day 100 - our favorite things

here is our top 100 things we love doing as a family:

1. serving our community as a family

2. going to church and worshiping as a family

3. swimming at the pool

4. playing the wii together

5. snuggling up to watch a great movie

6. great conversations around the dinner table

7. hearing all the little noises around the house bright and early in the morning

8. dance parties to some tobymac

9. eating great food together

10. discovering the zoo together

11. having help when it comes to folding the clothes

12. making new friends

13. playing with friends

14. help with clipping coupons

15. teaching each other how to swim (the boys)

16. jamming out to music in the car

17. mowing the lawn

18. cooking dinner

19. playing outside

20. finger painting

21. coming up with new art projects

22. going new places

23. making pb&j's with more pb that bread

24. eating granola bars like they are going out of style

25. drinking chocolate milk

26. skyping with family across the globe

27. spending time reading as a family

28. family devotions

29. answering questions the boys have about God and the Bible

30. playing mario brothers and getting smashed by my kids

31. visit family

32. going to krispy kreme

33. playing games on the ipod

34. folding loads and loads of laundry :)

35. playing board games

36. earning marbles for good behavior

37. spending our money on special things

38. teaching my kids to be good stewards of their money

39. eat reese's and vanilla ice cream

40. making homemade smoothies and milkshakes

41. eating at chick-fil-a and moes!

42. playing wii resort especially the jet skiing

43. taking pictures of all these smiling faces

44. watching "so you think you can dance"

45. making comments about all the great dancers on SYTYCD

46. attempting to dance as good as the dancers on SYTYCD

47. being robots

48. reading our Bibles together

49. bedtime routines

50. family nights playing wii or board games

51. celebrating birthdays as a family

52. talking with grandparents on the phone

53. being the first one to answer the phone when dad calls

54. playing monopoly

55. spending the night with grandparents

56. helping each other

57. cleaning the house as a team

58. watching our favorite movie "meet the robinsons"

59. having conversations about how great our new family is

60. walking jackson

61. giving jackson a bath

62. deciding who stinks the worst: jackson or the boys

63. trying to make the house not smell like BOYS

64. watching the boys play sports

65. being the loudest and biggest cheering section at the football games

66. speaking truth over our family

67. claiming the promises God has for us

68. sharing God with my kids

69. having them turn their hearts to God

70. knowing 2 of my kids are fighting for God's side now!

71. learning how to fight Satan in a new and real way

72. the reality of the spiritual battles for our kid's souls

73. seeing God receive the victory over every battle

74. cooking for a large family

75. going shopping at walmart

76. making a big breakfast

77. watching the "swagger wagon" youtube video

78. going to happy hour at sonic

79. driving around look at possible and dream houses

80. going to the recycle bin and emptying everything in 1 min

81. trying to locate all our "G" rated movies

82. paying way too much to do anything

83. singing to "disney sing it" on the wii

84. singing every word to every song of taylor swift

85. listening to the boys sing all the songs to high school musical

86. bear hugs at least 100 times a day

87. hearing "secret mama?" then getting a big "I LOVE YOU"

88. watching the world cup

89. teaching the boys to play piano

90. hearing "mama's here" when i come out to breakfast

91. teaching new songs

92. hearing "will you sing to us" every night

93. finding new and fun things to do

94. discovering the world through new eyes

95. knowing this is the rest of our lives

96. watching the boys play with each other

97. hearing the boys ask "can we pray for..."

98. enjoying just sitting next to each other

99. holding hands why we pray

100. hearing "I LOVE YOU" being yelled down the hall