17th Birthday Yesterday...

I got these shots yesterday.  For Tim's birthday we upgraded his cell phone.  He is so happy with his new phone.

Mother's Day...

Mother's Day is always extra special for me because that is the day when our son was born.  17 years ago on this date Tim was born at a little after 6am weighing 7lbs 13oz & 20 1/2" long.  I love that he and I will always have that bond from when he was born.  

He is growing into an amazing young man and I'm so thankful that I get to celebrate his birthday and Mother's Day together with him this year.  It doesn't always fall that way but when it does it's an extra special day.  In honor of Mother's Day I wanted to share a pic of me pregnant, Tim when he was first born & Tim now.

Being a mom of a boy with tons of energy has been challenging to say the least.  I love my life as a mom.  Being a boy mom is like being on a roller coaster ride that never stops.  They are all over the place bouncing around like an out of control ball.  It's certainly never boring.  He's kept me on my toes and I wouldn't have it any other way.  It's been the best life raising Tim.  It's hard to believe that next year he will graduate High School.  It seems like time has gone by so fast but we sure have cherished every moment with our boy.  We have taken the time to enjoy the entire journey as parents making memories that will last a lifetime.  God has been so good to us and we are eternally grateful.  

I want to shift gears now and take a moment to recognize these 3 incredible women in my life and wish them a very Happy Mother's Day!!!

These 3 women are so incredibly special to me.  One gave me life, one pointed me to Christ and showed me His unconditional love & one gave me my husband.  The top pic in the pic above is of me with my mom, Mary.  She married my dad at 17 before ever finishing HS.  A month into their marriage she became pregnant with me, or so they tell me..hehehe.  Even though she was still very young herself having babies she did the best she knew how to do being such a young mother.  She went back and got her diploma when my youngest sister was in the head start program many years later.  I'm so proud of her for doing that because most women back then didn't.   The blonde lady in the pic above is Anne.  She is my spiritual mom and has left such a huge imprint on my heart and life for God.  I learned so much about the kind of woman of God that I wanted to be from her example.  My faith is what it is today because she has always shown me the love of Christ and treated me like I was one of her own children.  We have an amazing bond to this day.  The oldest lady in the pic above is my mother-in-law(love), Doris.  She loves her family immensely.  It has been such a blessing to know such a spit fire of a woman all these years since marrying Scot.  I'm so thankful for her because without her there would've never been a Scot or Tim.  Because of her I have two of the most wonderful gifts ever who mean everything to me! 

God Bless All Mom's! May your Mother's Day be filled with blessings overflowing!!!

Happy 17th Tim!

17 years ago today Tim entered this world on Mother's Day around a little after 6 in the morning.  He was a c-section birth because I never got past 8cm dilation.  He was wedged on my pelvic bone (which was why I was in so much pain the last month of pregnancy).  He weighed 7lbs. 13oz.  He was 20 1/2" long.  This year we celebrate his 17th birthday & Mother's Day together.  He now weighs around 64.5kg (Do the math for the pounds).  He is around 5'6" tall.  He is the best Mother's Day gift ever!!!  

He has always had enough energy for 5 kids which is why we put him in TaeKwonDo when he was only 4 1/2 years old.  He needed an outlet for his energy.  Now, all these years later, he's doing USA Olympic Weightlifting as his sport of choice & is loving it even more than he ever did TaeKwonDo (and he really loved TKD).  

He has always had Olympic dreams as far back as his dad and I can remember.  He thought TKD would get him there but now it seems USA Olympic Weightlifting is his chosen path for hopefully getting there one day.  His dreams have never changed just the sport in which he's doing to make those dreams a reality.

At 17 he continues to press hard towards his goals.  When he's not doing school or weightlifting training he is working our family business with his dad and I.  He is such a go getter and we love that about him.  He knows what he wants and he goes after it with all of his heart.    He is an amazing young man.  He's strong in mind, body and spirit!  

We love how much he loves God and his family.  We love watching him enjoy life to the fullest.  He will never be a follower (except of Jesus) and he will always be a leader!  He marches to the beat of his own drum.  He is a critical thinker.  He will never be brainwashed by any of the cultural/political trends.  He has a strong sense of right and wrong.  His World View is a Biblical World View.  He will never be a problem on society but will always be one of those that seeks solutions to whatever he's facing in this life.  

His dad and I are so thankful that God has allowed us to be his parents all these years.  It has been a joy, a challenge at times, and an adventure like none other.  We are so incredibly proud of the man that he is becoming and as our time raising him is running short we are fully ready to give him back into God's hands as he lives his own life.  It's our prayer & our hope that his life will always be guided by God.  That instead of taking the steering wheel of his life himself that he gives it to God to fully lead, guide & direct him on the paths that he should take.  

We hope you have the happiest of birthdays today Tim!  May you have many more.  We love you to the moon & beyond!!!  

We upgraded his cell phone as an early birthday gift. 

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Tomorrow Tim will be 17 years old.  We will be celebrating by going to Kanki for lunch and will be celebrating not only his birthday but Mother's Day as well.  We will be bringing my mom along too.  One day to celebrate so much.  Looking forward to it.  I'm sure it will be lots of fun.

2 More Days...

Tim will be 17 in just 2 days.  He was born on Mother's Day the year he was born so this year it's an extra special birthday because we get to celebrate it on Mother's Day😊.

Tim's Coach, Coach Jarrod Got Married...

Tim's coach got married on April 26th.  His wife is a weightlifter.  Tim laughed and joked about him getting married but he really is happy for them both.  They are great folks.  So glad that Tim has him as his coach and his wife as a teammate.  Congrats to them both on their marriage!  May they have a long married life filled with blessings that cannot be contained!  

(I just totally missed making this post sooner.)

Life....

I was just thinking this morning about how messed up our world is.  Everywhere you look folks are living lives in ways they were never meant to live them ever.  All you have to do is look at our animals to see how things are supposed to be.  You don't see the males/females trying to "identify" as something they are not!  They are not having relations in a way that wasn't intended for them.  The circle of life, the way God intends it, works and watching animals shows us just how well it works & why it should never be messed with. 

I'll give you an example.  We have tons of goats next door to us and each year their number grows even larger.  You don't see billy goats trying to have sex with one another.  They go after the females and then more baby goats are born.  There's order and sense to the way God intends for our lives to be lived.  

Satan just wants to distort all of that and we as a human race are allowing that to happen instead of leading and guiding our kids in the right way of living their lives.  Instead of helping them deal with unnatural emotions they are having as they navigate through puberty into womanhood or manhood.  Having feelings is one thing but acting on them is quite another.  We should be leading and guiding them.  Helping them to see the women or men that they are becoming and helping them become great women and men.  It's our job as parents/teachers/coaches or whatever influencer you are in a kids life to lead guide and direct them in a positive way that leads to a life that is lived the way God intended for them to live.  We are enabling Satan to tear this world to shreds with the distortions that are going on with our kids today.  They don't know if they are coming or going.  They don't know what sex they are supposed to be because our world has confused everything so much.  It's just sad really.

Our animals know though.  They aren't confused or trying to be or do things that are out of the order that God intended for life.  We should take a page from them.  The bulls aren't trying to be a momma cow.  A rooster isn't tryin to be a hen.  A billy goat isn't trying to be a female goat.  A boy dog isn't trying to be a girl dog.  A boy cat isn't trying to be a girl cat.  And non of them are trying to be something they aren't like a dog being a cat.  It's simple logics.  

We need to take our kids back and in turn take our world back and lead, guide & direct our kids in the way they should go so that when they are old they won't depart from it.   They won't seek to be something that God never intended for them to be like boys trying to be girls and vice versa if we are guiding them in a positive God intended way.  If we let the hierarchy of nature be our guide into how we are to be sexually with one another a whole lot of issues in our world today could be turned around for the betterment of our entire society.  Just saying.

Here's some pictures of our pets for you to enjoy as you take time to really let this sink in.

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