Congrats handsome!

The queen and her crown

It's Not Monday... or is it?

Yesterday was a rough day in our house and I am mentally exhausted.  I spent all afternoon feeling like I was having an anxiety attack and about to have a breakdown!  Our family has had a rough year...  getting along...  and sometimes I really don't want to deal with them and many times I wish my husband had moved us out of state when we first got married...  (Although I do tell him all the time that all he has to do is tell me and I will go!)  How do I say I am christian but feel in my heart that I have no love for some people?  In my mind I say everything I hold in my heart and though I know my Jesus knows all the anger and frustration I feel I ask him to look past that and know that I am trying, and I pray constantly that those words stay in my mind and never reach my lips... but there is only so much my human side can take!  How do you ask someone who is part of your blood family to just keep the peace and go away?!  There is nothing right in that statement but the family I have that I love and the family that I have by choice (my friends) are the ones I choose to build my life around.  I can't change people, I don't want to, I accept them for who they are and just choose not to have them in my life and I pray, for myself, for them and for all families that are so different they can't find common ground.  I look at my son and I feel so unworthy because how do I teach him to love everyone and know that I struggle with that.  I guess all that I can do is to remind him  that everyone has something in them we can love, even if it is only that they are God's creation...  we might like like them, but we must still be kind.  In the end I know that my job is to show him love and surround him with that same kind of love and know that my God accepts me anyway...

The hunt

The grad

EB your great!

Movie time

Lent

Lent
A good reminder for all believers AND non-believers, especially as Lent begins.
JESUS DEATH - 60 SECONDS ~~~
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever
You're doing and take this opportunity!
Let's see if Satan can stop you from reading this...
THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS
At the age of 33,
Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.
At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals condemned to be crucified. Yet it was
Even more dreadful for Jesus, for unlike other criminals
condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was nailed to the
cross by His hands and feet, rather than tied...
Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.
The nails
Were driven into His wrist. Not
Into His palms as is commonly
Portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that
Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew
That when the nails were being hammered into the
Wrist, that tendon would tear and
Break, forcing Jesus to use His back
Muscles to support himself, so that He could breathe.
Both of His feet
Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to
Support Himself on the single nail that
Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could
Not support himself with His legs for long because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His
Back and using his legs just to continue to
Breath.. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the
Suffering, the courage.
Jesus endured this
Reality for over 3 hours.
Yes,
Over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of
Suffering? A few minutes before He died,
Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water
From his wounds.
From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side...
But do we remember the many wounds
Made to his body. A hammer
Driving large nails through the wrists, the feet overlapped
And a nail hammered through the arches, then a
Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. And...
Before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and
Beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the
Flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His
Face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The
Crown of thorns (two to three inch thorns) cut deeply into His scalp. Most men
Would not have survived this torture.
He had no more blood
To bleed out, only water poured from His
Wounds.. The
Human adult body contains about 5 liters
(just over a gallon) of blood.
Jesus poured all 5 liters of his blood;
He had three nails hammered into His
Body; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond
That, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His
Chest...
All these without
Mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own
Cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his
Face and threw stones (the cross beam was almost 30 kg of weight, to which His hands were nailed).
Jesus had to endure this experience,
So that you may have free access to God.
So that your sins can be "washed" away.
All of them, with no exception!
Don't ignore this.
JESUS
CHRIST DIED...FOR YOU!
Accept the reality, the truth, that
JESUS IS THE ONLY SALVATION FOR THE WORLD.
God has special plans for YOU!
Yes, I love God. He
is my source of life and my Savior.
He keeps me alive and safe, both day and night.
Without Him, I am nothing,
but with Him "I can do all things through Him
who strengthens me". Philippians 4:13.

Love my Yard Men...

My Honey has been working so hard on the front yard and it looks great, so proud of him... and his little helper too...

Hard workers

Looking Good...

My girlies after I fix their hair, Ms. Marla's beauty shop opens about 2:45... call for your appointment today! LOL

Beauty shop

I love you Easter Bunny!

Here is my little love bunny hard at work on his cascarones.... We have to break it into mini sessions because he loses interest pretty fast!

My lil' bunny hard at work!

Awww

Jay loving her boys at Noah's game...

Sweet Suzie

Everyone needs a little Suzie in their life, she always makes you feel special!

The boys

Now who says two sides can't come together, here are Noah and Kyle and they were still acting silly! Go Sand Gnats and Grasshoppers!

Funny

So yesterday my honey had to go to Tractor Supply (so cute to say his name and Tractor Supply LOL) because my man was a'workin on the yard and had to get a part to fix his lawnmower (so cute to say his name with yard work AND lawnmower).  He asks Mr. Noah if he wants to go and of course, Momma has to throw in that they probably have the baby chicks in for Easter so he can get to see them while he's there, that was of course a big mistake...  The chicks weren't even even though Johnny said, even though I am sure he wanted to kill me, that there was a sign in place saying don't touch the chicks so he was sure they were coming in...  but my son WAS NOT a happy camper and insisted that I said Office Depot, which is next door, and not Tractor Supply...  So Johnny has him call me on there way home because he is one upset child and I tell him, sorry son I did say Tractor Supply AND he still tells me that I didn't...  I am totally dreading their arrival back home because I already know I am going to get my tail chewed for even mentioning those dang chicks...  I should know better....  I always seem to get myself in trouble that way... LOL Soooo, long story short, I call today to find out when they are coming so I can make sure I don't mention it again...

ME:  Yes, can you tell me when the chicks will be coming in?

THEM:  There are usually some here every day...

ME:  Are you out, because my husband took my soon in yesterday and there was only a sign, no chicks...

THEM:  Mam, I am willing to bet money that you can come in just 'bout any day and there will be at least one chick working the register...

REALLY?  I haven't laughed that hard in a while because he totally got me...  Thanks Tractor Supply, I'll be in to see your chicks soon...

Camping.... really?

Well, they had a pool and since it was all about Noah, how could I say no? LOL... He did do the river, it was so cute, he would walk up about ten feet and then float down...

Here he is chomping on his first Smore ever! Even though I grew up camping, I had never had a smore either so I made one too... They were pretty good!

And the Ghost stories have begun!

The Survivors, Noah, Gabriel and Gavin with Christian in the back... They had a blast and I am glad, it sure isn't the same when you are a grown up, now I know why my mom wasn't ever to excited about camping, we have to pack, unpack, cook clean and worst of all... go home with more work to do! See, it makes you appreciate all that stuff (remember this Noah) :)

Here we go

On our way to our camping trip

Here we go!!

And the ten is up... even though I WAS a little worried at first....

Notes to Noah

During this season of Lent, I think so many times of the journey our Lord is preparing to take... through Mary's eyes. And I think of you, my sweet boy and cannot imagine the pain and heartache she endured as she watched her son. Noah, the minute I found out we were blessed with a baby I turned you over to our Blessed Mother, I waited my whole life for you and I laid myself and you before her and asked as a Mother herself, that she help me to keep you healthy and safe, my promise to her that day and everyday since has been that if she helped me guide you, the example of pure love that she is, that I would do my best to raise you as a strong Catholic/Christian man and that your life would be open to God's will as I pray ours are every day. I think of what she endured, and I try so hard to tell my self that just as she did, there may be times that I have to stand back and let God's will be done, even if it is painful. I pray for joy and peace everyday of your life Noah Croix, but most importantly I pray that you answer God's call for the purpose of your life. I love you son, with every breathe I take...