Day 3

Creative every day challenge Day 3



I finished my first painting. This is the one from the other day, I used what I had as a background and just played with the paint last night (day 2). Today, I added the words. I have been toying with the idea of incorporating words for awhile but I just had not started anything.

I am having a blast with this challenge and I am proud of myself for trying. Now I will have to start something tomorrow. I think that tomorrow I need to get my art journal going again. That way I can have some ideas on paper before I move to another project.

Days 1 and 2

I started this yesterday, the Creative Every Day Challenge 2011! I am pretty excited about it. I needed something creative to do and a way to keep me motivated. I think this will do it. Yesterday was my first day.

This is what I started on yesterday. It is the background for a painting that I have been wanting to do the past week or so. I will be adding to this in the next week and will post working photos of it.

This is something else that I worked on last night. My mother-in-law inlisted me to make 90 of these. They are beaded bible bookmarks. It is amazing how much better I feel since I have started being creative again.

Day 2

Benji and I played with playdough for a over an hour this morning. We had a blast!! I hope that he can see how fun it is to create things too!

How pretty, little girl is now SEVEN months old (last week, 1/17/2011). We are so proud of her and so grateful to God for allowing us the pleasure of being her parents. Looking forward to who she will become.

Creative Every Day Challenge

I am going to try something this year. I have been a little depressed lately. I am sure that some of it stems from being in the house ALL the time but there is part of my depression that stems from my lack of creative expression. I have been in school most of the last five years and I have been taking art classes every semester. I had time at school to create but since Kaiya was born I have only had ideas, there has never been enough time to implement. Well...that is going to change. I am starting today. Everyday I will do something creative weather I paint, sew, draw, do something creative with Benji or try a new recipe I will strive to be as creative as possible. I will also strive to post my creations on my blog...that may not happen everyday but I will work on it. (For more info click on the CED 2011 picture above)

I pray that you are all well.

Moving Home

We have been living away from home for the last 4 weeks. I can't beleive that it has been that long, it has gone by so fast. Honestly, it really wasn't too bad. The first week was hard and I remember crying a couple of times because we would not be able to spend Christmas at home with our family but God got us through it.

We have been busy getting the house cleaned up and ready (hopefully not in vain) for baby Kaiya. We had the air ducts cleaned, bleached EVERYTHING that could be bleached and did a major cleaning of the basement. We are now starting to pack things up here at Gus and Sandy's house so that we can get some of our stuff back home tonight, we don't want to move everything tomorrow. Chris' parents have been awesome over the past month and we have even learned a few things from them.

We are praying that baby Kaiya does fine at our house and has NO episodes of spitting up and that there is no mucus but if there are we will have to start looking at other options. We ask for prayers that that whatever was bothering Kaiya has been remediated but we are also asking for prayers that we will know when to draw the line and get out of there is that it the best thing for her.

Thank you for all the prayers!

Benji and finally got the tree decorated last sunday. The tree had been up for a couple weeks but there was nothing on it yet. I like that Benji and I could decorate it together.

This is Kaiya's First Christmas Ornament! I saw it and had to get it. I love getting ornaments for the kiddos. That is something that my parents did for me and I still have them. It is neat to look back at all of them.

Benji's is a train, what better than a train for that little guy. He loves them and anything else with wheels. I had to put it towards the top of the tree so that it would stay on the tree. He would have had it down in one minute, pushing it around on the floor.

Oh So Thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving (a day late)!! I feel so very thankful this year, just too many blessings to count. First of all...I know Jesus and he has saved me, he loves me and wants a relationship with me. Then, there is my husband. I feel so blessed to have a good man in my life. One who helps me and respects me. We are in love and I am so thankful for that. Then there are my children. Benji is so smart and fun, however, he is two and so there are trials and tests but all in all, I can't get enough of him. And then there is Kaiya. I m so thankful to be her mother. She truly a little blessing from God. Life will never be perfect for us but we have our little miracle at home with us and we love her so much. We are so happy to report that she is talking a lot and she is now rolling over. We really thought that this would never happen. I think we you have a sick child you focus so much on "today" that you forget of all of the things that will happen so when she does something new we are overjoyed. Also, very thankful for our family and friends.

We do have one prayer request for Kaiya. She has been spitting up every morning for three weeks. Now she is not like a normal baby spitting up. She does not eat she is fed through a feeding tube and has had a Fundoplication which should keep her from refluxing. In the mornings during or after her first feeding she gags on the mucus that is draining down her throat. The problem is that most often she is unable to clear it herself and I have get the bulb syringe and help her so that she can breathe. A little scary but so far God has taken care of us. We are praying that her runny nose clears up and that she stops spitting up and ask you to do the same. God has taken such good care of our daughter so far and I know that he answer prayers in his own time and we will just be patient. Thank you all who have prayed for our daughter and continue to do so. We are truly in debt to you. We are thankful for you too!!