Abigail's 5th Birthday Tea Party

I can't believe my little girl is five years old! Time really does fly! First, I want to thank the Lord for giving me Abigail. I still remember when we found out we were having her. I was in Carthage, TN in a little house in College Avenue. She travelled with us (in my belly) all over the country, and she even got to go to Hawaii! She travelled to Japan, the Philippines and Australia. She was already a world traveler before she was born!

She is truly a blessing to me. I thank the Lord for the five years I spent being her mum/mom/momma.

Here are some pictures of her tea party with her friends from church. We had a lot of games and made some personalized bracelets and ate cake, cupcakes, cookies, tea and of course pink lemonade.















High-heel shoe relay







Teacup Relay Race





Pin the tail on the donkey




What a wonderful day we had! I thank the Lord for a special time with the little girls in our church, they have their own little personalities but they are all SoOOOo sweet! Makes me want another little girl...maybe in the future... I hope in the relatively near future!

Lastly, the weather forecast for today was 60% rain and thunder. Yesterday, was also the same forecast and it was pouring down! What a blessing it was to wake up and it wasn't raining and the sun even started to shine! I was asking the Lord to let the rain stop just before everyone gets here so it wouldn't be dangerous for them to travel but the Lord stopped the rain for the whole party! I don't know if He stopped the rain just for me or maybe someone else was praying the same thing... but I like to think He did it for me!

A bit of everything

I have finally found the time to write another post! I wrote that first sentence in June! I have had this draft post for almost 3 months. The kids really keep me busy and sometimes I just don't have the time to write and upload pictures. I'm so glad I finally have some time today.

We got to spend some time with Jason's daddy, which we don't often get to do. So the kids are always super excited when they get to see 'Paw-Paw'.


At Paw-Paw's house

One of our favourite things to do as a family is to go to the park. We love it because it's FREE plus we get to work off extra pounds we've gained. While waiting for Jason to finish his work, the kids and I went to the parking lot next to his shop and had all different kinds of races...you know like running races, skipping races, backward races, side-running races, hopping races etc. This was a whole lot of fun and quite tiring for me! Kids have ALOT of energy! Jason finished his work so we made a trip to the park and still these kids did not slow down. The kids rode their bikes while Jason and I trailed along.






I'm so happy that Abigail was able to participate in the Children's Musical this year!




Here are just some pictures of us celebrating Jacob's 2nd Birthday! Mrs. Dolores (Momma) and Bro. Randy invited us to their house for a delicious southern meal and fellowship. We enjoyed some finger-lickin' fried chicken, beans, corn, those really delicious garlic biscuits from Red Lobster and her famous peanut butter balls. My mouth is watering now! I have many favourite meals but fried chicken is at the top 5 so I was so excited. Plus... I have not cooked fried chicken (with bone) since 2008. I am a little scared to because the last time I cooked it I gave my husband HORRIBLE food-poisoning! He hasn't looked at fried chicken the same since then! I still can't believe I did that! We were just newly-weds back then! Momma also invited the Fussners, I'm so glad we were able to spend some time with them. We will miss them very much when they leave for Texas soon. The kids really love playing with each other.

Joshua and Abigail became good friends especially when we stayed at the Mission house. When the Fussners were out of town for a while last year, I was talking to Mrs. Krystal and Abigail pipes up and says, "Tell Joshua I miss him!" and Joshua says "I know it!" HAHA! I thought that was hilarious! I'm so thankful for this time with them.


Here are some pictures!











We had some people over on a Sunday for Jacob's birthday and the men were playing cornhole outside while the women were inside talking. Suddenly Jason comes in carrying Jacob with scratches and dirt on his face and crying loudly. Jason tells me that he was riding his tricycle and somehow started down the hill. The hill at the front of our house is pretty steep and at the bottom is an 8 foot drop to the concrete road. So, his tricycle sped up down the hill, somehow he (or the Lord) turned the steering to the right so his bike turned over and Jacob did a face plant on the dirt. I praise the Lord that He protected our little boy.


All scratched up but happy!


Our little cowboy with his 'battle scars' and his sippy cup :)






Abigail and Joshua



The Fussner boys





Jeremy and Wyatt This is what they love to do!


I tried to take a picture with all the kids and their heads altogether in a circle and of course that did not work!


My beautiful little girl




Racing their horses


Rope swinging with Momma






I'm so happy I finally finished this post! Abigail is turning five this week. I can't believe it... She is having a tea party for all her friends this week and when I have the time I'll post some pictures of it.

Happy Monday everyone!