Joyfully Sewn Designs Giveaway

I been trying to do more sewing lately I love making things for my family it is so rewarding to know I made something that is being used by my family.

If you love making this for your little girl check this out and enter!

Joyfully Sewn Designs Giveaway 

Little Garden

Every year we plants tomatoes, bell peppers, Jalapeño and some things new last year the new things was onions it did well so we are doing them again this year.

This year our new thing is a blue berry bush, was Todd’s idea. I really hope it work I love blueberries!

We are planting seeds. Sunday Ian and TJ planted onion and Jalapeño seeds in a little seed starter set we got for them. Ian is going to be taking pics of them so we can watch them grow. Hopefully in a month or so we have nice plants to get our some of our food from.

We will be getting some seedlings too in case our seeds do not grow for us.

Ohio woes

I really want to go I am so lonely in Ohio I have no friends here the only friends I have are my online friends and at times I feel they do not really think of me as a friend. We moved to Ohio from my hometown and my friends 4 years ago to live closer to Todd’s parents. We live about 2 hours from them; we see them maybe five times a year. It is sad really but it is how it is, both of our faults really.

When we first got to Ohio, we started going to a church called Grace Baptist church it is a huge church. It seemed like it may work, but after awhile we felt like we were just another face in the crowd and not really a part of the church so we left it. We start going to New life Baptist and it was wonderful a small church with our beliefs, everything  was great about it but it was far a 45-60 minute drive to get to it and with Ohio winters it makes it hard to get to it with a large family. Therefore, Todd decided we would not go anymore.

We have been without a church for too long I long to hear Gods word being preached, and for the church family we had. We all need to be going to church so bad, without church there is an emptiness that can only be filled by God and hearing his word.

For a long time I felt we needed to go back “home” New Mexico. We had a church and friends there, we could go back and everything would be the same right? Wrong the saying says you can never go back home and it is true. Our friends out there have changed and even though I tried to stay in contact with them, I really have not and they have not with me. 

When we move, again we pray it will be our last time and that we can start looking for our house we will make roots in the house we will live in until our time here is done, and we go to Heaven our forever home.

We want to move to a homeschool friendly state, to be able to be close to a good Fundamental Independent King James Version Baptist Church (FIKJVBC), and have country living that I have always wanted, chickens goats, sheep you know a small farm… Not too much to ask for right? Well it is ion Gods hands, I wait, and I am ready!

Sixth Giveaway: For Instruction in Righteousness

Another give away!!

Sixth Giveaway: For Instruction in Righteousness

Kaylas Hair cut!!

SO I cut Kaylas hair today gave her her a nice spring hair cut I think it came out pretty good!

Here is the before

 

 Here are the afters

A real pain in the butt!!

Well this is getting old so tired of hurting!!! Bah  oh well God is good always even when you don't get what he is doing. My pray is for this tailbone pain to go away soon, by it just going away... but if not that pain management or something. I would love to start losing some weight and working out more!

Here is a link to pretty much what I am going through.

Spring cleaning

Every wonder why when cleaning you have to make a HUGE mess first? That is what we are doing right now cleaning, “spring cleaning” I guess you could call it. We are donating stuff we just do not use anymore and making more room for stuff we do use.

So far, we have gone through our entire book collection and let me tell you have many, three bookshelves full, five shelf bookshelves at that!  I organized all them with the help of Ian; we sadly had to get rid of a few that were very torn.

We are putting our school reading books on them and getting ready for next school year already, we are going to be using a Switched - on Schoolhouse next year for Ian and Timber Doodle Kindergarten for TJ, I will be doing pre-school with Timmy, Kayla will be doing Toddler stuff. Hoping to get Joey the baby kit but we have not yet.

Anyways back to the cleaning, going to be steam cleaning the bathrooms and the kitchen next week. Sewing daily toy bags for the little’s to have a bag of “new” toys each day. 

I am praying over our new schedule so we can get things on track around here again not that things are not but I like have things very organized.

Fourth Giveaway: Complete Chart Package

Fourth Giveaway: Complete Chart Package

Enter to win!!

Two randomly picked winners will receive the following 8.5″ x 11″ color laminated charts:

The If-Then Chart – A Scripture-based tool to help you deal quickly and consistently with common misbehaviors. Lists ten common behavior issues, along with Bible verses for each one and a space for you to fill in an agreed-upon consequence (suggestions included!).

The Blessing Chart – Used together with the If-Then Chart, this chart provides balance by helping you encourage godly behavior with Scripture and agreed-upon rewards.

The Brother-Offended Checklist – The solution to bickering and petty arguments! Based on Matthew 18 and other verses, this chart and Bible study will teach your children to resolve disagreements in a godly manner.

The Go-to-the-Ant Chart – This chart covers every area of laziness we could think of, with a Bible verse for each problem, for encouraging your children towards greater diligence.

The Put On Chart – Based on Colossians 3, this chart will help your children learn to “put on” Godly character qualities like patience, forgiveness, and humility. Eight lessons in the included Bible study book will help your family learn more about each quality and put them into practice!

More Kayla Klippes

Todd calls Kayla "fish" after the fish in chicken little, she does her own thing and does not care how funny people think she is.

 

Sweet little girl

Kayla's Klippies

Here are the clip Kayla wore yesterday

 

I scream you scream we all scream for Ice cream!!

Third Giveaway: Hidden Treasures

Check out this cool new blog with items for running and Godly home!

Third Giveaway: Hidden Treasures

Blrup

My happy silly guy who is my sunshine!!