Dinner Prayer

Tonight:

Chris: Eli, will you pray for our supper tonight?
Eli: Sure, daddy.
Dear God, Tank you for only me tonight. Amen.
Me: (trying not to laugh) I think you should pray for the food too.
Eli: ummm, ok
Dear God, tank you for me and the food. (long pause)(sigh) Tank you for Abby and Reagan and Daddy and Mommy and Daama and Daempa and the food and unca Jay and aunt Missa and unca Andy and aunt Tacia and the food. Amen.
Chris: Thank you, that was a nice prayer to God.
Eli: I forgot someone.
Me: Who?
Eli: The baby, and Finny and Tash. And auntie Den and unca Tane. (pause) and the food. Amen.

All of us: Amen

A couple of minutes later as we are eating:
Eli: Tank you God for the food and the baby and mommy and daddy. Amen.

Chris and I again trying not to laugh, and this went on several more times until he was done with dinner.

Gotta love a boy who wants to pray.

Abby's gymnastics Meet

Abby's last gymnastics meet of the year was yesterday. She did great!


She got 5th on the bars!



Waiting to warm up on the bars





















Vault

Warming up on the bars.

On the podium!

99 Days and Counting!

Today is Sunday November 23rd 2008.
Your due date is Monday March 2nd 2009.

167 days have passed since the conception,and you are 99 days before your due date.

You are 25 weeks into your pregnancy,and you have 15 weeks to go.

You are in the 2nd trimester.

63% of your pregnancy has passed, there is 37% left to go.

My gangster kids

1st speech therapy class

Eli had his first speech therapy class today. He finally talked at the end. They were working of the -ts sound (ants, pants, eats) and he couldn't say it at the beginning, but by the end it was almost correct. We will work on it this week, and hopefully he will catch on to it quickly.

His class is every Friday from 11:30--12. There are 3 other little girls in it right now. He will be having therapy for at least a year probably, but time will tell how quickly he picks things up. She thinks that maybe by the time he is 5, he will have caught up with all his sounds.

Mom-preneur Shop-a-thon

Tip Junkie is having a 12 Days of Junkie where there will be 2 winners announced each day for the next 12 days!

It's to help promote the women who are selling their products in the Mom-preneur Shop-a-thon. So be sure to head on over to Tip Junkie and enter the contest and check out all the amazing gift-giving possibilities in the shop-a-thon!

God is in Control

This is borrowed/copied from a friends blog (http://hopefullytrying.livejournal.com/), and it really puts into words what I have been thinking and feeling the past couple of days.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-84EKIaqE

Romans 13:1. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God."

While I might not be doing cartwheels over the winner of this election, I do believe that God is in Control.

I also believe that God has ordained for Obama to be our President, for whatever reasons......God is perfect and He makes NO mistakes!!

And for me to be upset or devastated would be a waste of my time and energy. So instead, I will pray for President-Elect Obama, and his family, that he will be able to lead our country in a positive way, and make positive changes......and that he will even come to the Lord!!!

I will pray for his wife, to be supportive and loving and understanding when this big job takes him away from their family, and I will pray for their daughters, that they will still be able to have time with their father, and know that he loves and values them....I pray for them as a family, that this will strengthen them, and not draw them apart.

I also pray for everyone who did NOT vote for Obama, that their hearts will not be bitter, that they will join me in prayer for our nation's leader,and for the morality of our nation.

As Christians, we are not to give in to a spirit of Fear...instead, let us accept that what is, IS....and just do what we do best--live for God and be SHINING EXAMPLES of His love and acceptance to the world. Now, more than ever, we need to SHINE JESUS to the world!!!

HUGS to you all!!! May God bless each and evey one of you today and in this next 4 years of our

FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT!

Pretty cool/interesting/wow to be living in part of history!!

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Election Day

The day is here, it is time to vote for the next president. The kids and I will be off in about 1/2 an hour do vote, it is a great way to show the kids how the process works.

Get out and VOTE!

Some pictures of Halloween

Chris carving pumpkins with the help of Abby. The boys weren't that interested in getting their hands dirty.
But Abby helped, although she thought it was GROSS!



Reagan is not happy that I am taking pictures and making him wait to go Trick or Treating.

The kids did have fun with the pumpkins once they were done!

Three happy kids, ready to go get some candy!

Daylight savings time!

Amazing how adding an hour to the day makes things run so much more smoothly. We were actually on time for church today!!!! YAY MALLICOATS!