School has started back up!

Well this year both the girls are off to school. WOOT for me! Ivory is a big 2nd grader and Sara is in Kindergarten and she got into the FULL DAY class which is awesome! They started Aug 24th and are loving it. It has been interesting just being me and Bradley home during the day but I think we have finally gotten into a routine that works for us. Just think in 5 years they will all be in school!

Vacation Trip Pictures!

 

Just a few of the pictures from vacation. As you can tell we had a lot of fun!

Month of Aug

Here it is the beginning of September and I notice that I have not written anything for August and man has it been a busy month. We took our first vacation in a while and drove to California to visit with family and friends. Kids had a blast and even Bradley did well on the trip. To the left is a picture of Ali and the girls in the Big Cheese!

It was so nice to get to spend time with Josh's mom and sisters. As well as Grandpa Johnston and Mary Kay and all her kids. Of course we loved spending time with Moe and able to stay in her awesome new place!

Will add more pictures soon!
New

Dad's Truck

After seeing dad's truck him and his buddy are so lucky to have walked away.

Dad's buddy and him were on there way back from an auction in Boise. Dad just bought a 2008 ford clean title and perfect body just needed a new drive line. So they hooked it up to the trailer and was pulling it back to Twin Falls (about 2 hours). Dad drove there so his buddy was driving back. A tire blew on the trailer and dad's friend made the mistake of hitting the breaks which started the whole mess. The truck flipped 3 1/2 times and landed on the roof mean while the other truck they were pulling slammed in to the bed and the back of the cab. Dad climbed got out of the window (not sure how he is such a big man) and just had a few scrapes. His buddy was stuck between the steering wheel and roof. He was choking on his own blood so had when into super mode and busted out the steering wheel and dragged his buddy out of the truck. Paramedics say if he didn't do that his buddy wouldn't have made it. Suck though $65000 worth of trucks destroyed!
Dad's buddy's face looks like someone beat the crap out of him other than that he is fine. They so had angels watching over them!!

Just Love My Kids

I really couldn't ask for any better kids. I just love them to death. The girls are trying to be as helpful as they can with their little brother. Look at that picture they are all just so cute!! All 3 of these kids really make me the person that I am and I love it!

Wow 3 months!

It is so hard to believe that Bradley is already 3 months old and man he is such a cutie! Check out this picture!! He is such a happy baby. When he wakes up in the morning he is all smiles and giggles! He is also teething two top teeth. He has discovered his hands. He will sit there and suck on his hands for minutes at a time. The girls get such a kick at of him! And he gives them smiles all the time. He is also sleeping so much better at night and I am loving it!!!










Here is a pictures of all the kids together at the park. Aren't they cute!!

Favorite Motherhood Poems!!

Some of my favorite Motherhood poems!!

What is a Mother?

A Mother has so many things to do,
From washing, ironing, cleaning to tying a shoe.
She scrubs, she mends, she cooks and sews,
She bathes the children and washes their clothes.
When they forget to wash their faces clean,
And their clothes are the muddiest you've ever seen,
Who repairs the clothes and scrubs them like new?
Of course, that is what a Mother will do.

Who becomes the doctor or the nurse when they are ill,
Applying a bandage or giving them a pill?
Who becomes a teacher when a child has homework?
She must never her duty shirk.
Who becomes a detective to find a toy or a book?
For missing things she must look and look?
Who becomes a listner to every heartache,
To every accompolishment that a child makes?
Who scolds their children when they are naughty,
Or remind them of God when they are to haughty?
Who tends her family with love and patience, too?
Of course that is what a Mother will do.
- Unknown

A Mother's Love

There are times when only a Mother's love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.

There are times when only a Mother's love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.

There are times when only a Mother's faith
Can help us on life's way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.

For a Mother's heart and a Mother's faith
And a Mother's steadfast love
Were fashioned by the Angels
And sent from God above...

- Author Unknown.

You Were There

You were there when we took our first steps,
And went unsteadily across the floor.
You pushed and prodded: encouraged and guided,
Until our steps took us out the door...
You worry now "Are they ok?"
Is there more you could have done?
As we walk the paths of our unknown
You wonder"Where have my children gone?"
Where we are is where you have led us,
With your special love you showed us a way,
To believe in ourselves and the decisions we make.
Taking on the challenge of life day-to-day.
And where we go you can be sure,
In spirit you shall never be alone.
For where you are is what matters most to us,
Because to us that will always be home... - Author Unknown.


Baby's Smile

Today you smiled, Dear, in your sleep.
What were you dreaming of?
And why did tears spring to my eyes
In a sudden rush of love?

- Barbara Burrow

The Little Things

It is the little things that count
And give a mother pleasure -
The things her children bring to her
Which they so richly treasure...
The picture that is smudged a bit
With tiny fingerprints,
The colored rock, the lightning bugs,
The sticky peppermints;
The ragged, bright bouquet of flowers
A child brings, roots and all -
These things delight a mother's heart
Although they seem quite small.
A mother can see beauty
In the very smallest thing
For there's a little bit of heaven
In a small child's offering.

- Katherine Nelson Davis

Here is a few quotes and sayings about mothers that I also enjoy!!

"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers." -- Jewish proverb

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class." -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1907- )

"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." -- Lin Yutang