Spring Break

My Naunie loves to hold me...
Having a great grandmother is so cool...
getting sugar from my Nana...
Saying goodbye...
Griffin was such a trooper when we went to Santa Fe...
Leaving Sante Fe...beautiful mountains...
Having fun with my Naunie...
We were parked and waiting somewhere by the way....we weren't driving...
Man, my Naunie is the best!

My mom has come to Clovis to visit us during her Spring Break (she's a teacher) for the past 3 years. The first year to help us decorate our house after just buying it, last year to help decorate Griffin's nursery before his birth, and this year (no decorating!) to bring my Aunt and Great-grandmother to see Clovis and Santa Fe (we went for two days) and to just see us (Griffin especially). We had such a sweet time and laughed so much. My mom, aunt, and nana are so much fun to be around. Thank you Mom, Aunt Nese, and Nana for spending y'all spring break with us! Griffin misses y'all already and so do I. :) oh Tyler too! ;)

Mom's bible reading

Tyler found this blog post last night and read it to me. Thought some of you mom's out there would appreciate it and it might minister to you as it did me.

http://www.desertspringschurch.org/blog/?p=119

1 Samuel 12:21

"And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty."
I have had this verse sitting in my window seal for awhile now trying to memorize it. I wanted to share it and what it has meant to me.

There are so many empty things I turn to day in and day out, and not just things that are seen, sometimes it's all just in my heart. God commands us to not run after these things for they cannot profit us. But it "feels" like they are profiting us, huh? They are sneaky. But then sometimes they are things that just weigh us down and make us terribly unhappy, yet we keep holding on to them and entertaining them. Our hearts are idol factories as John Calvin once said. Our hearts can deceive us. My prayer daily is that God will continually change my heart into the place where He is worshiped alone, the place where He satisfies all my deepest longings. It is good to turn aside from empty unsatisfying things and turn your heart, mind, and soul into loving the Lord. Please, Lord, rid my heart of sin, for everything starts in my heart. As Watermark writes, "Come and make my heart Your home."

Sick baby

Please say a prayer for Griffin. He woke up last night at 2am with slight fever (first time to ever have fever. I wanted to take him to the emergency room and Tyler consoled me and was like "Haley, he will be ok. Calm down. If need be, you can take him to the doc tomorrow." Of course he was right.) and his runny nose started Sunday. It's crazy, I feel like we just got over his last sickness and here it comes again. The Lord is good though and I know He will get us through however many weeks of sickness may come. It's remarkable how much energy you can all of a sudden have at 2 in the morning when you here your baby crying. You jolt out of bed and rush to comfort them as if you had just drank ten Red Bulls. That energy def comes from the Lord I know. It also brings back memories of the first 8 weeks of Griffin's life when he wasn't sleeping through the night yet. How I got through those eight weeks was only by the grace of God. Thankful for his sustaining strength. But as I held Griffin today and he cuddled up against me as I rocked him ALOT, I thought each time how thankful I am for this job God has given to me and how I was born to be a mother. Its the best job in the universe.

Thank you for your prayers. Hopefully he will be well before the weekend when Tyler's parents come and before Sunday when my mom, aunt, and grandmother come. Can't wait to spend time with family. It's way over due.

Season 7

We just started the very first episode of the 7th season of 24. We have found that the first episode of each season is usually the most intense episode of the whole season. Here we go....again....

Tyler's party

sweet friends Joseph & Amy

Having fun at Daddy's party....

Sitting in Momma's lap...

MMA magazine

Playing with my friend, Steve.

Friends, Daniel, Abbie, and Lauren

24 CTU manual

Ali

So Tyler's party was so much fun! Thanks everyone who came for coming and making it so amazing. Tyler was very thankful for everyone coming and he even got come pretty cool gifts that he did not expect. Everyone that came knows him pretty well due to the gifts they gave him. We enjoyed everyone's company so much and Griffin did too. :)

Preppy Baby + Teeth + Balloons

If you click on this picture it will inlarge it and you can see Griffin's two lower teeth perfectly well.


This is what Griffin wore to church last Sunday. The shoes were given to him as hami-downs from our friends, the Azams, and the outfit my mom and dad had given him way back in Oct.
These balloons were for Tyler's bday party but I think Griffin enjoyed them the most. We went up to the church to blown them up and Griffin was so afraid of the helium thing. Every time Tyler pushed it Griffin would cry, stuff his thumb in his mouth, and then dive his head into my neck and snuggle. He finally got used to it after awhile.