Mother's Day 2009

It has been a great Mother's Day for me. When asked several weeks ago, I told Rob all I wanted was the Twilight DVD. So, if you know me...that wasn't true! It's been a "Sarah" weekend 24/7! Friday Nana, the sitter made all the moms brunch and gave us a gift to take home. Saturday I taught Jazzy, then went to Laura Camic's baby shower and had a blast hanging out with the girls. KK came over as soon as I got home so Rob could take me out to eat and shop! It was so nice. Sunday they let me sleep till 8:30 am then woke me up with breakfast and flowers, closed the door and let me eat and check my email alone! Rob cleaned up the whole kitchen, then went to church with us and took me out to eat again at Jalapeno's.

I tried to talk Rob into doing the "let me sleep in and him cook breakfast" every Sunday. We compromised and are going to take turns!! Hooray, a win for me!!

The kids are awesome! Owen kept saying it's "mommy's day" which he thought it meant my birthday and keeps wondering about the cake. Jenna has been in a great mood all day. She is really starting to get into reading books and she thinks so hard when looking through them. She's been walking a lot more this past weekend and will probably be a full blast walker in a few days.

It's been such a "me" weekend that I've really forgotten about my own mom which didn't want anything for Mother's day. I love you, I love you, I love you Mom! You are the greatest mom and best friend ever!!

Rob and I also discussed starting to give Owen chores! Not sure what chore or what compensation/prize...I'll blog about that later. I'm sure if Grandma is reading this she will probably give us an ear full later :)

Vacations are coming!

Denver in 3 weeks and Folly Beach in 7. It seems like every vacation I've had since our wedding in the Bahama's I've been pregnant, sick, with a baby, etc. This year I've still got my baby's but can't wait to travel with them again (even if my family doesn't want us in the same car!) I don't care if I don't get to lay in the sun all day or take naps on the beach, I want to do whatever my kids want to do, (most all of the time anyway) and I'll be happy about it. Owen talks about going to the beach and Colorado everyday! They are the greatest little things ever!

Jenna's party - hangin with her BFF

Love for K-Love

My days are so busy and I find that my worship has been limited to Sunday/Wednesday church services. I decided to find the only local christian radio station, K-love (I don't know the radio dial) and try it out. Since then driving around town has been totally different. Before it was all talk radio or hip-hop, top 10.

I always have K-love on, I sing along and think about God, my Savior the whole ride. Sometimes I don't even go over my Jazzercise set because I'm too busy thinking about the words to the songs. I am so happy that I have found a small way to fit God, who should be my number 1 into my crazy schedule. And now a month later I can recognize the bands, singers and songs! I have NEVER listened to anything but hymns as worship songs so this is a change but, I enjoy the peaceful ride and feel closer to him. It also make me think about him more and more throughout the day because I'm always in the car! Not bad music you should try it.

Prayer request: I am praying hard for my friend who has to go into major surgery in May. Please pray for her as well! I am heart broken that she has to even go through this and know that God will lead her out safely.

Kids Pictures

Good Morning Owen!

I went to wake Owen up a while ago. I absolutely love my kids in the morning they are so huggable and warm! He sits up, looks around and says "Mom, you need to clean my room." (There are pirates on the floor and a pile of clean laundry that needs to be put away) I told him that it was his room so he needs to clean it and he said "Mom, you better clean my room before I get mad" I could not stop cracking up!

A little bit later we went to wake Jenna up and realized that daddy had put her pj's on backwards last night and she looked hilarious!! Probably had to be there but I want to remember these memories forever.

Life Changes!

Last year I sold my Jazzercise franchise and decided to just be an Instructor. It doesn't seem very long ago that I was sitting at ABR Construction thinking about quiting my full-time job and taking the plung to being a business owner. It's been very hard to let go. Many times I would talk to Rob and he would try to talk me out of it. My family needed me and I wanted them 24/7! Last weekend at our Jazzercise Conference they recognized me for hitting the Bronze level income for 2008...I was so excited to get a rebate that I didn't realize how sad it would make me feel. I felt as if that door has been closed forever and my life has moved on. My priorities are now: God, Family, Jazzercise :)

I am REALLY enjoying just worrying about teaching the perfect Jazzercise set, hanging out with my family and doing part-time bookkeeping. In the back of my mind I know Rob will support me if I ever want to do it again and that is peace enough.

I was going to just write about how much fun we had playing outside at Mamaw's all day yesterday but decided to go deeper instead!