Happy Birthday Zane

I am so shocked that one year has already flown by! My sweet little angel Zane is 1 year old TODAY!

Zane is the light of my life! He is so happy all the time. When I see him I can't help but to smile. He just recently started walking and it is the cutest thing. He is so tiny still but he cruises around the house in the cutest little way. Zane is so special. He is the favorite of every member of the family. He is so easy to love. Zane has the most lovable eyes. The first few months of his life I waited and waited for Zane's eyes to turn bright blue like all of my other kids. They never did. Instead I find myself in love with a new eye color!

Although I want Zane to stay little FOREVER, I can't help but wonder sometimes what Zane will be like when he is older. I know that being his mom is a blessing. I am thankful every minute of every day for his sweet little spirit.

Happy Birthday my little Zane.

**I am grateful for the quiet little moments that I get to spend with Zane at the end of each day. I pick him up every night before I go to sleep and he snuggles up to me. I can't think of a better way to end each day.**

Determination

It is Spring Little League Season! What a great time of year. We have just finished WEEKS of baseball. Day after day we have been sitting at the ballpark. We have been cheering for Kyle and Isaac 4 nights a week!

Isaac likes baseball. He has lots of fun. His team was in last place for most of the season. He never gave it a second thought! His team is darling and they all had a lot of fun! And.....although they WERE in last place for a while....they made it to the semi-finals! They lost at the semi-finals but they played really well!





HOWEVER.....Kyle's team is currently UNDEFEATED! Which one would think would make Kyle sooooo happy. NOOOOOO! Kyle is on a team with some VERY talented boys. Kyle spends a lot of time on the bench! NO FUN! So for a while - HE POUTED! But.....then he decided that was not doing much good. SOOOOO.....a few phone calls later - and he was off to a personal training session with Grandpa to the batting cages! Hour after hour they have spent at the batting cage. (It is costing me a fortune - but I'm not complaining!) Kyle has now totally changed the way he bats and has started hitting. Then I had to break it to Kyle that he was not the fastest runner! NO POUTING this time! Instead I found Kyle running on my treadmill every morning at 6 a.m. DETERMINATION!!



So I have one boy learning to walk......






and one learning to run!

Next weekend is Kyle's semi-final game. Oh how I pray every day for him to get a big hit!






****I haven't forgotten*****I am grateful for my dad. For caring about Kyle enough to take hours off of work to stand in the heat at the batting cages to build his confidence.

Feeling Gratitude.....

Today as I sit here looking through e-mails and such I feel enormous gratitude. I have so many things to be thankful for. I am so blessed. Therefore, I would like my blog to now reflect how grateful I am for my many, many blessings. Little things happen to me EVERY DAY that are actually HUGE blessings in my life. More than just the very obvious (like my darling children). So......I have decided that from this point on I will always list at LEAST one thing that I am thankful for on each and every blog entry! TODAY I can think of more than one.....

• I am thankful for my Husband, who is such a hard worker. He is currently mowing our lawn in the dark because it is 9:15 at night!
• I am thankful for whoever it was that rented out our vacant house today.
• I am thankful for Ellie's cute friend who had a birthday party this morning. Ellie talked about it all day and carried around her little "goodies" from the party everywhere she went.
• I am thankful for Andy Perkins. He is our faithful A/C guy who came out and fixed the A/C unit at one of our rental properties today for only $60! GO ANDY! (I thought it was going to be hundreds).
• I am thankful for Kyle and Isaac's baseball coaches! They spend a ton of their own valuable time teaching my boys to LOVE baseball.
• I am thankful for my friends. Especially the ones who come visit me while sitting in the hospital and bring me treats!
• I am thankful for my sisters. I love talking to them on the phone. They are sooooo funny! They always make me smile and inspire me to be better. I love hanging out with them. I have the bestest sisters.

To be continued..............................
(on each and every post from here on out!)