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.......

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.

What an Imagination!

We had such a special Christmas Eve. I will write more about it soon, but for now I had to write about this because it is way too funny and cute!

As we were tucking Liliana in for bed on the night of Christmas Eve, I said to Donnie:

"Next year will be even more fun because the kids will be more into it because Liliana will be almost 4 and Noah will be 2"

And Liliana then said: "No, I am going to be 65"

Donnie and I looked at each other and silently cracked up and said:

"What honey" and she went on and on and said it like 4 times: "Yeah, I am 65". Donnie and I just cracked up in utter amazement that she even knew that number, let alone to say that she is 65! Hiliarious! Donnie said "she's a Keenager!" hahahaha! :o)

Liliana has also been talking a lot about her mother lately. I am not sure she even knows what that word means because I am mommy or mom. Well, on Christmas day morning, we were eating breakfast together at the table (as usual) and she was talking about her "mother" and I said "where is she?" and she said "at her house"... "she is outside playing in the mud". Okay, SO, Liliana's "Mother"??? was outside playing in the mud on Christmas morning! :o) I love it! What an imagination! :o)

I love my snuggle-bugs SOOOOO MUCH!!! What a joy!!!!!! Non-stop love and entertainment and amazement! :o)