New Year Resolution....

My only New Year's Resolution this year is to read my Bible all the way through for the first time. I have tried so many times before and never made it through the whole Bible. I have found a really cool blog to help me with this though. It is the One Year Bible Blog. It gives you something from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. I am really excited about this! Go and check it out here if you are interested in doing this too.

I am also gonna try to be healthy and lose weight but that is an ongoing thing that I am making a life change and not a yearly change anymore. So Happy New Year to you all and I pray that you have a great one!

New look

I hope the new look is ok. If it is too hard to look at because of the black and white let me know. Have a happy New Year!!!

Our Family Christmas

Hello all!

I have wanted to post for a while but just now had time. We had a great Christmas and I hope you all did too. I have to admit though that it hasn't felt like Christmas. Today it is really warm here. I have my windows open. Maybe we will get some snow sometime.

We went to my dad's house for Christmas Eve and had a great time with family. We don't get together much with my dad and step-mom and when we do we really enjoy it. The kids had so much fun with their cousins. Then we came home that night and the kids opened the gifts from me and George. After that we sprinkled our Reindeer food on the yard(thanks JoAnna!) set the cookies out for Santa and tucked the kids into bed.

Then Christmas morning we got up around 7:30 and opened gifts from Santa. I made cinnamon rolls and sausage & biscuits for breakfast. And after that we just had a lazy day.

Now I will post some pictures for your viewing enjoyment!

Me and my dad.

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All the kids at my dads.

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My sister Wendy and I.

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My brother Michael and I.

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My step-mom and I.

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Amber with her doll and horse.

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Jacob posing with his new lounge pants.

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Nathan posing with his new dinosaurs.

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~CHRISTMAS MORNING~

Amber's doll house.

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The other side of the doll house.

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Jacob's skate board.

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With the beloved skate board.

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Nathan's easel.

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Nathan and his guitar.

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TRUE ROCK STAR!!!!

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Me and Jacob.

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Me and Nathan.

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Me and Amber.

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Amber with her beautiful porcelain Snow White doll! My neighbor Ms. Gloria gave it to her. Amber LOVES it!!!

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Nathan with his Elmo PJ's.

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Nathan and his firetruck.

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Jacob and his NERF gun.

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Well, that is all for now. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

Potty Training Success!!

First of all I would like to say Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you all have amazing times with your families and enjoy the true meaning of the season, God sending His son Jesus to die for our sins.

OK now to the potty training!

We have been playing with teaching Nathan to pee in the potty. The first few days he would wet his underwear several times, but now he has gotten to where he is staying dry most of the time. Well, today he did #2 in the potty!!!! YAY!!!!
That is really good because it isn't fun when he does that in his underwear. It was so funny though. I think it scared him, he screamed and cried the whole time! Then once he was done he was excited. So I guess we are way on our road to being finished with diapers in this family. So exciting!!! That is gonna save us a lot in cash.
But it is a little sad too. My last baby is not a baby anymore. :0(

I guess they have to grow up sometime.

Well, I am gonna go for now. I just wanted to update all of you on what is going on in the Bingham home.......

POTTY TRAINING SUCCESS!!!!!!

Interesting quiz....

I found this quiz at Traci's blog.

I went and took this quiz and I was a little shocked I have to say. I thought that my score would be higher.

You Are 50% Likely to Survive Another Great Depression

Even though you may not be expecting the worst, you're the type of person who prepares for the worst. You live a relatively modest life. You don't overspend, and you aren't very materialistic. You are also quite self sufficient and independent. You have many useful skills. You can take care of yourself and those you love... which is crucial to surviving another Great Depression.

Could You Survive Another Great Depression?

It has been a while....

I haven't posted in FOREVER!!! Sorry.

The holidays bring business. And this weekend is no different. Tonight our neighbors are coming over and having dinner with us and they have gifts for the kids. They are a young newly married couple that don't have children yet and we have adopted as family. They love our kids and our kids love them. It is great to be blessed with such great friends. So I will be cleaning the house and making it guest ready. :0)

Then tomorrow I have to be at my church at 9 AM for dress rehearsal for the Christmas musical I am singing in. I am in the choir and we had to learn 11 songs, it has kept me busy. That will probably last until 12 or so.

And then Sunday we are singing in the morning service and the musical is Sunday night. I am so excited!

In the mix of all this my hubby is working 12 hours today and tomorrow. He is usually off on Fridays so this is not the norm for us.

I have also been doing crafts and fun holiday stuff with my kiddos. I am ready for Christmas to be here so my hubby can be off work and we can spend some good time together as a family. Enjoying what the holidays are really about and being able to reflect on God.

Well, I hope you all have a blessed weekend and maybe I will get to post again before Christmas........ ;0)

Yesterday was one of "those" days....

Hello all my bloggy friends.

I am so glad that today is a new day! Because yesterday was a TERRIBLE day!

What started this was I went to my Facebook and opened a message that I thought a friend had sent me and it was a virus. So from that point on I began to have trouble with my computer. Well, by 3:00 we couldn't get it do log onto anything hardly. So I called emachines. They give me the news that I have to restore my computer to it's original state. Which means that I lost everything I had on my computer. Pictures, documents, folders, recipes, EVERYTHING!!!! She made me erase all of my personal things on my computer. Well, I guess it was for my own good. I have never saved anything to a backup disk. Well, let's just say that I will be learning how to do that real soon!

So while I am talking to the nice lady that is helping me erase all my personal things from my computer, She tells me to turn it off and unplug my printer and internet. While I am doing this my little Nathan decides to turn it back on. It is at that point that she asks me how old my children are and how well behaved they are....wonder if she was hinting to something?

After I get off the phone with her, I am finishing up the wiping away of all my personal things on my computer(I am dealing with this, really I am!) Amber comes in the living room screaming at the top of her lungs that Nathan had thrown a toy and hit her in the head.

Now let me just tell you that we have had so much trouble with this little 2 year old throwing things, we don't know what to do! If he doesn't become a famous pitcher for some baseball team I will be surprised!

But back to my story... I lean down and hug my little Amber and rub her head and I feel something wet. I begin to panic. I pull my hand up and there is blood. I take her to my bathroom about 12-15 steps away and blood is dripping into the floor and she is screaming louder. I guess God stepped in because I don't handle those situations well. I cleaned her up and found the wound. It is pretty deep but I decided not to take her to the ER. It stopped bleeding pretty quick. But when I got home from choir practice last night(George stayed home with the kids) it was still bleeding a little. So I am not sure if I should have taken her or not. Any tips on busted heads would be appreciated so I will know what to do next time.

So today I am reinstalling my printer, trying to find all of my home school sites that I used, finding all of the kids favorites and I may close my Facebook account, haven't decided on that yet.

If I am not on here for a while it is because I am getting tired of spending time with the computer. I am beginning to feel like it is a 4th child that doesn't know how to behave and the other 3 children are being punished for it.

So there is another day in the real life of a home school mom.........

You gotta see this!

I had to share this video clip that I got with my camera the other night. We were putting up the tree and Nathan got so excited! I hope you get as big a kick out of it as we did.

Cousins

OK, I am tired from posting!!! LOL

This is post #3 for today. Make sure you scroll down and see the other ones.

I had promised pictures from Thanksgiving of my kids and their cousins so ENJOY!

Putting up the Christmas Tree!!!!

Every year we have traditions that we do during the weekend of Thanksgiving. Putting up our Christmas tree is one of those traditions.
I want to share some pictures of our yearly traditon with you. ENJOY!!

Amber in awe! :0)

Crafty Winter Day....

This morning when we woke up it was snowing!

My kids were so excited, so I decided to do a craft with them and decorate our own snowmen. It was so much fun!

I am LOVING my new digital camera! I took pictures and decided to share them with you. Hope you enjoy our snowmen!

The 3 kiddos doing our craft

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Nate with his snowman

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Nate's snowman up close(I helped him a little)

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Amber with her snowman

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Amber's snowman up close

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Jacob and his snowman

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Jacob's snowman up close

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Me and my snowman

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My snowman up close

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All 4 snowmen

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