R-E-S-P-E-C-T

You can barely see because just then, a teacher and a parent stood in my shot, but this is her getting her little necklace.

Here she is wearing both awards

At Sendera Ranch Elementary, every Friday, they have an assembly and each week, one grade hands out awards for certain characteristics. Today was 1st grade awards and the award was for respect! Each 1st grade teacher picks 3 or 4 students and they get to come up in front of the entire school and get an army tag type necklace. Then, the P.E. teacher picks 5 students out of the entire 1st grade to get a fairness award as well. I got an email from Kimbo's teacher earlier this week telling me that she had chosen kimbo to recieve the respect award from her. This is kept secret from the kids so they are surprised that morning. So I went to the assembly and saw her get this award...then the P.E. teacher got up to announce the 5 first graders who would recieve her fairness award and Kimbo won that too!!!!!!!! At that point, I got emotional!!! I was bursting with pride. She was the only one who got 2 awards!! As a mother, I am so proud of my kids anytime they do anything well, win any awards, or achieve great things however, when your child recieves an award for showing great respect to their teachers and other students and being fair when participating in sports or playing games at school, well, that is the ultimate for me!!! An award recieved for the character is the best award of all.

Kimbo , we couldn't be more proud of you and the wonderful daughter you are! Your kindness to all around you and the respect you show to everyone shows what an incredible child you are! We love you so very much!!!

My Sweet Boy

Garrison wanted me to take some pictures of him tonight. He is just such a sweet boy! He brings so much fun and love into our home! His innocence is just amazing to me. He accepts and loves everyone. I do not feel worthy enough to have the honor of having such a special spirit in my home. Children with special needs are sent here to teach US not the other way around. In my opinion, they are the Lord's way of letting us know He is near and loves us. These special children are His angels sent to earth to help us feel Him near. Thank you son, for all you do for me. I love you!

My New Business

I am so excited!! I just started a new business with a small and yet wonderfully successful company called Just Jewelry. I have been buying this extremely affordable jewelry from a friend for almost a year and now I am selling it myself. Here is the scoop....Everything is a set price. Necklaces are $20, Earrings are $10, Bracelets are $15, watches are $26 and our sterling silver rings are only $38. You are not going to get this great of jewelry at this great quality anywhere. The new fall line just came out today and I am so excited about it. If you are interested in looking, you can go to http://www.itsjustjewelry.com and look it over. If you are interested in ordering, please let me know!

On September 4th I will be having a $1000 day. This means I am going to be trying to sale $1000 worth of jewelry in ONE day!! As a bonus, for every $50 you spend, you will receive a great ring (details are on the website) and ONE lucky person will get all of the hostess benefits from the sales of that day. I will be picking randomly so ANYONE can win.

So shop, shop, shop, and PLEASE tell your friends!!

Sold Our House

We got some of the best news of our entire lives last night!!! We finally sold our home in Omaha. What an incredible blessing!!! It has been for sale for a year and a half. I cannot even begin to tell you the amount of stress that has now been lifted from both Buddy and I. Even though it took so long, I can say with conviction that I know that Lord had a plan and all would be okay. It was hard sometimes to keep that thought, but regardless, I always knew. It couldn't have happened at a better time as we will be moving in less than a month.

We are excited for sure. I am so grateful for the memories that we created within that home and more importantly for the friends that we were so blessed to make while we lived there. They have become more than friends to us and a lot more like family. Thanks for being so wonderful to us and especially for all of the prayers that have been prayed in our behalf.

Disturbing

Okay, well, I finally think I am going to go private on my blog. I just read a very disturbing article about some adoption agency using a little boys picture in a hoax adoption scam. The people got the picture of some ladies family blog. So anybody who wants access, send me your info and I will add you to my list. FREAKY!!! You can either email me or post a comment with your email address.

Happy Birithday Natalie!!

Today is Natalie's 2nd birthday. I absolutely cannot believe it. Naddie brings such a joy and happiness to our home. We all love to watch her dance and sing and her smile can light up an entire house. I feel incredibly blessed to have such an amazing daughter in my life.

Fun in Omaha

Kimbo and Emma playing together under the tree in our front yard.

Rachel and Carly playing on their scooters.

Kimbo, Natalie, Carly, Emma, Alexa, and Rachel

Wow has it been a crazy week!!! So much fun though. We have LOVED being here with our dear friends here in Omaha!! We have missed everyone so very much!! We have been out to lunch with friends, roller skating, swimming, hanging out in the driveway (of course!!!) and just having an amazing time!!! When I got here, I had found that my amazing neighbors had made up airbeds for us in our rooms, they had a travel crib for Naddie and the bathrooms were stocked with towels and washcloths. The kitchen had dishes, pots and pans, silverware and dish soap and hand towels. My kitchen even had a small card table with a table cloth over the top of it and two fold up chairs around it. It was just awesome. My best friend Tena even had a refrigerator brought down to put into my garage!!! And people wonder why I love it here so much!! With friends like these can you blame me???