First addition of Throwback Thursday!!!

So I have decided to so my own segment of Throwback Thursday with posting an old picture and talking about it :) And what better way to start with a picture that started it all!

So this was on June 6, 2002 our last day of school Matt's senior, my junior year. By this time he had taken me to prom and already stole his first kiss! That day he drove me home from school in his red truck and that night we went to Walmart and did some shopping around and then decided we wanted to rent a movie. Matt hates scarry movies but we rented 13 Ghosts. I remember him saying how stupid scarry movies are LOL and during the movie ha! We went back to his parents house and started movie night...during the movie he asked me one question I had been waiting on LOL and I'll never forget how the converstation went ha! Matt "So if I asked you to be my girlfriend what would you say?" :D HA HA HA Jessica "I'd say yes!" Matt "Well how bout it?" Jessica "Ok" I still laugh about it ha ha ha but it was our special moment. To think that moment happened almost 10 years ago still is so neat to me. Matt still gives me butterflies even after 10 years! We have made it through me finishing highschool and college, Matt deciding to join the Air Force, and those hard deployments. I had no idea that saying yes to that question was going to bring me and us to where we are today and if I had to do it all over again you bet I would in a heart beat without even thinking twice! It's so neat to look back on all we have gotten to do together! We still enjoy that day June 6, 2002 :) it was our first anniversary so it's always gonna be special to us. It was a day that changed our lives and us forever! Who knew it would lead to the 2 beautiful girls we have now!!! But that's for another day! I added some other pictures from that day!!!

Ahhh the hard life of a 3 year old...

Well yesterday (Monday) was a fun day in our house...Monday's Maddison has ballet/tap class which she really loves but yesterday was just one of those days! We have all been pretty sick in the house and I offered to let her stay home but she begged me to take her so we went. I knew though that she was not going to listen and that she would be the one her teacher (Mrs. Patty) was calling on and what do you know...she isn't listening then she starts crying and snot is everywhere and ugh class was almost done so I had a talk with her and she finished tap out just fine. Well come time to leave and I was talking to another momma and Maddison did her little you wanna mess with me thing she does and I told her to come on and well she proceed to tell me she was going to bust my ass at which I looked up and her teacher and all other parents were looking at me...I wanted to laugh not going to lie but she knew she was in the wrong and that we don't say those kind of words so...she got a spanking and had to apologize to everyone. I don't know where she heard that, we don't say that to her for that very reason. I have always heard it's the terrible twos but after having a two year old and now a very mouthy, mean at times, attitude filled, not wanting to listen three year old, I think 3 is the number not 2...Maddison was an amazing 2 year old...COME ON 4, I mean it can only get better right...someone say right! I know she is testing the water and I understand that. Sometimes I also think it's just to get attention (Molly requires a lot LOL) and we try to give her her own one on one time. This is also a big time for her, the world is just such a big place and she is trying to figure out where she stands. She is soooo independent...dresses herself, goes to the bathroom herself, always telling me I can do it. I love that about her, she is an amazing little person and I can't wait to see where she goes in life. However I will be glad when we are done with being a 3 year old. It's a hard life!

We love our Maddison Kay!

Thankful Thursday!

So today I am doing a Thankful Thursday! I haven't wrote in awhile so I need to catch up too but today I am most thankful for (other than my husband and my sweet girls) is my brothers! My brother SPC Joshua Shoemake returned from spending a year deployment in Afghanistan. I am so happy he is home safe and with my sister in law! I know she missed him as I know what it's like to be in her shoes! Matt has not been deployed that long but the feeling is just the same. He has been through a lot while serving over there, we are just happy to have him home. Not everyone is as lucky and for those we pray for them and their families.

I am also thankful for my bother Jonathon. I haven't seen him in a little bit but love him just as much!

I'm thankful for my family! I have an amazing husband who does so much for me and the girls! We are so blessed! For Lent I gave up a few things and I can already see a change in me and it's what I needed. I chose to give up things that I really have struggled with and that I feel like really have a hold over me. I gave up processed foods, grains, soda, all things really bad for me. I used to never think twice about food and for some reason it's like now food has a huge hold on me! But no more and what better way to think of it like this...if Jesus died on the cross for me the least I can do is give up those things for him! And it has really helped! I haven't thought twice about eating those things or having soda! I have also started training for a 10 mile race in September at Walt Disney World in FL! I found a running plan on line: 10 Mile Running Plan and I am on week four of it and wow I am loving it! I have lost weight (which was not really my reason for this running) but I know by September I'll be where I want to be! One of my new years resolutions was to lose 50 lbs this year and I believe I might lose more! I have God on my side and when I'm running I can definitely feel him there with me every step I take. I ran four miles the other night without stopping which was HUGE for me! I can not even begin to say how humbled I am right now for our heavenly father! I do not deserve any of the blessings in my life I am nothing but a sinner saved by God's grace! Which is the most amazing thing to be thankful for!