Bella 18 Months!

I can't hardly believe that my Baby Girl is 18 months old!! Time has sure flown by. We are so blessed to have 3 amazing beautiful UNIQUE daughters!! Bella has definitely proven to be her own self... She is strong willed, Quick Tempered and Feisty but all at the same time She is SO sweet, Silly, Expressive and Loving! She is so much fun! A lot more tiring than the other girls were at this age... or maybe its that I'M older?? Lol Either way I know our family would not be the same without her and she completes us!! Here are some pictures I took this evening after church of her playing in the front yard w/ her sisters!

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Bella 18 Months

Mothers Day!

Its just a few days late but I hope you all had a wonderful Mothers Day! Mothers Day is a bittersweet holiday for me as I don't have a relationship with my own mother. It is by my own choice and I know it is the right and healthy choice for me and my family. 3 years ago I made a choice that Mothers Day would no longer be about "her" and how much she has hurt me. I made the choice that it would from that day out be about MY relationship with MY daughters. I am SO SO SO Blessed. Words cannot express... Literally how much my daughters mean to me. The special and unique relationship I have with every one of them is so awesome and precious to me. I thank God every day for blessing me with such awesome creations! I never ever want them to experience even a splinter of the hurt towards me that I've felt towards my mother... And I know they never will. It amazes me how much they love and trust me. I don't deserve it, Yet they put their love and trust in me 100%! They fill my heart with laughter and joy every single day!! If I can be 1/2 of what they THINK I am That will make my mission on earth as their mommy a success!

I wanted to share with you my mothers day gift from them! Their Daddy "helped" them make this for me... How precious are their little voices?!? 

Lilly turns 5!

On Sunday, Lilly turned 5 years old!! I just can't hardly believe that my sweet girl is 5. So much has happened in the past 5 years! She was our ray of light in such a dark time and has continued to be. She is so different from her sisters. We are never surprised by the things that come out of her mouth! A while ago Chris made up a statement based off of a Twitter page that we like to follow "Overheard at Disneyland" except he likes to say "Overheard at the Crain House" aka "Ohatch" because of all the little funny things that we overhear or catch Lilly saying! She consistently makes us laugh and brings a smile to our face. She is such a good little AND big sister. We are so blessed to have her in our lives!

Lilly decided that she didn't really want to have a party this year and there wasn't really anything that she "wanted" for her bday either... so we thought we would take the money we could have spent towards a big party and presents and do a quick girls trip to Disneyland. When given the choice, she chose the dland option! So I pricelined a hotel and off "Auntie Missa" and I went on our first ever girls trip with ALL the girls!! It was a little trying having a 1 year old in the POURING rain but we managed!! Bella is def glad to be home! She is very different than the other 2 and does NOT want to be confined to a stroller! She in Miss Independent and wanted to be down and walking! Which she didn't understand why she couldn't do that in the rain! lol
All in all we had fun and I think Lilly had alot of fun for her birthday trip. She got to have breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen for her Birthday and get a Rockstar Makeover at Studio 365 with Money she saved up in her piggy bank!
We had a stressful drive home, the storm they were expecting rolled in early and we got stuck in it... flooding, wind, pouring rain... it was CRAZY.. but thankfully we made it home safely! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Lillys 5th Birthday Trip!

Goodbye to Facebook.. Hello 2010!

After much thought and prayer.... I decided it was time to deactivate my facebook. I was spending too much "useless" time on there that I could be spending on other things such as spending time with my family. Cleaning my house, Making bows.. or so many other things... Even keeping up my BLOG!! My MUCH neglected blog!! :)

It had become an avenue that wasn't necessarily positive anymore for me. Something that started out as a way to keep in touch with people started turning into a way to be nosey in people lives... It turned into "did you see this?" and "did you see that" and I'm not proud of that. I don't want to start off 2010 like that. I don't want to see things that might make me jealous. I don't want to have an avenue of gossip. I don't want an avenue for people to judge me. Now granted people can do that HERE... but if they must they must. All I can do is live for God and My family and what pleases him and them!! Sometimes people are so quick to judge without ever knowing the whole story. That will ALWAYS happen but I think without being on face book... it will limit that in my life. Less Drama is always a good thing!

Matthew 7:1-4
"Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your friend,Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?"


So thank you to those who support and love me and have always been there for me. I love you more than you know!