Enter Into His Gates with Thanksgiving...

and into His courts with praise;
be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endures to all generations. ~Psalm 100


I hope Everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!! Thanksgiving was a little different this year. Stephen had to work and lots of family didn't come to the ranch this year. This year we had Thanksgiving at the ranch. Jolene and James and their kiddoes came in from San Antonio, Aunt Melva,Uncle Jody,Granny and Pa came in from Angelo, Jeremey, Branson and Collin came in from Lubbock and of then there was me and the kids and Lovie and Cautro and Quenten. LOTS of kiddoes running around! It was really cool having them all together and very CRAZY!!!! I am very thankful for the time spent with family. I am going to San Angelo this weekend to see my Nanaw and my sister and hopefully see Kelly.

I hope everyone is full with food and their heart is warm with the love of their families.

Thank You Jesus for my family!
Thank you Jesus for my Babies!

Pictures of All the kiddoes!








Thank you Lord that I have MORE THAN ENOUGH....

Memory Lane...

This was taken on the day that Stephen and I got married, June 10th, 2000.
Ali was 4 and would turn 5 that August.




This was Taken 8 years later...




This was taken Nov. of last year Peyton was 2 and ALi was 12





THis was taken in Nov. this year. My how they have grown!

My babies are growing up!

Shoes.......

I just bought 2 pair of shoes for $5! THe best shoes ever! Please go check them out at Angie's Blog- BRING THE RAIN.... Read the post titled 50,000.

http://audreycaroline.blogspot.com/2008/11/50000.html

I don't know if the link will show up, but if it doesn't then on my Blog you can find the blog BRING THE RAIN.


I love SHoes and I have too many, so it just seemed right to buy these!

Lord, THank you that my kids, my husband and I have shoes to wear. Help me not to take that for granted.


Have a wonderful Afternoon!

Heather

Lazy Day...

Just what I needed! A day to do absolutely nothing....well except laundry and dishes and chase Peyton. That boy is one busy kid! I pray that he settles down as he gets older, I love that boy so much but jeez, he can wear anyone out! If I had just a tad of his energy I would be good to go for weeks! I might sound like I am complaining, but really, It blesses me to see little pieces of my heart running around but if he could be still for just a little awhile???
Stephen and Peyton stayed in Sheffield last night so Ali and I had a girls night and went out to eat and watched a movie, Veggie Tales The Pirates That Don't Do ANything.. I love that ALi still likes those movies. We feel asleep on the couch early! We were exhausted!


stephen is home now and has made a fire in our fire place... it's not that cold out tonight but I LOVE me a Fire!!!

Good Night!

Heather

Oh! ALI MADE A 91 ON HER MATH TEST!!!!

TGIF!

I am so glad it's Friday!!

Let's see if I can give a run down of this week..

Ali had a Basketball game in Forsan- They WON!! Go WARRIORETTES!!!
#14!!!

The kids had Youth and Cubbies.. Peyton LOVES to go to Cubbies.. He learns bible verses every week and is supposed to recite them.. every week it is Jesus LOves me and GOd does too! I guess he hasn't learned the others yet...

Math tutorials for ALi- She brought her grade up 14 Pts. this week! GO ALI!
She had a Math test today so fingers crossed she got a BIG FAT A on it! A Big thank you to Manish!!! He is tutoring Ali- he is an engineer I work with.. SO SMart that Guy! Because well, we don't need me tutoring her..

We went to Watch Quenten in his school program.. It was a Thanksgiving AND Christmas program... Since when do they do that? It was wierd to hear them singing Christmas songs before Thanksgiving??? They had a turkey running around AND a snowman! Whatever.. it was cute!

Work was extrememly busy!

I filled up my YUKON for $45!!! WOW!!!!

Oh and I had a nervous breakdown...

More fever blisters...this makes 7 in a month or two?

got antibiotics for the fever blisters... YUCK!

Colored my hair TWICE!!!!

So, really not THAT exciting of a week but it was Busy and I am worn completely out! Hopefully we will have a nice quiet weekend....

Yea, probably not....

Love,
Heather

As Promised....

Here are some pictures from Saturday working in the yard.

A Change Of Season.....

I would have to say that Fall is my favorite Season. I always tell Ali that I can smell fall coming. With Fall comes cooler weather, the start of a new school year, football games, soups and chili for supper, sweat shirts, Thanksgiving, the smell of cinnamon and spice candles burning... I absolutely Love it! Fall is such a cozy season. Fall also brings LEAVES! I love the leaves and the colors they start to turn. Our new house has these huge pine trees in front so we don't have to worry about leaves falling, but our neighbors do! Today the kids and I raked leaves and made piles and Peyton jumped in them.. Ali wasn't happy about that because she had worked her tail end off getting them just so... I will have to post the pictures tomorrow, the camera is in the car and I am too cozy on the couch right now and besides, it's COLD out! Anyways, I started thinking about how seasons bring change and not just with the weather. We go through Seasons with the Lord too and I feel like I am beginning to come into another Season with HIM now..a time to draw even closer to HIM. I am excited about this new Season, I am looking forward to what HE has in store for me and my family and what HE is going to teach me in this Season...I just pray that I can be STILL long enough to hear HIM. In the past I've been known to only hear HIM while using the bathroom or taking a shower and sometimes not even those times are a very quiet time,and those with younger ones know what I am talking about..you can't go pee or take a shower without at least one or two kids right there with you =) Anyways, I posted one of my favorite scriptures From Ecclisiastes........... I will put pictures up tomorrow!!!

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Photo Shoot

Just wanted to share a photo or two that Keva took of the kids last weekend in an effort to get Christmas cards done. Bless Keva! LOL!! Peyton thought he was a dinosaur the whole time so if you can imagine how MOST of his pictures turned out! She did capture some very sweet ones of him and Ali and Oh Ali! My, My, My... she is growing up everyday! I actually teared up looking at the pictures of her.. Where does the time go? It really blesses me to have these pictures.. I LOVE PICTURES! You can never have enough! Why is it that husbands have no clue the importance of them or is it just mine? THey each tell a story and bring back so many memories! Thanks again Keva!