Ice Ice Baby

I just took these pictures a few minutes ago. I wish I could have captured the trees covered in ice this morning. I was going to try to take a few pictures but after I fell on the ice while checking things out I was not willing to take the risk with my camera.

Where's Caden?

Ya'll know the game!


Oh no, where's Caden?


Bob, do you see Caden?


There he is!

Pics from Saturday with Caden

Bob and Caden reading.


If only the train would stay in place.


I wanna be like Bob?? Caden and his love of shoes, a boy after my own heart!!

Look both ways

Look left (his left)


Look right (again his right)


All clear so look out!!


Driving Mr. Monkey!

He is such a smart boy!! EF we just love your little boy!!

Not Me Monay

It's time again for "Not Me" Monday hosted by MckMama.

I did not get black permanent marker all over Bob's leather couch. (Does anybody know how to get it out?)

I did not put my new contacts on over my old ones. Nope, everybody knows you have to take out the old ones before you can put the new ones in. (It only took me a few minutes to figure out what I did. At first I though I was give the wrong prescription since everything was blurry.)

I did not excited about Caden peeing in the potty. And I did not call Bob so he could make a big deal of it for "our" little man. And since I didn't have any M&M's I did not give him a drop of my drink.

I did not kill the rubber tree. Nope, in my mind it's still alive. (At least it stayed alive for a couple of months.)

I did not stay up late playing Rockband several nights in a row. I have not mastered the easy level but fail miserably at the medium level. (I can't get my pinky to what I want it to do.)

How to slow down a two year old!

Bob and I had the pleasure of watching our favorite almost two year old. This is what happened when I held the pants open and Bob put Caden in them. Bob and I could not stop laughing!

We had such a great day with Caden! He is at such a fun age right now.

EF - we reinforced the "go big red" and taught him how to say frapaccino and Starbucks.

(Not the best picture since it was taken with my blackberry and I couldn't stop laughing.)

24 Verses in 2009

My goal for 2009 is to memorize 24 scriptures. How did this come about? It came from the Beth Moore and Living Proof Ministries. (Check out the LPM blog for details.)

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2-4

I chose this one for my January 1st scripture. It spoke to me while I was reading the bible and then it was reinforced at church on January 3rd. The words joy, whenever, testing, and finish all jump out at me. Why did these words jump out at me?

• Joy - it comes from the lord.
• Whenever - not if but when.
• Testing - this is how we grow.
• Finish - don't look for the short cut but see it to the end.

Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:5-7

This is the verse I chose for my January 15th verse. I know most people know verses 6-7 but when I was trying to find a verse I knew I wanted to memorize a verse with the word anxious in it. So when I did a quick search on Bible Gateway, Philippians 4:6 came up as one of the search results. If you click on the link you can click on Philippians 4:5-7 to see the verse in context, which I did. Once I read it I knew this was the verse for me. This time when I was reading the verse I looked up the meaning of the words that jumped out at me.

• Gentleness - having a gracious and honorable manner
• Evident - easy or clear to see or understand
• Anxious - worried or afraid, especially about something that is going to happen or might happen
• Present - to give or hand something to somebody
• Peace - a state of mental calm and serenity, with no anxiety
• Transcends - to go beyond a limit or range

This verse is telling me I should give everything to the Lord and if I am truly doing this with trust then it can be seen to those around me. I know one of the things that frustrates me is when somebody tells me they have handed something over to God but you can tell they are still worried about. I can hear it in my head now. "I trust the Lord but I'm going to hold onto this just in case." I don't want that to be me. If I tell somebody that I have turned something over I want them to be able to see from my actions and my words that I trust the Lord completly and I am not going to second guess him.