Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for the fact that I finally decided to start blogging. I realise that this may seem corny to you but to me it has been very therapeutic and informative. I have been absorbing so much information this past 6 weeks.
I have learned new recipes, fun and interesting ideas on crafts for home, and to do with my children.
I have stumbled across different blogs on adopting and got lots of info on different countries and different guidelines. I found out about something that I never knew before and that was the waiting child program in different countries.
I have been able to "connect" with individuals that have very similar passions and beliefs as mine.
I have been able to read about reading the bible in 90 days. I printed off a challenge and I am taking it and loving it.
I have been able to explore many different avenues.
Reach out to other moms about homeschooling.
I am so thankful that the Lord has guided me this way.


I decided to link up with Brandy at Marathon Mom today for Thankful Thursday. (just another reason why I love blogging)
http://themarathonmom.com/thankful-thursday-modern-conveniences.htm

My handsome hubby turns 41.

Man I love this guy! This picture was taken of him this past June for our son's grad.

This amazing man works away from home 8 days gone 6 days home. He sacrifices so much to provide for our family. He misses birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, reunions, special events, dance recitals, basketball tournaments. He misses out on all that just so we can have a steady income, a roof over our heads, food on our table, allows me to be a SAHM, and helps us have the ability to adopt.

I am a lucky woman and thrilled to be standing next to him supporting him in everything he does.

Happy Birthday my angel!!! I love you so much. Thank you for allowing me to celebrate these past 21 birthdays with you.

Memories

So I am trying something new today and attempting to add photos of the last week, with Bran's birthday and the driving range on Sunday afternoon.

This is the birthday boy. We all went out for supper to celebrate the fact that our middle son is now 18. I did not bring my good camera for any of these pics so iPhone pics it is. Here he is humouring me.

He loves being sung Happy Birthday to, especially in the place where he works. Hahaha, oh well, it just means we love him.

This is my sweet shot of the day. I love, love, love this pic of my kids. They are all growing up so fast and I am thrilled that they wanted to get together to help B celebrate his day. Hard to believe that they are almost 20, 18 and 13 now. Makes me yearn even more for more children to fill our lives. 

This is a crazy pic of our crazy kid whom we love so much. Brandon you are becoming an amazing man, I can't hardly wait to see all God has in store for you.

Ok so far so good, now here is the pics from our afternoon Sunday. after S and I went to church my handsome hubby and M met up with us and we went to the driving range and then off to the Ukrainian village. At the village it was just to hot to think about taking pics so only have some memories captured at the driving range.

Three of the four loves of my life. My handsome hubby, my oldest and Sarah.

I just love the look of concentration on my girlies face. She wanted me to take pics of her.


Yay!!! I was successful. Now that I maybe know what I am doing I can post more. Slowly I will be adding more to this blog to make it more my own.

Feed back is always appreciated so feel free to leave a comment.

Family

What a beautiful day spent with 4 of the 5 of us. Woke up and did some of my B in 90 days, then get ready and S and I rushed off to church. Afterwards my handsome hubby and Matt met us in town for some driving range action at the golf course. I have pictures that hopefully I can figure out and download some this week and then we decided to go and visit the Ukrainian Cultural Village.

Then off to Vegreville to Wal mart to try and find a movie to buy, supper and then home to watch the movie. Great day with loved ones. Many memories made.

I missed Bran, but I guess that is what happens as my family grows up and moves out. Kinda sucks some days.

All in all very nice. I am truly blessed.

Thankful Thursday

I am so thankful for so much today.
Today is my middle son's 18th birthday.
          I am thankful for what a beautiful young man he is becoming.
          I am thankful that even if he is not always walking the path that I would like he is walking the path that makes him happy and that I pray leads him to where he needs to be.
          I am thankful he is working.
          I am thankful he has a wonderful young lady for his girlfriend whom I actually really like.
          I am thankful that even though he was born 3 weeks early with an interesting start to life, (an emergancy c-section) he is healthy and has had very few health issues in life.
          I am also thankful that all 5 of us were able to get together to help B celebrate this wonderful day. A supper out and time with just us. That in itself is a huge huge treasure for me. So rare now and so joyful.
         
See so much to be thankful for.

I decided to link up this week with Brandy at Marathon Mom
Join us each week for Thankful Thursday at TheMarathonMom.com.Join us each week for Thankful Thursday at TheMarathonMom.com.

Ahhh friendship!!

I totally lived up to my bloggers name today. Woke up and did my bible reading today. I am zipping right along with my B in 90. Loving that!! Then off to my friends and away we went to town for some serious shopping for her. Very, very minor shopping for me. :) The laughter part well I tell you at one point we were laughing so hard when she stopped for us to go into a store we had to wait in the car to collect ourselves so we did not look like total crazy ladies walking in. Several times today I had tear pouring down my face. So much for my carefully placed make up today. What a great time. I love this lady, she makes me laugh so much and I also love that we are very very often on the same wave length. My only sadness is that she does not share my faith. However she is not oppressed to me sharing about mine with her so that is great.

Then spent a tiny bit of time with my sonny boy before he headed off to bed and a wee bit of time with my girly before it was bedtime for her as well.

Then a bit of bloggy reads and dishes done and now I sit to write this and off to beddy bye I will go.

I am so blessed to have not only an amazing family but also some really great friends. Friends that I can trust and do not judge me.

Happy Sunday!

Wow was it hot today. I mean like sticky gross heat. Thank the good Lord for the storm we are going to get tonight and cool things down.
Had a fantastic sermon at church today regarding the issue of 6 day creation vs theological evolution. To be honest I am in the middle. I truly believed that God created earth and everything in it. One just has to look around you to see that. Such as a baby in a womb. A beautiful sunset, fall leaves, so on and so on. However I also believe that we have many scientific fact stating how we have evolved. By evolved in my view I mean that although we have been created by God in his image we also have adapted and changed somewhat in our environment.
Oh and on a side note we have a beautiful baby dedication at church this morning. Now normally I just love these things but today, well today was unexpectedly special this morning. This morning was a baby dedication for a pretty newborn adorable baby boy that had both his birth parents there and his adoptive parents there. Yep you heard me right both sets of family were there. I was teary eyed. Not only thinking of the joy that these parents have to be celebrating the birth of their son that they have so long prayed for but also how devastating it would be for the birth parents to watch someone else raise their son. How courageous is that. Wow it really made me speechless. It made me think to when we will be hopefully be getting our new children and how wonderful it will be to dedicate them and share the joy with others and yet how hard it will be on their birth parents. I pray that even now if there is a birth mom out there that God is pointing in our direction that He will help her with her decision and stand with her and the birth dad. I pray they find the strength to let go of their baby/children so that we may be entrusted with their care.

So I did say it was hot today right. LOL soooooo hot. well in the 30s (90sF) too hot for this chicky when I am not relaxing beach side. However like a also said there is a storm tonight. And what a beautiful light show there was to see. Unfortunately when Matt and I tried to go take  pics I was unsuccessful. Oh well maybe next time. Maybe after my new camera? Hint hint hubby. hahahah. I love you my angel.

Well off to bed for this lady. Off to town with a friend tomorrow. Looking forward to some friend time with her. We are both so busy lately that our schedules have not really met up so this will be some nice quality time.

PS did some messing around and changed things on here. What do you think of the new changes?