How high is your gas??

So awhile back I did a post on gas prices but I am curious again.  WHAT ARE YOU PAYING FOR GAS.

Last week it was $3.99, couple days ago it was $4.04, today I saw it was $4.12.  I am in Wisconsin... let me know where you are and what you are paying and if you recently filled up how much did it cost.

Also, how are you cutting back to pay for gas?  Looking for good ideas.  We are not going to make the drive out to Long Island this summer.  :(

Baby Shower= I'm BLESSED

My church family gave Titus and I a shower last night.  I had a lot of fun and felt so blessed and loved.  God sure has placed us in a loving community of believers.  We got enough money to purchase our crib... :), lots of diapers, wipes, bath supplies, some clothes, bath toys, crib toy, and 2 handmade blankets.  Titus sure has lots of stuff.  My daughter even got a present too... she felt so blessed.

The food was yummy, the games were a hoot!  Here are a couple pictures from the evening!

Food is a must!

Wrestle Rissa is another must.  

Yay for being BLESSED

The Diaper Game

Pin n Rice game... She was so good.

Aww So cute!

My lil man so happy

YAY FOR TITUS!  

Handsome lil guy!

Princess fun

I think I mentioned it before but instead of your normal candy Easter basket my hubby and I decided to buy one big gift for my daughter.  A week before Easter Target had the princess doll set on sale so we purchased it!  My daughter loves it so so much!

And the winner's are...

First winner is:

  JC said...

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and

Second winner is

June said...

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5 Questions Friday

1. If you could buy any car, money not an option, what would it be?

   hmmm...This is tough because part of me wants a sweet sporty car and part of me wants a nice SUV.  I think I would go with an SUV. Not sure which one... one that is good on gas mileage unless that does not matter either.  

2. What was your worst first date ever?

   Worst date ever???  I think it would be a movie date at a friends house and we ended up breaking up that evening.  It was for the best!

3. How old were you when you fell in love for the first time?

  Too young... I was a teen i think 16.  

   

4. When was the last time you reconciled your checkbook?

  Years... I just do online banking. 

5. If you were going to fashion a "Wanted" Ad for a best friend, how would you word it?

  I dont think I would do a "wanted" ad.  I might ask my hubby for help if I did.  

Worship Wednesday- A lil LATE

Might not be much of a worship song but I like the message of forgiveness!  Very sad but touching lyrics!

7x70 Chris August

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Read Chris August's testimony:

Matthew 18:21-22
Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.”

7x70 was the last song I wrote for my album. We were 2 days away from tracking when my producer, Ed Cash told me he felt I still needed a personal song for my record. Unaware of my family background, he asked me to go home that night and write about what hurt me as I was growing up. I wrote the first verse of 7x70 later that evening.

After playing my idea for him the following morning, he looked over to me with tears in his eyes and said, "this song has to be on your record and it has to be about forgiveness." This was the last thing I wanted to hear and have to go through while making my album, but nonetheless it was something that needed to happen.

The following few days consisted of us being surrounded by the Holy Spirit like I've never felt before. This was, without a doubt, the most personal song I had ever taken on and required a mind set on prayer. I come from a broken home. Better yet, a broken family. Parents screaming at each other. Frustrations were commonly taken out on my brother, my sister and me. As the lyrics started to come to mind, so did all the memories of my past that I hadn't thought about in years. Some lines bringing smiles and some bringing another set of pains that I needed to forgive.

Jesus was asked how many times we should forgive our brother. His answer was seventy times seven. God has called us to forgive. It's one of the most difficult things I've had to do, but it was also one of the most freeing things. With forgiveness comes healing. Satan uses the bitterness that we build up in our hearts. For years I told myself that what happened when I was younger didn't affect me. It wasn't until Ed Cash made me relive those memories and told me I need to forgive them. I encourage you to do the same.

My story is not unique. Everywhere I have been I run into people with similar heartache, struggle, and a deep need for forgiveness in their life. My hope is that my story will open a door for you to understand the value and necessity of true forgiveness. As I am still learning, forgiveness is not a one and done type of mindset, but rather a daily, sometimes hourly effort not up to seven times, but seventy times seven.

As Ed Cash encouraged me to tackle the barriers that were standing in the way of giving and receiving forgiveness, now I’d like to encourage you. If you feel led to share your story and journey of forgiveness, in whatever way, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to leave your comments below.

Chris August

Here more at his site

SO THINK ABOUT IT, who do you need to forgive???  

You wish you had these dance moves...cute daughter!

My darling daughter showing her dance moves!  LOL, I happened to tape her on the dance where the lady fell!  

MY CUTIE!!!  She is a star... with Dancing with the Stars!

Thankful Thursday's

Praising HIM this week for:

1. HE IS RISEN!  Easter was fantastic!

2. Loosing the weight from pregnancy... now need to start firming up!

3. Found a great deal on pants at Goodwill!  :)

4. Friends and family still loving on us and inviting us over for dinner.  

5. I have a baby shower on Friday!   YIPPEEE!!! 

Help the Tornado victims...

Are you looking for a good place to make a donation for the tornado victims from last night?

Here is a great ministry that is organize help.  CLICK HERE

Best thing is always prayer!  KEEP PRAYING!!!

Mothers day giveaway!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!  What a great gift for a mom or soon to be mom.  

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The giveaway is open to US residents only, 18 years or older. Winner will be chosen by random.org. The winner will be notified by email and have 24 hours to respond. If they do not respond I will pick a new winner.

Giveaway prize: 1 baby sling from Seven Slings.  (Green Vibe pattern)  Size 3 (people 5'1" to 5'11") (weight 131-160)

The giveaway is open until Tuesday May 3rd, 8pm central time.  Good Luck

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Welcome home sign/video

This was my daughter making a welcome home sign for her brother the day before he was born. :)

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HOO are you?

Here are this week's questions!

1. Do you plant a garden or flowers, or neither?

I was thinking about planting a few flowers.  I live in an apartment so no garden.

2. Does it bother you to have your blinds or curtains 
open after dark so people can see in your house?

YES, I always close them! 

3. Do you like to go camping?

I like camping if I can sleep on something with comfort!!

4. Do you have a laptop or a desk top computer?

LAPTOP

5. What time during the day do you have your most energy?Usually Evenings! 

Thank you 1+1+1=1

I am so excited that 1+1+1=1 blog has created this beautiful princess pack!  Now my daughter is still a bit young to do a few of the activities but I still love it a lot!  I love the fact that she has incorporated GOD!  God views us and our daughters as princess's.  We are daughters to the most high KING!  YAY!

I hope you all download your free copy of the princess pack to teach your little girls that being a princess is fun but past all the glitz and glam to teach them how GOD VIEWS US!  We are the apple to his eye!  HOW GREAT!

Click here to visit 1+1+1=1 blog  and get your FREE princess pack

Diapers...

I am curious????

What is your favorite Diaper brand?

Pampers

Huggies

Target

Luvs

Walgreens

Parents Choice

Cloth-what brand of cloth

ETC ETC

With my daughter I bought a lot of Parents choice but with Lil Titus I am loving Pampers and I have gotten really good deals on Amazon and Walgreens!  This week I will be going to Target to get a good deal on diapers too!  :)  YAY!  

:( I lost a follower! Bummer

Thanks to all of you who follow me! :)  I love receiving all the comments and love from my readers.  I was a bit sad today when I saw I lost a follower.   I guess that is part of blogging.

Easter Pictures!

YAY!  Jesus is RISEN!  Here are a few pictures from our Easter Sunday.  

1 month old

1MONTH OLD!!!  Time sure went FAST!

Titus was not to happy at the moment.  

 Still showing a grumpy face.  

Sweet- JCPenny $10 off a $10 purchase!

If you have signed up jcpenny emails then in the mail you will receive a $10 of a $10 purchase.  THERE ARE NO EXCLUSIONS!  So this will be awesome!  I hope to go find something for myself for a change!  :)

Hosanna

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6 Word Saturday

I AM IN LOVE WITH JESUS!!!!

Good Friday

What do you and yours do for Good Friday?  Go to a church service?  Stay home?  Have family over?  Read scripture?  Watch Passion of Christ?

Tonight my family will be heading out to a meal at one of our church families house.  There we will do some scripture reading and fellowship.  I am really looking forward to it.

I HEART JESUS

5 Questions Friday and other hops

The Questions

1. What is your favorite Easter tradition?

    I am looking to start some new traditions.  We do Easter Eggs, we go to church on Sunday and we do an egg hunt there.  

2. Are you a "shower" or a "long, hot bath" kind of person?

    Depends if I have long enough time I love hot bath's.  

3. Can you parallel park and if so when is the last time you did it?

    Yes, but I get nervous!  I dont remember the last time I needed to do it.  

4. What is your favorite Easter candy?

   The malted eggs. 

5. Easter: do you go all out with the Easter Bunny or focus on the religious part of the 

holiday?

    Focus on what Jesus did!  

Easter Traditions?

I am curious... Does your family have any neat Easter Traditions?  

I am looking for some new traditions to do with my family.  This year we are doing a simple Easter with just the four of us.  Our family lives far away so with GAS prices and a new born we have decided to stay home. 

On Sunday we will head to church for service and a Easter Egg hunt for the kids.  :) I have decided that we are going to eat ribs, bake beans, corn bread, steak fries, and ice cream.  (Non traditional Easter meal)  

We already decorated Easter Eggs!  Tomorrow evening we will be heading out to a Good Friday Meal with some people from church.  I am looking forward to the evening.  :) Good God, Good Friends, and I am sure Good food!  :) 

So what do you do for Easter.  How do you keep Christ in the center.  How do you teach your young children about the Cross and resurrection?   I saw a cute idea for Resurrection Rolls... they seem super neat!  Click HERE to see it 

Thankful Thursday's

Here is what I am THANKING God for this week:

1. My friends who have been taking my 3 year old and letting me get some good rest. 

2.  My husband for taking me out on Sunday evening.  I LOVE HIM

3. My 2 kids... it is still strange saying my 2 kids.  I LOVE THEM BOTH SO SO MUCH!

4.  The snow melted quickly after a strange April snow storm!

5. EASTER-JESUS thank you for dying for me.  

Another Birth Story... with a FIRE ALARM!

It is time to read a birth story from I am not Superwoman!  This is a great story but make sure to visit her site too click here.  

As the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun...Well lets just say the time is about 9 or so months ago...and there I lay, in all my glory, on a steel table with tons of lights shining on me...Ready to meet the newest addition to our family...And lo and behold....the fire alarm goes off....Time Flies

Not once...


Not twice...


But three times within about a 10 minute time period as I was getting prepped for my Cesarean section in the Operating Room.


As I laid there, I contemplated what I could do, which after much thought and consideration was pretty much nothing since I was NUMB from the belly down...Hello!  In all of my grogginess, I looked over at the staff nurse and said, "Should we be concerned?"   She assured me that it was a drill and that everything was ok but of course with it happening 3 times within a 10 minute period, I wasn't so sure.  But as I stated above I was numb, groggy and pretty much naked so I was definitely in no shape to get up and walk out of there or run for that matter...

May 5, 2010

Fast forward 9 months and 1 week later....Our beautiful little girl Miss K, is growing up.  It has definitely been fun these last several months to see her blossom.  She is starting to eat "big" girl food; she has 6 teeth!  And baby grub, mushed up stuff, just not cutting it for her any longer.  She sees what we are eating at the dinner table and often times makes her voice heard that "She'll have what we are having!" 

She has been crawling since Thanksgiving and pretty much started standing and walking around things shortly thereafter.  She holds onto the coffee table and goes back and forth between it and the couch.  She pulls herself up and walks around anything she can get her hands on.  For Christmas, grandma bought her a baby stroller and my husband put it together this weekend...And off she went.  Pushing it as fast as her little feet can toddle.  It does go a little fast but she rolls with it (literally).  I wish there was an adjustment on the wheels to make them harder to roll like on skates but she doesn't seem to mind even after falling several times.

She no longer wants to be held and cuddled as often..When I am loving on her, she can only take so much before she starts wiggling and squirming to get down.  There is a big world (within a 1600 sq ft house) out there that she would rather explore...And explore she does, often times right behind her 3 yr old brother.  I was in the living room today and it got quiet.  Mind you our house is "pretty much" child proof but someone left the child lock off the refrigerator and where did I find those two quiet kids?  You guessed it both with their heads peeking into the refrigerator.  That is a catastrophe waiting to happen!  Beanpole was reaching for the ketchup.  Not sure what he was going to do with it and I would rather not know.

Swing.  To big for it now.  Now she would rather just push it back and forth.  

Exersaucer. She can climb out of it.

Bouncer. She hasn't used that for months.  

I guess it is time to pass these on but it makes me sad. She is it.  She is our last child.

I will never hold another newborn of my own.  

I will never feel that first tooth pop out of the slimy gums of my own child.  

I will never have to get up in the middle of the night, singing lullabies while breastfeeding a child from my own womb again.

I know there are so many more milestones to come but when it is your "last" child, to me anyways, everything seems so different.  

She is growing up so quickly, right before my eyes.  

How did that happen?  

February 13, 2011

Worship Wednesday

This is the song that my daughter's ballet class will be dancing too.  :)

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Wordless Wednesday and other hops.

So last night I told her we could eat some of the eggs we made and she got so emotional and was sad cause she did not want to eat them.  It was kinda cute and quite funny.  

Here are some hops for the day!

Glad we did not get as much as first predicted!

I am really trying to stay positive since we just got more snow last night.  Atleast I know it will melt quickly.  At first we were hearing predictions of up to 10 inches.  I think we really only got about 2 inches.  :)  I know south of us was hit a lot harder!

I AM READY for spring!  On my fridge I have our paperwork all filled out for our summer pass to the water park... dreaming of the day when we get to go use it!  :)

My 3 favorite people!!

Titus has a bit of a angry face here!  I love each of them so much! 

Meet Me Monday

Questions:

1.  Caesar Salad or Garden Salad?

The salad I prefer is spinach, walnut, strawberries, and feta cheese. 

2.  Will you be watching the Royal Wedding on April 29th?

No, not interested and my church is throwing me a baby shower!  :)

3.  Last thing you spent lots of money on?

My hubby bought a motorcycle. 

4.  Window seat or aisle seat?

If I am sitting with people I know Window seat, but if it is just me then Aisle seat so I can get up to use the bathroom.

5.  Do you know your blood type?

Yes, I am O Negative!  

Buttons pushed... to tears

So I know my daughter has been adjusting to sharing attention with her 3 week old brother.   Tonight was a very rough night for my hubby and myself.

IT was time to get ready for bed and my daughter just got an attitude!  She was not listening and she first starting crying because she was not able to finish watcher her movie.  Then she was also mad because she said she needed a night snack because she thinks a smoothie is a drink and not a snack.  AFter finally getting her ready for bed she told me she had bad dreams and wanted her little tent that is over bed off.  After we took it off she lost it because she said she did not want it off.  BACK N FORTH ROUND N ROUND we went.

We did not let her win the battle but I sure felt terrible and started crying tonight!  I love my daughter so much but I will not tolerate her being rude and disobedient or even playing mind games.

Anyone have any motivation for me?

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