happy mother's day!! mom -trey

Happy Mother's Day!!! I love my mom so much, she is a very good example to me and has helped me through the years.  I'm thankful for her encouragement and love.  I'm also thankful to be a parent of three beautiful children.  At times it becomes very stressful.  My children didn't come with instructions but I'm learning so much! I'm thankful to be a mom.  Lauren is graduating from High School this year, Heather is going to be a Sophmore in High School next year and Trey will be in Middle School and has the priesthood now.  They are growing up so fast, time really goes by quickly sometimes. Actually a friend told me that our kids do come with instructions and they are Family Prayer, Family Scripture Study and Family Home Evening!  "I the Lord am Bound when you do what I say, but when you do not what I say, ye have No Promise!"

Heather's race.

 Chicken's are getting bigger I found some survivors hiding in the garage.

 Homemade chicken coop until Jeff builds a better one soon hopefully!

 Our house not finished yet!

 The back of our house!

 Trees that I planted: A pecan tree that is giving us pecans in the fall, I love it!

 My beautiful Japanese maple tree!

 I planted tons of cedar and pine trees on our land and they are growing big!

 Our dog, Timmy.  He was the runt of all the puppies.

 Our neighbor dog that comes to play with Timmy and likes it at our house.

 Trey at the kitchen table.

 Old Nissan Sentra that I drive to work. I like that it cost us only $750.00 paid for and the gas is cheap.

Tall pine trees.

Today is Military Spouse awareness day.  I'm thankful for the United States of America and for all the sacrifices made in the military!  My mom was a military spouse and was very brave and courageous as well as my dad.  I have a husband in the military now and I know what it is like to be away from your husband for a year and have full responsibility for the kids and the house.  I love  America and I'm thankful for all the Veterans that have served over the years.  The military has also helped us out financially over the years and I'm thankful that Jeff is a part of it.  He has been in the National Guard for several years since we have married.  My daughter joined the Jr. Rotc and learned some about service to this country.  This weekend is also Father and Son Campout at Camp Hulaco and Jeff and Trey will be going tonight.  Heather will spend the night at a friends house Laura Dube.  This is Mother's Day weekend and I'm so very thankful for my mom.  My mom is a wonderful example to me and has such faith and devotion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and has set such a wonderful example over the years!! I live far away from her since I married 18 years ago and it has been a big trial to live so far away. I love my mom for so many things and I want to thank her this Mother's Day!

It's a beautiful sunny day today and I got out of work early and tomorrows my day off work.  There is so much housework to be done though.  We still have our chickens.  I thought our dog ate them all but a lot of them were hiding in the garage and came out later on.  Out of  20 chickens we have about 10 now.  Jeff is working for FEMA a temporary position until July sometime and then after that he has some National Guard jobs that will keep him busy and schools for a couple of months.  I am busy at the dental office doing all sorts of work and helping the dentist Pete Dube. I enjoy my job but my back gets really sore and one of my arms that I use a lot. Lauren will be graduating from High School this year, tomorrow is her last day of seminary.  Heather got some cool awards and a plaque from Good Hope High School recently.

Kind of crazy around our house some days!  This evening the girls had seminary on Wednesday evenings and Trey has boy scouts.  I  teach the cub scouts but their is only one boy in the cub scouts right now.  Today I talked about trees and plants and we planted a seed and I brought some of my seeds to show him that I started a week ago.  I hope to have a nice garden this year.  Trey and Heather have been helping till the ground and getting it ready.  We also have chicks we are raising that are staying in the garage for now with a heat lamp on them. We still have tons of work to do on our house and landscaping the yard.