Thursday 13 (christmas lights)

I haven't done a Thrusday 13 this year, so I thought I might as well start back with it.
So today for my T13 post I give you 13 pictures of our outside christmas lights from this past Christmas.. Christmas 2009..

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Wordless Wednesday #2 of 2010

after breaking his arm.

Christmas 2009 #5 Christmas morning.

Keeping with our Christmas traditions.. After we leave the IL's house on Christmas eve we come home and get the kids in bed. This year that took longer because they had new Wii games they got and wanted to play with.. I let them go ahead and do that seeing how they were leaving the day after Christmas and I wanted them to get some enjoyment out of there new gifts before they left. So we got home and they kids stayed up till 2AM playing wii. Little Man didn't make it that long think he was asleep by midnight but the rest of them were up.. After they fell asleep, Then Santa had to get to work. It was a late night for poor Santa.
Thankfully everyone slept in.. even Little Man didn't wake up till 9am by 9:30am the rest of the gang was awake and ready to open gifts.
We opened gifts, then I cooked breakfast and we all ate, then we went to the major chore of taking gifts out of packages and setting them up so everyone could play.. We stayed in our PJ's and played with the kids new stuff till 1:30PM
At that point we had to rush to get dressed and loaded up and out the door to get to my side of the family Christmas celebration..
but this is where we will stop for today.. and I'll share with you all the pictures from Christmas morning at our house.

Christmas 2009 #4 christmas eve

Christmas Eve in our family is the day we celebrate Christmas with DH's family. It has been tradition since he was just a boy that they opened there gifts on Christmas eve, they ate Pizza , opened gifts and they played UNO. DH and his brothers grew up, got married, started families of there own and every year we still go over to my Il's house, eat pizza, open gifts and play UNO. It has become a part of my Christmas to me just as all the traditions I grew up with.. and the kids really enjoy it also.
So this year like all other we packed it up, went to my MIL's, ate the traditional Christmas eve pizza, opened gifts, and played UNO.
Here are the pictures from Christmas Eve 2009

Then Sings My Soul Sunday #2

I heard this song for the 1st time on Saturday and It has been stuck in my head ever since so I thought I would post it today.

Let The Waters Rise by Mikeschair

Don't know where to begin
Its like my world's caving in
And I try but I can't control my fear
Where do I go from here?

sometimes its so hard to pray
When You feel so far away
But I am willing to go
Where you want me to
God, I trust You

There's a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You

I will swim in the deep
'Cuz You'll be next to me
You're in the eye of the storm
And the calm of the sea
You'll never out of reach

God, You know where I've been
You were there with me then
You were faithful before
You'll be faithful again
I'm holding Your hand

There's a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You

God Your love is enough
You will pull me through
I'm holding onto You
God Your love is enough
I will follow You
I will follow You

Ohhh

There's a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You

Ohhh

From Gods Word Friday #1 for 2010

Hebrews 13:5&6

5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

FIL is out of the hospital.

They let my FIL come home today..
He really isn't doing any better, His heart is still all out of whack and they have him on about 5 different heart meds..
He can't have any surgery for the gallbladder until they are able to get his heart right and they can take him off the blood thinner. So he is going to have to be really really careful what he eats to try to keep from having any gallbladder attacks until they can get his heart under control and remove the gallbladder..
Thank you for your prayers and please continue to pray for Gods will in this matter.

Christmas 2009 #3

My parents planned to head to TX to visit with my sister and her family after Christmas and they asked my kids to go along. The 3 younger ones said they wanted to go, but Princess had plans already with an out of state friend coming to stay with us. So the plan was the 3 younger kids leave with my parent wee hours in the morning on Dec 26th..
Because of this my mom wanted to give my kids there big Christmas gift from grandma and grandpa early.. So on Dec 22, 2009 they came over and let the kids open there gift so they would have time to play it before leaving for TX. This was the start of our Christmas party of sort celebrations.

The next day Dec 23, 09 we continued our Christmas celebration with the big turkey dinner I had mentioned before and then out to see the new Alvin and the Chipmunk movie..
Guess I'll stop here for now.. and next time I post I'll tell about Christmas Eve 2009

Update on FIL

He is still in the hospital.. He is having gallbladder issue and heart issue.. His gallbladder is going to need removed but his heart rate is still high and they have had him on IV meds since Monday night for it but it just keep jumping all over the place.. So until they get it under control they are keeping him in the hospital.. Please continue to pray for him.. Thanks.

funny kids stuff

We are having a snow day today.. So everyone at my house is moving at a slow pace. This morning after breakfast I reminded Princess that after she brushes her teeth she should use the phosflur that the orthodontist gave her for her braces.. When she rinses with that she can't eat or drink for 30 minutes.. I figured that would work she just ate she wouldn't need anything for another 30 minutes.. ONLY she is moving at a slow pace.
Well here we are now and it's lunch time.. the kids picked spaghetti O's for lunch.. I cook them have them in bowls and I yell "who wants spaghetti-O's" Little Man starts yelling "me me me me" and starts to run towards the kitchen. everyone answers except Princess. I said "do you want any?" she answers " NO I just put that crap in my mouth like you told me to do" Little Man stops dead in his tracks, turns looks at her with his mouth open and said in a ewwww like tone "YOU PUT CRAP... IN YOUR MOUTH??"
LOL LOL LOL..

got to love kids..

Wordless Wednesday #1 of 2010

Christmas morning 2009

Christmas 2009 #2

Picking up where I left off yesterday. All the little things that made this Christmas so good..
Christmas Cards.. I got to mail out Christmas cards. Last year with DH's job and the way things were going there was no money for gets let alone mailing out Christmas cards.. This year I got to mail out some(my computer crashed in November and I lost all my addresses so Only mailed to the ones my mom had addresses for or those who mailed to me so I had there address..if I missed you sorry) that was fun filling them out.. and then the yearly photo shoot to get the kids picture to put in the cards went so well, normally every year it is a fight to get the kids to sit still and smile or even get dressed up.. This year ALL FOUR of them were happy to do it and it went so quickly and it was fun no one wanted to scream, yell or pull there hair out when it was over .. here is a slide show of this years Christmas shoot.

other little things that made this Christmas season fun, the kids each having people over to spend the night at different times, getting to take them to the movies to see Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cooking the big Turkey dinner on the 23rd. Listing to Christmas music non stop for a month.. watching the 25 days of Christmas and the lifetime Christmas movies. Going to the School Christmas program.. ..
here is the slide from that not sure if I posted it or not yet.

I do remember posting the pictures from our different Christmas parties, and candlelight service from church but that is always the best part getting your heart in turned with God in celebrating His birth..
God has been so good to us this year.. He has showed us how to trust in him fully and how He will bring us though..
Think I'll end here today and pick back up with our Christmas party celebrations in the next post.

Prayer request...

At 9pm this evening my FIL went to the ER thinking he was having some sort of gallbladder attack this was like the 3rd day he was getting sick with vomiting and bad pain in the middle of his back. I guess he had blood work done sometime today and around 9pm got a call saying due to some of t he results of that they wanted to run more test right away and asked him to come to the ER. They have done an ultrasound but the doctors have not come back yet to give them the results, but they did say something was going on with his heart also and due to that they were keeping him overnight.
Please Pray for him, my MIL and the doctors.. Also my DH could use some prayer he is really worried about his dad..
Thank you all.

Christmas 2009 #1

Thought I would start sharing our Christmas with you all today.. It was one of the best Christmas seasons.. God is Good. Everything was just wonderful.. From the church services though out the month, to the time spent with family and the kids opening there gifts. It was just the little things that all seemed to fall into place that were wonderful. Starting with getting the house clean.. Last year I got called into work so many times in the month of November and December that I didn't get any of the cleaning done.. or when I did I couldn't keep up with it to keep it looking clean that it didn't even matter.. I'm no neat freak in any shape or form that is for sure, but I do enjoy having the house nice and in order for the holidays just seems to make it look a bit more magical when there isn't things spread from one end of the place to the other.. This year I was able to not only keep things picked up but also was able to change the boys whole room around and my mom made them new drapes and matching pillowcases as part of there Christmas gifts.. We went from 5 toy boxes in there down to 2 and from two big plastic boxes of books down to one, just by sorting out the stuff they have out grown, bye bye baby toys and books sniff sniff. Also got there cloths sorted out.. I was able to get all 4 kids dressers sorted though and took out all the stuff they out grew.. I know doesn't seem christmas-ey but it helped get me ready for Christmas and that made me happy.


I also found time to bake cookies.. and bake more cookies and bake more cookies and bake more cookies.. LOL every time I made them the family would eat them so I had to make more. Even on the day I made 13 dozen with in 3 days they were gone :-) but it was fun.


I got to spend time with the kids doing Christmas-ey stuff such as going to visit Santa.. 1st with the younger 3. I didn't Think Princess would care to go so I took the younger 3 one day when she was gone. Only to have her ask me less then a week later to take her and her friends to see Santa. :-)

Mr Man, Sweet Pea and Little Man with Santa.

after the picture they spent time at the little playground at the mall that is where these below pics came from.

Princess and her friend with Santa.. They saw two one downtown and one at the mall here are the pics from there trip.
hmmmm. well now.. blogger isn't loading my pictures.. wonderful.. I'm loading them into a slide show now.. guess I'll share them with you that way.. silly blogger..

Guess since blogger is acting up..This is where I'll end this post..

I'll talk more about my wonderful Christmas in the next one..

Then Sings My Soul Sunday #1

Then Sings my Soul is a weekly meme, where you just share a song that has touched your heart during the week. If you would like to play along or if God has touched your heart with song this week.. Please post it at your blog and leave me a comment so I know to go view it.

I have done Then Sings My Soul 3 times last year but since it is a new year we are starting over with #1

This weeks Song is..... How Great Thou Art..

It has been stuck in my head all day long since I have been thinking of this post.. so here is it.

How Great Thou Art

by Carl G. Boberg and R.J. Hughes

Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,

Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;

That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.

Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,

And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

First post of 2010

The goal for 2010 was a post a day and I'm already behind on that.. Stayed up way to late on Dec 31,09 to even remember to just get on and post Happy New Years on Jan 1, 2010.
So let me start by saying Happy New Years to all my one reader out there.. Hopefully in 2010 I can get my blog back up to where it was before I found facebook :-)
Thursday when I posted I gave you what I had been up to the past 13 days.. Today I"m going to post the pictures from #2 and #4 of those 13 ... If you had missed that post you can go view it here
Sunday December 20,09 Candle light service and dessert fellowship at church.

Tuesday December 22, 09 the day I worked as the parent helper in Little Man's preschool for there Christmas party.

I'm sure I mentioned that my younger three are in TX.. They left here on December 26,09. Please keep them and my parents in your prayers as they left today to drive those 20 some hours back home.. I'm starting to miss my babies.. but Princess and her friends have kept me so busy that it really hasn't seemed like they been gone very long.
Thinking out loud here I don't know what sort of blogging meme's I'll end up doing in 2010.. but I think I'm going to stick to the two that I have been trying to do here at my blog.. On Sunday will be Then Sings my Soul.. I started that one because it seems some song always sticks with me and touches my heart on Sunday morning during Church so I just started typing them out when I got home.. feel free to join along it doesn't have to be something from that Sunday just a song that touched your heart that you want to share.. Though chances are this post of mine won't get up till Sunday afternoon.. just in case your wondering.. Then I think I'll keep doing my From Gods Word Friday.. I enjoys those ones.. I just use whatever verses God lays on my heart at the moment.. Most the time they come from one of the days Bible reading from the week, but at other times God just places a verse in my mind and heart and I just post it.. Your all invited to join along in that also, if God lays something on you heart post it and then come back and comment so I know to go read it.. I don't think I'll use Mr Linky on these unless we start having a lot of people join in .
Other wise I just hope to get you all caught up with my life and pictures and what is going on.. and then hopefully stay caught up.. AND!!!!! get back to stopping by and reading your blogs.. been missing my blogging friends :-)

Well that is it for today.. Happy 2010 to you all.