"Let Go and Let God"

This weekend I attended the Women's Retreat with some truly amazing women from my church. I was able to take some time for myself and reflect on my life and some of my personal relationships. Especially my relationship with God. God has truly blessed me with the best family and friends I could ever ask for. The most important thing that I learned this weekend is that I do not pray nearly enough. "I am too busy to pray"..... when actually "I am too busy NOT to pray." I learned that I need to quit trying to handle everything myself, and turn it over to God. Here is a photo I took that just takes my breath away. "Be still, and know that I am God."

Cooking Lessons with Nana

Nana taught Kali how to decorate a cake with her new cake decorating tools she got for Christmas!! She learned how to use all of the different frosting tips to make different designs. They had a great time and made a really cute cake for Valentine's Day!!

Tuckered Out!!

Mystery Coupon

I found this coupon in my driveway today. I was only 11 years old in 1991. I was not a old enough to cook and I KNOW I was not clipping coupons.... LOL. Where did it come from?? I am not sure, but it made me think of my Grandma Hazel. She was always clipping coupons and cutting out recipes to send to me. She never threw anything away because someone might need "it" someday. She was always thinking of others. I love and miss her so much.

Brush Brush Brush

The kids were brushing their teeth before going to bed. Braden was singing his usual song "Brush, brush, brush your teeth each and every day, up and down and all around, brush the germs away." Then comes daddy to give them a lesson on proper brushing...LOL.

Pile Up!!

After the snow and ice melted I noticed that my flower beds were PILED UP with leaves and needed lots of TLC. I got out the rakes and put the kids to work.

Braden just wanted to get it done and didn't care
if he got all of the leaves or not.



Kali is more like me and needs perfection. She worked and worked until every leaf was gone.



They did a great job working together to get it done.




We even found a sweet little ladybug hiding in all the mess.

After our hard work cleaning out the flower beds, I caught the kids taking a break. My first reaction was to tell them to get out of the leaves because we had just spent 2 hours raking them out of the flower beds. Instead, I ran inside and grabbed my camera before this priceless moment passed. I was able to capture these awesome photos of the kids having a blast playing in the leaves. At that moment I realized that their 5 minutes of fun was worth so much more then the time we spent piling them up. And that by tomorrow our lovely Oklahoma wind would have more leaves piled right back in their place.

Water Bombs!!

The kids have been begging me to let them play with water balloons. Since it is a pretty day today, I decided I would let them do a few. My only rule was that they could NOT throw them at each other. Although it is warmer out then it has been in a while... it is still WAAYYY to cold for that!! Kali was super excited and wanted to throw hers at the stop sign. Braden did not want to bust his. He said "Well, I want to let mine go and send it to God" (proud mommy moment) After I explained to him that balloons have to have helium to fly and these balloons have water, he was ok with busting them.... LOL. They had a blast and we only got a little bit wet!!