Wild Roses

If anyone is looking for a great book to read you need to read "TENDING ROSES" by Lisa Wingate (I have it if you want to borrow it!) It is expecially great for young mothers. It is about a young mother who goes to stay with her aging grandma for awhile. He grandma teaches her a lot about loving the little moments of life. My favorite part is when the Grandma tells her about the beautiful rose garden she had when she was first married. She loved her rose garden and took good care of it. Even the neighbors would stop by to admire it but when she had two young children she just didn't have time to tend to her roses and they began to grow wild. It was frustrating to her that she could not take care of her roses but she tells her grand-daughter "the best times of my life, the times that passed by me the most quickly, were the times when the roses grew wild."
Now I don't have a beautiful rose garden, (for that matter I don't even have a yard to take care of and not just because it is winter, we don't have our yard put in yet!) but I have other things that occupy my time and thoughts. So I am going to try to not worry so much about the "wild roses" (dishes, laudry, house cleaning, bills, church callings, potty training - that's a story all by its self) and enjoy the little moments with my kids.

A friend of mine said that instead of picking a bunch of goals for the new year she just picked a theme so "wild roses" is going to be my theme for the year. (thanks Erin!)

Here are some of the little moments we have enjoyed this year, while the roses where growing wild....

Me babysitting my niece Bailey and my brand new niece Brooke. I don't know who is cuter right now me or the baby!

Shari and Jamie decided they wanted to play in their swim suits in JANUARY! Don't worry Jamie has her snow boots on too!

Shari said they needed boubles in the tub so she dumped the rest of the liquid soap out. "IT WORKS," she said
Shari showing off her new pants!

Shari and Jamie singing with their cousin Ana

Other exciting news. Our basement is almost 100% finished!! The carpet came this week and now Josh just has to trim around the windows and alittle trim on the floor. We are excited to move the girls toys into their new PURPLE toy room and hopefully have the ping-pong table back up soon. So come by and see anytime. If there are "wild roses" in the sink or on the floor you'll understand why!

ITS A BOY!!

We're excited to announce we are having a baby boy!! We had our ultrasound today and I was actually quite suprised to find out we were adding a little boy to our family. I thought it was going to be another little girl but am very excited to have a boy. Shari really wanted a boy up until about a week ago when she decided it would be okay if it was a girl because then she could share her clothes with it! Jamie has always said she wanted a girl. Today when we told them it would be a boy they didn't seem to care much either way, they're just excited to have a new play mate.