Happy 18th Birthday JONATHON!

18 years ago I looked into your eyes and and felt overwhelmed with emotions! There was love, adoration and pride. Add to that fear, awe and thankfulness. Fear that I would never be able to be a good mom and awe that this little being was trusted to my care and thankful that God had given me the priviledge of being your mommy for a little while! Dad and I loved you so much-all 8 lbs and 12 oz of you! What a surprize to be given a blond! Now you say you don't have a mommy~~~you have a mom. Yes, the time has flown and you are a man (to everyone else) but you will always have a special place in my heart. After all you had to put up with all that I didn't know! In some ways you have taught me alot. You still teach me! I learned from you that it is ok to just be still! I am proud of you and the Godly character you show and the respect you demonstrate for us! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I AM JEALOUS!

Abigail is having the time of her life. She met some other girls that play flute so she is having fun with that. She is also enjoying helping in the kitchen. I am not sure if she has latched on to any kids yet or not. My mom got royally ripped off somewhere around Indy. She locked her keys in the van (they both thought the other had her purse) someone unlocked the van to the tune of $120! Here it cost about $30! Anyway, I am so glad they are having fun and abigail is already planning to go back next year! I will be busy over the next few weeks. Planning Jonathon's graduation party as well as making a scrapbook and getting ready for in-laws. They are bringing me something wonderful~~~my little girl!

Bummer

Penny's husband told me that he would give me the $500 to sing and I could give it back after I DIDN'T sing and Jonathon paid me the $1000 but Daniel said "NO" I personally think Daniel should mind his own business! Just kidding! Jonathon doesn't even have that much since he bought his car! I sure would of been in trouble if I would of had to sing. Actually, I would of been laughing to hard and then everyone else would of been too so they wouldn't of heard me! Oh, I am SOOOO happy! Abigail and mom get to go to camp after all. The Lord really worked out the finances. Do not forget gals you are not allowed to come home with a boyfriend!

ouchies and fears

I just bit my tongue and it hurts! Aside from that I am nervous. We are showing our talents tonight at church and since I am talentless I am going to quote Psalm 91~one of my favorites and I am scared to death. Daniel is going to sing with my cousin-in- law and I said I would sing if someone would pay me $500 and Jonathon said he would pay me $1000 not to sing. I was going to see if I could find someone to pay the $500 but Daniel said that no matter what Jonathon couldn't give me $1000 so why bother! SIGH! GREAT BIG SIGH!

back in the kitchen

I have been busy with other things so I haven't been trying new foods lately. Last night I decided I would make homemade chicken quesadills.(sp) I did and they were not too bad. I even made the tortilla shells from scratch. I can't say they were good enough to warrant all the work but they were fun to do! I sat down yesterday to go through my smaller cookbooks because I had decided it was time to weed them out. Needless to say I did not get rid of any of them but I did find some old friends and am more than ready to make carmelitas again. I used to make them often and loved them!

GGGRRRR.......

I had to change my blog AGAIN! The animated thing took too much for these slow computers! I will add you all to my list again!

everything seems busted or lost but we are blessed

I have been having the most horrible time with my things. The beater broke on my mixer and I thought I had fixed it~~I didn't so I gouged my tupperware bowl up pretty bad. Then my sweeper attachment for hardwood floors broke. The can opener was misplaced and on and on it goes. Well, a friend loaned me a mixer so I could still make some things. I HAVE to have a heavy duty thing for some of my cookies. I figured out how to use the sweeper (as a temporary fix) for now. Then my DH fixed my other can opener. All of a sudden we found the other one~I never really liked it anyway so I was not real sad by its loss or even thrilled by its find! I said all that to say this: I was feeling very frustrated but Jacob summed up everything in his testimony Wed. night. He said, "I want to thank the Lord for all his blessings in my life. I could never even begin to count them but I am blessed." In spite of all the little aggravations, I AM BLESSED!

finally a post

I put my grandma's carrot cake recipe on my other blog!

Our Northern Friends!

I just wanted to let the Davis family and our friends in Columbus know that you are in our prayers and will continue to be in the days ahead. May God grant you all the strength that you need in this time!

New Site

As you can see on my list of friends I have a new blog. On here I will be posting recipes and sharing ideas as well as hopefully getting lots of ideas from fellow bloggers!

The Gates'

I changed my font at pYzam.com

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY....to Seth???

Seth got a father's day card today.....from his sister! It was a homemade card thanking him for years of bossing her around since it made her a better person and she also thanked him for whipping her when she deserved it. It was really quite funny! He said he is going to make her a belated mothers day card. I think they would both be perfect children if they worried about themselves as much as they do each other. I am sure I am not the only one with kids like this!