First day of School

So today was Austin's first day back at school! I feel so blessed, For the past two weeks Austin has been asking when he can go back to school! He misses school and playing with his friends! I just feel so lucky to have a son who likes school! (Let's just hope and pray he keeps that state of mind)

Jon and I decided to would be nice to make Austin;s new teacher something as a token of our appreciation for everything she does for her students. So we set to work on making a pencil vase. What's a pencil vase you may ask??? This is a pencil vase. After a few hits and misses we finally completed our pencil vase. It was very fun to make and we felt wonderful giving it to the teacher! I would love to show a picture of our finished product but silly me forgot to take a picture! I am so upset with myself for forgetting to do such a thing! But maybe just maybe I will get a chance to see it again soon! I mean my son is in her class everyday :)
If you feel so lead to make something nice for you son's or daughters teacher I totally recommend this project! It is super easy and very low cost. You can see what is needed to make this beauty by checking out this blog.

I hope everyone has a blessed day!

AUSITN!!!

So the day has finally arrived folks! The day where I go and pick up Austin! Only two hours remain until I head out and begin my journey to Tampa! I couldn't be more thrilled! I miss this boy like crazy! I miss his silliness and weirdness! I even miss him making his paper fingers and running around the house making tough guy faces! He is a BIG, no scratch that HUGE staple in our lives! We have been missing him so much! 6 weeks is far too long! I am going a little crazy waiting to leave! It is hard to have the patience to wait another 2 hours when I know that my little boy is so close but yet so far away! But I have waited this long so I suppose 2 hours isn't much compared to when I woke up this morning! So here are a few pictures of my special little Austin....

This boy has been such a blessing! Austin we love you so much! We are so thankful God gave you to us! And we can't wait to see what he has planned for you!

Answered prayers!

So I have been praying for a very long time for God to help me find more ladies around my age, fellow Christians whom I can fellowship with. Well I joined a bible study on Wednesday nights about a month ago and I have met a lot of wonderful ladies! I am truly blessed to have all of them! There is one girl from my small group who is around the same age as me. She is a little older then me but not too much. Anyways last week during our bible study we were talking about what our jobs will be in Heaven and I said God could make me the cake decorator! And the lady from my small group said that would be so much fun I have been wanting to learn! I was like really? I found some classes at Jo Ann if you want I could send you the information about them and she said that would be great and asked me if it was the Jo Ann in Naples and I said well no it is the one by my house, But if you would like to take the class together I can drive down to Naples and take it with you, I'm flexible. Anyways my point of this story is that we decided to teach ourselves and we are going to start doing that together! I am so excited one for the new friendship and two to learn how to decorate cakes all fancy like! he he! God is working in my life so very much and is giving me blessing for being faithful!
I feel so very Blessed!

On another great note Austin (our six year old son) has become more curious about God! This is so very exciting for my husband and I! We have prayed about this day for quite sometime! He told us the other night after watching Veggie Tales, that God tells us that we need to love the bullies. We need to pray for them and love them just like we pray for our families and love them. I just love how much he has progressed over the years!

It has been a very fulfilling and exciting experience watching Austin grow into a wonderful boy. He isn't a baby anymore. But just like we taught him to walk and just like we taught him to talk we will continue to teach him to pursue God and a personal relationship with him! There is something so peaceful and fulfilling about watching your child grow in their relationship with God!

Also on another note our friends Mike and Sarah whom had their little baby boy were able to take him home yesterday! Thanks to everyone for the prayers for little Mikey! He is doing great! We can't wait to meet him! I wonder if I should buy a light saber for his room, hmmmm. His room decor is star wars. Or maybe I could make some star wars curtains for Sarah? Hmmm, the possibilities are endless!

An eventful weekend...

Well my weekends are usually crazy if you have ever read my blog you would know. This weekend was less crazy then others but still crazy nonetheless! Lets see we had to ground Austin for the first time friday night and it broke my heart! He has never been grounded before and well this was very new to him! So he spent the whole night in his room. And well there was alot of crying. So that was our eventful friday evening. Then saturday Austin already had plans with my mom and sister for over a week and I didn't want to brake them so we let him go over and spend the day with them. And I told them no tv he is grounded from the tv. So he didn't watch any! And Jon and I went a did a little shopping for his mom's birthday. We decided that, that evening we were going to go over to her house and make her a yummy birthday dinner and surprise her which we did because we got there and she was still out shopping at the mall and I started on dinner and ended up braking one of her dishes. I felt awful after doing this. And we all sat down and had a nice meal. And then afterwards we headed home. Austin went to bed and Jon and I stayed up and talked for a bit. Then I started having false labor pains that was really fun. And here is where the crazy weekend comes into play! Jon went into over protective husband mode and thought I was going to go into labor that night and the whole time I am trying to sleep he is running around our bedroom like a mad man packing my overnight bag for the hospital! And everytime I would start to doze off he would ask me what I wanted for the hospital. I finally told him I don't care what is in the darn bag I am trying to sleep and I am not going into labor tonight so just come to bed. But noooo he was dead set on this fact and everytime I moved or made a noise he was like is it time to go. Oh Lord I love my husband! I think that is what I kept repeating over and over in my head! Yes, I know this was very sweet of him for caring so much but he was up until 1am and everytime he moved I woke up. Or everytime he asked me a darn question. So ontop of the pain I had saturday night and sunday morning which kept me up when it didn't keep me up my husband did. So neither of us slept well and I was tired all day sunday. I finally got to lay down for a nap around 2:30pm and then I guess after an hour of me sleeping Austin decided to come and join me for a nap. I woke up at about 4:30pm to Austin pressed up againist my back snoring. Which I thought was sweet! Then Jon made us dinner while I laid down on the couch in the front room. I was still tired but refused to go back to sleep because I knew I wouldn't get any sleep that night. So we had some yummy Chili Jon made and then gave Austin a bath and put him to bed. And then we followed shortly after about 9pm, I think. Which didn't do me alot of good because at 9:30pm Austin came in our room and told me he couldn't sleep so I was up for another hour dealing with that. And then once I finally fell asleep I woke up at 2:30 in the morning wide awake with Ethan kicking me. So yes another sleepless night. And that folks was the extent of our exciting weekend!

A very eventful weekend....

Well lets see this weekend was very busy for us! As most usually are but this one more so. Friday after work we went and did our grocery shopping that was a first for us because usually we do our grocery shopping on Saturdays. But we had so much to do Saturday that I opted for Friday evening. So we got all that done and then came home and unloaded all the food and put it up. We had company over Friday night so after we put the groceries up we just waited on our company and played a few games of cards. Then Manders can over and see made us yummy beaner lasagna! (That is what she calls it.) I call it mmmmmgood! So then after dinner we all hung out and talked lat into the evening. Jon fell asleep on our love seat and Manders and I continued our conversation up until I think about 11pm. Which if anyone knows me they know that ever since the pregnancy I have been in bed by 8pm, 9pm at the latest. So I was very tired. So we woke Jon up and said our goodbyes and then I went into the room and went to sleep.

Saturday....
I got up at 8:30am. Which was very hard for me to do. The bed was so warm and comfy and I didn't want to leave! But we had a lady with progressive coming over at 9:30am and I needed to get the house cleaned up a little and get ready. So she got to our house a little after 9:30am, we talked over what we needed and then she left. So then we left for the day and headed out to do Christmas shopping. Whew it was a long day! We got home about hmmm 3:30pm I think. And we went to town wrapping presents. There were a lot of them and were not even close to being down yet! And then while we were doing that Jon washed all of Ethan's laundry, which was very sweet of him! And then once it was all done we folded it and put it all away. Ethan's side of the room is so clean now and all we are waiting on is the change table and then the room will be complete! So after all that was done probably around 7pm we just hung out and watched a little TV and then went to bed.

Sunday.....
Another busy day. We got up at 8am and got ready for Church. We headed down to Naples about ummm 9am for the 10am service and arrive early which was nice we got to talk to The Todd's for a bit. Then after the service we went out to lunch with Lee and Julie (Jon's father and step mother.) It is always fun when we spend time with them! Then we went to the Christian book store we had some things to buy and Julie had a coupon which was great! So we got what we needed at a much cheaper price! I love sales/coupons! Then after the Christian book store we said our goodbyes and headed down to my mom's house to see my little sister and her new dog. Her dog was very pretty she is a chocolate pit bull and very friendly. For some reason she really took a liking to me. And kept jumping on the couch by me and licking my face and nibbling my ears! Silly little thing! So we spent some time with them and then headed out yet again on our next Sunday adventure... We got to Nadine's (Jon's mother's) and helped her out with a few things. She didn't know how to work her DVD player, she thought it was broken, and of course it wasn't. It was only a matter of turning it on and putting in the DVD and pressing input on the TV. She flipped out once we did this and asked us how we fixed it. Which Jon and I got a chuckle out of. He told her it was never broken and showed her how to work it. So now hopefully she will know how to operate her DVD player in her front room! Then the next task was printing her off a map with directions to the hospital that we will be staying at once Ethan is born. That was yet again another simple task, and third she had bought an mp3 player and wanted to know how to get music onto it. So then Jon spent the next 45minutes downloading the software and putting music onto her mp3 player. She was very happy once she heard a song on it! So yes 3 easy task and we didn't even break a sweat! Will we were there she had some stuff she had gone through that she didn't want anymore so we got to pick through all of it and we ended up with... Ton's of picture frames and ton's for the fridge too. This cross stick thing she made and hung in Jon's nursery when he was a baby and a VCR/DVD player. We actually are trading the VCR/DVD player for our DVD player at home. But trust me it is a great trade! And this way when we use the video camera she gave us for Christmas and when Ethan is born we will be able to hook up the camera to the VCR/DVD player and record the camera tapes onto DVDs. So we were very thankful for that and all the other stuff she has given us. Which has been a lot! So after Nadine's we headed home and got there around 6pm and then Jon went back out and got us some dinner since we hadn't been home all day and I had nothing out to cook. While he was out I finished wrapping all the presents that we hadn't finished Saturday evening and then Jon got back,So we ate dinner. After dinner we hid all of Austin's wrapped presents away and both of us sat down and took a load off! And well that was it for our eventful weekend folks!

Ethan is having a party in my belly!!!

My stress levels have actually subsided! I feel so great lately, well when it comes to my mental state! As for my physical state, well lets just say Ethan is taking good care to see to it that he kicks in every possible spot that just causes the most amount of pain! ha ha, But what I have come to realize is that I wouldn't have it any other way! Every move, every pain, everything is a blessing from God! I am so truly lucky to have this little one growing inside of me and to be a vessel for God! To carry his child and to be able to care for him! Wow... I feel so blessed! I have never looked at it that way before. But lately it's like I have been seeing things that I have never seen before, experiencing things I've never experienced before! I love it and am thanking God immensely for opening my eyes to all of this!

I was so young when I had my first son and when I was pregnant with him I didn't know how to enjoy it, I really didn't know how to enjoy anything back then! But now I feel like I can truly enjoy everything God has blessed me with!

I just hope and pray that we continue raising Austin in ways that bring glory to God! And that we will raise Ethan the same always bringing Glory to God! I want to raise my Boys to be humble servants of the Lord most high!

Life...

Well today didn't start out very well for me...

After dropping Jon off at work I was heading to Austin's school to drop him off at his before school program and well the school was closed! I had no knowledge of this and well this was rather frustrating. It was about 6:40am and I had to be at work in 20 minutes. So I called Jon and told him about what was going on and that I was calling my boss to let him know and heading home. So I called my boss and told him I would try to reach my mother and see if she could watch him. So I reached my mother and she told me she was sorry but she already had plans today. So I was basically sol. I called Jon back and told him and then he told me he would call me right back. So Jon decided to talk to his boss and tell him what was going on and he called me back and said I told my boss that we had no one to watch Austin so come and pick me up and I will stay at home with Austin and you go to work. I thought that was so very sweet of him but I told him no it was really okay and he insisted of course so I was almost home and I turned the car around to head towards his work because it isn't far from our house and well on my way there my mom called while I was still on the phone with Jon. I clicked over and she told me to bring Austin over to her house that she would watch him. Which I thought was very nice of her. So then I made my second u turn and headed towards Naples.

So I made it to Naples and dropped Austin off at my mom's and made it back up to work by 8:20am. So I only ended up being an hour and 20 minutes late which was very nice!

So my morning started out all stressful and well my day has been okay pretty uneventful though.

I have been really sad today and well all weekend. Ethan has been putting me through a lot lately and I am always either in pain, or tired, or sad, depressed, My emotions are running wild and I can't control them and they wont stop and well it is hard to keep up good spirits when you feel the way I do!

I am hoping that once Ethan is born my emotional distress will be over and I will be my happy go lucky self again and not just the image of happy go lucky. Because I am so tired of putting on a happy face and making people think I am fine when I am really not and I feel like a mess.

So I have 4 hours and 20 minutes left in my day and that seems like forever away.

Jon and I are finally catching up on our house work slowly but surely. Jon got a lot done yesterday! He cleaned the kitchen and swept and vacuumed the whole house and started laundry and I folded a load of laundry and cleaned the bedroom and cleaned the bathroom. I still have a ton more to do like actually finish the laundry and clean the living room up and grocery shop, clean the fridge! The list just continues to go on and on. But I am determined that by this weekend I will be a cleaning machine!

Austin

So Austin is now in his second week of Kindergarten, and he just brought home his first homework ever yesterday! He has 5 sight words that we needs to know at the end of each week. And I am so proud of him as of last night he knew all five words and how to spell them! His words are I, I'm, Is, My, & Red. He also had a color worksheet where he had to identify the 4 colors and the items that should be those four colors. He knew all of those and colored staying in the lines! Also we had to do ten minutes of reading last night but we alwasy read every night to Austin from his Bible so we did that and read a few stories and then he went to bed! I am just so happy with the progress Austin has made and I love the fact that he loves to learn and apply himself! I continue to pray for him everyday that as he continues to grow that he will continue to keep this mindframe and continue to love to learn and to love God!