Mommies Check This Out

So this morning my sweet baby daughter is still asleep. It is currently 908A. She is up before the sun every.single.morning. However, yesterday after MOPs I noticed she was running a fever. (My sincerest apologies to the other children in there with her, she was not "sick" before we went.) Yesterday it spiked to 102/103* and only dropped to around 101* with Tylenol. But she ran around like a crazy child yesterday all day, so it's hard to say...

This is not my point or what I wanted you to check out. I have some time to kill this AM and was catching up on blogs {since I myself am so tired I have been hitting the sheets by 800/830P every night I can!}, which led to blog hopping. I stumbled upon this blog: (click on it and it should take you there)

GIRLTALK

It had a bunch of scriptural/devotional motherhood thoughts laid out, under her "Current Series" image. I was definitely uplifted today by her words and scripture she has pointed me to today.
I hope you too will find it useful and feel encouraged in your journey of motherhood (at least for today)!

PS I am also going to put it on my blog roll under favorites, so you can always find it if your forget to "follow" her.

Blessing Box

It's the day to spill out your blessings!

Here are just a few of mine.

1. Cousins. These two girls are 6ish weeks apart and they are like sisters! Thank goodness Lo has some kind of sister in her life since she won't be getting one. ;) Sadly, Landrey lives WAY TOO FAR, but when she and her mommy come home it is so much fun! They just pick up right where they left off! I love them both to pieces!

The following photos are NOT staged, they did that all on their own, which makes it all the more precious!

2. My hubs who has been helping me out a lot in the evenings when I leave to go work Judgment House. Plus, he is always sneaky and leaves me little gifts or treats around. I wish I was more like that!

3. All the salvation's we have had through Judgment House! Last count as of Sunday night 393! That just makes me thrilled to no end!!
For those of you who don't know what JH is, it is a walk-through drama that shows you two different lives and their choices that lead them to their judgment day, one accepted Christ and goes to Heaven to be with our Lord and Savior, and the other sadly chose not to accept Jesus' free gift of salvation and now has to spend eternity in Hell. You walk through both Heaven and Hell and see how they will be spending eternity. It is a very intense drama, but oh so worth it. It makes me think every year about how a simple choice of accepting Christ changes your life forever, and it makes me want to make sure everyone I know comes with me to Heaven, I don't want anyone to spend a moment in Hell!!

4. My MOPs group. I just love getting together with other mom's of young children and talking about Jesus, life, and kids. I love how we encourage and build each other up to make it through another week.

The Playdate We Have All Been Waiting For...

Sadly, it was missing two girls, but getting these four girls together was a feat all in itself! All of us went to High School AND cheered together. And all of us had our FIRST babies one right after the other. One of the girls' missing kicked it off with her son in Nov '08, followed by me and Jendy in Feb '09 (3 days apart!) and then my sister in April, Ginger in May, and our last cheer buddy in Aug. Making for a grand total of 3 boys and 3 girls, a nice even pairing if I do say so myself.

Anyway, from the time we learned we were all pregnant we all wanted to have a play date together, however, schedules, jobs and locations make that hard! My sister is home for a very short week, so we got as many of us together as we could.

We had fun, or at least I did. The kids took some time to 'warm' up to one another, but then they took off and had a blast, or at least so it appeared. :) Here are some pics from our morning! Here's hoping we can get together again, ALL of us sometime, since some of us are already on baby #2! :)

This picture makes me laugh, because it shows parallel play at it's best! :)

Avery and Lo.
Ginger and I were best friends in HS, maybe this is a start of a great friendship with our daughters!

Here are the 3 Girls: Avery, Landrey and Lo...Brody didn't want to sit with a bunch of girls and take his picture. Oh well, that is toddler's for you!

This is Brody running as fast as he can from those girls!
One day he may be chasing one of them. :)

I had tons of fun girls! Hope we can do it again soon!