My Crafting Adventure!

Sooooooo I have had so much Fun making these Hair-bow Holders for My girls and For My sweet sis in law who is Due with her first little girl in late February! She has 2 boys and she has finally gotten her girl! We are all so excited for her!! She's joining my world of Tutu's, tea parties, Manicures, and Lipstick Haha!! Love having girls! Don't get me wrong my little boy is just as amazing as can be but really my husband would kill me if i tried to paint his nails and My Bryson is ALL boy! He Holds Madyson's Bitty Baby like a football haha!

Okay back to these Hair Bow Holders! I purchased these Picture frames at Walmart for a great price of course! I wanted white so I already had a can of white semi gloss spray paint and I layed they out and painted them and it took a few Million times (okay not quite that many but a lot!) and then I recycled the glass. I took the paper out that came with the frame and found some card board and cut around that. Then I took this awesome fabric I found at Walmart. Can I just say our Walmart has some AmAzInG Fabric!! Anyways, I cute the fabric Ironed it and smoothed it on with some hot glue and then glued the ribbon on each ends of the back. and whalla you have these adorable, yet so functional accessories for the nursery! Plus it's great because when you are dressing the babies you can see the hair bows on the wall instead of searching through a basket! SO fun. I also Did a Pink and Brown Polka Dot one for one of my dearest friends Misty and her baby girl (My husbands Cousins' wife) All these girls coming in January and February , so far 3 of my friends had baby girls this month and 2 more are expected for next month! Ha so Fun!!

Things Have been Crazy Busy around here but so good! Kids are doing so good and We have gotten so much snow here on the East Coast and South Jersey this year! Very Much Looking forward to spring ! WE have sooo. many.house.projects. to.do! But all fun!! Happy Crafting!

Stealing Moments.........

Tis' the season to be super busy! I don't think I am the only person that feels the pressure of the season am I? But I just had to share this ... Yesterday I was sitting on the couch folding my ever Large mound of clean cloths while my 2 littlest ones were happily playing on the floor in front of me and listening to some Christmas music on Pandora. Bryce had his trains and cars out and happily zipping all over the floor between the Living room dining room and Kitchen. All the while Little Miss Meya was hugging a soft baby doll happily laughing at her Brother zipping around her. Then she crawls up to me ( like she does soo much, shes my little attached one!) and reaches up for me and I pick her up and she layes her little sweet head on my shoulder ( this makes me tear up remembering yesterday) and she holds on tight and says ahh and we stayed like that for probably about a minute and and she lifts her head and wiggles down and carries on with her dolly at my feet and it had me thinking about those sweet moments and precious they are. Then I thought about my relationship with God this time of year and how I need to consciously steal moments with him all through out the day. How I want to live and breath God's word but not only for me selfishly but also for our children. I want so desperately to dig into God's word all Throughout my day not only in my "quite time" but all day. This time of year get so incredibly hectic and crazy and I need to stop and Steal precious moments with our Savior!

Matthew 11:28 says Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest

Deuteronomy 4:29 NKJV "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jeremiah 24:7 NIV I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.

God's word is filled with such scriptures that just bring such life to me. I feel like when I'm in thr presnse of the Lord in my quite time it helps me become the Wife I want to be, the Mom I strive to become and the friend and women God desires for me. My favorite verse that just speacks to me so much and just makes me want to dive in to his word all day through out my day is Hosea 6:3 NKJV Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
It just really has me thinking since yesterday and this verse just litterally was like a fire cracker in my heart and I felt like it jump started me to live out those precious moments with God like we have with our sweet little ones! God I just pray right now to keep this desire and spark going in my heart all day to seek you and your word through out the day and not just in the mornings...

Playing Catch up!

I just can't believe that Thanksgiving is upon us and Christmas is just right around the corner! This is With Out A Doubt My Most Favorite Time of The Year!!!!!! Can I just tell you I can't wait to get the fall stuff put away and get the Christmas/Winter Decor out!!! But There this house is in need of some TLC before any of that can happen! I just feel like the weeks have been getting away from me and I just can't catch up! I'm Thankful for tomorrow where I have nothing planned but to get us back in some kind of order!! I need a day to "catch up"

Oh how God has blessed us with these 3 precious precious gems! As challenging as being a wife and Mommy can be, I truly believe it's because of them I have the relationship with God that I do now! Believe me when I tell you that being a Mommy to 3 has its Ups and Downs. Our latest struggle has been 2 things, One our sweet little girl has yet ANOTHER ear infection, she is scheduled to have tubes on the 16th of Dec. and that can't come quick enough! My poor little girl. Over the last 6 -8 months this little girl has suffered from Ear infection after Ear infection, and she seems to have the same problem our little guy Bryce had, The way God designed their little ears the fluid is unable to drain and since we don't live in a "Bubble" *wink* we go to church and Mady is in school and we have MOPS and what not so there is germs and she gets a cold and it turns into an ear infection *whew*! SO needless to say that this Momma and little girl haven't been getting so much sleep especially lately! Some nights are a little more tough than others but I really try to think and act as if this is only a phase and I keep thinking when they get a older I will miss the nights when they need me! But thats tough and it got me thinking Sometimes I think God wants us to stay in a ceritain stage in our Walk with him because he is still working in us and wants to either Show us something new or teach us a lesson that we (I) haven't yet figured out or whatever so for all these *stages* I'm thankful even if they are a little painful. What I have learned is that I'm thankful for this *stage* and For where we are in our life right now even though the nights can be long and mornings seem to come to early...
Here are a couple of pictures I wanted to share of Miss Meya a friend Bern took of her last week..Oh How i can't wait to print them out and frame all these Beautiful Pictures!! Enjoy!!

We Have a Soccer Player!!

Our Soccer star in the game!
Not so sure and hanging back with Daddy
Daddy helping Brycie with the drills and Mady watching
There he goes dribbling
So cute!!

We are soooo Excited Our Bryce (Brycie is what I call him) is playing Soccer! He's only 3 but it's so fun to watch him! We live in a township that you can start at 3! So he's been dying to play so yesterday was his first day! He plays at 9am so we loaded up the van with the kids and off we went he got up so early that morning so I said a prayer that he would still have fun! He did thank goodness but it was too funny to watch. It got off to a slow start the coach for his team never showed up so then someone stepped in they got their balls and their shirts which btw is like HUGE on him you saw. They gave him a childs med. 10-12 shirt on my little 3t man! LoL to cute though.. SO they were doing little drills and he was dribbling the ball and we were like whoa he has some natural talent well he went off course and landed in the big goal so cute! But then he said he was thirsty and hungry and was over it. He watched a bit and then when it came to play the other team he decided he was ready again lol too cute! All in all it ended up being a great day!! So fun!! ENjoy the pictures!!

1st Day of School

Our precious little ones ready and waiting for the bus to come!!!
Off to school I go!!
My Handsomely Silly Little Boy!! Love this kid!! Well You know I Love Them All but something with this guy that gets me!!
Our beautiful little girl!! How did these last 5 almost 6 years go so quickly?? Time Flies!!

Fall??

These Last few days have sure felt like fall! Cool nights and for almost a solid week now we have had our window's OPEN! Yes you read that correctly the window's are OPEN!!!!!! Although that is about to change we are suppose to be back in the 90's this week :-( Which doesn't thrill me but Can I just tell you all I am sooooo ready for Fall. If any of you know me personally you would know that i just LOVE FALL I love everything fall, pumpkin bread, leaves changing, Fall festivals, camping ( well learning to like it haha) and apple picking ahh just everything but my most Favorite thing about fall is COOL weather!! Taking the kids outside and not sweating to death..
We have had such a FUN summer! I'm so thankful for the time I have spent with the kiddies ! Our oldest Madyson starts Kindergarten in a little over a week! I can't believe she is that old already..It makes me want to cry but yet I'm so excited for her and her new adventure! I read at Heather 's blog which i just LOVE is praying with your little ones before they go off to school. Now I know this may see obvious I did pray FOR her but I did fail to pray WITH her! I am so excited to get this going, but what I loved most about her blog post is what she prayed about what they prayed about like having good attitudes and so on, but I def. was inspired so Thanks Heather for that post!!
I'm sooo excited that we are getting the opportunity to go to Disney World in just a few short weeks!! I'm not sure who is more excited Jayson and I or the kiddo's. It's our first "real" vacation since we have been married and it's going on 9 years! We have the privilege of going with my parents and My younger sister we have a villa in Old Key West! We just can't wait! We are so excited just thinking about it!! WE are so thankful we are able to do this! For those of you who don't know my dad has been sick the last 3 1/2 years with Prostate cancer and he is well enough right now to go and his dream was to take the kids meaning grand kids to Disney and he is getting to! This is HUGE for us and Makes me get all teary eyed just knowing how much fun we will have and seeing My dads face when he sees the kids' faces light up! It's been a LONG road the last year with his health and we are sooo thankful the good Lord has allowed for this trip to happen. So please keep my family in your prayers. I don't mention it hardly ever on here because it's something that's so hard for me to talk about let alone think about at times....
Well it's getting late and we have church in the morning! Just wanted to write a quick post and catch everyone back up! Hope all is well with you all
Blessings
Stacey

Fun Summer!!

We have had such a fun summer so far!! I can't believe today is the first day in August!! My Birthday is in a couple of day and I can't believe it but I will be 29! My last year in my twenty's isn't that crazy!!! Just crazy! LoL God has been so good to me and I'm so thankful for another year! I am amazed that we have 3 absoltuly Beautiful Children!! Such amazing blessings! My wonderful husband! I am in just awe of the things our Lord has been doing ! The above Picture is Madyson and Bryce at My Mom and dad's house running and having fun! Warning Picture overload haha!!
I grew up in Ocean Grove NJ and the above picture was on one of our walks through town in EArly July! If you dont know anything about Ocean Grove it's known as God's Square Mile! The town is only 1 square mile and it's an old Methodist Camp Meeting town. The building about is the Auditorium That's where many many preachers have come and christian singers We have haerd some amazing people speack the world Everyone from Charles Stanley who comes every summer to music artits like Amy Grant (who my mom just saw last night there) to Newsboys who will back at the end of the summer, to Micheal W. Smith, Steven Curtis Champman, Big Daddy Weave, Petra and white heart ( do you you all remember them?? that dates us huh?)
Where else can you go to see a Scrpiture of the day on the beach every day??? Only in Ocean Grove!
Here's a copule of pictures of Jayson's Grandpop's BBQ he only lives 1/2 mile from our house but lives on the a beautiful Lake, Lake Lenape and they have Fire works every year This is Mady and (Jayson's sister's little boy) Johnny! Sweet cousins
Oh that sweet boy of ours!! He just melts my heart!!


Sweet Cousins Bella and Bryce!
On Borardwalk in Ocean Grove my little man being his goofy self!!
Fun at friends house playing in the pool



Meya holding her cup for the first time
These next few pictures were from the begininng of June I threw a little surprise party for Jayson for his birthday! We had it at my Inlaws! We had so much fun!!
Jayson and some of our friends!! We had so much fun I should upload more pictures!! We had Blast!!! This summer has been sooooo fun! I can't believe it's August!! Where has the time gone????

“Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” John 15:4 -- “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may
be complete.” (v.11)