Can I have a minute please?

Why is it that I can be in the living room with my daughters and they are playing so nice and not bothering me. BUT then the minute I walk into the kitchen and sit at the table to get on the computer all chaos breaks loose!! They start fighting over that one blue lego out of a hundred, or screaming "I gotta pee-pee, I gotta PEEEEE-PEEEEE" , or begging me to "build a house" from legos. My youngest will stand at the gate we have between the living room and kitchen and shake it (it's metal and makes a banging noise) and she will screech as loud as she can.

I'm guessing it's the gate...The grass is greener (or the toys are shinier) on the other side lol

Speaking of shiny toys, the other issue I have is the laptop...and this is why I sit at the kitchen table now.

My children think it's like a fabulous toy that only mommy and daddy can play with. Both my children try to sneak their fingers on to the laptop and push buttons while I'm on it. You see this little hand come from around the back then they strike! pushing as many buttons as they can before I can grab them. My youngest is quick! Olivia (almost one) actually grabbed the laptop once and tried to run off with it!

And even now as I'm typing this Sophia is at the gate yelling for help with one of her toys :)
Some times I wonder if the gate is more of a help or bother....but that said...I LOVE MY CHILDREN!!!

Little John Douglas...welcome to this world!

Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011 was an amazing day! I got to be a birthing coach for Erika Swanson (not that she needed coaching on her 11th child) But it was so much fun waiting with her to go in for her c-section. At first they were only going to let one person in with her and so I told Heather to go in because she had the camera. They let us both go in but they said one had to sit in the corner out of the way, so I took that spot. Who knew from my corner I would be able to see the whole thing!! It was awesome to see how fast they work and then when they pulled the baby out I started to cry. I got to see this beautiful baby boys first breath, first cry, first moment in this strange new world!!! He was so healthy and beautiful, felt all proud as if it was my child being born. Of course when my children were born I was overjoyed beyond words, but it was a very neat experience to see a baby join this world and not be so exhausted from the joys of labor.

I think I found my calling....I need to become a doula!! I love everything about child birth!!

Break out the flipflops baby!!

The weather has been sooo nice the past couple days!! Sophia and I wore flipflops to church last night, daddy thought it was crazy but it made me and Sophia so happy :) I'm looking for more days to wear my flipflops, I don't like shoes to much (even though I have tons of them). I love painting my toenails fun colors and showing them off! Sophia loves it too!

Today it has been wet and foggy (not very pretty) and it's supposed to get cold again. :(

I can't wait til SUMMER!!! I have so many plans or going to the beach and park with the girls. I think this summer is going to be alot of fun. Both girls are at an age were they can play (Olivia was a lil baby last summer) and we are going to spend every minute we can outside.

Just a side note...I HATE SPRING!!! I hate the mud and the wetness and how everything looks so dirty. Well I do like the smell of spring and that summer is just around the corner.

Come on summer, I am ready!

My beautiful Angel

After 4 positive pregnancy test that kept getting lighter and lighter I got 2 negative test and then a miscarriage. I knew something was wrong from the beginning and God did too, so He saw fit to take my baby home to be with Him. This miscarriage seemed harder than the last one 3 years ago, maybe because I knew what was going on this time? I cried it out for 2 days and with the support of my wonderful husband I am back to feeling normal.

I'm not mad or upset, just a little sad. But awhile ago I said an emotional prayer to my Lord that my children are in His hands and that my husband and I will raise them to serve Him. I prayed that I would rather Him take my children now then have them grow up and not serve our Lord Jesus. Now I don't know why He choose to take this one home, maybe my baby would have suffered with an illness, or maybe it just wasn't our time for another child. I don't know, but God does.

I thank the Lord for my two beautiful daughters, for my wonderful husband, and for His goodness to me!

The chorus our church picked for this month goes like this:
   In His time, in His time: He makes all things beautiful in His time.
Lord, please show me every day as you're teaching me your way,
That you do just what you say in your time.

Everything is in HIS time :)