Featuring... Stella and Jonah!

Here's a few video clips of the kids. They would do this all day everyday if I let them. Stella's our singer girl, the shinning rock star as she likes to call herself. She's constantly making up songs and sometimes we're blessed with her singing songs we actually know. Then there is Jonah, who is right there beside Stella singing his own tune or strumming his air guitar :)


Ava has the pleasure of being Stella and
Jonah's audience - lucky girl!

Matthew 6:9-13 "This, then, is how you

should pray: Our Father who art in heaven..."

Sunday. Snow. Sledding. Smiles.

Jonah's words when he saw the snow, "I don't uh-leave it mom, I don't uh-leave it." translation - I don't believe it ;)

Sean's face totally cracks me up in this one

At the top of the hill Stella would tell Sean, "OK dad I'm going to take a deep breath so I can be brave." Her face doesn't look too scared to me!

Despite being horribly sick, Ava still smiles - love her!

um... hello chubba-bubba

Who cut the Barbies' hair????

salon day for the girls

the short bang look

short in front, long in back a.k.a. the mullet

the evidence

A couple nights ago I headed upstairs to get the kids ready for bed. I went in to the bathroom and saw gobs of doll hair in the garbage.
mom - "Stella what is this?"

Stella - "I don't know how that got there mom."

I then went into Stella's room and saw a pair of scissors laying on the floor along with 6 barbies sportin' a new do.

mom - "who cut the barbies hair?"

Stella - "Jonah did"

Jonah - "Stella did"

OK so now it's getting serious, not only have we cut the dolls hair but now we're lying which is far worse then any barbie getting a hair cut. After going back and forth between "Stella did, Jonah did" I saw the remorse on Stella's face and the tears started to fall. She knows she's in trouble, and now it's not because of the barbies it's because she lied. I praise our good Lord that Stella has a tender heart because after she was disciplined you knew she was sorry (she even told us she needed a bowl by her bed because she felt sick). I told her I could care less about her barbies (I mean lets face it, we've all wanted to cut their hair right??), but that I am more concerned about her heart and the fact she felt she needed to lie. I told her it hurts Jesus' heart the most when His children lie. She then told me she should have went to Sunday School last week (she missed because she's been sick). Amen to that, we do need to stay close to Jesus and go to church to learn more about Him. It's just like the verse she learned at soccer camp this summer, Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." We're sinners, we sin daily, we need Jesus. I can only pray that Stella will learn from this and the next time she'll choose to do the right thing and confess right away instead of lying and casting the blame. This whole ordeal showed me that much more how we need to be on our knees before the Lord lifting our children up to Him, and asking for wisdom in raising them to be godly men and women.

The next afternoon...

mom - "So Stella how do the barbies work with their new hair cuts?"

Stella - "Oh mom, they are SO great!!"

Motorbikes and Race Cars...

Happy Birthday Jonah bear

Yesterday was Jonah's 3rd birthday. Whenever anyone would ask him what he wanted he would say without a doubt "a motorbike that goes fast and a race car that has a seat I can sit in." Well... we don't always get what we want right?? Thank goodness for 3 year old boys who get excited about anything in a box with paper on it. In the end Jonah was pretty pumped about his new clothes ;) especially his new church shirts "just like dads!!!" and he has been having fun with his new trains. Today I heard him chanting in his room "go Thomas, go Thomas..." I think it's safe to say he had a fun day and he is already looking forward to turning 4.

Welcome To Our Blog

We are finally getting around to creating a family blog. We thought it would be a fun way for friends and family to grow with us, laugh with us and pray with us. Although journaling isn't one of my best "gifts" necessarily, I do have great intentions to be faithful to share my thoughts, a funny story here and there and definitely share a lot of pictures of the kids. So visit often and leave a comment, we would love to hear from all of you!