Couldnt have said it better

This video made me sad that I sometimes wish for times alone. Cause the times with my babies now, will not happen again.

RIP Shalena the hamster

~~~RIP Shalena November 2008-February 2010~~~

Shalena the hamster was bought at Pet Supermarket in November 2008. Trevor Joy became the new owner of her. She was a dark brown teddy bear hamster. Trevor brought her home and we soon learned that she did not like to be squeezed and bit Trevor to show him the correct way to hold her. She enjoyed running in her hamster ball all over the house. But one of her most favorite activites was escaping from her cage in the middle of night to run all thru our house. This led to a few freaked out panicked mornings of looking all over the house for the escapee. Thank God mom has got some great hearing. If it wasnt for her, little Shalena would of cooked under the stove. Shalena also enjoyed running on her hamster wheel all hours of the night. Her most memorable wheel run was the night she kept my sister up from wondering what was scratching in the wall. Little did Skyla know that on the other side of the wall in the living room was Shalena laughing it up as she ran in her wheel.

Shalena will be missed. We will miss that furry smelly little girl. One day we will see you again. Till then....enjoy hamster heaven.

"Is there a heaven?"

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt
Trevor always amazes me, but usually he amazes me by the insight that he has. The way he looks at things and sees them is so not like 7 year old would. He is like a 30 year old in a 7 year old's body.

To tell you this story I will have to jump back to the first of December. Trevor came home and wanted to know if Santa was real. Steve and I always agreed that if he ever asked about Santa, the Easter Bunny or tooth fairy that we would be honest. So we told him and we got the response that wasn't exactly what we wanted to hear. He said "well if Santa isn't real, then how do I know that God is real?". Hearing this made me sad. But the question was sure to be asked and is one of the reasons I didn't want to lie to him about Santa. Whether it's all fun and make believe or not, with a child like Trevor, we were sure to be asked that question about God. We told him that he just had to have faith.

That brings me to faith.....well to be quiet honest we don't go to church every Sunday, but we pray and teach Trevor to do right by others. We have set very strong morals in our children. I was brought up going to church and I believe in God. Steve was not brought up going to church and he often questions the Bible and evolution. That's just Steve and Trevor is a lot like him in that aspect. We did try going to church for about a 2 year period where Steve asked me tons of questions and he was even saved in the church. We ended up not going quiet as often and eventually not at all. Trevor went to a Christian prek for 3 years and Christian values were instilled in him there.

So that brings me to last week when Steve and Trevor were playing in the backyard. Steve notices that Trevor is digging something up and he asks him what he is doing. Trevor tells him that he buried a dead frog in the dirt a couple of days before and if the frog is gone, then there is a heaven and a God. Well you know what happened next, Trevor came to the frog who was still there dead. He covered him back up with dirt and patted it down and said "We will wait a couple more days.". Then he went on playing. Then a few days later he was out again with Steve and went back to that same spot, started digging and he told Steve that he just knew that frog went to heaven. Sure enough the frog was gone. He told Steve, "In there was heaven and a God and thats where the frog went." Steve asked him if that was enough for him to know there was a heaven and Trevor said "uh, huh." Now you and I both know that the frog would still be there in that same little dirt grave. But by some chance he must of dug in the wrong place. Thank God! He has his faith back. All because of a dead frog.