Summer where have you gone?

Summer vacation is almost over! Can you believe that? I mean we ( the Christian school my kids go to) don't start back till the day after Labor day. Thats not far off. I have yet to really get any school shopping done. Well maybe for DJ I have but they all still need shoes and supplies.

My Dad and myself have a birthday this month. His is the 3rd and mine is the 16th. I am truly excited about both. Not that we are getting older but we are going out to eat and two awesome places. We are going to White's Seafood for my Dad's. They have king crab legs, steak. You name it! For mine we are going to Kirin. I LOVE Japanese food!!

Now just a few more things I want to chat about. Life. Simply right? NOT! I was just thinking to myself how I spend way to much time behind a computer,phone, ps3,wii, book. Or the worst for me sleeping. I really want to start mangaing my time better. I want to finish reading the Bible, go pray at church more. Play more games with the kids. Do more crafts with them. Actually get up and make hot meals everyday for them for breakfast! Yeah, don't fall out of your chair on that one! I am not a morning person and I can't stand the smell of breakfast foods. I cook eggs, bacon etc for them just not first thing in the morning but I think thats one thing I am gonna start changing. Slowly. I also want to get back in the habit of getting up with David when he gets off for work in the mornings. Maybe even make him breakfast. Who knows. We will see how it goes this week.

I've been praying so hard for God to point us in the right direction. Where to live, build or buy a used mobile home for the time being. So many things are running threw my mind. But tonight at church I saw it clearly. We are going to buy a used mobile home and start slow. I wanted to wait it out here in this house till we build but building could take years at this point in the game. To be honest my mind changes so much with house plans I would be scared to finish something and it not be just want I want. I also thing your taste/style changes when you are older. So my game plan is now 30! I mean I might not want orange everywhere and leopard rugs and lamps. Ha! But who knows. I haven't grown out of it in 27 years!!! LOL

So that was alot of rambling, but it made perfect sense to me :-P

                                                                Till next time, Val

The BIBLE thats the book for me!

I have been wanting to write about this for some time but it seems I always lose my train of thought theses days. I started reading the Bible at the beginning of the year. Our Paster, my Uncle asked us to all read to the Bible more. I took it upon myself to make a commitment to read the intire Bible this year.

I wanted to update on my progress. There is 66 books in the intire Bible and I have read 36 so far!

That is over half!

I have almost the whole new testament read, I lack Matthew, Mark and Luke.

I also am not reading in order either. I am kind of reading where I feel I am led.

I wanted to share some of the verses I came across tonight.

1 Corinthians 15:33

 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” (NIV)

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (KJV)

1 Corinthians 13:13

 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.(NIV)

                And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.(KJV)

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.(NIV)

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (KJV)

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

¹³ Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. ¹⁴ Do everything in love. (NIV)

13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

                                              14Let all your things be done with charity. (KJV)

2 Corinthians 4:18

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (NIV)

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (KJV)

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we live by faith, not by sight. (NIV)

                                                  (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (KJV)

2 Corinthians 9:6

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. (NIV)

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. (KJV)

I put both KJV and NIV because I like to see the difference of the wording.

I never really realized how insightful the Bible was until I acutally picked it up and started reading it. I mean I have looked up verses etc but never read it from cover to cover.

Till next time,Val





A well needed visit from friends

Tonight we met up with Kelly and her crew. I was so excited to see them and meet their new addition, Dwayne Jr.

It's been pretty hard with them being 12 hours away in Florida but I am praying that they move home SOON!!

Here are a few pictures from tonight...



Hopefully if everything goes well they will be coming to stay the night tomorrow. We miss this so much!

Till next time, Val

DJ's 7th birthday party

Here is DJ with his pancake breakfast.

A tradition in the LeBlanc house!

DJ had his party at the local state park near our house. This was the first party and last party we will have there. It is just not my cup of tea. I didn't have a lot of places to chose from to sit. Not nearly enough tables and chairs and it was too HOT!!

I ordered him a number cake from Walmart and it was a disaster. Luckily I had a friend JOJO that knew a lady and she made me a last minute delicious cake.

It was extremely HOT!

Luckily they had a water slide to play on :)

We bought his a presonal cake but it started to melt.

Just what he wanted!!

This is the only table I had other than the 4ft one I brought for the gifts...

Ah....It was horrible!

But DJ enjoyed himself.

I just had an idea in my head on how I wanted it set up and it didn't go as planned.

It was still a good party.

The BEST cupcake cake I had ever eaten!

Thanks,JoJo!!!

Till next time,Val

DJ graduates and end of the year awards

This post is really late but its better late than never! Here is my little man graduating from kindergarden in May. Things are pretty crazy around here and while I started looking threw my pictures I notcied I didn't post about his BIG day. Or awards for the girls.

Kaylee with her class mates.

DJ with his cousins, Alana and Arianna

My Dad giving out awards.

Kaylee got honor roll!

Emilee got BANNER ROLL!

All A"s!!!!

This is where it gets funny.

Do you see DJ in the middle?

He is ready to GO!!

And here again on the end.

The boy is a nut!

He even took his robe off later on.

I didn't get that because I was getting alittle mad....LOL

My growning babies.

DJ with my Mom, Guanny.

As you can tell he was tired.

His Poppy.

Thank GOD he can make him smile.

Finally! I picture with his parents. I wanted a family photo so bad but everything was pretty crazy that night. I am thankful for the few pictures I did get.

After awards and the graduation we went to Pizza Inn. Everyone went to Pizza Inn I think.

Till next time,Val



I guess its time.

My sweet Ladybug has gone on to Heaven.

She was hit by a truck around 5:45 am on July 1st.

It hasn't been a good month for me so far.

She was my sweet heart, my ladybug.

We buried her on our land. Tears****

She was such a good dog. Its weird how things work out because my last post I had done was about how she had stopped feeding her pups and we found good homes for them. Then a day later she is GONE!

I wanted to share a video I found of her but I can't get it to upload.

If you look closely in the first picture of her  she has a small white pup in her arms.

He is the one we kept to nurish.

Well we have decided to get the little pup.

We named him "Lucky Bug".

Lucky, because we are Lucky we have him and Bug after his dear sweet Momma.

He is 6 weeks old today.

Pray for me.

Pray for my family.

Till next time,Val

decisions

Lately I have had a lot of decisions to make. Tuff ones, easy ones. I am having a hard time with both to be honest with you. Life is just stressful sometime. But I will praise in this storm and also when its sunny outside!
First my dog Ladybug "Lady" had 15 puppies. 14 made it. One only lived for two days. Sad.
This was a real challenge for myself and my family. Puppies are hard work and that amount of puppies was even harder. Kaylee was a super help along with the other two kids but her mainly.
Lady stopped feeding them about 2 weeks ago. They where only about 2 weeks old at this time. Very hard. VERY VERY hard. Thank God they where smart little pups and was able to drink from a bowl. And soon hard food softened. Wednesday was a even harder day. We where not planning on trying to find homes for theses little guys for about 2 more weeks but it just had to be done. Lady was misreable. They had teeth and the where hurting her. She even got a little mad with this Wednesday and that was when we knew that they had to get good homes fast!
So we took the gate and all but two pups and set out for Winn Dixie parking lot. The two pups we left home where for a friend from church.
Once we got to Winn Dixie, No lie we had homes for everyone of them in 15 mins flat!!! Not joking.
We prayed on the way there asking God to help us quicky find homes for our little pups and he did just that. :-) See God answers prayers on his time. Not ours. I was so stressed out about these dogs and he lifed the burden in his time. I am greatly releived.

Here is a picture of the only puppy we kept.

Flash
He is DJ's outside dog. He also was the smallest one and was not eating well.