Eli Speaks:)

Here is my baby's first official word. "Ball"

You will have to excuse the close ups of the fly:)

I will NEVER understand

While reading the local paper today I came across this story. It brought me to tears and made me SO angry. I will never understand how there can be so much evil in this world. And so close to home. I HATE it, I HATE satan and what he does to people. I hate that we live in such a fallen world that this happens ALL the time and leads to so many other horrible things.

However I do love our God. And I know that this angers and hurts HIM more than anyone on this earth. And I do know that the Lord is with this little boy and with the doctors and nurses caring for him. And I pray that this little boy will survive and will grow to know the Lord as I do and that one day he will be a light in a world of darkness.

HUGE News

He did it. My baby said a word today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Eli just started saying "ball" about 15 minutes ago:)



I will post video of it later.



I am beyond ECSTACTIC.



He keeps running around saying "Bow Bow Bow".



It is ADORABLE:)



God is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray Pray Pray

Today is the day:) For those of you in the blogging world you may or may not be as nervous, excited, stressed, or happy as I am about MckMama today. Today she will welcome baby Stellan in to the world. The same baby Stellan that doctors told her 13 weeks ago would die and they could do nothing!!

Go check out her blog to read more about it. There is a prayer vigil for her and Stellan ALL day long today.

So Pray Pray Pray with out ceasing for their family.

One of Those Days

You know it's going to be one of those days when your almost 3 year old SCREAMS the whole way home from grandmas this morning for ALL 15 minutes of the trip including another 5 minute stop at the school to drop off the oldest.

And of course one of those days would happen to fall on a day when I just got off a 12 hour night shift and have no daycare so that I may take a little nap.

Yup, it's One of Those Days

Not Me Monday!!

Here we go again......join in on the MckMama fun!! I did not write this on Sunday hoping that I would have it done early and be one of the first links on McMama's Mr. Linky list. Nope, I never want to be first at anything. I did not start my very strict Dave Ramsey budget this weekend and still find the cash to eat out not once but twice over the weekend. Who waste's their money on eating out? Not me! I have not been tempted ALL weekend long to just BUY something because being on a budget is slightly painful for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not eat entirely too many doughnuts for breakfast Sunday morning before going to church where I also had a doughnut hole and a cookie. Yum:) I did not let my 2 year old run around the house without a diaper MANY days this week and end up having to clean up at least 2 spots of pee from the floor! Who lets boys be naked ALL day? Not me! I did not pretend to clean the kitchen every time my husband walked up stairs while he and my children cleaned the WHOLE downstairs and the van for 2+ hours on Saturday. I would never be untruthful about cleaning when I was really reading the paper. Who pretends to clean?

Officially OVER!!!

Yes that's right. Family pictures are officially OVER!!! Thanks to our great friends The Tramms we had a successful family picture day. One more thing to check off my TO DO list for the upcoming holidays.
Normally we just have pics of the kids for our Christmas cards, but I realized that my baby is almost 3 and we have not had a single family picture since his arrival!! Mostly because here I am almost 3 years later trying to lose my pregnancy weight and I have avoided the camera at ALL costs. Well, times are changing, and people are just gonna have to get used to the fat Jazz because losing weight is my least favorite thing to do and I am not good at it. So enjoy your fat Christmas pics this year!!!! Or as my hubby would say Phat Jazz (pretty hot and tempting)!! Yes at least I still have 1 fan, and the most important of all:)
I am hoping that photo shop can be my friend before the final portrait is revealed:)