Dear Belated Christmas Pics

Ok so I know I'm late but I wanted to share a few pics from Christmas, since the family was here for Christmas morning we video taped more than taking still pictures!! God Bless and Happy New Year!

Let's wrap up 2011..

Let's just sum up our year as wonderful!There is so much to be thankful for its hard to put our whole year in one post as I am truly a horrible blogger and haven't had a post in forever. We have had a lot to be thankful for our health and family and more recently our middle child accepting Christ as his Savior. We were truly humbled at his expression of faith in his own terms as a seven year old. I have our heavenly Father to thank for dying to save us all if we would only ask, what an amazing thought ask and we shall receive eternal life. Then I need to thank my wonderful husband whom spends countless hours trying to reach our three sons through time in bible study, I could not ask for a better earthly father for my boys. God has truly blessed me with a wonderful husband and father. If only I had his strength and courage I watch him and am truly amazed! We as a family are thankful for another Christmas with our families, and remember those whom we have lost this past year. There were thirteen people Christmas Eve at our house and it was such a blessing Christmas morning to wake up and share it with my sister and my new nephew and her hubby, along with my mom. Then we can't leave out my wonderful in-laws and my brother-in-law and his oldest daughter Haide, this was her first Christmas with us since 2007. We truly have been blessed this year with our health, well besides my gallbladder issues and removal. I am pleased to say that my GI doctor has helped me with medicine so I am eating whatever I want now and am very thankful not to have to worry over where the closet bathroom is at. Scott's father continues to amaze us since his accident he has had a successful recovery with a few minor issue, but we are thankful to have him home and cooking.. seriously he is an amazing cook and grandpa and dad. I guess the most exciting news for 2011(that is after Brody's baptism) was the day my husband turned to me and said we need to talk... I'm sure just like you guys are thinking I was thinking what is it... Well my dear husband turns to me and says Meagan the Lord I feel is calling us to adopt and if any of you know me I've wanted to adopt for a while so I was like well sure sounds like were on the same page now! I honestly don't think I will ever forget that feeling it was the same feeling I had when he asked me to marry him, and then the days we found out we were expecting our sons. It was a evening in early December we were driving in the car I don't remember where we had been but I know we were headed home and what amazing feeling to know God had put us on the same page! So that being said he announced it the following Sunday at Cracker Barrel to our families, after we had enjoyed a wonderful worship service listening to our boys Christmas program at Northbrook, oh and so you understand the surprise I was surprised myself. I knew we had talked about it but I've talked about adoption for years so I didn't expect an official statement but he wanted our families to be involved and supportive. Which of course they were all very excited and full of questions and I'm sure they thought we had lost our minds because our house is full of energy and madness with our three boys. So I am formally asking all of you to prayerfully support us in our decision to adopt and bring home one of God lost children. It is overwhelming the amount of orphaned children in the world, I pray that we allow Gods will for the right child he will place in our family and I ask you to pray for that child and all the orphans as God call us to do.God Bless and a Happy New year!!!

To stay or to move...

To stay or to move is the question?? Is it my ability to not be content or is it what we need to do? You see the boys are in a different school district than where we live so we have to pay for out of district fees which are not to bad but it makes me sick to have to pay it! The school is worth it don't get me wrong because we tried the county school where we live and lets just say it was horrible and we weren't willing to risk another year! I can tell you this we have moved a lot I think every two years since we've been married we started out renting and the buying and remodeling which I couldn't stand but the hubs loved! It is growing on me the idea of another remodel especially with all the older historical houses in town. So I am up for it this time and it does help that the boys are all old enough to understand and stay out of stuff! When we moved here we bought a smaller house than what we were in before so it has been a challenge we are busting at the seems to say the least! So to give you and idea of what I'm working with I'll show you some pics that is if I can find them! Plus any ideas would help should I start projects that I'm wanting to do or wait since we want to move possibly??? The hubs seems to think that I can't be content with what I have currently but he is up for the move also due to school situation! To help you understand the hubs point of view since we've been married in 2000 we then proceeded to have our first son in 2002, and then our middle son in 2004, and our caboose in 2006....We would have loved to have more but my body gave out on me so since then I've had baby fever pretty bad it comes and goes but I would love to in the near future! We actually considered adopting before we had our third son but learned or certain restrictions so we were put on hold. I'll explain in the next post!! Have to go I've got a sick boy at home so I'm limited on my time!

Emerson's Preschool Pic's

I'm Back........

Okay so in the scheme of things I am not a good blogger although it interests me so, but I can't seem to find the time to sit and catch up! Most days I do good to process the day let alone blog about it! A lot has happened since the last time I've posted mainly daily tasks that come with having three boys but the weather has been insane we've had several snow storms this year and for Alabama that's strange but more recently we've had horrible tornadoes here in our county and state...Which happen to be more common the snow storms but they were the worst tornadoes for our state since I think they said like over forty or fifty years ago! In total over 238 people lives were lost on April 27th and I'd like to take this time to pray for them and to continue to remember them!The damage and destruction breaks my heart and brings tears to my eyes to see, even with a lot of debris removed its sad to see, but the strength of our town has been such a blessing! Then to make things more interesting I had surgery the day of the tornadoes so we were separated from the boys so that was stressful but my mom took them to my mother and father-in-law's house for safety. We were at UAB on the seventh floor when they started calling code grey, CODE GREY that means oh CRAP!! The tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa was headed for us and so they wheel me out in the hall, hospital bed and all!! To say the least it was interesting! Emerson's school was the only one damaged but all Cullman County schools were out for I think eight days! Wow wasn't prepared for that I thought i would have time to recover at home from surgery while the boys were in school but in the end all went well with the help of my mom and Scott's Maw Maw and his parents who came to save my sanity and the boys!!

Breaks Over

No really it has been great, no school, no schedule, no certain bedtime, no alarms! We as in me and the boys have truly enjoyed the Christmas break, but as of this evening we are back to the rituals of bedtime stories and brushing teeth....yes we did skip I think a few nights well at least I know the kids did, we were bums! We lived in our pj's until we just had to shower and go elsewhere then are warm and cozy home, I think this is harder for me to give up then the kids! I actually felt depressed today knowing its back to the grind in the morning. I love sleep and my best sleep is early morning to 9 but in the real world 6:30a.m. will have to do! I have even mentioned homeschooling my three sons and I said it out loud to my FIL, he said REALLY no it was just a thought! Who am I kidding I can't keep them productive while on break they would be rotten if they were home all the time! There have been fights, bites, and timeouts galore but we have survived and would love to have another week off, but this is it! I have been running every week for the past nine weeks so that's the only structure I've retained and I have been fighting to give up but have made it through the holidays a few pounds heavier but I'm still running and will run tomorrow so wish me luck! There is a lot to come this year that we are planning on tackling and I'm sure there will be the unexpected also so lets make plans to plan for the unexpected too! I mean as much as you can! Good night all!

New Year...New Goals!!!

Well as you can see I lead a pretty busy life and the boys seem to take over every aspect so I am attempting to do more this year. More for God, more for my hubby(Scott), more for our boys, and more for me! As for the me part that includes: blogging, and running so far and maybe more reading if I can find time! I also want to be better a capturing our families daily and weekly activities on camera, it seems the only time I pull out the camera is a special events which don't take me the wrong way is ok but I would like more candid pictures and recordings as my dear hubby would say! We are trying to take time for each other and to even start running together I am excited but he is a whole lot faster than me and I am about a foot shorter so our strides are a bit different!! I recently started training for my first 5K and will be running in the Frosty 5K here in the lovely city of Cullman on Jan 8th so say a prayer because if your a mom you know things aren't the same as they were before kids...at least when it comes to running! I would love to continue running if my body will allow it as I am really starting to enjoy it besides the fact that it has been slightly colder than normal and I have never ran outside in the winter so this could be interesting!! Stay tuned or be afraid be very afraid lol!!