Conversations with Isabella

A lot of funny conversations usually happen in the car. So here are some of the latest words from my three-year old backseat driver.


We had left our house and were on the way to the library. Surprisingly, there hadn't been a word coming from the back seat for the last 5 minutes or so, until...

Isabella: "Mommy, Daddy's toots smell like a skunk."

Very random, but very true.


Other sweet conversation that occurred right after an ambulance pasted us:

Isabella: "That was an ambulance, Mommy. Where is it going?"
Mommy: "It's driving fast to go help someone who is sick. They might even have to take that
person to the hospital."
Isabella: "I need to go to the hospital too."
Mommy: "No, thankfully you don't need to go to the hospital."
Isabella" "Well, I need to go help the ambulance. I can take my stethoscope, some tissues and
band-aids, and I can kiss their boo-boos."

Sweet Prayer of Thanks

Tonight as Mark was putting Victoria to bed, she said the most precious prayer of thanksgiving.

Mark and Victoria had just finished reading the bible story (Luke 17) about the lepers whom Jesus healed and all of them walked off and didn't come back after being healed. Only one comes back to thank Jesus for healing him.

Mark: Punkin, what are you thankful for?

Victoria: Jesus, dying for me.

Mark: What?

Victoria: Died for me.

Mark: Did you say Jesus died for you?

Victoria: Jesus died for me, Jesus.

Mark picked her up with so much excitement and looked at her and said "Daddy is so happy!" while smothering her with kisses. He asked her if she'd like to go share what she was thankful for with me (I was reading to Isabella), and she eagerly wiggled out of his arms and ran to Isabella's room saying proudly "Died for me! Died for me!" What a joyful moment for all of us!

Simple and Fun Favorites

Here are a couple of things that put a little more pep in your step during our day at home.

Having your afternoon snack upstairs on your "picnic blanket". This gives me time to get some things done upstairs like vacuum, put laundry away or clean the bathrooms.

Greeting Daddy on weekday evenings as he turns the corner to our street and you all jump in his truck and help him drive the remaining 50 yards or so.

Birthday Fun

Happy birthday to my hubby and best friend. I hope you had a great day with friends and family and felt a bit spoiled from morning until night. I have one more thing I love about you to add to the list...

37. how you trust in the Lord and His will even when it you may want to go another direction

Your birthday dinner place of choice - Home Slice

Our usual - large cheeseless with tomatoes, basil, and pepperoni...yum yum for my tum tum!

Christina, me and Jen

Kyle, the birthday boy (making his usual photo face), and Jose

Ready to eat your chocolate peanut-butter brownies

Little Longhorns

Off to a friend's house to watch the Texas vs. UCLA game. You all are soooo excited!! You'd never know that we won because the evening ended in tears. We had to make a fast getaway as Victoria was having a meltdown because we had to cut her off from the snacks and took the bowl of tortilla chips away.

Playdate Pics

Victoria's getting herself ready for the ball with her plastic lipstick.

Poor Colton has to put up with all these girlie girls. He's such a good sport.

Isabella goes straight to Sienna's closet to pull out her dress of choice.

Hairstylist Sienna is primping and blow-drying her client's hair.

Daily Devotionals

So our devotionals are still going well. Victoria begins asking for "bo-shin-oh" as breakfast is coming to an end. They run over to the playroom for some time of worship, and really, this turns into them running in circles around me while I sing to Him. Whatever, at least they are participating with smiles on their faces. Then they practice reciting their memory verse, listen to a story, try answering some questions and then their favorite part is the activity. I'm trying to keep our focus in line with what they are hearing in chapel at their preschool and it changes weekly. So we've had fun with Jonah, David and Goliath, Creation, and Adam and Eve.

Isabella's trying to breathe some life into these bubbles just as God breathed life into Adam.

Getting the tree ready for this week's lesson on sin.

Helping Mommy get some dirty laundry clean after hearing that He can cleanse our heart from dirty sin.