Consignment sale

I recently hosted a consignment sale here at our home...it was great fun!! I love putting stuff like this together. Everything went great and we had about 40 consignors and proabably about 100 shoppers!! It made for a very busy weekend but lots of fun!!

Brandon turns 30!!!!

Well he finally turned 30!!! He has been dreading this day for a while...He actually turned 30 while he was hiking last week...So I decided to surprise him this weekend...well I let most of the secret out on Saturday morning through some different circumstances he found out... oh well we still had a great time with friends and family. We celbrated with the his aunt and uncle and all the cousins ( the Bundys), my parents, our good friends the Evans, and our good friends the G's(again not going to attempt to spell the last name..) Anyway, a big thanks to our faithful yet ever enduring, loving cousin Kendrea for babysitting all the kids while the adults went out to eat and for decorating the house with the black stuff while we were gone!! We had a great time of lots of food and fellowship!! and lots of laughs!!













The ever adorable Anna Kate...














Maddie and Nana( maddie making one of her many faces)














Our BFF's (that is for Nat..:) ) I think Scott is sleeping!!














Big guy blowing out the big 3-0!!

The beautiful K.K. and adorable Aleeza!!

Slumber party

Last weekend our husbands went hiking on the foot hills trail and we had a slumber part...13 kids under the age of 8...sounds like a great time huh....we did have fun!!! Please take notice of the new hair cut that Aleeza has..including bangs and all...let's just say...that mommy didn't do it, nor Livvy nor Maddie nor Daddy....Aleeza decided she needed bangs to look like one of her friends ....it is cute...it is starting to grow on me. :) Anyway, the guys had a great time. We are so thankful for our Christian friends that we have. All the kids have become great friends.















Here is Maddie and her good friend Mary Beth!!













Mary Beth- such a cutie!!












Maddie has become a cheese when it is picture time...so cute!!

All the kids bunkering down for the night with a movie!!

You just have to wonder what Dhillion C. is thinking in this picture!!

SNOW!!!

Yes we finally had snow...for about 24 hours.. it was nice to let the girls go out in it for a little while.. do we not have the cutest kids??

Basketball

Yeah yeah yeah....I know this is all I took.. Aleeza played basketball for 6 weeks. Next is t-ball then soccer...it was so cute to watch her play!! Of course daddy can't wait for soccer season!!

Circus

We had the best time at the circus!! The girls LOVED it... As did Brandon and I!!

Super Bowl night!

This is how our girls spent Super Bowl night... we are so thankful for our new friends the G's..( like I am even going to attempt to spell their last name...) anyway they have four girls and Aleeza has become great friends with them. Brandon and Scott have already been on a hiking trip with some other guys. Fun times!!!

Weekend in Charleston

This past weekend we were able to enjoy some time away from Greenville. It was much needed. We left early Friday morning and got home last Sunday night. Brandon's company was doing a home show and he was sent down there along with his partner to do the show. They put us up so that was nice!! The girls and I enjoyed some down time and we had fun too. We visited the children's museum one morning which was great fun. We also ate out some, relaxed at the beach house, stayed up one night, because the girls would not sleep...saw the beach, and enjoyed a lovely carriage ride. We had a very nice time and would do it again next weekend but I don't think they will pay for it again.. :)

Happy SURPRISE Anniversary

A couple of months ago my dad asked me to plan a surprise anniversary party for my mom and him. They have been married for 40 years...well little did he know that I had already planned something for them the weekend before their anniversary. I had to do it on my birthday which miraculously for me came on my 30th because I most certaintly didn't want to focus on that day. Well, it went off with a hit!! Yeah!!! I had invited about 125 people and we had about 90 or so come. It was great. The story begins with a very bad week for us though. We were very sick and the girls had gotten the flu. I woke up about 2 on saturday morning with it. I have not been sick in ages... and it has to come on my birthday and the big day... well, I made it through the day with a happy face, I don' t think any one even knew I was sick except the people I told!! The biggest surprise of the evening was the "special guest" Yvonne and her husband flew in from Washington state...It was great!! We went out to supper before hand and my aunt and uncle had come down also. After we ate we told mom and dad we were going back to our place for cake and ice cream and people were coming over. Well, instead Brandon told them that we needed to make a stop at the CVA apartments to pick up a package for some missionaries in PNG... :) Well, dad went to help him and I told mom and my aunt to come too. There were already some people there, so that was a nice surprise!! Thanks to Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Stine and Jen the evening was a blast!! I am so thankful for my parents and for the Lord allowing them to spend 40 wonderful years together!! I also had a little surprise of my own from the Evans and Stines!!

This is my parents being throughly surprised!!!

Three of my favorite girls... :)

the girls...

Pictures from Christmas

finally....

I know I am way late again... thanks to some of my friends that I have been reminding me..."update your blog.. update your blog..."....well, if I just sat around all day and had all the time in the world then maybe I could keep it more up to date... I am sorry. We had a wonderful Christmas. We were able to spend it here this year, and Brandon worked extra hard. He was able to get in a lot of hours at his job so that was a blessing. The Lord continues to supply our every needs, every day, every hour. We are finally getting back to a somewhat normal routine!!
Maddie is officially sleeping through the night, although now that I type this, I am sure she will start waking up again but let me tell you that makes for a blessed nights sleep. :) I am still keeping a little boy full time and have another little boy coming part time. The 1500 Korkers are almost done thanks to a very good friends help. We split them, so that took a load off of me. We are excited to see what the next order looks like. Brandon is working extra hard these days. He is still at UPS and LOVES it... The Lord truly worked a miracle so far, in letting him keep that job. I can't go into all the details but we praise the Lord for him still have the job as of date. He is still a project manager at Accu Brick and is finally breaking ground on their office building. YEAH!!! He has some additions and some other "bigger" jobs that are going on the side. We are very thankful for everything we can get these days. Aleeza started playing basketball this week... it is so cute, and Lord willing she will be starting BJ this fall in K-4....wow my baby is growing up.. everyone said the time would go by fast and it sure does. Livvy is well Livvy... :) She is talking up a storm and into everything. She is hopefully over being sick for the past few days. She is our clown. Maddie, is great. She is starting to try to crawl, and loves to sit and just play with whatever...so that is nice for me. Well, that is our life in a nut shell for now. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Life continues....

I am so thankful that the Lord allows us to just continue moving on despite our mistakes and messups. And there are plenty of those. Another shot out to my husband... given the current market and how things are right now... it would be a great time to throw it all in and just give up completely... but no...that is not Brandon, he is working so hard these days. He got a GREAT job at Accu Brick as a project manager. The Lord could not have timed this job any better. The housing market crashes and we are not sure what to do and boom this is thrown in our lap along with building their office building. Amazing. He is working a normal day from about 4:30 ( ups) till around 7 or so at night. Pretty tired in the evenings but we are thankful for it. He is an amazing husband and father to me and to the girls. We started a tradition that I heard a lady share about recently. If daddy is home for supper we light a candle, and eat by candlelight. He normally will be but has been working late the past few weeks so tonight we got to light the candle. Aleeza was so excited. I am so thankful for him.
I am still keeping a little boy full time and a little girl here an there. I am thankful for this "job" also. The Lord just continues to show His face to us. It is amazing to see what He is doing in our lives. I have been told recently but a few close people that they don't know how I do it, how do you live day to day not knowing what the day holds? Do any of us know what it holds though. I contribute all the glory and praise to God. We have been memorizing and meditating on a verse out of Habukkuk 3:17-19lately. The short of it "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." What else do we need to do?
The girls are good and getting big. Would still appreciate a special prayer for Maddie that she would start sleeping completly through the nigth. I was spoiled I think formula feeding my other two, but nursing is a tad different. I think she is just spoiled and in a rut I can't seem to break. Every morning around 3.....Hopefully soon. :)
Pictures to come soon... when I have a chance again to sit down and type some!!

who is who?

It was hard for me to tell at first..... they are the same age just 12 months and 2 days apart. I thought this was so cute of them!!! Livvy is first then Maddie!

Update....

Well, we are doing well, sorry it has been a while since we posted...time just seems to slip right by us. The girls are good and getting so big. We are so blessed to have such sweet girls. Brandon is doing well and is looking forward to starting a "new" job. He is going to be a project manager for a company here in town. He will still be building on the side and we still have a house and a large office building coming up, so we are thankful for that. The Lord is good. He closes the doors He does not want us to have. We have dealt with so many things lately and it has been so neat to see the Lord's hand clearly directing our every step and our every turn. He is truly good. I am still watching three kids. One is full time and the other two are part time. Aleeza enjoys having them here. So needless to say I am busy. Thanks for all of your prayers. I know so many of you are praying for us and we appreciate it so much!