Summer is almost over too quickly i might add. It seems that they get less time each year and already it's time to start back. This year will be just as hectic as last(if not more so). I am now teaching my preschool class instead of helping. I like this idea because there was so many things i would of did differently last year and now i can incorporate a lot of my own ideas. It is another responsibility but i want to do well and i hope i don't let anyone down. Devyn is playing football this fall. That's always lots of fun but of course busy with the practices and games. He plays baketball in the winter and both boys play soccer in the spring. Yikes that makes us busy enough then you gotta add emmalee. I need to decide whether or not to try her out in Miss shirley's class or ask my mother in law to watch her. Emmi is awfully young to be in that class but it might work out if i was there too. Or that might be a disaster where i am constantly running from room to room. i have someone else in mind who might like to try and watch her but i feel strange asking her. i would completely trust her but i am not sure. i know it would just be two days a week for only 6 hours at a time but this is my baby we are talking about. But sometimes you have to make difficult choices in order to do all the things you love. Everything is in normal Lyon order....busy enough to make anyone else go weak in the knees but still happy and good. No great, things are great!

Emmi

A wee bit of Heaven

drifted down from above-

A handful of happiness,

A heart full of love.

The mystery of life

so sacred and sweet

The giver of joy

so deep and complete

Precious and priceless

so loveable, too.

The worlds sweetest miracle

Baby, It's you!!

Jesus is the Way

It's hard to think that one day this will all ne no more. I know my faith has grown a lot recently but i sometimes still wonder and doubt myself. Pastor Cate says doubt can be good because then you go looking for a way to prove yourself wrong and the best way is in the bible. Most people want security and some have such little faith. i know where i am going when i die. I know that Brandon and our kids are saved as well but i worry about the family we can't reach. The ones who refuse to listen. They won't budge and we pray for them and ask God to give us the right words and help us to reach them but so far we are still praying. Do they know what lies ahead? Do they think that there is really no God? Do they think that they will be spared? I know that one day soon Jesus is coming. I don't know when but it probably will be soon. There is so much wickedness in the world and so much saddness. It's really a shame when all they have to do is accept the free gift. i hope to reach some of them before it's to late. I will work harder and pray more. For anyone reading this are you saved? Have you asked Jesus into your heart? We are all sinners and he paid the ultimate price for our sins. i will tell you now there is noway to father except through the son. Jesus is the way.

Almost a year ago we welcomed Emmi
a beautiful baby all our own
Nervously and sleepily
We took her to our home
We figured out the nursing
This goes how? and where?
we knew there would be crying
yes and lots of care.
a year has gone by so quickly
we have learned so much
we've felt a love so strongly
in a gentle baby's touch
Her laughs and smiles. her pouts and tears
Wow!! She can get so mad.
But we wouldn't trade a minute
we are a thankful mom and dad.
Almost a years gone by
My how time has flown
I can't believe
How Emmi has grown
She is such a joy!
She is so much fun!
Oh My!! My baby's turning one!!!

celebrating the fourth

Yesterday was the fourth of July and our family had a blast out at my sister's house. Almost everyone was there with the except of a few. Good food, fun, family and swimming and fireworks what more could we ask for. it was hot and humid but the pool was nice and cold and boy can my two boys swim good. i insisted on it early that they learn proper and they do quite well. Emmi loves the water too. Brandon was doing backflips off their diving board and then Devyn learned how to do a front flip. i got upset once because somebody set off this huge firework right behind Emmi and me. It was like this enormous ring of nothing but blackcats?!?! It took forever to stop and we were so close that i grabbed her ears and started to run. I really became quite enraged and didn't hide it either. I don't even know why u would buy something like that. i hate those stupid ones. The big artertilary shells are super cool, fountains, anything that actually does something, but those ones that just pop real loud are a waste. Aside from that it was great. Lisa D was an onery little thing. She kept getting everybody. Emmi peed on Becki once..woops. It was so good to see my nieces and nephews. I miss them and they are growing up to fast. Zack had this funny turtle named Tuck. Dude it was like the smartest little turtle ever. It was so neat. I don't no where he always gets these cool little reptiles but he seems to always have a stock of them. Shell had a new baby kitten... so cute!! Beck also had one with no tail?! now she seems to get more animals missing body parts than anyone else? We have a strange bunch. On the way home God had his own fireworks show going on, talk about a lot of lightening!!
It was crazy!!! Great independence day!!!!

sweet days

My little girl is starting to try walking now. She waited longer than both boys and it only makes sense to me. She can crawl faster than walk so she takes a few steps or one then sits down and crawls. She knows we want her to walk so she stands there and sorta starts to slowly sqat down until she can take off crawling. She will be a year here in month and a week. I can't believe it. She means so much to this family. We saw with our own eyes how two couples this year at our church lost a baby and i cannot thank the lord enough that she is healthy and happy. I don't feel guilty for it but i sympathize with them and hurt for them. I all to well know the huge hole in their hearts right now. I remember it and that deep saddness. My life now is such a different story but only until i chose to give my pain to God. Only he can fill up that hole with happiness and love and strength. I have three beautiful children and one little angel baby i will never forget. But now i don't have to cry when i think of him, believe it or not i can smile now and say some day i will see him again.