What We've Been Up To

I would have posted individual pictures, but it would've been a long post. :) So I decided to go with a slide show!

4th of July

I love the Fourth. It typically has always been a fun relaxing day for me. Of course with kids is hard to relax much, but I'm looking forward to it this year.

That's all I have today!

To God be all the Glory!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're Back

I think I too often describe things as crazy. So I will try my best not to use that word in this post. :)

The Lord gave us a safe trip there and back and we are so thankful for that!

We left early Friday morning, arriving in Omaha around 7pm Friday night. Our kids did GREAT! They started melting down once we got into Nebraska, but hey, they'd been in the car for 10 hours, I wanted to melt down too. :) Once we got to our room at the hotel, they got all of their energy out. They ran and ran around that room probably for at least 30 minutes. I wanted to stop them at first, and then I realized that they really needed to do it.

When we arrived and got settled in, my dad informed me that my Grandma was not going to be making the wedding because my aunt had taken her to the ER. So, my grandma was in the hospital all weekend. That was a bummer, the whole weekend would have drained her, so as much as I know she wanted to be involved, it would probably done her more harm. That's my opinion anyway. She go to meet my family Sunday afternoon, we spent just a few minutes with her. It's been 9 years since I'd seen her. It was good.

Saturday was the wedding day. My kids made it through the bride walking down the aisle before we had to make our exit. The wedding was during nap time, and the way the first part of the day went didn't leave room to nap before hand. I think too, Hannah had different expectations of what a wedding would be like. So the kids got to go outside, it was beautiful there, and run around in the grass and play, It was cool. :) After the ceremony I got to meet family members that I hadn't seen since I was little, that was neat. We had a three hour break between the end of the ceremony and the reception, so we did get to go rest at the hotel before party time.

The reception was BEAUTIFUL!!! The food was good, and we got to dance for a little bit before the kids were ready to done. We left a little after 9 and went back and went to bed.

Sunday morning we slept in and didn't make it to church. Our kids needed that sleep, so I'm thankful for it, bummed that we didn't make it to that service, but thankful fur the rest. Sunday evening we went to my Aunt Judi's house and had dinner and hung out for a while. It was good.

We got back late got packed up and went to bed. We left out of Omaha at 5:30am yesterday morning. It was a long drive back, but again, the Lord kept us safe. We got back home at 6:30 lat night.

And when we got home, wouldn't you know it, our A/C had gone out at sometime while we were gone and had been blowing hot air. It was HOT. lol! great. :) The maintenance guy came and fixed it last night. It was still VERY hot. I think it finally cooled off in here sometime in the middle of the night. We all slept downstairs, had a family slumber party, because it is cooler down here.

It was a very hard weekend. I left out a lot of stuff due to feelings and thoughts going on in my heart and mind that I feel inappropriate to share on a blog. I'm going to have to make some hard decisions soon, and have some hard conversations. But! God is still good and gracious, and I am thankful to Him for the good times that we did have, and for the very safe journey. !!!

I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I'll post some of the one's that are cute later on. :)

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." James 1:1-8

a few pics

Just for fun...all taken in the last month or so....

Hannah riding her trike at mil's house. She hasn't been on it since. Been too afriad. She feel and got some booboos...working on getting her back on. I accidently put a black spot on the pic...couldn't get it off.

Hannah is a wiggle worm when I'm trying to do her hair...this is what we did one day...

and one day she wanted to wear every singe bow she could find...haha!

these were totally just for fun...

silly faces!

Positive Thinking

That's my thinking right now. HA!

The next 3-4 weeks are going to be FULL. So, today, I've been trying to step out of this feeling of being overwhelmed, to trusting Jesus with it all. It's the future, and He has it in His hands. I need to let it all go and walk obediently through it all.

The next day and a quarter will be spent preparing for our trip to Nebraska. We'll be on the road for approx 12 hours on Friday. My dad has rented a minivan for us to drive, and my sister is unable to go with. So Weston will be studing/reading the whole drive, the kids watching movies or sleeping the whole time, while, Lord willing, I drive. And my dad will be up front with me. Please pray. :) Then Saturday will be my cousins wedding. Sunday, get this, Weston, the kids and I will visit an Act29 church (FUN!) in Omaha. Then we'll get back into the van and drive back on Monday.
We'll be home for 3 days, (doing laundry) to live out of our suitcases, then load our car up and drive across town to my in-laws. We'll be house sitting for them for a week. Weston will still have to drive to this side of town for work, so he'll be able to come home for lunch, check the mail and stuff, and I am so thankful for that. Can't explain why, I just am.
So then we'll come home that following weekend, to be home for good. BUT, the following weeken we'll leave out of here for a day with the Littrell's. It's part of the family we don't see often, for various reasons.
Then we will be back to "normal."

YAY!

I hope to take a lot of pictures and try to post when I can.
We'll have the lap top with us this weekend, so if I remember or have time, I'll try to remember to post some. :)

My Children

My Aunt who lives in Illinois wrote me an email asking me about my babies. She will be meeting them for the first time in a couple of weeks at my cousins wedding in Nebraska. The following is what happened in my responce to her....when I was done with it, I thought, this would make a great blog post. I think Weston might post it as well. :)

Hannah: She's a Joy! She's all girl! She loves to dress up like Cinderella (or just a princess for that matter), and talk about getting married and being a wife and mommy and have a husband someday. She's just gotten down the art of riding her trike, and she looks so grown up riding it (sniffle sniffle). Her hair is long and beautiful, and she loves it! She loves to wear it down and have it in her face all the time, drives the rest of us nuts, I like to pull it back in to pony tails and pig tails and braids and try to convince her to wear it that way by calling it princess hair (doesn't always work). Her favorite colors are red and pink. She likes jewelry. She loves to wear dresses. She likes to write the letter H, because it's for "Hannah". :) She loves books. Let's see, what else...She loves to have tea parties. One of her favorite movies is a Barbie movie, the story of the Princess and the Pauper. She loves games, and she loves to paint. And she loves to read our Bible story book every night before bed. I think that may have answered all of the above questions that you asked...for Hannah. :)

Corban: He's my little man! He's a monkey...he can eat about 50 banana's in one day and likes to swing on me like he's a monkey on a tree. He likes cars, balls, trains and dinosaurs. He likes to growl, yell, and bang. He loves to pretend to be a dinosaur too. He loves to put his train tracks together and make them long and different every time. He loves to build with his blocks. He loves to hammer and make as much noise as he can for as long as I will let him. He loves play dough, always wanting to make a snowman. He likes animals and making all of their noises. (noticing a trend yet?) He likes books, still trying to instill a love for them in him. He loves to color...on everything. He doesn't sit still longer than a couple of minutes, unless he's watching TV...and he loves to watch Boz and Veggie Tales. :) And he loves to climb, kick, throw and jump. He is all boy!!! He too likes the bible stories before bed time, but he would rather hold the bible story book and run around the room with it. (haha!) That probably answers for him too!

They both love their daddy very much! :)

My Apologies

Please excuse my post that I posted earlier today. My husband just informed me that it was awful. I really didn't even mean to post it, it was written in a hurry and not spell checked or anything. My bad.

Diapers

Well, about a year ago I posted about Kroget diapers and how grea they are. In the last 5 months they've dong something goofy and the diapers they sell now are awful. Don't buy them! Corban gets soaked every night now. So, needless to say, we're having to move back to the Pampers. I've been debating on potty training him. Hannah is almost completely trained, we have a couple of issues with her that I'm trying to figure out how to relsolve. But I ready for he day when we have both of these kids out of goodnights and diapers! :)

Wisdom

I totally believe that God is going to answer my prayer for wisdom, it may not be how I envision it, but He will. I'm faced with an issue right now that I really don't know what to do. So, if this is seen by any of my prayer friends, please pray for me. I don't know when or how conversations will happen, but I do trust that God will answer my plea.

In other Littrell news, Weston did finish his last semester. I don't remember if I posted that yet or not. This is a great thing!!! He'd been working on two silly classes FOREVER, and finally got 'em done. His final grades were a B and an A in them. WOO! So he started his Global Studies program two weeks ago. It's a little kick in the booty...we're trying to find the rhythm so there is plenty of rest in this season. If we can get in to that rhythm, he could quite possible have Saturdays free, which means we would have the whole weekend. That would be GREAT!
Let's see...oh, even though when moving here we thought we'd stay for a long time, we're considering moving (yucky!) again. However, it would be in an effort to try to save some money. We're going to try for Apartment Life and see if we can get in. Which means we would have some of our rent paid for. This could be my "side job" to help out financially until Weston gets through school. We'd be in a commitment for 2 years, and he has 18 months left of this program, so that would work out well. Not sure yet, still praying about it, it would save us a lot every month, and that would help in every area.
Kids are doing well. Having a 3 and 2 year old around is fun. They love each other so much, and fight pretty well too. ;) There are days when they are great all day, and others, like yesterday, when I was ready to put them to bed at noon. LOL! I love them so much! (not sarcastic!)
Well, I think that's it in a nutshell. About to make my 2nd cup of coffee and throw some stuff into the dryer.
Praise to the King of kings and Lord of lords...Jesus!!!!
May He bless you richly today!