Big Church

The kids and I spent this past week in Sylvania since they were on winter break. We went to see Mimi on her birthday, went shopping and just hung out. Today, Mom called us as we were getting ready for church to tell us that Debra asked Emma Tucker to come to the children's sermon in big church. For those of you who know me well, know I have never ventured anywhere quiet with Emma Tucker. Her inquisitive and lively personality lends itself to ballfields, playgrounds or anyplace that noise is the norm. Mom was thrilled because she has been on us to take her places so she will learn to sit still. Ok... we did and I realize there has to be a first for everything. Before church, I was explaining to her we had to sit still in our seats like we did when we went to see Elmo live. Wrong example to use... she started standing up and saying ''Where's Elmo? I can't see Elmo". Brandon manages to get her calmed down after trying to run around the balcony for a little bit when Gamma walks in to play the prelude. While Gamma is playing the organ Emma Tucker stands up, waves, and yells " Gamma! Hey Gamma!" over and over. The choir is all laughing at her but Gamma never hears her this time. Later on when it got quiet again, she yells down at her again! It is so hard to fuss at her because I am cracking up at her along with everyone else. I was just thinking... Hey Gamma! This was your idea! Anyway, we make it through the prayer and the first hymn and it is time for the children's sermon. Debra is using the cell phone as an example so of course Emma Tucker makes a bee line (climbing over all the children) to get to the phone. She gets it and stands there dialing as many numbers as she can until Debra thinks she probably should get her phone back. Now, Emma Tucker needs something else to do. Her new focus is on the microphone and I start sweating bullets! What is she going to say? Well, she just grabs the microphone starts saying "Hey!" She does that twice and makes it through the rest of the children's sermon. As they are supposed to be leaving in an orderly fashion, she grabs the microphone one last time and says, "bye". Boy am I glad our church doesn't do children's sermons!

Scripture Time

It's the 15th, and I haven't been sure what scripture I wanted to memorize was going to be. Tonight, my bible study class went to Faithworks to clean the building, take food to the food pantry and pray over the homeless shelter. It was really neat to see what opportunites are right down the road from my house. Most of us in the group had no idea where these places were before tonight. Anyway, when we left we were to pull a blessing out of the blessing jar. The scripture I pulled was: Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? I thought I would just use this verse since I happened to be given it tonight. I was thinking it may be a little short, but it is a pretty powerful message.

Picnic at Tribble Mill

On Sunday, we took the children to Tribble Mill Park in Grayson for a picnic. When we realized it was going to be such a beautiful day we decided we would go to the early service at church and head to the park afterwards. Brandon stopped at Kroger and picked us up some food to eat. We met Kevin, Amy and Brooke at the park for lunch. I think everyone else had the same idea because it was so crowded. The kiddos had a blast running around playing ball, eating, eating, and eating and playing.

Cooper's B-day Party

Birthday boy Cooper

Tonight, the kids went to Cooper's second birthday party which had an Elmo theme. They had a great time playing, eating pizza, cake and icecream. What a beautiful day for a party! Thanks for the invite Amber.

Harlie's Birthday Party

waiting her turn

zipline with the airplane

jumping on the trampoline

Emma Tucker and the birthday girl Harlie

Emma Tucker went to Harlie's birthday party this morning at Rockdale Gymnastics. She had a blast playing on the blowups, trampoline, zipline, running wild, and eating cupcakes to name just a few. Here are a few pictures from her morning of fun. We are going to another birthday party this afternoon so look for my pictures later.

Valentine's with Gamma

Brandon is at football clinic all weekend so Gamma offered to come and stay with us. Thank goodness she was planning on coming to visit with us since I fell down the steps yesterday. I am fine, but I sure am sore. I was carrying Walker so I had to make sure he didn't get hurt; therefore, I couldn't stop myself from falling. My knee got tangled up behind me so needless to say it sure hurts today... along with my back, my elbow... This morning, Gamma gave the children their Valentine's day gifts. Here are a few pictures from gift time this morning.

Noah vs. HoHo

Emma Tucker was reading her bible and she said, " Look momma, HoHo!" I told her HoHo was not in the bible. She said, "yes... look... right there!". It was Noah. I guess our new lesson is every old man with a white beard is not Santa Claus.

Last night at the end of the prayers she said, "elephants." So I said you want to pray for the animals right. Of course Brandon chimed in and said I think she saying thank you for Alabama. Of course that is what would come to his mind. So Brandon continues to say "Roll Tide" in the middle of our prayers. We thought will was asleep by this time but all of a sudden we hear roll tide come out of Will's mouth too. I guess she was trying to be fair because she is always praying for dawgs and that was the first word out of her mouth when she learned to talk!

Funnies

Sorry for all the crazy updates today... I just can't help myself....

Right now we are laughing (or should be grossed out) at Emma Tucker and Walker fighting over boogers! Brandon asked Emma Tucker if she had a ladybug in her nose(another story) and she said, "no... a booger". We cracked up and she wiped it on Brandon's sock. Then Walker ran up and grabbed the sock and she started chasing him saying, "that's Emma Tucker's booger!" I guess EVERYTHING is really hers these days!

Another funny (at least it is to us)...Emma Tucker got the t-ball tee and balanced her juice cup on top of the tee. She would kick the tee like it was a kickball to make her cup going flying. Walker got smart and started using his hands to bat the juice cup off the tee. Doesn't seem as funny now but it was to us at the time.

As I type, this one is not so funny on our little girl... she wanted a drink and Brandon told her she had drank enough to tonight... all of a sudden I heard water pouring (sounded like somone was going to the bathroom) and I looked up and she was pouring her daddy's water on the floor. We guess she was telling him if you don't fix me a drink I am going to pour your's out on the floor! It is totally not funny, but kinda is if you think about... she was like... I'm going to show you daddy!

On a serious note, last night I was laying down with Emma Tucker and we were going to say our prayers. She told me we had to wait on Bentley to get in bed too so we did. I said our prayers once, she asked for me to do it again, said them again, and she wanted more. I told her to say them so she asked me to help her. So, I would say a few words and she would repeat me. We prayed twice more and then she wanted more prayers. Needless to say, I told her to do it by herself and she did! When she was finished she said, "I did it Mommy". What a sweet moment we had last night at bedtime.

Groundhog cupcakes

Here are the cupcakes Emma Tucker and I made for her class tomorrow. They are groundhogs if you can't tell. :)

Picture Time

my sick Walker

Will and his scraped up face.. bless his heart

Emma Tucker after church

Here are a few pictures of Emma Tucker before she and I went to church this morning. The boys stayed home because they have been running fever. Will is coughing too. Joy is coming over this afternoon and while she is here she is going to check them out. If there is more to tell, I will update later. Also, here is a poor picture of Will from where he fell on the fireplace last night. His face is all scraped up!

Feb. 1, 2009

It's scripture time again.. I am sticking to scripture about God's will...that is a big topic with us... do we move...stay put...what is His will for us...

Romans 12:2-Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.