Mmmm! Mommy's ready for some more Christmas treats! What about you?!
I've decided to make some new renovations to my blog. I'm sure there will be more to come. I just only have so much time in a day to tinker with it and let's face it, I am NOT computer savvy at all! Hope you like the new look and now you will be able to see more of the things I LOVE!!!
Tonight I realized something really pathetic. I realized what a different world my child is being raised in compared to what I had. I know, I know, I sound like an old lady but think about it. I had what seemed like so much when I was a child. Now things have changed so drastically that when I say cassette tape or VHS, elementary school and sometimes middle school kids have no clue what I'm talking about. I wouldn't say that's sad...just amazing! And do you remember when you used to get the however many free hours of AOL on a disk in the mail? Just now as I was talking about this blog with the hubby he said, "what about overhead projectors?" I didn't even realize they don't use those anymore. That's all I ever knew! What in the world?! I must throw in here too how often they think it's necessary to change the look of Facebook every few months to where I have to relearn everything and it drives me crazy! It CAN stay the same for awhile and we'll all be okay. So I guess I should get to the reason of why all this hit me this evening. I would have to say it was when I was cooking dinner and I heard my 2 year old child cry from the living room, "I want to play on the iPad!" She is part of a new generation (in which I have no clue of what it is called).
For those of you who know me REALLY well, you know I am totally into my scrapbooking and crafts and let's just say, having this would put me in scrapbook HEAVEN! I could be so organized and everything would be discreetly hidden. IN LOVE...too bad it's $1300 on Overstock. So if you've happened to see anything similar, but cheaper, let me know! That way I can continue on my way of scrapbooking my little cuteness...
And you better believe this is my favorite time of year because I am stacked full of fun goodies and activities to do for the holidays! Just went to Hobby Lobby yesterday and went CRAZY! So be looking for more to come!
Today I was thinking about how fortunate I have been to have one healthy, full term baby and another on the way that has thus far been going great. It was blowing my mind and I could not begin to understand how I had beaten the 50/50 odds of miscarrying with my disease TWICE! I was thanking God, thanking God, thanking God over and over. And then all the sudden, my mind wandered away and started thinking, “well I probably really deserved all that after what I had to go through with all my health.” Wait! What?! How dare I ever think that I “DESERVE” anything! None of us do. Ugh! I was disgusted at myself for even having such a selfish thought. Everything we have or have ever been given is a GIFT from God just because he is that benevolent. Truthfully everything we have is actually His and He just decides to share it with us. Hmm…never really thought of it that way, had you? It was by His grace that He gave us our Kinsleigh Grace and my hope was/is rest assured in Him that He would and could do it again with our Kyla Hope. 
I hope she wants to give me sweet hugs and kisses for all time!
Her actual "Birth" day
1 Year Old
2 Years Old
Celebrated Parker and Kinsleigh's Birthday's
Kins went kayaking for the first time
And we decorated pumpkins!
We had a blast at Kinsleigh's first visit to the Pumpkin Patch! We went to Livesay Orchards way out in good ole Porter, OK. This was actually the first time we'd ever even heard of this town! But there were lots of young child friendly games, a tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch, and apple and peach picking if desired! Kinsleigh spent the majority of the time in the corn bucket! Sensory is so her thing...
Alright so it's taken me awhile to get this blog up but thought it was important as this seems to be an all too often asked question these days. And I loved the way our Pastor, Wayne, brought it all to light. The common question everyone is asking is "If God is so great and good, then where is he in a world filled with so much agony?"
I acquired a new skill today! I actually learned how to use a sewing machine and make something. This was a huge accomplishment for me as I do not enjoy doing extremely time consuming projects. My mom had to do all the measuring and cutting for me because I still do not get all that part but much of the other I did on my own! woo hoo! I think this may be an inspiration to try new crafty things. Thanks to my wondeful Mommy who drove up for the day just to help me out. Fun times...but now my back hurts. Check out one of the finished projects...
Or at least I should say, the doctor is 90% sure it is! I'm only 15 1/2 weeks along so technically the doctor can't say without a doubt but 90% is good enough for me so we're going with it! I was completely shocked because I just knew in my gut it was a boy! (Secretly I was hoping for a girl) But we're so thrilled beyond words that we are going to have ANOTHER precious little princess. Daddy's heart has already been melted once. Now he's just going to fall apart.
(12 weeks pic)
Today was Kinsl
eigh's first day back to school! This year she is in the Toddler II class and I've got a feeling she is going to LOVE it!!! She is so great about walking right in and being a big girl. Her favorite things to do are go down the slide in her classroom, play outside, sing and do art projects. I give huge kudos to the teachers of her class because teaching multiple children of this age is NOT easy. Thank you to The Kirk teachers who are teaching our sweet girl and helping mold her into
You may or may not have noticed that I have been slacking in my blogging. I must apologize but baby this go round is not making it quite as easy on me as Kinsleigh did. I've had yucky morning sickness which typically hits me in the evenings the worst and it makes me want to do nothing! So I really am going to try and start doing much better and get back with it but for right now, I'm just going to be taking it slow. Hopefully soon, I can start giving more updates about baby #2 and let you know how everything is going. So far, so good and getting closer to being done with the first trimester! woo hoo!
Our family evening out the other night was going to a Tulsa Drillers game. This was the first for Kinsleigh and I. I didn't even consider watching the weather before we went because let's face it, how often are the meteorologists really right? So it hasn't rained in DAYS and what happens 5 minutes after we get out of the car to go stand in line to get in??? Starts pouring! For a good 20 min. at least. We're all getting soaked since we don't have an umbrella and Kinsleigh is screaming the WHOLE time. We got to learn something new. Apparently, she doesn't like being in the rain. I myself thought it was a nice cool down. The game ended up being lots of fun and not starting too late. Out of the whole 1 1/2 hours we were there, we watched I think 10-15 min of the game! Kinsleigh loves watching sports though which makes her Daddy very proud. And I must have you know she can distinguish between golf, football, baseball, basketball and hockey. What a cool chick!
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