life.right.now.

''This is our life right now, and its ok, lets enjoy this moment to the fullest!!!'' those were the words from my husband one night when I was feeling like all I do is invest my time in these two precious little lives that joined our family..  when there are 5 little people that all want my attention at the same time or that moment when you get a phone call and there is a tear filled voice on the other line saying ''mom we forgot about cozy day at school.''.  and it seems like I cant do it, he just comes along side of me and without many words just somehow seems to solve the problems.. He is my rock, the one I depend on so much, not only his helping hand but his listening ear and encouragement!!!

the boys are doing great!! nights keep getting better, other then last Friday night, we were up most of the night after we think Joseph had a reaction to some homemade formula that I had made.. I did it by myself two nights in a row which is huge for me, they settle around 10 and are up around 1 and 5 which works out great cause I can have them settled again before I need to get the school children up.... its important to me that sam can get his rest before he faces a day at work..

Got to get out of the house today and have lunch with some friends.. the boys did great and slept the whole time I was there... And when it was time to pay the waitress said ''someone paid your check!!!!

 

Came home encouraged to embrace this season of life with our children, to the times we get frustrated and upset with them to take a deep breath and pray '' Lord help me, these are your precious little ones'',

 

Dress up day at school.. my handsome cowboy!!

 

Have a blessed week looks like more snow in the forcast!! :):)

 

  

snow much fun/ valentines

Snow, Snow, snow, wow what a winter!! the children are lovin it... its so much fun watching the children create memories on the same sledding hill that I spent hours on!! Dad would get these big black innertubes and we would pile 3 or 4 people on and go flying down the hill, so sam went out to a local garage to look if he could get some and came home with two big ones, it works great!! Olivia will go again and again and does not get tired of it, one day she was out for 4 hrs. straight!!

 

 

 

Love when the neighbor kids come!!

 

 

Aunt sate getting creative :)

 

No school, And two hr. delays have been a big part of our winter...

I was prepared for thurs. sam was home and I decided to do some fun projects.. snowmen pancakes..Sate came and they made their valentines.. made some rice krispy candy hearts and dipped them in choc. for the teachers...then we made choc pretzel bark, and soft pretzals for supper..but when Friday rolled around and school was cancelled yet again I felt a little overwhelmed.. but ended up having a super good day.. they played in the snow and made a store in the basement...

 

butterflies for the girls

 airplanes for the boys..

 

then we decided to have a valentine supper and have a movie night and watch the new kirk Cameron movie.. ended up we could not get it to download:(:( so we decided to watch the Olympics but for some reason we could not pull it?? lets just say it was not going as planned ended up sam and I watched a movie and the kiddos watched one of theirs ...

 

Dave and Julie from church brought our meal and it was amazing!! she had hearts cut out of strawberries in our salad, a cake that was to nice to eat..

 

 

 

a challenge for me today from Oswald chambers..

if I allow any turning away from God in my private life, everyone around me suffers..we "sit together in the heavenly places.."

 

Have a Blessed Weekend!!

 

they're Here!!

Our little ones Have arrived!!
                          Joseph Allen.. 7lbs 9oz.    20inches
                          Joshua Amos.. 6lbs.14oz  20 inches
             Amos after my Dad, and Allen after my Brother.. two very special people in our lives!!

Because the boys were breeched I was scheduled for Tuesday jan. 28th for a C-section...
So we headed in 10:00 in the morning I was scheduled for 12:00, got all the prep work done and then they walked me into the operating room and when I walked in I was not prepared.. 15 doc. and nurses standing there waiting, all the equipment... I went into somewhat of a shock.. just remember the doc. getting in my face and saying my name and saying you need to stay with us asking me questions..
after that everything went smooth they brought sam in and the next thing I know I heard my babies crying!!! went into the recovery room started feeling itchy and nausa:( lets just say the next couple of days of recovering were quite different then what I am used to...
the children came in with allen that evening no one told them where they are going or what is happening...

Had a very good hospital experience, we had the boys with us in our room the whole time except sending them to the nursery a couple of evenings, came home on Friday....
the boys deff. had their days and nights mixed up for the first week, Friday nights our first night home I was up from 11 to 5.. most of the time I was feeding them, going much better now last night they slept from 11 to 3!!! feels like a big accomplishment... they are on a 3 hr, schedule (hoping to switch it to 4 hrs. soon) but being pretty picky with keeping them on a schedule, if not It would always be feeding time..

I am so ejoying this time of relaxing watching it snow, cuddling with the kiddos, watching the Olympics, and just meditating on Gods word, very soon its going to be spring/summer and I'm sure its going to be a busy one..

pregnant with twins..

I still can hear it like is was yesterday, my talk with God, I know the exact spot, I was baking and it was like he was there with me,... it went like this...

God..'' your next baby is going to be twins..''
me...''chuckle, why would you give me twins if I cant handle the 3 I have''

that was it, so short but so real, I did not forget it but I tried to tell myself it wasn't real and yet it never left me so when I got pregnant I found myself wondering was that really God telling me something or was it my own thoughts.. by eight weeks pregnant I knew something was different and I told my husband we are pregnant with twins, he looked at me like I am crazy...:) so the checkups began, Dr. Brenten was once again my doc. second checkup I mention to her that I feel big that maybe there are two in there, she checked for two heart beats but said no she don't think so, so at 15 weeks pregnant I felt movement then at 18 weeks it stopped for 2 weeks I felt nothing.. we prayed I cryed thinking something was wrong with my baby, at 20 weeks I called my midwife and explained to her whats going on she said to come in and they will try to find the heart beat. meanwhile I started to google twin symptoms.. and one of them was not being able to feel the heartbeat as soon and racing heart which I had.. so when I went in for my checkup and they found a strong heart beat once again I said something about carrying twins and she said no she don't think so, I left there thinking I am pregnant with twins and I wanna confirm it so I called women and Babies and scheduled an ultra sound.. Friday mornings we dropped the kiddos of at school and sam and I headed in.. the guy that was to do our ultra sound asked why we are there and feeling a little sheepish said I guess to know our date, but did say I think there are two in there, he raised his eyebrows and chuckled really!! he started the ultra sound and sure enough he said your right I see two heads!!!!!!!!!!! I will never forget sams response:):) and I calmly said'' you mean twins'':):)  

and so the journey began...
we picked the kids up at school and told them, then went and shared it with sams mom, my mom and sisters, called my friends on sat. and shared it on facebook sat. night..
                                                    Raystown.. 10 weeks pregnant.. 

                                                      cherry crest farm.. 20 weeks pregnant

                                                                

                                                                   37 weeks pregnant

the first 3 month of my pregnancy was a little rocky, tired, nausea, and with it being summer time and the busy schedule it felt like I could not keep my energy level up.. also didn't help that it was the first summer at our new place so lots of outside work and just trying to keep up with a bigger house.. the next 4 month were great!! then the last two well lets just say they were the 2 longest month I ever experience.. with both babies being breeched it was hard to eat, sleep, or even sit for long periods at a time..our prayer was that the babies would flip so I could deliver natural, but God answered our prayer in a different way, the doc. told me that if they would have been head down there is no way I would have carried to 37 weeks because of how big they were, so being in a breeched position helped to keep them in there longer.. and so looking back I can say already ''it wasn't so bad'' we are excited for this time in our lives, overwhelming YES.. if I try to figure out how this is gonna work I could drive myself crazy.. so asking God for strength each day is the only way I am going to make it through because I cannot do it on my own strength. the quote I hear a lot is ''God does not give you more then you can handle.''. well I read recently that yes he does give you more then you can handle... but WITH HIM you can make it through, so yes crying out to him to cover my children in areas I fail, to give me the wisdom to raise up men and women after Gods own heart, to be able to teach them about the fathers love and how he much he loves them,
 right now my song that gets me through is your grace finds me.. by Matt Redman.. 
                       Be Blessed..