Giving up

Lately things seems hard.

Hard to be joyful. 

Hard to be the one who encourages. 

But then God uses my wonderful friends 

to show me joy and encouragement and many other things. 

Today I was reminder not to give up!

 What sweet words they were to my soul! 

That I can come running to the Father and hide in His hands and He will protect me. 

There is someone who wants me to give up and just lay down everything I have given to Jesus. 

It is a battle of a spiritual nature not of flesh and blood.

And I will not. I refuse. Flat out!

My family and future generations are worth

fighting for!!!

So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. Gal.6:9

When the world comes crashing in
And chaos rules my mind,
I turn my heart to you, Lord,
And pure, sweet peace I find.


You lift me out of trouble
You comfort me in pain;
You nourish, heal and cleanse me,
Like cool, refreshing rain.


In times of joy and bliss,
When things are going right,
You lift me even higher,
And fill me with delight.

This girl is not giving up anytime soon!

The Patio Garden

As I sit here and munch on a PB and Vanilla creme sandwich...Wait what is that??? Well you can check it out here! So divine! A little special something for mommy when the days are extra tough ;)
Anyway back to the post! I wanted to share my patio garden with ya! This is much bigger than we have ever done but not bigger than our first(and only) garden in 2006. Sadly we haven't lived anywhere that has been suitable for a real-in-ground garden. So here it is and I'm in love with it. It's the little things ya know? 

Some of the tomatoes.

The jalapeno 

A Whitney Pepper plant

More tomatoes-we have 6 in all :)

The Cucumber!!!

Sweet Basil and Boxwood Basil 

Roma tomatoes

Bell Pepper

Thyme 

A bunch of different Lettuces 

Then we have Rosemary, Cilantro, Sage and Chives. My little girl loves the Rosemary and every time we water she picks little pieces off to eat. So funny!  I wanted to upload that pic but it is not wanting to-SAD!

Wordless Wednesday-Many Faces Of My Toddler

Random Post

Well it's been almost a month since I posted...lol

 life has been busy/relaxing! 

Our 4th of July was awesome and we swim ALOT!

 Hopefully I will post again later this week :)

I am almost 26 weeks preggo and enjoying it. I must say this time around is much different! I can tell, as the saying goes, this child is his own person,

 Your probably thinking well DUH! Right? I know! LOL 

Have a nice evening!

21 weeks

All I can say headache.....

after headache....

after headache for now.

Not sure if this is a "normal' part of this pregnancy.

I am having tooth trouble too and think maybe ? they are connected.

I am going to the dentist in a few days to see. 

Feeling lots of little boy kicks going on and I am LOVING it :)

Thee best part of being pregnant is feeling the baby move!

Plus  the fact your bring a person in to the world :)

Little Prayers

This morning I bumped my baby belly into the corner of a counter top. (ouch)

I rubbed it and said ooh that kinda hurt.

It wasn't a big deal,

just what happens when your preggo belly sticks out further than normal.

My toddler who is 23 months says to me,

with her big brown eyes wide with concern

"Mom I kiss your owie!"

Ok so I knelt down and she kissed my 'owie'.

she then tells me in her tiny but very excited voice,

Mom I pray Jesus help you?!

So I said OK!

She hugged me and said

"Dear Jesus help moms owie feel better. Amen"

So simple so sweet

 and it was her First prayer, 

on her own, ever.

My heart was like butter!