We just celebrated Katelyn's 8th birthday this past weekend and she did not want a party this year, she wanted to have dinner and the Houston Downtown Aquarium. We had an awesome time and I think all the kids had fun eating with all the fish around them. Then Sunday we went over to Non and Grans for fathers day and had a little family party there with the rest of our family. It was such and awesome weekend, I just wished it could of lasted a little longer... Sorry the picture is blurry, it was dark inside and I took it with my phone, my camera decided to poop out on me at dinner!!!
This coming up weekend is Emma and Non's (Josh's Mom) birthday on Sunday. We are planning on going to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate, but Emma still wanted to have a tinker bell party so I will just decorate everything there with Tinker Bell. I can not believe that my baby girl is going to be three... It seems like just yesterday I had her and was traveling back and forth to the hospital (or not leaving at all) to see her. She was there for 3 1/2 months and sometimes I feel so cheated of that important time with her, but I thank God every day that we live in a place with such a great hospital and doctors. With out all of the medical staff, our prayer warriors and Most of all God, I don't think our precious Emma would be here with us today... She is such a miracle and amazes me every day. She has come such a long way from the days in the hospital when we where praying to God not to take her, we need more time with this little girl. Now I am praying to God to give me the strength and energy to keep up with her and I am soooo thankful for that. She does still have a long way to go and many surgeries in her future, but she is a fighter and such a strong little thing, I know she can make it through anything with the grace and help of God...
Emma did just have her first BIG ballet recital and she did awesome. They danced to three different songs "L.O.V.E", "In my daughters eyes" and "I can't help falling in love". I was afraid that she was going to get stage fright like she did and Christmas and just stand there, but she didn't, she danced to every song and looked like she had been doing it for ever,(she even sang all the words to the songs as she was dancing). The recital was held in a huge High School auditorium and was a totally amazing production for a bunch of 2-5 year olds, I can't wait till next year...
My little man Nickolas is getting bigger and smarter every day. He is doing so much better on his talking, you can understand almost EVERYTHING that he says now (unless he is playing and wants to talk funny). He is such a ball of energy and is constantly on the GO, I don't think he ever stops unless he is eating, sleeping or something on TV catches his eye (and sometimes not even then,lol). He is such a sweet little boy and makes my day every morning when he gets up and tells me "Good morning Mommy, I love you, did you have sweet dreams?". He tells me all the time now that I am the best Mommy in the whole world and that I am his best friend. I hope it stays that way even when he is all grown up, he makes my heart smile when he says stuff like that, I could just eat him up... He is getting to be such a handsome little man, I think I am going to have to beat all the little girls off with a stick when he gets older... I am such a lucky women, God has blessed me with such beautiful and sweet children (well sweet most of the time, they still have their moments, as do us all).
As for me and Josh, it is pretty much the same ol' same ol'... I am still staying at home with the kids and doing all the daily house and kid stuff and Josh is still working nights at the same company he's been with for the last few years. Unfortunately his hours have got cut back to 32 hours do to the oil spill in the Gulf and our president stopping all new oil drilling (oh, for some of y'all that don't know, Josh is working in the welding business, they weld big parts for oil companies and alot of though's parts go out to rigs in the gulf). So we are just praying for the work to pick up and that he will start getting more hours soon... I have thought about going back to work, (prob in home health care again), but I would be working just to put two kids in daycare and that is just not a smart idea right now... So for now we just tighten down our belts for awhile, do what we gotta do and pray that the work picks up soon...
So that is what my little family has been up to, nothing glamorous, but we like it and are very happy to be in the place that we are in right now... I do have one request for everyone that is reading this... Please continue to pray for Emma, I know it sounds crazy, but I hope they decide to do her surgery sooner than later... I think that the older she gets the harder it will be on her and the more she will remember... We know with out a doubt she will have to have this done, so I would rather he have it done while she won't remember to much. I am also going to ask that you pray for Josh's work and that business picks up soon, we are doing ok finacally right now, but if it keeps going like this or if he loses anymore hours I am not sure how it will affect us. Thank you so much for keeping up with my family, I know I am not the best blogger, but I try and I promise I am going to write another post on Sunday for my Emma, I will just be something for her 3rd birthday and just reflecting where we are and how far we have come...
Lots of heart hugs and God Bless...
Samantha xoxoxo
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