Fun weekend and week!

This week has been crazy!! At least the weekend was! Spent Saturday just hanging out with my hubby and kiddos. Sunday we went to church and then went to my moms house for swimming and a BBQ. Yummo! My brother is an amazing griller (if that's a word!). Monday my family and I spent the day at Idlewild Park. It's a super fun family park with lots of rides and a big pool! We had fun even though it was so hot! This week we have been indoors trying not to die from heat exhaustion!! It's not only been 90+ degrees out but the humidity matches it!! It's horrible! They say a cold front is moving in tomorrow! Hopefully it will rain and give my grass a drink! It's turning brown.:(

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day and enjoy life!!!

What I admire about my husband!

I want to post a list of things that I admire about my husband:

1. He is patient. I mean REALLY patient! We've been married for almost 9 years and I've watched him be patient, even when things got really hard! Amazing. Something I need to learn!

2. Giving. He would give you the shirt off his back. Then his socks, shoes and pants!! Extremely generous.

3. Confident. He doesn't need to say much. He is confident in who he is and what he believes. Another thing I need to learn!

4. Fun!! He can take a hom hum boring day and turn it into something completely fun! We don't just have "campouts" in our living room, we do "airplane" with daddy's feet and wrestling and whatever else comes to mind!!! Just so fun!

5. He loves our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ. This should be the #1 thing I admire about him. I think there is nothing more amazing than a man with a testimony of religious truth! It gives me the goose bumps! :)

6. Sensitive. He is gentle with me and our children. He listens to complaints and tries to understand the feelings of others. No judgement; just listening.

7. Hard working!!! He works these crazy shifts that takes him away early in the morning and brings home late at night. He does it so I can stay home and be a momma to my boys! Amazing!!

Just an amazing husband!! I could go on and on but I'm tired and it's late here in PA! Love this exercise though! It's good to take time to look for goodness instead of faults!

Happy Fourth of July!!!

Hope everyone had a great holiday and a safe one at that! We had a great day! We went to church and I had to run Primary alone because the president is on vacation. Was a little nerve-wracking, but I'm still alive! Then we visited my mom and had a cookout and played baseball and soccer with my niece and nephews. Lots of fun and a good workout!!!!

I am just grateful to have this land to call home! I'm grateful for the ability to be able to worship as I please! I hope that I will always have that freedom. I'm grateful for the men and women who live and die defending our country!! God bless America!!!

Things to think about!

A picture of our bedroom. I'll have to post a new one with the red in it!!

I said before about wanting to learn new things and how to be more efficient, so I kind of started today! I was looking through old fabric and found old red pillow cases that I made before. I think I'm going to be THRIFTY and reuse them in my bedroom. My bedroom is a pretty blue color and has cream too but I wanted to add a little more color. So my hubby and I decided to use red as an accent color. So the pillows should work out perfectly! I'm still trying to turn this little house into a more comfy home. Fill it with things about us that make us and everyone who enters feel at home. I love my family and my hubby for providing us with the home! I love the Lord and all the talents He has given to my hubby so he is able to provide for us!

Have a great day and I hope it's not as humid for you as it is here in PA!!! Blah!!

I want to learn!!!

I want to learn to be the best wife, mother and daughter of God!! I want to learn to be thrifty; i want to learn to be a better cook; i want to learn to be a better house cleaner; i want to learn to cook from scratch. I just want to be the woman that the Lord intended me to be!! I will post my progress and track my journey as I go along. This blog is fun for me because I can go back through and see how things have changed or not!!!! It's like my own journal that everyone can read! It keeps me on point though!!!

Thank you for reading and have a great day!

Ho hum hot day!

Well, I did something Saturday that I haven't done in a while! I went swimming at a PUBLIC pool and got a killer sunburn!!! I'm still feeling it today!!! Everytime I go outside, the sun feels like it's burning a hole through my shirt! My poor boys looked at me like I was CRAZY!! Anyways, I'm getting wicked excited for my days of teaching at home with my kiddos! I know it's not for everyone and that's OK! I'm just getting myself to the point where I am confident in our decision and that's that!!!

I got a new calling working with the kiddos in Primary!! I was scared silly at first, but I think that it will help prepare me for my at home teaching duties! It's a blessing in disguise!!

Thank you to anyone who may stumble upon this and read! I tend to ramble and say nonsense things but that's me!!! Have a beautiful day!!!

Trying things out!!!

Today I decided to bust out some of my lapbooks that I made for the boys and see how they worked! It was AMAZING and so much fun! M did some older kids stuff and little A did some matching! It was fun and they liked it! I made a calendar and we had calendar time. Sang the days of the weeks song that M likes singing to and little A likes to clap! It was fun! I was a little skeptical about how it would fly but I loved it and so did they!!!