weekend trials and mondays~

well friday night was a success. johnny and i went to go see joel osteen and we spent the night in raleigh. joel was amazing. he is truely an awesome person and extremely encouraging . not only did we hear from him but his mom was there, for those of who do not know anything about the osteens, his mom had liver cancer and was only given weeks to live, but here she is 30 years later. she talked about how she never gave up and how she knew god had more and bigger plans for her! she is a strong woman for sure. we also heard the testimony of _____ ratcliff, i cant remember her first name.. anyway she talked about how her and husband tried and tried for years to have a baby, and finally after about giving up she was preggers. then time pasted and the baby she had wanted to know when he was going to have a baby sister and brother. and so the trials began again. after about 5 years the little boy says "mommy maybe for christmas santa will bring a little sister and a big brother" and so as a family they prayed. months later she received a phone call from an old friend and was asked did she want to adopt twins. long story short, they adopted the twins, a boy and a girl and after calcualting dates, they girl who had the twins had concieved the babies on christmas :) she then sang a beautiful song and as she sang, pictures and videos of her kids played. it was obviously at this point, that i and every other woman in the building were crying. anyway, it was just a wonderful time.

so after calling to check on lyla for the 1,000 time, i finally went to sleep. i of course called when i got back up the next morning. she did awesome while we were away and i am sooo proud of her, well and proud of myself for not crying when i left her. however, there will probably not be anymore over night dates again until i leave for california in august.

well so after an eventful weekend, monday came..... we all know how i LOVE mondays--- and yesterday was one of those mondays that i wanted to kick in the mouth! as soon i as woke up my dad was heavy on my mind. but i talked to my sissy and she gave me a bbm hug (love u heather) -- and things were better. then i get to work....well we wont even talk about that..... and then i get home and needless to say, no one had a good monday. so yeah

well now im excited. my sister is coming back this weekend!!!!! wooohooo! bc i miss her and my landyn. saturday, i think in the morning we are going to dads grave to get it cleaned up and get his summer flowers put out. then its off to my moms were im sure we will do something exciting. and then its movie in the park night!!! which im realyl excited about. im probably more excited than the kids... but i guess thats the kid in me :)

here are a few new pics if u havent already seen them on fb

this is lyla and her new hair bow!! it finally will go in her hair!

oh just my little family :) how cute are we, right?

and my little sleepy lyla bug- she LOVES to sleep on her mama and her daddy

this is where she sleeps best and where i sometimes sleep the most peaceful

bc i know she is there with me and nothing will happen :)