Bill Gates Meets Walk-er Baby?!?!?!

BREAKING NEWS!!!! Our Jacie girl took her FIRST steps yesterday! This picture is not from when she did it but from before lunch when she was walking "with" the refrigerator. Last night before bed, we were playing with her on her bedroom floor and daddy had a toy she wanted so she walked four steps from mommy to daddy. It was SO exciting!

Juliana has found a new favorite past time! She LOVES computer time and we found a couple games on www.disney.com that she just had a blast playing. This will most definitely be a new motivational tool. (ie reward for being good.). Who knew that having a working computer would be so advantageous?

Oh Jack. I just love this picture so I thought I would share. :)

Blogger Makeover With a Full Stomach!

For your reading enjoyment I will be updating the appearance of this blog monthly. Being that it is March and sunny and green here....like it is all year round, I figured this look is appropriate. :)

Now, onto the important subject.....FOOD! I just love God's sense of humor. When Jeremiah and I met in 2004, I was in no way any kind of chef, cook, microwave-er. I could hardly boil water on the stove! Well at that time, Jeremiah showed up in my life with a degree in Nutrition. (Yay me!!!) So anyways, Jeremiah and I are doing the Love Dare devotional and yesterday's dare was to have a quiet dinner for two at home and re-study your spouse. Well.....this is what Jeremiah made me:

What you have just "feasted" on is a Italian grilled chicken breast topped with Mozzarella cheese, a grilled portabella mushroom and grilled red bell peppers on a toasted ciabatta roll. Served with herb angel hair pasta. 

MMMM. Yay me! :)

Bananas and Wine?!?!?!?

My little 14 month old monkey LOOOVES bananas. Yesterday after church Jacie was eating bananas and making cute little monkey calls. Where she got that from, the world may never know!

Our church has "New Community" once a month on the first Sunday night of the month,("New Community" is a time of worship, prayer and baptisms.) and last night was my "turn" to sing on the worship team. Juliana was sitting with us because there is only childcare for ages baby to 4 years old. Anyways, it was time for communion and we walked to the table to receive our bread and grape juice. ( A little background: we have been talking with Juliana over the past few months about Jesus and how he died on the cross for our sins so that we could live in heaven with Him. We also have explained that the bread represents the body of Jesus and the grape juice the blood of Jesus.) As we sat down, we took the bread and juice and we started to pray. The man who was praying for communion referred to the grape juice as wine and Juliana looked over at me and said out loud, "Mom! I drank wine???" At that point, I calmly (and stopped myself from laughing) said, " No honey, you had grape juice." Well being that she is five and argues with everything I say, began to "plead her case" and lucky for me, I heard the word Amen. 

Kids say the darnedest things. 

Focus on Jeremiah and Jamie :)

We thoroughly LOVE date nights, date days, date weeks....ANYTHING along those lines. Last night my mom came over and "took up shop" so that we could have a nice, quiet dinner at Salt Grass Steakhouse. It was so nice to not have to worry about picking up cups off the floor or cutting up food into bite size or keeping my two year old IN his seat because he wants to be a "big boy" and sit in a "big boy"seat. 

This morning, Jeremiah and I attended a marriage conference called "Focus On Marriage" at our church - The Fellowship at Cinco Ranch. It was an all day affair and even if our marriage is not headed for that cliff, it was nice to be "refreshed" with tips, scripture and biblical ways to make our marriage a little better. Besides, when did good become not good enough? Today just helped me to realize how great my husband is and how much he does for me. It made me want to love him a little more each day and love him as Jesus loves us. 

But back to reality. I walked in to a half naked Jack, and hyper Juliana and a sleepy Jacie. My kiddos had a great time with Grammy and it was nice to have some time with Jer, but I wouldn't give up being with my kids for anything. Besides, life would be a little boring other wise. :)

The J Lamson Clan - The Reunion "Tour"

  Yesterday, at about 5:41pm, we heard the sound we have been waiting for for 6 days. It was the doorbell. And on the other side of the door was the Fed Ex delivery man. In his hand was our new computer. All I know is that it is an Apple desktop with a large screen. :)

With that being said, our blog will be updated on a daily basis. (It's amazing what a working computer can do for you!)

Defying Gravity

I completely forgot how much I LOVED this musical until last night.

Jeremiah and I had a nice, relaxing night with no kiddies. We went to Red Lobster for dinner and then after a scary, scary drive into downtown, he took me to see my favorite musical of all time - Wicked, the Untold Story of the Wicked Witch of the West(she is my favorite - if you cant get to the musical, read the book by Gregory Maguire.) LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!! It was no Broadway but it came close! And being there brought out my "inner green".

Gotta go pack because in 21 hours and 17 minutes, we will be defying gravity when we head to Houston :)

The 80's Are Back!!!!

Jeremiah, Jacie and I are going to Houston on Thursday and I went out and bought these stinkin' cute leg warmers for Jacie for the plane ride (seeing as we wont need the baby cover for her car seat, nor winter clothes...) I LOVE these!!! I wish I could find them for mommies!

I got this awesome shirt for Jack (paid $0.25 for it) and I wanted to get a picture of him. Well, after 5 minutes of trying to get a nice smile shot...this is what I got. He clearly never wants me to take pictures of him and he shows it...I guess it will be good blackmail once he is in high school... :)

Saturday morning, Melissa and I went to a couple garage-type sales at Strongsville High School and Valley Forge High School....we figured that instead of bringing all of the kids (5 kids total!) we would "hire" a couple teens from the youth group at our church. So we called upon, Alex, Carlea and Abby!! I love these girls...(if we are playing favorites...they are definitely mine!) So they came over at 8 in the am and watched Juliana, Jack and Chloe (Mel's little girl) for a couple hours. I would definitely hire them again! They cleaned up the playroom and washed their dishes!! I would recommend them to anyone!! :)

Well I better get to packing!! We leave in 42 hours and 5 minutes!! Cant you tell we are looking forward to it??