Pic 1: My little purple "welcome home"! It sits right inside my front door!
Pic 2: Bless This Home plates made with letter transfers and a couple of white plates from Goodwill. Total Cost: $5.00
Pic 3: A fall version of my "H" wreath hanging on the front door. I stole the twine idea from my girlfriend, Monica.
Pic 4 and 5: Blair and London on Blair's first day of preschool
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
OMGosh...I'm a horrible blogger
Okay, so it's been nearly 3 months since I last posted. Not good. Especially not good when I left my last post with a cliffhanger, claiming to make a spiritual connection with my early summer reading obsession, Twilight. Well, fast forward to fall and I can't for the life of me remember the spiritual significance I drew from the series.
Such is life of Jessica Hibbing. Great ideas. Horrible Follow-thru!
So, let's move forward from here, forget about Twilight (until November 2011 when Breaking Dawn debuts!), and give a brief synoposis of our Summer 2010!
Traveled a good amount:
-Went to the Omaha Zoo with my mom and the girls!
-Had a great time in Kansas City with just my mom on a girls mini-vacation. Love that city!
-Took a 5 year anniversary trip with my hubby to Minneapolis, Minnesota! Go Twins! Ikea!
-Multiple trips to the Quad Cities to see my mom and Decorah, IA to see Tim's family
Growing Girls:
-Enrolled Blair in preschool! Woah...she's getting so big. So far, she LOVES it!
-London's hair grew long enough to ponytail!
-Bought clothes for the girls to share. Can't believe their nearly the same size
-Blair learned to write her first and last name without help
The House:
-Finished a number of fun craft projects, including a purple vanity inside my front door... (what?!) I post them all later.
-Tim bought me my deeply desired cowhide rug! Yes!!!
-Bought a new washer and dryer. High efficiency, front load, Samsung. Enuf said.
-Mulched our kiddos swingset and added a sandbox. Yes, I love hearing the crackle of my vacuum as I suck up gazillions of sand granules in my carpet.
Us:
-Made a baby! Yep, I'm officially 19 weeks along now and awaiting our favorite milestone...the ultrasound...in less than a week and a half! In fact, we get to find out on Tim's birthday.
-Enjoying marriage more today then the day we wed!
-Embarked on a completely new adventure of international ministry. Realistically, that looks like feeding 5 chinese boys and driving them to places like Goodwill and the grocery store once a week!
That kinda sums it up. There has been many laughs this summer, with the growing 3 year old logic of our first born, as well as the the new "words" verbalized by my nearly 2 year old!
No promises, but I do hope to be more consistent at posting! Until next time, whenever that may be!
Jessica
Such is life of Jessica Hibbing. Great ideas. Horrible Follow-thru!
So, let's move forward from here, forget about Twilight (until November 2011 when Breaking Dawn debuts!), and give a brief synoposis of our Summer 2010!
Traveled a good amount:
-Went to the Omaha Zoo with my mom and the girls!
-Had a great time in Kansas City with just my mom on a girls mini-vacation. Love that city!
-Took a 5 year anniversary trip with my hubby to Minneapolis, Minnesota! Go Twins! Ikea!
-Multiple trips to the Quad Cities to see my mom and Decorah, IA to see Tim's family
Growing Girls:
-Enrolled Blair in preschool! Woah...she's getting so big. So far, she LOVES it!
-London's hair grew long enough to ponytail!
-Bought clothes for the girls to share. Can't believe their nearly the same size
-Blair learned to write her first and last name without help
The House:
-Finished a number of fun craft projects, including a purple vanity inside my front door... (what?!) I post them all later.
-Tim bought me my deeply desired cowhide rug! Yes!!!
-Bought a new washer and dryer. High efficiency, front load, Samsung. Enuf said.
-Mulched our kiddos swingset and added a sandbox. Yes, I love hearing the crackle of my vacuum as I suck up gazillions of sand granules in my carpet.
Us:
-Made a baby! Yep, I'm officially 19 weeks along now and awaiting our favorite milestone...the ultrasound...in less than a week and a half! In fact, we get to find out on Tim's birthday.
-Enjoying marriage more today then the day we wed!
-Embarked on a completely new adventure of international ministry. Realistically, that looks like feeding 5 chinese boys and driving them to places like Goodwill and the grocery store once a week!
That kinda sums it up. There has been many laughs this summer, with the growing 3 year old logic of our first born, as well as the the new "words" verbalized by my nearly 2 year old!
No promises, but I do hope to be more consistent at posting! Until next time, whenever that may be!
Jessica
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Twilight Saga
Okay, I swore I'd never watch the movies. I mean, c'mon, I'm a 27 year old mother of two...Isn't the movie about a teenage love triangle? I'm so beyond that.
Then I swore I'd never read the books. No time to free read...especially fiction.
And I certainly never be caught dead in one of those black shirts with the giant face of Rob Pattinson on it.
Oh gosh...Punish me now...
It started with a lazy night, girls in bed and nothing to watch on TV. Tim and I found Twilight was playing on a free movie channel and decided to give it a go...I mean, I was a little intrigued about all the hoop-la revolving around this saga.
I unfortunatly, like the movie. And unfortunatly, my like grew the next day as I thought about the movie and it's plot line/love story. My girlfriend lent me the next movie and Tim and I watched it 3 days later. It was official, I was hooked.
It didn't help that I joined two other girlfriends two weeks later for the Twilight Triliogy the night of the Eclipse premere. Twilight at 7:00pm, New Moon at 9:30pm and Eclipse at 12:30am! What was I doing?!?! This was so unlike me!
Anyway, fastforward a week and I'm 150 pages into the first book, anxious to pick it up whenever I have a free moment. I figure the books will get me through the next year and a half (til Nov 2011) until the first part of the final movie, Breaking Dawn, comes out.
You're probably wondering if I bought the shirt....thankfully, I just can't go there...not that I blame any one who has (love your passion, Mandy!)...I can actually relate to your desire to keep Edward Cullen close to your heart!
Okay, there is a spiritual lesson/disclaimer to my experience getting wrapped up in these movies but I have to go now, so I'll leave that for my next post!
Until then....
Then I swore I'd never read the books. No time to free read...especially fiction.
And I certainly never be caught dead in one of those black shirts with the giant face of Rob Pattinson on it.
Oh gosh...Punish me now...
It started with a lazy night, girls in bed and nothing to watch on TV. Tim and I found Twilight was playing on a free movie channel and decided to give it a go...I mean, I was a little intrigued about all the hoop-la revolving around this saga.
I unfortunatly, like the movie. And unfortunatly, my like grew the next day as I thought about the movie and it's plot line/love story. My girlfriend lent me the next movie and Tim and I watched it 3 days later. It was official, I was hooked.
It didn't help that I joined two other girlfriends two weeks later for the Twilight Triliogy the night of the Eclipse premere. Twilight at 7:00pm, New Moon at 9:30pm and Eclipse at 12:30am! What was I doing?!?! This was so unlike me!
Anyway, fastforward a week and I'm 150 pages into the first book, anxious to pick it up whenever I have a free moment. I figure the books will get me through the next year and a half (til Nov 2011) until the first part of the final movie, Breaking Dawn, comes out.
You're probably wondering if I bought the shirt....thankfully, I just can't go there...not that I blame any one who has (love your passion, Mandy!)...I can actually relate to your desire to keep Edward Cullen close to your heart!
Okay, there is a spiritual lesson/disclaimer to my experience getting wrapped up in these movies but I have to go now, so I'll leave that for my next post!
Until then....
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Prayful Crotch Shot
Okay so the title of this post is rather crude, but it's exactly what happened to my poor husband at the wedding we attended over the weekend. Allow me to set the stage:
We're at the Gateway hotel attending a lavish wedding reception for which Tim was an usher and asked to also give the pre-dinner prayer.
I've finally captured London and am holding her in my arms for what will respectfully be a brief 60 second prayer as Tim takes the mic and begins to ask the crowded reception of people to bow their heads.
At just that moment I see Blair at the edge of the dance floor about 50 feet away from Tim, her back to me, with her arms outstretched before her like a Zombie. She's just out of reach of me and I realize I didn't get the opportunity to remind her "we're going to pray now and she needs to stand quietly and listen to daddy talk".
To my horror, I watch her walk like tin man, arms still locked strait in front of her, briskly across the dance floor towards Tim, whom I know is utterly unaware of her approaching as he's got his eyes closed, head bowed and is concentrating on his prayer.
Most people didn't see what happened next because Tim covered really well but because Blair had to walk in front of the head table to reach her father, the wedding party erupted with laughter as they watched Blair's locked arms gore Tim directly in the crotch.
It went something like this: "...and Lord we just remember your bounty at thiUUUUUFFF...ahem, at this time of celebration..."
If only the videographer wasn't praying, we mighta been millionaires with that clip on AFV. The only thing I saw Tim mouthe as he walked back to his seat after he concluded the prayer was..."Un-Be-Lieveable."
HAHA...Isn't parenting like that sometimes? Unbelievable.
We're at the Gateway hotel attending a lavish wedding reception for which Tim was an usher and asked to also give the pre-dinner prayer.
I've finally captured London and am holding her in my arms for what will respectfully be a brief 60 second prayer as Tim takes the mic and begins to ask the crowded reception of people to bow their heads.
At just that moment I see Blair at the edge of the dance floor about 50 feet away from Tim, her back to me, with her arms outstretched before her like a Zombie. She's just out of reach of me and I realize I didn't get the opportunity to remind her "we're going to pray now and she needs to stand quietly and listen to daddy talk".
To my horror, I watch her walk like tin man, arms still locked strait in front of her, briskly across the dance floor towards Tim, whom I know is utterly unaware of her approaching as he's got his eyes closed, head bowed and is concentrating on his prayer.
Most people didn't see what happened next because Tim covered really well but because Blair had to walk in front of the head table to reach her father, the wedding party erupted with laughter as they watched Blair's locked arms gore Tim directly in the crotch.
It went something like this: "...and Lord we just remember your bounty at thiUUUUUFFF...ahem, at this time of celebration..."
If only the videographer wasn't praying, we mighta been millionaires with that clip on AFV. The only thing I saw Tim mouthe as he walked back to his seat after he concluded the prayer was..."Un-Be-Lieveable."
HAHA...Isn't parenting like that sometimes? Unbelievable.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Swagger Wagon
Well, it's official. No Chevy Suburban for Miss Jessica Hibbing, at least not for a year or so. That's ok. In honor of our Toyota Sienna membership in our family, I'm posting this video.
"Where ma kidz at?!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N3F1FhW4
"Where ma kidz at?!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N3F1FhW4
An intimate moment I didn't want to forget...
This morning I went for a jog around Ada Haden park. About 10 minutes in I thought to myself..."oh Snap! I shoulda read the Word a little before I left so I had a verse to meditate on. That really would have made this run go faster!" I prayed that the Lord would just give me a verse to think about while I circled the lake and He tenderly answered with Psalm 23.
Here were a few of my thoughts. It was a precious time I pray I don't forget.
The Lord is my shepherd= Jesus, thank you for watching over me, as a tender shepherd watches over his lambs. Thank you for knowing me by name and calling me. Thank you, Jesus, for keeping me safe inside the herd, my friends and church. Thank you, Father, for being personal with me; being mine.
I shall not want= Jesus, you are my supply. How could this be; I shall not want? Even on the darkest of days you have promised me… fulfillment. This is such a special comfort to me, Lord. I am growing in trust that even if all were stripped away, you would be all I needed.
He makes me lie down in green pastures= This is peace, Lord. You are peace. Jesus, I can just envision a lush green pasture-one I don’t have to water, I don’t have to mow, I don’t have to maintain. You beckon me in, cradle my head and lay me down. You ask me to close my eyes, breath in pure fresh air and simply rest.
He leads me beside quiet waters= Lord, you are such a friend to me. Beside our quiet waters, you walk with me. I look in the stillness of the lake and see the reflection of you walking in stride with me. You will always be the source of my refreshment, Jesus. You are the quiet water. When I thirst, you promise to make my cup overflow.
He restores my soul= What a promise, Lord, that you could mend a broken heart. Not only mend it…restore it fully. FULLY! Father, this is all I could ask for. You don’t promise a life without sorrow or tragedy, but you do promise healing. What a gift I have in you, Jesus.
Here were a few of my thoughts. It was a precious time I pray I don't forget.
The Lord is my shepherd= Jesus, thank you for watching over me, as a tender shepherd watches over his lambs. Thank you for knowing me by name and calling me. Thank you, Jesus, for keeping me safe inside the herd, my friends and church. Thank you, Father, for being personal with me; being mine.
I shall not want= Jesus, you are my supply. How could this be; I shall not want? Even on the darkest of days you have promised me… fulfillment. This is such a special comfort to me, Lord. I am growing in trust that even if all were stripped away, you would be all I needed.
He makes me lie down in green pastures= This is peace, Lord. You are peace. Jesus, I can just envision a lush green pasture-one I don’t have to water, I don’t have to mow, I don’t have to maintain. You beckon me in, cradle my head and lay me down. You ask me to close my eyes, breath in pure fresh air and simply rest.
He leads me beside quiet waters= Lord, you are such a friend to me. Beside our quiet waters, you walk with me. I look in the stillness of the lake and see the reflection of you walking in stride with me. You will always be the source of my refreshment, Jesus. You are the quiet water. When I thirst, you promise to make my cup overflow.
He restores my soul= What a promise, Lord, that you could mend a broken heart. Not only mend it…restore it fully. FULLY! Father, this is all I could ask for. You don’t promise a life without sorrow or tragedy, but you do promise healing. What a gift I have in you, Jesus.
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