Weekend

It's been an ok weekend.

Josh had CQ(24hour watch of the single soldier buildings) on Saturday which started at 9 am and went til 9 am on Sunday. He'll sleep all day so not really a weekend spent with him. He did get ordersOn Thursday to a new unit so he won't have to do CQ for awhile! He's new unit is a training unit for the job he'll do for the rest of his time in the Army, which we are pretty sure will be until he is able to retire. As of right now we are set to move at the end of next year to FL,  Fort Walton Beach area, so I am ok with him making this a career :) All given over to God!

Liam has not be sleeping good at night or taking very long naps, and it's been wearing me out. I changed him to a toddler bed because he climbed out of his crib onto the dresser and I thought that meant time for a toddler bed. It's been about two weeks but I am thinking that he doesn't feel comfortable in the toddler bed. So today I put the crib back together and made sure I didn't put anything beside it that he could climb on to. Trial and Error, right? I am hoping this gets him back to his 12 hour nights and 3 hour naps!

This made me lol...While I was putting the crib together Smokey(the dog) and Charlie were down stairs. Charlie came up and I asked him what Smokey was doing, and he said, "He has to get his tail." hahaha. Smokey loves chasing and getting in weird positions to get his tail. Funny how Charlie worded it.

Today (Sunday) the kids and I went to church. Pastor Michael Fletcher is doing a 4 week series on Questions. Today was the first one I went to, it was pretty good. He is a really good preacher, really down to earth and real! With all the talk of Jesus coming back yesterday he made a short comment about it that I thought was really good. He qouted Matthew 28:18-20  Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” He said I don't think Jesus wanted us to sit and calculate when He's coming back, rather go and share Him with everyone we know...good point huh? 

Well I guess it's time to go, Liam is awake.

Power of Prayer

So a little background to catch you up to speed....While Josh was gone to his month long training in April I went to Thomasville to spend time with the family. Shortly before I left my mom and I talked about losing weight and helping each other, well last week she calls and tells me she has lost 11 pounds...UMMM HELLO!! Way to go Mom, not so much on the way to go Alison:( I have only lost 2 pounds since we decided to start this weight lost thing. So that day I knew something had to change and I needed to get my butt in gear. I couldn't let me my mom out do me...lol. That night my friend invited me to Yoga! It was a lot of fun and hard and relaxing and nice to get away and be by myself! I thought I could totally get use to this and on my way home I prayed that God would give me the motivation and the desire to workout and eat right. Well the next day I went on a run/walk..I ended up running a mile and walking 3. It was AWESOME. I had on this cool shirt that had a nifty little pocket that held my MP3 player perfectly. While I was on this run/walk I took the time to  hear and mediate on God. I put my MP3 on shuffle and prayed that every song would be God picked. Well about half way through I was getting tired and then this song came on called "You Are for Me" by Kari Jobe..I just have to say WOW! It was just what I needed. The song in a nut shell is what the title is, about how God is for me. I don't think I have felt the presence of God so strong in a long time. God was answering my prayer, prayer to get serious and have help losing weight. But in the bigger picture I felt like God was telling me that He is there and that He cares, even about the little things, like losing weight, and all I have to do is pray and ask. Which is something I have been struggling with. I of course pray but when I ask for things I don't really feel like I deserve the wants and the needs that I have, so I usally just pray and then not really expect them to be answered. Of course I don't deserve anything, but thankfully God isn't a God that gives us what we deserve. He is a gracious, loving, merciful, caring God and that is what I am being re-taught, and I say re-taught because I know, but sometimes I let the world and satan cloud what I know. And as I sit and write this out I see that I am definitely being tested this week (who knew blogging could be an eye opener). Just today I gave into my circumstances and didn't pray, but at the end of the day God worked it, and all is well and good! And as far as the weight loss, I have been doing REALLY good. I've been working out and eating right, which is definitely making me feel better about myself:) and showing me know that God is still with me and for me. It's a great feeling!

Now I'm off to pray that Josh will come home or atleast call me...Oh Army!! :)

Growing Up

Talk about a full week of my boys growing up! Thursday we went and signed Charlie up for Pre- K. He'll be going 5 days a week from 8 to 11. He is SO excited and has been asking every day if he can "just go to school" .It might be a long summer..haha. It is so hard for me to believe he is old enough to be going to school. When I took him to get his school shot the nurse asked me how old he was and I said 4 in total disbelief, looking at him thinking there is no way my baby could be that old. I remember the day he was born like it was yesterday and how I thought we would never make it through a day of school due to how clingy he was to me. And now going to school is all he can talk about. They grow and change so fast, and it's definitely bitter-sweet,

To add to our growing up week. Liam decided that it would be a good idea to climb out of his crib Thursday night and get on top of the changing table. It scared me and I think it scared him too. He was crying and had a very scared look on his face when I went to check on him. So back to bed he went and the changing table was moved out of the room. Then first thing Friday I went to the store and bought a toddler bed. Josh and I came to a decision that we would rather him roll off a toddler bed a couple nights then try and climb out of his crib and fall. Well when night came and we laid him down I couldn't take my eyes off the video monitor. I was so worried and started doubting if it was too soon. Then after about two-three hours of staring at him and nothing going wrong and I realized my worry was really just sadness of my little man being big enough to be OK in a toddler bed. He only woke up once but went right back to sleep and he never rolled off.

Where does the time go? My sweet little baby boys aren't babies anymore. I am so very proud of them though. Charlie is such an awesome little boy with so much personality and sweetness. He loves helping out around the house and will do anything I ask him with so much excitement. He randomly says "I love you and I really love Daddy" and always asks to give me a hug and a kiss.   And Liam is just a bundle of joy. He loves giving hugs and kisses and he is so cuddly. My favorite thing is how he calls me "Ma" and Josh "Da" I love my boys and God definitely knew what He was doing when He gave them to us!

And with all this growing up the crib is now empty ;)

My first blog EVER

I don't really read blogs and I never really had an itch to start one, but I thought I could jump on the bandwagon and try it out. My days are usually filled with lots of interesting things that my kids do, crazy and insigthful things Josh says, the dog driving me crazy, and random other little thing, so I am not promising it's going to be interesting, but it definitely will be fun for me to write it all down.  Hope you enjoy whatever it is that's to come!