Easter 2010

Our Easter activities began the Wednesday before Easter with an egg hunt at church along with telling the Easter story and fun activities. The night before we went to Joey's grandparents along with his aunts, uncles, and cousins. We cooked out hamburgers and the kids got to hunt eggs. We went to my parent's house on Sunday for supper and then Libby hunted eggs afterwards. We enjoyed being with all our family and getting to tell Libby the true meaning of Easter. She was too young last year to really understand.

Judah playing with Libby's garden shovel

Libby holding her egg bucket with real colored eggs. She helped Mamaw (my mom) color them.

Looking for eggs in the landscaping.

Daddy, Judah, and Libby on the front porch of Mamaw and Pap's house.

Libby and Mommy after church on Sunday

Our Princess

Our sweet children

Our Judah Man

Judah playing with his and sister's egg bucket

Libby hunting eggs at Joey's grandma and pa's

At grandma and pa's

Not sure what to do with this.

Libby and Mimi at the egg hunt at church.

Daddy helping brother put his eggs in his basket

Christmas Part 2 2009

We had Christmas at my mom's on Christmas Eve. Ever since I was young we have had Christmas on Christmas Eve.

My sister Amy holding Libby and helping her open her gifts. Memaw is sitting next to Amy.

My brother Matt with two of his boys

Christmas Part 1 2009

December 19th we had our first Christmas on Mark and Janet's, Joey's dad and step mom. I will post these in parts since we had so many Christmas's we took part in. We had a wondeful Christmas spent with family. The snow really added to the season. Hope you and yours were blessed as well.

Libby sporting a new pink coat.

Judah and mommy opening one of his gifts
Libby showing off her new ball glove. Because of the glare you can't see what's inside on the hand but it has her name and her birthdate on it.

MIA

I can't believe it's been this long since I have blogged, but like I said previously, it takes a back seat to other things. I apologize to my faithful readers who I know wait on the edge of their seat to read my posts *not*.

This Christmas season for the Fluitt family has been full of parties, caroling, church musicals, blessing a needy family in Bowie, baking, and just hanging out with each other. We honestly haven't been too extremely busy.

Tonight, us along with other friends, were blessed to be able to deliver a Christmas meal and presents to the Weaver family here in our hometown. They are a needy family with a wonderful story. They had to pawn most of their belongings just to pay bills. They had absolutely nothing. No furniture, no stove, no dining room table...nothing!! Most of the kids' toys were pawned as well. My friend Brittani along with her small group wanted to adopt this family and we of course wanted to be a part of the blessing, so we jumped right in there sending out our own emails asking for donations to help this family.

A sweet family purchased a new stove for them. Other's gave living room furniture, tables, a dining set, rugs, dishes, etc. And yet others purchased new things and gave so generously. I know at least 80 presents were carried into the house. Joey and I brought them a meal consisting of a roasted chicken, homemade mashed potatoes, green beans, and homemade biscuits. My sweet friend Alicia made a homemade pecan pie and homemade cookies. They were able to eat first before we all got there to deliver the presents.

The two kids and then the parents got to open several things while we were there. Geron, the dad, cried when he opened a tool set. He had to pawn his tools to pay the bills. Anne opened a too cute outfit and some baking items and the kids opened transformers, coloring books, new scooters, etc.

That didn't even touch the surface. My family was blessed to be a part of this wonderful time of giving. To see the look on their faces when they saw the meal and the gifts was priceless!! This is what the love of Christ is all about. It definitely is so much better to give than to receive.

Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, will be our second "Christmas." We will have our family Christmas on Christmas morning, and then we will go to Joey's mom's and stepdad's on Saturday morning and his grandparent's on Saturday night. Our last "Christmas" will be on January 2nd. We will definitely be busy, but we love getting to spend time with our family.

We hope you have a wonderful time with family and friends!! May Christ's love shine bright in your hearts and may you be encouraged to bless someone else.

One Year Checkup

Tuesday we took Libby for her one year heart checkup. Well, it actually was her 1 1/2 year checkup. She got an amazing report. She is doing so well. The patch is holding good, her EKG and ECHO were excellent. Dr. Siu doesn't want to see her again for two more years!! He even did an ECHO on Judah to see if his hole had closed up yet and it hadn't but it was still so small that he wasn't at all concerned. We will go back in January for his regular appointment.

Dr. Siu is simply the best doctor. He called us by name, remembered that we were Christians, and prayed with us before we left the room. Never ever had a doctor do that before. A true servant of the Lord that loves children.

We are praising the Lord for wonderful news and so grateful for His continued healing and new mercies every morning.

Oh, and another subject. I added a ton more songs to my playlist (at the bottom of the page) if you care to check them out. I also added some Christmas music for those who are indulging early. I am holding back until after Thanksgiving:) I will play the music while I'm working in the kitchen and I love it because there are no commercials and it's all the songs I like. Enjoy!!

There is also two mini sermons (it's what I call them), on the very bottom from John Piper and Mark Driscoll. Only 2-3 minutes a piece but well worth hearing. Check it out.

Fall Camping Trip 2009

We went camping last weekend, Halloween night, with some good friends. We absolutely froze our buns off at night, but it was a lot of fun. Now I will say the kids were warm and cozy, but Joey and I...not so good. We only got about one hour of sleep that night. Yes, we did have a heater, but our tent has ventilation at the top so the heat was escaping. Brother and sister were cozy in their respective beds and never knew their parents had hypothermia! We are thinking about making this a yearly tradition if we can get a better heater.

Judah man is under that blanket with only his head peeping through. It was downright chilly.

Libby warming by the fire.

Daddy chillin with brother...before it got cold.

Libby diggin for food.

All of us with Ergo's and and the babies. Joey with Libby, Me with Judah, Wendy with Jaika, and Ashlyn with Audrey. We went on a 3 mile hike with ALL the kids...needless to say, we almost called our chiropractor when we got home!!

Hugs,

Pumpkin Patch 2009

This weekend our family went to a local pumpkin patch. This was our first one to go to and it was so much fun!! We got to ride on a tractor pulled hayride, feed the goats from our hand (which wasn't new to me since I grew up with goats), but all the kids thought it was great. We all picked our very own pumpkin from the patch, which now decorates our porch. They even had fun places to take pictures with your family.

It was so hard to get the kids to look the same way. We decided just to go ahead and snap the picture anyway.

Geego and Nanny with all six grandkids.

My brother Matt with his four kids. He is such a good dad. So patient with them and he pours things of the Lord into their lives.

All six grandkids

Judah-4 months

Libby-2 years old

My nephews Chandler and Heath on the hayride

Feeding the goats

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I'll try and be better this week.