Oh yeah, American's aren't the only ones on this planet!!

So Rob did the message at youth last night and he did so great. He called my brother for some stories of things he'd seen oversees while on missions work. Aaron sent him this comedic video clip about how amazing we have it yet nobody's happy. How true! This video was funny but also so true about how we get so frustrated when technology stops working for a minute and we don't even think twice about how amazing it is that we have the technology that we have in the first place. Ironically the computer froze while playing this video for the youth last night and all we could do was laugh instead of get frustrated.
Then Rob read some of the stuff that Aaron wrote telling of the things he'd seen and the things that will make you change the way you think about your clothes that are maybe a little too small or that maybe aren't "in style" anymore. And the next time we see someone with a prostetic leg and realize what an amazing thing for us to have "fake" legs and so many in other countries are dragging themselves along with missing feet/legs and they don't even have crutches or a wheelchair, let alone a prostetic leg...
After that we played a video that Rob's brother made that broke the world down to only 100 people and if there were only 100 people, only 4 would be American and I think it was like 16 would be starving, and so many of that 100 would be dying of diseases that would easily be cured in America and so on and so forth...
This all really got me thinking and well really humbled me and made me feel soooo blessed all at the same time. And what's crazy is that I go days upon days upon days (probably months at times) without thinking about anyone oversees and what they are going through. I live in a bubble and I know that I'm not the only one! And although there are millions and millions of people on this earth (not just in America) God loves me! Me! How cool is that?!

Quote of the Day:

Me: "Morgan, if you touch that again, you're going to sit in time out!"

Morgan, with a very bratty look on her face, reaches out as if to touch the drawer again and then takes her little finger and touches me with it and says "Touch!" (this girl is only 2!! Where did she get this smarty pants remark???)

And how do you not crack up and laugh about that? I had to laugh!

Been so busy!

I haven't had a chance to post much in the last few days. We've been so busy. We had our youth rally Saturday night. It was the first one for Rob and I to ever head up and it was wonderful. Rob did so awesome recruiting help and putting certain people over certain tasks and we had so much help. It was just amazing.
We had around 300 people there. "In the Midst of Lions" (a screamo band) played, also a rapper, Mynista was there and he was great! And my favorite, Elijah Tindall a comedian/minister from Oklahoma was there and of course he was hilarious and did an awesome job.
We gave out free pizza and soda, tons of prizes that the local businesses around town donated and we had a skateboarding competition.
It was just great. We had alot of fun and hope to do it again in the future...hopefully in a larger facility though.

Quote of the Day:

Morgan has started singing all the time and her favorite is:

"Twankle, Twankle little star, how are what you are, up high, down low in the sky, twankle little star."

LOL...i'm not sure what the "twankle" is all about...we aren't southern anymore!! :)

Fun website for all you moms of toddlers...

www.toddlertoddler.com

I found this website today while searching for fun activites to do with Morgan. We did 3 different things today from this site. It was fun! They even set up a virtual zoo trip and aquarium trip on there with videos of different animals. We sat and watched both and named all the animals. We both had fun! :) I think i'll be visiting this site frequently!

The greatest job on earth.

So I was mopping my floors and I realized, I really truly have the greatest job on earth, (imo, that is). I have what I always dreamed of. I am able to stay home with my 2 amazing, healthy kids and do what I want for the most part.
I was mopping the hall and I past Morgan's room and i saw her sleeping peacefully in her bed and then I passed Zakry's room and he too was peacefully sleeping and it dawned on me: "I have 2 children!" I know it's been nearly 6 months since I became the mother of 2, but i don't know, something today made me really realize that I'm living my dream. I always wanted at least 2 children, boy and a girl, and I wanted to be a stay at home mom. I think I was saying that from the time I was like maybe 8 or 9 years old. Well I have that and some days are so stressful and I find myself feeling depressed or unhappy, but I shouldn't have those days. This is my dream and I really think that I would be miserable working outside the home and taking my kids to a babysitter every day. I love only working about 5 hours a week (just enough to give me a bit of a break) for the church and I love working with youth. I truly have a great life.
With that being said, I'm trying to improve on my motherhood and wifelyhood. I'm trying to do a craft or activity with Morgan each day and I am trying to spend more time just holding and loving on Zakry.
Today we printed off shapes and I cut them out and then I hid them all around the house with tape on the back of them. I then gave Morgan the outlines of those shapes and we went around and found all the shapes and taped them onto the outlines in the correct place. I was amazed that she knows her shapes very well and I have never really worked with her on them.
We're working on colors, but she still doesn't quite understand how something is a star is also yellow...she thought it was a star not yellow...
We're watching less tv which is great and watching what we eat. Fruits and veggies instead of sugary snacks! :) I feel much better and even if I don't lose weight, at least I feel good about
myself and how I'm raising my children to eat.
Anyway, these were my thoughts for today and although I may lose sight of how great my life really is somedays, now maybe I can come back and read this occassionally and remember how great I really have it! :)

Quote of the Day:

Morgan prayed out loud without repeating anyone or anyone telling her to today! I was such a proud momma!

She sat down to eat her lunch and she said "I pray" and well she says that alot but never actually prays. She usually just bows her head and we can't get her to say anything but today she immediately started praying very loudly and as clear as day...this was her prayer:

"Father God, thank you for this food, I love Jesus, Amen"

Quote of the Day:

Quote from Yesterday:

Morgan was at my parent's last night and this quote was directed at my mom:

Morgan was using the potty and asked memaw to sit on the stool. Memaw said “I don’t want to sit down” and Morgan said, “You too fat?”

Aparantly MeMaw had used that as an excuse in the past to not sit down in Morgan's little chairs that obviously most adults would be "too fat" to sit in...lol :) Morgan's memory is just exceptional and she certainly remembers EVERYTHING you tell her!

Sleeping through the night...

This is a dream of mine. Zakry still wakes up 2 to 3 times a night for a bottle and he is almost 6 months old!! He has only slept through the night maybe 3 times since he was born!!! Morgan slept through the night at 7 weeks old and did that until she was about 13 months old. We finally got her sleeping through the night again and in her own bed when she was a little over 2years old.

But last night...oh it was fun. Morgan came in my room I think a total of 5 times and finally I ended up letting her stay in our bed because Rob was getting ready to go to work anyway. Zak woke up 3 times and the last time was right at 6am so I thought I'd give him a bottle and since Morgan was in my bed they'd both hopefully sleep until about 9...not...they were both awake at about 7:30 anyway and I'm tired...very tired.

I think I am similar to like a hibernating bear when it comes to night time. I LOVE my sleep and I despise getting broken sleep. Night times are my absolute least favorite thing when it comes to babies who don't sleep all night. I DREAD getting out of my bed to go warm a bottle in the cold kitchen on the cold hardwood.

Anyway, i know it's the price you pay for these kids but I can't wait until Zak is sleeping through the night then I'd be able to handle the occassional nights like Morgan had last night because it wouldn't be an often thing...Oh well

Quote of the Day:

This quote is actually from yesterday...It was bedtime and Morgan went and got in my bed instead of hers and she said

"No bedtime, I wake up...I relax" (Meaning, she wasn't going to bed she already did that and woke up and she just wants to relax in bed with mommy and daddy...lol, she's too funny!)

Valentine's weekend

Well this weekend was great. Saturday Rob and I got to go have a date day. We went to the mall and just walked around without a care in the world. Then we watched the movie "Taken" (crazy movie). We just ate dinner in the food court and it was just so relaxing to not have to lug kids and diaper bags and strollers around. It was wonderful and something that should probably happen more often! :)
I bought Rob a whirley pop popcorn maker for V-day and we've already made 2 batches of popcorn. It works soooo well and makes great tasting popcorn!
Rob got me my favorite: Chocolate covered strawberries from the Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate store. They were sooooo yummy! He got me a whole pound and I ate like all but 2! :)

Morgan had managed to give herself a black eye a week ago friday, and that finally faded but then today she ran right into a doorway at church and her whole cheek is comepletely black and blue. Well then her and Rob came home while I went to the store for a minute and she fell off of the bed and got her first bloody nose. Apparantly there was blood everywhere and daddy wasn't sure what to do. She hasn't ever bled except for from her mouth the few times she's bitten her tongue or lip so this was definitely a new one for us! Daddy did a good job though. The bleeding ceased and all is well. :)

Quote of the day:

Quote by Morgan: "I go to Pizza Bell"

Quote of the day:

I look over and see Morgan bent over Zakry and Zak has both hands grasping her hair with all his might...
Morgan says very calmly: "Help Mommy, I really stuck."

Daily Quotes:

Quote for today:

"Morgan, get that pizza box off of your head!"

It's Friday!

I love fridays. I never have much to do on Friday's during the day except housework and then we usually get to go to dinner or rent movies or something on Friday nights since Rob doesn't work on Saturdays...

Not sure what we will do tonight. We'll be watching my brothers while my parents go on a date for Valentines day so maybe we'll order pizza and rent a movie or something. Who knows...

Tomorrow is V-day! I'm sooo excited. Rob and I are going to go to the mall, a movie and dinner in the city.

One reason I love living in a more rural area is because it's kind of a special treat now to go to the "city". When we lived there it wasn't nearly as special to go shopping or eat out at a nice restaurant. But now it's always so exciting.

My sinuses have been going crazy so I'm hoping that subsides so we can have an enjoyable time tomorrow.

Morgan hasn't really said anything exceptionally cute lately but some of my all time favorites include the time when I spanked her and through her tears she puckered up and said "Mommy, that's my butt!" LoL...i'll never forget that one.
Hmm, i can't think of anymore favorite quotes right now...see that's why I'm blogging...because my memory isn't the greatest and I forget all the cute things these kids do.

Remember, Morgan is only 2 years old and she talks as well as most 3 and 4 year olds. I forget alot of times that she is only 2 and I expect her to behave like she's 4 or older. She's such a big helper. She's always trying to help me with Zakry...which results in loud thumps and crying (I think she's been trying to pick him up when I'm not watching and she's dropped him). It's hard to get mad at her though because she loves her brother soooo much and she never intentionally hurts him. She's going to be the worlds best big sister.

Zakry is so cute. He's getting so big. I started putting him in the high chair to feed him his cereal now and he's such a big boy. He sits up in it so well. I think I did everything so much sooner with Morgan because I remember having to prop her up in the high chair and things. She must have only been like 3 months old or something. LoL...I rushed her to grow up so fast. But Zakry, well let's just say I haven't been in a hurry to feed him or to see him crawling around the house getting into everything.

I called the doctor because he seems to always be constipated so she wants me to start him on some veggies and fruits to get him some more fiber...so I guess we'll begin that soon. With Morgan i was soooo excited to feed her baby food, but with Zakry, yeah, not so excited. It's messy and requires me to do it. I like it when they can feed themselves. :) I can't wait until he can hold his own bottle! That will be a very exciting day for me. I want the best of both worlds. I don't want him to get into everything or be able to put certain things in his mouth, but I want him to be able to feed himself. Contradictory, I know. :) Just give me my cake and let me eat it too!

Well this seems like it's been a long post with nothing very interesting...I'm going to work on my creativity for future posts...but it's going to take time...bear with me.

January 2009

This is for my kids!

Well I've been thinking for a while now about starting a blog so that I could have a journal of some sort that my kids can go back and read when they are older and to help us all remember the big and small details of our lives.

I'll start with my life beginning on the 27th day of September, 2003. That's the day I married the most wonderful man in the world and a day I'll cherish forever! Rob (my husband) and i decided to move to be close to his work and so I could go to school and get a certificate in Computer Administrative assistance. I completed that the following year and went on to work for the next 2 years. In March of 2006, we found out we were expecting our first beautiful baby girl, Morgan Grace. She was born Dec. 3, 2006.

We started the daunting task of having a house built back in my hometown so we could be closer to my family. We love our house and are so happy we made the decision to move back.

We took on the Youth Pastor position at the church my parents are pastors at and have now been the youth pastors there for about 2.5 years. It's been amazing...more about that someday. :)

In January of 2008, we found out we were expecting our amazing little man, Zakry Jase. He was born Sept. 8, 2008.

These 2 kids have made our lives complete and we feel soooo blessed that God has placed them in our lives for us to take care of.

I will most likely use this blog to journal all of the wild and crazy things Morgan says throughout the day and to talk about the milestones Zakry has hit each day.