I sit here thinking about what Jesus went through for all of us. In the span of three days the world would never be the same. I am looking forward to celebrating His resurrection on Sunday. It has been a hard week with the girls. I feel like they are testing my desire to have peace in all circumstances, and I have been found wanting! It makes me all the more grateful to be loved by God, even with all my stubborn warts, and grateful for the incredible sacrifice that Christ made for me.

Truly, Blessed be the name of the Lord!

Posted in: God Lane on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at at 1:08 AM 0 comments    

Well, I have quite a few pics from February that I still need to get posted, so here goes....
Here is just a cute shot of Angelina, back from when she still had a bum bum. :)


Trinity wanted me to take this picture of her snuggling her Special Bear.

This was the last "big" snow we had in February. David was having fun shoveling it b/c it was so light and airy. After shoveling the walk from the back door to the garage, he then went out into the yard and started shoveling snow onto the bushes! Guess they needed an extra coat of white. :p

Here is Trinity getting up after making a snow angel.

Here is the snow angel. I had to change the contrast on the pic for it to show up, but you can see the little angel in there.
What is it about kids wanting to eat snow?? Here are both the girls getting their fill.

This is right before we went to a Valentine party at Heartland. This is the last time we did anything with our old church, so it is kind of sad looking at the pics. On the other hand, we are very happy in our new church, so no regrets on the move.

Loving sisters.

The kids all eating their lunch at the party.

Of course Angelina has to show me her mouthful of cupcake when I try to take a picture!

That's better....

Trinity and her cupcake. Is there anything more blissful than a cupcake to a kid?!


Here are a few shots from our quick weekend to Keokuk to go eagle spotting. We saw tons of eagles, but didn't get a lot of good pictures. Here we had pulled in to try and get to the lock on the Mississippi river. It was all gated off though.

Then I turned around and looked across the street and the trees lining the embankment were filled with eagles. Here is one pic of a couple eagles chilling in the tree.

The kids enjoyed playing in the mud while David and I watched eagles on the river. There was actually an ice chunk still out in the middle of the river beyond camera shot where eagles were hanging out. We watched as eagles would take off from trees along the shore and soar out over the river in search of fish and then come back again.

The funny thing is we did this drive all the way down to Keokuk (almost 3 hours) and we actually saw the most eagles just south of Knoxville, about a half hour from where we live. There was an area around a river where there were probably about 30 bald eagles circling around in the sky.

This is a picture that Trinity took of David and Angelina. She had her finger over the flash so that is why the lighting is strange, but I thought it was cute anyway. Trinity is actually a pretty good photographer. The picture of Lucy and Max on our blog background are both her work.

So, that gets us caught up. I am finally feeling almost normal and my coughing/hacking is diminishing slowly but surely. I am sooooo thankful that no one else in the family got the miserable flu that I had. That reminds me...I put the girls in daycare one day while I was sick so I could get some rest. It was such a strange thing to be in the house without the girls. It was so quiet. It was a pretty day too, so I opened the house and lay on the couch where the fresh air could waft in from the front door. It was so peaceful and pleasant to listen to the birds singing. I may not have recovered from my illness in one day, but it surely restored my soul to have that day alone.

Grace and peace be with you!

Posted in: Slow Lane on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at at 9:03 PM 0 comments    

Angelina is healing up nicely. The doctor said she is 40-50% healed already. We go back in on Friday morning.

Grace and peace be with you!

Posted in: Slow Lane on Monday, February 2, 2009 at at 11:29 AM 0 comments    

Angelina's burn looks much better today. She is certainly full of energy and not in any pain. We only gave her pain medicine this morning before changing and cleaning her burn.

The really good news is that after a couple accidents on the floor yesterday, she is now happily using the potty. I brought in our little potty chair rather than trying to get her to use the big potty. I also read her the Toilet Learning book that Jeanette had given us. Now she is so excited to be able to go potty and has done so all day today. Woo-hoo!

Grace and peace be with you!

Posted in: Slow Lane on Sunday, February 1, 2009 at at 1:35 PM 0 comments    

Poor Angelina learned the hard way that naked bums and corn stoves do not mix. This morning Trinity had stripped down because she wanted to take a bath. Angelina followed suit by taking off her pants and diaper while they pleaded to take a bath. They were standing in front of the corn stove since the nice warm air blows out from there. I told them they could take a bath and Trinity ran off to the bathroom. Angelina, however, leaned over to pick something up. This movement placed her bum square on the door of the stove - the only part that gets hot.

I took her to the doctors and she has second degree burns. Most of her right cheek is burned and about 1/4 of the other. It is going to be a challenge to get her healed up since she can't wear a diaper. We can't risk getting poop on the burned areas. So, looks like we begin potty training by default! Here is a picture of her laying on the floor watching a movie. Please be praying for quick healing for her and an extreme measure of patience for mom!

Happier days... Trinity and Angelina were washing the floor (their choice!) but also managed to have a little squirt fight.

Earlier this week...what do you get when you cross a two year old and paint?

This was from last Sunday. We filled spray bottles with water and food coloring to create snow paint.

The girls loved it - anytime they get to spray they are happy

This was the beautiful sunrise that greeted me one morning this week. It was actually much more stunning in person than I was able to capture.

After seeing a bald eagle and a herd of almost 50 deer last week, I started carrying my camera in my purse. Sure enough, this past Wednesday I was able to get a shot of a bald eagle while on my way into Des Moines to the library.

Grace and peace be with you!

Posted in: Slow Lane on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at at 2:18 PM 0 comments    

Here are the girls "doing school" one morning. They both wanted to dress up that day. (what a surprise! ;) Trinity was doing a coloring sheet of parrots and Angelina worked on a puzzle.

I took some really cute video of the girls dancing, but I can't get it to upload. I will keep trying....

Posted in: Homeschool Lane on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at at 7:43 AM 0 comments    

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