It's another rainy day and the sparrows are chirping like crazy right outside, beautiful morning!
I have set a few goals for my self this week, month actually. I am trying to get in shape (and lose weight) and also to finish reading all the way through the bible. I've come to realize that my walk with the Lord and more specifically how well i am doing in it is very closely connected with the other disciplines in my life. Example, if my house is a mess and I haven't done a workout in more then a few days most likely I have not been spending time reading my word either.
But if and when i am faithful with my job, my responsibilities, as a wife and mother in regards to keeping up on house work, reading to the kids and spending time with them playing or just doing stuff with them that doesn't involve having a movie on and also when i have been consistent with exercise then it's that much easier to be consistent and faithful with reading my word and spending time in prayer. My "calling" is to be a wife and a mother so it makes sense to me that when i am being faithful to that calling when i am being obedient in the little things then i will be faithful and obedient with the bigger things.
Just ramblings anyway my goals right now are to lose 5lbs and finish reading through the bible (I am just finishing 1 Corinthians) before I start watching any more tv shows on the computer, (with a few exceptions in moderation) and the second thing is to try and do a work out 20 min or more six or seven days a week for 30 days and I started this challenge/goal on the Oct. 13th. (I've got about 25lbs to lose)
Anyhow that's where I am at! Now I am going to go read my bible and enjoy the rest of this cloudy and rainy morning!

Another note about the zoo

Just another quick note about our adventures at the zoo. . .

during the zoomazium's creature feature for the toddlers out of about 35 kids or so Jaelle was the most out spoken answering all the questions and in her enthusiasm to answer she said pretty cute things. The lady leading the show was asking the kids what the names of different stuffed animals were that she was showing them, a duck, a lizard, a chicken, a snake, a frog and so on, so when she pulled out a ostrich Jaelle yelled "it's a sparrow!" and the flamingo was a penguin and then again a little later when asking the names of the birds again the ostrich was called a "gooseling" (half goose half duckling?) ha ha guess next time we visit the African Savannah at the zoo we will have to work on identifying the Ostriches!

So today I took Jaelle and Enoch to the zoo after dropping Judah off at school.
It was pour down rain most of the time we were there but still a lot of fun. I am really enjoying the membership we've gotten for the zoo. It a pretty decent sized zoo and it took us four trips before we actually saw everything in the zoo. But today was neat we got there just in time for the creature feature at the zoomazium (an indoor climbing/exploring place for kids) the kids got to pet Roberta the hen :-)
Then we went to see the gorillas and because it was pouring outside they were all right up to the windows out of the rain all the older gorilla's were napping but the almost 2yr old Uzumma ( a little girl gorilla) and one of her sister's (Ngozi or Calaya don't know which one it was though) were up playing with each other. Uzumma was walking up to the glass looking out at us and then she would kind of jump back and pat her head and rub her tummy. Then she was pestering her sister, (reminded me very much of our kids) at one point Uzumma's sister got up from her spot in the corner and went to the bathroom and while she was taking care of business Uzumma ran up and started rolling around in her sister's spot then as soon as she was done she charged at Uzumma chasing her out of her spot then looked at us and started spinning on one foot before she plopped back down in her spot. Just like Jaelle and Josiah when they are fighting over their favorite spot on the couch.
Anyway we watched them for about a half an hour and then went back to the play place for a while before heading home!

Okay so it took me a little longer to get frequent this blog site again. It seems to have turned out to be a very busy week. Thursday I went to Women's Bible study which has just started. It's a beth moore study which i haven't decided yet how well i like it yet but i go to women's more for the fellowship then the studies. Friday Josiah had the day off of school so we invited some friends from Kent to come up and go to the zoo with us and they did. It was a fun but a little on the crowded side so not quite as enjoyable as when it's just me and the kids or judah, me and the kids ;-) And all the kids have a touch of a cold. The week has gone by really fast. ;-)

Well, it has been awhile (again) since i've written anything and a lot has happened since we moved. I am not going to write a lot now but I do intend to write a little more frequently. This week is Judah's second week of school and Josiah is doing really well in Kindergarten. Tomorrow is his first field trip to a Pumpkin Farm. (however, he is coming down with a cold so if he's really sick in the morning he won't be able to go ;-( I am praying he is well enough to go)
That's all for now.

;-)

Moved!

Yeah Praise the Lord we are all moved in! It does seem a little unreal still like we are only here temporarily not like this is our new home now. We love the new place aside from bathrooms and kitchen being very old and not updated (and the slug under the kitchen sink). The ceilings are about 2 or 3 feet higher, the kitchen/living room/dining room are very open nice big windows take up one whole wall and a third of another. And we are not in a neighborhood where there are cop cars blocking off the street in our apartment complex at least once a week. :-) We have been very blessed by the Lord in his provision for us!

So last night the kids were in the van while Judah and I were putting in the last of the boxes to take back to our new place and Jaelle saw our neighbor walk by and she didn't remember her name so she said to me, "Mom, is that Otis's, um Otis's... Otis's pretty pretty princess!?" and all I could do is laugh and say "Yes, that's Cynthia, Otis's wife, His pretty pretty princess!" (Cynthia and Otis our are neighbors who live below us, an older black couple, Otis is a black version of my Italian Nonno!)
Jaelle was saying all sorts of silly things the whole day it was quite entertaining and it was nice to have her in such a good mood, singing and saying sweet things. :-)

Anyway, that's all for now...
if any one wants our new address just send me an email and I will give it!

Strollers, tired kids and the sun...

Well, we got a new stroller today (2nd hand) its a joovy caboose tandem stroller. I've been looking at them for a while and finally found one at a decent price on craigslist and judah so lovingly went this morning after work and bought it for me! :-)
So after lunch, i took the kids for a stroll over to our local Cutter's Point Coffee (in the Fred Meyer Shopping Center area) and got a coffee and a smoothie for the kids to share. (This week they are having 50% off all their drinks to celebrate summer, yeah cheap coffee for me~!) Josiah very much enjoyed running and it was nice because I could let him with out having to worry about the other two trying to follow suit. He told me "it's fun being all full of energy and running and jumping!"
It was nice cause it was air conditioned in the coffee shop. I've come to realize I don't like the Hot very much at all. I used to back in the teen years pride myself in how much I loved the HOT and hated the cold and while I still hate the COLD cold, like the Minnesota winter cold. I do not like, i even could say I hate the HOT now, anything above 75 (80 if there is a cooler breeze) is too hot for me.
As Judah likes to point out I am a creature of comfort, I like to be comfortable (and who doesn't??) and i can get very irritable if I am not very comfortable.

SO, today on my nice little stroll the sun was hot and the air stagnant and it's a balmy 82 degrees needless to say i was slightly uncomfortable (and slightly irritable) and we are home now and the kids have been sent to bed for naps.