Beautiful Saturday

Yesterday was the first Saturday, in I don't know how long, that we actually spent the day at home with no prior commitments. Doug didn't have to work, I didn't help Kelly with any wedding stuff, we didn't plan anything with anyone for the evening hours..... it was GREAT!!!! Doug got up with the boys at 8:30 and let me sleep till 9:30. Then we headed outside to get some yard work done on a beautiful day!!
While Doug stayed home with Austin, I went with Mason to buy some flowers. Just a hint: don't go to buy flowers on the Saturday of a holiday weekend. WAAAAY to busy! Mason has one special plant that he picked out and is excited about, but I probably shouldn't have taken him with me. We just found out this week he has pretty bad allergies, and he was miserable when we were walking through the first greenhouse. Thankfully my sister let me drop him off at her apartment while I went to another place. Needless to say, we didn't get ANY of the flowers planted yesterday, and Doug's wheel fell of the wagon on the back on the tractor! lol. Hopefully Monday will be a productive day of flower planting and enjoying beautiful weather!!

Mothers

Today I feel so blessed to have two beautiful boys! I have always dreamed of becoming a Mother and it is everything I have hoped for and more. God has truly blessed me with wonderful, loving boys that are always willing to give me a hug and kiss and tell me they love me back! What a joy it is that God has chosen to put them in my life!

Crazy Busy

Every time that I think life is just crazy busy, my kids always have a way of making me laugh. I have nothing specific to share, its just the little things they do/say. Austin is talking more and more, and some of the words that come out of his mouth are just hillarious. Yesterday he say, "maybe, probably thats a truck" How many 20 mo olds say something like that?? He is just too funny. It is in these moments that I sit back and just enjoy them!

Mason has pooped twice on the potty now again and I hope that continues, but we all know how that has been going?!?! He is currently playing Super Mario Brothers as his most recent "reward bribe" :) I actually have a video of him trying to teach Austin to poop on the potty but my computer doesn't have all the right stuff to upload it. ( I have 64 bit processor not currently updated with Adobe reader, stupid computer people!)

Fragile Life

Sometimes, life seems so fragile. I feel like so often there is something new creeping in to our daily lives, that it is only Christ that can hold us up. It has been a week and a half since I found out that Mrs. Wever was hit by a car and killed while walking. Let me say I have never in my life met such an amazing women. I remember in middle/high school when Christina and I were good friends. Mrs Wever always had a smile for us and the love she had for her family was always evident. I will remember the romance between her and her husband as told through Christina! What an amazing couple. I also remember that her faith was always shining from her! What a woman of God!! I truly know that all of heaven is rejoicing to have her with them.

Second on my mind is the Guikema family. Mark has been friends with Doug longer that I have been around and I am privileged to call him and Brooke friends of my own now. As Mark awaits results from biopsy we pray that God is good to them! We love them and it is so hard being far away. (hard normally and harder when something is going on like this) God is faithful and I pray that whatever it is that he chooses for Mark and his family that they always feel God's presence!

Some days I don't know if I could get any more frustrated. I have been dealing with Mason and his "not pooping" that I am so exhausted I don't even know what to do any more!!! I am at the point of almost being in tears. ( not gonna lie, that actually has happend a lot already!) Why will this child not poop on the toilet?!?!? He knows he is doing it and that is the frustrating thing! Just now I had him on the toilet for 5 min becuase I could tell he needed to go. I let him get down and within 2 min, he had pooped in his underwear. I just want to yell and scream and I try so hard to stay calm but COME ON ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. God, I need some serious patience and a little wisdom would be nice too!!

I woke up this morning to "Mommy the sun is out". Obviously it is time to get up right?!?!? Luckily this was at 8:15 and not at 6:30!

The sun is out and it looks so nice outside. Just really thinking of what it would have been like all those years ago when Jesus died on the cross! What an amazing thing our God has done for us! That he loves us that much! Last night in Bible study we started a series on good and evil. One of the things talked about is that to not love God is the ultimate evil!! He gave us the choice! Not only that, he sent his Son to die for us and take away all those times we don't chose the good! What an AWESOME GOD he is!

On Wednesday this week, I had the awesome pleasure to take my first born on a date. Just me and him! What a great way to spend the day. We got up in the morning and he got a haircut and bath. Every 5 minutes he was asking me, "mommy is it time to go yet?" He was so excited and that warmed my heart to no end. We left the house around 11 and dropped off Austin at Grandma T's. (good alone time for him as well!) First stop was to Celebration Cinema to watch Monsters vs Aliens in 3D. We got in to the theatre while the previews were starting and Mason was just in awe! He wouldn't take his eyes off the screen. I kept asking him if he wanted his pop or popcorn and he would keep staring straight ahead and say "no". Finally about half way through he took a drink of his pop and asked for the popcorn. (he had both gone by the end of the movie!

Our second stop was to the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Right now they have a temporary dinosaur exhibit. Mason was a little uneasy about going in to the exhibit at first because they have moving dinosaurs. Once he got going, he was ok. I think he liked some of the other exhibits we saw a little better. He loved it all just the same and was completely exhausted by the time we left. I asked him if he was going to stay awake on the way home and he says "no, i just gonna fall asleep." He was not even five minutes from the museum and he was out!! I had so much fun with him. Just being able to give my full attention to him was the greatest! And it taught me to let him go a little bit. He is starting to do so much on his own and I tend to forget that. He is able to walk through the museum and not run away anymore! That takes a great amount of courage on my part to let him do that in all the business but we got through it! God has blessed me with such a wonderful son!