day 9

Day 9 I am thankful for quiet time, just me with my littlest baby asleep next to me on the couch, and my two others tucked in tight in their beds.. quiet, peaceful, perfect:) ;

30 days of thanks!

Day 7   I am so very thankful for coffee, it helps me stay up far later than I should on the days that Lee is at work, working on various, random craft projects!


Day 8   On those late nights I am also super thankful for GAC country music channel, it keeps me entertained when I take breaks from said crafts:)

day 6

Day 6 I am thankful for technology, without it I wouldn't keep up with half the friends and family I do now. I have never been good at writeing letters or talking on the phone so its either email, fb, or text messages for me:)

day 5!

30 days of thanks is back...


Day 5 I am thankful for puzzles, chips and salsa, and guitar hero, and early bedtime for the kiddos, and quiet time with the husband, well not really quiet time, but time with just me and him! It doesn't happen very often but when it does its amazing!

Day 4!!!

Day 4 of 30 days of Thanks!!!

Today I am thankful for a messy, beautiful, chaotic, lived in home! I love coming home to our house its cozy warm and welcoming! I love seeing all the black and white photos of our life on the walls I love curling up with lee and the kiddos on our couches that ussually have 20 pillows and blankets stacked on them! I love it all!!! But most of all I love.............

via pinterest

Day 3!!!

DAy 3 what am I thankful for?

I am super duper thankful for my husband, 8 yrs, and 4 kids later, he is still my rock, my love, and still to this day gives me butterflies in my tummy!

Day 2!!!

Welcome back to 30 days of thanks!!! woohoo day 2!!!

Today I am Thankful for my sister! I am so blessed to be able to say that my sister and my best friend are all in one!! She is always there for me to calm me down, cheer me up, and make me laugh until i cry! She is am amazing aunt to my kiddos, and I love her dearly!!

30 days of thanks! Day 1

November, sweet november how I love you! November is probably my favorite month out of the yr, besides march because its my bday, but thats besides the point! Anyways I love november full blown fall, hot chocolate by the fire, we can finally use our fire pit:) pumkins, cinnamon , the decorations the ffamily get togethers, all of it I LOVE IT!!!!
This year I want to start 30 days of thankfulness, everyday I will post soemthing that I am thankful for. Feel free to join in!

Today at this moment I am thankful for Gods timing, its perfect. Even when sometimes I think that things should happen at a certain time, and get upset when they dont, I sit pray and remember that God Has PERFECT timing he has a plan and its a wonderful plan.

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future  Jeremy 29:11

November

It's hard to believe November is already here, it seems like I was just barely writing about getting ready for THIS trip. I guess time flies when you are having fun!!!!!!!!
 Anyways back to the orginal point of this post! Halloween of course! We truly had a blast. Ussually we stick around town for halloween but it was getting pretty boring, so we decided to change it up! Plus this was the last yr that we would have ARiel on halloween before she was a teenager ( we rotate off every yr with her mom) so we wanted to make it special!

As a kid I wasn't EVER aloud to celebrate H-ween but always had this picture stuck in my head of tree lined falling leave streets, it being nice and cool, tons of people all in costume, and decorated house ect.

Well last night thats exactly what we got!!!!

People went all out in prescott!! Mt. Vernon is the main road we hit, its a road I swore Id have a house on when I grew up! I didnt realize that house had a hefty price tag of about 400000-800000! Yikes!!! Im still dreaming:)

Anyways enough enough you are in it for pics so here goes!
Warning picture heavy!!

This maze was so fun! I screamed the kids screamed and aj well he was throwing punches at anyone who tried to scary him..no seriously he was!!! We had a fabulous night hope every one else did too! Now on to thanksgiving!

Our little Cowboy

This morning little Aj got up and decided he needed to go help daddy work on his new jeep, so 630 in the morning momma gets up and gets him dressed. He has a new fasination with charlees cowboy hat, so momma buts it on and he heads out. He was so adorable I ran back inside and grab my camera.

Cute baby+gorgeous sunlight=perfect pictures

Sometimes....

When you least expect it things just work out....



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Today's inspiration....

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."


~ Author Unknown

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~ Lao Tzu




Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
xoxo
Rebekah

The Big 5!!

I can't believe it, our little Charlee is %(technically not until the 15th)!We had your party yesterday, you got to spend the entire weekend with grandma before it so we could surprise you!!

We bought you a 3 wheeler bike and some clothes, shoes and bug catcher to catch bugs for your little lizards!
We had spagetti with long noodles which is your favorite!! Momma and Autn sissy also made you a lego cake, plus it finally Rained which was so nice!

Happy birthday sweet boy momma loves you to the moon and back!!

Can you believe its already a week shy of being september?? Sadly it's still HOT!!! I can't believe how fast the yr. is going by, such mixed emotions about it. On one hand I can't wait for christmas but then again it means Char-man is going to be 5 in a few weeks, baby Aj is going on two, and Hailee is turning 7 oh my that alone is crazyness!

We were hanging around home the other day, and Aj was actually in the mood to take pictures! Which doesn't happen that often so I pulled out the camera and started snapping away. Thankfully my other two love their picture being takin.

Those kids are so darn cute!!!!!! I have made a commitment to take my camera Everywhere with me like I use to, I looked at old pictures the other day and had at least one picture from everyday!! now I am lucky to have one once a week!! I know one day Im going to look back and wish I had takin more pictures of our little family, so thats my goal.. hope you enjoyed the cuteness!

being a grown up isn't always fun...

Things have been stressful lately. I have been clinging to the truths that I know. Those truths are that God has a  plan, bigger than any plan I could ever possibly fathom, a plan for our finances, a plan for our family, a plan for everything.....THat plan may or may not have me driving, living in and wearing the nicest hippest stuff or it may, those things shouldnt matter the bible says  "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you." 1 John 2:15, sometimes I forget that material things as nice as they are to have don't matter, living for christ and being a Godly example to my children is what is important.

 I think sometimes I get so bogged down in the day to do and the moving on to the next thing, that I forget about the here and now, I forget to slow down, calm down and be present for my husband and my 3 babies. I have this favorite blog that I read all the time, I actually know the girl in person not just from her blog:) but if you know me I don't really talk to people, I have a habit of sticking to myself   (trying to work on that) anyhoo her blog is Live big Love bigger, Go check it out look at her amazing pictures, and drool! She has two of the cutest girls I have ever seen other than my girl, but hey I could be a little bias on that. Back to my point today has been especcially trying and it seems like the minute we think we have things figured out, something else falls apart, today on the above mentioned blog there was a bible verse it read

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
                                                                                                       Ecclesiastes 3:15

It doesn't say following Christ gives you all "good" seasons with no trials, it says theres a time for everything the good and the bad and as much as I dislike the bad there are lessons to learn from it...There is a sign hanging in my parents house or my sisters I don't remember which one but it says And this to shall pass, my prayer today is that I remember that...

Our weekend in pictures

I did quiet a bit of sewing this weekend which was fun! Ariel also got to bring her instrument home to show everyone, it was pretty interesting listening to her practicing on it:) We also had my brothers going away party Wednesday. He ships out tomorrow morning for boot camp,we are all super proud of him!  All in all we had a pretty relaxing weekend,lee and I got the chance to go on a quiet day date Sunday (thanks Nicki and Rosie) that was so nice,we went to lunch and then walked around costco( we aren't old or anything) and then went and found miss hailee and the mall with her sister and her mom.
That was our weekend,this next week im hoping to get a few fun projects around the house done! Have a wonderful week!

Xoxo,
Rebekah

saturday love....



"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... "


1 John 4:18



My favorite this week.....

Lyrics to This Is The Stuff :






I lost my keys in the great unknown

And call me please 'Cuz I can't find my phone



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff that's getting to me lately

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

But I gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



45 in a 35

Sirens and fines while I'm running behind

Whoa



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff that's getting to me lately

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

But I gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



So break me of impatience

Conquer my frustrations

I've got a new appreciation

It's not the end of the world

Oh Oh Oh



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff

Someone save me

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

And I've gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



Oh Oh Oh Oh

This is the stuff You use



I lost my keys in the great unknown

And call me please 'Cuz I can't find my phone



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff that's getting to me lately

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

But I gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



45 in a 35

Sirens and fines while I'm running behind

Whoa



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff that's getting to me lately

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

But I gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



So break me of impatience

Conquer my frustrations

I've got a new appreciation

It's not the end of the world

Oh Oh Oh



This is the stuff that drives me crazy

This is the stuff

Someone save me

In the middle of my little mess

I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin

And I've gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing

It might not be what I would choose

But this is the stuff You use



Oh Oh Oh Oh

This is the stuff You use



I love Francesca battistelli it was just what I need this am!! Might be hinting to the hubby to surprise me with her cd:)

chevron love...

I have been wanting a bright piece of art work for the house for a while now.  The prices of art is well out of my price range, and I have seen lots of DIY piece, and I had canvas and craft paint and a brush. So if this didn't work out I wasn't out anything :) It was a time consuming project manly because it was all free hand, but I love it!!! Now I just need to find exactly were I want it, my orginal plan was to place it above the fireplace, however we ended up mounting our tv there so now Im thinking of doing a large picture\art wall right at the entry way. Without further ado my project....................

The bottom isn't even but I still love it, perfectly imperfect:)

THings I MUST do...

I need this in my craft room.
http://pinterest.com/pin/1255293/

This would look amazing in the girls room....
http://pinterest.com/pin/26499280/

front door??????
http://pinterest.com/pin/12288005/

would work wonders in my suv!!!!!!

http://pinterest.com/pin/8373410/


Hope you enjoyed my "must do" list!!!!!!!

Judy moody and the not so bummer summer.....

Hailed is finally to the age were we get to have our girlie outings and her actually understand she gets quiet time with momma. Judy moody and the not so bummer summer was playing at the Harkins and I knew hails had been pining to see it, plus her sister is staying with us for the month and I know that movie was right up her alley.
Well the stars aligned and daddy had a training and gma rose was willing to babysit the boys, and us girls got to spend most of Thursday shopping and eating yummy food and of course go to the movies!!!!!!!!!! The girls got the cutest outfits at target,shoes hat everything we got to eat at one of our favorite spots and finally watched a pretty cute movie, there's alot of kids shows out that I can't sit and watch. I always sensor what hailee watches but I can't sit and watch them. This one did not fall in that category at all it was super cute.Hope you enjoyed the pics.....

Xoxo
Rebekah

Testing:)

Fun patriotic Project

I saw this project somewhere and I can't remember for the life of me were,I was looking on my phone and I suck and didn't favorite the website.

So by no means was this idea mine, but it was so cute, and I had spare pieces of beadboard laying around and the local store selling craft paint super cheap so this projected costed all of 3 bucks!!!!! Cheap and easy and cute 3 of my favorite things!

This was it before I antiqued it, see the cute little shoes in the bottom yep that was my helper, he's super cute!

and this is after its antiqued I really loved the antiqued look it makes me happy:)
I also redid my front entry way and amd super in love with it!!! pics to come tomorrow:)

Make a wish:)