Thank you Lord

" Dear GOD, thank you for this wonderful day. Thank you for Daddy being home tomorrow. Thank you for my mommy, daddy & my sister Lauren. Thank you for Ella.. and Ella and please let Ella get a new house, new things and new toys. Thank you for this WORLD and let us keep it healthy & clean. Amen ".... Noah

Read to your children!!!!

Noah has decided on a new profession. His first "grown up" job was going to be a firefighter. He decided this after local firefighters visited his school. Noah just announced that he is going to be a ............ LIBRARY MAN!! ( librarian ). Noah who will be 5 , does not know how to read, yet. However for anyone who knows him, knows he loves books!! He has always studied papers, books, magazines. .....He wants to be a library man, so that he can get all of the books & movies that he wants to read & watch. He asked me today " where should he have his library?" I gave him a few choices of libraries that are already in existence , such as a school, college or even our local library. He doesn't need to build his own. He chose college & then let me know that he would need to take the step stool from the bathroom, because he needs to reach the books on the top shelves at his library!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great news!!!

Congratulations Michael & Valerie!! I was smiling this big when you told me the news!!! I am very happy for you & cant wait to meet my new niece or nephew!!

Noah

The kids have been playing in their playroom tons lately! It has been great for all of us. They have their own space to mess up, where they dont have to sleep at night! So today was an extra blessing that they wanted to play down there because I was so tired. I mean falling asleep while the kids were screaming & running around me tired. So where does the potato head come into all of this..... This past week I have been joining the kids in their playroom for some very exciting games of dress up, little people, playhouse, cars & a potato head building palooza. We actually spent 2 hours building potato heads with all of the assortment of pieces that we have. Noah has an amazing imagination & he came up with the best characters! It was so much fun.... back to today. I am sure that Noah picked up on that I didn't feel well, because before dinner he sweetly gave me this potato mommy, complete with "dipey bag". He quietly said " I made this for you. " It was all I could do not to grab him & squeeze him.tight. This is right up there with my mother's day, prayer request/contribution envelope card from Noah with his name on it. I am so blessed to have a sweet & thoughtful little boy. So thank you Noah for making my day & for playing so nice with your sister today. I love you so much.

vacation.. all I ever wanted!!!

Today Pete had to head back to work after being at home with is for a week. As you can see Noah didn't want to let him go!! neither did I!! It has been a great week. We were able to accomplish a lot here at the house. Accomplish meaning, getting all of the laundry put away, the basement picked up & all decorations put away ( we hadn't put anything away since before Halloween!!) It was a disaster!! The space left to get organized is the craft space. We will see if that works out in the near future. I really would love to get back into stamping & scrapbooking. Pete & I had a few great rounds with the Wii Fit game. Did I mention that we folded a lot of laundry. Noah only had a couple of requests with his dad, he wanted to have a night of pizza & chocolate milk & for his dad to really grill him a steak, not on the George foreman like mom but on the gas grill!! Noah & Pete had a great boys day out, getting haircuts & running errands. Pete became Laurens new best friend during the week. She always wanted her daddy. She was even trying to move onto his lap while we were having meals on most days:) We spent New years eve with our friends the Brooks', Dan, Mary. Bennett, & Joanna. Bennett is 2 1/2 & Joanna is 7 months. The kids had a great time playing! The grownups played scattergories.... I am pretty sure we didn't complete the game, but it was great a great time for us too! We traveled to Michigan for a get together with the Ries' of Rochester & Berkley ( thanks Jenny) & the Berg/ Christensen family. I'll blog more about that separately. Yesterday, we had a great day out ( thanks to gifts from Pete's employees) We went to see Despereaux & to the Olive Garden. The movie was adorable & the kids were well behaved. Noah was so filled with excitement & the anticipation of the movie starting was hilarious. he really had no idea what movie we were going to see, he only wanted to know if we had seen it before!! He literally jumped out of his seat when the movie started!! At the Olive Garden the kids devoured their meals, which really made Pete & I happy, because even though we weren't really paying for he meals, if it was wasted we could have had an extra night out for just the 2 of us & then I would have been really annoyed for losing that chance. We let the kids have milk shakes with their meals ( ooo la la!! ) Before they were served to us we watched our server dump them onto the table behind us & onto the floor everywhere!!! If only I could describe the poor girl's face that it landed on!! oops!!! Last night we had another round of Wii fit & headed to bed. I didn't want to let Pete go back this morning. We had a great week!!

and also in this one!!!

Haven't you always wondered what Vader was wearing under his black clothing? Apparently its a skirt, pink shirt, & striped tights!!

The Force is Strong in this One!!!

This handsome little Vader is Noah!! Santa brought Noah a Vader mask with voice changer!! Thanks Target clearance!! He is wearing his Batman costume with the mask & his blue light saber ( that was recently taken away from him for fighting with his sister )