Finally-The Weekend

This week VBS was going on at the church. It was the first VBS in many, many years.

It turned out ok, the only thing I was exactly thrilled about was that I was the craft teacher and got my crafts planned for me. They turned out really good, but there was a craft book that went along with the theme for the VBS and it had some awesome ideas in there. Oh well.

I am just glad that things are slowing down. I am going to go get dressed and relax some today.
Mandi

Kid Swapping!!

That's right, I have my own version of the favorite tv show "Wife Swapping." Davina and I were talking about how we never get any time with our husbands alone. I mean to just go out and be adults. So we decided to switch babysitting duties a couple of times a week. Tonight was the first official night.

The funny thing is that JJ fell asleep halfway through the time they were here and Alex was at my mom's the whole time. So basically it was just me watching her kids and not my own. They were really good and we had fun.

Their little girl Ariana LOVES me. She calls me grandma, which is so funny because Davina is 2 years older than me. Ariana wanted to stay with me, but did end up going home.

So I have one kid gone for the night and one down for the night with only a nightly feeding to break up my sleep. John is working overtime and I am going to enjoy having the bed all to myself!!!
Mandi

Sins of our Fathers!!

Today I ran into my Aunt Judy at Walmart. Even though I had to get JJ to an appointment to get his immunization shots soon, I still decided to say hello. Well if you know my Aunt Judy, you know that once she gets you into her snare, there is no getting out. lol. Anyway I did get the shots on time. Mainly because JJ started screaming his head off and I told her that he needed to eat.

But she mentioned that she felt she was called to pray over the younger generations in our family for us to overcome the sin in our lives. Well I was reading a book last night and in it, it talked about praying and repenting of the sins of our fathers and the generations before us. Both those things got me to thinking.

It says in the Bible that sins are passed down. So to fully get rid of sin in our lives we need to not only pray over our childrens lifes, but to repent of the sins of our families past, so that they no longer have a hold our families.

I don't want the sins of John and mine to cause sin in our childrens lives. I know that sin from our families past is affecting us now and I am wanting to sever it at its start. I want it to no longer have a hold over my families lives. I am claiming the blood of Jesus over my sins and the sins of the past and asking for the Lord to wash them away!!
Mandi

New Pictures of my little men!!

Last week we got some pictures taken of the boys from a company that comes through town every once in a while. They turned out awesome and John and I spent way too much on a package of them. But we get in the package a 16x20 canvas print, quite a few prints, and also a cd with all the pictures on it with a written release form so we can take them and get them printed off at Walmart.

So anyway here is 5 of the pictures. There were 12 in all.





Are my little guys hansome or what?!!
Mandi

My Man's coming home!!

Today John is coming home from camp. Hopefully we can spend some time together. His friend(Tim)'s wife called yesterday and said that Tim had ran into a guy on a bicycle on the highway at night(who ride a bike on the highway at night?) and is really upset about it. The guy is ok, but is trying to get Tim into trouble now.

Anyway so she was wondering if John would come down and see Tim for awhile. Part of me really wanted to tell her no I wasn't even going to ask, because I haven't seen him in 4 days and need some time with him too. Plus tomorrow I am suppose to go to Colorado for the day and wont get to see him. We'll see what happens.

Well so today I am going to clean the house. I want it to look nice, so he can come home and relax. I will just be glad to have him home!!!
Mandi

Well, here it is almost 11 and I am just getting ready to take a bath. I don't take baths in the morning because I prefer to take baths alone without Mr. Alex so I have to wait until he is asleep. I had been scrapbooking after putting down the boys for bed. I went to the local scrapbooking store today to use a gift certificate that I got for my birthday(Thank you Kari!!) and felt inspired.

Alex has been going to bed so much easier. For a long time it was a fight to get him to go to bed and stay there. I honestly thought he would wake up one morning with bruises on his bottom from all the spankings he was getting for getting out of bed. Well for almost 2 weeks now he has been staying in bed after we read a book and pray. It is great. We had one night where he didn't get up a couple of times after Daddy leaving, but since has been staying in bed again.

With John and some of the youth at camp I decided to do something with the kids that didn't go to camp. We went to McDonald's and ended up with more kids than we usually have. The 3 girls from youth that stayed home came and then 2 girls that moved away came and brought a mutual friend of all of theirs with them. So the girls chatted for a while then we headed back to my house to continue chatting. Everyone had a good time.

Went to Davina's today and man her family are real country folks!! They have 10 acres, about 7 horses(on is even with foal) and they were putting in a late summer garden today. Her husband always dressed cowboy-ish with the wrangler jeans, long sleeve plaid shirt, cowboy boots, and of course the hat to top it all off. The boys all wear wranglers all the time with boots. It is just a difference experience being at their house. Kinda reminds me of my friend from Bridgeport I had as a kid. They were farmers too.

Well the lure of a hot bath and a good book is calling me.
Mandi