Funny

I'm driving down the road with the girls and Olivia says, "Mommy what's that watermelon thing, you know the animal." I'm not sure what in the world she talking about until she says, "Oh, cantalope, I saw some cantalope." I say, "Antelope?", she says "Yeah." What a hoot!
I should have known right off what she meant because a few months ago she said, "Mommy when I was younger I thought those antalope were made out of fruit in the inside." Kids, they make me laugh, a lot!!!

Marriage and God's Love

Olivia's cake. It's one from a box, but she did everything by herself.
Newly hatched baby chicks. It's so fun watching them hatch!

Olivia and our good ol' milk goat. She loves that goat and gives her lots of love.

As I see marriages succeed and marriages fail, I've really been thinking about what a marriage is and what a marriage mirrors. If Jesus is going to be the groom and the church the bride, then he obviously made marriage very special. I think a marriage should mirror what it will be. I really want God to show me what marriage really should be. I think I have a good solid marriage, but is it everything God intended it to be, probably not. That's the wonderful thing about God, he loves us so much, enough to listen to our prayers and to answer. I'm ready to experience marriage to it's fullest and I'm excited to see what God teaches me!

Another thing I've been thinking about is that I love Gardening. I love watching little seeds grow into seedlings and then into wonderful plants that produce fruit. The funny thing that I realized is that God meant it to be a curse for Adam, to work the soil and to sweat. When God created Adam and Eve in the Garden, they did not have to work for their food, it was just there. My point is that even though tilling the soil and sweating and working was in fact a curse, God loved us so much that he also knew that it would be a blessing to us! Isn't our Father an incredible God of Love and Mercy and all things good!!

"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and hnour.
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
Psalms 8:3-5 and 9

My New Hobby

My new found hobby is grocery shopping. Okay, not really the shopping part, but the saving money part! My friend and I have set out to save as much money as possible. I've cut coupons before, but never used them because the off brands were always cheaper without a coupon than name brands with a coupon. I now have a new and improved system. Now, I look at the sale ads and then go and find coupons to match. coupons.com has a lot of coupons. You also can call up the companies of the brands you like to use and usually they will send you some coupons. Happy Savings!
If anyone else has any more money savings ideas please let me know on the comments.

Home Again

The kids and I made it home yesterday evening. It's great to be home, although I could do without the dirty house, laundry, and all those other fun things that women get to do!! Eight days is a long time for us to be without David! Olivia cried for about 20 minutes on the way home for her Daddy. They have been glued to him since we got here.!
We had a great time with my Dad and then with my Mom and all the rest of the family. I have the best extended family in the world and it was so great to see my cousins and Aunts. I finally got to see baby Emma, she's so cute and doesn't cry much, which is always a plus!!

Mom's house

Fun times with the new addition to the family, Emma. She's so cute!

Getting ready to make a mud cake. She could do that for hours!

Ready for a ride!!

Finally visiting my Mom!

The kids and I are enjoying a great visit at my mom's aka Big Mama! We have not been up here since September, so it's so great to be here! Mom has a new pony and Olivia is having a blast with her! Caroline enjoys riding in the go cart and taking no naps(so not fun for the rest of us, naps are a must!)! We left David at home and we are missing him a lot! We will be gone for 8 days which is a long time to be away from him.
I got to see a movie last night, "New In Town." It was really good! Very funny, some bad language, but no dirty scenes which was so nice.

Pete and Re-pete

Dadgum!! Last week you've seen what Caroline stepped in. I know we all felt so sorry for her and glad Mommy figured out chocolate is a cure all, but what about me! Do you know how long it took to pull those suckers out?! I didn't keep count, but a long stinkin' time! So guess what Olivia did today?! You guessed it, but she didn't step in cactus. Instead she stepped in dried up thistles which wasn't quite as bad to get out. Then here comes her sister with no shoes on right toward the pile!! She didn't step on them thank goodness,but new rule: EVERYONE WEARS SHOES FROM NOW ON!!