So many blessing this time of year!

Are you shocked I am writing a NEW post! Sorry about that guys, it has been so hectic around here this past month. But I promise I am back and I am trying to catch up on all your blogs. So where do I start...



First, we had Christmas House at our church last weekend. That is where we invited 25 families to come and shop for gifts, which were donated by our congregation at church. These families would have not been able to have Christmas if it wasn't for the Christmas house. There were 62 children that came through that day and we ended up having so so so many toys left over. God truly multiplied the toys. So we have invited more families and they have been coming in everyday to shop. We are going to let different families come in until the gifts are gone! It was such a blessing for me to just talk, cry, and pray with these families. We even had one precious lady that said she wanted to trade her toys for food. She was a single mom of 9 children. Of course the church body came together and supplied her with toys, gift card to publix, and a huge basket of food! Several of these families were at church the Sunday after Christmas house, how exciting!! I can't wait to see these families and children again just to love and hug on them!



Second, during all the exciting hustle and bustle of the Christmas house, my children's Christmas plays, childrens Chirstmas party, our staff party, and home group party at church, we had to find time to pack and move!!! Yes, pack and move! It has been very interesting. As I said before the house we bought was in short sale, so the process took about 5 months. It is an answer to prayer that we are in the house and how exciting we moved in 8 days before Christmas!



We are almost unpacked, we will finish today, and I have painted the kids bedrooms and the kitchen and living room. Pictures will come as soon as my sweet husband hooks up our computer at our new house. I am using his lap top right now and my camera card will not fit in it!



I am blessed to have such an awesome church that serves others, I am blessed to have family and friends who are there to help others who are in need, I am blessed to be living in our home just in time for Christmas, I am thankful for my children who are so excited about Jesus birthday, I am so thankful for a husband who has been so pleasant and handled all this stress with a smile and laughter, I am SO VERY thankful for an awesome God who loves me and takes care of me and who gave all of us the gift of Jesus!

Almost home owners again!

We finally heard back from the bank, after 4 long months. They accepted our offer on the house. The reason it took so long is because it was in short sale, so the bank had to acceot the offer, not the current home owners. I will fill you in on the details as soon as we hear more.

We are filling out the papers tonight and hopefully will be able to close on the first weekend in December. YEAH!!! We will be in our "home" for Christmas! It has been different moving 10 hours away from the home we use to own and moving into an apartment while we looked for a new home, but it was worth the wait! God is good!

Orlando Magic

Last night we went to our first Orlando Magic basketball game. The kids had so much fun and asked so many questions. My daughter asked "Why is that guy in the yellow shirt carrying around a big trash can?" I had to explain to her that he was walking around with food for people to buy. HAHA

Skyler loved all the music and just had to dance. They also caught a souvenir that was being thrown into the crowd...that was fun! We did leave at halftime because they were getting tired and Jada had school today, but we still had a great time for our first Orlando Magic experience!

The game is not complete without a big bucket of popcorn!

Prematurity Awareness!

November is the prematurity awareness month. This hits home for me in so many ways. Some of you readers know that my oldest, Jada, was born at 31 week and weighed 2lbs 13 oz. She had gastroschesis, this is when you are born with your intestines on the outside. She was in the hospital for 7 weeks and it was a long and tough road. To read more of her story go HERE!

"Prematurity is the leading killer of America's newborns. Those who survive often have lifelong health problems, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, chronic lung disease, blindness and hearing loss. Prematurity has been escalating steadily and alarmingly over the past two decades. In 2005, more than 525,000 infants were born prematurely, the highest number ever reported for the U.S. In 2005, the United States as a society paid at least $26.2 billion in economic costs associated with preterm birth (medical and educational expenses, loss in productivity). Preterm delivery can happen to any pregnant woman. In about four out of every 10 cases, the causes are unknown."

The March of Dimes has taken on this devastating problem—to find out what causes it and how it can be stopped. For more information and ways you can help go to March of Dimes Website.

Church Harvest Festival!

We had a great time on Saturday at the Harvest Festival. We got to church around 11:00 to start setting up for the event. The event was from 3 to 6. The kids had so much fun!

We had hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, drinks, and a chili cook off! This was the area where all the food was!


This area was for ages 2-5. We had moon jumps and several games for the preschoolers. We also had an area that was a bike path. It was so very cute...the children loved it. We had a green path for them to ride on with road signs.



We had several other moon jumps on the other side for the older kids. This is a picture of Jada and her friend racing down the slide!

Live music!

Jada and her friends slow down long enough for us to take a quick picture!

Skyler and his friends on the hay ride!

Jada and Avery at the preschool duck table. They wanted to be in charge of this game, but when the festival started they didn't stay their very long because they wanted to play! They did set up the game for us though!!!

Halloween Pictures!

Here are a few pictures from last night. Jada dressed up like Hannah Montana and Skyler was Spiderman!









Spiderman showing me all his big muscles!


This was Jada's favorite treat. She got an entire bag full of Camp Rock and Hannah Montana stickers, pencils, magnets,and this big poster!


All of their candy...which was A LOT!!!

I'M BACK!!!

I am back to bloggy land! This past week our best friends from TN came to stay with us. We had so much fun and we kept them pretty busy.

The first night they were here we went to Ikea. All of the kids thought they were in one huge play house. They were actually sad when we had to leave. We got a lot of great ideas for our house!

Saturday morning we woke up and got ready for the big day at Magic Kingdom. This was their first trip to Disney! I had so much fun watching my best friends face more than anything! We both felt like we were kids again and just had so much fun. I think all of our favorite things were the light parade and the fireworks. Jill's little girl, Adeline, just adores Cinderella! When Cinderella came in front of Adeline during the light parade, she looked right at Adeline and waved. The expression on Adeline's face was priceless! Jada, my little girl got a look and a finger point from the witch from Snow White. Which was so funny, because Jada was scared to ride the Snow White Scary Adventure ride.

Sunday they got to see where we went to church. That night we had a pumpkin party with our home group and they got to meet some of our friends and play silly, but fun, pumpkin games with us!

The trip wouldn't be complete if "Mr. James" didn't bring his airplane or helicopter. My son just loves hanging out with Mr. James and asks him a million questions. My son loves airplanes because he has seen Mr. James flying them and he tells Skyler all about them!

I could go on and on about all the things we did, but most of all I enjoyed just being together and staying up late and laughing and just talking about a little of everything! I love the Perryman's and my family is truly blessed to have such wonderful friends!