Abundant Blessings in our family...Owen

 It seems like just yeaterday that Owen Michael Dahman was layed on my chest and I told him that I loved him for the first time face-to-face. It doen't seem possible that four years have passed.... yet, it has. What a blessing Owen has been to our family!

Happy Birthday Owen! Welcome to the world and to our family! June 28, 2008

Our prayers for a healthy, happy, baby boy had come true.

The girls LOVE(D) their new baby brother!

so little...

                                       

Welcome home.

gettting bigger....

                                     

And before we knew, it we felt called to give Owen a baby brother of his very own.

He loved him from the start.

                                      

Owen LOVES being a big brother and Evan loves him SO very much.

 

 Last year at his 3rd Birthday party...

   

 I never knew that I could love another man other than my husband....until I met my son(s).

Happy 4th Birthday my beautiful boy. You are such a blessing from God.

....An Abundant Blessing

It's the little things in life...organizing my sanity

    This is our sock bucket...

 I found this idea on Pinterest and have adopted it in our home....

 All of the socks go into the bucket after laundering. When all of the laundry is "done" you match the socks! After a month if we haven't found the match to the leftovers we pitch the spares. Let me tell you this is one of my biggest pet peeves and it has made a HUGE difference in our house.

 The kids closet is FINALLY organized!

All of the puzzles, play-doh, coloring books, etc. have a home...

                                     

And the blocks and Legos can be taken down, played with, and put back in there containers which would make anyone who has ever stepped on a Lego very happy.

Now if only the rest of the house was as organized...but we are steadily getting there. Like I said, it is the small things. Pinterest, along with a lot of women on Facebook with their own blogs, have really inspired me and more so given me ideas to get me started. Around our house we are feeling a little bit less crazy and are feeling more Abundantly Blessed.

The transformation of my blog and my life...

My blog...."My crazy, busy, beautiful, life" has changed.
It is now called "My Abundant Blessings" and it's purpose is to share my abundant blessings so that they may abundantly bless others. My crazy, busy, beautiful, life is still relevant, but is being transformed. The crazy and clutter is being organized and filtered out. The busy is being looked at as more of a blessing these days. Through different perspective we are learning to slow down and enjoy the moments. The beautiful is still present, but appearing in ways that I have never truly seen before because I wasn't really looking. And life....life is what it is all about. Life IS the Abundant Blessing and that is why we are going to shift our focus on the crazy, busy, and beautiful to the abundant blessings that they all bring.So join us for faith, organization, homeschooling, sanity and the not so sane moments of motherhood and child shaping, homeschooling, and a little bit of this and that. I hope you enjoy what is to come and that it may abundantly bless you in some way. I know that it has been blessing ours.

-Kristin