Chocolate Chicken

Yep....you heard me right CHOCOLATE CHICKEN!!

My children have 2 favorite aunts (politically correct statement) and 1 of those aunts LOVES to take care of these rascals when she is in town! Well is almost seems that at the very time she has planned a vacation to Alex, my need for a babysitter is exaggerated!! Isn't that convenient?? haha.

Well......during this last trip my boys became extremely ill and Auntie P. took care of them during frequent trips to the Dr. and ER.

Upon returning from 1 visit, the kids met me at the door jumping up and down talking about chocolate chicken. Yep....you heard right, they had chicken nuggets with chocolate dipping sauce.

Ah..the joys of being able to spoil and them and then leave......thanks P.

Now we have to have chocolate chicken EVERY day..:)

Hannah's Visit From Santa Claus!

Hannah had a visit from Santa at her school. It was so sweet that Santa brought the children wrapped books!


Did I mention Hannah is half puppy these days?

With an unspoken effort to shy away from the commercialism of Christmas this year, Santa knew just what to bring. He brought her a pop-up nativity story! It was such a CUTE book! In fact all the other children were crowding around Hannah and I to read her book. What was funny was that all the other books that we saw were about Santa and toys and the North Pole.

Maybe we shouldn't judge children so quickly.

Just maybe if they had the chance to really choose......

......................they would choose to celebrate the real Reason for the Season

.....go figure.

You're Gonna Miss This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpBRkEahVw

Please click on the link above to watch my babies in a wonderful clip

This past May my children had the privilege of being part of a video that was played for our church on Father's Day. They first time I saw it, I was moved to my core. I do not want to miss anything. I do not want to have anything that I would have done differently. I want to LIVE in the moment, loving my husband and my kids with wild and wreckless passion. I want to tune out the chaos and tune into the joy and playfullness in each of my children's eyes. I CAN and AM teaching/leading/guiding them with love.

I LOVE YOU FOWLER FAMILY!!!

The Best Christmas Pagent Ever

Here is Abi and her friend K. They are so funny when they get together! Oh, I can hardly keep up!

I am SOSOSOSO proud of my little darling Abigail! She was in our church Christmas play this year and had such an antimated part!! She has always had a very playfully sassy attitude and we knew if God did not use it for his glory then it may give us trouble in her teens.

Here Abi is playing the bully part of Imogene Herdman

Well in my opinion God did use it for his Glory as she was cast as Imogene in the Best Christmas Pagent Ever!! It was hilarious! I could not stop laughing!

Here is Hannah and her little friend K. (Thanks Kayla, I totally stole your pics)

Hannah was quite upset (jealous) because she was not on stage. She actually cried after the play and said "Now Abi is not my sister anymore!" Then when we started to watch the DVD again yesterday and she went and sat down, facing away from the the t.v. and crossed her arms. Would not even watch the DVD....HAHA!! What a riot.

Toilet Paper

Abigail and I were unloading groceries before we headed out the door for her play practice the other night. When I returned I asked Hannah - my born organized child - to go arrange the toilet paper in the bathroom. I knew that with her extreme sense of order she would take the paper out of the package, place it on the shelf and throw the plastic wrapper in which it came into the trash.

She very politely did as she was asked then soon returned to playing with William.

An hour or so later I walked into the bathroom to find all of my toilet paper arranged....:)

haha

Happy Veteran's Day

This past Veteran's Day was spent with our most favorite Veteran of all!....POPS!

After he got over us waking him up early for donuts, he was happy to be with us too!

John Deer Green

William got a John Deer Tractor for his birthday...........and a mud cake

Here are some pics from his party::

Still Adding More Pics

A Calling

Have you ever felt like God was wanting to take you to a place you hadn't ever been? I am there. I have these thoughts and desires that God is calling me to be consecrated/set apart/devoted to God. I mean REALLY devoted. The only problem is that I am not totally sure what that means. I have these crazy desires to throw out the t.v., home school, have a life centered around the Bible, to have my children wake up with the sounds of their parents travailing on their behalf. (The only problem is I dont really know how to travail. I really only barely know how to pray. There are even times I feel weird when I am calling out to God. How can he really hear me through this ceiling? How can he really heal someone? How does he have that power?)

Why when so many are starting to step away from the standards of the old church, am I being pulled towards them? I struggle/even fight against, on some level, the desires that are pulling at me. Is this God calling me to be seperate? Is this me just...........what? What else could it be? How do I break the habits that in some ways have me bound and keep me from taking those first steps? What really are those first steps?

I was baptized and got the Holy Ghost when I was 7. Billy got the Holy Ghost this past July 13 after coming to church for almost 5 years.

Starting last fall we began to really set our sights on God and started making decisions to raise our family in a way that would honor him. There was a momentum that built and we could just feel the intensity every Sunday. As we were down in the altar, we could tell God was changing our lives. After July 13th, everything went downhill. We just let life take over. I was pregnant, then we had Wyatt, then school, then fall festivals, then illnesses, then......yadda....yadda...yadda.

Yesterday was the first time I felt the power of God moving in my soul, urging me to continue on the path we started on last year. I prayed "God, give me the strength and courage to raise these children the way you want me to." I am so scared. Scared my friends/family will think I am fanatical, scared my kids will be bored without the t.v., some things sound so trivial writing them here. Fact is, I need a confimation that these desires are from God.

Sorry to ramble but I had to get this out.

Scavenger Hunt

My Man is "2"

Richard Robert William Fowler

November 21, 2006

I cannot believe that my baby boy is now 2. I can remember when Bill and I wanted to have another baby (right after we had Hannah) and it was just not happening. We wanted them back to back....so close in age you would think they were twins. Then, just after we decided that another baby must not be what God wanted for us, we got pregnant. We were so excited! Then 9 months later we had a baby boy that was named after both his daddy and his grandfathers.

He is my prince charming.

William is such a noble name, I love it!

Prince William

He will place his hands on either sides of my face and talk to me so seriously while looking me deep in the eyes.

He still cries when I leave him.

When he wants to sleep with us he knows to ask mommy not daddy.

I thought when I had Will that he was a gift to my husband. What I now realize is that he was a gift to me.

A momma's boy through and through.

Now that little man that changed my life turns 2.

Oh Lord please dont let the next 16 years go by as fast. I want to slow down enjoy those moments reading to him and listening to his explainations as to why all the pretzels or crackers are all over the floor.

Oh my baby boy......Thank you for letting me be your mommy.

Mommy will always love you!