Baby Powder

Yesterday, while I was in the kitchen doing the dishes, my little girls decided to "change" their baby doll's diapers.

The results...


Stasia's room now smells Powder fresh :)

Weird...

You Are an Eyebrow Piercing

You are unique, quirky, and more than a little eccentric. You cultivate the weirder sides of your personality, and you don't mind sharing them. Ever since you were a kid, you've had strong opinions. You've never been like everyone else, and you're okay with that. And you've always been able to tell people exactly what you think - even when they don't want to hear it. You love to create, dream, imagine, and communicate. You live in your own universe. And unlike most people who live in their own little world, you're happy to invite anyone in!

What Piercing Are You?

10 Things

10 Things I love about being a Mommy:

10. I Love holding my baby for the very first time

9. I Love hugs & kisses, the ones where they hold on to you and never want to let go

8. I Love being the center of their universe...yeah, that's awesome!

7. I Love watching my kids sleep...they look like angels

6. I Love hearing them say "Momma" for the first time

5. I Love hearing them say "I love you"...anytime :)

4. I Love how they snuggle against me just to hear my heartbeat

3. I Love that they think I am Super Mom, able to fix any boo-boo, make them feel better when they are sick, and make bad dreams go away...yeah, those are my super powers :)

2. I Love how they watch everything I do and then try to do it too. This pushes me to try to be a better person everyday and that's never a bad thing :)

1. But most of all, I Love how being a mommy showed me what true love is: To love someone completely, not because of what they can do for me, but because they are my heart, outside of my body

Today...

is day 5 in my workout/eating healthier plan.
And so far I am doing fairly well :)
I have only had 1 Mt.Dew everyday and I have been drinking water the rest of the time.
I'm not as sore and the workout routines are getting easier to do.
Overall, I feel pretty good :)

2 Things I HATE...

Exercise and diets!
My reason for hating these 2 things is really very simple. Exercise HURTS and I LOVE food.
I have started doing the Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs workouts this week.
Today was my first day...and it SUCKED!!
Don't be surprised if I am not moving much at all by Wednesday, I think it will be the hardest day for me.
I am not doing the diet part because I LOVE FOOD! And I am just not ready to give that up! I am going to try to eat slightly healthier during the day but I make no promises on that.
Jada is doing the workout with me so it's her job to keep me on track (no pressure Jada :)

Well that's all I have for now...more whiny baby posts to come, I am sure...

Written By Gabe:

I love rainbows

Yeah. I like rainbows. Probably not what you'd expect to hear me say. Or type, I guess. Allow myself to explain... myself.

I was just driving home from work on my motorcycle in the lovely indiana 'almost-raining' rain. It was just enough rain to get my lower legs wet, but that's about it. As I approached a clearing soon before reaching Boonville, I saw it. A HUGE rainbow. End to end I could see this thing. I could see in the fields to my right and my left where it 'ended.' I looked for the pot o' gold at each end, but alas.. The rainbow was so bright that I could see colors below the purple (or indigo as I was taught in school.. pff it's purple) I could see yellow and red starting again after the purple.. it was that bright.

I love rainbows. Why? Scientifically, they're wonderous. I think of how it's an optical illusion, how every person sees the rainbow differently at the exact point in space they are in relevance to the position of the sun. How nobody ever sees the same rainbow, but their own rainbow. Deep eh?

So why is it weird for me to say 'I like rainbows' ? In today's world, they stand for lots of things. Gay rights, Unicorns, and who knows what else. If I was to wear a shirt to school (when I was in highschool, that is) that said 'Rainbows are teh WIN' I would been beaten up. I would have expected such.

But herein lies my point. Rainbows are not a symbol of gay pride. They are not what the world has made them to be. The Bible tells us thus:
Genesis 9:13-15
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

As I was riding home, I realized that this world will turn everything that God creates into something that it is not. How many examples of this can we see? This world was not created, it just happened by chance. Human life was not intentional, it was evolution. Human life does not begin at conception, but at the moment the baby pops out. The list can go on.

But as I think of this, I also remember that what the world tells us is stupid, or pointless, or accidental, that God can use for his will. He can take that cancer and use it to glorify His Name. He can use that divorce to show His awesome power. He can use a child's death to bring a heart back to him. He can show a rainbow in the sky as a promise against destruction. But he can also use that rainbow to remind us: Don't turn this world into something that God has to destroy.

I love rainbows.