Happy Birthday Amy!

Today our sweet Amy turned 6 years old! Here is a list of 6 things I love about Amy (although there are a lot more than 6).
1. She has amazing faith.
2. She loves her brother and sisters SO much! (She's a wonderful big sister)
3. She LOVES to learn.
4. She is (almost) always excited to help with chores.
5. She has a great sense of humor.
6. She loves me even when I haven't been as good of a mommy as I should be.
Amy, I love you! Happy birthday my sweet 6 year-old!

Here are some photos from today.

She LOVES her sisters!

She wanted an apple pie for her birthday.

Happy Birthday, to you!

Going Private

Due to certain personal reasons, we are going to go private. If you want to be able to continue to read our blog, please let me know and give me your email address by June 14th.

Promises

The Lord gives us promises all throughout the scriptures. One that I know to be true, and has and is being fulfilled in our lives is Malachi 3:10 "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Obedience to the laws of God brings forth great blessings. All we need to do is to study the scriptures, search for the blessings He has promised us, and then fulfill the law, or the requirement that it is predicated upon. The blessings may not always come in the way we expect or the time we think they should come, but they do come, in the Lord's time.

Chew 'N Poo Worm Farm

Mike and I have started a new business. We are now worm farmers! Chew 'N Poo Worm Farm is a wonderful new venture for us and it's very exciting. We love being able to do this as a family. Amy and Taylie think it's fun and enjoy helping with the worms. The thing that is most exciting to me, is the home composting system that we are selling. The Worm Factory is a stack-able, indoor home composting system that will change your kitchen scraps and junk mail into nutrient rich compost that you can use as fertilizer for your plants. The two best things are that 1, it's great for the environment, and 2, it's oderless! So take a minute and hop on over to our website by clicking here or just go to www.chewnpooworms.com

Random

So I'm procrastinating going to bed tonight (I have no idea why), and I feel like writing. No, let me rephrase that, I must write. There is an inherent need within me to WRITE! Whether it's an outrageously long email, a post on here, an entry in my journal, or a few pages in a book that I'm writing, a day does not go by that I don't HAVE to write. I will sometimes go all day without having time to even pee, but I make time to write. If there is a day that I, for some MAJOR reason, can not write, I feel very...unsettled. So, therefore, tonight, I MUST write. I love to write. Thank you for reading this totally random blog, and now, I can go to bed, for today, I have written.

Jack's first...

Jack's first big-boy hair cut....by Mommy

*note: the bruise on his forehead is from his sisters new bunkbed. He was getting acquainted with the ladder.

UPDATE

Amy is 5 1/2 and is such a great big sister! She loves doing things to help Mommy and is such a good girl! We love her sweet and unique personality. If asked how she likes school she says, "Perfectly. I'm being home-schooled." LOL It is true, she is doing great and we're loving home-shcooling! She loves to bake and do crafts. She is learning to read and loves math. She loves Primary and reading the scriptures. She's a very happy girl and is growing up so fast!

Taylie is 4 and is as cute as a bug. She loves to play with her sisters and brother and loves learning with Amy. She has become quite the "big sister" recently as well, and is such a great helper. She has a very distinct personality and we love it! She is always ready to make someone happy and feel loved. She loves going to church and seeing the special people there-and she LOVES our missionaries right now, especially Elder Marshall. And we have no idea where she got such curly hair-but it fits her perfectly!

Macey is 2 1/2 and is our little "monkey". She is SO funny and is always making us laugh. She loves to build things with her blocks, play pretend, and dress up (about 15 times a day). When asked her name, she'll say, "I'm a Princess". She's a Princess that loves to get dirty-go figure. She loves playing with her sisters, "Girls", she calls them, and her brother Jack, and she ADORES our puppy Dulcie. She'd play outside all day if she could-in her dress-ups if I'd let her!

Jack is almost 17 months old and is a very happy little boy! He is a "Mamma's Boy", and that's fine with me! He loves his sisters and tries to keep up with them. He loves to pet Dulcie and look at our fish. He LOVES watching Daddy play on the Xbox 360 (which doesn't happen often), and he LOVES to eat. He's skinny as can be, but boy can he eat! He knows a lot of words, but refuses to say many, and prefers to mostly grunt. He's ALL boy!