The Joys of Being 14 Months

Gaby turned 14 months at the beginning of August. It's amazing to watch her grow and learn about the world around her. I am always amazed at how fast my children grow. I am so grateful for the children the Lord has given us.

Homeschooling??

It's amazing how the Lord can put something on your heart that you thought you would never do. And how He has the power to change our minds for the plans he has for our lives!

I had always said I would never homeschool and more power to those women who did homeschool. But it's funny how the Lord works. And how His plans are never my own. With some changes happening in our family life with my husband becoming the pastor of our church and our neighborhood elementary school closing, the Lord was working on my heart.

A few months ago homeschooling was all I could think about. I thought it was a crazy idea! So I started looking into it and became more interested in it. I did lots of praying about it and the feeling I need to homeschool my children didn't go away. So my husband and I talked and decided it was something we would try this year to see how it goes.

Well, not to my surprise the more and more we look into it the more the kids and I are eager to get classes started!! We have found some homeschool groups to be apart of and have set up a little classroom in our basement. It's all coming together very nicely!! I am so excited to become my children's teacher. I have decided to go with the A Beka school books. They are a Christian based homeschool curriculum. Which I think is very important in teaching our children to put God in every aspect of our lives!

Here are a few pics of our classroom. I will post more updates as school gets started.

God's Blessings

It's been about a year that I have done a post. And a lot has happened in that amount of time. But I just wanted to share about the things that the Lord has done for my family and I recently. He has blessed us in so many ways. Just this past Sunday my husband got named the new head pastor of our church. This is something that the Lord has been working on in my husband and my hearts for awhile. When God puts something on your heart it's hard to ignore it. We have done a LOT of praying and feel this is the right thing for us to do. It's a big change for our family but a good one. I can't wait to see where the Lord will take us and use us through this decision. I am happy to be able to support my husband through this change and be by his side as he leads Gods people. It's such a blessing and privilege to work for Gods kingdom!!

World's of Fun!!!

This was the first time for our family to take a trip to an amusement park. It was the most fun we have had in a long time. We went to World's of Fun in KC. Since it is only about 4 hours away from our house we just did a day trip.

I am a big roller coaster junky!! Though I am not a fan of the really tall ones but anything that will spin you around and flip you upside down I could ride all day! My husband isn't in to roller coasters that much so in the past i would ride with someone else or by myself. But this year Mimi was tall enough to ride on all the big rides (even though that meant they charged us adult price for her :P ). Her and I had so much fun going on the rides together! I took her on her very first roller coaster ( the boomerang).

After we got done with most of the big rides and had something to eat we took the kids to Snoopy's World. It's a section inside World's of fun that is designed for the kids. It was great cause Flavi could even get on all the rides. It was the best time watching the kids have fun. I can't wait until next year for us to go again. And by then Eva will be tall enough to ride the big rides with Mimi and I. I think we are going to make this an annual trip for our family. It was a great time for us to just get out and get away together and and have fun. Those times are very special to us.

Favortie Summer Past TIme.

One of our families favorite thing to do together is ride our bikes.

We recently got the kids new helmets.

The new helmets make riding your bike that much more fun!!

5 YEARS OLD!!!

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A lot of things have happened these last two months that I am very behind on putting things up on my blog. I also got a new camera that my wonderful husband got me but ended up having to get a new usb cable for it. So I haven't been able to upload my pictures until now. So here it is!!!

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My Eva bear turned the BIG 5 in June!! It was such a fun time. Doing birthday parties for her are a lot of fun. She is my little princess and wants only the best most sparkly birthday decorations for her birthday party that you can find! We hunted all over until she found what she liked. The whole thing turned out really pretty.
We had a lot of people this time. We had most of the family over and some friends from church. It was quite a house full. ( I love having a full house!! ) My husband did most of the cooking along with my mother in law. (together they can make the best food!) And I baked the cake!!! That is one of my favorite parts about having a birthday party for one of my children, is making the cake. We don't go and spend money on a big fancy cake. That is not what is important to us. I let the kids pick out the flavor of cake they want and the color of frosting. They get to pick out their candles and what they want for a cake topper. And then I have fun creating the perfect cake for them!
Eva's special day was just that..... special! She had a great time enjoying all her cousins and friends and getting to spend the day dressed up as a pretty princess.

Our Family of 6!

 

I love this picture! This is our first family picture together after Gaby was born. It's fun to see all of us together.  The other day someone asked me how many people are in my family and I had to stop and count!! 6!!!! I can't believe how big our family has grown. And how fast everyone is growing up.

This school year Mimi will be in 2nd grade and Eva will be starting kindergarten.  It's an exciting time. It will be a new experience for Eva and a fun time for Mimi to see all her friends again. That means Flavi is going to be the oldest in the house during the days. I am going to enjoy spending sometime with my little man and having a baby to play with as well.