ADOPT

Okay, seriously, if I wasn't about to have a baby any day now, I would seriously, prayerfully consider this. Please, if you have a heart to adopt a child and if you have the ability right now, I urge you to read This Blog Post about Little James
He is a little baby boy in China who has Down Syndrome. China decided to place him up for adoption. It is the first time they have put a DS baby up for adoption. He has until July 1st to be adopted. If he isn't, he will be institutionalized and no other children with DS will ever be placed up for adoption again. How sad that something he can't control will prevent him a loving home...loving parents..and instead give him a life in an institution. My first thought when reading about James, was, I wouldn't have the money to adopt him. If that is your first thought, as well, please note...a donor is paying for all of the costs. It would not cost you a dime to adopt him. Please, PLEASE visit the blog above and if something in you clicks, then pray. Is God calling you to help change this little life?????

Just a little thought

Today at church our pastor mentioned something that I really liked and had never thought of before. If you read over the verses about the armor of God, Ephesians 6:10-18......

"Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

"Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints...." Ephesians 6:10-18

.......you may notice that there is no mention about armor for our backside. Why? God doesn't want us running from satan. He wants us to take him head on. I like that!

My baby shower

My friends threw me a baby shower today over at Faeryland Mom's house.

It was such a wonderful and relaxing time and everyone showed up and it meant so much to me. :o)


The mister got so many wonderful gifts.



Here I am modeling my tummy for the toilet paper game. My belly was 11 squares of toilet paper around.


And at my shower, it wasn't called a baby shower for nothing. See all the kiddos?

Too many pregnant, hungry people in this house

Well, hello. I love having my Kate here to visit. It's been so nice. She is 5 weeks pregnant. Congrats, Kate. And, well she is a hungry hippo. The two of us are constantly eating, it's funny. We have been eating up all of the food in the fridge. And poor Steve is surrounded by way too many female hormones right now, LOL. Anyway, Kate and I went and saw The Breakup last night. I had heard mixed reviews about it. People either loved it or hated it. I really really liked it. I would even see it again. I thought that it was very good. I do recommend it. Yep, sure do! Kate liked it too.

Oh, on my sidebar is a new audio clip with me and Audrey singing. Unfortunately I didn't record until like the third round of the song...the first two were so much cuter because she just sang and sang, but when I thought about recording it, she was at that point getting distracted. But the end of it is so cute. Oh she is so cute, I love it! So, you must take a listen.

Well, that's about it for news on this end of the world. My shower is tomorrow and I'll be sure to post pictures. Oh and can I tell you how jealous I am of Steve's boss? She was due I think a week after me and she had her baby yesterday. No fair. I've been pregnant longer!!!! LOL. I am glad to hear that she had the baby though and that everyone is healthy.

The three of us cuddling this evening. I wish I could chop off my sticking up hair. LOL!

cherry blossom

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This week's theme is Love!
Two years ago, my friend, Charity, took pictures of me and my little girl throughout the course of a weekend. We went to a LOVE statue in Scottsdale, Arizona and took several pictures. She later sent me an album of the photos she took. The last one was a neat collage she made. She got the entire statue and cut it into squares and then placed two cutouts from pictures of me and my little miss. They were taken right after I colored my hair dark brown. Wow, is it dark. LOL!



Oh, and here we are in the statue.

Pictures

We took the miss and my day care kiddo to little bigg town today for a couple of hours. They were sooo well behaved and we all had a great time. Here are some pictures.

Can the pregnant gal squeeze through the bars.



Stuck in Jail



Doesn't he look scared?

A Little vent

Okay, so there is a single, (I think) middle aged (perhaps) man who lives across the street from us. But I have learned just now that supposedly he has a teen daughter or something???? I dunno. All I do know, is I have all the windows open in the house because it is in the lower 70's today and breezy and I love fresh air. I just put the kiddos down for a nap and everyone is asleep. And right on cue, the teenage gal across the street and her friend open their front door, blast the radio to I think the loudest it can go, stand in the entryway and then proceed to sing. Wait, I don't think I can consider it singing. They are yelling the words to the song and laughing and singing and yelling and laughing. They have been doing this now for over five minutes, and it is loud. It takes a lot to irritate me, it does...and well. I am a tad irritated. My miss is still awake. It takes her awhile to sleep. And, it has to be pretty quiet for her to sleep without getting herself distracted. The day care kiddo is in the basement, but it is still pretty loud. I mean, when the punkins sleep, I tend to stay very quiet and that is what they are used to. I would love to go over there and ask them very nicely to keep it down, but I know they won't care. In fact it might make them louder depending on their personality type and I don't want to egg them on. But, I am just a little aggravated. I ended up closing all my windows. I know that they are teens and it's summer and they are being goofballs and having fun, we've all been there. I mean I am trying to be empathetic of their situation. But anyone who has dealt with nap time knows that if something loud wakes up your child after they have just fallen asleep, you can get just a little upset. And when that something loud is an egocentric teenager who really only focuses on herself, it makes it all the more aggravating. So, I surrendered and closed my windows. I miss the breeze already. :o( Hopefully they come up with something new to do here soon. Fingers Crossed.