Emma Barker

Lauren

Micah & Marley's Class of 2 year olds

Maci's Pre-K Class

Lauren H., Maci and Karis M.

Landon H. & Micah

Marley & Avery

Graduating Class of 2008

Micah & Marley's 3rd B-day Party!

Michael & Micah

Me, Marley & Micah
Garrison, Madison, Sawyer, Mason, Maci and Marley

Moriah & Me

My Love & Jimmy (Moriah's Man)
Faber, Daddy & Me
Faber & Me
Me, Mom and Faber

For Michael

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Office Renovation Update...

Here is an updated photo of my progress on the home office renovations. It has been a lot of work. And somehow I feel there is still a lot of work yet to be done.

I'm still ALIVE...

In case you were wondering...

Next time I'm MIA and you are wondering stroll on over to CM Studio BLOG. That is more thank likely where you will find me. My partner, aka Blogger Queen, has me posting there quite regularly. I will however for future reference try harder to post here at least weekly. No promises but I will try my darnedest.

I have heard through the grapevine so many stories of people who are reading my blog enjoy it so. This saddened me to think I have not posted in over a month!! SORRY! I love that you read and love even more when my sharing can shine even a little into your life. Carry it on, the light that is, let it shine! Oh, and next time you are here say Hi!! It will encourage me to post more regularly. Even if you don't know me, I'd love to meet me and hear how you stumbled upon my little blog. And if you are a stalker like the Blogger Queen, I hope you are as friendly and harmless as she is.

IF YOU BLOG POST HERE. I WILL VISIT YOUR BLOG...The Blogger Queen is rubbing off on me, lol.

More posting coming soon. Oh and if you want you can wish me a Very Happy Bloggin' Anniversary Thursday. It will be a happy 1 year! TTFN

Office Decor...

I've been wanting to design my office for some time now. It's probally the biggest mess area in my house and definatly the place I spend the majority of my time. Here are just some fun color ideas I came up with. I love the office space pictured above from the pottery barn mag. I just recently purchased an "L" shaped desk from Christian Ministries for $20...Just gotta go and pick it up... LOL I want the paint to be light and fresh. One of my favorite colors is coral. I think a lighter shade of this color like apricot would be delightful. Shades of sea blue, yellow and maybe Pink??? Who know's if I'll ever really get around to re-doing it. But a girl can still hope and dream...

Flower Hunt...

BEFORE

Maci and I go on a flower hunt around the yard!

We come back in and get creative with vases.

This is just a candle holder!

...and this is an old canister!

Some of Maci's craft beads fill the vase for added color...

The crystal desert/candy bowl worked

perfect for the stemless flowers to float...

Hand picked by Maci for me...

In a "special" vase from my girls, with granma's help!

Getting Ahead of the Game...

Do you have any idea how much information is out there about "Getting Ahead"?
Everyone would like to get rich fast with Marketing Money gimmicks...
Parents wonder why their kids can't grow up, and stay at the top of the game?...
People plan ahead for vacations a year or more in advance...
We have dreamed up visions of what we want our children to become, what collage we want them to attend,
and all before they have barely left their cribs....
Is it really that important to know that Sally is going to be in the same class as her BFF next year and to do all we can do to make sure Junior will be on the best little league baseball team?
(Because somehow we think that these events will directly impact their future as adults?)
Yesterday's sermon was on discipline or lack their of, LOL.
(You can hear it at www.fairfieldumc.blogspot.com if you want. It's listed on the right side under pod cast.)
Which was perfect to sum up the week I had. Even Rita's children's sermon just seemed to speak directly to me...
Or could it be that I am not alone? Someone else may just be going through the same things I am?....
I was just talking to Erin about worrying...
I referred to the scripture quotes I had taped all over my house on worrying...
It was reassuring to know that even way back then, in the bible times, though times were different, they still faced the same problems that we do today...
Do you think that is a coincidence? I don't, I think that is they way the Master planned it...
If we'd stop looking and wrapping ourselves up in the worldly things that claim fame to "Getting us Ahead" and looked more into the BIBLE, the handbook He gives us to live by.
Then may be we would understand that it's NOT God's plan for our lives to Get Ahead!
I frequently ponder; will the laundry ever be completely tackled, the children completely content, the money ever perfectly budgeted, and on and on an on... In hope that someday I'll be ahead of the game...
I think it's this world we live in that makes us so concerned about this. The rate race...The first one there or your a rotten egg...The cream of the crop...The searching in all the wrong places for all the wrong reasons...
But the way God's plan unfolds in our lives is not for the better in ourselves. Unfortunately, we would like for it to be.
Today and just today...I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to stop wrapping up so much of my thought and energy into getting ahead...
If I survived today...tomorrow is sure to come...I'll just conquer each one step at a time...
and in the mean time...
Pray....
That tomorrow will be just a little better....and a little closer...to becoming the divine woman I know I was created to be...

Lunar Eclipse

Did you marvel at the Master's work last night?...
Did you gaze upon the sky?...
Did you clear you mind?...
if only for a second...
How wonderful a message this sight sent me...
If you read my entry below, yesterday was nothing like the reflections above!
My patience had long ran out, almost lost all control, the scales of balance were tipped upside down and harmony seemed far from the picture of my life on Wednesday.
(there was much more to the story than I blogged about.)
Micah and Marley had gotten into my make-up again...
I mean all into it...Powder on everywhere, foundation on the sink, finger nail polish stained the front of my cabinets and rugs, mashed up eye shadow on the floor and mascarra everywhere else...Nothing left unopened and not an inch of my bathroom that had not been marred. (and our bathroom is pretty big.)
Where are the pictures you might be thinking....
Ohhhhhhhhhh...Hummmmmmmmmmm...
I was too furious to take any...I keep saying, next time I will...
But the anger never get's any lighter....
Just listen and don't get into things you are not supposed to children...LOL
(Oh and for the record I thought they were playing in their room, not much damage can be done in there.)

How perfectly loving of our Heavenly Father to paint this picture for me...
And for you...
I can just hear Him now...
Remember my child...they are only little once...when they are grown...you will wish for days like these...Be patient and they will learn...Build your will power strong enough to always remain in control...Because when the lights are blown out...kisses are given...and all are in the bed...I give you this promise...Tomorrow will hold a brand new day...The choice of how to embrace it will be your's...But you are not alone...Come to me my child...I will walk with you...talk with you...and forever love you! I'm preparing you for something much better, and using you to prepare them for my plans to unfold in their lives as well...AMAZING...I know!!!

So just as the full moon passed into the earth's shadow and the rays of sun were blocked from lighting it up...I was reminded of the Grandeur Plan...The Bigger Picture...Perfection await's us all...one day! (But this day or any on this earth were just not intended for that perfection. Isn't that the beauty of it?)

Wackiest Wednesday Ever...

They look too sweet for just getting out of time out!
Love how Maci is looking all angelic...Like she has done nothing wrong...
Notice the Bangs...How short...

It will take a while to grow them out,

just to look normal.

Poor Karis...Her mom took the news OK...

Maci has a friend that comes home with her 1 day a week, Karis.

They play so well together and never get into trouble.

Today they asked if they could play with beads.
Sure...I give them beads, ribbon and scissors.
I walk out of the room for a few minutes...
Come back in and see Maci sweeping something under the recliner???
Maci what is that?...I ask...
Nothing Mom...
What do you mean nothing, what is it?
It's just fur...
Fur??? (As I walk into the living room to find a trail of stray hairs.)
Looking at the barbie's in the floor I keep my cool.
Till, I look under the recliner to find tons of hair...HUMAN hair...
Maci gave her friend a hair cut and Karis cut Maci's hair...
HORROR...
What am I going to tell this little girls mother?...
Who trust me to watch them...
I mean, they are usually good...
I don't have to stand over them like a hawk...
They are 5...
Today was also Wacky Wednesday. So both girls have unusual pony tails all over their heads.
Most of Karis's were on the top and Maci had two on the side with a braid down the middle.
It looked like they cut each other's pony tails off and one side of Maci's bangs...
We had been growing them out for a long time now and they were just getting to where they would stay pulled back...
Most of the damage on Karis was on the top and sides...
Maci a little on the sides and her bangs...
I phone my mom, who could not stop laughing...She tells me it's payback...
Moriah e-mails me this evening and tells me she's holding a place in the audience with her at the Mother of the year banquet...
We are no longer on stage or anywhere near the running for this award...
Michael is fuming...He loves long hair...And children who obey the rules...
This is a wacky Wednesday that will last much longer than one day and will defiantly go down in the books for one of the Wackiest Wed.'s Ever!

Cute Mannerism...

Micah was going potty today when she looked up at me and said, "Oh mom, I made rain...It drizzled in the potty." I thought that was a very creative and cute way to put it. LOL

Guitar Lessons...

Rodney Thompson (Hot Rod)

Not only is he one of my bestest...He's a great teacher!!! He also took these photo's of me...So you can see that he is very tallented in many area's. I've got to see if he will let me share some of his art work because he is very artistic and has some amazing drawings. He is playing around with a logo for Me and Moriah now. I don't often share photo's of me so I wantd to post these. I don't usually like photo's of me, but I found these to be more artistic.