Van's 4th Birthday!

I can’t believe our little Van Man is 4!  Mike and April had a race car party this past weekend to celebrate the little man.  Great food, delicious desserts, and fun times with the family!  Taylor had a wonderful time with all his cousins, especially Kalea, they chatted with each other for almost 20 minutes, it was adorable!

Mike works for So-Cal Speed Shop and he brought home this roadster to drive Van around for his birthday.  They loaded up Van's booster seat and took off on Friday, he was squealing with excitement and reaching up as far as he could to see over the dash.  It was parked in the garage Saturday so we had to take some fun photos with Taylor in it, if you look closely Tay is wearing his So-Cal onsie, we were representing!

Day 15-Bible verse

Romans 12:1-2

NIV
¹ Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I also really like The Message translation~
 ^1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Day 14-A picture you love

Meeting my son for the first time, such tears of joy!

Day 13-Goals

I have a lot of small goals-


Buy a new computer, a new camera, a new fridge

One huge goal –

Buy a house and decorate

And those personal goals –

Be a good wife and mother, work hard, take pride in what I have worked for, stop worrying about what others think of me, be a good friend, speak with kindness at all times, have more children!

Day 12-What you believe

It's quite simple: I believe in God, I believe Jesus is his son and was sent here to die for my sins, I believe in faith, hope and love.

Day 11-Favorite TV shows

The DVR is the best thing ever invented!!!

Day 10-Something you're afraid of

Failure ~ this fear seeps into many areas of my life, family, work, friendships, and so on.  I think it’s why I strive to be accurate all the time; I don’t want to fail when someone asks me something, anything.  I try to let myself relax a bit about this when I can because I know I learn from failure, but I tend learn those lessons the hard way. 

Happy St. Patty's Day!

 

Our Growing Boy

In the last 2 weeks we have had lots of firsts for Taylor; going in the jumper, riding in his big boy stroller, a trip to Ca Adventure, his teeth popping thru and a case of pink eye!  He is so happy to be facing forward in the stroller now, and he loves the jumper.  As soon as he gets up from a nap he looks right at his jumper and goes “ahh”… Baby talk for “put me in there!” He hasn’t figured out the jumping yet, he just loves to stand and flip the frog. We spent a fun afternoon with W2 at Ca Adventure, minus 1 meltdown with a noisy roller coaster overhead, Tay did really well. It was fun to get out for a beautiful afternoon and enjoy people watching!  Tay cut his 2 bottom front teeth Monday with some ease, just lots of drool.  And yes, pink eye! I caught it within 15 minutes of it starting and I called Kaiser for an appointment at the offices right next door to my office and had him at the doctor 10 minutes after that with meds in hand . I was so thankful that I could walk over to his doctor and get him seen in minutes, thank you Kaiser! It was a really light case and I caught it early so he wasn’t in too much pain. I am so lucky that he is at work with me and I was able to grab him and go get it taken care of right away!

 

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