I am so grateful for the AWESOME weather today!!! I took ALL the boys to the park, (we hadn't seen Jimmy or Chis all week so we were excited to see them) they changed my plans for the Bean Museum, they wanted the extra time at the park. They played hard and had a ton of fun!! I wasn't quite prepared for that one since we were headed to the museum so I didn't have sun block...oops.. I must get that all re-packed. We had so much fun and got a little too much sun, but it was so worth it!! :)

Hope everyone had a great day in the sun and the end of spring break!!

I'm going to post pictures tomorrow from the day...

Tonight I am grateful for the good weather and for some quiet time tonight!!

Now I just need to get some sleep....

long weekend ahead of us, I'll try and get some pictures and let you in on what will be happening around here....

Oh ok I'll tell you... WE ARE STARTING THE GYM TOMORROW!!

We are getting a roll off and we are DE-JUNKING OUR LIVES!!!

as much as possible!! and even though it is going to be a LOT of HARD WORK!! We are so excited to get things thinned out and trying to get a grasp of our lives...FINALLY!! :)

**UPDATE 4/10/2010- The can didn't come today as promised...I guess we'll have to start on Monday... So we worked on other things around the house and took the kids out to play and had our First B-Q in a long while (we've been out of gas). Good day even without the can :)

Today I sent Chad a message and said... wow you've been real quiet today... is everything ok?

His response,"Good day kids have been good"... YEAH!!!!!!!! Very Grateful for good days!!

Very Grateful that Chad and I are a TEAM!!! I have watched this wonderful man of mine change and develop right in front of my eyes!! It has not been an easy 2 months, but he has been AMAZING!! I will tell you more about some of these things a little latter... I have to be up in a couple of hours and really need a little sleep. But I just wanted Chad and all of you know how grateful I am for him and ALL that he has done!!

THANKS BABE!! YOUR AMAZING!! AND I LOVE YOU!!....

SO MUCH!!!

THE GANG!!

Ok so EVERYONE has been after me for not getting pictures up of the boys...

Here is Chad and I and all the boys.

Jimmy, Chris, Jay Jay, Jo Jo, and Skeeter...

not our names for them but nick names they know and I'm trying to protect them,

so I'm going to use them for now, until I can figure out what I'm going to do about the name thing...

They had just got new church clothes (for the first time) and hair cuts the night before,

it was like Christmas Morning at out house!! :)

They were SO HAPPY!!

This was a great day!!

Ok so it's almost been 2 months...

There have been a lot of grateful moments, and I should have posted them and kept going on my gratitude posts, they may have helped on the tough days, but I'm back and things are finally calming down a little. There is so much to tell my closest friends and family about, I will get to that... but right now this is a gratitude post

Today I'm grateful for a really good day at our home!! Chad and the boys had a REALLY good day together, even with the youngest getting a "haircut" from his brother and face planting into the wall and getting a bloody nose. He is at an awkward stage of going to fast and tripping over himself. When I got home the day continued to be a good one. We all ate dinner together and the boys got to stay up late since they were so good today!!! :)

There were no fits, no hitting, and VERY little arguing with each other.

That is an awesome day for us!!! We have only had a couple of those in the past 2 months!!

THANK YOU BOYS!! WAY TO GO!!

So much to be grateful for... and so much to catch you up on!! but for tonight I have to keep it short!! I'm so tired I might just collapse right here as I'm typing. I am grateful that Chad and I have followed the direction that the Lord sent us on... We were inspired I know.

We got a call with a need for a home, for a family of 3 little boys. We felt strongly that we needed to help these Brothers, so we went and meet them and brought them home with us last night. They are beautiful little boys and they have LOTS...no... TONS of energy!!! Chad has been so great with them and they have already had lots of fun with him.

More to come after we both get some sleep!! :)

Well it's been a week since I posted but I'm going to keep up my Gratitude posts even if I miss some days!! This is one goal that I want to accomplish for myself!! It's been a long week with a lot going on in our lives. I have also been avoiding my computer because I have so much work to do to get it back to functioning for me. But it's time to get back to what I love and stop avoiding it...

Tonight I am grateful for the past week being behind me, and having a fresh new week ahead of me. Just like what Christ has done for us so that we can have a new and fresh day and life ahead of us with the atonement, I believe that it also allows us to "restart" and "renew". I look forward to a renewed week ahead of us.