Back to the Monotony

Even though my life consists of things like macaroni and cheese, diapers and carseats, its rarely monotonous.

Last night, I was so tired. Jody was packing for Atlanta. My skin is SO dry, I grabbed a little bottle of lotion. As I was lathering it on, I commented 2 or 3 times how much I loved the smell of the lotion. I looked at the bottle to see what the scent was, and it was hair conditioner. LOL. But my skin isn't so dry today.

Jody left this morning at 6:45. No delays, even though it is snowing all day.

As I was getting myself and the kids ready to go to MOPS, Luke fell off my bed. See an earlier post to see a pic of the bed Jody and my dad made. Its pretty high up, so a long fall for Lukey. I felt awful.

MOPS was great. I really look forward to going. My table was in charge of bringing breakfast. I made a sourcream pound cake last night, after Hattie's party to bring. I got really mad, as I was getting the cake out of the bundt, it broke. So, it looked ugly, but it did get eaten. It was really good, if I do say so myself.

When we got home from MOPS, there was SO much snow in our parking lot, I couldn't get in my garage. Our van just can't make it in the snow. I got stuck and couldn't go forward or backwards. I was about to call AAA, when I rolled a little. I parked the van, leaving the kids watching a DVD (Luke was sleeping). I borrowed my neighbor Megan's snow shovel. She always leaves her garage up. I had to shovel a big area b/tw my garage and where I was parked. Thankfully, I was able to pull in.

At lunch, I had to preform the Heimlich maneuver on Hattie. She jammed her jaws full of raisins. She was coughing then she quit and just got bugged eyed. Whew. I freaked out, grabbed her, squeezed her, beat her on the back, squeezed some more, and then she started breathing again.

Silas has been SO well behaved lately. I'm so thankful. Since tomorrow is March first, Silas is REALLY looking forward to his birthday.


I may need an early start tomorrow in order to get OUT of the garage and get Silas to school in time. He has a dinosaur party tomorrow. YOu know a kid can't miss that.

Party's Over

Hattie's birthday was great. I think she had a great day. Silas has already figured out how to milk it. I told him to turn off the TV and he said, but it's Hattie's Birthday. Oh brother.

We had a nice party with 7 kids and some parents and other adults. It was great. The girls were princesses and the boys were Shrek. Balloons are always a huge hit with little kids. Pink cake and ice cream. Wish you all could have been here.

Jody's planning on going to Atlanta early in the morning, but a blizzard is expected to begin tonight and continue for a couple of days. We'll see...

Reuntied

We are HOME. Yay. I am so glad.

We woke up at 4:30am, our flights were uneventful. Luke slept thru both flights. It was great.

Lisa Hamilton brought Silas and Hattie to pick us up. Hattie was asleep in her carseat. Silas was so happy, he couldn't stop smiling. He said to me more than once, Mommy, I'm so happy you are home, I could just eat you up. Hattie is finally paying attention to Jody. She said, I love my daddy. That'll melt your heart.

Silas and Hattie both were so happy to see Luke again and vice versa.

How great to be home.

So, I've got a little 2 yr old party to get ready for. Presents to wrap too.

Oh, btw, check out my new friend, Becky's website. She makes cool stuff and sells it. Buy some.

Great Sunday

Thanks SO much, those of you who have been praying for Luke. Today, he was like a different baby. NO fever, lots of smiles. Praise the Lord.

We were commissioned at Hoffmantown Church. Jody made a little blunder when he said "thank you for giving to Lottie Moon...I mean Annie Armstrong". Whoops.

I was confirming our flight for tomorrow and got a big scare. The flight number I was given was apparently wrong. I was told it was canceled. You know I was freaking out, like, I HAVE to get home to my babies. But, no biggie. It was the wrong number. We are set to arrive back in Bismarck by lunch time, before naptime for Silas and Hattie. I can't wait.

Hattie's 2nd birthday is on Tuesday. She keeps saying, Dat my buday. We are planning a little party Tuesday night. All just in time for Jody to head BACK out to Atlanta for another thing of meetings. But, at least he'll get to go to Hawkinsville to hang out with his family. I hate that we couldn't swing it to be there too. Oh well.

I added a new feature to my blog. I'm not sure if I did it right. But if you'd like to subscribe to my blog, getting updates to check it by email, click on the new link on the right. Subscribe reader. Let me know if it works or not.

We are getting ready to eat dinner with our new friends at FUDRUCKERS. Mmmmmmmmm. I want a milkshake...

More from Albuquerque

Poor Lukey, he has had a rough day. He is still running a fever and its just pitiful. But I got some ibuprofen and hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Besides that, we had a great day today.

I've met so many great people. Ladies in particular. Marquita (check out her hubby's blog, Darren, from Maryland. Man, that girl can LAUGH. Christy from Utah, Zulma from DC...

Tonight we went out to eat with some of them and had a great time. Its fun to fellowship with others who are in such a similar stage of life as we are. Many have young kids and are church planting in difficult areas of our country.

Gotta run, Luke needs mama.

Fever

Poor little Luke. He woke up in the night with a fever. It seemed very high, but I don't have a thermometer with me, so I'm not sure. It must be the same thing Hattie had when we left for Albuquerque on Wednesday. She had a fever of 104. But she's doing better now.

Pray for Luke, we've got a long day ahead of us and he just isn't feeling good.

Me and my babies

Our new (unfinished house)

The Best Baby Ever

FINALLY...we've got internet. I thought I was going thru withdrawals. I missed doing my blog.

Albuquerque is great. The weather's nice. The people here at the conference are fun. We've met people serving with NAMB all over the country.

I'm telling you, Luke has got to be the best baby ever. I've heard most 3rd babies are amazingly good. He just goes with the flow. He loves people passing him around. He smiles at everyone. He fell asleep in the arms of this senior citizen from the local group of New Mexico baptists that came to a fellowship tonight. I am so thankful.

Silas and Hattie are doing great at the Hamiltons.

SO, I think I'm going to post pics of our new house now.

Albuquerque Turkies

My parents gave Silas a book called Albuquerque Turkey. So, Silas know the word Albuquerque very well.

Jody, Luke and I are headed for Albuquerque tomorrow. We have some meeting with the North American Mission Board. We'll be back on Monday.

Pray for me, especially. I know some of you make think I'm silly. But I haven't left my kids much. When Luke was born they spent the night with my parents. And then after Luke was born, Jody took Silas and Hattie to Georgia to visit his family. But other than that, I haven't been away from them. THis is going to be very hard for me. I'm going to miss them.

Pray for the Hamilton's. This is the wonderful, BRAVE family that will be keeping Silas and Hattie. They are really in for a week. But I know they are MORE than capable. Having been houseparents at a children's home and having 5 kids of their own, I know they can handle my oldest two. But I know what Silas and Hattie entail in a day...or 5.

Pray for Silas and Hattie that they will be obedient. Pray also that they will sleep well and be at peace.

We are bringing the computer, so, as long as we have internet,I'll still post. Please, I'll only have one kid, and one low maintainence (I'm not sure if that's spelled right) one at that. I'll be worrying about Silas and Hattie. But I'm bringing a couple of books too.

So, I have an exciting post coming up. We bought a house. Yay. We are so excited. Pictures to come...

Snow Angels World Record

Here we are, getting ready for snow angels. We got there in plenty of time. There was excitement in the air. Hattie wasn't really into it, she just kind of sat there. Granted, it was her usual naptime. Luke was his usual wonderful self. It was so fun.

We were there. About 2/3 of the way bay, some where closer to the left, was the entire Jennings clan. This is the entire group on the Capital Lawn. The total number of people was 8,911. About 5,000 over the last record of Simultaneous Snow Angels made. We were so glad to be a part of it.








Go to Ryan's blog to see a short clip of the snow wave.

A Day at Home

We've been going all week long. Doctor appts, Hockey, School, YMCA...

Today I decided to just stay home. It was fun.

We had a button scavenger hunt, played Candy Land, Sequence for Kids (thanks Aunt Joy), Made telescopes with empty paper towel and toilet paper rolls, played pirates and more. When I asked Silas what was the best part of the day, he said....

watching TV.


Ha. Whatever.