Giveaways

Just wanted to let you know I posted some really good giveaways on my other blog today if you want to check them out. I won't always warn you on this blog so you should really follow but there is one really cool giveaway on there today so I thought I'd let ya know.


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Sometimes It's A Blessing....

for it to be illegal to drive anywhere.

Chris was so excited there was enough snow to build a cave.

Did you notice Amaya missing from the pictures? Amaya is at grandma and grandpa's getting spoiled.

Noodles

My mom emailed me this picture this morning and I just had to share with you. Something a lot of you probably don't know is that my mom has a noodle business. Mom started this business a very long time ago to be able to send us kids to a Christian school. What started out at a farmers market is now a business that sells at stores like W*lmart and M*ijer.

Almost every Sunday mom makes lunch for all her kids and grandkids that can come. Mom had made her chicken noodles this day and this is what we caught Jaxson doing as we were trying to leave. Can you tell he like his grandma's noodles?

Something else you might not know is that I had a gift basket business for awhile when we were trying to get pregnant. It was sooooo much fun but I am not a salesman and it was a messy job so when I got pregnant I stopped the business. Sometimes though mom and I still put noodle gift baskets together for special things or for people that order them.

People from all over the country order mom's noodles because they are just the best noodles you can find as you can tell in the picture.

My brother-in-law set up a website for her here if you want to check it out. If you ever want her to ship some or make you a gift basket she can do that too. We are planning on putting one together soon to give away on my giveaway blog.

Wish I had a roast because this would be a perfect day for beef and noodles. Can't even get out of our driveway though to go get one.

Just 4 Hours After Snow Started

We still have a lot coming! Isn't it just beautiful though?

My Kids Are AWESOME!

We have a HUGE winter storm coming and due to the flu hitting us hard this week I had not been able to get to the grocery.

I got Amaya off to school this morning and the snow hadn't started yet so I told Jaxson and Paige to hurry and get dresses we were going to go to the grocery. We live in a very small town so W*lmart is 10 miles away.

They were super quick getting ready so we were off. If you have ever been shopping with a 4 year old you know it's not the fastest thing in the world. Somehow at 4 you need to explore everything and of course go to the bathroom because it's different than the bathroom at home. So shopping with two 4 year olds takes even longer. We pulled up to the store and the snow started coming. The kids know I am terrified of driving in snow and I looked at them and said "this has to be a very fast shopping trip."

These awesome 4 year olds of mine let me get a whole weeks worth of shopping done in 15 minutes with NO bathroom breaks. Paige asked me if they could get chocolate milk since they were so fast and you better believe this momma said "yes babies, you can have chocolate milk."

It started snowing and freezing rain as soon as we got home. So we are in now for the weekend and they are drinking chocolate milk.

Did You Know?

Did you know that there is this totally, totally, awesome blog that you can find really cool giveaways at?

You can find giveaways for things like giant fortune cookies, Wilton cake pans and really cool Etsy things.

I know you can win things by checking out these giveaways because I have won several and my friend Rett has one a couple.

What are you waiting for? Click here and you should consider becoming a follower while your there.

PS Please, please, please become a follower so I can start doing reviews myself. OK, I know it sounds like I'm begging and that is exactly what I'm doing.

Have You Been Trying To Start An Orphan Ministry?

If God has given you a heart for orphans you know how Biblical it is to have an orphan ministry in your church. The problem is that a lot of times churches and other Christians don't understand it yet or haven't researched God's heart for the orphan.

If your in a large church a lot of times you feel like there is just so much red tape and how could you ever break through all that.

I know how frustrating it can be. We spent 3 years trying to pull ours together and it is still very much a work in progress. I will say that a lot of this time we got tired of fighting (Satan just loves that doesn't he?) and just got busy doing other things.

We found a way though to push our ministry through by starting a blog. We found out that because we were a ministry we could post the link in the bulletin. This is how we have found our voice for now. I also just had another adoptive mom email me last night saying that after we did it she ask her church if she could (she has also been fighting forever) start a blog and they ask why she hadn't done is sooner.

Please, please if you have felt like your in an uphill battle to get your ministry going (OK, more like the biggest mountain ever) ask your church if you can start a blog and post it in your bulletin. Don't forget that even though it's seems like a huge battle you are fighting for God and for the over 147 million orphans out there.

It's time we take a stand and churches get involved and learn about God's heart for the orphan.

Go make that call!

PS I want to thank our church very much for being supportive of our blog!!!