Goodnight Prayers

Goodnight prayer from the mouth of Austin Lee:
"Dear God, thank you for this day and my family. Thank you that the other team won the baseball game - they were really good and I am happy that they are happy about winning. I pray that you will help them win the next game."

Goodnight prayer form the mouth of Annah Grace Lee:
"Dear God, thank you for this day and for my babysitter, Jessica, who took me to dinner. Thank you for making rice. Help Austin to have fun at his friends house when he spends the night with him on Friday. He needs a night out."

Loose tooth

Austin lost his tooth! The toothfairy came and left gold glitter from the window to his bed...along with the loot - $$$ that he has been carrying around in his backpack ever since. He has 3 more teeth that are currently loose - so the toothfairy should start saving!
Funny story: I need to document it before I forget it.
The last tooth that Annah Grace lost she took me down memory lane to a time that I had desperately tried to forget...the time the toothfairy didn't come. So here is how that conversation went:
AG- "Mom, remember when we lived in Granbury and the toothfairy didn't come. Well, actually you said that the window was locked and her wings froze as she tried to get in. Then in the morning, you went to check in my room and found her flying outside the window. When you opened the window, she flew in and left glitter everywhere along with the money for my tooth...Mom, do you remember when that happened?"
Me- "Yes, sweetie, I remember"
AG- "So, this time we need to make sure we unlock the window - especially since she will have a new house to find"
Me-"Ok, I can help you do that"
AG-"I think the tooth fairy is really creative. She always leaves different colored glitter when she comes"
Me-"Maybe the toothfairy and I have some things in common"
AG-"Really, mom? I don't think so. After all, you can't do magic and you can't fly....Maybe when you grow up you will be more like the toothfairy"

So the toothfairy continues to bless us - even on Hawthorne Avenue. I am hoping to catch a cute picture of the toothless wonder.

Happy!

Austin is happy! Happy because he played his last game of the season and got a great hit! Happy because his teacher's bear, Marcus, got to come home with us for the weekend - and Marcus had baseball clothes in is bag.

Happy because his first tooth is loose and hanging by a thread! Happy because he can translate any simple conversation into the voice of "Opera Man" (if I can capture this in video, I will do my best to upload to the blog...hilarious!) Happy because he is gaining confidence riding his bike and will soon be able to take his training wheels off. Happy that he has finally memorized his first knock knock joke.

Most all of the time he is happy....and I am blessed. I love my sweet boy.

So, our sweet gigi graduated from Baylor this past weekend! The first time I met her she was about Annah Grace's age and cute as pie. I think she had crimped her hair the weekend I came to visit from college - I remember how much she looked up to her older brother ( 13 years older to be exact) I can't believe so much time has passed. We are so proud of her.

Sandy, the turtle (tortoise)

The other day we found a turtle (actually, we were informed by our older and wiser 10 yr old nieghbor that it was a tortoise, since it had clawed feet instead of webbed feet!) He was walking (rather fast for a tortoise) down the sidewalk and headed for the street. Austin came running in the house to tell us and before even thinking about it, Annah Grace picked it up to rescue it. It was nice - peeking out of it shell each time you let it down to walk around. We decide to make it a little habitat and hold onto it until our neighbors got home ( we think it might be the same one they spotted a few days before!) So, we got out the cooler, stole some sand from our builder and put in some leaves and water. The kids named him Sandy. We took care of him for a couple of hours and when our neighbors got home, we took him down to the creek to let him go. He ended up not really liking the sanctuary we had built for him and tried desperately to escape. Then, the kids decided to wash his shell before we sent him on his way and that irritated him even more! Surely, had he been a snapping turtle, we would have been injured by this point. Sandy kept sticking his head out of his shell and opening his mouth wide and looking around like "will you people please leave me alone!" So we put him in the back of the wagon and headed toward the creek - it was a pretty bumpy ride!
Well, he was released back into the wild with scores of vegetation to snack on and rocky, sandy soil to climb. We made sure to get totally soaked in the creek before returning home. After all, it's not every day you find a turtle!

Pics with Will

I thought everyone might want to see a picture of us with our new nephew/cousin! Will is doing great and is so good to his momma. More to come as soon as Blogger will load more than 1 picture at a time! (Austin has his foot propped up on the full size bed that pulled out of the wall for my brother n law, Landon to sleep on...luxury!)

5-11-08

This morning I awoke to Brian heading out the door to lead worship, but not before he came over to say Happy Mothers Day and remind me of what a great mom I was. So, he left and I walked into AG's room and on cue, she said "Happy Mothers day Mom." So, I crawled into bed with her and watched Power Rangers Mystic Force on he DVD player. (Typical Annah Grace) Then I hear footsteps coming up the stairs much too loud to be Austin or pedro, the dog. Brian had gone to Starbucks and bought me my favorite Latte and a petite vanilla scone (also a favorite) and brought it back to me. I guess he had gotten up a little earlier to accomplish that task, but I had not looked at the clock when I woke up. So, he left again and then Austin walked in the room wrapped up in his favorite blanket..."Happy Mothers Day, Mama" and he walked over and gave me a kiss.
Thats all I needed - the day is complete.

ps. The picture is my favorite family pic from Spring Break.

Mothers Day Memory

He arrived!! William Jack Webb - "Will" made it here without a hitch. We spent a sweet day with my sister in her lovely hospital room (new Baylor All Saints women's hospital...Andrews Labor and delivery center) - they broke her water, gave her an epidural...all went well. Then it was time, we all exited the room and within 5 minutes, he was here. 3:56pm - 6lbs. 7oz. 18" long - 5-8-08.
Bright blond hair perfectly laid on his perfect round head.
My nephew Grae (his big brother) was so sweet and excited for his brother to come...he kept clapping his hands and smiling. We took Grae home to spend the night with us Friday night and the next morning, I went to go get them some chicken minis from chick-fil-a...YUM! Oh, and chocolate milk by request. So, I got home and spread out the yummies on the coffee table so they could watch TV ( after all, this is Winnies house, just a step down from Mimi's) and Grae spoke up..."Winnie, we got to say de pwayer." You're right, I said, let me turn off the TV. He started in before I could reach the button. "Dear God , thank you for dis day, thank you for dis food, and thank you for my baby will (wee-yall, as he says) cuz he's a good boy. Amen."
Precious. Warms my heart.
Happy Mothers day Mom, Sarah (Tata) and to all the mommies I love!
Love, Winnie (jenna)

Sweet Legacy

We are all anxiously awaiting my nephew to be born...William Jack Webb will come by Thursday at least...it's on the books! My sister chose to name him after my grampa - William Jack Stamps. My grampa was a very handsome man in his youth (way to go gramma!) and very cute in his later years...cute gray curls tucked around his ears and squeaky bald in the middle. He used to ask us when we were little to draw on his leg. He would pull up his pants leg and hand us a ball point pen to have at it...then he would pay us a quarter! Good memories for sure. But most of all, he left a legacy of loving the Lord like only he and my gramma could do. They persevered many trials and tribulations and came out loving Him (and each other) even more. My gramma was so gracious to him as his body began to be taken over with Parkinsons Disease until finally on Mothers Day 2004, he went to be with the Lord.
What is so amazing is that my sister Sarah did not plan her pregnancy for May nor did she set out to name him William Jack (especially since we all thought he was a girl -that is until it was confirmed!) But here we are, just days away from Mothers Day and William Jack is on his way. It is a sweet celebration of a new life beginning and of a life that lived and loved well.
So, here's to new baby Will and to my grampa. Your legacy lives on!

Inspired

I have been inspired for a while by my friends who are in this world of "blogging" and have wanted to give it a whirl...so here it goes.
I always feel like when I have read a friends blog, that I have had a conversation with them and I am blessed because of it. Thank you to my sweet friends for sharing your lives with me.

My life has been filled with beautiful surprises. The two most important - meeting my future husband, while I was still in college, on a blind date ( set up by a family member, none the less!) and being the mom of 2 wonderful kiddos - both unplanned by me, but totally planned by God.
God continues to have rich surprises for me, if I will just wait to recieve them. Most often, these surprises will come after a hardship of some kind. I know throughout my life, my faith story has been built by the beautiful surprises God allowed in my life...and I am enternally grateful.
My hearts desire is to document these surprises mostly for me - so that I never forget. But also, for my children - so they will always remember how faithful God was to their mommy...and how faithful He will be to them.