Thankful

     The other day I looked out and this is what I saw....

Two boys playing and the family dog keeping watch...

As I watched them play from a distance it hit me that this is it.  This is our dream come true.

Way before Caleb and I were married we use to talk and dream about what we wanted for our future.  We dreamed about living out in the country.  We dreamed about having children.  So here we are living out in the country on a beautiful piece of property with our twin boys.  Of course having twin boys makes the dream even more perfect and having the family dog is the cherry on top!  Yes,  I am thankful for dreams coming true.

Every day we worry.  We worry about what we don't have.  We worry about getting that next job to make ends meet.  But how often do I stop and thank Jesus for what we do have?  I look around me and I am surrounded by things to be thankful for.  Most of all I have been blessed with a beautiful loving family.  I have a husband who goes above and beyond to provide for us and children who have brought so much love and laughter into our home.  Like I said before I am thankful for dreams coming true.

Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Boys and their jobs

We finally had a weekend at home with no where to go.  Over the past month I haven't had a whole day at home with the boys.  Either I've had to work or they have gone to work with Caleb.  Today I was able to get caught up around the house and the boys spent the whole day outside working various "jobs."

Their first "job" of the day was working on making a path from the house to the chicken coop.

The shirt says it all.

Job sight #2.  Before lunch we took a walk down to the creek to see how much it changed after the rain we had yesterday.    At first they wanted to build a fort but then it quickly turned into a "job".
So it was back up to the house for a quick lunch and a chance to pack up their tools to go back to work.

All packed up and headed back down to the creek.  

A close up of what they packed.  All kinds of crazy odds and ends.  

The minds of little boys and their imaginations...

 Just about every piece in this wagon had some sort of purpose for their "job."

Little wrangler butts melt my heart...

My hard working boys. 

Watching TV on our bed rarely happens.  To make it even better, Hogs Gone Wild (their all time favorite show) was on.
It was a good day.  I'm looking forward to the week of Thanksgiving when the boys have the whole week off.  What a treat that will be with most of those days at home.