"Jessy" for a day

We can hardly believe it's been 7 years since our little princess came into our family. Man how the time has gone by fast. She is growing into a beautiful young lady right before our eyes.

We celebrated her birthday this past weekend with some dear friends and family. She was all smiles and could hardly contain her joy. The weeks leading up to the party she informed me she would like to have a Jessy party, from Toy Story 3. So we spent time each day together working on the decorations and deciding the menu and cake.

This was my first ever attempt at cake making and all was well. I'm very thankful she was satisfied with a simple design, that worked in my favor. After several calls to Mom for help we finally had a finished product. Now, the cutting of the cake will require me to get lessons..... it looked horrible on each plate. I felt the need to apologise and assure everyone it really would taste ok. :~)

Her highlight of the party was opening a gift with a Jessy costume in it. Squeals of joy rang through the house. She changed into the outfit quickly and for the rest of the day asked us to call her Jessy not Jacie.

You can see all the party pictures at the family picture link below on the right side of the blog.

Anyone remember the show Green Acers?

This week there were some things that stuck out to me about country life and I found myself thinking of a childhood summertime TV show, Green Acers. Does anyone one remember that show? The city girl moves to the country and into a whole world she never knew existed.

So did you know that .........

God made some grasshoppers that can jump as high as my head?
A donkey does NOT make the cute little " Hee-Haw" sound that I thought it did?
Horses actually come a runn'en to see a good dog fight?
There are actual trash pick up company's that use their personal NICE trucks to haul it in?


I tell you for each of these things i physically stoped in my tracks with my mouth on the floor in amazement. That donkey sounds like a dieing cow people!! And it is the loudest thing I have ever heard. I mean, it could double for a tornado siren in Oklahoma I'm for sure! And no joke, our neighbors beagles got into a fight, sounded awful. And with in a few minutes there were 20 horses lining the fence to watch! Crazy right?

This place is awesome. I look forward to learning something new each day.

Creative Scheduling Part II

So for the last 3 weeks our life has been consumed with Soccer, moving and puppy's. I really think I got more sleep the fist weeks after bringing home my 3 children from the hospital than I have gotten this last several weeks. But we are glad to say things are beginning to settle down.

We have been blessed beyond measure through this whole experience. It seems like God is just one step ahead of the enemy, every time something tries to trip us up... God is right there to hold us up and keep us going.

Cory had a accident the week of our move, our dryer broke the first week in our new home, and allergy season is trying to drain our last bit of energy making school deadlines and parenting patience very thin. However it never fails as we pray for HELP that we feel the refreshing showers from above drizzling down to cover us. We were given a vehicle to borrow, some one from our church anonymously gave us money that was the same amount of a new dryer we had just located, and God brought neighbors to help with our work load giving us more time to focus on school. I must have shed 2lbs of tears this week. I am just so in AWE of how God just swoops down and takes care of things.

Looking forward to many more wonderful day's ahead looking out onto this view from the front porch of our new place of peace.

Love to all, and Happy Fall Yall!!!

Creative Scheduling Part I

Well we picked up the key's to the new place Wed and made a few loads. Woke up Thursday morning to start the next round of moving...... but the day took a slight detour.

Instead of moving into our new place on Thursday we welcomed 5 new family members into the Jeter household. ( Very temporary family members)

Jasmine was in labor all day, literally. And by 11pm we had 5 of the cutest little furry puppy's.