Kelly Dinner Day :)

Today we had a playdate at Tina's. It was a lot of fun to catch up with her, and reminded me of a couple things. She said that since the beginning of the year, she has been trying to not let her kids watch too much TV. I was like wait, I inspired that in you? That is wonderful... now why do I feel like my kids are watching too much TV? So, this afternoon I made up my mind to do my best to not have the children in front of the tube in the afternoon. I think that I am going to do my best from now on to not let them have TV except for right before bed, and right when they get up. (Times that I need to drink coffee, or relax after a long day ;)) I think that is fair. I may need to resort to it every so often a bit more then that, but vow to make it some type of educationaly viewing, or of course Veggie Tales, which is always stories from the Bible! I just know that Wyatt LOVES his cartoons, and I am sure it isn't harming them, but I seriously feel guilty at the end of the day if they have watched it more then just a little bit! Today we came home and haven't watched TV all night, and the time feels so much more valuable that we can spend time together talking and listening to music. LOVE IT! So... thanks Tina for reminding me of what I have been talking about for a long time, but haven't done anything about. I appreciate you!
We didn't have anything that I really felt like preparing for supper, so I had a Kelly dinner day... Meaning... we ate pancakes. I miss Kel. So, I thought to add a bit of a good thing, I would add blueberries (except the kids won't eat them, so I added blueberries to mine). Yum they were so good.
Grams was admitted to Oconomowoc Memorial yesterday with the flu. She was severely dehydrated, and is going to be in for a few more days. They have her in isolation right now. She is amazing to me. Such a good sport, and an amazing person in my life. I called her and told her that we are praying for her, and that we have her on the prayer chain at church and she said, "That is the only thing that matters to me right now"....wow. She just wants prayer. Nothing else... Prayer.
Went to Perspectives last night. Nothing too much fancy to discuss about it. We had a YWAM speaker come and talk about the Glory of God... Everything about that class is interesting. The reading was interesting. I am happy that I am caught up to the rest of the class (I was one unit behind everyone because I started the class late) and can now spend more time learning. The speaker last night taught a bit on Moses. I thought it was interesting because he showed a little video clip and then talked about Moses' character. He made the comment that Moses had probably never heard of God. Then God commands him to take off his sandals (protection) because he was on Holy ground. Then he is commanded to throw down his staff (protection) which turns into a snake, and then God commands him to pick up the snake that is swirling around his feet that was the staff, at its tail, which is where you would NOT want to pick up a snake... So, the Lord makes Moses vulnurable.... Crazy to me for some reason, that was the highlight of our course and lecture for me last night...
Well, it is alomost time to get my chickens to the tub... Goodnight

Slipper day ;)

This morning was a typical Monday for us... We hung out in our slippers and cleaned the house. I moved the area rug from our bedroom into the living room to give it a cozier feel, and Wyatt and Adalai thought it would be fun to run in circles on the area rug! So, round and round they went Wyatt in is Spiderman slippers, and Adi in her new Elmo's...

This one is precious... Adi was watching Wall-E and passed out... :) So cute

Nie is back!

Nie Nie is back after 5 months since her plane crash. I got choked up with tears when I saw her first post for the year. She is amazing. Spend some time checking it out and click on one of my Nie buttons on the side bar. You won't be sorry.

Photo Collage! :)

I haven't had much time to blog lately so I put together a photo collage of all the photos that I have been wanting to blog about! There are the cinnamon rolls that the kids and I made from scratch one day while we were home and had a sweet tooth! The other is a cake on one of those sweet tooth days (we get those all the time around here!) The others are just randoms of the kids painting and coloring, oh and my stylish diva Adalai in her stylin shades ;) And saying that she is a robot w/ her block "boots" on... Hilarious!
Anyhow, busy weekend coming up... Have a good one!!!! :)

Bored of being home, but should find out the sex of Em's baby today!

Nothing much new is with us. We have been inside since the insanely cold weather has hit! I took the kids out for a bit yesterday morning and Adi was already crying because her fingers were cold by the time we got out to the Jeep! It was a miserable half our it took for us to run to the Pig! ;) So, after naptime, we go down into the basement (while I get some laundry done) and the kids play with their outside toys while I fold. Today we were going to visit my Gram, but she wasn't feeling well, and Ben asked that I not take the kids anywhere in case the Jeep decided to feel the cold too, and decide not to start or something. Good call. So instead here we sit and watch the Jungle Book while I blog and then we are going to play Play-Doh while I clean :) Sounds fine to me! I am excited to today because Emily should find out if we are going to expect to be Aunt and Uncle to a niece or a nephew! I prayed before bed last night that the little one would cooperate so they can in fact see the... well you know... or lack there of of the, you know... So, we'll see!!
I am thankful to be in today, it is just too cold. I think that I am going to need to run to the grocery store yet again for some food. Anyhow, I need to get to work with Wyatt on his work book that we do. He learns a lot while we work on it, just gets impatient or finds it fun after a little bit of studying, that it would be better to scribble all over the page! No biggie! We just need to work on some shapes and colors. Do you even know how had it is to work with a toddler though that would rather just say "I dunno..." Oh well though if I am patient and persistant with him, he does very well. Guess he must not love structured study (gee I wonder where on earth he gets that from?), but we are going to work on it!
I started the Perspectives on World Missions class this past week, which was wonderful! I have reading and homework to catch up on, so I am going to be starting that today as well!
Anyhoo just a small update. Nothing too exciting going on!

End of Flu... FINALLY!

Well it looks like our baby has finally recovered from her almost 6 days of having a stomach virus. Poor girl. We stayed home from church this morning because of it though, we didn't want to infect anyone!

We have been home A LOT lately... which is kind of a bummer :( Hoping to get out an actually have something to talk about next week sometime!

Next week is kind of a big week though...My sis starts her new job Monday! Congrats Kir!
~ Nie is back next Friday! After 5 months of recovering at the hospital from a private plane crash, she is returning to her blog to tell her story... I am SO excited about that

My favorite Christmas pics!

We took these at the Waukesha Floral and Greenhouse. They turned out Great!