SURPRISE!!

Brent's birthday was last Thursday, September 25th, and boy did he have a good 30th birthday this year. On Thursday, Brent took me to a Barlow Girl concert which was a blast (he liked it too), then on Friday his brother took him and Jordan to a Switchfoot/3rd Day/and Jars of Clay concert where they had even more of a blast and then Saturday I threw Brent a surprise birthday party! Now if you know Brent he always find things like that out, but not this time! We had like 10 people at our house and we were supposed to meet at his parents house so they could babysitter while we went on our pretend date. Well everyone got here on time so I called him and I told him just to come home and we would leave from here cuz I just couldn't the girls together, boy was he mad!! But when he walked in and all his friends yelled surprise he was shocked and obviously not mad at me anymore:) It was a good time. We had Subway sandwiches, chips, potato salad and spaghetti:) Yummy!! Along with his cake and ice cream:) Even more Yummy!! I will post some pictures when I get some, but unfortanetly my cameras batteries died and others had to take pictures:( So I need to wait til I get the pictures from them and then I will post it. Brent stated no one had ever done a party for him before and that made me feel like an awesome wife!!

Whew!!!

Yes I am finally done deep cleaning our house. 3 weeks later!! I have torn apart every closet and every cabinet in this house and Brent has steamed cleaned most of the carpets. Today was my "oh my gosh" crazy day. I started it off running around the house trying to at least get the dishes done, then having to get a bag of food ready for the outing day, Jordans school books together, the girls ready, and myself ready. We then headed out for our weekly co op group for Kayleigh at the park which was from 10-12, where my homeschooling group was meeting at 12 for a calendar meeting which went from 12-3. The kids got 5 hours at the park today, Kayleigh had bags literally under her eyes:) Then I rushed Jordan to football practice and rushed home to cook dinner for my neighbors. Which by the way, my neighbors husband died last Wednesday from a long battle with cancer. He had just turned 50. She has been a stay at home mom her whole married life and still has 2 boys in high school at home. Please pray for her and for the Lord to meet her financial and emotional needs. So I have decided to cook for her family for a total of 12 days. Plus when I got home I had to get an order ready to be taken to the hostess. After an hour of cooking and sorting, I rushed to go get Jordan from practice then to my friends to drop off the order where Kayleigh decided to pee on her carpet!!!! No clue why, I think she was just over exhausted!!! Now I need to steam clean her carpet cuz that is just gross to leave your daughters pee behind:) Then it was off to church where we chased Trinity around cuz she had a runny nose and couldn't go to the nursery, then at 9 pm we finally ate dinner and now the girls are both asleep!!!:)) Tired yet from all that? Well I am so I thought I would post my busy day:) God Bless and please remember my neighbor, her name is Jamie Hand and her boys are Justin, Brandon and Chris (which is older and out of the home).

Thank you to all our friends!

Tonight I had my mandatory homeschooling meeting for my ISP, and our Principal of our ISP spoke in great depth about the scripture where 2 strands are better than one and 3 strands are not quickly broken. He talked about how for him personally the 3 strands were, him as an individual, those who are his friends and hold him accountable, and Christ. For me, it was just the same. You know, the last couple of days I have thought a great deal about Job and have had alot of silent cries. You would think with him being gone for 2 1/2 years now that I would be healed and could remember him with a smile not tears, but you know I still don't know what it is that made God take my child from me. I only look forward to the day we will be reunited. I will hold him in my spiritual arms and tell him how much I missed and love him. Anyways, these two things that I have been faced with this week, has made me really want to thank you to all our friends....
Lori....We have been friends since Jordan was in my tummy. We have only seen each once since he was born, but yet you wouldn't know that in our friendship. We still pray and our there for each other in our trials and hardships. You always check in on me and that means a lot to me. Even though you are far away, you have comforted me through our loss and I KNOW that you prayed for our family when we were going through are dealings with Job. Thankyou and for your friendship I am blessed!
Mandy....I met you through Brent and you shared in our wedding. Especially through Job, you were probably my solid rock other than Brent and of course God. You helped in saving our baby's life, by that I mean I stayed with the pregnancy. You and Brandon both prayed for us and sent out prayer requests to those you know and that meant ALOT to both of us.
Aurora....You again prayed for us and when we went to your house, as uncomfortable as it was, you had your friends who didn't know us, pray over us and our baby. I will remember one thing you said when we were pregnant with Job. You called Brent when we were on vacation and told him you had a dream that Job was going to be ok. Although he wasn't "ok" here on earth, I know now that God was telling us that Job was going to be in the most perfect place and "we" were going to be ok. Thank you for that! And thankyou for singing and Josh playing in our wedding. You were a huge part of our day!
Sheila...We went through similar situations, we both lost children and I will never forget your gift to us one morning when we woke to a basket of great things on our porch. Or our Walk to Remember for our children. You have helped me through all my questions of "why". As sucky as it is, I am blessed that it is you who I could share this with.
Angela...I have known you since 4th grade! You have been the greatest friend ever and thankyou! I can't even say everything you have done for me. You shared in our wedding, you have always been awesome with kids and put up with us when visiting you in Santa Barbara. Even though I am so conservative, you respect that about me and that is awesome! We will be friends til the end!
Kristina....You are one of my closest and dearest friends who I can tell anything to and get some pretty good advice from. You love to watch my crazy children and you do it for free:) God introduced us to each other through the Single Moms Group and for that I am forever thankful for. You are a huge part of my strand and don't you forget that!
Jacque and Jen....I love our girls night out! You two are so dear to me as well. Jacque, your advice is precious to me and has given me insight and hope in my life. I am not alone in my trials:) Our sons are best friends and I consider you that as well. I LOVE your family and feel as though we are one. Our beliefs are different, and some may question that, but I don't. God brought us together as friends for all the right reasons and I cherish our friendship. You have supported me and Jordan in all our craziness and have given me hope. The Browns are awesome people!!! So are the Coopers!!
So to those of you I might not have mentioned, it is because it is late and I am having a brain fart. If it seemed like us losing Job had a lot of thankfulness, you are right. I learned from that the quality of our friends and not the quantity. I know through that who we can turn to and who will pray for us and be there for us. That was a huge part of Brent and I's life and by you, our friends and family, being there for us, it carried us through and meant EVERYTHING to us! We love you all for that! So again thankyou to all of you. You are part of our strand and by that Satan cannot do anything to us that God does not want done!!! We love you all:)

We are done!

Well we have been done painting since Tuesday, but my house looks like we literally moved in! It is disgusting! But something good came of it, I am totally deep cleaning. The girls room is already done, along with the hall closet and linen cabinet. I am almost done with Jordan's room, maybe one more day, then on to the living room and kitchen:) I have had like 5 bags of donations and about 3 bags of trash just from the kids rooms! It feels good to let go:)

Almost Done:)

We are almost done painting, but no camping this weekend:( Brent really wanted to go and I wanted to go for him, but I couldn't fathom how I was going to get everything done in my house when I have to start homeschool Jordan and Kayleigh for Preschool starting Wednesday, not to mention Jordan will be in 2 sports starting this week. Plus and I don't think I blogged this, but I went to the doctors the other day and I have high blood pressure for whatever reason. It was124/90. The 90 was the bad part I guess. The doctor said to get a lot of rest, drink lots of fluid, stay away from sodium, and eat a good diet. I am already doing all of that except probably the rest and definetly the sodium part. I go back in a month for them to recheck me to see if it has changed:( But of course I decided to undergo this huge project. We have only one coat to go left on the living room which will be done tonight when the girls go to bed. We are steam cleaning the girls room now and will then organize it and get all the furniture in. Please keep praying for our sanity!