Family walk in the Woods...

Our family took a short walk on the trails in our neighborhood today.

I LOVE the outdoors and just the beauty in nature. It is just a reminder to me of what an awesome CREATOR we serve and how He has blessed us.

The photo below is my favorite, just a single rain drop.

Take the time to look at His beautiful creations and Praise Him for it!

Favorite Foto Friday - NEW

This week's theme is NEW!

So, here is a photo of the kids doing a NEW trick they learned this week - Thanks Daddy!

Check out more favorite fotos at http://kissthefrog4me.blogspot.com/.

Have a great weekend!

When it is too cold to play outside...

It has been way to cold outside to play and NO snow to go sledding, so Jason decided to create our own sledding game indoors. These type of activities go on all the time at our house!!

Jason going first.

Mary Elizabeth

Harrison

Harper


At least they used the CARPETED stairs going to the basement and not the wood main staircase!!

I got the Friendship Award...

I Got the Friendship Award!!!

My Blogger Freind Leslie @ http://guatemama-leslie.blogspot.com/ awarded me with this, thanks!!
Here is the meaning of the award:It is the Friendship Award which means:
"These blogs are exceedingly charming.
These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.
They are not interested in self-aggrandizement.
Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated.
Please give more attention to these writers.
Deliver this award to five bloggers who must choose five more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

1.Vanessa http://mommyslilblessings.blogspot.com/
2.Rachel http://yatesblogspot.blogspot.com/
3. Kate http://katezramblings.blogspot.com/
4. Ashley http://www.ashleyandchuck.blogspot.com/
5. Jamie http://geauxpink.blogspot.com/

Favorite Foto Friday - EYES!

This weeks theme for Favorite Foto Friday is EYES!

Many of you know that I have a weakness for BIG BROWN EYES, so this was hard for me to narrow down to my favorites.

Below is Harrison when he was just a few days old in Guatemala. From day 1 I was in love with those beautiful eyes.

We never got to see Mary Elizabeth's eyes until we went to Guatemala to see her because every picture we got of her she was a sleep! But I knew she had beautiful eyes in there!

Harper's eyes look so sad in the picture below, she was in Brazil still! She was just waiting for her Mommy and Daddy to come get her and love her forever!

Harrison now knows he can look at me like the picture below and he can get anything he wants!!!

(notice Diego the lizard on his shoulder!!)

Mary Elizabeth likes to flash her big brown eyes at her Daddy to get what she wants!

This picture of Harper is one of my favorites because you can just see happiness and love in her eyes now. She knows she can use her cuteness to get her way too!

Check out more Favorite Foto Friday pictures at http://kissthefrog4me.blogspot.com/

Have a great weekend!!

Down Memory Lane...

I decided to make Chicken and Dumplings last night for supper. One thing that I learned from my Mom about dumplings is that they have to be HOME MADE! So I put on my apron (and yes it has my name on it, you know everything in this house is monogrammed or personalized!!), cleared off the kitchen island, sprinkled with flour, and rolled out my dough! Notice in the picture below that there is a plate of chocolate chip cookies (NOT home made) on the stove. Are you impressed yet, LOL!!!

The kids pulled up chairs to watch and when I had my back turned would grab some of the dough to eat. This brought back such wonderful memories because I use to do the exact same thing when my Mom made dumplings.

They tasted great and everyone enjoyed them! Thanks Mom for teaching me how to make so many wonderful meals!!! I hope that my kids can learn a few things from me too.

My little country boy with a new hair cut...

My handsome little country boy showing off his new Wrangler jeans and his favorite John Deere hat. He has been wearing a hat since Saturday because he does not like his new hair cut!

Jason took Harrison for a much needed hair cut on Saturday. But my idea of shorter and his idea of shorter is 2 different things!!! See the picture below.

Harrison asked me yesterday, as I was getting him ready for church, if I could put his hair back on!! Poor little boy! But I think he looks handsome no matter what!!