LOVE IS......

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on it's own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends. I Corinthians 13: 4-8

I thank God everyday for the wonderful, loving husband that he has given me.  I am truly blessed to have a husband who will do anything for me and our kids.  He is a true man of God and he strives to lead our family in the way of the Lord, and for this I am truly gratetful.  Words can not describe how much I love him.  I  hope God sees fit for us to share many more years together.  I LOVE you Chris.

Happy Valentine's Day Chris, you are my world!!!!

Hi-Ho Hi-Ho It's off to Granny's house we go!

Well Granny Franny volunteered to keep the kids tonight so Chris and I could go out to eat and spend sometime together for our Valentine's day since we both have to work Monday.  The kids were excited as they packed their bags to spend the night.  Aly and Jaysen are used to spending the night away.  They spend the night with Nan-Naw and Paw-Paw all the time.  They have also spent the night with Aunt Lele and a few of their friends before.  Poor Owen on the other hand has only spent the night away once in his entire 2 year old life.  I'm sure he will do fine, it's me I'm worried about.  I'm fine now but am sure it will hit me when I go to bed and he is not their to snuggle with.  Yes I am pathetic the other two were spending the night off with my parents when they were like 6 months old.  I guess it's just something about knowing he is the last child and the baby.  He is in good hands though.  He loves his Granny.  Well Chris is back in here so I must go. We are actually getting to watch movies that don't have cartoons in them for once.  Sorry no pictures tonight(I forgot to take one as they were getting into Granny's car) but I will post more later. 
May God bless!
Jennifer

Monkey See Monkey Do!

Owen is quite the little parrot lately.  He repeats everything people say.  We have to be careful what we say around him, even things that seem harmless.  He is too funny, the class clown when he gets older?  He is in that stage of life where he is exploring everything and getting into EVERYTHING.  You take your eyes off of him for one minute and he WILL be into something he is not supposed to be. He also mimics things he watches us do.  For instance when Aly is dancing around the room he likes to dance with her.  He has watched me measuring things and writing numbers down or calling them out, so the other night we found him halfway up the stairs standing on a stool with the measuring tape.  He had it pulled out against the wall saying "9 9 6, 9 9 6, 9 9 6".  He is hilarious!! Today Chris came home for lunch and Owen took is flashlight and stuck it in the waist band of his pants and then took Chris' retractable baton "the beating stick" and held it out as he marched around the room saying "I go to work, I go to work". The other night Chris taught him to say "God created the stars".  So when I got home from work our conversation went like this. 
Chris:  Owen tell mama who made the stars
Owen: God did
Me: That's right.  Owen what else did God make?
Owen:  Ice cream
The child is obsessed with sugar.  The other day he was eating something and looked up at me and said "It taste like sugar".  Chris is also teaching him to say "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. Genesis 1:1".  He is also teaching him "Who is your Shepherd?" and Owen says "God is".  I thank God everyday for the wonderful Godly husband he has given me. Together it is my hope and prayer that we will lead our children in the way of the Lord.   Well now that I have majorly drifted off of my original topic I will end it here.

The Princess

The princess and I made cookies today with the stuff Nan-naw gave her for Christmas.  Nan-naw and Paw-paw gave her 2 bags of sugar cookie mix, lots of cookie cutters, an apron, a spatula, her very own cookie sheet and a recipe box.  The little princess is always starving for attention.  Since her brother had company over and he was playing with him, I decided to have some much needed mother daughter time.  Though she can be trying at times, we had fun making lots of yummy valentine shaped cookies.  She even let Owen help decorate some of them (even though he ate more than he decorated).  We didn't start off to well though.  We had a little miss understanding at the beginning.  I told Aly to open the cookie mix and dump it in, (meaning the mixer bowl).  She thought she was supposed to dump it on the table, like you do the flour when your rolling the cookies out.  Chris and I found it quite funny, she however did not.  When I said something to her about it she thought I was yelling at her.  But despite a few messes and lots of spilled sprinkles, we managed to get all of the cookies decorated.  We made 52 small heart shaped cookies and 12 big heart shaped cookies.  They are very yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!