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Weekend was great, Monday....not so much!

We had a fantastic week and weekend. For me the best part started when my friend Laura, who moved away not too long ago, called Thursday evening and wanted to know if she could come over and hang out. I knew she was coming in town, but didn't expect to see her until Friday so it was a VERY nice surprise. We also met up with Dana on Friday for lunch at Jose Peppers (yum, yum!). I was sad to see Laura go back to OK, but I know I'll see her again in a few weeks so it wasn't horrible. We had a great time catching up...felt like she never left. You know someone is a real good friend when you can pick up right where you left off. Eric and I met some friends for dinner on Friday night and had a wonderful time laughing and joking with each other. Saturday was Corban's birthday so Eric's mom came up from MO and stayed the weekend with us. My mops group had a family bowling outing planned so we did that and took a cake with us to share for the birthday boy. The birthday boy in action We had a lot of fun watching all the kids bowl. Josiah just totally gets into it and stands waiting....taping his toe....hands on hips...as the ball s-l-o-w-l-y rolls down the lane. Bad pic, but here's "the waiting stance" and the perfect form of a 3 year old Surprisingly, it never got stuck mid lane. Corban played with his friends and for a boy who can't concentrate on more than one direction at a time, he managed to stay on task and whip out a whole nother (yeah, I know it's not a word, but it's what sounded the best) game than the rest of us. Sunday finally rolled around and we had church, always fun and encouraging to be with your brothers and sisters in Christ. After church we brought home 2 of Corban's friends to help us celebrate his birthday with family. Family came over to celebrate and we had yet another cake and some ice cream...yeah. Eric's mom & Josiah And here's my family: I'm certain they are all watching the birthday boy open his gifts, but it looks suspiciously like they are staring at the KU basketball game.....I'm sure they wouldn't do that! The boys were great....noisy....but great and polite. **Bad mom award** No candles to be found except a 7 and a 2...that makes 9 right?? Math on your birthday is so very lame! I LOVE how all the boys are "helping" him blow out his candles. Nerf guns, Legos and light sabers were the hit of the party. Nerf darts flying everywhere and at everyone. All 5 boys had their own gun, so I think you can get a pretty good idea of the chaos. The weekend was all great and dandy and then we woke up today. About 8:30 this morning the phone rang and the caller ID showed Eric's boss' name. My ♥ sank a bit. He was calling to let me know Eric had fallen and probably broken his ankle and that he'd call me with more info later. I hung up the phone, glad it wasn't anything more serious, but sad for the pain my sweetie must be in. I waited around quite a while to hear from someone as to Eric's status. He works at a hospital so I knew he was being well taken care of and would have "visitors" checking in on him. The kids and I got ready and were leaving the house, when Corban went out to get in the van and announced that a branch had fallen. Sort of....how about AN ENTIRE TREE!! on top of my van. It didn't do any damage to the van, a couple scratches, nothing big. I did manage to get enough of it cut back to move the van out. As I was digging the van out, Corban say's "this is a real great day mom (note the sarcasm of my little boy), first dad's hurt and now our favorite climbing tree is down". I said, yep! But at least you kids weren't out here playing on the driveway when it fell. Good point! We are all ok and dad's ankle will heal with time. Surely a 3rd thing won't happen....right??? If you actually managed to read this whole post...thanks for sticking around. I hope you have a glorious week. God is good ALL the time! (Even when a tree falls on your car and your hubby breaks his ankle.)

Strawberry Thief

I'm thinking there is a short strawberry thief running around here somewhere..... Go here for more wordless wednesdays.

Random ramblings

• Josiah has claimed the toilet as his receptacle of choice in his potty adventures and he is doing remarkably well. Previously, he wanted nothing to do with the toilet, but once I told him he could stand up, shoot it in and flush he was all over it. Such a boy, I'm pretty sure God designed them with a desire to shoot things.

• We are working on finding a balance of activities for Corban. He has his heart set on (is obsessed with) playing Lego Star Wars on the Wii every waking minute of the day. This doesn't work for more than one reason: 1. He needs to sleep, eat and go to school 2. We would like him to maintain some sort of normal brain function 3. It makes him crabby when he is asked to get off the game 4. It makes his brother very annoying since he asks a new question about what is going on every 10 seconds. What do you all do to curb the "attitude" and limit game time? I'd love to hear some ideas that work.

• I feel like I can't get a hold of my house and all that needs to be done. It's been almost 10 years that we have been here and it is in desperate need of some tlc, both inside and out. We started on the outside this fall and have plans to paint this spring, but there are a ton of boards that need to be replaced first (lots of honey-do work). When we first moved in our home (literally, the week after we moved in) the foundation shifted and caused major damage to all the wall seems in our home. Each corner in our main living area has torn seems and while we did pay about $10,000 to have our home put on steel piers it continues to shift just a tad each year, so what are we to do?? Do you just go ahead and redo all the seems and repaint everything praying there won't be much more movement (yes, in my opinion) or do nothing (Eric's opinion, at least until recently)? We've finally decided to fix it all in hope it won't get much worse (nothing like waiting a few years to jump on that project). It will be a major project since we (I) want to remove all the popcorn ceilings on our big vaulted ceilings since the tape is torn into the ceiling seems as well. It needs to be done and I really can't wait, but we have to find some free time to do it.

• The last few days I've been working on baby shower invitations for my friend Shannon's shower. I love making stuff like this and thinking about all the decorations, cake etc. Here is the invitation and I think it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. She currently has 4 boys and is due to have her first little girl in March. I gave her an invitation last night for her to keep and she cried. I'd like to think she was just overly moved by my creative use of paper and ribbon, but I think it was just the hormones leaking out.
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• Back to the whole potty training adventures (which really should have ended about a year ago in my opinion). Yesterday when Josiah woke up from his nap he had gone #2 in his training pants (you know the nice thick ones) so I cleaned him up and proceeded to rinse the pants out in the toilet and left them hanging on the inside of the toilet bowl to kinda soak a little. I made sure they were tacked under the seat so they weren't just "free floating" around in there. I went downstairs to do a couple things (get on the computer :)) and apparently Josiah needed to go to the bathroom and he did. A little while later I came up to take care of the dirty pants and they were no where to be found. **insert look of panic on my face here** There was no mess and the toilet was empty. I asked Britt to see if she knew what happened to them and she said she did hear Josiah flush the toilet about 3 times **oh, no!** I asked Josiah what happened to the pants and he said he "fwushed them" and indeed he had. It is a remarkable thing that the toilet didn't totally overflow, but it didn't fill all the way back up either. They were definitely in there and they still are. Eric tried to snake them out to no avail and I just keep watching the toilet each time it's flushed to make sure it doesn't come bubbling over...thank you Lord for taking care of even the lowliest things such as our toilet.

• For whatever reason Josiah has loved the "I can only imagine" song since he was about 2 years old and can recognize it on the radio within about 3 notes. Normally he just listens happily, but last night on the way to church when it came on the radio he just started singing it loud and proud. He really belted it out and just really touched my heart. Eric and I just kept looking at each other and I tried not to cry. It's the only song that he has ever requested to be played (outside of Boz's treehouse tunes) and what a great song for him to love.

Worship with a twist

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I present to you............Darf Mater!!

aka- Darth Vader, but "v" and "th" are hard to pronounce when you are 3 so it's Darf Mater around here! We also have an occasional Luke Sidewalker and RD2 running around here. Isn't he just about the cutest bad guy you've ever seen?

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