thank you!!

thank you to everyone who left sweet comments about my blog monday night!! i hope everyone took something from it as important as i did! i'm glad to know that people are enjoying my post and i am so thankful to be surrounded by such wonderful friends and family!! gavin, mack and i have come a long way in a short time but we could not do it without the support of positive loving people! SO THANK YOU!!!!

stay with me here....i've got a lot to say!!

ok new moms (or old pros)...this is for you!! first of all church was awesome sunday!! i felt like God was speaking directly to me! the sermon was about our "american idols", a series that dr. les has been doing for about 5 weeks. this week was about our children and how we idolize them. i knew as soon as i saw the screen that this sermon was for me!! the first thing dr. les talked about was how important it is to raise our children in "God based homes" and i thought ok i want my son to believe in God but we are by no means a "religious" family we miss church some, we miss a bedtime prayer here or there. and then he goes on to say that a "God based home" is not necessarily run by a "religious family" (ok is he reading my mind?) he said the most important factor of raising a child in a "GBH" is the relationship between a husband and wife (ok i thought this was about the kids). he said people often believe that once a child comes along the main focus should be put on the child and often the relationship between husband and wife is put on the back burner. how do you expect to raise your child in a GBH when the sacredness of marriage and family is often over shadow by what is going on the child's life. children today are often glorified and praised instead of disciplined and made to face consequences for their actions. to make a long and wonderful sermon short...the best way to raise your child in a GBH is keep the focus on the marriage and make sure the child knows that he or she is very important and loved but there are boundaries and children need to be brought down to reality instead of coddled and pacified their whole lives!! wow! pretty awesome...take what you will from this but mommies remember that our children need our loving care but so do our husbands!!! one thing that gavin and i try to do is every few weeks let someone keep mack and we have a date night! the number one rule of date night is that we DO NOT talk about mack....we talk about everything going on in our husband/wife lives instead of what's going on in our mother/father lives...please don't get me wrong i love my son with all my heart and would do anything for him, being a mother is the most important and joyful thing a woman can experience but if you loose sight of your marriage and you own life how do you expect to teach your children the value of love, marriage, commitment and individuality??? food for thought! hope you are full!!


*two pictures from our recent date night!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...

ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!

HOPE IT WAS A GREAT ONE!!!

LOVE YOU!!

WHEW!!

ROLL TIDE!!!

10-0!!

hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

check back monday for my blog about date night!!!

stuffed!!

we're back from our weekly friday morning breakfast at cracker barrel with daddy! i usually try to eat a light breakfast because i'm not a big breakfast eater anyway plus if i eat to heavily i will be useless for the rest of the day!! to my surprise cracker barrel had a "new" breakfast menu this morning!! skillet meals!!! so of course i had to try one and it was DELICIOUS!!! it had breakfast potatoes, onions, peppers, smoked sausage, gravy, eggs and melted cheese!! jeez! i feel like i'm gaining weight just talking about it!! if i eat like that every friday i will be 500lbs! so needless to say we are back home and i'm feeling pretty worthless!! fridays are my house cleaning day but it's looking pretty grime on getting all of my chores done today!! maybe just the essentials like laundry and "straightening up". of course i was blessed to get the BEST house warming gift from my father and mother in law....a ROOMBA!! the little robot vacuum that vacuums all by itself so at least the hardwoods will be clean at the touch of a button!! it's a pretty yucky day outside so it looks like we might be stuck inside watching cartoons all day!! darn!! tonight gavin and i are taking gavin's sister out to dinner, tomorrow will be another day on the couch watching football!! big game tomorrow!! ROLL TIDE!!! well i leave you now because if i don't get up right now and get started my husband is not going to be very happy with the outcome!! hope everyone has a great weekend!!

sad day.....

i did my part so i can sleep at night and now we just pray and hope for the best!

on a lighter note...here are a few pictures from halloween and the beautiful weekend in the back yard! mack went trick-or-treating with his good friends kinley and parker and a new friend colby...mack was a "bow hunter", colby was the most precious cow, kinley was a bunny rabbit and parker was a transformer....i didn't get any great pictures because it is hard to get good pictures of moving babies but i hope deann or margaret got some cute ones! enjoy!

trick-or-treat

IT'S UP TO YOU!!

PLEASE GO VOTE!!!

IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN THEN YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS ELECTION IS TO THEIR FUTURE! IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PARENT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD!