Christmas Program

The last few weeks we have been working and so have the kids, hard on the christmas program. well it was last night. It was so good. I am really proud of the kids. If there was anything negative to say about it it was this...i was looking at pictures of it and i realized how BIG i looked :0 :( o well...i guess it gives me more motive to lose the weight after christmas. Please pray that i stick with it and i see results because i get discouraged really easy. thanks!

Anyways. The kids were so adorable. The babies did a "play" with a book that Karen Weido loaned us. It was called "A Christmas Prayer." Squish's play was God's Crayon Box. and Paul and Kay's play was called "Jesus' Scouts." "a Christmas Prayer was about a little girl who is thanking God for Jesus. And even though the christmas tree and lights are pretty and even tho our toys are fun we wouldn't have christmas without Jesus. Jr was answering my questions LOL he was so cute. My 2 gorgeous daughters were adorable also. NeNe and ZZ. Oh how i love those babies. All 3 of them. All the babies were really cute. Jr, NeNe, ZZ, Ting, Chloe, Abagail, Emily, Roman, Carley, and Logan. You babies played your parts really well looking absolutely adorable. Then at the end of our story I walked to Emily who was our little Christmas girl for our play and whispered for her to say "thank you God" and she kept whispering it back. It was cute. The age range for this play was 0-3 1/2. I was/am a very proud momma and teacher. Thank you to the parents and grandparents who allow me to have a special part in their kids' lives. And thank you Michaela, Amber, Jessica, Jara, and Amanda for helping me out!

Squish's play was "God's Crayon Box" and it was also a success. The kids were dressed in certain colors: blue, red, orange, green, and yellow. And each color had a meaning and it was to do with Jesus. Blue was for baby Jesus (being a boy), yellow is for the hay that Jesus lay in. Green is for the trees (i think), and red for His blood, and orange is for the light of Jesus. It wasn't in that order exactly but it all had to do with Jesus. And though we as individuals may not get along and we are unique when we come together we are supposed to make the picture complete. We come together and share about Jesus. Just like you use different colors to color a picture and make it beautiful. It was something like that LOL. The kids and Squish did a wonderful job. Dolton, Paige, Alyssa, Whitney, Tyler, and Delilah were the kids in the play and they did such a wonerful job!

Paul and Kay's Play was "Jesus' Scouts" and it went really well also. A lot of work went into it and they did a wonderful job. Paul and Kay Smith were the Scout Leaders and they led the kids into the church as they were going on a hike to get their campfire to have their scout meeting. And their meeting was about Christmas. There was a good thing about Christmas which Kay introduced and a bad thing about Christmas which Paul introduced. The kids would say a good thing about christmas such as opening christmas presents. and the kids would say a bad thing about christmas such as cleaning up after opening the christmas presents. One of the highlights which Mrs. Deanna (our pastor's wife) didn't know about was her grandkids were in the play also (that she knew) but A good thing about christmas was making christmas dinner and jag said that a bad thing about christmas was mo mo is invited (now they love when their mo mo is invited but for the play it was if she was an old granny) and he pinched dolton's face and said in a cute old tone "you're sooo cute". Oh he did a wonderful job on that part. Everyone busted out laughing LOL. Anyways, it came to the end of the play and Haley said that a good thing about christmas was Jesus was born and Gabi ended it with "nobody can say anything bad about that". The point was with every good thing that was mentioned a bad thing was counteracted with it. But nobody can say anything bad about Jesus being born. And then all the kids got up and sang we wish you a merry christmas and Bro. J.D. got up ended the program. Gabi, Wilson, Wesley, Jag, Dolton, Haley, Aubrey, Jilli, Delilah, and Whitney were the scouts.

Overall the plays were a success. and i do believe the kids made us all proud and their parents and grandparents as well!

Count Your Blessings

Here lately I have been really down, broke, and hurting. Stressed out...and so much more. My hubby and I knew that these last few months were going to be really hard. Well we have been ok so far even being really broke and me and the hubby have given up a lot of stuff until we get income taxes and our money will be so much better. We moved into our house 5 months earlier than what we had planned...and we werent completely prepared nor did we have the chance to prepare. (Bare with me this is not all about being negative this is just the background.) Only one more month...we have been dealing with it ok and then now its Christmas time...it hit us hard. We have shed many tears in these last 2 weeks. we want the best for our kids. We love them so very much and we are willing to sacrifice for them. well my hubby has been working many hours and it SEEMS like we have had nothing to show for it. We dont go out to eat, we get our bare necessities...but then last night i couldnt sleep and while i was thinking and crying over all of this i realized this...we do have something to show for it really...we have all of our bills paid, we are together, and our babies are taken care of. We have food in our house and clothes to wear, and a house to live in. we even have our tv and cable so we have our entertainment as well. Oh it may be that we dont get our "wants" but we have our "needs" and that is what is important. I guess with Christmas coming so soon that we were stressing about buying christmas for our babies. and for each other. well my uncle and aunt helped us out so much with the kids' christmas. They put money on a walmart card (and they have been helping us the last few months since september to get us through to income taxes so that we could get our necessities and it has helped out so much) But this month was really special to me. they put extra money on there for black friday to get the kids' christmas and said the gifts were from us. and that in december they would put money on the walmart card for gifts from them. That made me ball. I realized that I am really blessed. It doesnt matter how much we fight, ignore each other, get along i know that they will be there for me. i know that i have a family who cares and loves me and makes sure that I am taken care of. I also have God who gave me such a good family. Now my kids' christmas is taken care of. God also gave hubby extra hours to get each other some christmas and me his birthday.

Not only have we been blessed by my aunt and uncle but also my in-laws. they have been so good to us also. They let us go shopping in their christmas stash for me and my hubby. I shopped for him and he shopped for me. And we were gonna pay for everything. well they typed us out a bill and this is what is aid: Bill for christmas gifts: $0. and it went on to say that is what parents do they help out their kids without expecting anything in return. there was at least $75 worth of stuff. Of course that made me cry too. I have been really emotional lately AND NO I AINT PREGO LOL. So this morning (4 am) i started thinking "jenny, why are you being so down and negative so much? why dont you start counting your blessings rather than counting your issues?" so here it goes just to name a few.

1. I have a wonderful merciful Savior who loves me and gave His life for me and is ALWAYS there for me even when I ditch Him and aint so good to Him.
2. I have a fantastic hubby who goes to work and works so many hours just to provide for his family because he loves us so much.
3. I have 3 beautiful wild and crazy yet so cute and adorable babies. They are my life and I love them so very much.
4. I have a fantastic family.
5. I married into a great family as well.
6. I have a good church and I love being the nursery director and having a part in my church babies lives.
7. I was able to have all of my secret sister gifts bought before i moved into my house except for 1 (and I am one of those people who pick our certain gifts for my person for which month and when I give it to that person and i was missing 1 gift back in october and i had myself a melt down because i didnt even have the money to get that but squish and amanda helped me out so thank yall)
8. My bills are paid and the ones that aint yet we have the money to pay them.
9. We have a vehicle to drive and I am now comfortable enough to drive it
10. We have a house to sleep in, fight in, play in, smile in, clean, and just be home

those were just to name a few. Yes I am very blessed.

Im hoping that I will be able to afford to get some of these diet drops to try that some of my friends are doing. They aint very much but to me a $1 is too much lol. I have to lose weight and I also want to lose weight. For my health and also because my wedding renewal is in a year and a half. and i want to look good. I dont like the way i look right now but with God's help and support and my familys as well i will. Please pray that I can also get the scholarship for the health works program. my dr signed me up for it because she says it will help with fibromyalgia and losing the weight will help with it too. Oh and also i was told that I have a really really low vitamin d level so i have to walk in the sun more and take maximum strength vitamin d every day. Yep i think thats the update on me. My new motto is "too blessed to be stressed" and if that dont work "fake it tiil i make it"