Ready for Summer!

This weather is so amazing!! It makes me want to throw all of my spring cleaning plans out the window! I am so ready for Summer, and I say Summer and NOT Spring because I am deathly afraid of tornadoes. I could totally skip out on Spring in Oklahoma every year and not miss it one bit. I can't wait to wake up every morning and go outside and play with the boys, have popsicles dripping down their little fingers, take them swimming, wagon rides, take the doggies for a walk.. Ahhh! I am so excited!! This is the last Summer before Blaine starts school. I honestly just do not know where time goes. Blaine is such a sweet, little guy; it is so hard to believe he will be 5 in October. He always says the prayers at the table before we eat and since the day he started praying, he has always thanked God for our food, our family, and MCDONALDS, LEGOS, WALMART and THE ZOO! What?!?! This truly bothered me for the longest time. Why in the world would he thank God for such materialistic things. I tried to tell him we thank God for people and things that we are truly thankful for.. I was frustrated until I understood.. He said he thanks God for keeping the animals at the zoo safe, he thanks God for keeping Walmart stocked with the things that we need, Legos are his favorite thing, and Mcdonalds gives us food.. (Sadly, we eat out way more often than we should and more than I'd like to admit, especially since this McDonalds came to town!!) Anyway, point being, that is all his little four year old mind needs in his life and he thanks God for every single one of them. :)

SPRING CLEANING!

This post isn't going to be very inspiring or informative. It is really just me telling the world that I am going to tackle Spring Cleaning starting this weekend and I figure if I tell you all that I am going to do it, then I have to do it! As I type this post, my two year old is walking around behind me pushing a broom (the broom that my husband left in this room, while trying to accomplish the "broom trick".. he just couldn't resist..) saying, "Clean this mess, clean this mess!" so either he is ready to clean or he is mocking me.. Either way it is adorable. Have a great Friday!  

Get a little WEIRD!

Isn't it funny how we all live every day of our lives trying to be normal? Trying to be just like people we despise, trying to have the best of the best, trying to be "normal" just like everyone else. I am in the process of reading a book by Craig Groeschel (the preacher at our amazing church) and it is wonderful. It is a real eye opener. It has never occurred to me how we all follow this path and live such normal lives. It has never occurred to me how RIDICULOUS normal in this day and age is. It has never occurred to me that I don't want to be normal anymore and that I want to be weird, really weird, until I started reading this book. Craig mentions in the book going out to eat and watching a family of 4 stare down at their phones the entire time. This was so my family, until just about a month ago. How embarrassing! We are no longer allowed to even bring our phones, or any kind of technological gadget for that matter, to our table at home. We need to enjoy the moment, enjoy what is in front of us, and most importantly enjoy each other! I definitely want to be weird and I want my family to want to be weird.  

What A Day.

Today was such a great day. One of those days where you feel beyond blessed and feel like you have done (almost) everything right. When it comes to parenthood, I am positive there isn't a day that we do everything right, but that's a story for another day. I felt so close to God today. I felt that I had a constant conversation going with God all day long. I woke up and had my morning time with God, I prayed for a man that looked like he needed prayer at the store, I bit my tongue when I was angry at my husband (and that doesn't happen often), I started a new reading plan with my bible, and to end the day we played hide and go seek outside in the dark this evening; the boys were so exhausted they fell asleep at 7:45. I am feeling so very blessed right now. So much God gives us, so many moments, we take for granted and I, myself am very guilty of that. I spend so much time on time wasting activities (Facebook, Pinterest, the list goes on and on) and I don't think I even noticed until I was reading a blog that I follow by an amazing woman named, Allison Dalke, and she talked so much about how we spend our time. I am diligently working on spending my time wisely and cutting scrolling the Facebook news feed numerous times a day out of my life, along with many other things. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Facebook, Pinterest, my soaps, reality tv, etc. I just need to have a little less of those type of things daily and a lot more God. Today was a success! On another note, the boys got hair cuts today and they both look adorable. They also look way too big.. If life only had a pause button... That's all for now. See you tomorrow!  

Here Goes Nothing.

First of all, let me tell you-I have never been a writer and I am not even sure if anyone will read this blog; I don't have any words of wisdom to give, I am no money saving queen, I am not the craftiest person in the world, and I don't have any super cool giveaways lined up, but I feel a calling to share my life with you so here it is... My name is Nikki and I am 24 years old. My last name is Crowe, therefore I felt the title of this blog was appropriate! I have two amazing little boys who keep me on my feet every day. They are my whole world and although it sounds cliche, I honestly do not know what I would do without them. They make me want to be a better person. No matter what kind of day I have had they can bring a smile to my face in an instant. I have been married to my high school sweetheart for almost four and half years now, but it truly seems more like 50! We have been through so many struggles and many thought we would never get married, let alone stay married, but here we are. We aren't perfect by any means and still struggle on a daily basis, but throughout this past year, we have learned marriage takes three, not two. Without God, we most definitely wouldn't have made it this far along. I have developed a close relationship with God over the past year and am very excited to share my journey with you all. That is the short story of my life and all you need to know for now, but I tend to talk a lot about myself and my family so there will be plenty more to come. Yay for Post #1! See you tomorrow!