Father’s Day Fun!

  Today we celebrated my fabulous husband! After a wonderful breakfast, we worshipped, then came home to play with one of his gifts- the town corner lego! Then we rested, watched some world cup, made a Lowe’s run, ate dinner,and ended the day playing in the sprinkler! We got that one at Lowe’s today for $5- it was the type I played in as a kid- so cool to see MY kids playing in the same kind! Joey and I even took a run through it! (BTW, the kids were in their clothes cause we were too lazy to change into suits :)  After the sprinkler they had some of Daddy’s homemade caramel ice cream! Yuummm!

I am SOOO thankful for Joey- he is such an amazing daddy. He is a hard worker, yet his favorite place to be is with us. He would rather be playing and spending time with the kids than doing his own thing or anything else! We are blessed!

Couldn’t help but think today about our Katie Joan. Don’t know if she’s in utero right now, or born already, but if she is born, hopefully this will be her last Father’s day not in the arms of her daddy! :)

Surprise date night!

I have 8 followers! Yay! Actually, I forgot to mention last night that my main purpose in doing this is to keep a 'journal' that I can keep for the kids. Our neighbor said his daughter-in-law does that and prints it out at the end of the year. Since I am terrible at keeping up with scrapbooking I figure it will be a lot easier to devote 10-20 minutes a few times a week to end up with a treasure for them!
So as I was getting ready this morning, this is what I found in our bedroom:
Lukey had climbed up on our trunk and 'reading' a book- so cute. Books are his favorite thing - sometimes we can't find him, and he's usually in someone's room reading.
I had a busy day today: dermatologist appt., hair appt, (Joey had the day off) and came home to find my in-laws van in the garage and a note on the door saying I was being kidnapped for the night- by Joey! My sneaky hubby had been planning for weeks for his folks to take the kids for the night (they live ~45 min. away), and we have a date night/morning! I was shocked! I also asked a million questions about if he had packed everything I would have packed :) For those of you who know me very well, I hardly EVER leave my kids, esp. overnight, and when I have I am a meticulous planner. But he did great. And we went into Tally for our date (when we pay a sitter we don't leave town, we go to dinner and since our tiny town has nothing to do we end up at Wal-mart).
We went to some of my faves: TJMaxx, Kohl's, mall- but being that I recently read the book Radical (David Platt), I was not in the mood to shop- well look, but not buy! Great timing. I bring this up because I HIGHLY recommend this book! Life changing!
Well, I better go spend time with the hubs- he's watching Antiques Road Show.

My 1st post!

Sooooo, here it is my 1st post, and I have no clue what I'm doing! Joey and I for the last hour or so played around with blog addresses, titles, blog colors, etc. Shew! So many decisions!
The name Tending My Garden comes from an awesome book I read, "Tending Your Garden" by Denise Sproul. She says: "The home is the center of our garden as Christian women. As old-fashioned as it may sound, it's acutally a biblical idea: a woman's realm is her husband, her children and her home." It also ties in with a verse I picked for our kids that I have framed in each of their rooms- I need to figure out how to get it under my title- Ephesians 3:17. "Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong." (NLT) One of my prayers for them :)
My blog will be about our day to day life: my 3 sweet kiddos, my precious hubby, our journey of adoption to our fourth sweet one, homeschooling, what the Lord is teaching me, etc. I'm a little concerned about sharing my thoughts for the world to see (well, no one right now, I have no followers) (I'm kinda talking to myself at the moment). But I tend to get passionate and throw things out there- so if you don't like my blog, ahem, you may just wanna look elsewhere.....
So there it is, my 1st post! I did it! Maybe tomorrow night we'll figure out how to add pictures!