Someday I will.......

                                                                                   

For several years I have said things like...Someday I will have a 4-wheeler or someday I will have this or that or do this or that.  When in all reality I have been doing and having my someday for the past 25 years!! Being a wife and mom! And taking care of all my daycare kids.  It's all I ever wanted! 

Fathers Day !

I am so thankful for my Dad and to Honor him on Fathers Day! He was and is a awesome Dad!  he always worked very hard to provide for his family! still working to this day! He had 3 boys and then I came along...I wonder if he ever wished I was a girly-girl??? since I was his only daughter. But nope he got a tom-boy girl and loved me just how I was.  The smell of "skin bracer" reminds me of him and growing up he smoked and so every now and then when I am outside and get a smell of cigarette smoke it is actually a comfort smell! ( I know...weird) but it is! It just means I have good childhood memories and to me it is a good smell. Now I will add that I am thankful he quit smoking! :-)

He always took us camping! I remember when he would go somewhere and I would ask where...He would say " to see a man about a horse" being little enough I really thought he might come home with one!! But nope he didn't. Then in highschool he DID ! He came home with 2 horses! I LOVED it ! I know he got them for him but I just felt they were for me!!  LOL  He taught me what hard work was and how to be a good parent!!!  He has also been a super great Grandpa to all his grandchildren! I am so grateful to have such a good DAD and for his great example!

My Father-in-law Dave! We miss him for he has been gone about 20 years already. He was a big hugger...I smell "Old Spice" and it reminds me of him. He was my Pastor and he told his son Dan to check out that "horse lady" (me) that lived up on that mountain. So Dan did, and here we are!  He was a great Grandpa to Isaac and Luke but never got to meet Jerid. But we know in heaven we will see him again one day!! I am thankful for his wonderful example!

Happy Fathers Day!

The Beard

Dan always wonders why I never like when he shaves his beard off...I tell him at least keep some facial hair like a goatee or a mustache or just a beard...just some facial hair at least! His beard caught my eye 27 years ago and to this day I prefer him to have it! My excuse!????

When I was little and I mean little I liked Grizzly Adams!



Edwards  ( not so cute but it's the beard!) lol

And Johnathon! 
I guess you would say God made me that way!
So Dan,  please keep your beard!

I like it !

 

Passenger pick-up

Went to pick Luke and Allison up from the airport last night! Called before and flight had been delayed so I knew to go later! Wow! I am smart to call first right!? got there at 10pm drove around the passenger pick-up and back to the terminal several times.  No, Luke and Allison....decided to park and go in.  Went in and looked around the baggage claim and pick-up area...by this time there wasn't even any baggage left ! Weird.....asked around and no-one could help, not even the information people...no one could check anything for me! Well...Jerid came with me and I am super glad because parking garages are very scary at night! So I decided to go back to the car and check the flight info again....I had everything right but............. the day!!! So, tonight I get to go again! hahahaha hopefully come home with some kids this time! 
I know. I am an air-head.  Just push me out on an iceberg now! I am losing it!!!



And by the way this horse is very creepy! Piercing red eyes! Doesn't say "Welcome to Denver" very well if you ask me!
Also if you are coming out this way I would be glad to pickyou up, I know exactly what I am doing and exactly where to go! After last night I have plenty of experience!!  Really I do.







Oh! and Happy 1st Anniversay!! Hope you had a wonderful trip and can't wait to hear all about it!!!

Mothers Day !

Mothers Day....A Day that is happy for some and sad for others. For that reason I sometimes don't like Holidays because they make hurting people, hurt more, and lonely people, more lonely, ect. So on this Mothers day if it makes the day hard for you for whatever reason my heart goes out to you and I think about you on days like this. So on this mothers day I want to say I am thankful for my mom, she was a great mom and still is a great mom, friend and Grandma. I am thankful for her for she taught me to be a good mom, she has set a wonderful example. The older I get the more I see myself in her. I take that as a compliment. Thanks for being a great mom! in many ways!

And I am thankful for my mother in law Connie,who gave me Dan, without her I would not have him! We miss her a ton as she has been gone for almost 6 years already.  All the times she would come over and literally make us laugh so hard we would be on the floor. She would take her teeth out and lip sinc to country songs and tell stupid jokes. I only wish we had it on video!! She was a wonderful 2nd mom to me and a great Grandma!!

I am thankful that I am a mom! All I ever wanted to do was be a mom! I have loved every minute of being a mom! ( Well, almost every minute! )  My kids can testify that I NEVER blew a gasket! hahaha! But seriously each one of them have brought so much joy to my life words cannot even express! And I am honored to be their mom! and God made my dream come true 3 times and I am thankful for all of them!!

Jerid...the son who was the funniest little kid ever...he would walk in a room and say " The fun has arrived! Thank you very much!"  or blow a big fart and say " smell the difference!" lol  He was the one who did not like authority as a little kid. In other words we had to stay on top of this one! But we knew he had that personality for a reason and would just sit on his bedroom floor and pray for wisdom on raising him and that God would guide him and use that ornery-ness for good to fulfil His plan in Jerids life!  And we continue to pray for that special girl somewhere out there that may someday become his wife!

Luke...the son who wouldn't warn you when he was upset as a baby...he would just instantly scream! He even scared the ladies in the nursery!! hahaha! The one who had the moves and could dance really good at 2! The one who loved to draw all the time, and then as he got older and picked up the guitar and would play constantly, this one was never bored because he was either drawing or playing music or writing songs. I would also sit on his bedroom floor and pray for God to use him and grow to be the awesome young man he is! I am thankful for we have prayed for Allison since Luke was tiny! So today I am thankful for Allison's mom, Glenna for raising such a wonderful daughter for Luke...our 2nd daughter! she is an answer to a prayer that was prayed for many years!!

                                                                                   

Isaac....our first son...the one we looked at and couldn't believe he was ours. The one who was the chubbiest baby ever! The nursery ladies nick named him Two Ton Tony because he was so fat! The doctor told me to quit feeding him so much! I told him, NO. He is perfect. He was an easy baby. He was the natural handy man kind of kid. He wanted to help with everything. He was the little league football player, then grew out of that and picked up the guitar and played and would sing all the time. We had music in our house all the time. I would also sit on his floor and pray for him, to use his gifts and talent too and grow into a great young man that he is today!! I am thankful for Cassie and her mom, Mary for raising up a beautiful daughter like her to be the one for Isaac our 1st daughter! She was an answer to a prayer that had been prayed since Isaac was a baby!

When I say their bedroom floor ...it actually was the same room for they shared till Isaac was 9th grade! I don't think they minded...It made for lots of laughs for Dan and I to sit and listen to them horse around and talk and sing when they were supposed to be sleeping!

Today I am just plain humbled and THANKFUL !
Happy Mothers Day!

The Couch Makeover

No time to blog lately!! Been busy with the normal stuff and back in January we found this set of furniture on craigslist. It was pretty rough but the guy wanted to sell it bad! So I didn't want to pay what he was asking...we left without it. Then a couple days later he texted me asking what I would be willing to pay! He was desperate because it was OLD and very beat up. So I told him $100 bucks for the couch, loveseat, chair,end table and footstool. Score! That was $200 less then he was asking. So every spare minute I have been sewing new slip covers! ( Just so you know I will not take on this kind of project again!) sewing sewing sewing! and then sanding sanding sandin! and then staining everything! Dan helped me sand and stain the couch so that went FAST! Anyway, now I have like new...very old furniture! that looks like this!

and this......

and this....

and this....

and then...... I did this......

Just for fun!  ;-)

It works!

I do believe it works.

I have been going to a chiropractor that does acupuncture also. It has been helping the pain in my neck where I have protruding discs. Ouch. Oh I still feel it some but nothing like I did before! I also struggle with migraines. But I have a lot LESS of them since seeing him!! Although last week I had to take my "migraine pill" two times. Then on Monday I was getting another one and I knew he was in the office so I called him.  He got me in!!! Finally he got to feel what my whole back does when I get a migraine! TIGHT all the way down to my low back and into my neck and head. So he put the needles in all over my back, one foot and in my hands and shoulder blades. I laid there for about 40 minutes and on the way home, do you believe it was gone! My muscles were relaxed! If you are person that gets migraines you know this is huge!!! I was so thankful I could have cried! Try it ...maybe it will work for you. He is my "hero"! anyone who can help you with that kind of pain is a hero!!!

Apparently everything is bad for you! lol That is why I say:

 "Hey...a little bit of everything is good for you!"

Pastor Don Whipple WWII

Proud to know Pastor Don Whipple and his late wife Jo ! He has been a very important person in my life since I was a little girl in the 3rd or 4th grade! I am thankful for them in so many ways!!! Thanks to ALL of our veterans and military!!!

Great song!

Jerid just showed me this song this morning and I loved it!!!  In the past few weeks I have learned of 3 young people diagnosed with cancer. Two in their 20's and one in her 30's. These are the times when we ask why. Why does this happen? I have had 4 people in my life die from it.  Yuk. I just don't even like the word. The truth is we will never be able to answer the question Why? The answer is always I don't know. Why so young, Why now, Why me, Why her, Why him, ....I don't know. God never said life would be easy. But one thing I do know is God is the same yesterday, today and

forever! And He loves us. We live in a fallen world and life is hard, some days it is hard to just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Life with God makes life worth living! Without him I don't think I would be very happy. So I want to live like that! I want God to use me to have others see Jesus in me! So until God takes me home, I'm gonna live like that!

Our 25th Anniversary!

THEN     Our Engagement

and NOW     Our 25th Anniversary

WOW ! I truly can't believe it has been 25 years! Where does the time go?! The older

we get the faster time goes! It is crazy! I am so thankful for this man God gave me!

25 years ago (with our parents permission although they thought we were crazy

               i am sure) I flew to Florida to spend a few days with Dan while he was at Tech school in the Air Force. ( I brought our rings with...just in case...we decided to get married) Well,

yep! you guessed it we went to the court house and got married. Then we went

to celebrate at Dairy Queen...we shared a banana split. Then he went to the barracks and I went to the hotel !  hahahah now that was quite the honeymoon ! So then I flew back home to Colorado, bought a Pontiac J 2000, packed up and drove back down to Florida. We lived in a one bedroom trailer, in which my foot fell through the floor! But we didn't care we were living on love! 3 months later we went home for 2 weeks and had a real wedding at the church where Dans Dad married us. Then off to Texas for the next 4 years.

We have been told several times...." You just have the perfect marriage and a perfect family"

Well, can I just say...marriage is commintment, marriage is having unconditional love,

marriage is putting the other first before ourselves. Marriage is so many more things!

Let me tell you we have failed in some areas! In fact without hanging out our "dirty laundry"

we have been to the place where we were done. Can't take it anymore...done. But God

gave us strength to just keep on through thick and thin! Our love for God and our love

for eachother ( that can sometimes get tainted by circumstances and stress ) and our

love for our three sons got us through some really tough times! Satan is out to kill, steal

 and destroy Christian marriages! and I can tell you he was out to destroy ours.

 But I am happy to say that we have won ! 25 years later and we are better than ever! And wise enough to keep guarding eachothers hearts and our own hearts!

Someday when the timing is right I would like to use "our story" to maybe help others!

So, although I like the compliment of my marriage and family being perfect......it is just not, we are a normal couple, trying to serve God, raise a family, work, pay the morgage, make time for family and friends and still find the time to nurture eachother! I am so thankful to be married to a man who loves God and loves me with all his heart! I am honored to be his wife!

This is not posting quite right either...I don't know why!