Our House is Full...Full of Love

 

John's sister and her beautiful family are here for the week and it has been so much fun! Caleb and Jack are having the best time. I have never heard Caleb talk so much..."Hi Naiah hi" five minutes later "Hi Naiah Hi"! Jack is all over the place playing with everyone especially aunt Becky(which gives mommy a break). Anna and Sarah are enjoying playing Nintendo with uncle John! Jonah loves playing alone in a room full of new toys (Caleb and Jack's) Everyone is having a great time together and we are looking forward to a couple more fun filled days!

Please Please Please Pray!

We have very dear friends of ours that could use your prayers. They are going through a very difficult time right now and could truly use God's comfort, peace, wisdom and a Miracle! Many tears have been shed and everyone is truly heart broken at this time but we rest in God's unfailing Love and Goodness. Please lift them up in prayer! Words cannot express how much we truly love them and Hope for the best!

Highlights of November

Highlights of the month!

So i am taking my friend Kristen's Idea and just giving some Highlights of the month. I have had no real desire to be on the internet lately. It feels like too much work to sit down and gather thoughts or reflect on the day so I will try to sum up the month of November as best I can.
**John and I have been extra spontanious this month. We have taken advantage of having Grammy and Papa in the house. Two nights in a row, we put the boys to bed and went to the $2 theatre. Frankly, I wanted my money back (bad movies)but the time spent together was worth far more then the price of admission and the popcorn!
** Caleb has started to pray at breakfast,lunch & dinner and it has been AMAZING. Honestly, the first time he did it I cried. "Dear God, tanks for mommy, daddy, jack, food, bumble, girgle, shshshjeejud Jesus name Amen" PRICELESS
** I was able to get away for a weekend on our churches womens retreat. First time away from the boys! IT WAS AWESOME! I have to say I needed it. I took advantage of time spent alone with the Lord, and late night talks with the girls. It was a well needed rest.
** So with John not working right now we have had lots of days with daddy. One particular day was amazing: we got to for a run in the morning, then off to the park, then we took a trip to the Humane Society (they love all the animals), came home, baked cookies, popped popcorn and watched Kung Fu Panda as a family, then it was off for a nap (we all got one) it was a really good day together.
** Jack has started doing more signs and talking...he imitates the sound of a car whenever he is playing with one, he has said "Ball, Papa, car, bird and GO!" Of course they don't sound just like it but I know what he is trying to say.
** John's been laying floors out our friends Kristen's place and the boys have loved being able to spend time in the dirt! I would say that has been their highlight of the month.
** One night we picked up the boys from their friend Micah's house (which is been a highlight for them) and drove home. Caleb has started saying "Green means GO" whenever the light turns green, well Jackson has picked up on it and started copying it. I have a video of some funny moments in the car. The picture is bad but if you listen you can hear them say "Are you kidding me?, Oh Man! Green means Go! and randomly Jack "Go" We find it hilarious!

Boys Gettin Their Groove Back

We had our friends Justin and Sarah come for the weekend. Justin is one of John's best friends from Joshua who is an amazing drummer. He came down to play drums for John's worship concert. We had such an awesome time with them! It was a much needed weekend full of talking till 2am, Wii, laughing till I cried, golfing, shopping, playing with the boys, apples to apples, and Dance Dance Revolution! Sorry boys..you asked for it! Enjoy...

Weekend with the Richters

Halloween

 

 

 

So Halloween was fun! I had two crazy cleaning jobs in the morning which brought me home around 1:45pm, then came home to clean our house cause our amazing friends were coming to town for the weekend, by the time I was done it was time to get our costumes on and head upstairs to the HARVEST FESTIVAL IN OUR FRONT YARD (we live on the church property of Ojai Valley Baptist Church). Caleb loved playing all the games, seeing all his friends in silly costumes, and going in the Jumpy Jump! We got home from that, put the boys to bed and waited for the Richters to come. They showed up around 10pm and we stayed up till 2am talking! YIKES! It was such a crazy and weird day but it was totally worth it!

Who's Who!

 

So we got Jack to wear the same outfit Caleb did at his first pumpkin patch and we tried to capture similar photo ops! Can you tell who's who? Click on the collage and you can get a better look!

Fun in my Diapers!

So life has been so crazy lately. Our schedules are so out of whack and we just can't seem to keep any routine right now! But we cherish the little moments we do have at home to just relax and play! The boys have such a good time together and I just love sitting back and watching them interact. God has really blessed us :)

Garage Sale Find!

 

 

 

So saturday morning we found this pop up tent of Thomas the Tank for $4 at a garage sale and I was so excited! Caleb's friend Joe has this same exact tent at his house and that is all he wants to play with when he is there.So I was looking for it on criagslist or at least something like it(we aren't big fans of Thomas) I was really hoping to store it away till Christmas but John couldn't wait. I thought it would be really fun if we put a TV down there and watch a movie! Caleb and Jack agreed! We have had so much fun with this thing, it's been outside, in every room of the house and they love it when mom gets in there. We have dance parties!! I LOVE GARAGE SALES!

He did it!

 

 

 

 

So Caleb finally asked to get into his monkey costume! He was so scared of it a week ago but we kept working on him and making baby steps towards getting him in there. So proud of my little monkey!

Kinetic Sculpture Race

 

 

 

 

So we got to go to the 2008 Kinetic Sculpture Race at the Harbor. It started with a 5k that I was able to run and then it continued with this awesome Kinetic race! They build their own sculpture vehicle thingy!! It has to float around the harbor then they do a race in the sand on the beach and it ends in a mud pit race. We didn't stay for the whole thing but it was really cool to watch the beginning!

My FIRST 5K!

So when Caleb was a few months old and I had all this time sitting around nursing all day, I had kind of had a revelation of my life...don't worry I won't go into details, but one thing I realized was that I never truly set goals for myself and accomplished them. I'd set goals and quit or never set goals cause I never thought I was good enough at anything to finish (single tear). But I began to realize that I can do anything as long as I give it to the Lord and honor Him through it! So I decided to set a small goal of running a 5k. Well as I began to train and get ready to sign up for a run I found out I was pregnant with Jack. Then after I had Jack I decided to wait till he slept through the night so that I had enough energy through out the day to train. Well it took him 7 months to sleep through the night and so I began running in June. Needless to say Sue Dudley and I ran the "Turning Point Kinectic Run" at the Ventura Harbor This morning, Even though I had only slept 4 hours and am still fighting a horrible cold. God is Good! I was able to finish and beat my own time. I had an absolute blast and am so grateful that Sue, John, my boys, and Scott were able to be there with me! I cannot wait to watch God help me accomplish my next goal...LOOK OUT 10K!

Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Baby Steps

 

 

 

 

We have a monkey costum for caleb,that a friend let us borrow, but he got a little freaked out by it when he first saw it. We are slowly easing him into it.

 

 

 

 

So today was Ojai Day and it was a lot of fun. We got to see animals, old friends and hippies!! It was really fun! We even got to go on a hay ride where a man with a guitar sang the praises of this wonderful town. We can't even wait till next year!

New Ride!

 

 

Today Jackson enjoyed his first ride in his new car seat! He loves it! He is officially a big boy now :(

One Year and 28 minutes ago!