Ugh! Oh yes, she was cleaning out her clothes drawers and just throwing it all in a pile! 17 March 2009
What 5 Minutes of Alone Time Can Do!
Ugh! Oh yes, she was cleaning out her clothes drawers and just throwing it all in a pile! 11 March 2009
Happy 3rd Birthday Sweet Girl!
Alyssa Rose has a wonderful 3rd birthday and she really dressed up for the event! She was very proud to be "a big girl" now and loved all the company we got to have.
The fact that we had no electricity due to the ice storms didn't dampen the mood at all!
We did have to buy our cupcakes and of course she loved the ones with blue frosting!
Here she is with her "friends" that attended our special family party.
She tore into this fabulous princess castle full of 250 balls!!!!
THANK YOU to all of you that went in on this very fun gift!
It originally came with 100 balls, but Grammy wasn't sure that was enough and here Uncle Josh is dumping in MORE balls by the bag full.
Alyssa got a new baby doll that she was very in love with and I just love this picture of her squeezing the life out of her new friend. Thank you Aunt Katy and Uncle John!
We played some games with the entire group. Here we are playing, Do You Love Your Neighbor! Very fun game and Alyssa is quite good at it!
Thank you to all of our family that traveled in for Alyssa's big day. Regardless of the fact that we had no lights and heat! : )
It originally came with 100 balls, but Grammy wasn't sure that was enough and here Uncle Josh is dumping in MORE balls by the bag full. 
Alyssa got a new baby doll that she was very in love with and I just love this picture of her squeezing the life out of her new friend. Thank you Aunt Katy and Uncle John!
We played some games with the entire group. Here we are playing, Do You Love Your Neighbor! Very fun game and Alyssa is quite good at it!
Thank you to all of our family that traveled in for Alyssa's big day. Regardless of the fact that we had no lights and heat! : ) We went on a walk one day while you were here and the ice was melting, but it was still cold and wet. The kids loved walking in the melted ice water along the roads. They also had Pa Pa help them on top of a rock wall next to our neighborhood!
We look forward to this year with Alyssa at age 3. Still young enough she loves to be cuddled and loved on and needs us, but big enough to try to keep up and play with our family with all of her exuberant energy God gave her!
We look forward to this year with Alyssa at age 3. Still young enough she loves to be cuddled and loved on and needs us, but big enough to try to keep up and play with our family with all of her exuberant energy God gave her!
09 March 2009
So much to say, so little time....
Hello friends and family. If you haven't given up on me due to my lack of posting this year thank you. I hope I still have a few people checking in here and there. I'm going to try to get you caught up on our 2009 in the next week so that we can jump into present day and keep with it going forward. This has started out to be quite a busy year, but it appears things are settling down some and I hope it can stay this way for a few weeks at least. : )
So we've really had quite the year so far. My last post was to update everyone on my husband's change in plans. Now he is over half way through the semester studying criminal justice and he is doing very well. He has met a lot of people in the industry and has been able to ask a lot of questions and dig deeper into the field of law enforcement. There is a short list of pros to this profession and a long list of cons so you must really want to help people in this way to be an officer. Today he learned that over 90% of those that go into law enforcement quit after two years. It is just a difficult career because you are exposed to things that are hard to put from your mind and it puts a lot of stress on the person and on their family. The professors (who are detectives and other law enforcement personnel) have said that divorce, alcholism and suicide are extremely high with those that do stay in the career past the first two years and the upside of the career is very minimal as people don't respect those of authority (uniform) anymore and the pressure and stress is sometimes too much. All these things make me feel very comfortable as the spouse of a future officer. However, we are still marching forward to see where God takes us and how he will protect and provide for us as he always has. One of my favorite verses, which I know I've shared with many of you is Isaiah 30:21. "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice BEHIND you saying, this IS the way, walk in it". So there are so many things that I love about this passage, but I truly love that it says that the voice is BEHIND us. God doesn't say he will write our path on the wall right in front of us, but he does say that as we listen to him and we talk those baby steps in the direction that we think we should be going, he will be behind us cheering us on and confirming that we are indeed going the right way or we are not. I love that. So.....this is where we are. Pray for us as we take baby steps forward, especially for Billy as he's the one doing the work! : )
So we've really had quite the year so far. My last post was to update everyone on my husband's change in plans. Now he is over half way through the semester studying criminal justice and he is doing very well. He has met a lot of people in the industry and has been able to ask a lot of questions and dig deeper into the field of law enforcement. There is a short list of pros to this profession and a long list of cons so you must really want to help people in this way to be an officer. Today he learned that over 90% of those that go into law enforcement quit after two years. It is just a difficult career because you are exposed to things that are hard to put from your mind and it puts a lot of stress on the person and on their family. The professors (who are detectives and other law enforcement personnel) have said that divorce, alcholism and suicide are extremely high with those that do stay in the career past the first two years and the upside of the career is very minimal as people don't respect those of authority (uniform) anymore and the pressure and stress is sometimes too much. All these things make me feel very comfortable as the spouse of a future officer. However, we are still marching forward to see where God takes us and how he will protect and provide for us as he always has. One of my favorite verses, which I know I've shared with many of you is Isaiah 30:21. "Whether you turn to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice BEHIND you saying, this IS the way, walk in it". So there are so many things that I love about this passage, but I truly love that it says that the voice is BEHIND us. God doesn't say he will write our path on the wall right in front of us, but he does say that as we listen to him and we talk those baby steps in the direction that we think we should be going, he will be behind us cheering us on and confirming that we are indeed going the right way or we are not. I love that. So.....this is where we are. Pray for us as we take baby steps forward, especially for Billy as he's the one doing the work! : )
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