Happy Thanksgiving!

Robert and I have been off work since Wednesday afternoon and it has been SO nice! We got most of the cooking done on Wednesday evening and finished everything else up on Thursday. We had my Mom, Charlie and Matt over for dinner. We had all the typical things and everything turned out great! We even tried a new sweet potato recipe (Thanks Jodi!) that everyone really liked. Robert even ate them!! Below is a picture from Thanksgiving Day after we ate. You can see my growing belly!

Speaking of belly. I will be 28 weeks this week! I can’t believe at how fast things have gone and how well it has gone. We start Lamaze class tomorrow so that should be interesting. I’m hearing you see some pretty interesting things during the class. I really hope we learn a lot. It is for 2.5 hours on Mondays for 4 weeks so it will be pretty hard on us since it will be a long day. Our showers are starting on December 14th. I’m so excited to spend these times with our friends and family!

Below is a picture of our new entertainment center that we got a couple of weeks ago. Previously we have plywood and cinder blocks and our DVD’s were spread throughout the house in 3 different rooms. This makes such a huge difference! Plus it gives us a good place to put our Christmas Moose collection. 🙂

Here are Zoe and I relaxing during the Thanksgiving holiday. She and I have spend a lot of time on the couch like this. I love it when she snuggles with me. It helps that the weather is cold and she is using me for my body warmth 😛 I’ll take Zoe snuggling any day!

Well that’s it for now. Back to work tomorrow… YUCK! This is going to be a busy week that I am praying for LOTS of patience!

Have a great week!

Love to you all!
K

26 weeks

Things have been going good around our house. I have been feeling the baby move a TON! Yesterday he was pushing up against my side when I was walking around and it was not a nice feeling. I tried to get him to move over but it didn’t last long. Oh well, things are better today 🙂

We went to Target last night and got a new entertainment center and a matching bookcase. It looks SO nice. Robert did a great job in putting it all together. Before we had DVD’s all over the house, scrapbooks stacked up and games just sitting around. Now we have all that on the book case. Our previous entertainment center was plywood and cinder blocks. (Very college like but effective). Now it is in a nice cabinet all organized and together. Too bad the DVD player was too long to fit in but it works fine on my scrap booking storage cabinet made by my Dad.

As soon as Robert is done doing some computer work, I’ll post pictures.

Overall I am doing well. I had a bit of a stressful day on Friday but after having a productive weekend, I feel better. There is just so much that needs to be done at home that it is hard to get things done during the week. I know I can’t do as much as I used to be able to do but it is still frustrating. Next weekend looks like another weekend where we can get a lot done as well. Just have to focus on laundry this week and things will be good.

Thanks for reading and thank you for the continued prayers.

Love to you all!

Kendra

I heard this on the radio this morning and thought about how many times I left other people’s garbage bother me.  This was God’s timing for me to hear this on the way in.  Hope you enjoy it.

Kendra

Beware of Garbage Trucks

 How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?
 
However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly he/she can get back her focus on what’s important.  Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson.   I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab.
Here’s what happened. …… I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car’s back end by just inches!  The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us.  My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.  And I mean, he was friendly.

So, I said, “Why did you just do that?  This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”  And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”

Many people are like garbage trucks.  They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.  As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it.  And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.
When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally.   You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You’ll be happy you did.

So this was it: The “Law of the Garbage Truck.”  I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me?  And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people:  At work, at home, on the streets?  It was that day I said, “I’m not going to do it anymore.”

Well, now “I see Garbage Trucks.”  I see the load they’re carrying.
I see them coming to drop it off.  And like my Taxi Driver, I don’t make it a personal thing; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

Various activities around Florida:

Us on Cocoa Beach
Me, Robert and Grandmother Hogle at her house in Daytona Beach. We stopped by for a couple of hours to have lunch with her.
Dale Earnhart Bridge at Daytona International Speedway.
The entrance to the Speedway. We didn’t get to go on a tour or anything due to not having enough time.