The kids and I playing with the camera!!!

It's been a long time!

Ok well it has been a long time since I updated this thing! Well since John left we have been very busy! I have been cleaning out the house to try to get it ready to sell! NO we are not going anywhere yet! We have been praying about the house and feel it is time to sell it. I had some rough times right after John left and I stepped down from my position as the Church Secretary. I Prayed about it and feel that is what the Lord is leading me to do. John understands and is behind me all the way! I have had problems with it and I loved working there but we both feel it is time to move on! John and I feel like the Lord is leading us other places, not sure yet where. Those of you in the Military know how it is! Well, the kids are getting too big for me! Ananiah is such a good helpper we made some cookies the other day and she practically made them herself! She loves to bake and I love to have her help me! Adina is still a stinker she torments anyone who will let her, but she is sweet most of the time. However, She has a very big stinker streak! Ananiah is always on the go and for those who have been around John much you know it comes from him! He can not sit still! Asher is getting too big he can hold his own bottle and even drinks from a sippy cup! He is grabbing stuff and putting it in his mouth. He tries to grab anything that comes close to his mouth! He is rolling everywhere now and even crawls backward! Man they get big fast! I don't remember if the girls were this fast this young. If I have more they may just come out crawling! or even worse walking! He is six months old now and man it goes by fast! We now have three dogs and three kids here! I am scared to think what it will be like here this summer. WE usually get Hayden and Jamie for the summer or part of it anyway. Jamie is driving now and she even has her own car so maybe we will not have to go get them this summer! I am looking forward to seeing them at Christmas! The kids, dogs and I are going to my momma's for Christmas again this year and we are all very excited about it! Fun fun! Me traveling with three kids and three dogs across country! Pray for me!!! Well I think /i have given lots to pray abotu now so I will fill you in on more later! Again Pray for John!

Pictures of me

Here are some pictures of my new hair cut and the puppies!! I really like my hair short most days!

R & R

Well hello all! November is here and John has come home for R&R and now he is back in Iraq! Things have been so busy! We have two new dogs, Hunter is gone as of now it breaks my heart but I don't know what else to do! I know everyone is thinking it was the new puppies that sent him running but it wasn't! Hunter has always had a running streak he just failed to be caught or return this time. He has been gone three days! I miss him very much. The girls miss him too. I hate that Asher did not get to know him, Hopefully he will be returned to us soon. Anyway back to our recent vacation if you can call it that, we were so busy there was not much time to spend at home. Before John came home, me ant the kids traveled to Arkansas to see the other kids, then on to Tennessee to my grandpa's house and pick up John when he flew in. We stayed in Tenn. a week, My parents came up on Friday to see us and Asher. My dad hadn't seen him yet. Then we drove back to Arkansas so John and Hayden could spend some time together. All in all we got about a week at home but most of those days were busy with some activity with the church! Was a full time and a busy three weeks! It was wonderful to see John and the girls were connected to him the whole time. As I was writing this I got a package in the mail from him from the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Apparently the USO there has a reading room and lets the deployed soldiers pick books out and record them reading them to their children! So I now have a DVD for the kids to watch everyday of Papa reading books to them! What a blessing! We made some tapes of him reading the Bible to them at night before he left but our Tape thing does not work right for our Camcorder tapes??? Anyway that is a wonderful blessing! My husband is the best in the whole world he is so thoughtful! The kids will love it so much! Before he left the girls and I went and got our hair cut. I will post some pictures soon! John took over a thousand pictures while on leave and they are all on his laptop so he has to download them and send them to me! The puppies names are Pupcake(strawberry shortcakes dogs name) and Mocha! Very interesting puppies. They are pretty good for puppies. John even let us have them, boy he is changing! God is working on him and us! Things here are good other then having to let him go again we are all good!