Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007

Wishing you a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so thankful that we can celebrate our Savior's birth today!

Thank you Jesus for coming for us.

My babies! L is 6, A is 4
A and his big package from Grandpa and Grandma
L - a nice candid photo of her (mommy's girl)
L and Great Grandma (she just celebrated her 98th Birthday!)

An Unconventional Thanksgiving

My parents and the four of us decided to forego a quiet turkey day at home for 2 days at Disneyland and one at LegoLand. It was crowded but we all managed to have a good time. L was quite the little lady the entire time and there was not a moment that her eyes were not looking in amazement at all of the sites and that she did not have a huge smile on her face. A loved it too but he was a bit overwhelmed with all of the sites. All said, a great time...would do it again! Enjoy the photos!

Us!

Our Minnie on Minnie's sofa

Minnie and Minnie? Awe and smiles :) A and Papa!
Waiting for Muppets in 3D...8 p.m. and we got up at 5 a.m...tired kids!
L and A with Chip or Dale??

One of my favorite photos from our trip!

Our sweet boy.

That smile again!
"I loved LegoLand...really I did" Can't you tell?

Cards for a Cause - 1st Group Meeting

Earlier this summer the call for Connections Groups (cell groups) went out at our church and God really impressed on my heart that I was to start one. Anyway, the deadline came and went and I decided that I was too busy anyway...well, you know how that goes...too busy? They extended the deadline and I knew that it meant that I was to be obedient. So...tonight was the first night. I provide all of the supplies and cut all of the cardstock. 3 wonderful ladies came over and we made 24 cards - 12 each of two different styles - see below. It was a wonderful time and we decided to stamp for a couple of months, compile card sampler packages and mail them to missionaries. We will be working with the missions pastor to determine where they will eventually go.

Card 1
Card 2
All cards were stamped with a Hand Stamped by stamp and "Cards for a Cause Harbor Light A/G" was written on them by a group member. Really cool!

Bedtime (my sleeping beauties...well not quite sleeping!)

My sweeties - in bed and ready to go to sleep!

Aaron was given these sunglasses from his friend C and he calls them his sleeping glasses. It is so funny to see him wearing them - everywhere!
He is particularly impressed by the fact that the lenses open out! What do you think??
They are both having trouble with their asthma right now. Please pray for them! It is so hard to see these little ones having breathing troubles and yet they are so brave and never complain!

Aaron's Birthday Party

We had Aaron's official Birthday Party on Sunday and these are some photos of the important details! He had a GREAT time and the rest of us seemed to too. The them of the party was Pirates...surprised?? My little pirate got all sorts of pirate garb and toys and as you can see even his cake fit the occasion. Still can't believe that he has made 4 years old. My baby!

This cake is from Lucky's and we HAD to have it! Can you guess why?
Pirate Aaron and his cake!
Leah enjoying the frosting off of the pirate ship deck!
This is a few days old but I captured them at breakfast time and came across the photo while I was downloading the birthday party photos. My two sweeties being just that...sweet.
I am so thankful today that God allowed me the privilege of being their mommy. Those of you who know my testimony and physical history understand this completely. It could have turned out differently but God protected my womb long enough to allow the conception, gestation and birth of these two precious gems in His site.

Thank you Jesus for your divine wisdom and love for me enough to allow me the joy and privilege of being mommy to these two precious children. Please teach me to enjoy each and every moment with them...even when that seems so hard!

To Leah and Aaron...mommy loves you so very much!

God Made Me Special - Aaron's Version

Ready for a great story??

I had to wait until this morning to take these photos so those of you who heard it last night can now see my delight in telling it.

Aaron's preschool class made these little faces yesterday and he drew his face...see the close up below...put his eyes on...he knew that his eyes are blue...and wanted orange hair. His teacher informed him that they had black, brown, yellow and white yarn but no orange. He did not want to accept that so they went to other classrooms until they found his orange hair. This makes me giggle because anyone who knows Aaron knows that he is usually very laid back. Good for you Aaron. I am proud that you know that your hair is orange (red) and that you told them that you wanted orange yarn. By the way, the rest of the class (except for one little girl who was not there yesterday) has brown or black hair. Just a coincidence.

Aaron's very special artwork. This wonderful face will be kept and put in a memory book for him along with the photos and a copy of this blog entry.

What do you think? Is it a good representation of my sweet boy?
Now that you have seen this...stop laughing and please reply and let us know what you think!

First Day of School

First Day of First Grade and First Day back to Preschool

Better late than never! We went to Back To School night tonight and I got permission to post a photo of Leah and her friend J. ....our kids are growing up too fast!

J's mom makes hairbows...Since Leah gave herself a haircut I had to find a new hairstyle for awhile...It was a coincidence that they wore their hair the same way on the first day of school!

Photos are from September 4th, 2007

God is so good to me. There is so much in my heart that I want to share here.

In the meantime, I am soaking in Pastor's message from Sunday and had to share this...

From the Message ~ Matthew 6:30-33

If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers ~ most of which are never even seen ~ don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do the best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

In other words: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33 NIV

That is what I am to do...seek God first and stop worrying about all the other "stuff"!

Terry and I have been Simpsonized

Yes, it's true! I have been Simpsonized....The other night I was up late and found this so had to try it. What do you think? I am still laughing at the silliness of it all...it is so funny!

KimTerry

So...what do you think??

Aaron's Birthday

Aaron's impromptu neighborhood Birthday get together~

Capt. Jack Sparrow...aka Aaron...he wanted to take this bed with him~
Aaron had a great night with his neighborhood friends over. We are now know as the East Brown's and our other neighbor's are the West Brown's based on the fact that we live to the East and West of our other friends and neighbors. Oh, be confused...we are too.

Two posts in one day...wow!

Leah's First Soccer Game

This is a really hard day for me....read below!

My baby is growing up!
Jumping Jacks!

A goalie with very little to do~a good thing in the soccer world
No one told me that I am supposed to leave the corner after the corner kick!
Go Leah GO!

It seems totally impossible that this could have come to pass but today was Leah's very first soccer game. Her team, the Cheetah Girls, played the TigerSharks and although they don't record the score the Cheetah Girls outplayed the Tiger Sharks. Under 7 teams are still learning the basics but it is pretty neat to see them going the right direction to the goal, understand basic team play and just having fun! Since I am horrible about printing and/or emailing photos I am going to try and update my blog on a regular basis to keep family and friends in the circle! Oh...how could I forget...today is also Aaron's 4th Birthday. Wish him a happy one if you can!

Coach Aaron telling Leah the way that the game is supposed to be played...he will be great at soccer next year! He is taking mental notes already.

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Change in blog name

So...will be advertising my blog soon and decided I better change the name from brownsbizzybumble to kimsstampinspot as the other is tooo long and hard to remember. Will be posting new cards here soon and am working through an idea in my pea sized brain that will debut here as well. Has something to do with the 1000 coasters that I have and need to start using soon. :) So...will catch up soon. Will also be updating my splitcoast gallery...keep watching...new ideas abound!