Sweet Elijah

Look at this sweet face.

Any Ideas

It is official my hubby has once again started a outage. No fun. I was thinking today, what I could as a project. I pretty much have our flower bed looking good. But I could always plant more flowers? I could volunteer at the hospital in the nursery a couple of Saturdays a month. I' am still thinking on this. If you have any suggestions leave me a comment.

Surprise!

On Sunday the Wheeler kids and there wives threw a surprise 50th family birthday party for my mother-in-law. She was so surprised. It was great. We had a lot of real yummy food, and of course a over the hill cake. Sunday was a little messy outside I keep praying all morning that the rain would hold off a little bit so we could get done with the party. Well.... no such luck the bottom decided to fall out of the sky and it started to pour, everything was getting wet so we hurried and made a decision that everyone would come to our house to do cake and ice cream. We loaded everything in the cars in record time. By the time everyone got to our house we looked like we took a dip in the lake. I think that God let it rain for all of us to have some really funny memories.
Sweet boys



The proud grandparents

Hannah and Ryan

Stephen and Jr. acting goofy as always.

Guess What!

We bought a Wii. YAY!!! While we were grocery shopping at wal-mart I told Stephen we need toothpaste and a few other things, and I reminded Stephen that he needed to get some cheep work shoes, so we split up for a few minutes. I just happen to pass the electronics on my way to find my husband and, there were right in front of me calling out to me were five Wii's. That was all that was left on the shelves. Well.... I slipped one into the buggy along with a extra remote and, extra batteries and went on my marry way smiling from ear to ear. When I finally met up with Stephen he looked in the buggy smiled and asked how much it was, I told him. He said nothing else about it suprisingly. So all through wal-mart I was sort of worried that he would make me go put it back. When we finally were done grocery shopping, got all checked out and loaded everything in the car. Stephen turned to me and told me Katie you are something else, I was wondering how long it was going to take you to just slip one into the buggy and bam! we would have a Wii. I was ecstatic, I couldn't contain it. When we got home I told Stephen if you set up the Wii I will put up all the grocery's. That worked out great, by the time I got done it was ready to go. We didn't get to play it very long last night. (boo on that) But, I am dying to get home today and play it.

Happy Easter!

Thank you Jesus for going through all that you did, for me. So I too can live again.

Stephen and I had a wonderful first Easter together. We enjoyed spending it with family. We really have missed seeing my family and all the love they show us each time we are around. We loved every minute of it.

Weekend Get-a-way.

This past weekend Stephen and I had the chance to getaway. It was so relaxing and fun. We got to stay in a wonderful little cabin right on top of look out mountain it was beautiful. I think God is the greatest artist ever.

At the place where we stayed there was this 2 acre pond full of brim and large mouth bass I think.... I am not for sure. Anyways, my wonderful hubby had to get some fishing in. I swear this man loves to fish more than anyone I know. He said it was good therapy. Whatever floats his boat it was nice to just be with him.

There were also these huge boulders across the road from our cabin. Stephen looks so tiny standing in between them. We had a blast climbing all over them, until we saw a SNAKE! curled up on top of one. I told Stephen there was to be no more climbing, and we needed to go do something else. So we decided visited Little River Canyon. This place is amazing. We followed a 23-mile drive along the canyon's ridge. There were some amazing views. The canyon goes 700-foot deep. It was scary to stand on the edge of some of the cliffs to take pictures.




At the end of our 23 mile journey through winding roads with no shoulders we came to the falls. They were beautiful! By then it was 1:30pm and, we were starving so we had a wonderful picnic lunch we packed before we left for our day journey. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day.

How sweet.

We have been doing this wonderful bible study at church for the newly weds. It's called love and respect. It is based upon Ephesians 5: 33. The book is by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs in the book he talks about how as wives we desired to be loved, and that our husbands desire respect. (respect in a good way) This past Sunday the book was directed towards the guys. It was saying that husbands needed to esteem there wives. That's true. And Stephen does a great job.

(Esteem: the regard in which one is held ; especially : high regard)

Which lead to a discussion of women love to be surprised with unexpected things such as roses, chocolate, having the house clean after a long day etc... Well... I guess that the Sunday school lesson made a impact on my hubby. Because, I now have a dozen white beautiful roses sitting on my counter at home. He is so sweet, and it is very true we do like getting roses.