Life update.

So you might be wondering what is going on in our household this month being as my last 2 entries were things that occurred last month. Well the first thing we really had going on was sick. I was sick with strep and then the boys came down with a nasty, nasty cough so that lead to little sleep and very long days and of course a doctor's visit. Jabez just really had a bad cold and cough while Dakota had a double ear infection, his second in like 2 weeks time, and also a junky chest. But this week it seems we have finally been healthy and for that I praise God. I am hoping to keep them healthy and myself also healthy.
Something else I have been doing is working out to Jillian Micheal's 30 Day Shred. I started before Christmas and then got really sick and took a little over a week off. Picked it back up and now I am taking today and the next two days trying to get my ankle back to normal. One of the days I was doing it a few weeks ago I side stepped and have been having issues since then. So I was told its time to take a bit of a break to give it some time to heal. My thoughts on this are that I hate it. I really want to work out now but I am choosing to be wise because I don't want to do permanent damage to it.
I have been working really hard since about September to get some of this weight off that I have gained over the years having kids. My recent baby was pretty easy to lose. I have lost all the weight I gained with him plus some more then that. Now I am working on getting rid of the rest from my first son.
My goal is to be back where I want to be by my birthday and for that to happen I am starting to realize I need to make some huge eating habit changes in the next couple of months to get me there. So that is what I am going to do. Not exactly sure what all that will be yet. I need to kind of take some actual time to decide what I need to cut out and what I need to add to make me healthier and be able to lose this weight by my goal date.
Another thing that I have been working on this month so far is spending time with God. I have really been horrible at that in the last year. A friend of mine and I are doing a Bible study together and it takes me to the Word everyday. I am also reading through the Bible in a year. So those are things that I am trying to do to better my relationship with Christ. I want to become more and more like him and the only way I can do that is through daily devotion to him.
Another big thing for our little family.....I proclaim that Jabez is potty trained!!

So this is a brief update on what is going on in this household.
By the way my beautiful baby boy will be turning 6 months on Tuesday. I can't believe he will be that old already. Man how time flies....

The rest of the Story........

Now we continue with the rest of the story.......

Here is the momma and her little girl who missed out on our first day because of illness. They came and joined us for fun, food, and fellowship.



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This momma and her baby girl joined us again for the which started out with painting.....






Here is "bug" or so we call her, working on painting some paper after she had already finished her ornament.








Well we finished or ornaments and then moved on to cookies.






There are no pictures of us cutting out cookies because well I wanted to enjoy cutting out cookies too....Here is what we had to work with after we cut and baked them all.



Well see I also wanted to enjoy decorating the cookies with my son looking in the background. Yes, I know it, don't you see the tongue.....it is my form of concentration.





Here is mama and her "bug" working on decorating cookies. So are they deeply concentrating or deeply talking....not sure but whatever is going on, it sure does look serious!





So here is another picture of a momma and her baby decorating cookies. I love the look of intent upon their faces.





Well we eventually did finish decorating our cookies and these were some of our favorites that were decorated.







So here we are finally at the end of the day after we cleaned up. Look at all that frosting, sugar, .....whatever there may be.


Yes, you can call us crazy; we did paint ornaments and bake and decorate cookies all in one day. It might have been a crazy day that we even finished off with dinner together along with our husbands, but it was a great day!

I know its a bit late but here is a bit of fun that we had before Christmas.....

Well several of my friends and I and there kiddos decided this year was time to decorate cookies with the kiddos. We did so on two separate occasions cause on the first occasion one kiddo ended up being sick.
There once was a momma and her two little boys that came to my house to see decorate some cookies.








And another momma and her baby girl who also decided it would be fun to come and decorate cookies also. Baby girl thought it would be fun to "ham it up" for the camera.



And then there was my little boy, the only one of which can decorate cookies doing it all on his own cause his mama was busy with taking pictures for her blog.






And then we had a tray full of cookies we decorated. Well what had to come next....Can anybody guess?






Well of course we would need little munchkins to eat them for us. Yummy, Yummy!







Did I mention that the cookies were oh so yummy!




And then we had to take it a step further with getting all the sugar possible in for the day. Thoughts of toddler "I must lick this board so that I can eat all the sugar to drive my mommy crazy later."




Well you see we were missing a mommy and her little one that day so we thought we had to continue the story with yet another day of cookie baking, except we also decide to paint some decorations. So that is where this story continues.........in yet another post........