Royals Season!

Tonight we went to the Royals game as a family. 

Our nights are normally filled so much going on. Monday is our normal bible study night so I felt really bad that i had to miss it. Truthfully, I am thankful that I did. It was just what we needed as a family. I had to help a friend out with her dogs while she is out of town and since she lives just by the stadium Jared said we "had" to go! It was Royals night witch got us HyVee tickets for $5! A super cheap but fun night! Annaliese was so excited that she keep yelling how excited she was! Landon was just in awe of everything to see around him. Most of all Jared was really excited to watch the game! Before the baseball season even starts, he talks about how he went to the games as a child and how he cant wait to take the kids each year. Its so funny to see him be so excited about his childhood favorite team. I am so blessed to have such an amazing husband that enjoys family time and wants to share these experience with the kids.

Beauty Within You

I have been feeling blah for the past few weeks. My health has not been helping the situation either! They have found a cyst on my left ovary witch has been causing pain and continuous bleeding. Its gotten me so tired that I even slept 11 hours last night! With all that has gone on with the cyst I believe it is the least of my problems. The biggest problem I see is, my weight and how I view my self.

For most of my life I have struggled with my weight. Been know as the fat ugly sister. It was hard dealing with this as a child, but I struggle even more with it now as an adult. Im sure that part of that is due to the fact that I have had three children. And with each child some weight has stayed with me. The stuff that I see around me such as TV, movies, adds, and billboards don't help me feeling this way about me either. They remind me of how not "pretty" I am or will ever be!

The other day at lunch with a friend we were talking about life and of course weight! While talking with my friend I was reminded of a couple questions that I once was asked not that long ago.  They has asked me if I believed that everything that God created was beautiful? With out even really thinking I said yes. How could anything that God had a hand in not be beautiful? The next question that I was asked is a question that I can not get out of my head! She asked "Then if you believe that everything God created is beautiful, then why can you not see that beauty within you?

What would you say to this questions? Can you see the beauty that God has placed in you?

My swivel sweeper!

If any of you have ever been over to my house you know how much I LOVE my swivel sweeper! It is the best sweeper I have ever had! On an average day I use my sweeper about six times! This is not joke. I cannot stand walking on a dirty floor with all the crumbs sticking to your feet. With the amount of eating my kids do, their are many crumbs at all times. Sure I could have them eat at the table with their snacks, but that is a battle I just don't want to fight. And if their were no crumbs on the floor then I would not be able to use my sweeper!

The obsession with the swivel sweeper has not fallen far from the tree! My kids enjoy it just as much as I do! They also have enjoyed it so much that I have had to replace it twice. Once because Landon decided that banging it agents the door would be exciting. Then Annaliese thought that it would be best used as a slide, witch then broke in half...yeah im still not sure how she decided this was a good idea! So now I have my sweeper and the kids have their own. When they make a mess the first thing they do is run to their sweeper and say "ill get it". Its so funny to see them be so excited to clean a mess.

Well today we went to go get donuts from LaMar's  (witch are so good). Landon gets his own bag of donuts holes and Annaliese gets a donut with sprinkles. While eating their donuts not at the table, im guessing one of them made a mess because Landon runs out of their room to get the sweeper. He goes back to the room and I assume cleaned up the mess. Then all of the sudden we hear a loud "im hurt" scream from Annaliese. Jared runs to see what the commotion is about. When he walked in to the room I was expecting an oh no what have you done sound, but no i heard him laughing. I immediately knew what had happened!

Landon thought it would be a good idea to clean Annaliese up! Starting from the top! Her hair was stuck in the sweeper! Landon had let go of the sweeper witch was puller her hair, while the sweeper was tangling up her hair. Our first thought as parents should be oh no let me help you, but in this situation our first thought was to grab the camera. We did turn the sweeper off first so that her hair was not being pulled! She was not to happy that I was taking a picture of her while in distress, but she will thank me later!

Landon and Jared trying to help Annaliese get untangled!

Blah Thinking

Every one says that blogging is easy. You just type down your thoughts and whala, you have a post! Well that is not the case for me! I have been racking my brain all day thinking of what it is I should write. I probably have deleted at least three post so far. So how is it so simple for every one else, but very difficult for me? My conclusion, i over think everything!

I want to make sure that I do it the right way, the way I have envisioned it. Now I know what your thinking. Their is no right or wrong way to write down your thoughts. But to me I feel if I dont have the perfect post, the right title, or my commas in the the right spot then I am going to fail! See, this has been my mentality in everything I do. As a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, and as a child of Christ. I can never do anything right. This is where my "blah" thinking comes in.

So where dose the" bling" thinking come in since everything is always bleak at the beginning for me? At first I can not see past "my" thoughts, "my" ideas. Then that's when I am reminded its not about me and what I want. Its about My Father in heaven! I needed to stop thinking so that I could hear what he needs to tell me. I needed to be reminded that I CAN do anything threw Christ who straightens me. I am not a failure, because I am a child of God. That my Father has chosen me. That He delights in me! And when you have God on your side, how can you go wrong?