Chandler is THREE

On Saturday my litte one turned THREE!!!!!
Breaks my little heart.
Can I tell you something about Chandler? He loves me and I mean REALLY LOVES ME! He tells me 20 times a day and hugs and kisses me even more. I love it and I am scared as he gets older he will stop, so i am really hanging on to these young years.

We celebrated on Saturday, we had a wonderful time!

No for real I an back this time..........

Ok so I am really going to try to keep up!!!!

Life as been wonderful and I just haven't made blogging a priority.  I have tons that has happened between here and there and hopefully i can do a catch up post at some point, but for now I need to just be in the NOW!

So........Alayna started preschool in September and just loves it!!!! She gets so excited when she goes and so disappointed when it is not a school day. She is starting to write her name and identify letters (which I am sad to say she didn't know before hand).

Chandler and I are always go go when she is in school, but its actually harder just him because he wants ALL my attention!!! I am a sucker for that boy and I love the attention he gives me.
He is the one that tells me 100 times a day he loves me. And when Aaron and I are both with him he touches both of us and says "I love the both of you" or "I got both of you" and I am telling you he does this all the time!!!!
My sweet "baby" turns THREE on Saturday :(
But we have a great day planned!!!!!

Preston is in first grade and he is doing well, but he would much rather be at home. It is hard going back after summer, I get it!

Taylynn is doing great in second grade, that girls loves school and it makes my life a bit easier. I can see her being a teacher one day.

Aaron is still working for Payless and doing well. He is going to Alaynas preschool for career week and he is going to talk about his job. I told him I should go so maybe I could understand what he does. I still am not sure how he is going to explain software engineer to preschoolers. I have a feeling they will be lost like me!

I am doing this and that and everything in between!

The biggest chance is a ministry move from students to women. I love it!!! Its so great how God has the BEST plan for our lives.

I love life right now. That doesn't mean life is perfect, believe me its not. I am just choosing to look at all the good and all the blessings rather than the attitudes, arguments and mess.

Until tomorrow........

Hi Ya'll!!!
I am here and still running little ones around.
I have not blogged in a while. My main motivation for blogging was to keep my Grandma up to date on what we were doing in Kansas. This summer she moved across the street from my parents in Arkansas with my Paw-paw. In fact they decided to move right after our visit last summer (I think they knew they wanted to be closer to us).
Well, even at that point things were hard for her and she could no longer get on her computer. Paw-paw even bought her an ipad, but she didnt use it.
My motivation was slim, so i blogged, barely!

I got to spend my grandparents 70th wedding Anniversary with them in January. It was beautiful. I am so blessed I was there to celebrate.

I talked to my Parents and Grandparents on February 15th and on February 20th my Grandma died. What gets me through is knowing that she lives on with Jesus. The joy of knowing her salvation is a blessing.

Life is so short here on Earth, but we have an eternity with Jesus Christ!!!!

I was blessed to get the time I did with my Grandma and I am even more blessed my children got that time too! I pray that will remember her and how much she truly loved them all!

Frozen Lip Singing.....This is what we do in our free time

   

Happy New Year!!!!

What a year, I guess you might have realized that since my blogging has taken a back seat. I blame that on my phone. I take most of my pictures on there and then it takes forever for them to get loaded on my computer. In fact I have no ieda how to load them, my husband does it for me when I am out of space.

We'll we have moved.....
That was an adventure. I really had no iead how much work moving really is. Once we got in we did a few things around the house......
we replaced all the main floors with hardwood
painted ONLY four rooms
I painted my bedroom furniture
replaced the microwave, which required new cabinets and then new back splash (we didnt do this on our own)
we striped the white fireplace and stained it
replaced the tile on the fireplace with brick (this was not done by us......i would have no idea how to do that. :)
The boys room was the most challenging. We place boards on the entire back wall and built pipe shelving.
we replaced the floors in the master bedroom and bath
the list goes on, but those are some of the big things.

we pretty much completed all this in 1.5 months, we were exausted!!!! i think i still am! notice that lack of capitalization!!!!

i love our house and can't believe its OURS. We are BLESSED!!!!!



Taylynn has celebrated her 7th birthday. I cannot believe that!!!! On her birthday I picked her up from school and took her to pizza hut, then later that day i brought a layered mousse dessert for her classroom. for dinner we went to Olive Garden.

This was her party year, but we just now had the party this last weekend. It was a craft party with lots of girls and lots of fun!!!

7 seems to be the majic number, Taylynn amazes me with her sweetness and maurity, she has become my helper and less of a fit thrower :) I am loving the time I get to spend alone with her. We went on a date and when we came home everyone else was in bed so we watched a movie and played games together, Aaron incuded.
That next day she swallowed her tooth while eating an apple and then at night another one fell out!!!

Preston is full of energy!!!! But he is still so sweet and senstive and HANDSOME!!! He is enjoying Kindergarten and making new friends. He has really gotten into Legos and can sit there for a couple hours building something.

He is playing basketball this year and starting to get the hang of it, but my sweet boy doesnt want to grab the ball when its free, he almost looks like he would feel bad for the person he would take it from.

Alayna is my little singer and her personality is large! Chandler is her best friend and she loves him.
She is a smart cookie and next year she will start preschool.

Alyna is a girly girly, she doesnt like to be dirty and she is always wearing something fancy!

Chandler, is a charmer and a flurt. I am going to be in TROUBLE!!!
He is my little guys, the smallest of them all (which is still large compared to other 2 year olds, but small compared to the Bivens 2 year olds) but he is a climber and has been since he could crawl. He swings like a monkey from here to there and I really have to keep my eyes on him.

Aaron is doing well at work. He went to Boston not too long ago for training and he is busy bisy, but when 5:30 rolls around he is my family man. He helps with dinner, cleaning and bath/bedtime. He is a great GREAT man!

After finally decorating the house after Christmas I am finally getting back to some me time! I am on the womens minisrty team at our church and we just had our big event. I spoke a little and lead the craft. It went better than my nerves thought it would. The craft was painting letters on would blocks.

My next adventure is going to Canada to work with pasters wives in Saskatchewan. I will be leading exercises and crafting!! I am really excited about this oppurtnity and excited to see God though the process. This will be in May!

My grandparents just celebrated ther 70th wedding anniversary. My grandma is hanging in there, but she was in the hospital this last week, but got out in time to celebrate her anniversary and have a party this last Sunday. Ginger and I drove to the party with the kids. Aaron had to work :(

OK, well thats a good catch up for now!!

Bird Hunter

There once was a bird hunter

He really loved to hunt peacocks and flamingos and one day he found two beautiful birds fluttering around his trail.

He begain to chase after them....

 He almost got them, but the police showed up because its illeagl to hunt these birds.

Preston the police officer saved the day!!!!!!

                                              THANK YOU PRESTON!!!

Poor Mr. Hunter

The day still ended with a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!