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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Dedication




Today all three of our precious girls were dedicated at church! I am so blessed to have the family that I do and I look forward to raising them in the way of the Lord! Robert Clark and Mary Elena Clark were also dedicated today! After church we went over to Duke and Mary Clark's for a big party! We really enjoyed being surrounded by such wonderful people and thank everyone for celebrating our special day with us!

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Thanks for inviting us to celebrate with you guys. Again, it's a blessing to see children dedicated ot to Lord.
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Day at the Arboretum












On Thursday we went to Dallas Blooms at the arboretum with Doug, Lisa, Mary, William, and Robert! We all had a lot of fun and look forward to going next year!

more pictures are at www.cassandra.smugmug.com

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What fun pictures!
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

HIndu Floaty Thingy

I couldn't think of a title for this post, so I stole it from Chris's site...

It is midnight and I am still awake :( I just can't sleep for some reason, oh well. Today we are going to the Arboretum with the Clarks. I am really looking forward to this and love all of the pretty pictures we get. Emma has all of a sudden fallen in love with the flowers the past couple of weeks so she is super excited! She is also excited that daddy is coming with us. He had to work all last weekend and she really missed him.

I also go to the allergist in the afternoon and in a way I am looking forward to that, how sad is that? For some reason I have been having a lot of reactions lately and my skin is in so much pain from scratching it raw. I am ready for relief and am thinking that I might be allergic to something new, we shall see.

Yesterday Madison was watching The Wiggles,shocker, and Dorothy was doing a ballet dance and Madison copied her and twirled for the first time. It was the cutest thing and I think she may be my dancer! Emma was super cuddly yesterday and I enjoyed holding her and cuddling a lot, she is just the greatest 3 year old I know, Mary you are a close 2nd in my book!!! Kaetlyn was a chatter bug. I think it was the most I have heard her babble, it was so cute and she was in such a good mood most of the day. We didn't do much yesterday, just went to Kohls and Target with Lisa and the kids, but it was a really good day!

Speaking of Kohls, this is for Chris Downing...I saw a high school musical birthday card that played a song when you opened it. I really wish I would have seen that card before your birthday, oh well there is always next year.

So it is almost April and I am happy because I just love spring. I love the colors of spring and the pretty flowers but I am also a little sad. I am sad because it means that MOPS will be coming to an end in not too long and so will our small church group,2:42. I have loved going to these and will miss them this summer.

God rules and I happily submit to my wonderful loving husband! No that doesn't mean I am brainwashed or less of a person, I am not a doormat. God is Awesome and I love living a Christian life!

I have recently become really good at making sure the house stays clean and organized. I now do a major cleaning on Sunday nights and then every other day I go back over everything quickly, I am now in love with swifter products because they make the every other day things go fast. I love how the house looks all nice and clean!

I spend wayyy to much money that we don't really have to spend and hopefully with God's help and Chris's I can control that. Maybe next month I will do what some friends of ours are doing and only by the necessities. I think I have been trying to keep up with the spending I see of family members, which they have it to spend and chose to spend it that way no problem with that at all. However Chris and I have chosen to have a large family and with that you don't have lots of money and you sometimes use second hand stuff and you make sacrifices. I want a large family and I think I finally realize that I don't have to keep up with everyone else. Just because people I know wear designer things doesn't mean our family has to. Hopefully my new way of thinking will help Chris and I out..

I need to get better at discipline. I feel I do a good job with time out offenses and small things but when it is something major I seem to have a hard time. I think it has to do with something from my past but not sure what. I just hate to see my kids in pain and crying. It just breaks my heart. Please help pray that I will get better at this because I know God wants me to discipline my children and I need to.

I think I might remove red dye#40 from the kids diet, for some kids they have a bad reaction to it so I want to see what it does for our kids. It can make kids hyper. I am also going to really limit the amount of junk food they have. Really they only get it on the weekends some but I do want to cut back on it. I want them to learn to eat healthy and I need to also.

While I am writing this post I am talking to Lisa online. She told me that in her high school science class they did an experiment where they looked in a microscope at ketchup and syrup and found bug parts in them----GROSSSSSSS

Please excuse any spelling or grammar errors, like I said it is midnight, I am tired but can't sleep. My brain however isn't working to its fullest and is half asleep!

Well sorry for the long random post on my various thoughts, you can wake up now ;)

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I'm eager to see pictures from the arboretum!
 - Blogger Bonnie (3/23/2007 9:12 AM)
 
I'm glad that your walk with Christ is where you want it to be!
 - Blogger Kristen (3/25/2007 9:13 PM)
 
You can ask your 242 if they are open to meeting in the summer. Some groups choose to do that. Our group discussed it this week.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

A Change Inside of Me

I have been a Christian for awhile and I believe that the Bible is the truth. I have also known that Chris should be the leader of our household because that is what the Bible says, that is how I have wanted it as well. I always thought that is how we were living but recently I figured out that wasn't the case. I came to a realization recently and I feel like I have completely changed and am a new person. I am happier, smiling more, and just feel everything is for the better. Chris is now the leader of our house for sure! I have also been doing more things to take care of him and the girls and in doing so I feel better about myself and my relationship with God. It is hard to explain the changes that I have made but this is the closest I have felt to God ever and what a wonderful amazing feeling it is!

I haven't told anyone this but a few weeks ago I felt like the devil was trying to get to me. I had a horrible week and was in a bad mood the whole week which caused me to let everything get to me. I prayed about it and felt peace and then I had this realization and since then things have been even better. God is so amazing and I praise him for all he has done! Our God is such an awesome God!

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I'm glad to know you're feeling so much better about things - sounds like everything's a little smoother these days.
 - Blogger Bonnie (3/14/2007 11:13 AM)
 
That is so beautiful, Casey! It reminds me once again of what I've been carrying in my shirt pocket for several days, from Ephesians 3:20..."God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us."...with love as always from Papa Joe
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Sweet, sweet sleep

I didn't wnt to say anything the first night for fear of jinxing it, but for three nights in a row here Kaetlyn has slept straight through the night! Ahhhhh.... rest.

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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Best Friends


Last week Lisa and I went and had pictures of Emma and Mary taken. We also did this last year and plan on doing it once a year. They are the best of friends!

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Big Day for Emma

Today I enrolled Emma in preschool :( She will be going to a kids day out program at a church in Frisco starting in September. She will go three days a week and she seems really excited! All day today she has been saying "I want to go to school". We took a tour of it today and it seems like it will be a good fit for us, they have a christian based curriculum!! One thing that we have to work on before September is potty training, she can't go unless she is potty trained. So tonight we put Emma in panties and had her sit on the potty. She didn't go at all in the potty but was excited to try and to wear panties. She did have one accident but luckily it didn't scare her and she put new panties right back on. Tomorrow we are going in panties again and hopefully by September she will be a pro! I can't believe she will be going in the fall, she has grown before my eyes.

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Wow, that's really exciting for her! I bet she'll really enjoy all the other kids and new things to do.
 - Blogger Bonnie (3/08/2007 6:12 PM)
 
Last night Bonnie made me put on panties and sit on the potty... :(
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Reading

A 21 month old's ability to ask to read (and enjoy!) the same 18 page book on continuous repeat is uncanny... It's even more uncanny considering that the book only has 15 words and even when read slowly only takes about 30 seconds to finish.

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was it the Baby Animals book? She made me read it to her over and over again this afternoon. i enjoyed it though because she was so excited about it and liked it! It was like a new story each time I started over again, she is such a sweet and special girl!
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Friday, March 02, 2007

We got Madison's glasses

She's actually wearing them!

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Oh my gosh, they're adorable!
 - Blogger Bonnie (3/02/2007 5:30 PM)
 
There's a happy girl! Can you tell if she sees better or enjoys them yet?
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Kaetlyn's 2 Month Check-Up


Kaetlyn is now 2 whole months old! She now weighs 8lbs 11oz(10%), is 20 1/2" long(5%), and is doing great! Poor thing got 5 shots, she was really sore from them but hardly cried at all! She is doing really well and we go back when she is 4 months old! Can you believe she is already 2 months old? Where did the time go?

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