We love our bath time! It's fun to stick them all in together and watch them play.

Bath time will not be nearly as easy now with Judd's casted arm! I'm sure Adley and Nolan will appreciate the extra space in the tub tough. :)

Life With a Cast

It finally happened! We had our first visit to the ER Sunday evening. Judd fell off the trampoline at his cousin's house and broke his radius. The bone broke all the way through! My poor baby!! He has been quite the trooper though. His only complaint is that he can't play all his favorite games on the Wii. I have really been amazed at how he has bounced back. He should be ready to play some T-ball in about 4 weeks! To bad he won't be skiing with us next week though.

Having a kids with a cast is like going back about 4 years. He can't bathe himself, or dress himself, he can't button his pants (luckily we have lots of elastic waist sweats and track pants), and it's hard for him to feed himself (I never realized how much he used two hands to eat!). There have been some frustrating moments for both of us, but we are adjusting and are trying to be as patient as possible with each other.

Spiritual Awakening

There are a number of things going on in my life spiritually right now. I'm probably going to be all over the place with this post, so forgive me. I'm just typing as it comes...


Simply put, I'm tired of playing church. Something in my life has got to change. I want to be amazed by the glory of God and I want others to share in that amazement with me! What good is our faith if we're not reaching out to those around us?? Why are we holding back the most awesome gift we have ever been given?? We're being selfish with the gospel of Christ and it's wrong. The world is not our home and the life we live is not ours to do what we want to with. As a child of God, We are to proclaim HIS name until He comes! It's not a message that we are to keep to ourselves or just share with our children and friends. This is a message for EVERYONE!

So, that's it. I'm done putting on a show. It's time to get make a change. Will you make that change too?

It's not an easy change. There will be A LOT of self-denial involved. It's realizing God is not our genie in bottle to do as we please. He is not sitting in heaven looking for ways to make sure we are always happy and healthy with all the money and material things we want. We have made our religion all about us and how it makes us feel. If we read something in the Bible that offends us, we throw it out. I heard it said once, "the parts of the Bible we truly believe are the parts we LIVE OUT." So, I ask, what parts of the Bible do you TRULY believe?? All the things in the Bible are to be obeyed and believed. They haven't lost anything with time. Adultery is still wrong. Murder and addictions are both still wrong. Many of us don't have a problem believing those. But what about sex before marriage? Jealousy? Materialism? Gossip? Homosexuality? We sure have done a wonderful job as a culture in ignoring these sins and, on some level, accepting them.

So, why have we accepted these things and let them slip into our daily lives and even churches? Because we are selfish and we want to see God on our terms. Not His. We want a religion of convience and not of self-denial. We don't want to feel like we are sacrificing anything to anyone. We live for ourselves. We have become so extremely selfish.

I've come to realize, life is about GOD. It's about me bringing Him glory in everything I do. I was put on this earth so God would be exhalted...not me. In the very beginning, God had a plan and it didn't include me being put on a pedistal. It was GLORIFYING HIMSELF. He created everything with just a word! So I would say He deserves that Glory.

SuPeR JuDd

This weekend we celebrated our oldest son's 5th birthday. He wanted a "superhero party where everybody dresses like their favorite superhero!" So, that is just what we did! My wonderful and talented mother made 22 capes for the event and every child got his or her very own superhero cape. It was really cute to watch all the kids running around with their capes blowing in the breeze. We tried to play a few games, but with that many kids, we found it nearly impossible! All of the decorations were homemade. I got the invitations and party favor tags from a coupl different sellers on Etsy.com and they turned out too cute!! Using a really cute comic book style font I made couple different banners for the party, hung "boom" "bam" "pow" "splat" and "kaboom" signs from the ceiling tiles, and butcher paper on the tables, so the kids could color on them if they wanted. All the kids got to color and decorate their own masks too. The cake was a three tiered cake with Batman, Spiderman, and Superman layers. It was too stinking cute and tasted even better!! Over all I would say the party was a success and was "super" cute too!

Now that this one is over, I can start planning for Nolan's 1st birthday!!