She's Twelve!!!

I can not believe that twelve years have gone by so quickly.  I vividly remember when we found out we were pregnant with another baby.   We had lost five and had been told not to expect to have any.  They just didn't know what was wrong.  Then a woman told me that she had been praying for me and had had a word from the Lord.  He told her that I would be healed(I had Lupus) through the birth of a child and it would be a girl.

A few months later we got pregnant even though I wasn't ovulating.  (We were testing for it!)  The nurses and doctors ran all kinds of blood work and found no trace of Lupus.  It was gone.  Our beautiful baby girl was born nine months later. 

God is amazing.  His timing is perfect. 

My Sunshine is such a caring, sweet, loving, thoughtful, and LOUD child!  She has been talking since the moment she was born.  She said her first words at four months old and hasn't shut up since! lol  She sings like an angel with a true gift from the Lord.  She has a tender heart towards others and loves fiercely.  She is such a joy to be around and the older she gets the more I am looking forward to being her friend.  I can't wait to see what God has in store for her.

Love you, Sunshine. :)

A New Adventure

Next week I am starting on a new adventure.  I know, I know like I need one more thing to do.  BUT, I just couldn't resist...

I am going to start Blogging For Books!!!  I already have my first book and I am almost finished with it.  I have started writing the review and I can't wait to post it.  I am so excited to be able to read more books and then share my thoughts about them.  Because everyone needs to know my opinion about things!! :-D

Christmas pics (more)!!

We get new jammies every Christmas.  That is the present we open on Christmas Eve so that we can all sleep in them.  They all know what they are going to open and yet it is exciting every time!!

Steven got some gooood smelling after shave.  Of course, that is really a present for me!

Robin received some perfume.

Lisa spent Christmas with us.  She is family and we had a great time.  I hope she did!

Some pics of the last week...

Christmas week is always busy.  This year we had a white Christmas.  The girls were so excited--so was I!!  Of course, it's nothing compared to the amount of snow that some of my friends had!

Doesn't Maggie look pathetic?  She was patiently waiting for her stocking.  Yes, the girls bought her a stocking and they pay for the things they want to put into it!

What we woke up to this morning!

A Teapot, a cup, and a tree!

I forgot to add these pictures!  I got these in September, but put them up in the china hutch and haven't even used them~does that mean I am a hoarder?  Oh, I hope not.  Now I am going to have to get rid of some things so that I don't get overrun with stuff!

Here is our mostly decorated Christmas tree.  I just couldn't put all the ornaments on it this year, because I didn't want to take them off later!