March 12th

Today is my sister, Kathryn's { aka Khaki } birthday! Happy Birthday, Seester!

This pretty much sums up our relationship! She is my best friend (other than my honey bunny biscuit, Daniel) and I'm so thankful that we got over the whole torturing, hating, punching in the face stage. 

Just want you to know that I cherish you. I am proud of you. I admire you. I love you. So thankful for you. You are the funniest person I know. ...besides myself. Happy Birthday! May your heart be filled with beautiful blessings on your special day and everyday after. God sure did bless me and everyone that knows you, when He placed you in our lives!! xoxoxoxo

just another snowy day in Indiana

A big thank you to my sweet friend and fantastic photographer....White Harvest Photography.

Simple Game of Chess

So my kids are really into playing chess right now. They are 5, 6 and 7. Here's the thing. They do not know how to play chess?!?! It's hilarious because they think it is just like checkers. Who am I to tell them they are wrong? I myself have NO CLUE how to play chess. So my Kolton is begging me today to play chess. "I'm sorry brother, I don't know how to play." "It's easy Mama," he says, "It's just like checkers except for checkers doesn't have a clock you hit when you get to the other side." Not too confused, but interested in his answer, I ask..."What's the clock for?" "Well, instead of saying king me, when you get to the other side, you hit the clock and say, check me. So come on let's play." I have to say, that is pretty good insight. I mean why else would they be hitting a clock at the end, right? Oh, how I love how their little minds work. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play a game of chess.

so unworthy

I've been thinking about the whole "month" of thankfulness thing, that I have been posting to Facebook. What I need to be doing, is writing these things every day of the year. I need to be thinking of things that are not only obvious things to be thankful for but things we don't really remember to be thankful for. The messes we clean up, the recipes we mess up, the hectic schedules...these just mean, we are blessed by people to make messes, things to make messes with, food to be able to eat, places to be able to go and a car to take us there. I want to try to remember each day to be not only thankful, but GRATEful. I don't think I am grateful enough. I am not worthy of any of these blessings, especially the blessing of my SAVIOR.

Comfy Saturday Morning

I really thought today was gonna be rough when the kids got up at 6:30 on a Saturday morning, but man, it's been great!! I'm telling you, cloudy days are the BEST! We had chocolate chip pancakes, bacon and eggs WITH hot cocoa! We are still in comfy clothes and are watching, for the 2nd time in 24 hours, Cars 2. I am thankful for the Lord's goodness today! His blessings always amaze me! I think for our next activity, we will color! In what else, but the Cars coloring book?! Then I might read my Food Network magazine....ahhhhhhhhh

Be Still and Know that I am God Psalm 46:10

Today, D drove to his car to work. Normal.

Today, D drove his car to work and ALSO, took the keys to my truck to work with him. Not normal.

It's okay, though. After calling friends frantically this morning to help take the kids to school. {along with 24 cupcakes for Kolt's class} Rummaging through drawers, with what seemed to be endless junk in them, searching for an extra set of keys. {Really should organize those drawers} Calling and cancelling appointments of the day, and re-scheduling. Calling school to give them this wonderful information. You know, just freaking out a tad, about my day and all the routine that goes with it, just flying out the window...or down Calumet Avenue in my husband's pocket.

It's really okay though, because I have realized something today. An eye opening realization. : )

This was the Lord saying to me.... K! Sloooooow down. Be still, be quiet.

I have been so caught up in my "schedule" or "to-do lists" that I haven't slowed down at all. Trying to fit it all in, even after telling myself before school started this year, that it was not going to happen this time. So, after a rough start to a day, I am finally glad that he took those stinkin' keys with him to work. I am trying to be thankful in today's "storm". I need to be thankful that I have a house that needs cleaning, that I have friends that are willing to help in tough situations, that my husband had a job to go to this morning. So dinner may not be ready at a decent hour this evening, but atleast we will have dinner. That is if I can get D to go to the store on his way home. ; )

Thank you Lord, for showing me how to be quiet.

I may even take a nice walk outside on this cool Fall morning.... to my neighbors house to drink some coffee.

Another birthday, another year older...

I can't believe it! My Ko-Ko is FOUR YEARS OLD! Unbelievable!!!

Today we are celebrating another birthday in our home! Kolton Thomas was brought into our lives 4 years ago today! And what a joy it was! We are so thankful for him! He is an incredible young man and an incredible addition to our family! He brings so much joy into our lives daily! he is smart, sweet spirited, so handsome and FUNNY! He loves his brother and sister and they love him right back! We are so thankful for you, our sweet little man! We love you and are praying God's greatest blessings over you today on your birthday and for all the birthday's you have to come! BIIIIIIG SQUEEEEEEZE!!!! xoxoxo

Miss Tay-Tay's Birthday

5 years ago today, God blessed us with a treasure of a little girl! She is creative, smart, funny, LOVING, and incredibly beautiful! She is such a gift and we are so grateful to have her as a part of our family. We love you, our "precious" doll baby! You are exactly what your name means, precious! God knew exactly what He was doing when He placed you in our lives. We pray this day brings many beautiful blessing for you, Tayah, that will become great memories! You are loved sweet one!

Halloweenie

"Spidaman, to da wescue!"



My beautiful strawberry fairy!


and Bumblebee, THE Transformer! Check out those muscles!







They had an awesome time at the church that night! Trunk or Treat!! Woohoo!

I Love Fall!

hmmm...

So, it is evident that my I am drifting further and further away from one of my New Year's resolutions. This whole keeping up with my blog thing, was a lot harder than I thought. Just know that it is not because I have forgotten about you. It's just that we really are just, ...BUSY! Shoot, this is a hard job, but hey somebody's gotta do it, right? That is the saying, isn't it? ;)

We are pretty much just trying to stay warm for right now. Yes, I know it will be the beginning of March next week, but we are still in the smack dab middle of winter up here! Brrrrrr!

We are also still in the process of waiting to see what the Lord has in store for our family as far as job positions go. Daniel will find out towards the end of March if we will stay here for another couple of years or if we will be headed out of this winter wonderland. We are just hoping and praying that whatever the outcome, we will accept it graciously. We know that our God is ultimately in control of everthing we do!

Thank you, Lord!!

Have a great night, everyone!

Groocher

So yesterday, the kids wanted to watch Mickey's Christmas Carol for the gazillionth time, so we put it in and I started listening to their conversation. They think that Scrooge's name is "Groocher", and sometimes "Goocher", maybe they can't pronounce Scrooge, I don't know, but it makes me laugh everytime I think of it. Tayah was saying and laughing at the same time, "Hahaha, look at Goocher pinch Goofy's nose. hahaha" Oh, they are too funny!

Just another day in the Cochran home.

Just Simply Southern

Before you get off of your computer today, be sure and check out my sweet friends website. It's www.justsimplysouthern.blogspot.com There are some of the most precious frames and right now an amazing giveaway!! Go take your shot at winning an adorable prize!

Weekly Update

Okay, so I've been trying to organize my house lately. Ummmm, it's a work in progress and that's all I can say at this point.

We've just been kinda hangin' out around the house. Not much going on, the kids were grounded from any electronics for a whole week, (due to disobeying the baby-sitter during Bible Study)...it seemed more like I was grounded from the electronics. ugh.
It did let their little imaginations run wild! They went camping, had picnics, went to the beach (bathing suits, towels, floaties and all), they even went on an airplane visit to Texas. It was fun, seeing what they would come up with next. It was not fun to try and get them to clean up after their adventures.

Well, they are "un" grounded now, but the funny thing is, the TV has been off most of the day. Good thing, I suppose.

I'll try and post some new pictures soon!

...testing out my new signature

Swimming in the Winter??

This is what it looks like outside our house. So, is it possible, you say?

Yes, it is possible and a great way for the kids to burn some energy! We take them at "family time" to the gym and swim in their huge pool! It is awesome because the pool feels like it is filled with bath water! The kids absolutely love it and they just couldn't stop talking about it. It's great to see them that happy.

We took them to their favorite restaurant after church yesterday also, Tyler's Tenders, they had a blast. So this weekend was spent well with the family, we camped out in the living room, went to the gym together, made snow men out of marshmallows, went to church, had movie time (with popcorn of course), went swimming...what else could we have asked for out of a couple of days together?! Oh, it's so nice to find some fun things to do in the dead of winter.

First BIG Snow of the Year!! ...and it's still comin' down!

The kids are dying to get outside in all that white stuff! It will be fun, after the snow stops. It's been snowing all night long. It is so beautiful! I guess we have about 4 inches so far.


...and I will leave you with the outfit Kolton put on himself yesterday afternoon (he and Tayah change all day long), he was putting on a show for the camera too.


Silly little guy!

New Family Photos!!

We are actually all smiling!How exciting!

Here's our most recent family photos! I love the Fall!

Fever...fooey!

So, Kason has started running fever today...not good. I hope it doesn't go any further than that. There is some nasty stuff going on around here, I hope we don't catch it. It's amazing to me that with all the vitamins that I give my kids every day that a germ would even dare come near us. Oh well, it has, so we have to figure out how to get them out of our house now. Pray, Pray, Pray!

Wal-Mart

So Wal-Mart has made an impact on Kason we guess, because last night Daniel and I were talking money and discussing what we need to be saving and such and those words actually came out "save money" so Kason overheard our discussion and all of a sudden blurted out..."Save money, look better, Wal-Mart." Now we know that is not the actual advertisement, but we thought it was hilarious. I think the guys that take the "people of Wal-Mart" photos, would probably disagree with the "look better" part. But anyway, their catchy little phrase will stick with you, even if you are only 4 years old. So now, he knows that we think it's funny, so at random times throughout the day he says it over and over again. hahaha

"Save money, look better, Wal-Mart."


Ahhh, Kason, you funny lil' boy!