Need to update my gratitude...

Okay....I've been a MAJOR slacker on this

blog...I apologize...I've been pretty busy with

photography....but I am going to get a post in tonight and list a

few things that I am thankful for. With the cold weather...it has sparked a few more than normal....like #1 being a HEATER and

money to pay the bill! We went to see the movie A Christmas Carol

while Ryan was off work and just looking at them hudding by the

fire makes me oh so thankful that I live in the time

that I do to have a working furnace that keeps us warm in the

winter! YAY for heat!!

Next...I am thankful for my kids....

I really don't know what my life would be

like without my kids...so empty! They fill me up and

remind me that some things that you worry about are just trivial and put into

perspective what things you really need to worry about.

Love them to death!

I am thankful for Trey's giggle, and Jadynn to make him giggle.

Trey thinks she is hilarious and I don't think Jadynn realizes

how much he looks up to her!

And a strange thing to be thankful for...my trials....if I hadn't

gone through all the heart ache that I have then I wouldn't be who

I am today or where I am today. My trials have taught me to never

take for grated what I have and to cherish it. As hard as it is to have lost

a baby, I am so thankful for Bryce...he opened up my heart to a love that I

don't know that I would experience without him. I am thankful for

my dad and what I had to go through with him...it made

me realize that when we leave this earth we don't take

anything with us but our memories.

*tear*

I miss him alot and think

about him and Bryce everyday and wonder what they are doing and

would they be proud of me and what I am doing with myself.

Family is so important and I am so SOOOO thankful for the family

I have...my husband works his butt off for our little family and my

siblings....they are just the best...I couldn't have picked better!

And my mom.....the best mom in the world...even when she was

irritated with us, she would leave us a note to do the dishes and it would be

signed "Mother Dearest".

Love her...that is exactly what she is...Mother dearest!

Wow...I guess I am thankful for a lot...and now I leave with tears in my

eyes and love bursting from my heart....I just love what I have...

I am so blessed!