Happy Birthday ~ Chris

Happy 27th birthday to a wonderful man in my life - my husband and my best friend. I could not live my life without you. Thank you for being who you are, for the life you have given me and the way you lead our family spiritually. You are a wonderful father to our children also. Always caring and ready to talk about their troubles. I love you babe and happy birthday!!!!

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By the way, Happy Birthday to my dad. Dad you have a been a great father to me and I love you very much.

Wow, my life has been so crazy for the past two weeks. We had V.B.S. and then my two kids were sick, vomitting, etc. We did all kinds of work to our yard. Our landlord still had a bunch of his stuff in our shed, which meant we could not get our stuff in it. And all of our stuff was around our porch. (That really makes your house look nice.) Finally the shed was cleared out, Chris tore down the walls and put new ones up and all of our stuff in put away. Yay! :) Mom and Dad were here for supper on Sun. It was a combined birthday dinner for my Dad and Chris. I fixed meatloaf, brocolli n' cheese, mac n' cheese, salad, and banana creme pie for dessert. Monday went pretty well, but I went to bed Monday night vomitting and my stomach cramping all night. I woke up Tuesday morning vomitting. And I have laid around all day with my stomach cramping. Over the weekend, I had a stye on my eye. That started on Thurs. It hurt and was swollen a little, Friday - my eyelid had double its size and it hurt even worse, Sat. - It had tripled its size and I went to the ER and they gave me eye drops for it. I have to use those every six hours for five days and cannot wear my contacts. So I have to wear glasses for five days which I utterly hate. I think I am caught up for now. There are quite a few pictures below from our crazy weeks.

Here is the way my eye looked when I went to the ER this past Saturday. I couldn't even get my contact in then. It was quite horrible and very painful. I have never had a stye before and never want one again. By the time Sat. had come the stye had moved from the outside of my eyelid to underneath it on top of my eyeball.

This is Madelyn and her friend Zoe from church. We went to their house for dinner and the girls enjoyed playing together. Doris fixed a wonderful meal of enchiladas and they were wonderful. Thank you Rick and Doris for a great evening.
It is so funny because Joshua loves sunglasses way more than Madelyn. He is also getting into this baby thing. He wants to hold a baby like his sister does. We were getting ready to leave for church here and this is the way he walked into church, also. He is SO CUTE!
Madelyn with her baby in its carseat and the diaper bag. She actually has a real bottle in that diaper bag. And her baby always has to sit between her and Joshua in the car. She is going to be a great mother one day.
This was so cute. Chris and I overheard Madelyn telling Joshua his name and she was showing him how to count. I was able to snap this picture before they saw me. As you can see, they have Madelyn's computer and she was "teaching" him a few things. She always thinks she is the mother.
I was doing laundry one day and was coming through the hallway when Madelyn was taking some of our clothes and putting them in her washer. She said, "Mommy, I am doing laundry, too." I love her so much. She always wants to be doing what I am doing. (Joshua is standing by making sure it is done right. 8)

This is a very funny story. Chris had made him a milkshake and the kids wanted some drinks. So he decided they could all drink out of it at the same time. They enjoyed every minute of it. The funny thing is, long after it was all over, I went to the fridge and opened it and there sat....
my mixer. He had placed the mixer in the fridge when he put back the milk. I laughed so hard when I saw it. I love you babe! You are so awesome.
We had some Bob Evans gift cards so on our shopping day we decided to go there and have lunch and have some dessert. We live 40min. (one way)from our big shopping town. So once a week we all load up and do our weekly grocery/neccesities shopping. Go to the library and try to get an ice cream.

Joshua at Bob Evans.
Madelyn at Bob Evans.
We are at the library. My kids love that trip. They look for books, play with puzzles and all of the other toys.Joshua doing a puzzle. Sometimes he needs a little assistance, but he does good for the most part.

Crazy Week...

This is the first time I have been able to use this computer since last Thursday. Last Friday, Josiah Wendell, and a boy, Timmy, from his church came down. We had alot of fun. We grilled out and had a bomb fire. Then on Sat. the guys went on a boat trip that took alot LONGER than they expected. Then sat. night at about 12:30a.m. three more people arrived from our Corydon Church and they were all with us on sun. Josiah preached both services and did a very good job. Then we had a carry-in dinner. They all left Sun. night after the service and we were very sad to see them go. This past Mon. night started our VBS at church. Chris and I are doing it. Very stressful at times, but the Lord is helping and we are having a very good turn-out. Our last night service is Fri. and then we have our program on Sun. morning.

I do not have pictures to post right now, but I will at the end of the week. I do want to put on here some things the kids have said that was absolutely hilarious.

The other day, Joshua did something and I told him, in a very stern voice, to sit down on the couch. He looked at me and said, "Uh Oh!"

Then tonight Madelyn was in one of those moods, showing off about everything, messing with little things that she normally wouldn't. So finally I just thought I am going to ignore her and then she will stop. Well, she got my attention for on of her "acts" and I said, "I know I am ignoring you." She looked at my mom and said, "She is ignoring me and then she is going to spank my hind-end." I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cry.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

4th of July with family

Hello, I hope everyone had a good 4th of July. We had lots of fun spending it with family. We did have a tire to go flat on our car so Chris spent a good 3-4 hours getting it fixed at Wal-mart. But that was the only down side of it. We went to Mom & Dad's for the 4th and had a cookout and then we stayed the night at their house and went to Rutland the next day to be with Chris' Dewhurst side of the family. The kids had alot of fun playing with their nana and pappy, and all of their cousins.

Here is Madelyn, Lincoln, and Riley. They are watching kids play some games at the Rutland 4th of July festival. Madelyn and Riley would not get out and play the games.
Madelyn did play one game and here she is.
Me, Joshua, and Lincoln. Lincoln is so cute. He loves to give hugs and kisses (but in a rough way) and Joshua doesn't really care for it. They are getting better with each other, but we are still not there yet. :)
This would be Jordan showing the younger kids a great trick. Hooray for us parents. All of the smaller kids love her to death.
My dad with Madelyn. She loves to go with Pappy to close the pool up where my dad works.

My dad with Joshua. My dad cannot go out the door unless he takes Joshua.
Madelyn and Riley cheesin' for the camera
Madelyn, Riley, and Aunt Robin.
I wanted all of the kids to sit beside Grandma, but obviously Riley and Joshua would not do it and we are also missing Lincoln. I think he was taking a nap.
My little princess in her patriotic outfit.

My mom with Madelyn and Joshua. They love to be in the kitchen with her when she is cooking. They are dragging out all of the stuff in her drawers.
Chris and Dad were chillin' while we were waiting for ice cream to be made.
Me and Joshua. He is so adorable. I call him my prince
The most wonderful thing. Homemade ice cream. Very Very yummy!! :)

Our 5th Anniversary

Today is our 5th Anniversary! I have been happily married to a wonderful man for these past five years. Chris is a loving, caring, compassionate, long-suffering, forgiving,...I will stop there, but could go on and on. He is an amazing husband and father. Always making sure that we are taken care of. The kids always fight for his attention and I love seeing that. We are spending the day with family, but maybe we can go out for a meal next week before my next crew of visitors arrive next Thurs. for the whole weekend. Happy Anniversary my love! I love you with all of my heart. Thank you for choosing me to spend my life with you.

Catching up and Madelyn's 3yr. old pictures

Well, it is Wednesday and we have been home for three days after being at youth camp and family camp for two whole weeks. We had alot of fun at youth camp with all of the teenagers and saw alot of victories. Tuesday night was our best service. God came on that service and we saw I believe 5 or 6 open and closed alter services. It was wonderful. Then of course we had a great family camp. Madelyn and Joshua had fun with all of their friends and uncles and aunts from South Dakota. Chris' family came in for camp and it was so wonderful to see and spend time with them again. Hopefully we will get to go out there in Sept. and see their new house they just moved into. I enjoyed the shopping day with my good friend Julie Sproles. It is a camp thing, we go shopping and go out to eat one day during camp. While the guys, keep the kids. :) I had alot of fun. It was good to spend time with you again Julie. Then it was alot of fun, (Ralph and Belinda) for us to be sent to bed by the guard. :) Anyways, it is good to be home even with all of the piles of laundry and mail. Anyone want to apply for a job? :) Hopefully everything will be caught up before the holiday weekend.

I have below Madelyn's 3yr. old pictures. She did very well. The scar on her left side above her eye is from her run-in with the paino bench, which had to be glued back together.(her forehead, not the bench) I did not post all of them. These are just my favorite ones.



This is my favorite one.