My Blue-Eyed Girl!!

The fact that Jon and I had a blue-eyed baby was really a miracle in itself, considering Jon's darker features are so dominant. Kimberlin is such a sweet girl and is growing so quickly. I pray that I will teach my girls to be loving and caring, kind and compassionate, passionate and brave. I love you little girl!

Little Women!

This was "Beth" in the play, I took a picture with her because she is the third daughter like me...My beautiful Sister!!!

HAHA Summer!! Love you!

These pics are blurry but they were all I had! We got tickets to go see Little Women the play and is was really fun. Little Women isn't one of my favorites but it was enjoyable to go with my parents and Summer!! It was a nice relaxing evening!!

Friendships

Friendships are soo important, this is something that I am learning more about everyday. I am not sure if I am learning this because I am getting older or better at cherishing things that matter on the whole. This is a picture of Isabelle and her friend Isabelle! They love each a lot, and they are so funny to watch! When they meet they are so excited and unlike adults, they don't contain how much they love each other, or have missed each other. They usually run together with squeals and laughter. Friendship truly is a gift, so I guess today don't take it for granted. Tell the people that love through good times and bad how much you appreciate them!!

Time is a funny thing....

Time is a crazy thing. the actual thing that sent my mind down this road of thought on time was our milk jug. Weird, right? You see, when I buy a gallon of milk I always look on the milk to find the furthest possible date, so it will last. When I am putting it in the cart I always feel so triumphant that I got the best one and I think 'man, that date is sooo far away.' The Gallon of milk I bought last week is good until march, which throws us into a whole other month of 2010, the third month! The month that spring will finally come! The month my oldest daughter turns three!! But you see, thanks to time passing, before I know it I will hear Jon say, 'Ran, the milk is no longer good..." (I don't drink milk so he is our gauge on this sort of thing). I think in my head, "it can't be bad already!' Can it??? Has that time that seemed so far away come and gone already?

Time is a fragile thing

It can be so great and at other times it can feel like an enemy. Like when your heart is healing, or you want to forget something. When you are waiting on an answer, or a situation to clear up.
Time.
Time can also be used great, because it is as time passes that we heal, or forget. We make memories, build deeper relationships and grow.
The best part about time, good or bad, is resting in the fact that it is in God's hands.
Time....

Olympics 2010

We had the Olympics on the other night and i turned around and noticed Isabelle was glued to the TV watching the figure skating...so I grabbed a blanket and we cuddled up and watched them for like two hours and way past bedtime, but as I was sitting there I was enjoying my cuddle time with my almost three year old who often has the "I can do it all by myself, don't need to be held" attitude and I realized that the next time the winter Olympics are on she will be almost seven...WOW! At that moment I held her a little tighter and thought it was OK if this night our schedule wasn't followed exactly and we just enjoyed this...together!

I love her face in this one!

I love you Belly Belle!

Isabelle+Kimberlin=Friends Forever

Something about having two kids really rocked my world....it may not others but it did me. My kids are great and for the most part obedient, but it really did shake me. It is hard, but on the flip side of that it is sooo good because the girls have each other. I am sooo grateful to be home with them because I think they are given the opportunity to be best friends:) Kimberlin gets so excited when she sees Belle (most of the time) and Isabelle loves being a big sister:-) Their personalities really come out when they are playing and Kimberlin is jabbering away and Belle is being the bossy big sister who knows best.

This post makes me thankful for my sisters! Summer you have seen me through a lot...you have made me laugh like every time I am around you, and you have held me when the tears wouldn't stop. I love you soo much and i am so excited that you are adding a little girl to our clan:-)

Magnolia Tree

When it snowed a few weeks ago this particular tree, which holds a very dear place in my heart because it is a magnolia tree, and when we lived in California we lived on Magnolia Street, which was lined with magnolia trees and we could open our second story window and the aroma of magnolia's trees would flood in. When we moved here to the house in Oklahoma that tree was really like a gift from God placed there just for me. Anyway when it snowed a few weeks ago this poor tree got covered and covered with snow, and after that it got covered some more. I was shocked at how much weight these limbs could hold, they were literally dragging the ground. I was thinking about how this relates to hard times in our lives, they keep coming and coming sometimes and we feel like we cannot take anymore, and usually when we hit that point more happens. During this time I usually ask God "what are you thinking, do you see me down here physically dragging and feeling like I am hanging on by a thread?" You see during those few dark, snow filled days that tree really took a beating, it was weighed down with the weight of all that snow, but the snow, just like the hard times cannot last forever, because the sun did come out and as it did the weight of the snow melted away, at times you could hear the crashing from the snow hitting the ground, and the limbs came bouncing back as it soaked the sun into itself. The tree did go back to normal, probably with a few cracks in its branches but it held on and waiting for time to turn and the sun to show it's face.

The tree after the snow had melted off the branches.

Mondays....

Monday mornings have this great way of somehow attacking all motivation and turning it into more like a big pile of mush, that wants to do nothing. My plan to get to the gym, by 6:45, fell away as soon my almost nine monthe daughter was up quite a bit because her teeth are coming through...I will have to squeeze it in at Jon's lunch hour instead. The cold weather didn't help the whole idea of getting into shorts and making it to the gym either. I am really done with winter, I know I don't get to decide when it ends...but enough already. I am running out of ways to burn an almost three year olds energy when we are stuck inside all day:-(
We did have a nice weekend though, I even got a break and went to the mall "kid free!!" It was nice:-) Friday night we had dinner with friends and that was awesome and super relaxing....I am so glad my brain finally gets how important "community" actually is, getting this concept has been a long process for me, but now I am putting it into practice and really quite enjoying it! I have a busy week with pretty much something planned every night.
Hoping to find my motivation. Here I come week....

Summer is having a .....

This night was sooo COOL!! Mainly because I found out that my baby sister is having a BABY GIRL!!!! I am beyond exciting!! It was such a gift to see someone that you love so much be sooooo happy!!

Congrats Summer and Trav! I love you guys!

The beautiful cake

Is it a boy or girl??????

Isabelle was just glad there was cake!!!