Little Things in Life

Do you ever sit back and notice the little things around you? Those little things that we ignore all the time. I sat in my car today and watched two butterflies swirl around in the wind. Now normally I would have thought, "Slacker stop procrastinating and get out of the car!" Not today it was so nice to be reminded of the small blessings that are so often overlooked. My life can be so busy that I rarely stop to enjoy the small things. In college I had a professor that would make us stop and name five of "God's Little Extras" in our life. I wish I did this more...Here are my five little extras today.

1. The sound of children laughing.

2. The sound of Tyler and Travis saying they love each other.

3. Butterflies

4. Wild Flowers

5. Doves that sing to me every morning in the window of my shower.

What are your Little Extras?

It's Just Great!

As I read through my comments and the comments left on our bible study I realize why satan had his grips on me yesterday. "When two or more are gathered in MY name, I am there!" Guess what HE is here! We have succeeded in starting a bible study that reaches out at any hour, anywhere. I have a smile on my face that I can not explain other than GOD! There is something wonderful planned through this bible study, I just know it!

What a difference a day makes!

So you had a Bad Day...

Can you hear that song? That was my day. It started the moment the alarm went off this morning! I cannot even explain why. It was Monday, it was a pretty day, I was training today, none of which should have made me dread the day. Apparently it was obvious to Bill that I was cranky! Not Good!
Long story short, I continued my bad day, with a scowl on my face I am sure. I finally decided that I needed to get out of this! I sat down to do my bible reading for today (see new site) and it clicked. Our God is so awesome that he can speak one word and bring the world to life. Awesome is all that can describe it! Satan however, was there to try to destroy the most amazing days so far. If he can interfere in a time that had so few distractions what can he (Satan) do in a day like today. I'll tell you... he can make you in a bad mood from the moment you wake up! Well, guess what Satan??? I win... today is not yours, God is Awesome! We have sisters in Christ reading about the story of creation and sharing it with others through a blog site. These sisters are strong in their faith and they span the world! Today I woke up cranky, but I will go to bed smiling because I have friends that share my joy! The joy that God's creation is amazing!

The New site is ready...

Our study starts Monday, April 7.

Here is the new blog site we have set up :
http://biblebloggingsisters.blogspot.com/

Great News!

I went to the Orthopedic doc today and he said I had not torn my ACL after all. Big Praise! I have a sprain of MCL (medial cruciate ligament). This is best case scenario, no surgery! YEAH! Thanks for your prayers!

Latest on the Bible Blog Study:
We are in the process of setting up a new site for the study. We are planning on following the E100 plan (http://www.e100challenge.com/ ) . It walks you through 100 stories from the bible. The blog will be available to share your thoughts or just connect with some girls and say "Hey, I did my reading today!" LeRay is setting up the site and I will add a link as soon as it is up and running. There is no pressure in this study, trust me!! Share it with your friends we want to connect it across the planet! (Ha, that sounds like Oprah!)

Love yall!

How about a Blog Bible Study?

I am looking for anyone that might be interested in joining an online bible study where we discuss things through a blog site. Let me know what you think.

Good News or Bad News?

We had a great time in Colorado! Here are the boys before the St. Patrick's Day Parade down the mountain. This is after the first day of skiing.

Day 2 is not on record because I had a bit of an accident! As I was coming down the mountain with the boys I twisted my knee. The doctors are saying it is a partial to complete tear of my ACL. I thought that only happened to athletes. Clearly not me! I was taken off the mountain on a stretcher and then to the ER in a make-shift ambulance. I will know more about the prognosis on Monday. (this is the bad news!)

Day 3 Vacation Continues! Mommy's bum knee did not stop any fun, just slowed things down a bit. The boys were skiing blues by the end of the third day. Here they are at lunch. This was a beautiful day on the slopes. I went shopping!
Tyler turned 8 on this trip! He invited us to his GUN SHOW!!

My athlete!

When did they get so big? I love them so much!

We Made IT!

Colorado is beautiful! I will add some pictures later today. The drive was very easy and the kids did great. We have seen tons of deer and snow. Love Yall!

Spring Break

One perk to being a teacher is Spring Break! Summer is good, but Spring Break is fabulous! Bill and I are taking the boys to Steamboat Springs, Colorado in the morning. We will drive there, 17 hours, ski Monday-Wednesday and drive home Thursday and Friday. I am so excited to be in the mountains with my boys! Talk to you all when we return!! (I am sure we will have plenty to share!)

Update on Mom!

After a night of clueless nurses the first night, Mom is on her way to recovery! Thank you for your prayers!

Prayers for my Mom

Mom is going in today for knee replacement surgery. Please help me pray for her anxiety, a safe surgery and a quick recovery! I am realizing the immense pressure on the "only child!" There have only been a few times in my life that I wish I had a sibling, now is one of those times. So send a hug to your sibiling and be glad there is always someone that can share your feelings. As for me I have my blog-buddies! Love Ya'll!

What a week!

I really do not know where to start with the description of our week. I guess I will start with Monday. (Beware this could be long!)

Monday- Tyler had his end of year Upward Basketball Celebration. It was lots of fun! They had brought in a guest speaker (some Aggie!) that could spin 10 basketballs on his body. The kids think he is amazing, me ...I think he is a little weird. Anyway, he did an invitation at the end of his performance. It was real traditional, all heads bowed all eyes closed kind of invitation. Apparently, Tyler was hanging on his every word (see previous blog) and he prayed the prayer of salvation along with the now "Wonderful Aggie Basketball guy." (who is still a little weird in my book) Awesome night! As we leave the celebration we are greeted with huge snowflakes falling from the sky! We have had NO WINTER WEATHER all year, so this was a great surprise. After a few snowballs we all went to bed.

Tuesday- Those boys came beeboppin' out of their room earlier than normal singing "It's a snow day, It's a snow day..." only to have me totally burst their bubble and say "Yes, but we still have to go to school!" That was met with simultaneous "WHAT!" Yes, just because there is snow on the ground does not mean we do not have to go to school. Too bad! I knew full well that we would never get a snow day on TAKS week. So my disappointment was limited! Tyler looks outside and says, "Mom, I think this snow is so pretty! Maybe is is God showing me how happy he is of my decision last night." Now I am crying and I say I think you are right buddy! A friend of mine said it was confetti from heaven!

Wednesday- (Are you still with me??) I will try to make this short. We visited with our Children's Minister before church so she could talk to the boys about some questions they had been asking. We told her that Tyler had prayed the prayer on Monday, only for Travis to pipe in and say that he did too. She asked all the questions and they BOTH had all the answers. Travis ended up praying with us to accept Jesus. It warmed my heart about as much as it did the first time I held them. My boys are growing up and this was a true glimpse of the fine young men they will become. AWESOME! The story of Wednesday does not end here... Bill and I let the boys go play in the gym before their class and we head off in our different directions. About 10 minutes later Travis comes running into the nursery to say that Tyler has fallen, hit is head and is bleeding. GREAT! I sprinted, ok jogged, to the gym (thank goodness we have a small church). He is laying on the ground with the same minister wiping the blood off his face. This is a vision no mother ever wants to see. To spare you all of the details, we go for x-rays and nothing was broken and no concussion. WHEW! He is pretty beat up and bruised, but nothing that slowed him down for too long.

Thursday- I was dreading a meeting that I was supposed to go to and Guess what it was SNOWING AGAIN! No meeting!! HOORAY! Bill drove through about 8 inches in Frisco, we only got 1-2 inches. More confetti from heaven!

Friday- NO SNOW NO DOCTORS, lots of sleep to recover from this crazy week we had!
If you are still reading, Thank you for sharing the adventures of my world!

The Great Invitation

Have you ever had those days when you feel like your name has officially been removed from the "Mother of the Year" ballot? Today was one of those days. Travis has a best buddy that he talks about constantly, Michael. Well, today was Michael's birthday, only the biggest day of the year so far! Party started at 3:00, we get there at 4:00! ( Jennifer Lambert deleted from ballot!) Travis was able to play one game eat a piece of cake and tada, the party was over. I felt awful!! Luckily he is my easy going child and just said, "Wow, that was a short party!" WHEW! However, it did not make me feel better! The funny thing was all the other five year olds were asking him what road he was stuck in traffic on! HA! He said my mommy was napping! (delete delete delete!) Anyway life goes on! As I am wallowing in it, God found a way to bring me out of it.
During the course of conversation in the car Travis asked about the party in heaven that Ms. Jennifer talked about today in the Children's Message at church. You see, Jennifer (our Children's Minister) had a great analogy today prior to our sermon on the Great Commission. She talked about sending invitations to a birthday party and how important it is that you accept your invitation in order to come to the party. Well, this really hit home with my boys. Tyler asked question after question. Something that I have prayed for daily, but that he has never done. The surprising thing is how well Travis, who is only 5, understood things. Tyler says I am ready I want to go to the party! Amen! After talking off and on all night about it and praying for guidance, I feel awesome! Funny how God works like that, huh!

Jacobus Twins

Some friends of ours just had twins and my boys are already in love! They had never held babies this small. In these pictures they are each holding Hallie. She weighed 4lbs 14 oz and her little brother Hudson weighed 5 lbs 9 oz Everyone is healthy and happy! I just had to share these great pictures!!

SO Unfair!

I am not one that believes in Karma, however I am beginning to think about things I have done wrong lately to deserve such punishment. "Why?" you ask. Well, you see Friday I started feeling sick AGAIN! I went to work for numerous reasons, the main one being that I WAS NOT GOING TO BE SICK! If you have not read my previous blogs I had the flu exactly a month ago and was sick for seven days. By 2:00 on Friday I was in full swing fluness! What the heck! I rushed to pick up the boys and then headed to my doctor. You see last time I was too late to take Anti-flu medicine. Not this time!! I told him I really really did not want to have the flu and that I really really did not have time to be sick for seven more days. He said ...."Maybe that is why you are sick?" He is lucky I felt so bad! (or else) After twenty short minutes in the office I was leaving testing positive for Flu A now! Yes, I improved my grade from a B to an A! My mom is so proud! Life got worse before it got better that night, but the medicine really seems to have worked. I am among the living after only two days instead of seven. I am taking every vitamin I can right now. Too bad I can not stay away from germs...I must teach them instead. The flu stinks!!

Happy Spend Too Much Money on Things That Make You Fat or Die Day!

Don't get me wrong...I loved the smell of my living room as I walked out this morning to find my beautiful Red Roses. I just hate the fact that men feel forced to buy something for their ladies! I think we should make Valentine's Day a floating holiday. This way we can just spring up and say "Surprise! Today is Valentine's Day, look what I got you!"

Any comments on that bitter blog? Ha!

What a weekend!

Don't you love those weekends that end and you feel like you need a weekend to recover? This was one of those. Just busy from the get go! Don't get me wrong it was fun stuff that we did, but there was a lot of it. In the last 24 hours I have attended two 3-D concerts, and I have decided that if this technology is going to take over the "real" experience I am goin got be sad. Bill and I saw the U2 3-D concert on Saturday night. I love U2 and can sing almost every song. We have also seen them in concert three times so I had great expectations. The concert was great, but the people in there...they just sat there like they were at the movie. Can you believe it?!? I wanted so bad to stand up and sing and cheer, but oh-no. I kept looking around in hopes to see at least a toe tapping, and NOTHING! Anyone that saw bill and I must have thought we were total dorks. I felt like the Star Wars junkie that knew all the words and wore the T-shirt to the movie. Yeah, that was me! So if that wasn't enough I took the boys to see Hanna Montana last night. What you need to understand about my boys is that they are not at all concern what other people think about them. If they think something is cool they are going to do it. I love this about them! Rarely do they say YUCK that is for girls! (Unless I threaten to take them to Libby Loo, we are not quite that liberated! HA!) Anyway the Jonas Brothers are their big thing right now and they were a part of the concert. So basically I spent $45 to hear the Jonas Brothers sing two songs, and to my boys it was worth every penny! Kinda makes me reevaluate the $100 for tickets to their entire concert. Good times in Lambert world!
*Side note- after reading this I feel the need to enter the fact that we did attend what is called Ticket Stock this weekend. The Ticket is a talk Radio Sports station that the boys listen to with Bill. They begged to go all week. I had no desire to see sports sports and more sports then talk about it all day, but I went anyway. Once I got over the fact that every 20 year old size 6 was there, wearing less than I wear at the swimming pool, and trying to get my 5 year old to come over and take a picture with her I realized that it was not that bad. Basically we collected enough koozies to cover a case of "water" and the boys had a blast!
So that was just a few things we did, I will add pictures of the Musk Ox that I built for Tyler's project later this week. Yes, his valentines will be stored in a Musk Ox made of recycled materials. (Don't get me started...)

Is January finally over?

Why is it that January seems like the longest month of the entire year? I really think February is short just so we can recover from January. Man! Think about it...it has only been 30 days since we watched the ball drop and said hello to 2008. It has not even been a month since we took down our Christmas stuff. So far this month I have had a week off, went back to work, had an inservice (oops sorry "Professional Learning Day"), went on vacation, went back to work, and got the flu for seven days. AND the calendar still says January! I don't know maybe it is just me, but for heaven's sake can it please just be February? I need something new! Maybe I will go shopping for a cute RED Purse, it is about that time...hee hee!

Who got a flu shot?

Tyler, Yes! Travis, Yes! Bill, No! Jenn, No! Why do I ask such questions? Oh that would be because I am sitting here on day four of the FLU! Apparently getting your children their flu shots is responsible and very wise, yet does not help you at all. My dad started all of this last weekend while we were in Vegas. Mom got it Sunday! Neither of them got flu shots either! I saw my mom for all of 15 minutes last Sunday and low and behold she gave it to me! How contagious is this thing? Luckily Bill was able to start taking Tamiflu before he really started to show many symptoms. He has successfully been avoiding me all weekend! I could go on all day about my bitterness to sicknesses like this, but it would all come down to one thing...Get a flu shot you moron!!
Next year the whole family, WHOLE FAMILY, is having a Flu shot party. You are all invited!

Seeing Stars

So if you know me at all you know that I am a bit of a stalker when it comes to celebrities. I do come by this honestly, however. My mother stole a brick from the future house of Troy Aikman on one of the many trips completely out of our way to his house. We have stalked people like Deion Sanders, Troy, OJ Simpson (big mistake), Meg Ryan (worked out with her once; ok in the same gym with her once), and a few others. So naturally while in Las Vegas my eyes were peeled for just a mediocre sighting. I would settle for K-Fed, Stalone, or even Paris if I had to. A couple years ago Bill and I hit the mother load when we were walking through the Paris hotel and saw a huge crowd only to see moments later, about six feet away, Micheal Jackson. That was cool! I get a little crazy and am not at all afraid to chase them down and pretend to be paparazzi(sp). Now to the point...as Bill and I walked out of our show Friday night, "O" it was AMAZING, we see a large group of people standing outside of a club called The Bank. Not one I have heard of in US Weekly so I did not think much of it. That is until I saw about ten camera men waiting for someone. PAY DIRT they are paparazzi! I start dragging Bill with me to follow them, he does not share my enthusiasm so I quickly leave him behind pull out my camera and join the crowd. Low and behold here he comes right past me Vin Diesel. Oh Momma! He is a blessing in so many many ways! I start flashing my camera and he is posing for "me" and the other 100 people standing around. After what seems like forever he enters the club with a wave. My heart is beating 100 mph and I am so excited! The next thought is oh crap Bill! I just ran off, I hope he is not mad!! I find him standing away from the crowd by a wall. As I run up to him to share my stories he says "I shook his hand!" WHAT??? He tells me that right after I ran off Vin Diesel walked right in front of him with his entourage and shook Bill's hand. THUNK! Too bad for me see if I ever follow the crowd again. Who cares we just saw him!! I quickly text anyone that I think would care, then delete half of them because it is 3:00 am Dallas time, not quite that important. It was great!
So do you think I am crazy??