The Cupp Crew

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Abby Roo is TWO!

We decided on bubbles are our fun activity! This girl of ours looooves bubbles!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

A man at church after confirming with me that I had four kids told me he was sorry for me. Huh? I was speachless for a minute...sorry for me, why on earth would he be sorry for me? I told him that we were humbled that God would bless us with four children for they are a gift from Him. He just told me he would be even more sorry for me when they are teenagers....I talked to him for a few more minutes and it left me sad that he would see children as such a burdon and inconvienence...I pray that my children would always know that they are treasured and bring us so much joy!

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Friday, April 15, 2011

Entertaining Claire

I had to add this. I laid Claire down for a moment so I could take Abigail to the bathroom. I guess she started to fuss...so Andrew, the big helper, decided to put his train tracks on either side and run his trains on them to make her happy....great idea!! She still was unhappy though...

New Friends and New Ministry!

Abigail and her friend Ellie Kate

Look how little Claire is filling out! She is a cutie pie!

Andrew and his new friend Tennyson

The girls are still sleeping and thus I have stolen a few moments to blog, sigh...it has been a busy week but a great one. I feel so blessed as I think about how God continues to bless us with such sweet friends. One of my new friends brought me the ingredients and recipe to make my own 5 gallon tub of laundry detergent...yes! She told me I would dilute it 2/3 detergent to 1/3 water and the cost for the ingredients to make the detergent was around $3.00. Her 5 gallon tub has lasted her family of four for four months and it works great! Awesomeness! I am soo excited to try it and start saving money...boy, do we use lots of detergent these days! Claire is growing and growing...I think she may actually get rolls on her thighs! Abigail is sleep walking....weird, yes. Three times this week. Once I got up with Claire to feed her around 4am and found Abigail asleep on the floor of the living room without her blanket (she doesn't go anywhere without her blanket when she is just waking up)...one night she came up our stairs and into our room, not saying a word and Dustin pulled her into bed for a while, she never woke up and did not have her blanket...then this morning when Dustin woke up he heard snoring in our room and looked down beside the bed and there was Abigail asleep on our floor right beside the bed without her blanky. Strange. It scares me because she is climbing our stairs...asleep. Tonight we will start using the gate again at her doorway to keep her safe. Carson is doing super well....Ms.Holly is so impressed with his piano playing each week...he is soon going to surpass my piano skill level...and he really enjoys it! He also brought home his BEAR reading test this week with 100% in all four catagories! Yea, Carsy. Andrew is doing great...he is a funny boy. We find such joy in listening to his amusing statements and questions these days...silly, silly, silly! New Ministry...God is up to some great things in the hearts of some Cushing Moms, mine included! Four of us met this week to start a new ministry for stay-at-home Moms much like Mops here in our church. Our town does not have a group like this yet and has so many Moms that would be able to get connected to each other and to Christ through this ministry! Oh, how I love how God works in weaving Moms together! It has only just begun! We are in the beginning stages of praying, researching and planning but we are confident that God is in the midst...as I was praying about it this last week I kept coming back to the idea of equipping...Equipping Moms to be the best that they can be with Christ's help and the encouragement of other Moms! I can't wait to see what He has in store! Well, Carson just came off the bus...time to get moving again....tomarrow is Abigail's birthday party....more on that later!!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

A sweet girl and a crazy hat!

Thought this was so cute! I went out to check on Abigail. She was "helping" Daddy. Look how sweet this is...laying on Daddy's leg while he sprayed the lawn for weeds...such a sweet girl! She wants to be where her Daddy is these days..as soon as he walks in the door she is following him around the house and only he can take her to the potty. :)

Andrew's crazy hat for Awana's. We just used what we had at the house but it turned out pretty cute! This week was joke week. Andrew told me that his joke he told in class was "Kaden is a Kukuhead..." (I have no idea if that is how you spell it)...I asked him if they laughed and he

told me "No, they were just sitting there." He was adamant about making up his own joke. He is a silly one. We had to have a talk about how it is not funny to call people names....Oh, Andrew Maddox!

Being led...to show God's love!

I am learning to listen to the Holy Spirit and where he wants to show His love to others. I was able to do that this week for Carson's piano teacher. She has a very sick husband who has been in & out of the hospital. She works full time and teaches piano two days a week after work from 4-6:30. I took Carson to lessons on Tuesday and as I pulled up I had this overwhelming sense of the Holy Spirit. He impressed upon me to bless her with dinner so that she could go home after lessons and not have to worry about what to fix for her husband. Okay. Going to the store with three kids is not an easy task and yet I was so excited to do what God wanted me to do to show her His love. So off we went to the store. I decided on fried chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and a small cheesecake. I will have to say that it was one of the easiest trips ever....why?...bc God was in our midst for sure. We were in & out in 10min and back to piano lessons. I ran the sacks in to her and simply told her that the Holy Spirit had led me to provide dinner for her & her husband. You should gave seen the shock on her face....so, close to tears. I left and went to wait for Carson to come out. I absolutely love working where God is moving!! I totally tell you this not to boast in any way of this "deed" but to encourage you to slow down and hear where the holy spirit is guiding you! What a blessing it is to be apart of where God wants to show Himself. She texted me the next day overwhelmed with gratitude sharing that she has been so tired lately and stressed over everything going on and that the blessing of food to them was such a break that she so needed. God knew that. I gave credit to him and the leading of the Holy Spirit. She was able to feel God's love and provision for her!!! Yea!! Go God!!