Halloween

I thought that once they got to be teenagers they wouldn't dress up anymore! I guess you never get to old to dress up!

Devin with his arm on Braxton and Storm or Captain Jack.

My sweet man

Robert is in Syracuse NY this week taking a class for work. He grew up in Cortland, about 30 minutes South of Syracuse so he is staying with his parents. It snowed today so he took pictures and posted them on his facebook. When we go to visit we drive, the route takes us through the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania and I absolutely love the barns that are nestled on the mountains. He thinks it is so funny that I am so enamered with them, he grew up seeing these rural farms and they are normal to him, but I see so much beauty in them. He can't believe that I get so much joy from them. He took this picture and titled it "Rene's Farms" just for me. It is little things like this that make me love him so much. He remembers and thinks about the little things that most people bypass or forget all together! Stuff like my favorite color, my favorite flower and my favorite food. I sometimes get caught up in all of the stresses in life and forget to thank him and let him know how important these little things are.

Isn't it so beautiful!

God Bless America

With the election coming up I have been thinking about how lucky I am to be an American and tonight it hit me that I am an American only because God allowed me to be born to parents who live in America and then I started thnking more and realized that God allowed me to be born to MY parents. I started thinking about that and how when you are a kid and you think that all parents are the same. That all kids live in the same circumstances you live in. I was raised in a Christian home filled with lots of love. I never went to bed wondering if my mother and father loved me. Obviously, I thought all kids lived with loving parents which is not always the case. I am so glad that God put me in my family with my parents, on the days that I get depressed and upset that I no longer have my mother I will now reflect on the fact that I God gave me 22 years with a wonderful mom!

Family Night

Mommy & Devin Day:

Since my boys were small I have always tried to spend one on one time with each child. The boys started calling it mommy and (their name) day. So today, school was out and Devin was the only kid home, so we decided to spend some quality time together. We went to the mall and looked at clothes that he likes and just goofed off, we came out of the mall and had a flat tire, but that did not mess up our day, we found humor in it and then switched vehicles and continued our trip. We went to the Pawn Shop to look at guitars, got gas and then came home. We had so much fun, we are a lot alike and find humor in the strangest places, there was a van in front of us at a red light that had the wiper broken off of it, but they had it turned on, it looked like it was wagging it's tail. We both saw it at about the same time and just started laughing! It was a great day!

Me & Devin.

This is his serious face!

Magnolia Bloom

We planted this tree last fall, it can't be even 2 ft tall yet but look at the bloom on it! I was so amazed with it! It is amazing that it can support such a bloom!!

Closer view of the bloom!

Halloween decorations

Look what a stick, some rings off of Halloween cupcakes and a Frankenstien Potato Head that he won from one of those claw machines will do for Halloween decorations.

Beautiful

At church, Perry has started a 6 week series for women called Beautiful. It was such a wonderful message. It convicted me about the way I see myself and and who I should listen to about my beauty. It is so hard for me to look at the picture below and see any beauty, but it says in scripture that the King sees me (and all women) as beautiful. I am trying to remember that beauty is much more than what we see on the outside!

Even with the wrinkles, God sees me as beautiful!