Our Week

Some pictures of our week.

Tuesday we did some shopping and played at the playground at our church before coming home for lunch and naps.

Wednesday night we ate dinner at Jason's Deli. We love that place. Good, healthy food, yummy stuff for the kids and free frozen yogurt with your meal.

Today the kids and I went to the mall. It was such a nice morning together. The kids played at the play area for about an hour. Pete made some friends and he chased them around all over the place. We walked both levels of the mall window shopping and talking about things. Pete asks me when we are walking, "Getting exercise mom?" We stopped in Stride Rite and had their feet measured. Wow, was I off on sizes, sorry kiddos! We played in Build-A-Bear and they loved it. We didn't buy anything but played with their display animals. Pete asked for one for his birthday. Here we go with the whole Build-A-Bear craze (expensive stuffed animals that never get played with). But to tell you the truth, I think it's a great idea and a wonderful experience for the kids. So, we will see. We then ate at Paradise Bakery and I had a salad and the kids shared a bowl of mac n' cheese. No one sat on my lap, no one tried to get out of their seat a million times and no one spilled a drink. We stopped at a kiosk that sold hermit crabs in these really cool shells and the kids played with them for a long time. They loved them. $9.99 for a crab of your own to watch. Hmmmm. We will see on that one too. On the way out Cinnabon gave us some samples. A perfect end to a perfect morning with my little sweethearts.

Build-A-Bear fun.

Jamie got to play too after her brother but when she plays I am usually holding her up so I don't get to take pics of her playing. Had to put that in there because P. says Jamie gets ripped off too often and I need to involve her more.

This was Jamie at the play area watching the other kids. Had to put this in here because I am just in love with her curly hair. I LOVE it. She is so beautiful and every day I tell her how I love everything about her. She is such an angel from God and I am so lucky to have her.
Us and the hermit crabs. So fun!I just have to say thanks. Thanks to God for my beautiful family. Thanks for my beautiful home and this beautiful place that I live. And thanks that I can stay home and be with my children every day. I get to take them places, teach them new things, show them things they have never seen or done before and I get to see their faces when they watch hermit crabs crawl around for the first time. I get to eat my meals with them, read new books from the library to them all morning and I get to watch them down tangerines like they are candy. Every day I get to dress them in cute clothes that make them even cuter than they already are. I feel so blessed that I am able to stay home with them and wouldn't change a thing about my life. What a wonderful life I have. First I thank God but I also owe my wonderful husband many, many thanks. God provides a way and my husband makes it possible for us. He got us here, he works hard every day so I can stay home and he comes home to us every night. He supports me in whatever I want to do and we are the perfect parenting team with our beautiful children. We are in it together and we thank our God for our marriage, our kids and our life. We know how blessed we are. We feel it every day. And we hope to teach our kids to love the Lord, lean on Him, and be as blessed as we are.

Jamie's up from a nap now. I am going to get my curly-haired angel, watch her drink some orange juice her dad squeezed himself and look at the same book we have looked at every day this week after her nap because it is full of owls. Goodbye!