Life here with the Burdick's

Once again, it has been awhile since I last blogged.  I am so glad that I am taking the time to blog, since I know that many times my memory might fail to remember all the fond details of my everyday life with two little ones. The biggest change since my last blog is that Timmy is starting to explode in his talking.  And when I say explode, I mean before he was really just saying baby babble and now he is saying real words. I attempted to write down all of what he says now, but I know I am still leaving some words out, but here is what I can remember, Momma, Dadda, Ball (which I must say is his all time FAVORITE word, he says this one like 40 times a day), Choo-Choo, Bah (like a sheep), Woof, Red, Yellow, Grape, Juice, Water, Dora, Moo, Fish, and Dark (for when he helps me sort the laundry into lights and darks). His personality is SO different from his sisters that it is really interesting to watch this talking explosion since it is nothing like what I experienced with Abbie.  Abbie is loving her time playing prince and princess with her little brother, which usually is just her trying to boss around her little brother.  In all fairness, she really plays really well with him and they are so sweet together much of the time! I have started teaching violin/viola and piano again and Abbie does get pretty excited when a student leaves to want to try piano.  I haven't done much of anything but show her how to hold a violin and with that she did do amazingly well.  We are in the process of looking for a dance studio for her so I'm sure my next blog will be filled with details about that. For now, enough writing, here are some pictures of our fun!

Fun riding on daddy's mower

Abbie is getting excited to try new hair do's

Timmy loves his kisses

playtime at the mall

Mommy's little baker girl

Mommy's handsome little man

why can't I use two spoons??

Let's go down together

Swimming and trying out our floaties

Just watching a show together

Abbie got a turn too

Thankful for the holy spirit

I am wide awake, 3:43 in the morning and I can feel God working things together in the supernatural realm.  After taking some time to seek Him I feel the need to write a few things.  I have noticed this pattern in my life where I can feel a change coming in the spirit.  Life was given to us by God and He gave us a spirit to sense things so we don't have to live by our natural senses alone. Everyone's life is going to have high and low points, this is how we are created to grow and change.  If we just all lived flat lives it makes me think we would just be robots programed to just go through the motions, but praise God, we are not!! Everyone of us has different ways of handling all life brings us and there is no condemnation in Christ but we are all on this journey of growing that putting out that purpose that God has created us to do.  The unanswered questions in our life will one day be revealed but until then, God's rhema words to me each day are life and joy to my heart.  "Trust in the Lord will all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your path straight" Proverbs 3:5 Such a simple and profound verse.  Praise God that I am continually growing in this.

Things I LOVE!!!

A few things I love:  God, Music, reading, family, friends, taking pictures, cooking/baking, writing, and teaching.  As I was thinking about things I love to do, it pretty much encompasses my life right now as far as how I spend my time.  I am blessed that I get to do the things in my life that I love to do!  We just returned from a quick trip to San Diego.  It was very fun but way too short!  Our next trip will be longer for sure.

We also recently got to see a college friend and met up at Bass Pro shops.  I didn't realize all the fun things they have for the kids: crafts, carousel, fishing, and shooting games and they have some other special things like smores on certain nights.

Here's what's new with the kiddos.  Abbie has a new habit of waking up from her nap with 9 pairs of pj's on.  I lay her down for her nap in her regular clothes and then she wakes up and looks like a football player. She has been enjoying preschool and has been reciting humpty dumpty poem to all our family this last week.

Timmy's personality is coming out more and more each day.  He LOVES music and dances all the time.  The happy and you know it song was playing on our radio and he started dancing and clapping when it said if you are happy and you know it clap your hands.  He also loves cookies!! He got so excited the other day when we were swimming about a cookie he was going to eat as soon as we got his swim suit off that he just took his whole swim top off himself in a jiffy.  The kids both got to watch Auntie CoCo pass her miss Arizona crown down this weekend and they enjoyed having their little slumber party in the same bed at the hotel that night.

One picture

They say one picture is worth a thousand words.  Have you ever thought about this?  As I was going through and organizing some things I stumbled upon a picture.  That's about all it took for me to get distracted, can you tell I may need to work on my focus?  Or maybe God has just given me a gift that I can easily change my focus, however you perceive it, this is a common story in my life.  Anyways, as I look at this one picture it contains some family members including myself as a child.  One of these family members happens to be my mom.  As I look at this picture I see more than just the people in it, I see their hearts, their joys, their insecurities, their personalities and relationships can be seen at a deeper level.  Sometimes when you see into things like this it helps you to have grace for your present moment.  It helps to see that we are not made to live this life through human righteousness and it helps to see the full benefit of Jesus' sacrifice so that we are made righteous through Him.  All history just exposes the hearts of people in the past and all pictures just capture this history.  So in this one picture it is more than just a picture, it is a glimpse at real thoughts that came from real hearts that tells a real story.  This one picture allows me to see a moment in time that was way past, right now.  What a gift!

Burdick happenings

I am sitting here thinking how much I miss writing in my blog.  Life has been busier than the normal busy and I am taking some time to reflect on life in general.  It has been a good couple of weeks, I did do a lot of teaching between three sub jobs and some teachings at my church.  As much as I LOVE teaching I am more and more convinced of the full blessing that it is to stay at home with my children. This gift of relationship time that I have with them now while they are young is irreplaceable.  So.... speaking of my children, thought I'd write a little bit about what is new in their world. Timmy is starting to walk but he still prefers crawling.  I think it is a speed thing because he is all about going fast.  He probably will just be running once he is actually done with crawling.  It is SO fun to watch his little personality bloom each day.  Today he got so excited when he saw a bird fly by and the hugest smile just popped on his face. We were all reading "I love you through and through" tonight and there was a part in the story that said I love you when your crying and Abbie said, "No, mom's don't like crying, mom's fix crying"  I got to talk to her about how we always love our children even if we don't like the action. Abbie has been entirely obsessed with dressing her dolls up and playing with all her dolls lately, she also and always has loved to color and she is starting to color in the general area of the lines which is pretty cool to watch.  I am so enjoying being a mom right now.  I think about how fast this journey is going to go and I can't even fathom them growing up and even starting elementary school, but one step and one season at a time I am learning even if I don't have all the answers, God's grace is sufficient!

our first duncan donuts trip

some outside time in our amazingly hot weather

I think she likes her pink donut with sprinkles

This picture just makes me laugh!!

Ah...Daddy time, we SO love every moment of this!

Her fish bowl craft from the storytime at the library

influence, authority, worth and grace

I have always been a huge believer that there is SO much going on in this earth that we are not even aware of.  I am constantly striving to increase my awareness but at the same time I am constantly reminded from God how although God is limitless, we do live in an earthly body that has limits. I do believe all things are possible through Christ but I also believe in grace for each moment because we are never going to achieve perfection and if we could be perfect in each moment we would have no reason to have a relationship with God.  You see the great thing about this relationship with God is that it is all by grace.  God knows that we will need His grace and so He gave it to us as a free gift.  We just have to receive it as we know that God loves us SO much that He has made us righteous through the blood of Christ, not at all by our own works.  This has not always been an easy concept for me to accept as deep down I have always thought that my worth was given to be by my works.  What God is continually revealing to me is that He has given me worth, influence and authority in this world which is limitless, but it is not by my own works that I have any of this but only through my faith in Christ. I am writing this out because I want to be reminded in those moments when it is so easy to not take authority and have low self worth that this is the worst contribution that I could make to the world.  It really is a very selfish thing to play victim in life and what I choose do think and do each day is always affecting the world around me. Today and each day I choose grace!  Thank you Lord for truth!

All our goings on

Thought I'd take a minute to update on the kiddos.   These pictures and video show our unique, fun and silly family. Timmy is almost 15 months, he can say mama, dada, ball, dog and woof.  He loves to color, signs please and all done and can wave bye bye.  He still isn't walking but is crawling fast as can go.  Abbie is getting excited to start preschool in the summer, we have been keeping busy with going to the library, visiting my dad, swimming, church and play dates.  Abbie loves to put puzzles together lately and she always enjoys helping me with anything, cooking, laundry, etc... She loves to play princess and we just went to a wedding last weekend where she enjoyed watching the princess get married. She actually colored the letter A all my herself while we went out to eat one day and I was so impressed since I never taught her how to do that. Another one of her favorites is playing dress up, she LOVES picking outfits to dress up in! One of Abbie's new phrases she says all the time now is, "I'm just kidding" She loves her brother and loves to pretend that he is rescuing her. She makes me laugh daily and I am so blessed to have this time with my children!  I know if I don't write all this out, at some point in my life I will forget these details so I am so thankful for my blog. Here are some pictures and video to share our little family.  Thanks for reading!