Abundantly Blessed

First Days of School

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The last of our Summer Pictures

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VBS 2009 Drumline

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So that you can hear the video, you may want to go to the bottom of my blog and pause the music before playing the video.

Check out our AWESOME drummers at Paul Ann Baptist Church

VBS, visit from the cousins, sleepovers, a trip to Ft. Worth, attempting to make home made bread and now SCHOOL has started!!!

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That is what has been going on around here the last few weeks! I'll try to give you a quick summary but you'll probably want to see the slideshow for more detail!

My sweet nieces came for a few weeks to visit! My kiddos thought they were in dire need of some quality time with their cousins and best friends! They all had lots of fun making sweet memories but the time together just didn't seem like enough!!! I hate that they are so far apart!!!

During their visit - we had VBS at our church - which was AMAZING!!! Just to brag a little on our children's pastor - he wrote the VBS material and he did a TERRIFIC job!!! Way better than a VBS in a package!! It was called "Building a House of Faith"! Check out the video above of our awesome drummers!

And that was only part of it!!!

We also had a sleepover for Gracie with some of her "San Angelo friends". All the girls had so much fun playing Barbies and babies, swimming, playing outside, riding our horse, riding the four-wheeler! They didn't stop!! It was really lots of Fun - I even totally enjoyed all the kiddos running around here and listening to their sweet giggles!

A few days before Gracie's birthday, we took the girls home! I thought it might be an "interesting" ride with 6 kiddos, but they were really great! We only had to stop once and Bryan and I were both grinning from ear to ear from all the "looks" at our line of children we were getting. We were both asked if they were ALL ours and when we both claimed them, the response was pure shock. It really made us both proud though to be able to flaunt around 6 beautiful, well behaved children - God is so good to bless us so abundantly!!!

We stayed in Ft. Worth a few days and immensely enjoyed our visit. We went to a water park one day which the kids loved and celebrated Gracie's 7th birthday the next day!!!

A few weeks ago, My sweet husband shared with me that he desires me to make homemade bread. Before you start getting carried away in your thoughts though - Just stop - I can hear what some think!!!! I though, gladly desire to please my husband and be a helper to him and be the wife that God desires me to be and if that means making bread three times a week, I'll do it with love and a smile on my face!!!

So, he (on his own) researched some things and he ended up buying me a grain mill to mill grain into flour and a new mixer all to make the bread making easier for me! (My adoration for him definately climbed several notches!) The flour you buy at the store has been processed and enriched so much that all your really doing is putting a bunch of chemicals into your body. Especially if you buy white flour that actually has BLEACH in it!!! Grain is a living food like fruits and vegetables. So by milling the grain and using that flour your pouring vitamins and good stuff into your body!

(Hope I got all that right - I'm still learning!!!)

Anyway, my wonderful husband also accompanied me to a class while we were in Ft. Worth to learn how to use my new mixer and grain mill! The class was extremely enlightening and encouraging!!!

So we have been experimenting with bread, tortillas, rolls, pizza dough, etc. Even the kids love helping! So far everything we've made has been good - and that's coming from my picky husband!

I really really like my new mixer and mill!

I enjoy making bread!

I totally enjoy cooking!

I love to do things that please my husband!

I love it when my husband challenges me to do something that seems impossible for me and I love it even more when he helps me do it!

And I completely adore and love my husband!

That brings us to this week where we have officially started the new school year!!! Caden is thrilled to be starting Kindergarten, Cambry is not so thrilled to be in the 4th grade, Zakry thinks he is TOO BIG to be left out of anything, and I am nervous but confident to be teaching two! What happened to my babies????

So there you are - hope you enjoy our crazy, but happy and blessed life!

Oh and I'll go ahead and pat myself on the back for changing my blog background all by myself!!! I'm so big!!! LOL! I still have no idea what I'm doing - so I will welcome any suggestions!!!

Love yall all!!!

Saturday in the Kitchen

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This is what I did ALL DAY Saturday. We had a gillion jalapenos - so Bryan and I made a jalapeno sauce and canned it! Yes Bryan helped - and we actually had a lot of fun!!! We put away 22 jars! There is no way we will use that much jalapeno sauce - so some of you may be getting some for Christmas! I was also kinda proud of myself - this was my first attempt at canning!!! I cooked pizza for supper and then Cambry and I made cinnamon rolls! I've been craving them for a week and yes they were like a taste of heaven! I used my grandmother's recipe which I've never used myself before and they turned out great!!! Anyone interested in cleaning my kitchen now???? LOL

All Caught Up!!

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And finally here are some more miscellaneous pictures! I think for the time being I am all caught up! I will promise to try to blog more often than once a year!

4th of July

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Our church does a big thing called Freedom Fest on the 4th of July! This was our first year to attend and despite the heat and being worn out from a long day - we really had a great time! It was just good, clean, family FUN! They had an illusionist there that put on an amazing show and shared the Word of God while they did magic! They estimated 7,000 people attended and I don't know how many, but lots of salvations!!!! We will definitely be going back again and helping out!!!

Mud Monster

2009-07-10T11:56:00.000-07:00

I guess there's something about living in the country that makes my kids think they need to run around in undies all day and play in the mud?!?!?!? Caden's favorite thing to do is cover his self in mud and pretend he is a mud monster - so here is my little med monster!

Family Reunion

2009-07-10T10:55:00.000-07:00

We took a weekend and went out of town to Kingsland with my mom and Randall to a family reunion for Randall's family. They really wanted us to go, so we did and we all had a blast!!! The reunion was at Randall's cousins house on the lake so we spent three days in the lake and the pool! The kids had the time of their lives! They got to tube for the first time and they loved it. We all also got to go parasailing which everyone loved except me! If you look closely in one of the pictures you can see vomit falling from the sky - that would be ME!!!! I really did enjoy the parasailing but I guess my motion sickness overtook my desire to fly in the sky! It still makes me sad that I had the chance to do something like that and I couldn't enjoy it! But watching my kids have a blast all weekend was worth it!!!

Ornery and Silly, but Oh so Sweet

2009-07-09T19:04:00.000-07:00

I know you probably think I have lots of pictures of Zak and not much of the other kids, but just so you know, it's not just me taking the pictures. Big sister and brother think their baby brother is so cute and adorable and everyday they have to take pictures of him too. He is pretty darn cute and adorable but he has also turned into a "terrible two" year old a little too early!! If he is left alone for a minute you can probably bet that he has done something ornery!

Here are a few pictures of his orneriness.

The scenario usually plays out like this -

I hear a very loud "ZAKRY" from Big Sister or Brother, then I head to see what's going on (I've learned to grab the camera on the way) and when I arrive on scene, this sweet adorable little boy is the first to tell on himself. He is always so proud of what he has done that it makes it almost impossible to get onto him.

"I climbed on this desk all by myself, and took this color and drew a pretty picture on the window" Says the sweet little boy.

And the adorable little boy says "See what I did! I put sister's clothes in the toilet!"

"and I'm so proud of myself and isn't is so FUNNY!!"

And every morning when Daddy leaves for work this is what that sweet little boy does. He wakes up with Daddy and doesn't leave his side. When Daddy has to walk out the door Zak screams and holds on with all his might to Daddy. We have to pry him off and he still holds on as tight as he can with his little legs.

Second Chances

2009-07-09T15:01:00.000-07:00

Okay here I go again trying to be a better blogger! I'm not making any promises to those of you who keep telling me I should blog - but here is my "try again" and this time I will try to update more frequently! It's really not that I don't want to do this - I really really do - so here are my excuses!!

1. It can get really addicting!

2. I really really have a lot to do and it is really hard to find time to do this.

3. I have a hard time believing that anyone wants to read about my not so interesting but busy days!

So with that said, here are a lot of pictures and updates on what we've been doing lately!

Our garden has produced an abundance of blessings this year. It has demanded much effort, a lot of sweat, and has consumed most of our days, but we are so very grateful! Gardening has been a good lesson in many ways this year and as we eat our harvest we are ever so thankful to our God and my kids can be proud of something they worked hard to help put on the table.

Plus they really do have lots of fun getting dirty!!!

Here's a slideshow of all the FUN!

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HAPPY GRANDPARENTS DAY!!

WE LOVE YALL!!

We are truly blessed to have such wonderful grandparents!!!! Thank you!

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Misc Stuff

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Thank you Cameron & Stephanie for letting us visit and stay with yall!!!

So we still haven't moved yet and I am still extremely stressed for many different reasons! I absolutely HATE feeling like this! I am normally very happy and easy going but I need about a million of me right now! I told the Lord that if he is trying to remind me to be patient - I think I've got it - and if he is trying to teach me to "do everything without grumbling and arguing" - I'm trying real hard but I am on my last hair - speaking of hair I have found three gray ones lately - I really don't want to be gray when I'm 30!!! Okay - I'm smiling now - no grumbling or arguing - I'm trying to shine like a star. That verse by the way is Philippians 2:14-15.
So due to my anxiety - I made Bryan take me to Ft. Worth for the weekend on his birthday to visit his sister and her family. For those of you who don't know - Bryan turned the BIG 30 this year!!! Part of my anxiety is that I have been extremely sad and very much missing our family - his parents, grandparents and sister and family! So we went and had a wonderful time. It was so refreshing and not long enough. Steph says her home is small, but it feels like a home and it was very comfortable. The kids have been missing each other like crazy too. Cambry was crying every night for her best friend Gracie. So it was a huge blessing for all of us to be together again! I guess it being Bryan's 30th birthday - we wanted to be a little "rebellious" so Bryan & Cameron got a tattoo and I got my nose pierced!! That hurt "like something fierce" as Bryan would say - by the way!!!! On Sunday we were very blessed at a wonderful church! Then we had to come back to our crazy life again! We did leave Cambry in Ft. Worth for the week to spend time with her cousins and Steph and I met half way for lunch on Friday so Cambry could reluctantly come home! Cambry had the best time and it was a huge blessing to her that she had the opportunity to stay with them. I think she has been a little stressed too!!! Now here we are today - we had a bridal shower to go to and Cambry had auditions for the Nutcracker today. (We won't find out if she made it till Monday or Tuesday). Oh I have to share some of the little blessing that God gave me today! Cambry is going to be a flower girl in this wedding and I have known about it for awhile and I have needed to shop for her a dress. First of all- I haven't had time to shop and I hate shopping and the whole idea of trying to find this dress was one of the stresses. So my wonderful sister-in-law took her shopping for a dress - they found one that Steph wasn't to sure about, but they got it b/c there wasn't much of any other choice and it was on sale for way cheap - $18 - regular $70!!!!! So Cambry brought it home and I wasn't so sure either- so I went shopping late Friday night to try to find a second option to show the bride at the shower Saturday morning! Due to the great variety our stores in San Angelo have to offer - my efforts failed - but I did find a purse that I have been really wanting on sale for $25 - regular price was $80- it was the very last one and (this was the real blessing) I had just gotten paid for the cleaning job I've been doing! I wouldn't have been able to buy it if I hadn't of just gotten paid from that!!! Then we went to the shower today with the one dress that I wasn't so sure about and the bride loved it and she said it is almost just like hers!!!! God does love me even when I try to take things into my own hands and worry and stress!
So that's how life here has been going - if anyone cares!!! We would still appreciate your prayers that our house sales and Bryan's Water Valley house will sale! I would love to pray for something specific for you in exchange for your prayers !!!
Now- here are some more pictures of various things - mostly my precious, sweet, chunky little boy - and some videos of Zakry so his Papaw and Ma can see him doing some things. The short video is just of him being silly and the other is of him doing his favorite thing - eating!! He really loves his puff cereal snacks that he is eating and he thinks he is So big when he gets to eat something by his self!!!

Pictures of our life

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Since it's been forever since I've posted, I decided to just make a slide show of some pictures - I'll try to add more soon as these were actually taken about a month ago - but at least you will be able to see a little of what has been going on in our home lately!!! If you want - you can drag your mouse over the pictures and some will have a caption to tell you what they are!!!

Bryan The "Donkey"

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Bryan has volunteered to be "Dan the Decoy Card Tossing Donkey" (or something like that) at Sports Mania! So here is a little video of his first try at it. I think he will be doing this once a month!!! The kids and I have had a million laughs about it!!! You may want to turn the volume down on my music so you can hear him when you push play on the video!! - for those that don't know!!

Zakry's crazy morning hair

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So Busy!!

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I know I haven't been posting much! Life has been crazy busy! We have been diligently working very long and hard hours on our new home! Our sweet children have also been working very hard right beside us. We have been extremely exhausted by the time we get home, yet we still have to fix supper, try to keep up with some of the normal daily chores at home ( laundry, dishes, other cleaning, etc..) and bath before we can fall into bed! Our new home is coming along beautifully and we should be able to move in soon yet there is still a LOT of hard work to do! We will be having an open house this weekend, so if any of you think about it, please pray that we sale our house. And while your at it, I would appreciate a prayer for some extra strength in the next few weeks! Most of you know, just being a mom can be exhausting in itself, but for this last week and the next few weeks, I get to do my regular everyday "jobs" (its funny that they don't just go away when you have something else to do!) and help my husband finish our home and try to get moved! I love our sweet children being there with us and being able to help - but it has definitely required a little more patience and strength to get things done with the three of them underfoot! On the brighter side though, they are loving the responsibilities that have been given to them and they do their jobs proudly and I know that I can look for rewards and great things to come in the future for our perseverance!

So this is why my blogs may be few and short for awhile, but I will try to keep you updated as best as I can!

I will try to post some pictures later! For those of you wondering, our sweet Zakry is doing great. He is growing way too fast! He has been trying to stand up now. You can almost see the determination in his eyes and when he sees his big sister and brother doing things, especially when they are playing with their daddy - you can just see him thinking that he doesn't want to be left out or left behind - so he tries so hard to do things and be right in the middle of everything! We are truly blessed that God has lent us this little bundle of joy! Well, I better go get my house cleaned for the open house! More to come later!!!

NEW DO!

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Here is the new (I'm not sure about improved! LOL!) Bryan!!!

He has always wanted to shave his head!!!

I MISS MY DAUGHTER

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Cambry has been in Colorado for 0ne week with her cousin Gracie, visiting with her Ma and Papaw and G-G and G-Dad. I miss her like crazy and she is not due back for two more weeks. I know she is having a wonderful time though and making some very special and unforgettable memories! Some people have commented that I'm getting a break having only two right now, but really my day is not any easier without my little helper!!!

Anyway, just to update everyone, life has been going on as usual around here! The house is coming along great! Here are some updated pictures, although, I went out there yesterday and it looks even better and different than these pictures, but I forgot to take my camera!

This is the chicken coop Bryan built!

Bryan was mowing the other day and Caden had to go out and help him! I thought it was very cute and sweet!

Our house has been showing well, no contracts yet though - so we would appreciate your prayers about that! Why is it that things start breaking when you put your house up for sale? Our air conditioner quit this weekend. We couldn't call anyone until Monday - so it was pretty hot in our house this weekend! God was smiling down on us though and He sent cooler weather and lots of much needed rain this weekend - so it was not nearly as bad as it could have been! The air conditioner people were also able to come first thing Monday morning and fix it and it was just a small and inexpensive part! Thank you Lord for your Grace!

A good friend of ours watched the boys Saturday night and Bryan and I were able to go out on a date! Bryan was super excited about me going with him to this thing called Pack Wars. You get packs of sports trading cards and you get prizes for certain cards. Anyway, he was so excited - I just couldn't say I didn't want to go to him, so I went. We ended up having a really good time together. We also went to see Get Smart with some other friends! It was a great movie - definitely would recommend seeing it!!!

So that is petty much our weekend in review! Not anything super exciting!!!

1/2 a year ALREADY!!!!

2008-06-29T21:14:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my baby is 6 months old already! I am so very eternally thankful that God has blessed us with such a precious little man. He is so content and happy. He goes to sleep on his own, sleeps all night, takes 3 naps a day, and wakes up with a smile big enough to melt your heart and make all your worries disappear. And to top it all off - he is ADORABLE! I wish time would go a little slower though. I don't want him to grow up. I sometimes loose track of time just watching him and I can almost see him growing right before my eyes!!! He is such a "perfect" baby that Bryan even stated that Zakry almost makes him want to have another baby!!! (I'm sure he had just taken his happy pill or something!) Anyway, it makes me cringe to think how close we were to being "done" having children - to just closing the door on this blessing that God was waiting for us to accept from Him!! God is so good!!!

I am also so blessed and thankful that I have the opportunity to stay home with my babies! I would just not do very well if I had to work!! Time goes by so fast and there are so many moments I would miss - it would just break my heart!!! God is so good to loan me such precious children and a wonderful husband! Is it just me or does your heart ever feel like it might explode from the blessings and love being poured in?

Here are some pictures of our "Little Chunk"! By the way, he did only gain 1 lb. in two months - he now weighs 20 lbs.!!! I thought we might have to change car seats already (the infant one is only for up to 22 lbs.) but we have 2 more lbs. to go!!! He is eating cereal and fruit now and I've started making the vegetable baby food and freezing it, so he will soon be introduced to veggies! I'll let you know how that goes!

Caden was eating an apple and I decided to let Zak suck on a piece of it! He loved it! I was eating a peach a few days after that and he attacked the peach, claimed it as his own, and absolutely would not share with me anymore! Note to any GRANDMA'S reading this: this does not mean he can have table food (especially french fries) LOL!! - only fruits and veggies!

He also started sitting on his 6 month birthday!

10 YEARS !!!!!

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Bryan and I celebrated our 10th anniversary Friday!!! I can't believe its been 10 years! I remember thinking on the day of our wedding what it was going to be like after being married for 10 years!!! I won't comment on that today!!! (JK) Really it hasn't been the easiest, but its been worth it. I love my husband very much!! I can't wait to see what God has planned for us for many many more years!

Bryan sent me flowers - they are so beautiful and I was so excited to get flowers! 10 yellow roses mixed with daisies!!!! So pretty!!! Cambry got to answer the door and take them and sign for them, because I was changing a very very poopy diaper - so she felt really important about getting to do that!

Friday night Stephanie so generously offered to watch all of our kids (I've discovered it's a really big deal when you have more than two kids and someone wants to watch all of them for you!) so anyway, we went out by ourselves for the first time since Zakry. We didn't do anything grand - just dinner and walked around the mall - oh and we went to buy me a case for my camera - but it was so nice to just be with my husband and have dinner by ourselves! I thought I might be worried about Zak being it was the first time he stayed with anyone and the first time he would need to have a bottle, but I don't think I really even thought about it while we were out - probably b/c he was with his Aunt Sissy so I knew he was in the best of hands! He did fine - he wouldn't take a bottle, but they did great with him!

Saturday, we had pizza and had an anniversary celebration with the kids and Cameron, Steph and the girls. It was very enjoyable! I tried to make a cake! I have never made a decorated cake before and I don't know that I want to ever again. I tried to do a marshmallow foundant icing (it was sooooo good on a cake I once had at a shower - that someone else made!) Anyway, I learned afterwards that I didn't add enough powdered sugar! So the cake did not turn out to be the prettiest cake ever - okay - it was just plain ugly, but it tasted okay! Here's pictures!!!

Bryan also had a little incident with Campy this weekend, he was taking the dogs to the ranch with him. They were in the back of the truck and he passed some horses that were tied to a fence and Campy jumped out of the truck. Bryan stopped, got out and picked her up. She was yelping and peeing and pooping all over Bryan and bleeding from her head, so he thought she was had broken her back. He was in tears and called the vet to take her in - he thought he would have to have her put down. He was about to get back in the truck with her when she suddenly jumped out of his arms to run after a cat!!! She is fine - she was moving a little slow the next day, but she is fine!!! I definitely said "Thank You" to God for that close call b/c we would have had a heart broken little boy if anything would have happened to his puppy!

Here are some pictures of Bryan swimming with the kids in our little pool!!!

Oh---- Cambry wanted me to post this --- these are her words-----

"What is different about me?"

answer: she got her hair cut

Check out my Slide Show!

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Lots of Pictures and Updates

2008-06-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

I LOVE MY DADDY AND MY DADDY LOVES ME

Well, I know I haven't written in awhile! We've been SUPER busy finishing school, showing our house, working on our other house, and lots of other stuff!!! So I'll try to update as much as I can!

The first really really exciting thing is that Cambry has finished 2cnd grade!!!!!!!!!! She did a wonderful job this year and worked super hard! Bryan and I are so very proud of her!!! For those of you who don't know, I homeschool her, so I was extra excited that we were done with this school year too!!! I seriously felt like I just completed a JOB, which I guess in all reality I did. Anyway, we absolutely LOVE homeschooling and I couldn't imagine doing anything else! It is A LOT of hard work and dedication though and by the end of the school year, I am just tired and worn out! So now, I am excited that we have a break!!! And next year we will have a new school room to have school in - we are really excited about that too!!!

To finish off the school year, we went to a pool party! All the homeschoolers get together and have an end of the year pool party at Brown's Pool, so we went and it was lots of fun! We will definately be going back to Brown's this summer!!!!

The same day, my sisters and I also had a garage sale (we started at 6:00 am) so, the pool party was a great way to end the day! After the pool party, Bryan and I took the kids to Mr. Gatti's (we haven't been there in about 2 years) to reward Cambry for finishing school and doing so well!! It was GROSE - we will never eat there again!!!

A FEW OTHER HAPPENINGS:

We purchased a dozen baby chicks to take to our new farm house! We kept them in a box for a few days, then one day we all went to our new home and we all worked together to make a chicken coop for the chicks! We put them in their coop (which has a secure door with a latch) and went home (to San Angelo). The next morning, Bryan went to our farm house to work and all the chicks were gone. A racoon pulled all 12 of them through the small holes of the chicken wire on the coop. So here are some pictures of the very cute, but deceased baby chicks that we had for a total of 4 days.

Since then, we have purchased some more chicks and a few live traps to catch the coons. Bryan also put the chicks higher up on some stilt things! Bryan has caught three coons since and today he killed a rattlesnake!!!! CAN'T YOU TELL - I AM SUPER EXCITED ABOUT LIVING ON THE FARM!!!!!!!

Here are a few pictures of our new home on the farm! Bryan has really done a lot of work on it already, but we still have a long way to go! I'm so proud of him - he has done a great job with everything! I think it is really special when I take the kids out there and we all get to help! The finished product will be a great reward after all of our hard work. Plus we are making some great memories and learning very important life lessons!

Front of house

Front of house after front porch was added

This is view is from the front door looking into the

front room and the dinning room

Same view, but this is after Bryan changed the "walls" up

The entry for the dinning room is open now

Caden helping clean up the trash in his room

Fireplace that Bryan built

Turning the garage into a master bedroom

On a different note, the kids are all doing great - not really enjoying the HOT weather, but we did have fun doing NOTHING today!!! Well, actually they had lots of fun playing with their sweet cousins - Gracie, Faith, and Ellie! I think they spent the whole day in the little kiddie pool we set up! Zakry is growing like crazy still! He is such a happy and content baby! He goes to sleep when he's tired without a fuss and is perfectly happy rolling around on the floor by himself! He can pretty much scoot or roll anywhere he wants and he is trying to sit up. It is kinda funny though! I didn't have one of those Bumbo chairs with my other two, so I was so excited to get to use one with this baby! They are supposed to help baby learn to sit and I borrowed the one my sister had, so I didn't have to buy one, but Zakry only fit in it for awhile! His little knees and thighs are way too big now and he gets stuck in it!!! Most babies fit in it for quiet awhile!

Here is a picture when Zakry fit into the Bumbo chair and now!!!

Zakry also turned 5 months old this week and he has found his THUMB!!!! So I now have 2 thumb suckers! I blame my dear sister who sucked her thumb for years and she has now passed her habit to MY children (her children don't suck their thumbs though!!!) I decided long ago though not to worry with this habit - it is just a molehill that they will outgrow on their own one day! It's a lot easier if I only try to conquer the mountains with them!

Also, here are some pictures of us swimming! James and Janie Thomas were so kind to let us swim at their house! We had tons of FUN!

FEARLESS ELLIE

To be continued!!!

WAS TODAY MONDAY AGAIN????

2008-05-20T20:28:00.000-07:00

Thank you Lord - all my sweet children that you have graced me with are finally all in bed asleep!!!! I thought this day would never end! I think it probably had a lot to do with the fact that I had an allergy attack in the middle of the night last night and woke up with a Benadryl hang over this morning. Anyhow, I felt like screaming several times today and then I saw the trash man about lunch time and I seriously wanted to run out their with my children and send them with the trash truck! Cambry and Caden usually get a long really well, but for the last two days they have been arguing with each other like crazy. I know it probably has a lot to do with the stress of selling our house and having to keep it clean and Caden still doesn't understand why Ma and Papaw can't come over to "see his room" and why they are not coming home! Anyway, I told them that if they can't get along then we can't have people over to play because when they fight they are not "showing" Jesus, so their punishment is no friends can come over to play for the next two days. They are pretty upset about that! But now the day is over and we will start a BRAND NEW day tomorrow and I will pray really hard that tomorrow will be much better!!

I have been craving a peach cobbler. I really like to cook, but I mostly enjoy cooking meals, not desserts and I can't say that I have ever made a peach cobbler or any kind of cobbler for that. So today I made a peach cobbler (maybe to reward myself for being so patient when I didn't feel like it with my children today!!! :) Anyway, it was really pretty easy and I got lots of extra kisses for that and it tasted really really good - definitely looking forward to having some more tomorrow!

Zakry is growing so so fast!! Someone was holding him the other day and asked me if "he does anything yet" - (she doesn't have kids) Anyway, I said no he really hasn't started doing anything. Later that day, I went to run an errand and Bryan watched all the kids and Zakry rolled over from his back to his tummy! Of course I had to miss the first roll over!!! They told me and I thought maybe it had just been an accidental roll over or that they didn't know what they were talking about, but then he rolled over two more times that afternoon. He has also learned to get his fat little legs moving like he is crawling, but his upper body doesn't move with his legs yet, so he just scoots, but he scoots everywhere! At church on Sunday, a lady that said she is around children a lot asked if Zakry was "8 or 9 months old?" When I said four - she really didn't believe me. She said he was "way to big to be 4 months!" She asked me when his birthday was, I told her, then she had to count twice to make sure that it was really 4 months. (Like I, Mommy, wouldn't remember how old my baby was!!!)

Well, that's about all for today - I'm pretty tired, so I am going to bed now!!

Resting on the Sabbath

2008-05-19T09:13:00.000-07:00

Exodus 20:8-10 "Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day: You are to labor six days and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God - you must not do any work"

Cambry is learning the 10 commandments this week in school. After we read that commandment, she asked if we were still supposed to not work on the Sabbath day and she asked what would happen if we did. Well, I don't have all the answers, but I do think that God still, in 2008, wants us to rest one day a week, and I think if we do that that we will get more accomplished in the six days of work than we would in seven! I don't know what would happen if we did work all the time, but I do know that God knew we would need to rest and I think if we don't that he will make sure we do!

Anyhow, here we are RESTING on Sunday after church and after working really hard for six days - packing cleaning, etc. etc. It's kinda funny, b/c Bryan had asked me if I was going to take a nap, and I said no, I had too much to do, but then Zakry would not let me rock him to sleep, nor would he just lay down and go to sleep on his own. So, I laid down with him (for just a minute - I said to myself) and he and I both ended up falling fast asleep. Cuddled with my two boys - I slept very peacefully! When Bryan woke up and saw- he captured the moment for me! We ended up laying on the couch the rest of the day and not doing ANYTHING!!!!

SO SWEET!!!

2008-05-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

I was trying to cook supper last night and Zakry was being a little fussy. (We are not very good at letting Zakry fuss, because he is usually so happy and it is so very sad when he fusses! I know I know we are spoiling him - But it is with lots of LOVE!) Bryan was playing with Cambry and Caden, so I didn't want to disturb their play, so I picked Zakry up and did some multi-tasking (holding my sweet baby and cooking supper at the same time!) Zakry quickly fell asleep in Mommy's arms!

Bryan & Caden in Colorado

2008-05-18T20:45:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post some pictures of Bryan, Caden, and Cameron's trip to Colorado. They had lots of FUN playing in the snow and more importantly making some precious and unforgettable memories! I was really glad Caden had a chance to see all the snow since sometimes around here, our kids barely know what that is! They also had tons of fun catching lots of fish! Cameron cooked the fish for us when they got home - it was very tasty!!!! I am so glad they are HOME - Cambry and I missed them terribly!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!

2008-05-16T14:19:00.000-07:00

Thank you So very much Stephanie for fixing my page for me!! I LOVE IT! So , I'm really excited now about trying to let everyone know what's going on here in the DORMAN home everyday, so I promise to try really hard to keep it up!!

We showed our house today!!!! YEAH!!! For those of you who do not know, we found a house in Tennyson that Bryan has completely gutted and is now fixing back up and we plan on moving out there to "Our Ranch" as Caden calls it as soon as we can. It will still be quiet awhile until it is ready to move in, but we have put our house up for sale!!! I'll be uploading pics of our new house as we progress on it!!! GOtta go!!! Kids crying everywhere!!!!

Baby Zak

2008-05-09T21:33:00.001-07:00

Such a HAPPY BABY!!