Mikes birthday

Book review:Desperate by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson

I loved this book so much.Sarah Mae makes the mom feel real and not like she has to be perfect...because God never asked that of her. Sally Clarkson gives depth to the book as she gives her insight from her years of mothering and ministry. So often as moms we feel alone. This book proves we are not alone! I felt like Sarah Mae was speaking from my own heart as I am a SAHM of four young children, and we homeschool. I highly recommend this book, to any moms I see. Even if you don't have young kids in your house anymore. A must read!!!!

Received this book from book sneeze 

Book review: God loves broken people by Sheila Walsh

I am a broken person which is not something I generally talk about on this blog. But it's true I am.

This book was amazing for me, I struggle everyday with my brokenness. This book gave me many scripture references of people in the bible who also struggled with their brokenness. I love that! I am not alone! Sheila talks about her own trials with brokenness. She talks about all of the WHY questions we all want to ask......
WHY is there suffering?
WHY is there death?
WHY is there pain?
Why do we need to be so broken.......?

In this wonderful book, we don't get the answers to these questions, but we do get comfort knowing we are not alone.

Horse riding

Julia loved grooming her, especially brushing her long tail

Giving Gigi a nice pat

All ready to go!

Leading Gigi out

Riding for the very first time.... She loved it!

heaven is for real for kids by todd and Sonja burpo

Such a sweet book! written by a young boy with help from his Parents. My daughters ages 8 and 6 loved this book. They loved the illustrations and descriptions. It answered some of their questions they had about heaven. they really liked that colton got to meet his sister and his grandfather there. It was sweet. I would definetly reccomend this book to any parents with children, especially ones who have loved ones who have died.

Thank you very much bookSneeze for providing this book for review

Summer's Disneyland trip

Wordless Wednesday time flies

Having some fun

Academy of science

Ben was trying to get to the giraffe. He really wanted to touch it.

This flower smells like rotten meat to attract insects for dinner! Yum!
If your an insect eating plant.....

A demonstration of how the pitcher plant eats.
You get to see the inside of the plant with a fly inside filling up with the liquid that dissolves the food

Nautilus and it's baby. All kids thought this was really cool

Julia saw the egg, and was wondering if it was going to crack...

So much fun! We take a picture on the tortoise every time.

Time flies

Summer almost three years ago

Summer Now

Ben almost three years ago

Ben now

Katarina five and a half years ago

Two years ago

Now

Julia five years ago

Julia three years ago

Julia now