Last night I had a horrible Migraine. I had already got sick several times before I made it back to my bed and could not move. Matt left for Wyoming last Monday so after a week as you can imagine 24/7parenting with no break there was some major tension. Only like a week to 10 days till a break.... Kids have been completely trying to take advantage.. Amazing how they do that uh? Although the minute they all seen me sick their tender hearts were exposed. Madisyn tried to doctor me with water and Tylenol. The boys just took charge to do what it took to keep things under control and quiet. This morning I woke up early and got the house back in order and not long after I got a minute to sit down Matthew came down and walked over to me, and began to rub my back. He said "Mom, are you feeling better?". Anyone who knows Matthew knows he's never been an affectionate child. I was just extremely touched. Just the fact that, that was the first thing he wanted to check on as soon as he got up. Even though they may totally drive me crazy, they have some of the most tender loving personalities I have ever seen!!!

Jacob's Prize

• Jacob went hunting with his dad last night and came out with a little doe. He called mom and with so much excitement in his voice said"Mom, I shot a deer!". He was very proud,as I was also. When they got home...they gutted it( YUK) and ground up the meat. Jacob was a little intimidated but you could not get the smile off his face. Then this morning I went into wake him up and he said "No mom No, this great hunter needs some sleep!!!" I thought I was going to die. He sure let this one go to his head!!! Guess we know who's child he is.???

Moving into Fall time.

Well can you believe it, It's officially fall time??? Where did our summer go? I don't feel like we got one this year. This past weekend we spent at the beach with my brother and his family, we all had a good time. The children enjoyed playing and getting to know their cousins better. The weather was perfect!! We walked on the beach, played in the pool, did some shopping (yes I even got some Christmas shopping done) and just relaxed. It's so hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner.

Hunting and football season has officially started as well, so I guess I'll spend the next few months as a windowed woman. Although I don't mind to much it is a great joy to me to get to see my loved ones do their hearts passion!!!

Homeschooling is off and started. We are doing OK. The children are trying to find out how hard they can push mom this year, so far it's not working!! I'm going to be starting a new strict schedule next week to keep everyone straight. I feel like that is so important with children!! It keeps them online for their future to be responsible and accountable for their time management. I have talked with Matt about making a huge room in our attic into a new school room. He has agreed and we are off and started on that. We have got the window in and most of the stuff gone through and cleaned out. Now if he can just find time in between hunting and football. I think this will help us out tremendously!!!

Well be blessed till next time,,,......

Our new puppy..

So we have had our new addition to our family for a full two weeks now. "Sasha"... she has been a true blessing to us even though she has been a full pain in the butt. Anywhere you walk in the house she chases behind biting with razor blade teeth the back of your heals. She requires lots of attention or she will NOT shut up but only when she wants to be held otherwise she will try to do a back flip out of your arms. I'm proud to say we have only had 2 accidents in the house but we are working on that. The other two dogs don't know what to think about her. Patches doesn't want her no where near him but Bailey on the other hand will tolerate her a little bit better. She likes to bite on Bailey's ears which in return Bailey will snap at her. The kids always rush in to get her in the morning. Sasha is the cutest chocolate Cocker Spaniel around....

Summer has started

Well summer has officially started. Matthew and Madisyn has started their practice for competition gymnastics. Matt and Jacob have taken a trip to Wisconsin to visit family. We have already made it to Carowinds once this year, which was a great time. Pool is open and plan on spending a good bit of time there.
Two weeks ago I started a new weight loss plan which I hope to be life changing. God has sent a doctor my way to help me out this time. I go to see him once a week for him to monitor my accomplishments. As of my appointment last week I lost 5.5lbs. I'm hoping I can keep up loosing more and more each week. No carbs in a whole new world for me. I realize I am in love with carbs but I'm breaking free of that. I have to pray each morning for self-control and I believe that's the most life changing part!!!
We added to our family this week...Sasha. She is our new chocalate Cocker Spaniel. She very cute and has an amazing personality. Bailey and Patches seem to think she is a litlle to hyper to play with them, but they are warming up. She seems to be getting this whole potty training thing down. We have had no accidents yet. I was so surprised to see that even when I woke up the last two mornings there was nothing and she waited to go outside YAY!! She is already so spoiled.

Best Buy Trip

So you know how children are... I love to post things like this so that I can show my kids how crazy they were when they are older.
So we went to Best buy last Saturday because my husband wanted to buy me a new laptop for my birthday...We took the kids and my father that was in town with us 1st mistake!! We were standing there looking when Matt flagged down a man that worked there to get his opinion of what we should buy mistake #2... The man he flagged down that came up was not in your normal Best Buy attire...He was dressed more like an officer and had a badge on that said "Geek Squad" OH YES Mistake #3.. So Matt began talking to him and asking questions when Jacob caught my eye. He was starring at that badge and I just knew it was coming........So guess what happened next???? You got it he just couldn't let it go!!!! He eased his way in between this man and his dad and asked "Are you the President of the Geek Squad?" the man responded no I'm just the supervisor. I see Matt's face got a little red and he just hung his head. Oh yes there is more. Matt keep talking and asking questions........... and as mom I sat back and just seen those wheels a turning, you'd think I'd come to Matt's rescue and remove him from the situation but no I felt I have had to deal with this many times before it was his turn.....he he That was bad of me!!! So next he asked "So are all the members of the Geek Squad nerds???" Matt so so embarrassed yet laughing the whole time because Jacob had the most serious look on his face. He was serious. I think that was the first time in 31 years I seen my dad get so embarrassed to walk away, yet still laughing. Did they not see that all the laughing was egging him on??? So glad I will never see that man again!!! I'll have to remember when he gets much older and has his own children and deals with this I'll have to bring this one up!! Where did he get this from??? Must have been his dad!!

Dry Season.....

So my one and only follower has brought it to my attention that I have not blogged in a while...... Right now I feel like we are in a dry season, not much is coming to mind. Matt has not worked in almost weeks, something neither one of us is use to. I think we are about to drive one another crazy!!!!! I am trying to wrap things up for the kids with school only to realize we have to do school until mid June because we have slacked too many days this year. Hopefully our Carowinds season passes will get use this year"who knows"...I do know no more slacking.. There is nothing better than getting up on a summer day having all my house work done before the children even get up and then when they do spend the rest of the day at the country club pool. Most of our springtime activities are about to be wrapped up shortly so we'll find something else to do to burn off that wild energy.....Actually I was thinking about going into business, bottling that energy the children have and selling it. I am sitting on a gold mine.............

Amazing...

This week was pretty amazing... We had a guest speaker at church Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It was awesome!!! Completely made us put a whole lot more into perspective. Although on the down side had some things revealed about myself that was not so pretty, but at least it has made me aware of things to pray about and work on. Well by Wednesday I was so completely overwhelmed and exhausted I felt like I could not move. Emotional stress tires you out more than physical labor!!! Well on top of all that the children were full of it that night. As I was laying in bed still hearing them at 1:30am(??????) I know what your thinking I was too. I decided to get up and really enforce my authority.....ha ha did I get a surprise!!! When I walked in the room I seen that they had taken dry erase markers and painted each others faces completely.....grrrrrr So for the next 45 minutes I spent in the bathroom scrubbing faces while hearing very comfortable,relaxing snores out of my husband from the other room. By the time I got back to bed I was so frustrated I could fall asleep for another half an hour. Why do the children do the dumbest stuff sometimes????? Seems as though they know right when to push you when your working on an area of your life that you truly have to strive to overcome in situations like these. I passed the test and was even will to wake up so encouraged this morning!!! God had blessed us with the gift of parenting and it's up to us to raise them up and direct them in the direction that is true to them yet is right. That's the ultimate goal of mine and I hope this will be something i look back on in 15-20 years and see we have succeeded!!!

Hunting...

Matt got up and went hunting with Steve after just 3 hours of sleep this morning. Was extremely excited to get a phone call saying both of them had shot a Turkey. Hunting is totally not my thing but it sure does joy me to see him accomplish something that makes him happy and proud. This is his first turkey and really his first season he has really hunted turkey. The kids were so excited for him also. It now is sitting in his refrigerator in the shed. He says we will be deep frying it tonight. We'll see.....

It seems as though this time in my life seems to be very trying. Although I guess that's what we ask for when we are pursuing something that's really profound! I have taken a coarse following the book Battlefield of the Mind" truly inspirational. Last night we reviewed the chapter about positive thinking and how it can change your life to a positive life no matter the circumstances. That's where I want to be. If we truly worked to find the good in EVERY situation we would be strayed away from fear and doubt. Anyways...I'm very encouraged.
On the second note....it is said that terrible two's are the worst. Well I just made a new observation......has anyone ever thought about the age of 7? As I look back I realize 7 years of age seems to be just as difficult. It's that age they are truly trying to find there place and what to see what exactly they can do to push mom and dad the furthest. Now that I am going through this with a girl, I see that it just has added drama to the whole trying times. Let's see yesterday I gave Madisyn a dot to dot page to do 1-120 (which see has been doing for 3 months now) and she had complete melt down. "I don't want to do this, I hate this" complete drama!!! I remember when I was in school dot to dots were fun so I thought a simple dot to dot page everyday would enforce her numbers and location of the numbers as she's learning to add and subtract. Yeah well she did not think so. Well after her huge throw-down she realized I was not giving in and she had to do it. She completed it in two lousy minutes after 90 minutes of chaos??? POINT??
I never believed people when they said girls were harder than boys...I'm starting to agree!!! Even with all of that said she is a true blessing and just tends to teach me who I am as they are figuring out who they are.

Starting to Blog...

Well this is something I decided to start this to have a special diary of the great and maybe not so great moments that happen in our home. As summer is approaching it is normally so jam packed with awesome things that we encounter and great memories we make as a family. I am so proud of my children and I'm sure(if you have children) you can relate to that warm fuzzy feeling you get every time that you see them smile. I believe our future was already set up for us while we were in our mothers wombs. He knew who my husband was going to be, he knew we would produce 4 children and that even one would come to be with him before it reached us. He blesses us everyday and hope that you are touched by what he has done in our lives. I'm just trying to say differant stages of our lives are hard but it makes up who we are and what we will become out of strength, and our faith! I can only hope this blog will let our family that is so far away inform them of the things we are enjoy or dealing with each day/or week/ or month lol.