Fish, Missions, My Girls, Bread Making & Landon!! (Blog in a nutshell)

My Husbands beautiful fish tank. Notice the stand it is on?? My wonderful Kristopher made that. He is extremely talented. If we ever get rid of the tank (we will someday) I wish there was a way to keep the stand and use it for something. Hey...why not?! (idea....) Ok, Kris if you read this we are keeping the stand forever!

Today I went to GUM at my church. I loved, loved, loved it. It stands for "growing up mom". I am very excited about starting to attend regularly.
I'm home now and have been working on lots and lots of paperwork that I need to send to Christar. (the mission organization I am joining). Oddly, I really enjoy filling out paperwork. Its funny, but I get all excited to put the girls down for their nap and work on paperwork. Well, I guess it depends on what paperwork. Some stuff can be annoying.
My family and I are attending the New Personal Orientation at Christar in a couple of weeks! I am really looking forward to it. I find so much joy and excitement in moving forward to heading out on the mission field. What a blessing for me to be able to reach God's people who need His love and guidance. I learned this week in a devotional I have been doing is that God's number 1 priority is the Lost. That really hit me hard. I want to contribute however God wants me to to reach the "Lost". We are hear on this earth to worship God and do everything for His glory. So..."Lost" people hear I come! :) I want others to know what God has done and is doing in my life. So that, they will to want to have Jesus Christ as their Savior also. Wow, I am really feeling preaching! haha. I have just been really putting so much time into heading towards missions that God has just given me more clearer guidance that this is what He wants for me. And so...I'm EXCITED!! Isn't everyone excited when God shows us exactly what He wants for us?! I know I am. Yay for Jesus. :)

Ok...well the funny thing is I will probably be the only one who sees this, but that's ok. I'll tell Kris to read it too. :)

Now on to my children!! Another blessing:) We all got very excited Yesterday at dinner when we discovered Abigael got her 3rd tooth! She now has 2 teeth on the bottom and one on her top left. Not the front tooth, the one next to that. We made a big deal, Kaylie was very happy for her little sister. I enjoy watching their relationship develop. Abigael will drop whatever toy she has to follow her big sister. Which Kaylie loves to have her follow her. It's nice because when I am making dinner, Kaylie will kind of "watch" Abigael for me. She will just walk in circle in the living room (where I can see them) and Abigael will just follow and laugh with Kaylie the whole way. They are both great kids. I look forward to watching and being a big part of how they grow up.

Well, Kaylie just feel back asleep on the couch. :)

Oh I have to mention my new thing I started. (Thanks to a sweet friend) I have started Bread Making. I have only made one loaf. It was French Bread and it came out great. At least I think so. I just wish that dang bread machine would slice the bread for you too. :) How come someone hasn't thought of that yet? I thought the thing was broken when I opened up my finished bread and it wasn't sliced. How inconvenient. I'm kidding, but that would be nice.

Tonight is my family dinner night with my parents, my youngest brother, my younger brother & his wife. They are great!! :) My younger brother and his wife are expecting their first baby in a couple of weeks! Its a boy& they are naming him Landon. I am sooo thrilled to be an Aunt. More than I thought I was. I will be the coolest aunt. I think we decided I would be Auntie Heather. I like it. Brad and Annie (my brother & his wife) will always be hearing "I want to go see Auntie Heather, she's cool" :) Laughs aside, I will love their little boy soooo much. I already do. I know I will cry when I get to hold him. I cannot wait to meet him and give him sweet kisses.

I have to get my girls ready and head out for some wii playing, laughing, family dinner time.

The Day after Mothers Day

My first day after a wonderful mothers day! I was woken up by my Abigael around 7AM. Which is her normal time to get up. I fed her and then played with her for awhile. Kaylie then woke up around 7:30. I put on some cartoons for her while I handed Abigael to Kris and got myself ready to head to my optometry appointment at 8:30am. Everything seems to be going normal.

I headed to the appointment and received a phone call from the doctors office that my appointment has been canceled! They called me at 8:25!!! I was just exiting the freeway when they called. Nice! I really wanted to spend 45 minutes in traffic and then turn around and drive home. So, I stopped at got a soda. Had to make the 45 minute drive out and 30 minute drive home for something. Ha...that's funny. I drove an hour and 15 minutes to get a diet coke from the donut club in San Dimas!! They have amazing sodas. ;)

Well, I got home to my wonderful family. Kissed my husband goodbye as he was off to work, made a bottle for Abigael and put her down for a nap. It is now 11:27AM and I have spent over an hour trying to find ways to make a little extra cash by doing some work from home. Well, I have filled out way to many surveys, I am going to get a million junk emails, I'm not playing with my 5 year old, and am regretting this time I have spent on useless stuff. Ohh wait, I did change our chase account to go paperless!! Hey, saving the planet should count for something. :)
Oh, and I also tried to print off coupons for some groceries we need, and all I managed to do was download stuff on my husbands computer and nothing was printed. (Sorry Honey! I was trying to save money. hehe)

Well, my Monday after mothers day is kind of boring and somewhat regrettable. I enjoyed the time, love and laughter I had with my family yesterday. What a fun day it was. Abigael was dedicated yesterday also. My family came to church to be there for that. Well, Mothers day was a great day.

Its time for me to change my attitude. I need to get off my butt, kiss my Kaylie (Abigael is still napping or I would kiss her too), do some devotions & figure out a meal plan for this week. (this will be a tough week) Kris and I don't get paid till Friday and we are really tight right now. So, looks like dinner for the week is going to be cheap food and whatever we can find in the kitchen. Thankfully my family doesn't mind that at all. I have a great husband. I need to check my fly lady email and have a better rest of the day then how it started.
Well, here I go. I guess we shall see how the rest of my day goes or week goes based on my next blog. I know I have so many readers and fans!! Yay for my mom, my husband, my sister-in-law, and Steffani!

The photos above ( I like to add photos to every post) are some of my family and fun times. The first photo is when my dad took my family & Brad and Annie to dream works studios! It was awesome! We got to go behind the scenes on how the movies are made, had an amazing, Delicious lunch, and saw some of the new shrek movie that no one has seen yet. It was a really fun day. Thanks Dad!! (well...Mom, you can tell Dad thanks!)
The other photo is of Kaylie & Abigael in their Big & Little Sister Shirts. Their names are on the bottom of the shirts. The day after Abigael was born my Mom and Kaylie came to the hospital and Kaylie was wearing her shirt and she gave me a gift bag and Abigael's lil. sister shirt was in it. Super cute! Love my girls!