New Idea!

On several friends' blogs they do a "Wordless Wednesday" post! So I think I am going to "steal" their wonderful idea and start that on my blog! If I can remember to do it I will have one post a week! WOO-HOO!!! It might not be such a bad goal at the moment. Really, I think the blogging will begin to pick up. We have our Hallelujah Night at church on Saturday. My friend's baby shower is Sunday. Next Wednesday the Fadden Family arrives to spend 5 days with us. I hope to get lots of adorable pictures of Jaycee, Jackson, and Riley together. We will have Thanksgiving around the corner. I hope come December 1st I will post daily to document our new tradition of "25 Days of Christmas"! What a wonderful time we will have because Nana and Papa will be here December 4-15 to participate in the Christmas activities!!! Hopefully, you will have lots of reading to do on our blog for the next couple of months!

Resolution!

Is it too early to make a New Year's Resolution? I think not! I really want to learn how to sew! Why I never took a home economics class in school I don't know why?! Well, I was too busy playing basketball to ever think that at some point in my life I might need to learn how to sew a button on a shirt, make Barbie clothes for Jaycee, or do other wonderfully creative things! I attended a huge arts and craft show in Oklahoma City last week. It had such cute creative things on display! Lots of the the items are very over priced, but still they are very cute and if I knew how to sew I could totally make the things I saw. I don't think I would ever make it a business type thing, but just to make things that are fun and out of the ordinary especially for birthday, baby shower, and wedding shower gifts. I can say that I am beginning to recognize that I do have a little bit of creativity in me. This coming Sunday 5 ladies and myself are giving a good friend of ours a baby shower. She is having a little girl. The nursery is black and white polka dots with accents of light pink! ADORABLE!!! So we decided to keep the same theme for the shower. I am in charge of the decorations for the shower. The centerpieces for the table are simple, but so cute! I took diapers that I had leftover from Jaycee (yes Jaycee she got up to a size 6) rolled them up, placed a rubber band around them, then took black and white polka dot ribbon to tie around the diaper to cover up the rubber band. Then I took a very thin piece of light pink ribbon and tied it through the knot of the black and white polka dot ribbon. To finish it off I bought artificial light pink Gerbera Daises and placed one in each of the rolled up diapers. I can't wait to see them on the tables. We are using black tablecloths, with the diaper centerpiece, then we have light pink jewels to place around the diaper. I also, with the help of my sweet friend Serah, made a onesie with the ribbon ironed on with a Gerbera Daisy sewn on the front. We added a round pink rhinestone to the middle of the flower make it even more adorable. Allison can put her precious baby in this onesie or just hang it on the wall in her room! The last major project was making a name board to hang up in the nursery! It turned out super cute as well! Its so much fun to make things! Its obviously fun to shop and buy things, but there is something different about making something! I guess for me its realizing that I can be creative and I can make the cute fun stuff. It is really a lot more fun to put the effort into creating a one of kind type of gift for a loved one! I LOVE IT!!! I am really looking forward to expanding my creativity skills.

I will post pictures of the stuff from the shower on Sunday evening or Monday morning. I don't think my friend Allison reads our blog, but I would hate for her to see the stuff for her shower on my blog, before her actual shower!!!

Our weekend!

I am going to start with Friday evening. Byron and I got a date night. My parents were having the kids come for a sleepover! I was on my way to my parents when a light on my dashboard came on followed by the screen area of the dashboard saying "check tire pressure". I began hitting the info key to check my tire pressure. Normal is around 32. I thought I would see the numbers in the 20s. Nope, by the time I got to that part it was at 12 counting down 11, 10, 9. I was in shock. So I pulled over on a dirt road off the S curves to my parents. I got out to see what tire was going flat. I checked the front ones nothing, but I could hear the air seeping out! It was our right rear tire. Yes, it was flat!!! I called my mom first so she could come pick the kids up. Then I began calling Byron. He had just gotten home when I was leaving so needless to say I never got him. He was getting ready and never heard his cell or home phone ring. Thankfully, my dad was getting home when my mom was about to leave. So mom jumped in the work truck with my dad and they came to my rescue. Dad got my little donut tire on. My car looks hilarious! I can't believe that you can actually drive on those things. The best part of it was Jackson getting to watch my dad change the tire! He was squatted down just like my dad watching every move! So cute!

Byron and I still got to go on our date. We took Byron's work truck. We went to dinner and then to the movies. We saw "Couples Retreat". Very funny movie. I think we have actually been to 3 movies this year. WOOHOO!!! At the moment, that will probably be it, because there wasn't a single movie preview that was good. I guess more so because the time of year with Halloween and stuff, but seriously even some of the ones that are suppose to be for kids were scary to me!

Saturday, Byron worked. I think I said several months ago that Byron had picked up some electrical jobs on the side. Well, he is still working on this one house. Great for us its job security, but its amazing how much these people are doing. Byron is now getting to trim the house. The house is huge! Anything and everything that an electrician could think of to install its been done in this house! He has even re-wired one of the barns at the Bull Ranch. The kids and I spent a little time at my parents. Then we just relaxed after Byron got home. It was another bad weekend for sports for us. If OU looses, then the Huskies do the same as well as the Seahawks! If that isn't enough then our 2 favorite drivers for NASCAR didn't have success either. Denny Hamlin's motor burned up and Dale Jr. had lots of trouble with his car. Oh, well we can hope this next weekend is better for sports!!!

Yesterday, we went to church and as soon as church was over the kids and I went with my grandparents to a surprise graduation/birthday party! My cousin's husband graduated from Cleat School. He is now a police officer for Dickson, OK. Then we have 5 birthdays throughout the month of October on my dad's side of the family so we were all together to celebrate that as well. It was a fun day of seeing the family. After the kids ate and finished their cake Jackson was at full speed! Thankfully, it was family and a few friends of my cousins Melody and John. Jackson was running laps through the building! He was on a definite sugar high! The kids had a great time! My cousin's little girl, Mia Paige, is crawling now and she followed Jaycee everywhere. Christmas this year will be so much fun at Ma and Pa's house.

After the party we can home and relaxed. Jaycee slept on the couch for a while and Jackson was busy playing with his cars. We had a really great weekend despite our teams loosing!!! We have a busy week ahead of us. Tonight and Thursday night Byron and I have our co-ed softball games. The last week for them! YAY! Byron will work Tuesday night, possibly Friday and then this weekend at the Bull Ranch on the house. Wednesday we have our parenting class at church! Its excellent!!! The kids and I have lots of things to do around the house. I need to finish up some painting projects outside. Thankfully, our weather should be good this week! So hopefully I can get it all done!!!

Have a great day everyone! I hope to blog more, but it never seems to happen! I can continue to hope though that one day I could have a blog entry every day!!! In the next months I am sure I will. At least a more active blog! The Fadden family is coming to visit the beginning of November.( 2 weeks away, Kate, WOOHOO!!!) Then we have Thanksgiving. Byron's parents are coming the first part of December and then we have Christmas. I hope that I can get lots posted during Christmas to document our 25 Days til Christmas activities I am planning for! Should be extra special since Nana and Papa will be able to be a part of most of those days!!! YAY!

Passion!!!

I am a passionate person. It may not always show, but I am. I love my family dearly! Byron and my kids are my prize possession. For most of you, you weren't ever able to watch me play the game of basketball! I LOVE basketball! My emotions were always seen! I did try my best not to let the negative emotions come out, but I was always in on the high fives, the fist pumping, and the cheers!!! I gave it my all! I left everything on the court! Well, times have changed! First, I am passionate about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I can't go through a day without tears coming to my eyes over what He did to give me eternal life. Second, I am passionate about my husband and kids. The well-being of them is my life. I want the best for them all! Thirdly, I am passionate about restoring the U.S. back to what our Founding Fathers created it to be. Tall task, yes, but I am not alone in this. There are millions of Americans that have the gut feeling like I do that if we don't do something now our country will be lost forever. I am not willing to allow that to happen. We as parents desire that our kids have a better life then we did. Well, I strongly believe that our kids' lives will be worse then ours if we continue on down this destructive path. I am no longer on the sideline anymore. I don't think you can say I am/was a closet conservative, but I was like many others, who just kept to themselves, and would leave it up to someone else. Not anymore. I am joining up with countless people to let our voices be heard. I don't know where this will lead me or what all this entails, but I know that I can't ignore the feeling that I have in my gut anymore! My children are too precious to me, to see them not be able to live with the same freedoms we have. I don't want my children to have to pay for my mistakes or the mistakes of this country. So they need to be fixed now or that is exactly what is going to happen.

Our country isn't perfect. We aren't perfect as humans so there isn't anything that can be perfect. But we can do our best to make it great. Trust that God will pour out His favor, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and love to cover our shortcomings. God must be the center of this country. He must! Our country is only great because our Founding Fathers knew that God must be involved in our lives. As we see God being removed further out of our lives, you see our country falling, too. Once a country starts seeing the government as "God", you have serious, serious problems.

At the beginning of the year, I felt alone in this. I felt like what can I do? How can I help make people aware of what is really being lost in all of this? What is this really going to cost us in the future? Yes, everyone is worried about the money, but we need to be worried about each person's moral standards. If we don't have God where He is suppose to be we have no moral compass. We start taking over peoples' lives. We start telling them what they can and cannot say, buy, eat, how they spend their time, and so forth. If God wanted robots He would have made us that way. He made us with a free will so we would have the choice to have a relationship with Him or not to. He doesn't force Himself into our lives, so neither should our government. In the past 10 months I have been reading books, reading blogs, websites, watching shows, and supporting/attending the Tea Parties. I am so thankful to know that I am not alone anymore in this. Their are millions of Americans out there that know we are in great need of restoring this Nation. So here are some websites that I have found to be so amazing and wonderful!!!

www.asamom.org

mommylife.net

marymbaker.blogspot.com

www.michellemalkin.com

www.breitbart.com

www.glennbeck.com

www.drudgereport.com