Are You There God? It's Me Aimee.

My youth minister used to tell us that if we didn't pray from the heart our prayers would bounce of the ceiling and God would never hear them. As an adult I know that is not the case. I now know that God hears our prayers no matter what. But sometimes when I pray for my heart to stop aching and it doesn't... when it hurts so bad I cant breathe... I think back to that lesson and wonder. Can you hear me God?

To work or not to work...

We are preparing to homeschooling next year. Working on setting up vision therapy and occupational therapy for Hamster. With all that we have going on I'm trying to decide if I want to continue working. I feel like I need a break to kinda process everything that's happened in the last couple months prepare for the next season. God give me the answers.

Rawr

Is there anything cuter in this world?

Betty Crocker You Are Not

I'm going to make this cake for C's birthday party on Saturday.













My children are convinced that I am not capable. I'll post after pictures letting you know how it goes.

Friend or Foe

We bought a house that has plants everywhere. All the way around the house there are flower beds. I have absolutely no knowledge when it comes to flowers/plants vs. weeds. I really dont know how that happened either. Both of my parents garden. My aunt has a greenhouse. My grandparents have always done veggie gardens. Somehow it just skipped over me. Anyway... back to the point here. I am trying to keep up with what the previous owners got started but I dont know what to pull and what to leave. And some I just want to know what they are. Soooo. I've taken pictures of everything and will be posting them with a number. What I'm asking you to do is tell me what they are and if I should pull it or trim it or just let it be.

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Rubber Duckie

Yesterday was an awesome day start to finish. A good friend came to town for the Rattlesnake Round-up (which I still think is a little crazy). I finally go to meet her hubby. She got to ooh and ahhh over Hamster's battle wounds. They went through the Den of Death and the Butcher Shop while I waited in line 45 minutes to get the little ones faces painted. We ate high calorie fair food. I promised the kids I'd let them ride rides when we weren't entertaining our friends. Brought them back to the house. We had a great time catching up and promising to meet up again while she has the twins this summer. It was awesome. She is one of the coolest chicks I know. When we were kids.... Never mind. Moving on.

I took about a 30 minute break before I started supper for the family that was coming over to visit. Me and the kids went to meet up with my mom and aunt at the festival so the kids could ride rides as promised. We got another bag of cotton candy (since the boys didn't share the first one) and Snickers on a stick (which was not near as yummy as expected). This was the first year that all three kids got to ride big kid rides. It was so much fun watching their faces light up. We came back to the house just in time to pull supper out of the oven (cause I'm awesome like that). Ate. Laughed. Took pictures. And kicked them out.

After a long day all I wanted was to relax in a bubble bath. I ran the water and climbed in. Apparently my children were not aware that mom's are allowed to take baths. Before I even had a chance to get settled in I had 3 kids & 2 dogs standing over me staring in amazement. Princess B was so excited that she brought me 7 of her barbies to play with. And then showed me how to play with them in the bath. Turns out that playing Barbies and laughing with the kids was a lot more relaxing than just laying there. It was the perfect end to a perfect day.

Famous Last Words

Since we moved into our house in October I've been begging Matt to put up the hammock. FINALLY this last week we began working on it. The first night we set it all up to find out that the post wasnt buried deep enough. So on Wednesday he digs it up and buried it deeper and setting it with concrete. Thursday night I finally got to lay in my hammock for the first time since my dad gave it to me. I was so excited. We have only one big tree that we could hang it on so it got hung about 4 feet away from my upper deck out back. Fast forward to this afternoon.... I went upstairs to my office to make some changes to my schedule for next week. Appearantly while I was doing that Evil Knievel and Junior here decided to add some excitement to our day. Car went first. He climbed up onto the banister of our upper deck and jumped with everything in him. Unfortunately (in his opinion), his little legs didnt quite do the trick because he landed just short of the hammock. So what happens next..... Oh yes! My 75 pound 10 year old climbs up there and jumps. I guess his aim is a bit better because he landed right in the middle of the hammock. What they didnt account for was the fact that that pole was not coming out of the ground. Instead it snapped right in two. When that top piece broke loose it came swinging at Hamster's head. Now remember... the wonderful mom that I am had no idea that any of this was going on until Ham came running up the stairs gushing blood on everything in his path and screaming. I grab a towel and apply pressure to try and stop the bleeding. I tend to be a lot more 'go with the flow' than any of my kids. At this point all three of them are screaming and crying even though Ham is the only one that is hurt here. Then I realized that he keeps saying "I'm going to die! I'm going to die!". Being the less dramatic of the group at the moment I say "Don't be so dramatic. You are hardly going to die from a little cut on your head." I have to say that I never expected the response that I got. He looked at me with the most serious freaked out face he could manage and said "No mom. Dad is gonna kill me when he finds out I broke that hammock". Poor kid. His head is gushing blood everywhere and he's worried about getting in trouble. Now he did get in trouble but it wasn't until after he got his head stapled & the tylenol kicked in. Matt was pretty ticked that the hammock was broken. But he admited that it's something he probably would have done as a kid if the opportunity had been there. Guess I wont be spending many hours laying in the hammock after all. Maybe we'll try again in about 10 years.