Singing

Yesterday, I watched my friends children while she got some errands done. Her husband is away for awhile. My friend Julies' boys are really cute and fun. Tate the oldest wanted to play house. He told Gabby she could be the mommy and Lukey was the baby. Gabby ran into her closet where her play clothes were and started to sing while she dressed, "I need put my dress on, my dress on, dress on, oh and my hat." She ran out of the room. It was so cute she was so excited to play with her friends.

James and I had a relatively good time doing homework. I love to see when he does something really well he is so pleased with himself. James is always watching out for his brother Andrew. Drew almost put some Lego's in his mouth and James threw his arm down and removed the Lego's out of Drew's way.

Aaron hung up my favorite picture, "Forgiven" by Gregg Olson and it made my night. I read in the scriptures in Mosiah about how we need to pray for forgiveness and rely on Christ and the Lord will continually forgive us. I need that. For He is mighty to save. I made rolls last night and we had left over chili.

It's been a long time

Today I watched a little mormon tube movie about a woman who blogs and she was burned in a plane accident. She blogs everyday, I on the other hand blog once a year. I feel it is time to change that.

Well yesterday was a busy day. I woke up and got distracted. I wanted to finish unpacking. The problem was my house was a mess to I cleaned and mopped. I felt better. When lunch was over it was a mess I clean the kitchen again. Then dinner time rolled around I was to tired to clean the kitchen again. I watched Chuck. Gabby helped me sweep yesterday it was so thoughtful.

I made sausage, onion potatoes, and broccolli Gabby picked up a sausage and said, "I like this food mommy." I think I am going to have to stop trying to be gourmet and be scaled down to get my children to eat. We were at the store and there was doll furniture there that matched Gabby's doll house which has not been at the store for 6 months. I bought her some doll stuff. James was so excited when he saw the new toys he helped Gabby open boxes and set up the furniture and car by the dollhouse.

James is my bright light as usual he tries so hard with his homework. He is learning. I hope he is learning to love learning. This morning he carried a rollie pollie to school to show his class. They are going over life cycles.

Andrew is in my arms insisting to type which makes typing difficult, He makes me laugh. nbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb mmmmmmnnnnnnnnbbbbdsd He became excited when he saw the repeating letters.

Aaron is my busy man barely able to have time for himself. He loves the people in our branch, he tries to serve as Christ would have him serve. I love him for his dedication and selflessness.

Drew Warby

Well we have a new addition to our family. He arrived on July 1, 2009, 9 lbs, 21.3 inches. The kids love him, James especially. Drew had not urinated for about 24 hours so he could not get circumcised until he did. I told James and daddy we need to pray to Heavely Father to help Drew to urinate. James immediately prayed that he would pee. About 3 hours later I called Aaron to tell him that Drew was going to get circumcised and James wanted to talk to me. He asked, "mommy did Drew pee." I responded, "Yes he did James." James squealed with delight, "Yeah now he can come home!" Even the sincere prayer of a five year old really does work. Gabby insists on holding "Baby Dew" about three times a day. She holds him maybe for 15 seconds and she is good for 3 hours. She loves to sit on the arm rest of my recliner and sit by Drew when I am nursing him. She will snuggle into my arm and pat his head. It is adorable. We all have colds so we are all praying Drew does not get it.

James and Gabby love holding Drew. He is really a sweet baby. James looks forward to coming home from school and holding Drew. I am already mixing up the boys two names. Aaron, is helping out at home and the kids love having him home so much. He is always so busy with work and church. I just realized Aaron never had me take one picture of him. He loves to take pictures but not be in one. I will have to force him to be in a picture.

Here are the cakes I made for James and Gabby's birthdays. It was fun and hard at the same time. I had a cold when I frosted James cake. As I was frosting his cake my left ear was filling with fluid. I couldn't pop my eardrum by 8 pm and decided to go to the E.R. The doc was very helpful and gave me meds to drain my ear. It took 2 weeks for the ear to drum. I was lucky I did not get and infection.  James is now 5 and Gabby is 2. We are expecting our 3rd in 4 weeks! I can not believe how big the kids are getting and the cute things they are saying.

So we went to Okinawa this last week and it was great. 3 days were rainy and 3 were beautiful. Unfortunately when we went to the beach my batteries had lost power. So you will get pictures of our adventures through out the island. Aaron was there for a business conference so he was unable to play with us most days.

Happy New Years

Here are some pictures of what we have been doing here in Japan. I got to go and see some snow monkeys with my neighbor and friend Sara. It was a lot of fun. That day I aslo got to see the Black Crow Castle which was beautiful.