a few more...

Here are a few more pics of our tree that I had taken last week. We have really beautiful sunsets here and we live at the top of a hill, so we have a great view too! The first two really capture the name "Autumn Blaze Maple"...

fall yard...

This is our first fall to live in "The Ozarks" and we're loving it! It is so beautiful and we've been amazed by all the beautiful fall colors, even in our own front yard! We have an "Autumn Blaze Maple" tree in our front yard and I've been documenting it's color change...

These two pictures are from the first fall frost we had last week...

I need to take a picture since the frost last week because 85% of the maple tree leaves have fallen off already! Lynzi and I took a field trip to the front yard today and collected a bag full of leaves for a project. I'll have to post pictures of the project too!

Happy Fall! :)

a little Lynziness for ya...

This girl is so much fun to hang out with all day! Between her and her brother, I am certainly not lacking in entertainment or sweetness!!! :) My favorite Lynzi quote of the day:

"Mom, when I grow up...I want to be a Mommy just like you!!!"

(melt my heart)

a spoonful of sugar....

So, here I am...laying by the fireplace with strep throat! I've felt like I've had a softball in my throat for the last 3 days...never had a sore throat so bad and my parents finally convinced me to go to the doctor and sure enough...STREP! My sweet Honey just made me a chocolate milk shake...yummy!

I'm trying to keep my kids off of me, since I'm contagious for 24 more hours (after the antibiotics kick in)...and it's a terrible thing to tell your sweet baby boy not to kiss you when he comes up with arms wide open, saying, "MUAH!" After I tell him I'm sorry that I can't kiss him or it would make him sick...he turns his head the other way and lays his head on my shoulder and pats my back!!! He's so sweet.

Lynzi keeps saying and doing such hilarious and random things, so I thought that while I'm just laying here that I might as well blog about them:

I laid down after I got home from the doctor today, while the kids were napping and Lynzi came in my room to tell me that she heard Asher and he was awake. She asked me if she could get him out of his bed (which somehow she manages to do really well!) So after they scurried down the hall...I went in the living room behind them and there were coins all over the floor (that Lynzi had been counting.) She immediately told me, "It's okay, Mom, I put his paci in his mouth so he wouldn't put any money in his mouth!!!" I thought that was some pretty critical thinking on her part!!!

The girl needs to be in commercials! She's a little slogan machine! One of our local news stations here is called KY3 and their slogan is: "KY3 is the Place to Be!" Back in May when we went to the Wheel of Fortune auditions, KY3 was the host station there...so they had the whole audience shouting their slogan over and over. So earlier this evening, I had Wheel of Fortune on and Lynzi was laying on the rug and kept saying, "KY3 is the place to be" over and over again!!! Then a little bit later, she was drawing a picture at the table and I could hear her saying really quietly to herself, "Live Better. Shop Smart. Walmart!" I'm not even positive that is the slogan for Walmart, but if not...sounds good to me!!! I've heard her randomly quoting other slogans/commercials before too and we definitely don't watch much t.v. around here...that's what is so funny about it to me! She's said on occasion, "Look at me mom...I'm a commercial girl," as she poses or does something super cute! She's just made to be in the spotlight...someway, somehow, somewhere! :)

Another funny she said tonight, while sitting on the couch looking at a book, she said..."Mom, too bad I love you so much!" Ryan and I both laughed at how matter-of-factly she said it!!!

Anyways, there's a dose of my sweet kids for ya! Their sweetness is medicine enough for me and I'm sure I'll be better in no time! Just pray with me that they don't get it...that would be AWFUL!

Here are some recent pics of my cuties:

~excited much?!?!~

~my little man~

~precious in purple~


~headed out to help daddy grill~

~My Sweetnesses~

super sweet update...

So, here's an update to the sweet story on Saturday:

Sunday morning, when we picked Lynzi up from class...she was sporting a sticker on her dress and a cool certificate that said,

"I asked Jesus to come into my heart and be my best friend forever!" :)

She said she went up to the front during "Zooper Church" (preschool church...3-4 yr olds) and prayed for Jesus to come into her heart! (WOW, after all this asking Jesus into her heart...she's definitely full of Jesus now - there's no better condition for a heart than that! That is what God created hearts for...to beat for HIM!!!) So when we have Sunday evening church, they have baptisms and take communion. I thought it would be a great time for her to see a baptismal service and take part in communion also. So I gave her the choice to go to her class or come into "big church" with us. She had a hard time deciding (because she LOVES her class and her friends!) She went back and forth and finally decided she wanted to go with us and she could go to class after worship, communion and baptism. She was glad she did because she thought it was really great...and it was a really special time with her! That evening, the pastor mentioned that 45 kids had accepted Jesus that morning during Zooper Church...so that was obviously their message that morning. But I think it is so special that God prepared Lynzi's heart the night before, so she was REALLY ready for ALL that he had for her on Sunday! Exciting stuff....

sweet, sweet girl...

I know I am oh so behind in blogging and I do still plan to finish updating what I've missed the last few months, but I just had to post about Lynzi today so that I don't forget any sweet detail!

First of all, I'll just start with her soccer game this morning. She did AMAZING!!! She was literally on the ball non-stop! She scored 2 goals, several "almost" goals" and made lots of assists. She even got pushed by a couple kids on the other team, but that didn't stop her...made her even more determined, actually! We were so proud of her...our little fire ball!

Now to the real reason for this post: my sweetheart girl! Tonight while I was putting her to bed, we were reading in her Bible about John the Baptist...when he baptized Jesus, and she was really captivated by the story and asked lots of questions. When we finished it, she said, "Mommy, I want to be baptized." I told her when she gets just a little bit older and fully understands that following Jesus is a lifetime commitment then she can be baptized like Jesus. I'm not sure she was satisfied with that answer because she immediately said, "I'm going to pray about it." So she did...right then! She bowed her head and prayed this: "Dear Jesus, Thank you for this day and all your blessings and all you did for us and PLEASE COME INTO MY HEART and I WANT TO BE BAPTIZED!!! In Jesus' name, Amen!" How amazing is that?!?! I just LOVE her and I adore her amazing little heart and precious spirit.

So we talked more about being a Christian and what it means and she said, "I know Christian...he's Evan's brother!" (Evan is our little neighbor boy...and his older brother's name is Christian!!!) haha! :)


Here are a few pictures of the amazing little soccer girl:

~Soccer Star~

~Soccer Sweetie~


~Soccer Smile~

~Soccer Buddies...Lynzi and Isaac~

~Soccer Brother~

my oh my...

...i have A LOT of catching up to do!!! I've pretty much taken a blog posting hiatus this summer. Everyone that I originally began blogging for now has facebook, so I started just posting my photos on there and sharing stories via status updates. However, I also began blogging for memory's sake....to keep a record of all the cute things my kids say and do on a daily basis, so it is still important to me to blog. I just haven't had time! I'm going to try to catch up on the last couple of months this weekend...we'll see how that goes! I guess I'll just rewind and start where I left off last time:

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Michael Jackson tribute...


Funny thing Asher was doing for quite a while...and even funnier is that he started the week that Michael Jackson died - wearing ONE sock on ONE hand! It was hilarious how often we'd find him walking around the house like that for several weeks! Must have been his tribute to MJ! :) I took pics everytime my camera was handy. Here are a few of them:

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Silver Dollar City...


We were able to go to Silver Dollar City over the summer and had a great time! Here are a few shots of the kids:

~Lynzi enjoying the clogging show~

~doin' a little toe tappin'...she really got into it~

~Asher hanging out on a train~

~cutie pie~

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General Council...

We spent a week in Orlando for General Council last month. It was a really busy week...with lots of work involved, but we had a good time. Here are a few of my favorites from the week:

~these two boys absolutely MeLt my heart~

~cutest head shot ever~

~gorgeous girl~

~baby boy...17.5 months old~


~Daddy and kiddos~

~my boys~

~me and my girly~

Well, that is ALL for tonight! Check back soon for more...