More car thoughts... yes it was 11 hours

~Children~
Do they act like they act because they are bad/rebellious/mean/sinful etc. or do they act that way because you dropped the ball. I believe that they way children act is a reflection of their heart a mirror of what is inside. They come with a certain personality NO DOUBT but as parents I feel it is our job to figure out the way they tick and guide them, lead them to the gold! So I have three boys right? They first one... orderly, planned intense and can freak out and pitch a fit like no other well... except like me but that is another story. He needs to be given the plan, he needs to think that he has good ideas, that he is a leader even if it is your idea... the second one... could careless about well most things, he goes with the flow, remembers EVERYTHING, and when he pitches a fit it is because someone is pushing against his love, challenging his motion of life, not considering his heart. He wants to please and all he needs is someone to hug him, play with him, and he could careless about who's idea it is as long as he gets there carried or tucked under your wing... and who knows how the third one will be but thus far he is a planner with a easygoing heart.

I think about how patient God is with each one of us and how his plan for us is the best plan and how we don't always take the easiest, best way there, Someone said recently that yes you can have a plan and it may be a good plan but sometimes the best is not always the best God has for you! So trust God has it in his hands and that when you are not seeing how this is so great that God has a "best plan" for you! and try not to fight it try not to test the waters just embrace that God is good full of unconditional love and guidance that in the end is the best because he wants the best for his children!

~I hope this makes since I should be sleeping~

Car Thoughts

Ok so 11 hours in a car can lead to some conversation! One thought we had...ok I had... What is the key to good relationships? I thought about many relationships in my life and thought is it communication, is it if you like that person, is it if you both are Christians, is it because you both have children(especially when they are both of yours hee hee) is it because you are related, why why why and what I came up with is it is unconditional love. People suck sometimes and they aren't likable and they aren't fun and the do really bad things but if you love someone unconditionally the way God loves us, the way Jesus showed us to love, there is no judging, there is nothing that can make you stop loving that person if you really have unconditional love. You can really NOT like them at moments but you never stop loving them. I think about it in the way of Avatar, when Jake Sollie takes his hair(or whatever it is) and the little jelly fingers fuse with the horses at which time the horse can feel, and hear, and know what Jake is thinking, feeling etc. I think it is like that, once your jelly fingers have linked with another's jelly fingers you feel what they feel, you can be mad at them or not like what they are doing but still love them still accept them. There are very few people in this world that can love purely, truly and 100% unconditionally and I think that is the only way that someone can have a true bonding, wonderful, genuine relationship with someone. and here is one more thought think about if both of you loved unconditionally... It would stop you from acting certain ways, causing hurt, causing harm doing things you can't undo! So today love like Jesus loved! Love the unlovable, hug the hurt and be the first to say I suck but I am committed to you, I love you and I am going to give my best to you! My best energy, my best thoughts, my best love, my best piece of cookie! Just do it!

Sunday February 30

Grandpa and Zane enjoying a little Baby Mozart dancin the night away!

My favorite thing today oh let me count the things!

I got to sleep forever...no seriously forever! Mike brought me the baby but other then that I SLEPT until after 11!!!! It has been YEARS probably 6 since I have done that! and then I walked outside and the wonderful warm beautifully hot best feeling sun covered my body! Oh how my soul belongs to Florida! Wonderful day with the family~ I am so so so thankful for this family and for the wonderful people they are and the ways they influence my children and most of all the way they love them! It is so nice for grandparents/great aunts to want to play with and be with their grandkids! and cousin fun to top it off! 

 It is so refreshing! 

Saturday Jan 29th

AND WE'RE OFF!!! Like a herd of TURTLES! We left today to spend some time with the Giusti's, Aunt Vickie, the mouse and Shamu!!! Can't wait and I am so looking forward to the week! However the 9 hour trip took a little over 11 WheeHoo love it~ Here are some pic from the trip.
How the boys spent 11 hours and

Zane checking out his yogurt treat~

Friday Jan 28th

Walker rediscovered some of his most favorite toys! and Zane liked them too... they played together for a long while! Yea for sharing!

 When the kids are in bed and the daddies are away the mommies will play! 

Love some girl time! and leg wrestling!

                                  LOVE them!

Peas and poses!

I love this photo because I like to sit like this and Papa sits like this ALLL the time! and then I turned and someone was standing at the couch! Giusti house PREPARE yourself the Z is on the move! 

Memaw and Zane enjoyed his first real green beans and he loved them and Memaw said... this boy just wants real food and then he ate it!

 a few days old...

9 months old 

Wednessday 26th

I love this cup and everything that comes inside it! Today was the third day in a row I was woken with a latte and at night sent to bed with a cup of tea. I love them and they are the best I have ever tasted each time. I like them out and about but they always taste so good when they are fixed and given to you with the smile I get on the other side! He is so good to me and so so hot!(;

Thank you Mr. Wonderful! 

Tuesday 11

~We had some snuggle time and some play time! Noah and Zane played together by going back and forth with some rhythm on the chair so cute and so fun to see them play and be together! Children are such sweet blessings of simple plesures,  wonder and discovery. LOVE to watch them grow and explore!~

Funny Flamingos

~ On a visit to the Nature Center Aunt Beth says... maybe we will see some flamingos and
Mason says nope we wont,
AB Why?
Mason... because they don't live here it's too cold.
AB Where do they live then?
Mason Africa
So next snow day will be all about Africa and who really lives there tonight... Flamingos (:

Monday!

Big Booty Pants! and the Nature Center

The Fords came to visit and we ran around WNC for a bit today before the next big snow! Aunt Brain brought Zane a little surprise! Big Booty pants and are they not the cutest thing ever!!!!

Sunday!

I tried to download a video of Mason and Walker singing a song that i really hope they can understand earlier then later what it means but as for now they are really cute sining this song! and Zane well he had a good nap!

Saturday

                    

Saturday school, basketball game and more house cleaning and 

nothing is as fun as a box... interesting Saturday!

Friday~A night out in Waynesville

Run around morning! Mary Walker came this morning and played with sweet Zane while I got some errands around town taken care of! It is so wonderful to leave your house and know that not only are your children cared for but loved! SHE IS WONDERFUL!!!! 

Mason and I made a pizza for dinner and then Mike and I went out on the town! 

We have a friend who was having a special night at his art gallery with some very beautiful art! It was a very nice night with beautiful art! After viewing some wonderful pieces and sharing some great conversation with friends Mike and I set out on an adventure with Jed and Liz! We stepped into Sweet Onion at 8:50ish and they were...closed ): So we tried another place in town. It was packed so we waited about 20 min and finally got a table! By this time we are all pretty hungry. We ordered an appetizer and drinks and enjoyed every bite. After a bit we ordered our food and kept talking, our waitress made sure our drinks were full and even treated us to a Flat Tire! 9:30 went by, 10, and a little before 11 Mike asked the waitress... what's going on with our food... food? she replies... yes food he says...Holy 'Cow' she says and begins to freak out! We all tell her it is OK and try and calm her down and we leave and head to THE WAFFLE HOUSE!!! and baby that grilled cheese had never tasted so good! with extra pickles! a good laugh and a lesson learned... dinner with no food is just as nice with good company! 

~ Today ~

Flooded with emotions! Happy, sad, confused, blessed, excited, anxious, you name it I felt it today! I have recently become aware that I am like the man in Green Mile (kind of) If I care about someone I physically feel their, happiness, pain, excitement etc. I love it and hate it but just the same it is what it is. With all of that said today I did a lot of praying both on the side of THANK YOU God for your blessings and cover XXXXXXX with your love and power along with Dear God tell me why...show me the point and make me aware. When I look at my boys and Mike and family and friends as far as I am concerned I am totally content to keep the boys at this age, Mike and I are still having fun taking it moment by moment, making snow angels and having snowball fights (but we could always use more date nights) we have a home that is a home not a house and food on the table we are blessed and I know it. When I think on all the information I received today all I can go to is

Jeremiah 29:11  
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 


I trust this and have to learn to trust it even for others because I know God is good, God is love and God loves each one of us beyond imagination! 


Blessings to you and yours on this day! 

Life just like the snow... precious, pure, fragile, peaceful, a gift, a blanket of love 

and always a gift from God!

Today embrace the gifts God has given you and wait patiently for those that are on the way! 

Day19

Two Hour delay oh yea! but then...

Zane spent some time in the gym nursery and they called me out of yoga because he said he was ready to go! At home he pulled up on his toy basket to a complete stand for the first time and threw out the toys!  Walker went on a lunch date with Memaw, got to play whatever he wanted on the wii and we had some Major sugar pot emptying going on!  Mason got to come home and relax . . . something he hasn't done in two days! but while relaxing watching television he "backforwarded" the show and Mike told him that the right thing to call it was rewind. My heart crushed inside! It was the last little baby thing that Mason does or says and it made this Mommy a little sad. It did take us back to lasterday and lastermornin and what wonderful words those were!  It was a fast and good day! and the night brought the begining of season 10 of AMERICAN IDOL!!! a must see in the Giusti house! 

Day~~~~18

We LOVE 2 hour delays ~ 

     Zane's fun new thing and today...we turned it around! 

                 Legos legos legos 

Day 17

NO SCHOOL!!! to celebrate Martin Luther King! We jumped for joy for is courage at the bounce house!

                                                                              

 Also!!!! Mason lost his first tooth!!!

Day 16

Today we played with our shadows and swam around our fish bowl... 

~15~ Happy Birthday McKenna

Happy Birthday McKenna!!! Fun fun party little chef! 

 Zane had some time with his Memaw              and                              Walker spent some time with Daddy!

As I drove around today I thanked God for this beautiful area all covered in white, the 7 days in my house/yard with my family and thought to myself what a wonderful world now that was life!

Friday 14

~Mike was off today (: and so I thought we would go in to Asheville and do some things to bring home for the finishing touches on the house that I have been working working working on... Did I say working yea! It felt so good to drive and to be out in the world! This was the first time since LAST Friday we all had been out of the house and that I had driven! We went in about noon and the boys fell asleep ahhh. We arrived at PF Changs just as eyes peeped open and all four of us put a hurting on some food! Zane cheered us on! It was a nice lunch. All enjoyed talking and playing with some shape books! A little special sweet tea and chocolate cake YUM! Then we hit the stores by the airport (this is my favorite spot) and when we could not shop another minute we came home and hiked up the driveway with all the goodies! Retail therapy is the best and I got only one thing that was not on my list Whoo Hooo! Go List! We forgot the boys jackets yes it is 37 but when it has been in the single digits I guess they didn't realize they needed to have one! and I didn't notice until we had already left so we improvised Walker wore Mike's and Mason and I discovered yet another use for the highchair/buggy cover! Happy Friday and come on weekend~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Thursday 13

We made play~dough!!!

 Mason's First loose TOOTH!!!!!!!!!

Walker said... I don't and won't have a loose tooth Do NOT worry!

and Zane still has 0!!! (: