Praise You In This Storm

much to be thankful for......

I woke up to one of my worst nightmares this morning...   I got up two hours early to get ready for church, was looking forward to taking the kids to cowboy church.  Colton was excited to wear his new cowboy boots and bibs. I was feeling refreshed and happy (got my hair done last night, thanks to TIFFANY)... but I went to the bathroom and to my surprise I saw three maggots on the bathroom floor... since this had happened before I looked out the bathroom (yes, the door was open) and could see my kitchen floor covered in them!  I felt like crying... but called my friend Michelle and told her we would NOT be making it to church. I got everything cleaned up about the time we would have been leaving.   WEll, the devil got his way and the King family did NOT attend church. I still have not had time to read my bible as I was sore and exhausted and decided to take an afternoon nap after talking with Sean . I decided amongst all my problems today whether it be creepy crawly little worms all over my house to a crabby teething baby or a 4 year old pestering me ALL  DAY LONG to go play with the neighbor kids... I could still be happy and  TRY to enjoy my day.   On the bright side..... my laundry room, bathroom, garbage closet, kitchen and dining room are all bleached and smelling wonderful!!!!!!!  The neighbor girls even came and helped me clean upstairs and vacuumed the whole house... and the neighbor boy cleaned up my back yard.  I kept thinking the Rental agency was going to show up today.. since I called and talked to Will on their emergency line this morning and told him all about my problem.  I guess they'll come tomorrow!  Anyway... I'm beginning to wonder if this is a sign from GOD.  See, I've been debating weather to move on post or not... and guess what the first thing to pop into my head was this morning?  YES.. you got it...  moving!  BUT Sean is gone and I'd have to do all the packing myself.  We've been here 7 months and I still feel like I just got settled in.. still making curtains and hanging pictures! LOL   Anyway.. grandma Doris says if it's meant to be all the right doors will be opened and if not, they will be closed.  I think I'm going to go talk to housing this week just to see what's available.  If there is something in Kouma Village I may take the plunge!  Also, of course my wonderful army wife friends have already offered to help me move!  One of the reasons for moving would be to save around 300.00 a month.

Anyway... evening is falling... and it's time for me to read my bible.   This song just came on KLOVE and it brought tears to my eyes.  Always, what I need to hear, when I hear it! I will forever support this great station :o)

I miss Sean like crazy today....only got to talk to him for a few minutes, his internet was down last night.. so hopefully it'll work tonight and we'll be able to talk more.   I know I have friends going through much worse things right now....like this is so minor.  I am sure everyone has these days though, where you feel everything is against you.  But you know what? My God is huge and nothing can come between US!  I love you Jesus and thank you so much that I have a home that is filled with little blond blessings running everywhere!

My first ACU BAG!!!!

Ok.. so I got a babysitter and went to a sewing class. I of course could have saved 30.00 and figured this out on my own by watching youtube video or reading directions off of paper...  but my amazing husband encouraged me to get out for the day and do something fun and learn how to do it RIGHT!  SOOO glad I listened and took the time to learn.  I made this amazing little diaper bag/big purse, whatever you want to call it. I just need to get all of Sean's patches on it so it'll look like a real ARMY WIFE bag.  Since my machine doesn't embroider I am going to get the name tags done with blue matching thread.  Then of course on the large velcro pockets I'll have the 1st Cavalry patch.

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This is the front that will have "KING" on the left and maybe ARMY WIFE on the right

 There are two slanted pockets you can't see very good.   The center patch is for their rank but I 

could also put something else there instead.

this is the back that will have the Cavalry Patches

 And the inside has one large pocket on the left and on the right I took one 

really big pocket and made two small pockets and a pen holder pocket.  The straps are made

of name tag strap that i can get from the military surplus stores.. I just added my own fabric to the 

back side, the inside of the bag is lined with fusable badding.

I have several more to make so let the orders begin!!!!

Email me if your interested sheilah@wiktel.com  For those of you NOT in the militray I could skip the outside velcro patches.

Goodies in the MAIL

My wonderful friend Wendy in California and her friend Tina sent me and the kids a box of surprises~  Colton and Carley were so excited to open it and find a whole book of stickers!  Carley got My little PONY stickers and Colton got Winnie the Pooh! There was a cute little box that she made for me!  You can kind of see it in the big box... and it was full of caramels, pop cycle sticks and a recipe for caramel apples.  I can NOT tell you how GREAT they were... but hopefully these pictures will do them justice!  I hadn't had one in years!  This will definitely be an on-going project and treat for me and the kids!  THANK YOU WENDY AND TINA and your FAMILIES, for thinking of this military family so far away :)  Most of all thank you for your prayers!

Don't you just want one right about now???

...................... and the apples were perfectly sour!

Birthday Boys... (belated)

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This was the worst frosting EVER

Stetson and his friend Jay

My children are growing up before my eyes and I wish I could just pause time so that I can hug them and kiss their little cheeks forever!  We got to celebrate both boys bdays before Sean left so this was the last "PARTY" we had together!  Colton's bday was August 12th and Stetsons was September 8th.  We celebrated at Chuckee Cheese with some neighbors and military friends.

My first Apron....and my 100th BLOG POST!

I finally got around to making my first apron....  I knew they would be pretty easy and I probably wouldn't have needed a pattern to do a simple one.  I found this pattern at Wal-mart and couldn't pass it up.  The fabric was on the remnant rack for 2.95 a yard.  I only used about 1 yard total cause I made it shorter than what the pattern said. So, with fabric and the pattern I think I stayed under 6.00. I don't remember how much the pattern cost. But it couldn't have been more than 2 or 3.00. But now my next one will only be the cost of the fabric.  They had cheaper fabric but I saw this print and couldn't pass it up either!

Team Beachbody!

If anyone is interested in trying a new work out program you can go to my sites to check them out.  We offer

Insanity
P90X
Turbo Fire
Body Gospel just to name a few!  Make sure you check out the success stories!


www.beachbodycoach.com/ARMYWIFE49
 
www.shakeology.com/ARMYWIFE49 

These link to my profile but you can also go to


www.teambeachbody.com/ARMYWIFE49

If you want to join from my page, I will automatically become your online coach!

Remember if you are burning an insane amount of calories to eat enough calories and protein to fuel your body. Drink lots of water and electrolytes!  To  hydrated for your work out you need to drink a lot of water the day before!  But also make sure your water is handy throughout your work out... I sip water between each set!  You may also need to eat a small hand full of fruit for energy about 30 to 40 minutes prior.  This works well for me :)  You don't want a full stomach but you also don't want an empty stomach. God bless and have a wonderful DAY!

5 year Anniversary

‎5 years ago today I married the man of my dreams! I never knew a girl could love or be loved so deeply! We are more in L-O-V-E today than the day we married.... He has far exceeded my hopes and dreams since that wonderful day! Even though we are thousands of miles apart, your are near to my heart and in my thoughts every minute of every day!

Insanity......

So, most of you know that I started a pretty insane work out June 21st.   I decided that instead of staying in my comfort zone and living each day casually that I would kick it up a notch and see what my body could actually do if I pushed it.   I always thought .. I could never join the army due to all the physical stress and exercises they make you do.  Well, I found very quickly that if I put my mind to doing something extremely hard that putting my mind over my body it could be done. Over the past few months I've learned that I have more "get up and go" than I ever thought possible.  I was also kinda depressed about the fact that my body had taken such a toll from child birth.  I wondered if it would ever be the same again. I was feeling sluggish and tired and of course not very confident!!  Well, to my surprise, I'm feeling better and more in shape than I did prior to my childbearing years and I'm almost 30!

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I hope these pictures are ok to share!  I just want YOU to see what Insanity can do!!!
You can go to Teambeachbody.com for info on the program... or check Insanity on Facebook.

I am still on Round two.. have 7 weeks left.  So, at the end I'll be posting again.
I am doing extra ab work outs this round as to hopefully get rid of the loose baby skin.  I believe it is possible.  I also found this site interesting. One of them says you should never lose weight too rapidly.  No more than 3 pounds a week to help prevent loose skin.  Unless you are VERY overweight that probably wouldn't be a problem. I'm finding it hard to lose 1 or 2.  But I'm also only 4 pounds from my goal. 

www.best-abs-exercises.com/loose-stomach-skin.html

Carley's New Handmade dress!

I love how it turned out it's probably just hard to see how I did the skirt with godetts!  But basically it just made it more full looking... by adding extra material between a couple seams.

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SHE LOVES it if you can't tell by her posing!  I'll have to post a picture after I find a cute white sweater to wear over it! I have some really cute pink plastic docrative buttons I was going to sew on to the front bodice but I'm afraid she'd just pull them off.. cause they kinda stick out. So, if I can find some more cute ones that are smaller I still might do that.  It would dress it up a bit, I think.