Holiday weekend

So I am really trying hard to keep my blog updated, sometimes the kids try harder to keep me from doing it. I have thought about my blogging and have realized that it is a sort of journaling, a way to preserve memories and thoughts. So with that realization, I really need to try harder to write more so I can keep a good "Journal". Well I am finally putting up pictures from the 4th of July. They aren't the best pictures, but I have decided with little kids it is sometimes better to just have them in the picture than not, even if they aren't smiling. Parker did not want to be in the picture. He was more interested in playing. We had a good day with family. It wasn't too exciting, we got together and had a barbeque and then visited for a little while. Matt and I left early and came home to just relax. I didn't even watch fireworks (how unpatriotic am I). Matt had to work all day on Saturday and I was left with the kids all day long!!!! Those days seem really long. But I survived and the rest of the weekend was pretty uneventful. One of these days when we aren't living paycheck to paycheck and don't have student loans, I think we will do some traveling and have a lot more fun. Meanwhile we are living day to day and try to enjoy the little moments in life. I have worked on a few scrapbooks online and I am tring to catch up on the many pictures I have. I can't wait to get the final product in the mail to see how they turned out. I really do feel blessed to be a wife and mother and that I am able to stay home with my children and hopefully one day they will realize that as a blessing as well. I am grateful to Matt for all his hard work and for the things he provides our family with each day. We really are a lucky family.
I was reading a friends blog and found an article that talked about a lady that didn't believe in procreation. She thought that having children was bad for the environment and believed by not having children she is doing her part to save the environment. Well let me just say that she is missing out incredibly on one of the greatest miracles in life. I am so grateful to have experienced 2 great miracles in my life so far!!! And without procreation there will be no people to inhabit the earth anyways, so what good does that do. This doesn't mean that I don't agree with conservation efforts and people doing their part to stop pollution and live greener lives. I just think that you have to teach your children while they are young to not be wasteful and that will save many gerations in years to come. (I hope this all makes sense, if not you can skip it. I am just rambling to myself.) I am blessed by the Lord to be able to have children and I will do my part to raise them and love them to the best of my ability.