a few posts just because they are short and fun.


We had the pleasure of watching Tyler and Bria Boyle for the morning, it was fun for them all to play together!


Another fun picture of the kiddos.


Barry brought home some old cowbells from his Grandpa's farm. The girls thought these were Great! I guess the best gifts are old, farm... things:)

I made Valentine Birdseed biscuits in order for the girls to handout to their friends at church. These turned out a little more fragile than I expected and did not figure they would make it from church to the homes in one shape... so we still have some:)

Sydney and Gracie with their birdseed biscuits.

Best Friends!

I would like to say I am blessed enough to have a handful of truly 'best friends' that I share a lot with in life. However, I have been out of contact with my high school best friend for over 3 years now. We were inseperable in high school. We were at all of each other's family events. We could talk for hours after just having spent the whole day together. I went off to college and she stayed in K.C. We still kept in touch and wrote and called and visited every chance we got. It is hard to imagine your life without someone that you shared silly crushes, gossip, monumental birthdays, college, boyfriends, 'the man of your dreams', kids etc. etc. I guess life just got in the way. We got married started having babies, our lives just took separate paths, I suppose. I have missed being connected with her and keeping in touch with what is going on in our lives. Thankfully, through Facebook, we have found each other again! It has been wonderful! It has been so great chatting and getting reaquainted again. We are looking forward to meeting up soon and catching up in person, with lots of hugs and tears of joy! I think sometimes we don't realize how important and how much we need our friends until they are no longer in our lives, for whatever reason. So cherish your friends! Thank God for them daily! And call that one true friend you have not talked to in waaayyy to long:)