7th Annual Hallowasn't party

We had alot of fun tonight. We began the night with pizza. Then we started in on the games. We played this sock game where you had to try to take off the other person's socks. Whoever was
the last one with a sock on then they were the winner. Kirsten won that game.

Then we played a gross game called Marshmellow launch. I had everyone blow their nose real good before we began. Then they had to stick a small marshmellow in their nose. Whoever could blow it out the farthest won. Kimberly won once and Scott won once.

Next came "Honey Do You Love Me?" We had to sit in a circle and someone said to a person "Honey, do you love me?" Then they had to respond "Honey, I love you but I just can't smile." However the catch was you couldn't smile or laugh when you said it. Kyrie never lasted very long before she was out. LOL

Then we played the old classic musical chairs.

Then we had an obstacle course and played a couple of games of capture the flag.

Then we ended the night with a little bonfire in our backyard and roasted marshmellows and made smores.

Foo Fee was worn out by the end of the night.

This was the perfect ending to the perfect night.

HSM 3

Last night I took Kimberly, Kirsten and Katherine to see High School Musical 3 with my friend Donna and her girls. We had so much fun. We went to eat at Taco Bell first, then saw the movie which was awesome!!! I thought it was better than the first 2! We're already making plans to see it again. :)
Afterward we went to get ice cream, then came home.

It was a fun night. :)

Pam

Pep Rally

Today my kids got to go to their very first pep rally. The Jr High was having a pep rally for their football team. The school wanted all the cheerleaders to perform. Since Katherine cheers for the kinder-2nd grade flag football team, that meant her too. So Scott and I loaded up the kids and went to watch her perform. She was scared to death!!!!! She was so nervous. I was so proud of her though b/c she didn't give up. She stuck with it and survived. LOL When it was over though she came up to me with her voice shaking on the verge of tears and said "I don't want to do that again." LOL

Meanwhile Kimberly, Kirsten, Kyrie and Chris kept saying over and over again "It's so loud! It's so loud!" I think they were all pretty overwhelmed by the whole experience. LOL

Here are a few pictures and if I can get it to work, a video, of the dance Katherine did.

Day 5 of praying for a miracle

I don't know that I've written about this yet.
Me, Scott and the girls have been so thankful to our Church for supplying us with a house to live in the past 3 years. However, we would really like to have a house of our own. One where we can paint the walls whatever color we want, tear down walls if we want, just live in knowing it's all ours. I don't know if anyone can understand that. I've mentioned it to a couple of friends of mine and they are like "Are you crazy? You don't have to worry about house payments or paying for stuff to get fixed if it breaks. You can walk to Church, etc, etc." I agree, those are all the plus's of living where we are, but we still can't help but feel a longing for a place to call our own.

Now here is where the tough part comes in. We don't have ANY money for a downpayment on a house. We've re-worked the budget and it would be tight to pay for a halfway decent house.

So we have made a commitment as a family to pray for 40 days about this and see what God does. At the end of the 40 days hopefully we'll know if he has provided a way or if his answer is no. We are also praying that if his answer is no, then he will help us to be content in the parsonage.

I feel kind of bad asking for finances for a house when we already have a great place to live. However, God tells us to come to him with the desires of our heart and that we have not b/c we've asked not. So we're asking. :)

As the title of this blog stated, we are now on day 5 of our 40 days of prayer over this situation. I'll keep you updated and let you know how God answer's us. Until then if you'd like to throw up a prayer for us for this situation it would be greatly appreciated. ;)

Pam

As You Wish

Scott and I are doing the Simply Romantic Night cards put out by FamilyLife.

http://store.familylife.com/detail.asp?id=6354

The card he picked for this month told him he had to do anything I asked and say "As You Wish" when I asked him to do it. :) It has been incredible!

He started out the day though with a surprise for me. He sat me down and told me that today he was going to do anything I wished. He said he was doing it because he loves me. He then reminded me how much Jesus loves me and what he did for me on the cross. Scott said that he wants to be like Jesus and show his love for me in a way that he can. As a reminder of Jesus and Scott's love for me he pulled out a jewelry box. Inside was a beautiful cross necklace. I started crying so hard. His wonderful words of love, then that beautiful necklace was more than I could bare. I couldn't hold back my tears. It was a very special time. Now when I wear this necklace I will always remember not only what Christ did for me, but what Scott did for me to show me his love.

He then asked me to list anything I wanted him to do for the day. I listed like 10 things that I hadn't wanted to do or things that have been bugging me.

I asked him to do the following:

-scrub the baseboards in both bathrooms and dinning room.

-Clean the backdoor and back screen door.

-Clean the window to the kitchen and it's screen.

-Clean out trash under the air conditioner unit

-Clean up the old boxes and trash that had been laying by the fence in our backyard for forever

-Carve a stamp for me for one of my letterboxes

-Go to the store for me

-Go to the laundry mat and do all the laundry. (I had gotten so far behind it would take me forever to catch up if I had to do it all with just our 1 washer and 1 dryer.)

He has done them all! Plus, he's had a wonderful attitude the whole time!! Even when I started feeling bad for asking him to do all this, he said "No I want to do everything b/c I love you."

I can say with 100% certainty that my man really loves me. :)

Here he is scrubing the bathroom floor.

Thank you God for blessing me with such an awesome, romantic, caring, hard working man.

I love you honeybaby. :)

Day 2 of my cleaning frenzy

Yesterday I attacked Christopher's room. LOL I took some before pictures but it was so bad my camera apparently couldn't handle it b/c the pictures didn't come out. LOL So all I have to show is my after pics. :)

Here is what got put in our give away/garage sale pile.

And here is how much junk I threw away.

Now for the after pictures.

And the proof that I didn't just shove everything into the closet. :)



Today I took a break from cleaning. I'm not quite sure which room will be next. We shall see. :)

Pam

I went off the deep end today!

I got so tired of the house being messy that I took it out on Katherine and Kyrie's room. I ended up with about 5 bags of toys, clothes, a dresser, junk, etc to give away and about 6 bags of trash!

Now that I'm on a roll I plan on doing the whole house like this! Muhahaha!

Christmas better get here quick b/c Katherine and Kyrie don't have very many toys now. LOL

I wish I would have thought to get a before picture. However here are the after pictures of my out of control cleaning frenzy. LOL

The Give away piles:

The trash pile:



Katherine and Kyrie's room now. I took a picture of the inside of the closet to show proof that I didn't just shove everything in there like I usually do. :)

Last night and tonight

Last night we had our second God's Girls get together. Kimberly and her friends went to one of the mom's house for a night of scrapbooking. They had a great time.

Then today we went to Katherine's football game, then I went out for ladies night out at Chilli's with some women from our Church.

Kimberly and Kirsten are at a slumber party and the littles are asleep, so all is quiet right now. :)

Pam

Smeagol's 2nd birthday!!

Today Smeagol turned 2 years old! He has brought so much joy to our lives. He's my little shadow. He always follows me everywhere. I've really grown to love this little Pug. We got him a little bed he can lay on when he's at my feet at the computer. :)

After we gave Smeagol his birthday spanken's me, Kimberly and Kirsten went to Katherine's game. I FINALLY got to see her cheer at a game. She was so cute. They did a really good job. Our little football players did good too. They won 20-0. So far our team is undefeated ! :)