::God in my everything::

I can't believe September is already here. This year has flown by and to think we are going to be getting ready for the holiday's here soon is unbelievable to me. Although I am getting excited that it feels a little bit like fall is in the air :)

These past 2 weeks have been eventful already. I celebrated by 32nd Birthday with some good friends on the 8th of this month. Marvin and I had planned on hopefully getting out of town for a weekend with the kids but that didn't exactly work out with our busy schedules and $$. I was happy to stay in town and celebrate here. Our anniversary is quickly approaching so we'll see about getting out of town for that.

As exciting as turing 32 was...(ya right) it was overshadowed by the excitement of my brother finally coming to California!!! As many of you might have seen from my post on Facebook, my brother recently returned from Afghanistan. I posted some pretty awesome pictures of him reuniting with his son so if you haven't checked those out, head on over to my page. Anyway, he arrived in SD a couple of days ago with his wife and son and we have LOVED every minute of it. He won't be here for long so we are trying to enjoy it while it lasts. Silvia's family lives in Simi Valley so they are off to visit them at the end of the week and then back to New Mexico. We are hoping to head out there for Thanksgiving or Christmas to visit so we will see.

Jumping back to my Birthday real quick..one of my favorite gifts that I received was a Bible from my friend Alison. I have always had an on and off relationship with God. More on then off, and even though I was baptized a few years ago {with my good friend Michelle though Calvary Chapel} I never felt like He was in our day to day lives as much as I wanted or needed Him to be. Lately I have been feeling like we really need Him. Maybe it's because our schedules are so busy and there is so much chaos a lot of the times, maybe it's because I need more discipline when it comes to so many things. For all of the reasons I know and some that I don't yet, I am excited to begin a journey towards a personal relationship with Him. I have been reading my Bible every night and am excited to have that quiet time to learn and connect with God. Marvin and I are also reading Children's Bible stories to Shay {and Kross} before bed so that he too can learn about Jesus and what He did for us. Marvin and I have even talked about doing a Bible study together. I'm really happy about his support and I know this will only bring our family closer.

Please pray for us as we start this journey.

A few pictures from my Birthday.

Happy Easter!!

We had so much fun on Easter this year! Shay is finally old enough to enjoy this day and really know what is going on. We colored eggs and had a egg hunt right here at our house! The weather was not very nice so we decided to hide eggs all over the house. Shay had a great time finding them in random places and eating the goodies inside :) We then headed over to Marvin's parents house for some more Easter fun!! Here are some pictures from our fun day! Hope everyone had a great Easter too!!

Here is Shay reading with his cousins Justin & Quentin!

It's going around!!

Well I'm finally feeling better after having a nasty bug for a few days! Laying in bed with a fever is definitely difficult when you have a little one to take care of! Thankfully I have my mom and wonderful husband who were able to come to the rescue in my time of need :) Today was the first day that I finally got out of the house (Other then my urgent care visit yesterday..but that's a whole other post that we don't need to talk about;) and we took Shay to a new park we found in Rolling Hills Ranch. He had a blast!! It's so fun to see him pushing his own limits and discovering new things. And today was such a beautiful day; I am definitely ready for summer to get here!! Here are a few pictures from last week and today. Enjoy!

This picture is from the park next to our house!

Montevalle Park!