Go Cart Rodeooooo!

We had a Fall contest for the teens at church.

The winners got to come to our house on Sunday after church. 

We had so much fun.

It was a beautiful fall day!

It was supposed to rain and be cold, but it was in the 60's and no rain!

Praise the Lord!

We had three teens come.

Played some big ball!  OH yeah.

 And, of course, rode some go carts while chasing the big ball.

These boys had the best time! 

They had never rode a go cart before.

Isaiah is ornery like my Isaac and Sean...Sean just wanted to talk.

And talk.

And talk.

And talk.  

He was cracking me up!

And then there is this teenager:

I'm just gonna throw this out there and say that he had more fun than all the others combined!

Here's me:

I was telling Yui to "GRAB THAT BALL YOU LIL' RASCAL SO THE BOYS DON'T WIN."

I'm a bit competitive!

Our kids couldn't wait for the teens to come over!

We had just a small bonfire to cook our hot dogs and smores, but Titus was there for the better part of the day.  He loves fires!

And here is me and Annaleah.

My hair is not really that big.
Is it?

Do I always look like that?

God, help me.

My poor children.

No wonder they hate me.

Chloe and Yui.  

She is so good with our kids.

And another shot of the teenagers...oh, I mean Justus (the youth Pastor.) HA.

And here is where the day took a turn for the worse. 

My husband had this crazed look on his face.

I saw it but wasn't sure what to make of it.

I heard him yell to Ben over the roar of the go cart "BEN OPEN THE GATES!"

Of heaven, I wondered?

But no, he just meant our fence gates.

So Ben opened them while we all stood there staring at them in wonderment.

"What could this possibly mean?"

And then here comes the roar!  And Justus and Isaiah covered in mud. 

They decided to visit the backlands....where the mud dwells.

They found it.

All of it.

And then he had to take all the kids to see the mud. 

Wow.  I may still be harboring bitterness.

Good ol' Ty.  He hates mud.  I love him.

Isaac "wait for meeeeee Dad!"

Ben thought it was great that you could put weeds on the fire and make smoke.

My oh my, they are so easily entertained.

And, that was our go cart rodeo.

Good times.

Randomness....

So, I've become one of "those" bloggers who has a baby and then doesn't blog anymore.

But who could blame me? Look at that smile! She is such a little bit of joy for us.  Even her Dad is in love.  Our other children fuss over her and I hear a million times a day "Mommy, is it my turn to make Annaleah smile?"  She's been a very easy baby so far.  Slept through the night at 2 weeks of age.  Never had that happen before!  Of course now, four months later, she is up during the night wanting to eat.  A girl's gotta eat, right?  Her's hungry.  She can't possibly sleep knowing there is food to be had.  And I don't necessarily mind.  I did finally order some cloth diapers.  LOVE THEM!  I had at first thought I would just use them while I was at home, but I use them all the time now.  It is really so easy to use.  They wash up well.  And she looks adorable in her Fuzzibunz!  No idea why I never did this before.  I have a small stock pile of disposable diapers (by small I mean about 6 packages of Huggies) that I am considering taking back to the store.  I really love cloth diapering.  And so does Petunia.


School is in full swing here at the Snow household.  I am still loving the ABeka videos!  They have been a lifesaver!  I do very little with their schooling.  Of course, Isaac is in kindergarten so I do most of that with him.  And I have been doing a bit of preschool too with Titus and the little girl I babysit.  It's always fun....


We have redecorated our downstairs a bit...
This is our kitchen wall.  It's a yellow/gold/orange color.  Ha.  Really pretty though.  I like it much better than the dark red I had before.

 And our living room is a pale green!  It's perfect.  We had a sage green in there before, and I liked it for a while, but it was pretty dark.  We both wanted a lighter, brighter house.  We got it.  It's beautiful!

We are loving our church!  We've made some really great friends.  I've never been to a church quite like ours.  If you are in the hospital, expect to be visited by most of the members.  Expect to be prayed for.  The older men in our church are all leaders.  You will find most of them at the alters during the invitation.  I feel blessed to be there.  Our Pastor and his wife just swooped in and picked us up and loved us.  I will forever be grateful !!!


I joined a gym 2 months ago.  I've been 3 times.  Oh yeah.  I can feel it working.  Bwahahahaha!  Thank God it is only 12 bucks a month! I had to go back to the hospital for three days the week after I joined and am just now starting back at it.  


And so...that wraps up the update for today.  Loving that it is November and high 60's!!!  Maybe I will take the kids to the park today!


Hope you all are doing well!  Would love to hear from you!

Women In The Word Bible Study

I joined up with a group of ladies online to do a Bible study of I John.

Every Wednesday they have a link party discussing what we learned the past week.

So, here is my first WIWW link up:

I John 2:9-11
"He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.  But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whether he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."

WOW!  These are some powerful verses.  My husband has always said that if you hold bitterness or grudges against others, you are letting them control you.  Now, I always believed that was true.  But here are the Bible verses to support it.  If you hate your brother, it says.  You don't even have to be mean to them with your words (it's a heart thing) you will walk in darkness.  You know not which way you go.  Your eyes are blinded.  Just from holding hatred in your heart.

I will have to admit to holding grudges, holding bitterness in my heart against others.  But looking at it now, do I really want it to affect my direction in life?  To interfere with my eye sight?  Nope, I sure don't.

I will definitely be more careful about the things that I hold in my heart.  The things that I let CONTROL me.

Can't get my mind off....

The poor spider we killed this morning.

Ben and Chloe were both sweeping the downstairs when I heard Chloe's
scream.
She's a drama queen.
And she gets her toes all curled up when she sees a spider.
So, there is this tiny little spider ~ one of those skinny ones that just looks like a dust mite???
You know what I am talking about?

Well, anyway, I made her kill one the other day in the bathroom.
Why?
Because she had been going upstairs for days and wasting time because there was a spider in this bathroom.
Again, a dust mite spider.

So, I decided she needed to get over this fear and kill it.
Same thing this morning "Just kill it Chloe."
Well, she was having a hard time obeying..so, I just killed it.
She was obviously beside herself.  Ha.

So Ben says "poor spider is in Heaven now, Chloe, finish sweeping."

To which Chloe replies: "Nu-huh...he's in HELL!"

And now I can't stop thinking about that spider that I didn't even witness too who split hell wide open (said in my best preacher voice) this morning when I killed him.  

It's terribly heartbreaking.