Has it really been 9 years?!?

Brian and I while we were dating.

Today is Brian and my 9th Wedding Anniversary. WOW!!! I can hardly believe it.

Disco Elf Dance

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Classic Elf Dance

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Charleston Elf Dance

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Happy 2nd Birthday Kendall!

The official birthday post. Said every in the previous post, but just wanted to recognize K on her actual birthday!!

I LOVE the picture below, it is my FAVE!!!!

Kendall is turning 2!!

I'm doing this a day early, because I will be busy tomorrow. Oh and I just couldn't wait. My baby girl will be 2 YEARS OLD tomorrow. I can't believe it. We already had her party with her friends. Tomorrow night we will be doing a family party. Can't wait. So that is what I will be busy doing tomorrow, cooking the dinner and baking the cake. Well I couldn't go without making another little slide show. There are a lot of pictures. That is because I got a wonderful camera after she was born so of course I had to use it. I condensed the slide show as much as I could, but it is still long...about 20 minutes or so. Enjoy and don't forget to leave comments. I need the love. There is a "comments" button below the posts that you can leave them on here. Also, don't forget to turn off the music player above.

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Wordless Wednesday!!

Romans 13

Reading this made me feel better in knowing what I should do and how I should act for the next 4 years.

Romans 13

Submission to the Authorities

1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2.Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3.For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4.For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5.Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience. 6.This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God's servants, who give their full time to governing. 7.Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Love, for the Day is Near

8.Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9.The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"[a] and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[b] 10.Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

11.And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12.The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13.Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14.Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.[c]

Soooo.....

It is going to be a rough 4 years coming, but we can all know that God is in control. He has a plan for everything and although we might not know yet what it is. I am just afraid that some people voted the way they did because they wanted a black president and didn't look at what he stands for. Don't get me wrong, I have NOTHING against the color of his skin, just the color of his heart. I can't believe people wanted someone who won't put his hand on his heart for our National Anthem, an anthem that is for the country he is gonna be president for, this bothers me so bad. What is he gonna put his hand on when it comes to the Inauguration? Not going to get all into this, because I am just giving up my worries and fears and yes anger to God and let him handle everything. He is the only one that can. I just wanted to come here and get this off my chest.

The "right" reason to vote?

We went to vote this morning. We only had to wait about 45 minutes, if that. What was really interesting about it is the boys were really interested in the process, especially Steven. They have been studying about the Democratic process in school. They did a mock election too. Needless to say I was very proud to say that when he told me that 15 students voted for McCain and only 3 voted for Obama. I do however have a concern that he didn't know who was running for VP for either party. He told me that since we (Brian and I) were talking so much about voting for McCain that he decided to vote for him as well. I asked Steven if they talked about each candidate and what they stood for and he told me no. Now I understand that at this age they may not understand everything, but I just wish that they would let the kids know that they need to educate themselves about who they will be voting for and not just vote for someone because their parents are voting for or who there friends are voting for. Of course that also gave us a clue that we as is parents need to take up where his class left off and talk to him a little on each candidate. We just went over the basics but I think it helped him get really excited about today (or so we thought). When it came time for us to go cast our ballet I took Matthew with me and Brian had Kendall and Steven. Matthew watched what I did and asked a couple times what I was doing, but not too much (not that I was expecting a 5 year old to ask profound political questions, even if I do think he will be some type of public figure when he gets older). Brian was able to walk Steven through each of his votes and show him the names and Steven got to see up close the whole process. I was done before them and was already at the car and Steven came out with a smile on his face. I thought it was because he was excited about what he did this morning, until he asked "Is it time to go get our free Starbucks now?" Yes folks, he did listen to all of our teaching and I am thankful for that, but he also listened to me telling Brian about free cup of coffee for the voters. That little stink. We bought him a hot chocolate since he was there, but didn't technically cast a vote. He said, "I can't wait til I'm 18 so I can vote and get my own cup of coffee". Well whatever gets him to the polls.

Keep praying for our nation and pray that the right person gets into office.

Halloween 2008

We had a great time last night. The kids got so much candy, and mommy and daddy got great exercise. You wanna see what the kids were?

Can you guess what Steven was? He labeled it "Zombie Skater Punk."

For you Star Wars fans you should know what Matthew was...but for those of you that have never seen the movies, he was a Storm Trooper.

I had to take two different angle pictures of Kendall to get her whole costume. She was our little Care Bear.

The rest are just a few random pics that we got. I love Halloween and the excitement leading up to it. I do have to say that I am not sad that it is over now. Let the holidays begin. As you can tell I love Christmas music and I just can't let myself play Christmas music before Halloween is over. I gotta let each holiday have it's day, so to speak. Hope everyone had a great Halloween.