Crazy for the Choo Choo

So last Friday Bo and I met Kathy and the boys and their sister Liliana up at the mall for our usual playdate. This time before letting them play we were sitting and talking while they all sat in their strollers. Every day at 11:00 the train comes to take kids for a ride. As soon as Bo heard it I thought he was going to come out of the stroller. He was going crazy to get to the train! Wow, they don't forget do they? One ride the week before and I now have a monster on my hands.

Considering it's $3.00 per person to ride the train and that includes moms and dads even if their children are too young to ride alone...isn't that terrible! So...with that said I knew Kathy was going to ride with the boys and I literally had $3.00 cash with me, because I never carry cash, so I let Bo ride with them. He was so excited, just hopped right on, so grown up like! It wasn't until he saw me waving when they came around the first time that he got upset. Kathy put him in her lap and I waited in one of the stores and he did great! All by himself!!! P.S.-can you tell he's teething? Fingers in the mouth in every picture poor guy!

Waiting for his "ticket"

Noah with his ticket!

Nate & Bo

A little under the weather...

Guess this must be the time for colds...

Jesus Paid It All

So today this was the first song we sang in church. This same version. Most people know the hymn, however this is a contemporary version. We have an amazing praise and worship band and today they had the choir perform as well. I was hoping someone would post the video, there were a few people recording it with their phones. It was so moving...if you could have just been there to feel the energy in the room! I couldn't find one from today's service, but I did find this video someone put on You Tube and I must say sometimes actually seeing the words to a song has a bigger impact on me than just hearing a song. I love this version and think it's such a great song to remember as we face the storms that come our way in life.

Today's message was on giving your life over to God, building it on a "foundation of rock". Matthew 7:24-27 says "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

You are betting your marriage, family, children, finances on this foundation. There are storms all over and everyone faces them. What's your foundation? I loved how our pastor gave the example of how convenient (remember this series is on convenience), how convenient and flexible sand is. He talked about how when his little boy sits to play in his sand box the sand conforms to his little bottom. It's very easy, flexible, convenient, it conforms to how YOU want it! But following God isn't about being easy or convenient.

He also compared Spiritual Awakening vs Spiritual Conversion. Many people think they are the same thing... Awakening is realizing what you need, the light goes off, you think "I get it I need to follow God" and many end at that. Spiritual Conversion is giving your life over to God, completely. Words are not enough. It's so very hard sometimes to hand things over to God, especially for me because I like to be in control (shocker huh?). I can say all day long that I love God and that I live a "christian, spiritual" life, but what happens when I'm faced with challenges or what about when we care what others think? That's a big one...every tried to stand on your faith and had people give you a look like your crazy?

After the sermon they held open baptism and over 100 people were baptized. And this was just one out of the three services!! It was so amazing to see these people profess their faith. Remember to turn off the music at the bottom of the page. Enjoy the video!

Boys will be boys!

So this week we have had landscapers redoing our front beds. Before we moved in the house had been vacant for 2 years and what landscaping they had done was pretty bad so we decided to rip everything out and start over.

The other day I noticed Bo would not leave the windows and then I realized he was watching the guys working. Free Entertainment!!! He loved watching them with the backhoe, stayed in front of the window until it was time for his nap! He's such a little boy!!

Don't you love the one shoe on, one shoe off...he's always like this!

Playground Mishaps

As I return from taking Bo to the playground I remember coming across this video yesterday. Oh how I remember those metal slides!!!! Ever noticed you NEVER see these things on playgrounds anymore.

Mommy-Son Weekend

This weekend Jarrod met two of his childhood friends, Kevin and Buddy, in Chicago for a "guys weekend". So that meant Bo and I had a mommy-son weekend! Friday morning we met our friends Nate & Noah at the Mall of Ga. This is our routine almost every Friday. Meet at 10:30 let them play in the kids play area then lunch at Chick fil A around 11:30. This Friday was even more special because he got to ride the train. They have this little train that goes around the play area and Kathy had decided to give it a try with the boys so Bo and I hopped on. At first he wasn't sure, but after about 30 seconds he LOVED it!!!

Bo & Nate trying to figure out how to get back on.

Forget it, I'll do it myself!

Oh what a trantrum we threw when we couldn't get back on and had to leave! Fun times for mom...I had to carry him kicking and screaming (literally) through the mall, he wouldn't get in his stroller!

Lunchtime...all he wanted was his fruit, hardly touched his chicken nuggets! Now if I could just get him that excited over veggies!

Saturday morning we woke up and went to see my grandmother "Grandmoms". She absolutely loved seeing Bo, it was the highlight of her day! She also loved showing him off to all of her friends where she lives. It's such little things that can brighten her day.

A little bath playtime! It was too cute not to take!

Saturday night and Sunday were a little rough, he's getting his 4 canine teeth in right now so he was awake half the night. I was debating on taking him to church Sunday morning, but he seemed to be fine so a little motrin and off we went. I could tell when I left him in the nursery he was getting fussy, because he was so tired. I met my friend, Kathy (the twins mom) and told her I had a feeling I might get called to get him. Sure enough, close to the end of the sermon up flashed "8658", meaning...COME GET BO!!! They only call you if it's really bad! So I sat with him in the "mother's nursing" room where I rocked him and was able to finish the sermon via tv.

Sunday night daddy got home, thank goodness because I was worn out. He even brought Bo and I a little surprise. Bo wasn't quite as thrilled since he was tired and it was late, but at least he let us try...

All in all it was a good weekend, but I'm very glad daddy will be here this weekend!

A dream come true

So you all know we went to see Paul McCartney last weekend. I have dreamed of seeing him play the piano. I play and I get so much enjoyment out of watching amazingly, talented people play. It doesn't get any better than this...It's a little hard to see, but it was probably recorded on someone's cell phone! **Remember to turn off the music at the bottom of the page!




Another one for fun...oh how I wish you could have seen all the ladies dancing who you knew grew up to this! I loved it!!!