thankful

this morning as i was getting ready for work, and it hit me....or God hit me! i am so lucky....no i am so very blessed!!! i was gently reminded, by God,-
- what a great husband i have. he really is perfect for me. i just thanked God for giving him to me.
- what great kids i have. i can't believe He trusted me with three of His precious children!! what an honor and a blessing
- what a great family i have, in addition to my hubby and children.... i mean my mom, my sisters, my dad. i am so blessed to have them, not only be my family, but great friends too...
- speaking of friends God has blessed me with really great friends and neighbors! i feel so safe and comfortable...as much as daniell travels.. to feel so 'ok' when he is gone, but also to know that if i didn't, that i have great, dependable friends i can call, even if it is just to talk!
- also what a great job i have - i get to work in His house! i am surrounded by christians, i don't have to worry about what i say or if i am going to offend someone with the name of Jesus! i have great people i work with... WOW

i thanked God this morning for blessing my life in so many ways, i also thanked him for giving me all of you! i also prayed that God may bless you and keep you safe! thank you to everyone - i love you!!!

first day of school

everyone made it to school this morning! of course alex didn't want anything to do with us as soon as we walked in the front door. madyson told me last night she was nervous! as she walked away with a friend i asked her if she was good, she said 'yep' so we walked around to joshua's class got him all settled in (his 'meet the teacher' was canceled due to power outage). i introduced joshua to his teacher and her response was "oh, mady's brother!" my poor boys...i don't know if anyone would know who they were if it were not for their sister! :) so as we were leaving the school madyson is standing outside, where we walked in, with the assistant principal...of course crying. she had thought we left! so we walked her to class i gave her a big hug and told her to have a great day!

saturday was joshua's big 8th birthday.... we celebrated by spending the day at six flags with a couple of friends! so 5 kids, kris and I went to spend the saturday before school starts at six flags. It was not bad, the kids had a blast! it rained for about 20 minutes, of course right before alex and hunter got on the texas giant, they closed it! alex was bumbed! we left and took them to sonic for a treat..nothing like ice cream at 10 o'clock at night! all in all we had a great end of the summer weekend!

meet the teacher

okay...i get home about 3:15 and daniell had called on a bike that someone had listed on criags list... joshua's bike needs a new chain....so of course the logical thing to do would be to buy a bike RIGHT???? (no, no we cannot go buy a new chain for the bike) so at 3:30 he says we need to go to las colinas and get this bike for joshua - his birthday is saturday! but we also need to be at the school at 5:30.... so we all pile in the car and head to get the bike! well as the kids and i sit in the car it is taking a long time... it is now 4:30...4:40...4:45 i think great we go to buy a bike and someone has killed my husband!!! a little dramatic i know, i am just a little crazy about being late!!! he finally come out with a great bike has all kinds of boy stuff on it and hopefully this one will last a long time!!! so back to flower mound we go at 4:50...from las colinas PRIME traffic time....but of course i get all freaked out about nothing we made it on time!!!

'meet the teacher' was great!!! we went to the school and met alex and madyson's teachers! (joshua's will be thursday night). alex's teacher is new to the school, not to lisd or 5th grade so that is wonderful! her name is mrs. walker, she is from the netherlands! so she talks really cool, even though she has been in the states sense 1990. we have a new principal this year, alex's teacher came with her from rockbrook elementary. i am very excited about her...the first thing she said was that she did not teach the taks test, that she teaches curriculum!! she also does not give homework, the only homework he should have is what he does not finish in class!

madyson's teacher has been at timbercreek for about 7 years. she used to be in law enforcement---i think that will probably be perfect for madyson---lol. she seems really good, she like to teach life skills and not just regular old school!!! of course every time i turned around madyson was no where to be found....off finding long lost friends and hugging all the staff!!!

joshua was a little bumbed last night because his night is not until thursday, so none of his friends were there... he is gearing up for big 8th birthday on saturday!!!!

i think something blew in yesterday because last night my sinus' started hurting and my throat is really sore...yucky drainage!!! i really don't want to get sick!!! also one more thing big huge thanks to kim who made my page look so cute and so me!!!! hugs and kisses THANKS KIM!!!

this weekend

this weekend we tackled our backyard! i know does not sound like very much fun, but for everyone who knows my husband --- he does not spend a lot of time outside (unless of course it is on the baseball field!) so he got a wild hair to start cleaning up the backyard---and i jumped at the opportunity!!! we took 3 truck loads to the dump!!! with the help of some great friends - kris, brian, hunter and brandon--- thank you - also thanks to sister kim for being available with water bill in hand in case we needed another trip!!! it was really fun, but goodness i was sore saturday and sunday!

saturday we did a little back to school shopping for the boys --- i also then realized that i cannot shop for all three of the kiddos at the same time --- too much drama ---

sunday morning my sister kim came with me to help buy back to school stuff for madyson - i don't think i could have done it without her!

so....last night we separated and labeled school supplies - alex and madyson get to meet their teacher tonight and joshua gets to meet his teacher on thursday night!!!

let's give this a try

i have been trying to create a blog for a long time!!!! so here it is!!! yesterday was the big release of "madden '09" - my crazy husband was at game stop at midnight with a couple of friends to buy it!! alex and joshua got to clean the fence because they decided to spray paint their bike ramp and one of them had the great idea to paint smiley faces on the fence!!! i just love little life lessons!!! :) so - i guess that's about all for today - have a blessed one!