Wordless Wednesday

Atlanta Visit

We took a long weekend to go to Atlanta to visit family and check in with our new puppy.  Yes our new puppy, we've gone mad.  On the way there, Dylan was complaining that he couldn't see out of his eye, by the time we got there, it was full blown pink eye.  We had to make a trip to the minute clinic. Here he is waiting for his meds, pretending to be an old person.  "help me" 

Dylan and Taylor enjoyed dancing with the Wii

 We took a drive on Friday to visit the litter to pick which one we wanted. We were the last to pick for the girls, so if we take a girl, it will be the one that is not spoken for.  There was one girl there we said we didn't want. She was really dark red and was more poodle like.  We said we'd prefere the boy over her.

Natalie had fun playing with the litter.

As did Dylan.  This is Comet crawling up Dylan...he's in the running for the boys. Who knows?

 

Beautiful Day in Feburary

Who doesn't love a day at the park?  I am loving the unusualy warmer weather we are having and we will take advantage of it, every time :) 

Dylan and Joseph

Not Feeling Well

Natalie has been off the past few days.  I decided I should just take her to the doctor to make sure it wasn't an ear infection or something before we headed out of town.  She wasn't herself, she even fell asleep on the couch.  

Then I get to the doctor's office and she's all smiles. Hmm, am I being tricked? Nope, double ear infection.  Thank goodness we took care of it before we headed out of town.

Jesus is my Best Friend

Lately, Dylan has been asking a lot of questions about God.  Some very serious and then some just your typical preschool questions like "how big is God"  "can God do xyz".  I would say at least once a day, Dylan poses a question about God.  God is so simple yet complex to explain to a 4 year old (and sometimes a 40 year old).  Of course, there is the fallback christian talk "Jesus lives in your heart".  When we first told that to Dylan he literally thought he lived there, so when we were telling him one day Turbo would die and go be with God, Dylan offered up to take in Sophie in his heart, but not Turbo because he was too big.  Really, how do you explain that concept, so trying to take away the christian talk, we've tried to explain to Dylan what it means to love Jesus and be his best friend. I get a lot of ideas since I do Wee Connect (preschool praise and worship) at church, so I try to go on that.

The other day we were grocery shopping (at Krog#r) and Dylan says,  I asked Jesus to live in my heart.  I didn't want to dismiss it but I didn't want to have that talk in the bean aisle either.  (I find it funny that he brought this up while shopping at Krog#r given that our church building was the former Krog#r).  I replied to him, that's awesome, I'd love to talk about it with you when we get home.  Later on, I asked him what he thought it meant to ask Jesus in his heart.  His reply, "I don't know but I want to live with you and Daddy forever so I want to go to heaven too"  Bless him.  I don't technically think this was the moment that he really asked Jesus into his heart, but I see it as just as sweet and that we are on the right path.  I think it's hard to say when a child is ready for that big moment, but I think we have a few years. I want Dylan to really understand the importance of that decision.  My prayer is that he serves God one day in a mighty and bold way. That he lives for Him and allows God into every aspect of his life, as well as Natalie.  I pray for Godly friends and I pray for friends that he can be salt and light for. I have already began to pray for his wife and Natalie's husband. It's never to early to pray for your children's future.

Natalie's Safari Party

I cannot believe my little spanky is 2!  Time does really go by super fast. For her birthday, I did a safari theme because she loves animals (just like her brother). I am so thankful for pinterest. I couldn't do these parties without it. HA.

The welcome station were the kids could get a hand tattoo. 

The party favor table : animal mask, animal crackers and more animal tattoos. 

 Craft table : Decorate an elephant and a monkey

 The food: easy hot dogs in the crock pot

 Lion Kibble (aka cheeze party mix) and Gorilla Grub

 The cake or cupcakes in this case

Zebra Treats

 The decor

The games ... ring the nose of the gator

 Pin the banana on the monkey

 The Birthday Girl 

Later, we had my family over for a birthday dinner.  Natalie enjoyed having everyone celebrate her birthday with her.  

Choose Joy

I hinted around that for Valentines I would love to get a necklace with Sara's "choose joy" motto, in her own handwriting.  Damien delivered and I love it.  Choose joy is something that I seek to do, but I am not always successful at it. I am hoping that this is a reminder. If you don't know Sara's story please go read it....it's an awesome testimony.  

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It's a BOY!

Meet Comet (named by his current family) because he was born on Christmas day, so he and all of his siblings were named after reindeer.  I find this comforting because growing up, I had a dog named Comet who was an irish setter/ golden retriever mix.  Comet and I were thick as thieves, ok maybe not that thick, but I loved him so much.

This Comet, which we are leaning towards naming Griffin, will be a handful no doubt.  He's a golden doodle, and will be Turbo's size.  Turbo is getting older and we know we probably have him for a few more years if we are lucky, so we want Turbo to train Comet/Griffin.  Let's face it, Turbo is the greatest dog ever.  Everyone that meets Turbo loves him, even people who aren't crazy about dogs, so hopefully Turbo will not be a grumpy old man and do his part in this deal.  (Turbo and Sophie have no idea that their world is about to be rocked.)

We decided to go with a puppy from a breed that would be great with kids.  After all this will be the kids' dogs, so we wanted a dog that would be fearless, loving and playful.  We've heard nothing but great things about doodles, so we are excited.  We really wanted to rescue, but with our kids being so little, rescuing can be a little unknown.  We've rescued up until this point and will continue to do so again as we know that's important.

If you see us walking around like zombies for a few months, that would be the newborn phase all over again.  Hopefully, Comet won't chew up furniture like Turbo did, when he chewed up a rocking chair's rocker or my favorite sandals, my coat and God only knows what else Turbo ate.

More to come on Comet/Griffin once he's home next weekend.  For now, you get this look of anger with a little side of crazy...hmmm, he may fit right in with the other toddlers in the house when he doesn't get his way.    :)

Watch out Momma's Packing Heat

 After all that's been going on lately, I think it's time to learn how to shoot a gun an then when I feel like I need to, I can carry one with me.  After hitting all my targets and passing the written with a 100%.

It's official.  I'm a gun toting Momma. 

Wordless Wednesday

Fast Asleep

Kids can sleep in the most awkward postions.  Not that this is awkward, but I don't know if I could sleep with a hooded blanket on.