updated pictures...

I haven't been posting many pictures lately. My camera is broken. I'm so sad! It was a GREAT camera. I have had it for a long time.I guess it just wore out from all the pictures I have taken with it. ha. Maybe Santa will bring me a new one for Christmas.

Here are some of the last pictures I took before it broke.

Our little Landon is doing so many fun things.

I love that I am getting to stay at home and play with him.

I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Logan's class went on a field trip.
I got to go with them and we had so much fun!

Logan and his friends loved getting to spend most of the day outside.

YES that is a LIVE SNAKE~

Logan and Landon are so sweet together.
(when they aren't fighting)
Landon really takes advantage of helping Logi out.
I think it's GREAT!
I pray he will always be there for his BIG brother.

I found this fun bounce house at a yard sale for $30.
It's in GREAT shape. I was REALLY excited!

Jackson came over to play in it with us.

John had to go to training in Little Rock for a week

He brought the boys a remote car.

They have so much fun playing together.

John gave Logan this cool hair do.

All he needs now is some color.

Blue? Red? Purple?

What you think?

Logan is such a daddy's boy!

I think they are so sweet together

I love this picture of Landon.

His face is so lit up!

Landon and Logan playing together.
They LOVE this keyboard.

Logan LOVES music.

Kisses for Brother. They are so sweet together.

My 2 sweet little nieces. Jordan Kate above and Kinley Reese below. They give me my girly fix since I have two sweet little boys that I can not dress up in bows and frillys.

OBEY GOD

The word submission means "an act of yielding to the authority or control of another.

Do we at times want something so badly that we submit to doing anything to get it? Are we submitting to admiration? Possessions? Self? Food? Money? Pleasure?

In his epistle to the Romans, Paul said, "to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are the one's slaves" (6:16) When our desires "war" within us (James 4:1) we are to submit ourselves to God as "slaves of God" (Romans 6:22)

Humbling ourselves before the Lord (James 4:10) and asking him to show us our heart will help us to recognize our own submission problems. Anne Cetas

Lord help us to submit to You,

To follow and obey;

And give us strength to fight the urge

To do things our own way.- Sper

True freedom is not choosing our own way,

but in submitting to God's way.

Today's Bible Reading- James 4:1-10

Here is a little daily devotional I am really enjoying doing.

Hope you will enjoy it as well.

Here is a part on the one I read today...

So often we focus on small disappointments that cause us to grumble and complain rather than focusing on the wonderful things God had brought in our lives, not the least of which is His everlasting love and eternal salvation.

"Paul wrote in everything give thanks" (1 Thess. 5:18)

We may not be thankful for everything that comes our way, but we can give thanks in everything. It may be difficult to be grateful when we lose our job or our health fails, but we can be thankful for the good that God has brought to us in this life and grateful fro the life to come.

--David Roper

As endless as God's blessings are,

So should my praises be

For all His daily goodnesses

That flow unceasingly!

~Adams

Instead of being preoccupied with our problems,

let's praise the Lord for his blessings.

Today Bible Reading~

Psalm 42

OUR AWSOME GOD!

Have you ever stopped and REALLY thought about how AWSOME our GOD REALLY IS?

How AMAZING He REALLY IS?

GOD CREATED EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYTHING!!!........ EVERY T- H- I- N- G!!!!

He IS ABLE! ABLE to do ALL Things!

He is in control of every situation.

(BIG and small)

Are allowing him to be in control of your life? If your like me you may sometimes try to control a situation, only to end up in stress and disappointment? So why do we EVEN try? Just give it ALL to him today! He is THE CREATOR of EVERYTHING! He can handle it! Without him there would be nothing!

Think about that today...
May God bless you~ Jessica

Logan Grant started FIRST grade today! Yea Logan!!!! Mommy and Daddy are SOOO proud of you BIG BOY!

I will try to get some of his FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL pictures on here VERY soon and an UPDATE on how his first day at public school went! I know your thinking yea right you never get to those updates.... Notice I said I will TRY! ha. I will REALLY TRY!!!

Landon's 1st Birthday...

Happy Birthday Baby Boy!

You are absolutely PRECIOUS and we LOVE you so much!!!

This last past year has been so amazing with you. I thank GOD for the wonderful blessing that you are. We already have so many memories with you and are so excited to watch you grow and make many many more wonderful memories. You have been nothing but pure joy in our lives. We love you Mommy & Daddy~ xoxo

It's Banana's! Landon Brice is ONE!

We celebrated Landon's birthday on Saturday with our family.

We had the CUTEST EVER cookies made by Robin

You can kinda see them in the glass plate under the dome. I am sad I didn't get a better picture. I will have to attach her cookie blog to mine so you can see all the cute ones she has made. (Jaimi that means I need your tech. support! lol)

Seriously Robin does such an GREAT job on her cookies and they are SOOOOOOOO Yummy! I am amazed by them every time I place an order. John Loves them! I think he ate 1/2 of the order. He told me to order more this week. And I did! Ha! We are addicted!

Thank you so much Robin!!!

You are such a BIG boy! Mommy and Daddy are so VERY proud of you!

You LOVED your yummy cake and it was so fun watching you eat it!

Landon LOVED the balloons at his party! Fun Fun Fun!!!

Mommy had fun decorating your monkey cake

Monkey Cake

Grandma Debi help frost your little cake.

We served warm ham & cheese rolls, veggies and dill dip, fruit salad, and chips.

Happy Birthday Grandma Donna and Landon Brice.

Love you both sooooo much!

Landon Brice,
Your first birthday was SOOOOOO much fun and so sweet!

You were a VERY VERY cute birthday boy and had so much fun the whole time.

I loved the whole day. Having our family with us to celebrate was so nice!

Some of the special things I will remember are...

Having our family there. I remember standing back taking pictures and soaking up some VERY SWEET moments!

Watching John play basketball with the boys. Holding Landon and Logan up to shoot the basketball into the new goal John got Landon for his birthday. He was so excited to get Landon his FIRST Basketball goal! Are family was cheering the boys on. Logan got so excited!

I remember looking over at Grandpa Bill holding Logan. They are always so sweet together. He always makes Logan laugh. He just loves him!

I had my mom running around crazy doing a million things. Watching the boys, feeding Logan, preparing the food, frosting the cake, dishes, I think I said hey mom every 3 minutes and she was right there to help! Thanks Mom for all your help. The party wouldn't have been as special if you weren't there to help pull it all together. John too! I had him running to Wal-Mart, hanging balloons, and a million other things as well. Thanks Honey! I don't know how I would make it without you two taking care of me. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Papa Lloyd made Landon the sweetest toy box. It is so cute and will be a keepsake Landon will always have. Thank you Papa for doing such a GREAT job! We LOVE it!

Landon got a package in the mail from Granny and Papa. We were so excited to see what it was we couldn't wait til the party to open it. It was a truck. Logan and Landon both love it.

My favorite part of the whole party was watching Landon eat his cake! He dug right in and ate it up! He didn't care to get messy one bit. I think he would of ate the whole cake if I would of let him.

Most all of our family and friends traveled from Harrison to share this special day with us. Thank you all for coming!

Landon got lots of great gifts. He got a pooh bear and little brother onesie from Logan, a cute outfit and p.j.'s from Homer and Juanita, a ride on toy from Aunt Jaimi and Jilly, the toy box papa made him, a truck from Granny and Papa, Money from Grandma and Grandpa also from Uncle Brad and Marilyn, and the basketball goal from daddy!

It was one VERY SPECIAL day for us.

I thank God for blessing us with our sweet little boys!

11 Months Old...

Landon Brice is 11 months old today! Time has went by so fast! To think next month we will be celebrating his FIRST birthday is just CRAZY! He is so much fun and brings us so much joy! I have LOVED LOVED LOVED the last 11 months with him. There are MANY new and fun things we have gotten to experience for the first time. It's been like being a new parent in alot of ways.

Happy Fathers Day...

Happy Fathers Day to you John! I love you... You are truly an amazing Daddy! Our boys couldn't have anyone better to be their daddy

than who they have in you.
Thank you for all you do and who you are.

xoxo~ Jess

A Special Needs Mommy...

Yes... that is me! I am a Mommy of a special needs little boy.

Having a child with special needs isn't something I think any parent wishes for. I will be very honest with you it has been a REAL challenge! A challenge God has given me! A challenge I want to PRAISE and THANK him for. Having Logan is such a blessing!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil 4:13

What the Lord wants for us is much better than what we "think" we want.

Remember he sees the full picture.

Logan Grant's Story...

Logan is a Miracle from the Lord above. After reading his story I think you will agree. Logan was born at 25 weeks gestation. He weighed only 11ounces (329grams) and was just 9 -3/4 inches long.

Notice the ink pen above him in this picture. This kind of puts his size in prospective.

his arms were as big around as the pen

I developed preeclampsia at 24 weeks. By 25 weeks my blood pressure was so high and I was very sick. My doctor decided I had to deliver my baby. (The only cure for preeclampsia is delivery) So I was airvacced to UAMS in Little Rock. There I underwent an emergency c-section with in 30min of my arrival. Our sweet tiny tiny little Logan Grant was here 15 weeks early. And was a VERY sick little guy.

The next several weeks ahead of us were very difficult on our family. I surrendered to God. I remember saying to the Lord... It's your will! You are the only one who can help this tiny sick baby. I give him to you and will accept whatever you choose. I was at the weakest point in my life that I have ever been. I was so sick and my baby was even sicker. God was the only one powerful enough to get us though this situation. If God chose to take Logan it would be so hard but he knew what was best. Putting my trust him to get us through whatever was what I was going to do. I had peace knowing God was with us. (If only my faith was always this strong!)

19 Weeks and 3 days later with LOTS of prayers and LOTS of ups and downs. At 3 lbs.14oz. Logan was able to come home from the hospital. He came home on O2 monitors and very long road ahead of us. But we were so thankful to be home and even better with our little miracle. We knew Logan had brain bleeds and vision problems (rop). At that point the doctors couldn't tell us what kind of disabilities Logan may have from the damage on his brain. We had to just wait and watch his development. Once again we had to just pray and give it to the Lord. Remember it's HIS will and not what we think want! God truly knows what is best for our life. As time went on we watched Logan fall further and further behind. Knowing he had disabilities we wondered would he even know who we were? Would he be able to ever sit up, hold a toy, crawl, talk (say mommy I love you) walk? Only God knew and we had to put full trust in him.

I make it sound like it's always an easy thing to do... but it is not always like that for me. I have had many times where I haven't trusted the Lord with the hard situation we are facing. These last 6 years I have went through lots of ups and downs. I haven't ever blamed God or said why me, but I have had LOTS of stress and anxiety. If I would just keep my eye on the Lord and REMEMBER if he brings me to it he will pull me through it. He really is always here to help. We just have to pray and release ourselves to him with every new day and situation! If only I would always apply this lesson...

As Logan got older he started having more and more oral motor problems and severe reflux. For him to suck a bottle it got more and more difficult. He would throw up what he would eat. He wasn't able to get the nutrition he needed. His weight was falling more and more off the charts. We would go to doctors appointments and hear the words failure to thrive. They suggested putting a feeding tube in his tummy. We waited and tried tried to get Logan to eat enough. We were feeding him every 3 hours day and night and adding extra calories. I prayed and prayed! It still wasn't working. My family would tell me that I just wasn't feeding him enough and DID NOT agree with the idea of a feeding tube. This was yet another very big challenge for us to face. I prayed and prayed for God to help. I felt very alone & didn't understand. I really was doing all that I knew to do. I felt like a failure as a mommy. We fought it but Logan was suffering. So we gave in and had the feeding tube put in. They also did a Nissin to help with Logan's reflux.

As all this was going on with Logan we were living with my parents. John and I were in the process of building a house. My dad is a contractor. Him and John would work on our house the evenings. It took us a VERY LONG 10 months to build. If you have ever built a house you would know that is enough stress to make someone CRAZY!Anyway at this point in my life I was just asking God... WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? It had to be me. EVERYTHING seemed to be so hard!

I will have to continue this story later.