The Lord who created you says...

I have called you by name;

YOU are MINE.

Isaiah 43:1 TLB

6 million dollars for pictures! WOW!!

So I heard on the news yesterday that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anothony had their twins yesterday morning. And that People Magazine is going to give them $600,000,000 for their children's first exclusive pictures. I mean WOW! I can't imagine getting money for my child's pictures let alone $600,000,000 to boot. So, let's say you have two children and maybe even three can you imagine getting nine figure's everytime you have a child? I know that I could live the rest of my life cushined for that amount. And the ecomony needs a boost? LOL!

Names and there Meanings

So again Jody (thejlaughlins@blogspot.com) just posted a blog about how they decided on there sons names. So I thought I'd share how Christian Xavier came about for us. So Christian was going to be a Donovan, but we were really trying for a biblical name and we could find any that weren't taken or weren't to hard to pronounce. So I decided that I wanted to dedicated my son to the Lord and he gave us such a Blessing that Christian seemed to sum up all that I was looking for: Christian means;


1. Professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
2. Relating to or derived from Jesus or Jesus's teachings.
3. Manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus; Christlike.
4. Relating to or characteristic of Christianity or its adherents.
5. Showing a loving concern for others; humane.n.
6. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
7. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus.

and well for Xavier let me explain Josh is a big comic book fan and honestly we got this name from Charles Xavier from X-Men. Funny huh! But it fit very well!

And Xavier means; "bright" "new house"

Christian and Mommy

So Jody posted her boys Seth and Samuel and a picture of herself to ask people if Samuel looks more like her or Seth so, I thought I'd post a picture of myself and Christian and see if you think Christian looks like me as a child. Yeah and I haven't changed to much. Also, I was about two or three in this picture. Let me know what you think.

Waiting on my Nephew!

First of all Zac and Jill got married on Valentine's Day, and I was starting to type this and realized that her last name is Fenton now!! Brain-fart, lol! Any way, this morning Josh comes trotting into the bedroom around 7:00 am stating that Jill is having the Baby. I spring up out of bed, thinking what? And we weren't told that she went in even?(this was all in my head) Then, he corrects himself and says she went into the hospital and she hasn't had him yet. So, I'm a little relized and then I remember I have to work all day long anticapating this little miracle to join the world :( I'm not trying to sound self-centered here at all, I would just like to be around when all the family can go rushing in to see him. Last time I ended up staying up all night with a bunch of girls ( her friends) and our family, which was really exhausting. So I was looking forward to doing the same, silly I know! But, Jill and I have been texting back and forth all day and they have decided to send her home. She is only 40 weeks so they will not induce her and she is only delitated at 2. But, the baby is big enough he is already 8lbs something so he will be okay if he comes early. Anyways, last update was she is going to walk Wal*Mart! Poor girl, who likes to go to wal*mart anyways, now she has to go while having contractions.

LOVE IS EVERYTHING!!

Love is everything. It is the key of Life, and it's influences are those that move the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness!

I love quotes so you may see quite a few of them on here from time to time!


Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.
*Janette Oke

Bath time is Always Fun!!

It is ALWAYS so hard to get him out of the tub!
I think he looks a lot like Josh in the last picture, maybe it's the hair LOL :)

More Artwork* My Drawings*

Art is my passion...

Training pants and Poop Accidents don't mix!!!

So for any of you potty training, you probably have gone through this once or twice. Christian has a tendency to let me know that he has to poop after he has gone already. And let me tell you, do not try to pull that pull-up off with that in there. It will be ALL OVER YOUR CHILDS LEGS, personal experience. And the pull-ups that we bought are so tough that you can't rip the sides off, so I've had to use scissors. Which can be dangerous so have them lay down. Christian is very good about sitting still while I do it. What gets me is it's like even if I've set him on the potty five minutes earlier he will still go in his pants! Although we are making progress, he has pooped in the potty twice and we made a HUGE deal out of it, he has his own fan club :)