Many faces of Tabor!

My sweet baby boy is 5 months old now! Ms. Amanda & I have a great time with Tabor when the backdrop is out! Thanks Ms. Amanda!

Hijacked

Hello it's Amanda here.. i have hijacked Sammi's blog so I can tell everyone reading that I am the worst friend ever and FORGOT my most precious friends birthday!!!! I want also to let HER know how sorry I am and how much I love her!! She is the best friend I could ask for. She is the most unselfish person I have ever met. She would drop anything, anytime to help me out (and has too many times to count), she is always there to lend an ear or with a shoulder to cry on. There is NOTHING we cannot discuss together and for that I am grateful. There have been so many days that I LITERALLY would not have made it through without her!! She is the person that understands me better than I do myself and the person who can truly understand and laugh at my crazy life!! I owe her so much. She is a wonderful, mother who give ALL of her time and energy to her boys and her husband. She never has a day off, she is always on duty and always there for scraped knees and midnight feedings. She is amazing!! I love her dearly and I hope she can forgive my thoughtlessness!! Happy Birthday!!

A Truely Amazing Woman

Since this is the first time I have tried this, I hope I don't screw it up. I want to take this time to say something about the love of my life. You are the rock of our family. I know at times things look difficult, but with you at my side, no matter what lies ahead, we will edure, succeed, and love each other along the way. As for our boys, they will be great one day because of the love you show for them. It is hard to put into words what you mean to all of us. To some you are a friend, to some a mother, to some a daughter, to some a wife, but to all of us you are a gift. Happy Birthday to the greatest woman I know, I love you so very much.

Stacy

In a NUT SHELL.......

Hi all~
A report from the home front. After having a weird (the only word I can come with) weekend, we are up and at 'em them Monday morning.... The only thing I can say about this whole NUT SHELL is.... Well, we are BLESSED! We thought that we would be here in this place alone, but AHEM... Our friends and family thought not. We have been rallied around by all of our friends & family. We can not thank you all enough for your kind words, prayers and support. PLEASE know that we love each and every one of you.
Where do we go from here? Well, I have no idea, but my friend has an idea.. You all know his name.... GOD. He knew this was coming for Stacy & I, this was no surprise for him. So, for now, Stacy & I will continue to pray and be faithful. Letting go & letting GOD work.

KB's Crew~
I truly do not know what I would do without you guys. You have shown both Stacy & I love beyond meaning. You have stood tall beside us and for that we will forever be thankful. Without your humor and strength we would be depleted. I know that we said we would "do life together", but this is not what I had in mind... LOL We love you all so very much.

you know it's a bad day when............

Think your having a bad day? Well let me tell you about my day, or ahem, maybe I will just hit the High (insert laughter here) notes! Have you ever had one of those day where nothing seems to be going right, yeah, I know we all have, Right?!? Well I was informed today by my darling husband that we has fired from him job today. Yes, I said Fired. And before I get on my hind legs ready to attack, let me just tell you this. He was fired from a company that is STUPID!!!!!!! He is one of the most valuable employees that a ompany could ask for. He is VERY SMART, quick to learn, a good leader, the hardest worker that I know of, and Might I add very handsome to boot. Oh, I guess that the STUPID company doesn't care about any of that. OH WELL, there lose, and I mean that in a UGLY WAY!!!!!!! I must move on, cause I feel myself lean back on those hind legs I mentioned above! This will be one of those faith test I keep hearing about. Now, anyone would start to question why, Right? Well, let me just tell you that we are there. But we can not stand still on this, we must move forward into the dark, dank, scary unknown. I ask today that the large group of you, well, I guess it would be accurate to say, the 2 of you who read my blog, please keep us in your prayers.... I know that this my seem like not big deal to some, but we were a one income family. and well, now we are not. I KNOW that GOD has something better planned for our family and one day this will be just a memory, but until that day we will move forward slowly. I wish that I could say that I wasn't scared, but I am terrified. I know that we will get through this. I just don't know how muddy we will be at the end. And I know the saying: Don't tell God how big your storm is, Tell your storm how big your GOD is!" or something like that. How do you do that? I hope I can find out. I will promise you readers ( all 2 of you) my children will not feel this. They will only see happy parents trying to do the best they can with what they have to offer! Thanks for letting vent, I feel somewhat better.

My dearest husband~
Please hold your head up high. I love you more than words can say. I am and have been VERY PROUD OF YOU. Please do not let stupid people bring you down. Your are everything to me and your boys. You are not a loser or a failure. I DO NOT WANT THOSE WORD in your head anymore. You will overcome this. I know that your soul is wounded and bleeding.Know that I am here by your side, where ever the LORD leads us. Hold comfort in the LORD OUR GOD. "Be still and know that I am GOD" he says.
I am so proud to call you my husband and father of my children. I love you, my dear!

Wordless Wednsday

NOT ME MONDAY

Not me Monday!



Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


Last week I meet up with my best friend to take 4 month old pictures of my youngest son. We love to get together and let all of our boys play. It usually goes well, until someone gets bit! Well, the 4 older boys were off playing on the merry-go-round, you know just being, well BOYS! Apparently this one mother thought it was too wild and told her little girl that “we need to go, it is just too rowdy here!” So said mother rushed her daughter and young son into the minivan and all but squealed her tire to get away from us. We look at each other and laughed. I mean we always get looked out when we are together and people always ask us “are they all your kids?” And we always smile and say “yes.” When our children get together it usually get wild, but they were all getting along great. Fast forward 45 min. and said kids were all playing together, no one is crying and we are thinking to ourselves, “This is going great!” Not more than 20 seconds after the words were out of our mouths did we look up to see our 2 oldest children peeing in the middle of the park with the 2 middle brothers standing next to the arching stream of urine watching with great intend!!! Now, any GOOD MOTHER would lose her mind and rush over to her child and remind them that we do not pee in public places like a park. But, NOT MEEEEEEEE!!!!!! We let them finish. *( NOTE: No one was in the park at the time of said peeing*) And did you know that little boys on a tennis court with no tennis racket or tennis ball will just resort to playing tennis with each other’s shoes? ME NEITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I also would NEVER get upset with my husband for simply asking me if I did laundry so he could “wear one of his favorite shirts.” It would NEVER cross my mind to tell him to choose another shirt out of his closet, because the man has 50 clean shirts hanging up.. But, NO he doesn’t like those shirts he wants the shirt that he did not put into the dirty clothes pile until the night before. And I would NEVER ask him in a snippy tone “than why do you have so many shirts in your closet?” That would be uncalled for, for me to get upset over a stupid shirt and 1 simple question. Who would do such a thing???? You guessed it…………..NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Just think, a mother nursing her son, needing a burp rag. Burp rag MIA. What to do? How about using your breast pad to clean baby up with?!? Me neither, I would never do such a thing… NOT ME!!!!!!


My last one….. Who in their right mind would stay up late on a Sunday night to work on a post for Monday morning??????????????? NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!
It would be REALLY sad for someone to get REALLY EXCITED about getting an order of goat milk soap. Squealing like a child at the mailbox & running inside to try it, wouldn’t it? That’s what I thought, SAD! Good thing it was NOT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is nice to have friends that understand all of this stuff is sooooo NOT ME!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy and Happy NOT ME Monday!

More of Tabor

Tabor 4 months old

Friendship

Here is the GANG! Spencer, Kale, Gus & Kason!

We meet up with Ms. Amanda and kiddos to take some 4 month old pics of Tabor. The boys had a wonderful time playing with each other. They play tennis with shoes, ate sticks, stock birds, peed outside and play with the water fountain.. Ya know, boy stuff. FUN

NOT ME MONDAY

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


Not me Monday!

It would be really funny to have to be pulled to the bathroom by your husband in a computer chair, so you can, well…. Ahem, go to the bathroom! Not so funny would be lying in bed all weekend long with no concept of time only PAIN!!!!!!!! Depilating back pain, not being able to move BACK PAIN. I am talking 30 minutes to get out of bed, cause of all the well….. PAIN!!!!!!! Funny when you have to have help pulling up your pants, when you are done. It would be funny, if it happened to you , someone else. How could that be……? NOT ME!!!!!

You know how it is when you start laughing REALLY HARD or sneeze and think it to yourself, Man I hope I don’t pee my pants. Not, I have any idea, NOT ME!!!!!!

How about when you are talking to your friend on the phone, the kids in background are both screaming at the top of their lungs, and you don’t seem to notice? NOT ME. I am the best mom, I ALWAYS pay attention to my children. Even when I am on the phone.

And when you see spit or snot coming out of a baby mouth or nose and you wipe it off with my hand and wipe it on my shirt. Even when it is not your child. NOT ME!!!

An Ordinary Guy, with an Extraordnary Love

7 years ago Yesterday, A family of 4 was united.Stacy & Corbin became bond together with Ethan & I. Yesterday Stacy & I celebrated our 7 year wedding anniversary. Let me tell you alittle about my ORDINARY Guy. He is always putting his family 1st. He has a love for his family that has no end. Working hard for his family is just something he will always do. His idea of a perfect day is spending the whole with me and the boys. He is the hero of our children. No one can scare off monster quite like daddy can. A man of faith and family. Most people do not realize just how smart he is, but let me tell you friend, brilliant he is. A shy and quite guy is what most see. When I look at him I see........ A funny, loving, brilliant, lover of life, friend of God, the perfect example of what a man should be, handsome, selfless ,hero of my dreams.

Stacy~

what a blessing you are to the children & I. You are the best thing that could of happen to me. We have been through thick & thin, Richer & poorer, sickness & health, young & hopefully old. You have shown me a love that know no limit. You are the best example of what a man should be. You have always said that you are lucky, but please know that your children and I are the blessed one. I love you with every bit of my soul. Your know my secrets and love me anyways. You let me be just the way I am, with no apologies. I will stand beside you. I am so proud of you. You amaze me. So with this I say Happy Anniversary, my love. You are my super Hero. Just a Ordinary Guy with an EXTRAORDNARY love!

So Sad

so with a sad heart I write this post. I was not able to attend my cousin's wedding. I wanting to go to see all my family member that I haven't seen in forever. I could not wait to show off my family, but I guess that my back had other plans. I am still having trouble walking. I have no idea what it is I did to my back, I just hope and pray that I will be back on my feet before long. Stacy has been a GOD send. He has taken over all the duties that I normally handle without complaint. He has wore the hat of Mr. MOM with pride and joy.

Can you say "painful?"

Today has been a day from you know what. I somehow hurt my lower back. It was hurting yesterday, but not to bad. So I went to my wonderful Dr. B and he gave me muscle relaxer and pain pills. I took my meds last night and had a wonderful nights sleep. This morning before I went to pick Spencer up, my back spasmed and I was unable to walk. The scary part was I was carrying my sweet baby boy. I make it to the bed and was able to lay the baby down and slowly very slowly crawl into bed. Than a got Gus to get me a phone and I called Stacy. So to make a long story short, Stacy picked up Spencer and saved the day. Meanwhile I doped myself up and tried to feed my baby, followed by a nice long nap. Once I woke up the fun started. At this point I am not able to stand straight, but was able to get to the recliner in the livingroom. Hopefully I will contiune to improve so that I can make it to my cousin's wedding in Sand Springs. Keep me in your prayer, please. As my children know that I am not 100% and are taking this time to act out. That is all for now.!!!!

The power of ORANGE is The power of GOD!

Hey there~
Today a sweet little boy that has captured the nation with his sick heart, is having surgery. Baby Stellan!!!! If you haven't read his story PLEASE take the time to read it. You can get to the link on the rigth side of my blog, labeled Praying for stellan. We (the readers of Stellan"s blog) are wearing orange today, to show are support fot this sweet little one. To show the power of prayer and support. Please take the time to say a prayer for this sweet baby boy, his family & doctors.

Ice, Ice Baby or I mean house!

When to the ice house to get some test shots, and this is the results. I love this building. I can't get enough of it. I LOVE the ones with Stacy and Tabor. I need to use Stacy in more test pics, he was a handsome subject, and he listened unlike my kiddos!

More practice, Outside this time!

Tabor is wearing a onesie that Ms. Amanda bought him before he was born. I love the colors. I know, you are tired of the teal rug, but he looks so good on it. I was also playing around with poses, here is the result. Tabor was trying to nurse Spencer's ear, but I thought it was to cute to pass up! Enjoy!

P.S. Tabor is also wearing Babyleggs, and they are NOT just for girls.

Sunset

This was a beautiful sunset that I happened to see over the houses here. I love the one with the tree. I think I will call that one "The Burning Bush."

Practice, Practice, Practice

Just messing around