Flooding, Tornadoes, and Pinterest... OH MY

Spring Break 2012 hasn't just come and gone~ it FLEW BY! My husband surprised me and had taken the week off as well! We were all so excited! Jenna was home from college and our first weekend was absolutely Gorgeous! We had Sunshine and temps in the 80's. It was heavenly! The Spring Break forecast showed it to be raining on Mon-Wed. My oh My, did it ever rain! Our town even made the National news for the amount of rain we had received so far. The rain also brought MUCH cooler temps! Monday through Friday was rainy and cold and then Saturday comes and viola' it was 80 degrees and Sunny! While we would have loved to have a week of Sunshine, honestly, we enjoyed the rain and just chilaxxing :)

We rearranged some of our plans and when the rain appeared to finally be tapering off, we decided to go visit our new outlet mall in OKC. When we got there it was the first time we had seen the sun in 4 days! It was awesome! We shopped for a little over an hour and then all of the sudden we hear thunder and very heavy rain!! Soon after, it had tapered off some, so we went on about our shopping. Going from one store to another I happened to looked up at the sky and would you believe I saw a TORNADO FUNNEL!?!?!? People began gathering as they too saw the funnel. I looked over and saw ANOTHER FUNNEL!! The joke about Okie's is we are the only people who take their video phones or cameras out when we see a tornado funnel! I should have taken a pic of everyone taking pics huh! It was too funny!

These guys never touched down, Praise the Lord! These pics really don't do them justice either!

Can't you just hear the Wizard of OZ music when the Witch is on her bike..... hee hee!

We had asked the kids what they would like to do over the break and Jenna had asked to make some cupcakes with her Dad. She found a couple of recipes on Pinterest and really wanted to try them out. I had also seen something on Pinterest that I was hoping to try~ but that is for another day! :)

Hope you all had a GREAT WEEK!

Those Proud Moments and Those, well....maybe not so proud ;)

My Mom and I drove up to Stillwater on Friday to see Jen and spend the day with her. We went out to lunch and walked around downtown and shopped in some really cute stores. We found a cute little bakery with the most UH MA ZING
Cupcakes! We sat down on these little barstools in front of the BIG WINDOW that looked out onto the downtown streets. We just talked, laughed, and people watched, while we enjoyed our treats! It was a special moment shared by three generations. I treasure these days the Lord has given us more than words can say! We are all so proud of Jenna and what an amazing job she has done and continues to do each day!

Saturday we had our grand babies come to stay the night. Our little Diva, Rylee, was her usual self, full of spit & vinegar! Cracking us up and just leaving us asking "Where does she get this stuff?" Bentley is such a mess and a VERY VERY STRONG WILLED little boy! He also had us in stitches with his silly faces. I tried so hard to get a picture of just one of those looks he gives but every single time my camera was about to snap the picture the flash would blink and he would go from silly to absolute confusion on his face.... LOL So, if you want to see that ~ I've got plenty of confused looks! HAHA

One of my favorite things to watch is how much fun these two have together. How they make each other laugh and how so very sweet Rylee is towards her baby brother. I have always heard that having children 2 yrs. apart is the PERFECT age. Spending time with my grand babies definitely confirms that for me. It makes me so proud seeing our daughter do such an amazing job as a mother and how they love and care for one another in their family.

So, you may be wondering what might be the "Not so proud" moment.... Oh gosh, It really isn't fair to label it "not proud" but maybe something like "Totally embarrassing" or how about "Kids say the darndest things" because after you hear this, saying "Kids will just tell it like it is" isn't what any of us want to hear.

Ok, so first just imagine when your kids were little and potty trained. Little girls have those oh so cute and extremely TINY little panties with Disney characters, or Barney, maybe Blues clues - gosh, I am showing my age here ;)
Let me just point out once more how TINY those cute little panties are ok! Well so, Ry and I are getting dressed for the day and the past few times she's come, she has gotten to choose what I wear. So I handed her her TINY little undies and she asked what mine had on them (LOL and NO I don't wear Disney undies or anything close to it) I explained NoNi didn't have stuff "On mine" but she could certainly choose the color of undies I would wear. So as I begin showing her some of my options, her eyes get real big and she says "Wow NoNi ~ Those are BIG" hahahahahahaha Isn't she just PRECIOUS.... Yes, sweetheart when you compare them to your Princess Panties they are definitely much bigger! Oh ya, and Thanks - I just might need to add on a third workout to go with the two I do each day! Ha :) just kidding
I haven't let it bother me much (Only locked myself in the bathroom and cried for an hour) the words just keep going over and over in my mind (WOW those are BIG) (BIG) Really? Couldn't she have said WOW, those are PRETTY or Wow, those are soft...Did she have to say B-I-G???

Really, I took it all in stride and laughed it off like any good NoNi would do! Right? Right!
Lord knows, it won't be the last time a grandchild of mine says something like that! The great thing is.... You can just look them in the eye, pick them up and squeeze them with all the love you have in you, knowing what a blessed gift it is you've been given!!

Boy am I EVER Thankful

You know when you have one of those days when one thing happens that is horrible, and you think it couldn't get worse, but then sadly, it does?? Well, that was me on Monday .... I was..... on.my.knees!!!

It started out with a silly and completely trivial situation! i realized I left my dress at the Hotel in Tennessee. I had purchased that dress just for this wedding and it is sooo pretty! I also left my shoes that I wore with it. I put the shoes and my undergarments in a bag and had the bag hanging on the hanger with the dress. Walked out of the hotel and left it hanging in the closet. I called & asked if they had seen it....Was told they would look and get back with me.

Later I get a text from my daughter Jenna...I have never seen so many things try to come against one of my kids but I tell you what....the enemy is hard at work making whatever can go wrong for Jenna @ college, go wrong! I went up on Tuesday and spent the day with her and we got some things in the works to make things better. Without going into much detail, let me just say, I would sooo appreciate if you could pray for her! Thank you guys sooo much! I can't tell you how much it means!

Shortly after I get Jenna's text I hear from our oldest daughter....My grandson Bentley has had a very rough week. We all just assumed he was teething and all was normal. On Monday, he ended up breaking out in a rash all over his body, so Krista & KC took him to urgent care and see what in the world was going on. So while he is being seen, they decide to do some blood work. They come back and tell Krista and KC that Bentley's platelets are low and his white blood count is high!!! THEN they tell her....
He could either have a Virus OR Leukemia!! EXCUSE ME????? what???????? They told them to take him home and they would know more on Friday. So devastated and worried beyond words, they take Bentley and Rylee, and go home. As you can imagine, they were in tears and just sooo very upset ~ understandably so!! She shared with all of us what had happened and what they told them and of course asked for prayer and to share it with others so they would pray!

BUT THEN GOD......

my dress was found and shipped FEDEX

While Jenna's situations are going to take time and healing, God provided all she needed to see HE is with her and leading her in this season of adjustments! She was able to spend time @ the LifeChurch.tv Campus there and spent a night in WORSHIP and God touched her in such a precious way just surging HOPE into her precious little heart! She just knew afterwards that no matter what everything is going to be ok!

Krista was waiting patiently to hear from the Dr.! Not really expecting to hear anything til Friday but when she got the phone call (early) THIS is what they told her.....

Bentley's test results are all normal! His levels are all NORMAL! He doesn't have leukemia or anything close to it! He is a healthy happy baby boy! He told her that the urgent care's machine just must be way out of whack.... I'll say so!! AH YI YI!! So even though she was shocked that they had given her such upsetting news she was far happier and oh so thankful to hear such wonderful news! She then contacted all of us and let us know the AMAZING NEWS! I Just cried when I heard!! I realized at that very moment how terribly scared I was that the "C" word was going to cause more grief in our family!
To say I was Thankful, doesn't even begin to describe it! NOT.AT.ALL!!

I know the Lord doesn't give us more than we can handle but honestly....some days I just wonder!! Do you? I am just so thankful that even when I wonder, or when I am so scared or worried, or even when I am upset @ God that HE can sooo handle it! HE
loves me in spite of all of that and holds me close, fills me with HIS Hope and HIS Peace ~ one situation at a time!

In 1Peter 1:6-7 NCV it says:
This makes you very happy, even though now for a short time different kinds of troubles may make you sad. These troubles come to prove that your faith is pure. This purity of faith is worth more than gold, which can be proved to be pure by fire but will ruin. But the purity of your faith will bring you praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is shown to you.

and one of my VERY FAVORITES... Romans 8:28 MSG
Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

Yes....I am Ever So Thankful...Thankful to the Lord for hearing the cry of a mothers (and grandmothers) heart! For giving me HIS Word that always lights my path in what seems to be a dark dark valley!

What are you Thankful for today?

Updates with Thanks

Being Thursday means Thankfulness is in the Air!!

I am sooo thankful for:

Jantzen went to Orthopedic Doctor and he won't have any surgery! He is able to keep the soft cast on which means he can remove it during showers as well as taking it off 3 times a day to do exercises to gain his range of motion! The break will heal fine and we return in a couple of weeks to see how he is progressing! What a great doctor we had!

No results on his EEG yet ~ at least the test is done and he didn't have to miss the 2nd day of school like we originally thought!

With this being my daughters last week at home before leaving for college I am so thankful her wish was to spend so much time with family! She asked to have our granddaughter come spend the night....Rylee LOVES her Aunt Jenna and believe me Aunt Jenna loves loves loves her Rylee. She took her to the zoo, they colored, they glued, they took naps together. It is just precious watching the two of them! Then she wanted to have time with her Sister too so we all had a big family dinner on Tuesday night :) So thankful for nights when we are all together. Wednesday night she was treated to dinner by my Mom and Stepdad aka: Nanny & Papa!
Mom took all 4 grandkids to dinner and she asked the kids to write a note to Jenna and they read them at dinner ~ so much fun!

I am also sooo very thankful for the rain we have received!! We have had Thunderstorms and rain 2 evenings in a row and I can't tell you what a treat it has been! My husband walked in the house around 7pm and said..."Wow ~ the air conditioner isn't running AND we don't have to water our plants tonite!" PLUS, the temperatures did not reach 100 or over for the first time in months! Can I get an AMEN!!! HALLELUAH!! and a THANK YOU JESUS!!!! :)

I am so thankful for my sweet Son! He is just one of the most thoughtful young men and knows the importance of cherishing each and every day.

Last but not Least, so thankful for all of you! Thankful you come to the MagoosNews and encourage me and share the gift of your friendship! What a blessing you all are! Thank YOU!!

So Blessed

You ever have those days when you just receive such a blessing from the Lord that you just want to cry??? Ya? Me too! That is just how I felt after this weekend.

Saturday my husband and I woke up @ 6:30 am. I took Jantzen to work for NHS @ a local run. Tons of people turned out to run the annual Josh Hatzell Memorial Run. Josh was killed a few years ago tragically and this has been something our community has done to honor him and I can only imagine how much it has helped his parents in the healing process.

As I returned Brian and I began working out in our yard. We were making 2 new flower beds. My neighbor informed me that Lowes was having a HUGE sale and had clearanced alot of their plants/flowers. Sooo, I went a picked up some Iris' ($1.25- $1.10 per plant!!!) and some crepe myrtles($9.99) and a few other things. We had so much fun and worked our tails off too! Oh, did I mention it was HOT? OH EM GEE! WAS IT EVER HOT!! According to the Weather Channel we were the hottest place in the country!!! Sunday our Bank's temperature read 113'. That is just TOO HOT! & yes, we were working in the yard LOL (drinking lots and lots of water and gatorade!! I will share pics soon)

Later that evening we went to church. Holy Smokes, it was packed out! Seriously, so many people were there and were even standing in the back! It was a great sermon on dying to our self! Recognizing Self Absorption and Pride ~ we all know where that gets us....flat on our face & full of regrets! Pastor Craig shared from the movie about that man who went hiking and ended up stuck and had to literally cut his arm off. I haven't seen that movie but I am definitely going to now! He was so self absorbed and did you know that when he set off for that hike he told NO ONE he was going??? It is an amazing story to say the least!

After church, we went to a beautiful wedding! My daughter, Krista and my grandaughter Rylee were both in the wedding! They looked beautiful! My grandaughter was the flower girl and I have to say I truly wondered how she would do walking up that aisle with all eyes on her! Let me just tell ya.....She was PRECIOUS!! She had us all in stitches and I don't know that I have ever seen her look so pretty! I can't wait to see pictures....Oh ya, I will be sharing them here ;)

Sunday finally came and my sweet JENNA is HOME!!! She has been gone for 10 days in North Carolina! I can't tell you how I've missed my girl! Krista and my grandbabies came over and we had a family Sunday dinner! Just a perfect end to a wonderful weekend. God is so good. HE blessed me so ~ HE knows there is nothing that fills a Mommas ♥ Heart ♥ the way having her family around her does....

Thank you Lord! I am so blessed

Mothers Day Weekend 2011

I hope everyone had a blessed Mothers Day and weekend! Our weekend was soo full! Friday night we worked Relay for Life's "Fight Back Against Cancer". We arrived @ 6p.m. Friday evening to volunteer ALL NIGHT LONG with my Son and all of the kids from his school What a great group of Kids! There were soo many people who participated from our Community. So many Cancer Survivors and yet so many who have lost their battle or are in the middle of their fight with this horrible disease!

It was an emotional yet beautiful moment when the did the luminary service. This was for my Daddy.


The kids had numerous contests to raise money during the night. This was a human cake LOLOL




Sunday we had dinner for all of my family and some friends to celebrate Mothers Day. My Husband made us a FABULOUS DINNER and the day was so special.

Three Generations


My Beautiful Momma


My Precious Kids. Our Oldest just arrived home from a 10day Vacation late in the afternoon! I can't wait to see her and our grandkids! I swear both the kids changed sooo much in that 10 days! I have missed them all soo much!!


How was your weekend!!? I pray you all had a Blessed Mothers Day!

49 and Holding

This weekend we celebrated my Sweet Hubbies birthday! My Mom and Stepdad made a FABULOUSLY YUMMY DINNER ~ roast, potatoes, salad and yummy bread! I have said it before and I'll say it again.....My Mom is an
UH MA ZING Hostess! Whether she is serving dinner for her kids, her group of friends, or even some very important individuals she puts her whole heart into it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME....EVERYTHING.... Is JUST WONDERFUL!

My Honey holding BOTH grandbabies blowing out his candles! Happy Birthday to you...Cha Cha Cha


Every morning Brian fills his Tervis Tumbler w/tea and out the door he goes. One morning about 3 weeks ago, he set his cup on the back of his truck, got distracted, and drove off. When he realized what he had done, he knew ~ it was gone! To say he was sad would be quite the understatement! He looked and looked for his cup everywhere! You would have thought it was a lost dog or something LOL! Guess what he got from the kids for his birthday..... A NEW TERVIS TUMBLER....same color. same size! He was THRILLED!
It's the little things in life isn't it!


Our oldest, Krista, and our Precious Grandbabies, brought us sooo many smiles and Oh THE LAUGHTER!! ♥ them so much!


My Beautiful Mom and my sweet grandson


Happy Birthday Papa! Happy Birthday Honey! We all love you so very much! You are Gods gift to each one of us. Thank you for loving God first and for loving, caring, providing and leading us! We are so blessed by you and your love.

25!! How can it be ??

Our oldest daughter turns 25 today! We spent last night celebrating HER &hearts
We had a yummy dinner and.....

Birthday Brownies of Course!


Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Krista, Happy Birthday to youuuuuuuu


Bentley slept right through it all


Daddy napped some too bless his heart ;)


What did Papa do you ask??? He played in the Dora the Explorer tent ~ OF COURSE ;)~










HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTA ~ We love you so very much and are soo proud of the Beautiful Woman and Momma that you are!
xoxoxoxo

Happy Valentines Day ♥

Happy Monday & Happy Valentines Day Everyone! I tell ya, after 2 weeks of having my kids home because of snow days It is so quiet in my house, I'm not sure what to do....LOL

Only in Oklahoma can you go from -20 degrees to almost 60!!! It is going to be so warm this week and we are all so thankful and so happy to have this snow melting away!

This Thursday will be my sweet boys birthday! I seriously can't believe my Baby is turning 14!! Man, I am getting old ;) We celebrated early as a family because we won't all be able to be together later this week. He wanted to go to one of his favorite restaurants called Tokyo Garden. It.is.yummy! Here are some pics of our celebration!

The Owner of the restaurant offered to take a group pic! I LOVE this one!


Don't know who is being silly here....Krista or Rylee?? LOL


The birthday boy! His favorite gift....CASH! hahaha


Krista and Casey ♥


They may be Cousins but they are most definitely the Best of Friends as well


My Sweet Ry


My handsome grandson Bentley ♥


Don't you just Love his expressions LOLOLOL


My MOM aka ~ Nanny and Papa lovin on Bentley



How was your weekend? Hope it was blessed and Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Mondays Musings

Well Winter has arrived and BOY is it COLD It started snowing around 2:30 and just flurried all afternoon yesterday. We didn't get any accumulation but there is more on the way today so we shall see :)


I put a roast and some potatoes and carrots in my crockpot today! Can you say YUM!! The wood is piled up and ready to make a warm fire in the fireplace this evening and Papa will be picking up our Rylee to come spend the night!! CANNOT WAIT ♥

Church was awesome! God is doing some UH MA ZING things @ LifeChurch.tv! I am sooo excited to watch it all come to fruition!

My Honey will be traveling for business this week....If you don't mind, can you say a prayer for safe travel please!! Thank you all so much!

Went to my grandsons baby shower this weekend! Now we just need for him to arrive :) NINE days and counting....NO, I am NOT excited at all ;) LOL

Here are just a few pics of the shower

Krista with Bentley's cake :)


My Mom, Krista, Rylee, and Jenna....Oh how I love them all soo much!


My Mom and Rylee watching it snow :)


My Mom making a bib for Baby Bentley...such a cute idea


Jenna and Rylee


My Beautiful Mom and my Sweet Rylee ♥


Some of his gifts waiting to be used!!



How was your weekend? Hope it was blessed!! Love you all xoxo

It's A.......

Wow you guys! What a wonderful evening we had!! Krista and Kc were so excited and well, Krista had been patient long enough ;) She was ready to get this show on the road!! LOL They had quite the turn out to see what this baby was going to be!


Here are the infamous cupcakes.....just waiting to be bitten into so that we would finally know ~ were they filled with Pink or Blue on the inside???? Angel did an AWESOME Job! They were absolutely DELICIOUS!!



The Plan was to let Rylee bite into the cupcake but she decided she didn't want to soooo...Momma was happy to oblige! :) She only bit enough to see and then she said ~ "It's ...... BLUE "



It's A Boy!!! You know, honestly we just want a Healthy Happy Baby but I am sooo happy they are having a boy! Now we will have a little Prince to go with our Princess ♥



Here is most of everyone who we made the shirts for.... just a few are missing. Only a few people were sporting PINK


I had to share how we made Rylee's shirt "special" with a Princess iron on! Isn't it darling!!



Here is my Precious Family! It just humbles me everyday How Very Good God has been to me! I am soo very Blessed Just before my Mom snapped the photo Rylee yells "Fuzzy Pickles" We were all cracking up! :)


We will be holding this Precious Baby Boy in our arms come early next year! Until then, the Lord is working away knitting our Precious one into all HE wants him to be. I cannot wait to see what God has in store!

Thank you all for sharing in my JOY!

Joy Unspeakable

Join in with Angel and spread the JOY

I am filled with JOY because I have the sweetest husband ever! While we were in Florida a big group of guys and some wives played golf. My sweet husband was asked countless times why he wasn't playing ~ He said, "I can play golf any ol' time, but I'm not here alone in Florida with my wife every day!" Awww ~ Sooo sweet and pure joy to my heart!

I am filled with JOY because Angel is coming home SOON and I miss her so much! I can't wait to catch up with her!!

I am filled with JOY because even though I left the arms of my honey I came home to the arms of all 3 of my kids and the sweet loving arms of my grandbaby! Plus, I was also met at the airport by the most wonderful loving arms of my Momma! I am sooo very very blessed!

I am filled with JOY because I came home to such a clean house AND all the laundry was done! can I get an AMEN on that one!!! PURE JOY :) Thanks Krista!! :)

I am filled with JOY ~ even though my daughter is going to be a Senior this year, she asked me to go with her to her enrollment! Yes, I shed a few tears and can't believe it is her Final year of school but her wanting and still needing me gives me such JOY!!


I am filled with JOY because I hope to be catching up with all of you real soon!!! I have missed everyone so much and look forward to spending time reading what is going on in your lives!!


I am filled with JOY because I have some new and OH SO COMFY pajamas that my Mom got me & since I write my posts at night and schedule them for the next day.....I am off to catch some zzzzzzzzz's


Joyful Thought for the day :) Prov 15:30


A cheerful look brings JOY to the heart,
and good news gives health to the bones

Why I Count it ALL JOY and today's Love

I love my wednesday post :) Please join in with Angel and help spread the JOY and why not add some Love in there!! I am also joining Joanne and showing what Love looks like here @ our house!

I am filled with Joy because nothing says JOY to me like having our whole family together :) and since today was the day we have Rylee ~ Krista had said she wanted to come out and have dinner and see everyone! :) Remember ~ she is pregnant so I texted her and asked her what... if anything she was "craving?" Ha! Look @ what she said sounded good :0) Her request is in the white text



So her Daddy made her Breakfast for dinner and then.......malts




Rylee enjoyed them too :)


and I made her homemade chocolate cake... YUM



I am filled with Joy because I Love my family! I am sooo blessed to be a momma, a step momma and a noni ♥ and a very blessed wife! Thank you Lord for all you have given to me! I don't take one day for granted! I cherish my family with all I am!