My precious little boy

Last night, as Josiah was going to sleep, he said his prayers...which he does every night and it has to be with me, not with Daddy. So, I'm laying on his bed, praying for him...thanking God for him, and listening to what he's saying. Then WHAM! He starts praying like this...

"Thank you, God, for this day. Please keep my Daddy safe at work tonight and help him drive home safe tomorrow. Help Joshy to have a good night at Dillon's (where Josh was spending the night). Help Sissy to not have any bad dreams. Help Mommy to sleep good too. Help me to not have any bad dreams. I love you, Jesus. Amen."

I was barely able to give him a kiss before I went in to where Mikey was getting ready for work, with tears streaming down my face. He asked what happened. Did Laura get hurt again? (I was watching Little House on the Prairie and I cry easily with that too.) Then I told him about Josiah's prayer. Mikey's comment...

"He's gonna be a pastor someday!"

Thank you, Jesus, for my precious little boy, and for reminding me of how truly precious he is, even tho it's sometimes hard to see.

I know, I stink!

Sorry for the lack of updates. Our computer at home is not working, so the only computer I have is at work, and I can't always find time at work to update this thing. Anyways, since I last posted, my youngest turned 4! Holy Cow! How time flies!!! Other than that, not much exciting has happened. We are going to a pretty cool employee/family thing at Disneyland tonight for Halloween, so that should be fun. I'll write more about that and post pics as soon as I can. Hope everyone is well!!!

My 3 Lil Bruisers

After we left the family reunion, we went to Menifee to visit our friends, Shawns & Rob. It's been a few months since we've seen them, so it was nice to get to visit. Rob is a boxer. He's fought in a few professional fights, and has an area to work out in the garage. While Shawna, Michael and I were visiting, Rob and the kids disappeared. When the came back in, this is how they looked. They had gone out to the garage and suited up to box. hehe. They were pretty cute looking. The cool thing about it was that Rob was actually teaching Josh how to box...how to protect his face and how to punch the correct way. Josh totally enjoyed it, as did Josiah and Micaela. And, it's nice that this guy of Shawna's actually likes us. Her past 2 husbands have been major losers and wouldn't even come around. He even enjoys it! Anyways, just thought you'd like to see my cute Lil Bruisers :)

The Guessford Family Reunion

This weekend was a family reunion for Michael's Grandma's family. There were 5 sisters, with only 2 alive still today. We've not gotten together with all the cousins in one place at one time since I've been in the family. I've met the second cousins who live here in California and Michael's cousins who live back east, but now I've met them all. HOLY COW! Were there a lot of people there! The pic on the left is only Michael's Grandma's kids and their families. There were 30 of us there, and not even all of us were able to be there. With all 5 sisters families there were over 90 people. We had a nice time visiting with family we don't see often enough and the kids had fun in the Kids Korral, doing crafts and playing games. The California Cousins had been planning this for a year. We even had a photographer come out to take pics. I would've posted one with all the family, but there were so many that several people got cut off. I'll have to scan and post the one from the photographer when we get it. Anyways, it was great. I feel blessed (for the most part) to be part of this family. [There are always exceptions to the rule ;)]

One more...

I took this pic of Riley and Josiah with my mom's new phone to be here wallpaper. But I thought it was soooo cute that I needed to email it to myself and then post it for all of you to see. I told you, they are the best of friends! Of course, this was only about 2 minutes before they were pushing each other off the seat. See, worst of enemies too :) Good thing we all know that they "love each other with all their hearts". Their words, not mine.

I know...I know...I've lost it!

I know I'm gonna hear from Tim that I need to spread out my posting so it doesn't look like I've had such a busy day. But to be honest with you, yesterday was a very busy day. BUT these pictures are from our trip last week. I just thought they were soooo cute with them sitting by birthday cakes, and thought you all might like to see the birthday kids. Riley's is actually today...HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY, RILEY GIRL! And Josiah's is in 10 days, but I wanted to post both of these pics together. Enjoy!

So I was thinking...

maybe I should've posted some pics of both Josiah and Riley, since I was talking about them both, and they both were there yesterday. So, here they are...the 2 of them...the best buds, and the worst enemies. Boy, do they love each other!

Fun times with Joe

Yesterday, to celebrate the upcoming birthdays of Josiah and Riley, my sister and I decided to have a day full of surprises for them. First, me and Joe did our Target trip. But I was a good girl and only got the 5 things on my list. We were actually in and out of Target in 30 minutes, which included doing a return and going potty (which HAS to happen no matter where we are). Then, we went and picked up Riley and Auntie. Once we got them, it was off to Party City to pick out birthday party stuffs for both of their parties...Buzz Lightyear for him, Cinderella for her. Then to lunch with Grandma and Auntie Betty (my mom's sis). After threatening to not go to our next surprise because of table manners, Josiah shaped up at the table and we got to go to THE PONY RIDES!!! They were SO excited! They each got to ride twice. It was lots of fun for them, and for us to see their giggling faces. :) When we were tired out and having to go potty again (no way to outhouses!) we headed back to Auntie's house for Josiah to get to ride Riley's motorcycle. It's one of those Powerwheels Quads. They had a great time all day. Or course, with all that fun going on, that meant no nap for Mommy, but o well. There's always next week Wednesday. O wait, that's gonna be another Disneyland day...for more birthday celebrating...maybe I'll never catch up on my sleep :( O, the joys of being a mom.

Finally!

I finally got to talk to my friend, Shawna, on Friday afternoon. Of course, shortly after the conversation started, her work called thru and she had to call me back. O well, at least she did! hehe Anyways...we've been friends since Kindergarten...literally 25 years! And we hardly ever talk anymore. It's sad. Our lives have taken totally different paths. She's 31, single but living in Murrieta with her boyfriend who will probably become husband number 3, working 40 hours in Corona, then driving to Fountain Valley to run the restaurant that she and her boyfriend now own, working for about another 60 hours a week there. O ya, and no kids yet. Me, I'm 31, happily married to my first husband, with 3 kids, working only about 30 hours a week and very involved in our church. She why we've drifted? A little different than it used to be when we talked all the time and did stuff together all the time. I guess that's what happens when you grow up. Hopefully this will be her last husband, and he's a great guy. Maybe I can get them to come out on a Sunday, the only day their restaurant is closed, to just hang out. We'll see...maybe we wouldn't have anything to talk about.......