Family Reunion!

I love my boys so much! I am truly blessed and thankful that the Lord choose me to be Zach's wife and the mother of THREE boys! With that said, this was a picture of my boys getting ready for the hay ride at my family reunion this past weekend. This was a reunion for my maternal grandmother's side of the family. She is one of 10 children and 8 are still living. The oldest died of polio at age 3 and one of her brothers died a few years back, but all are in pretty good health. So needless to say with all of their children and grandchildren it was a large group!
A few of us getting ready for a hayride!
A cute one of Isaac and Micah!
My big boy! I cant beleive he is almost 6yrs!
Sweet Isaac!
Just a cute one of Isaac "eating" a blueberry muffin! Messy boy!

Family Bowling night!

We went bowling a few weeks ago and had a great time! We have been so busy we finally had a free Friday night, so off we went! This was our attempt at a family picture, you can barley see Isaac's head behind the monitor and Micah has his finger in his nose. Oh well we tried:)
Boys loved it!
We went to the alley on the arsenal and there was a group of soldiers bowling next to us and they were so great at helping the kids get their balls out so they would not get their fingers pinched. Of course mommy and daddy helped most of the time:)
Here is Isaac just chillin in his $1.00 umbrella stroller thanks to Emily Eckley! Thanks Emily, you rock!

Isaac walking!

Here is "buzz" and "woody" saying cheese! They wanted their picture taken:)
Here is a sweet picture of daddy and Isaac! Aren't they cute!

Here is is picture of Isaac walking around. Him walking is really not new news, I have just taken a while to get a post up. He took his first steps at 9 1/2 mo and then just took off at 10mo. He is into everything now, but he is so stinkin cute, so it is all good:)

Isaac is 9 Months!

I can't believe you are 9 months old! Where is the time going?!?

Isaac you continue to be the sweetest little boy! You love to play and explore and you are just plain busy. You crawl everywhere and you are cruising now too.
You love music and you always "dance" and clap along. You say "MaMa", "DaDa", "BaBa"(bye bye) and I am pretty sure you are trying to say "more" when you are eating by going "Ma" really loudly and very insistently. You have been saying that with the sign for more the past few days, so I think that is what you are trying to say?
You are letting go of things when you are standing, so I am confident that it will not be long before you start walking. Mommy is not sure if she is ready for three boys running around.:)
You are such a joy and are getting to a really fun age! You are wonderful blessing to your mommy and daddy, we love you Isaac Buggie!

Frustrated Perfectionist!

Well, just as the title says, I am a frustrated perfectionist! I was talking about this with my good friends Emily Eckley and Jessica Mobley, about how I use to have a cleaning schedule and my house was always clean down to the base boards.

SIGH, three BOYS later and those days are gone. How easy it was to get things done with just one child! I am writing this as a plea to other mothers who have multiple children, how do you keep your house up? I am looking for suggestions! My children have chores and do them pretty well, but still I feel behind. I know I have a very high standard and that may be part of the problem?!:) Help fellow moms!

New Washing Machine/Dryer

They are SO much bigger and I am in love! Laundry should be a lot faster!
The boys playing in the old one, which is currently in the playroom.. Anyone want to buy a washer/dryer?!;)

Training them up!

Training them up in the way they should go? What does that really mean? These are both questions I had early in my mothering years. In those days I was just like so many mothers looking for someone to tell me how to do it. I knew I wanted two things or sure, godly children, and "well" behaved children. I thought arrogantly, "that's easy enough." I was so wrong and had so much to learn. I began this road by trying to do things like someone else or like a book would tell me, this did nothing but frustrate me. God blessed me with a very strong willed and active first born, he did not fit any mold. I also realized that I had somewhat left my sweet husband out of the equation. Don't get me wrong he would pray with him and things like that, but I was making most of the child rearing decisions and he went along with them.
After seeking God's word we sorta took a step back and revamped our approach. Zach began to lead and making most of the child rearing decisions and I began to learn how to follow. Those of you who know me realize that is not easy for me to do.:) Dont get me wrong I still ran the day to day stuff, but he decided the direction. This was so freeing to me! It put the "pressure" where it was supposed to be and really helped me not worry so much.
Now I am so far from perfect and I mess up daily, but my prayer for my children is that they come to know and love Jesus in spite of me. That is our principle/objective. I find sometimes they we can get hung up on the methods and loose sight of the principle. We as moms tend to do this more than anyone. As long as someones principle is ultimately Jesus then we should not get caught up on their methods. Sorry I will get off my soap box for the day.
I post this video not to say look at us, even though I am so proud of my sweet Micah, but I just want to encourage you mommy's to continue to love and train up your sweet children!