Greeting cards

I have always enjoyed scrapbooking and crafting.... And I have so much paper, stickers, all the little gadgets and jewels and flowers and so many more things to buy!!! I am onto a new fun scrapbooking adventure making all types of greeting cards. I am starting with a Thank You card to a friend, Easter cards and a couple Birthday cards for this weekend.






My first Thank You card!!!



Easter!



Rowan's 3rd birthday card

Ice Cream Bandits!!!

While Mimi and I were talking in the foo-foo room both Jayden and Persaus walked into the room with ice cream, they held it up in the air so proud and excited.... Oh they didn't even ask first as you can see in the picture! We all went in the backyard and enjoyed ice cream.





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Wednesday Night Church Service

This night was so powerful for us. Pastor Gary has been teaching us about prayer the whole month of March. In the book of Mark chapter 11 verse 24 it says... Therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. In Mathew chapter 7 verse 9 God says, or which one of you, If his don asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpant? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father who is heaven give good things to those who ask him! This is powerful the bank of heaven never runs out, and God already knows our needs and wants he wants us to ask of him for these things, the make, model, color, size, be specific and it is yours, be specific with the things you desire in your life.
John chapter 16 verse 23. On that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will recieve, that your joy may be full. When we ask God for the things in our life he is making us full and happy, which makes God happy that we are asking him for the things we need and then it becomes ours!!!
1 John chapter 5 verse 14 and 15. And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. We ask and we will recieve if it's our will and Gods will!
And in closing John chapter 15 verse 7. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done.
"But from this day on I will bless you."
Prayer for our specific needs has taken us a step closer to God and the desires we have in our life and our prayers are being answered..... To start the finacial decisions Brian and I were able to make today was through prayer and we will continue praying for the most amazing things happening in our life!!!!! Prayer is powerful and God is good!!!!!!!!!!

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Sand Buggy

Brian is the king of dirt, sand, rock anything outdoors!!!!!! Our friends recently purchased a sandrail that Brian has been sooo excited about. His little heart has been waiting for days to take a ride. When we picked our kids up Brian was able to go for a run in the Sandrail around the housing track.... I didn't have my camera and my Blackberry doesn't take motion picture so I got a shot when the rail was going back in the garage. Brian will enjoy this on a desert trip soon for some full power fun.


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Financial Advice........

Brian and I have had on our hearts a few important life priorities we needed to take care of... From our new awesome financial advisor.... We are on a road starting with baby steps and will grow into big steps that will help not only Brian and I's future but our kids too. Today we talked about our whole picture starting with a budget... We wrote down our goals and the advisor told us we are a quarter way there. Medical insurance.... With the economy it's hard to wait and wait for probation periods to recieve insurance so we are looking into a family plan that our budget will allow..... Mutual funds..... We have already established mutual funds but now we will put them all together in one fund and spread them out within the company..... Mutual funds and all this investment stuff I didn't understand completely until now!!!!! With all this and more future investments we are so excited to have this nice fresh start for our future...... We may not be rich and have millions but inside our hearts we will be full and and have plenty!!!!!!


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Jelly Bean Math Game

Today was Jayden's last day of school and his spring break begins! On our way to school through wine country Jayden and Persaus enjoyed four Hot Air Balloon sightings and the horses and cows. His Birthday has always been during break but his wonderful teachers let us bring treats in to celebrate. The Temecula School District has made changes in what parents are aloud to bring in, in celebration of birthdays to Popsicles and skinny cows.... Well Persaus and I chose Popsicles. We had so many left I told the kids have another and they loved that! When recess was over Mrs. Moser asked us to join the class. Persaus sat next to Brother and had her own bag of jelly beans like the rest of the students, they had to count how many jelly beans of each color they had and do a math graph. It was so nice to watch friends in the class offer to help Persaus and what an awesome big brother Jayden was in helping sister out. Persaus took one of brothers three math graphs and with a pencil scribbled all over it ( teacher instructions..... No pencils aloud only colored pencils) well I said to the students sitting around us as I was erasing the scribble " she's helping Jayden fill in his jelly beans!" they all thought that was funny!!!!






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Loving MY Blog

I have decided I will print out my blog into a picture book every 4 months..... I started scrapbooking back when I was pregnant with Jayden and it slowly faded away, too many ideas in my head and not enough time with my busy lifestyle. This Blog has been soo much fun for me in my begining months and am excited for the new blogger ideas and new things I will be able to add in the future. I always remember when I write on my blogs that this is a Diary or a journal of our journey of our life the memories, milestones, achievements and goals we have as a family.... the little things we forget that our chilfren do or say and my kids will have this FOREVER!!!!

Today Jayden had his regular monthly appointment with his Asthma Specialist... love her she is sooo amazing. Brian and I have always jumped up and helped Jayden use his daily treatments... well our baby boy is not a baby anymore and the Dr. and the nurse helped Jayden do it on his own correctly!!! This is a really good idea incase an adult around does not have the training to help in an emergency.... His check up was okay, he has weezing and a sinous infection and will be on an antibiotic for # weeks that will basically get rid of everything bad in his system and we will have to boost it back up with clean foods. Jayden is looking forward to his spring break that starts this Friday and His Birthday Celebration begins... we have so much planned. Jayden is all signed up for soccer and anxiuosly waiting till it starts. Soccer for his first time will be a fun experience and to see if enjoys soccer and want to continue playing. During his spring break I am surprising him with tennis camp. He has asked Brian and I for a few weeks now that he has an interest in tennis....

Persaus is having tons of fun with her puzzles and Brian had purchased some new ones that may be great in a few months but she can entertain herself for about 30 min doing puzzle's. I called Sonshine Pre-School and Persaus will be tending this summer. I will start her out 2 half days a week and build her up from there. This is the same school Jayden went to so it will be fun to see if she has the same teachers as him. she is doing so well in gymnastics every week blows us away!!! With more talking and if it is in our budget Persaus will be taking swim lessons this summer.

Brother and Sisters

As a child amongst the four of us kids and as we got older and now have children of our own we have always referred to each other by saying Brother or Sister.  We can't remember who started it our how it started, but in the last couple years people have stopped and asked us did you just say Brother or Sister!!!! Never crossed our mind that it was weird or different since it came so natural to us.  Funny as it may seem I started calling my kids Brother and Sister and I hear my older sis and my niece use this phrase all the time now!!!!  I started it with my kids out in public for security reasons and it has stuck!!!!!  sometimes it's a lot easier to yell out Brother or Sister when one of the kids is being disciplined than to yell out the other child's name...... if your a mom you would understand!!!!!

Just for fun

My sister gave me some tips on how to take some pictures....... while Persaus was playing out back I was laying on the ground taking pictures to see if they would turn out any better than what I take!

Persaus loves playing with the Tonka trucks that were brothers when he was her age.  Today she was filling them up with grass,  then she moved on to draw on the ground with her purple chalk. 

Weekend with the Hogan's

We left Friday afternoon and headed North to our favorite friends for the weekend the Hogan's!!!! Vanessa and I planned out our whole weekend and it pretty much went how we wanted it to...... Come Sunday we were all so tired I think we planned too much for two days and to say the least it's just not enough time to spend with the Hogan's.

Saturday morning when we got up the hubby's took all four kids to Johnson Valley to ride dirt bikes while Vanessa and I went craft shopping, we made lots of Tutu's!!!! The boys called us to say they would be coming home early cause it was so windy the kids had to wear goggles while running around playing in the dirt. so we made Tutu's with the kids running a muck!!! We got what we wanted to get done :))))) OHHHH my gosh Jay made the most amazing Tortellini Pasta with a green salad, asparagus, and bread...... his chef skills are a must try for everyone in this world!!!!!

Saturday night when all the kids were asleep Jay worked on my poor laptop that decided to stop working for me, Brian watch a movie that just went into the movie theater..... and Vanessa and I finished Tutu's and matching hair bows for the girls to wear to church. We didn't go to bed until almost 2am I think and we got up around 7:30 or 8am...... the kids got up since they had longer sleep and were excited to go to Grandma Hope, Savannah and Gavyn's Church. Only Savannah would were her Tutu Persaus wasn't quite sure of it yet, but she wore the hair bow!!!! The Church was awesome and the sermon was about FORGIVENESS. I think it is sooo amazing when you sit in Church and the way God talks to you through the Pastor. Forgiving friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, or any thing that you may have stress over...... it hit home for me cause there is a few friends that I have been praying for and I just want to move on and that Pastor gave me the direction I needed to get started to be at peace..... I am praying and God is GOOD!

After Church we went back to the Hogan's and got ready to head up the mountain to the Hogan's Cabin......... Oh my did we all have fun and the day could not have been more beautiful! This was Persaus first time ever in the snow and all she wanted to do was eat her snow. Jayden loved the hill Brian built for him and Savannah.... Savannah got some good air going down the hill, and Gavyn was letting me take pictures of him with his mouth full of snow to helping dad shovel snow. Brian and Jay did all the digging and moving snow to clear the paths up to the Cabin, after they were done they had an outdoor ice chest that the cold beer sat n and enjoyed some beer together. Inside Jay warmed up the Cabin with the heater and started the fire place..... Thank you Jay! Vanessa and I played with the kids in the snow, took turns taking pictures and we had our share of the sledding...

THANK YOU JAY, VANESSA, SAVANNAH AND GAVYN WE HAD SOOOOO MUCHFUN AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO VISIT AGAIN!!!!