Mother's Day

We had a wonderful, super-sweet, peaceful, cozy, lazy, fun, low-key family day at home today for Mother's Day. :) Donnie made breakfast, we had lunch out in the backyard on a blanket, DiGiorno pizza for dinner and lots of cozy family time in between and we watched the Mavericks destroy the Lakers in a history making game.

Here I am with our 3 kiddos! wow! I am so blessed and SO honored to be their Mommy! Throughout the day, as I do many days, I pondered on the great gift of Motherhood. Donnie said that I love being a mom "too much"... He said it when I was joyfully feeding Elia her dinner because it is fascinating to him that someone can thoroughly love every part of being a mommy so much! I do! Changing diapers, spit-up, all of it, is truly and honor!Handsome Daddy! :)

She had her shades on for at least 2 hours and not once tried to take them off... her hat too!

Donnie took Noah to wash his car and Liliana, Elia and I went for a neighborhood stroll. Elia was so chilled out for the entire walk. She loved it! The sun was shining bright and the temp was perfect! It ended up being the sweetest nature walk! Liliana was busy the entire time observing and commentating on her every observance and collected different items along the way. When we got home, she and I glued it all onto a paper and she wrote "Mother's Day 2011" on it. So sweet!

After dinner we played a few games of Thomas the Train Uno... Look at Elia under the table! :) She had been traveling everywhere... will post on that separately. :) Donnie and Noah brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers... no picture of them yet, will post soon. In summary, a WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL day!!! :) Blessed, blessed, blessed.......

Project 365 Week 3

Monday, January 10th

I usually gets to sleep in on Mondays and Daddy makes my breakfast fresh for me when I make my sleepy way down the stairs. We love french toast!

Liliana went on a date with daddy. They went bowling and had a blast!
She picked up this ball a couple of times... yay!

Here's for you, mom/Grandma! :o)

Tuesday, January 11th
Liliana went to Auntie Joy's to play with Emma and I took Noah and Elia to the mall to play. Noah was so cute playing so respectfully and quietly... at one point he reached deep into his pocket while looking up at a lady who wasn't paying any attention and he pulled out something to show her... as I watched with anticiaption of what on earth he was digging out of his pocket I was shocked to see....MY iPOD!!!! I jumped up and walked right over there and said "Noah, give me mommy's iPod, you can only have this at home" and he said "okay, mommy". hahah! :o)
Later that day we had snuggle time!

Wednesday, January 12th

We had a blizzard... here we have 25" inches of snow on the ground.

Thursday, Janurary 13th

Elia's new chair! We found it used for half the price! :o)

Sweet feet!

Friday, January 14th

Definitely an underwear on the head kind of a day! :o) Noah had a fever for about 2 days...since we had gone to the germy mall to play...and Mommy was getting cabin fever. :o) Mommy loves being home but loves to be out and about too! :o) Mommy is a big social bug and needs her regular social fix. :o)

Saturday, January 15th

Liliana has recently learned how to blow bubbles with her gum! So cute!

Noah just sticks his wad of gum out of his lips and thinks it is a bubble and gets all excited...hehe!

Lots of coloring!!! Noah is really into coloring and writing lately... he writes lots of "letters" and Liliana loves to try to write words.

Sunday, January 16th

Home another day as Liliana was up coughing the night before... so we stayed in for a "get-well" day full of cozy naps. :o)

LOVE these feet!

All 4 of us played with Liliana's PetShops! I love those little guys, I am a sucker for those and stuffed animals! Elia had a little cold too... she looks sleepy here... awe!

Full-Time MOMMY!

For the past two and a half years I have had the honor and pleasure of serving our church as the Nursery/Toddler Division Coach. This meant that I was responsible for recruiting volunteers to staff 8 classes per week. In a church our size, we have somewhere around 100 children under the age of four (fluctuating) and at least 75 volunteers... in real terms, this is the size of most churches in America. I loved getting to know the moms and dads of the children and the workers and seeing people become more fully devoted followers of our Jesus! :o)

All this to bring me to the news that I have felt the Lord's direction to have me step down from this role for the time being to concentrate on being the wife and mother He has called me to be! :o) I will continue to teach, preach, write, work on marketing my dvd, hospital visits, etc, etc...

All in All, I am blessed beyond measure and anticipate God to use me to bring His Love and Life to people in some way each and every day.

A Post about Mommy

Mommy LOVES coffee - especially Starbucks iced caramel Macchiato!!! Just WRONG GOOD!!! Donnie just brought me one and it was a tall, which is WAY too small. :o)

Mommy watches American Idol - ha! (Daddy does too.)

We also watch 24 together and Celebrity Apprentice.

I have a hard time sitting and watching tv for more than 30 minutes... I would much rather be doing something - like blogging....

I love to blog, write, draw, paint, be creative in any way shape or form. I love art! I have a big weakness for children's art! I love it!

I took my first art lesson EVER the other day. My teacher was blown away and keep asking me if I had ever had lessons. Thank you Jesus for this amazing talent - from You!!! :o)

I LOVE TO BE OUTSIDE!!!

I love the beach most of all and am not to crazy about the mountains.

I love to swim.

I love the ocean and think that the coolest experience would be to swim in the Georgia Aquarium with the Whale-Shark.

I talk to my mom on the phone almost every single day and often more than once a day.

I love public speaking!

I love music.

I love the zoo.

That is all for now. :o)