Sleeping on belly

Hezekiah managed to flip himself over twice last nice to fall asleep on his belly. So, last night I kept light sleeping because I couldn't figure out if I should let him sleep like that or try and flip him over on his back... I am doing some reading right now to find out.

Vanity thy name is

Doing my devotion this morning and was really touched by this thought. When we consider our relationship with Christ do we have vanity and pride. Do we take seriously that Christ died on the cross for us. If we do not treat this act of love for us seriously, we are making a mockery of Jesus Christ dying for us on the cross. Does your life have meaning or is it empty and void? If your life feels empty, put down the vanity and pride and seek Christ in His true form and come with an open heart ready to receive. Here is some I typed from the book that really hit me:

"One of the best of the old gospel hymns opens with these lines:
Years I spent in vanity and pride
caring not my Lord was crucified,
knowing not it was for me He died
at Calvary

Perhaps you can identify with spending too much of your life in vanity and pride. Vanity simply means that whatever you do ends in emptiness; there's simply nothing there. And pride won't let you admit it.

But though all this can be true about us, God marshals the resources of heaven to pursue us and rescue us. It's all grace; it's nothing we deserve. Simply because He loves us, He begins to draw us to Himself. Suddenly, the lights come on and truth dawns. We experience great grief over how we've treated Him, how we never really cared that He was crucified.

Inevitably, every Christian comes to stand at what the hymn calls Calvary a name for the place where the cross of Christ stood. There, as you let God open your understanding, you see the truth: 'It was for me He died!" By faith, we accept that this was God's plan, God's purpose. This was God's way of providing salvation for us.

It changes everything. Your heart receives and knows what before you knew only in your head. And it begins to affect the whole of your life."

"Are you believing all that He says about the cross and responding to all that He is in His grace and love, as demonstrated in the cross? If not, you're in danger of making the death of Christ a mockery.

Be assured that the death of His Son was not a mockery to God- it was His supreme and solitary provision of salvation, fully adequate for every person everywhere in the world, at all times, under all conditions, and totally effectual to bring any and every sinner into a vibrant relationship with Himself.

So the question I keep trying to get believers to ask themselves is this: Where is the evidence that my life has been transformed?"

Taken from Experiencing the cross by Henry T. Blackaby

Who doesn't love a good sale??

I love the after Christmas sales... and who doesn't right? Especially since a lot of places are still offering- yep you got it FREE SHIPPING :) Here are a few links to a few of my favorite places to shop online:

















(I only shop sephora for the mineral make up because I love thier mineral make up so much)




(Love this for home decor)

Christmas 2007

We celebrated our first Christmas with Hezekiah and he really had no idea what was going on but he did relatively well considering all 3 of us are sick with a cold. We had family over to our place this Christmas since Hezekiah is so small I didn't want to cart him around everywhere this year. My mom and step-dad came over, my sister, her husband and my nephew came over and even my niece was dropped off. We cooked Eggs Benedict with fruit and OJ and ate breakfast together using my Grandma's silverware (since this is the first Christmas without her here anymore)... I really miss my Grandma! We opened all our presents and then just hung out watched some TV played some video games and just relaxed. I loved it, and was so happy everyone was so accommodating with Hezekiah. It would be nice if we could rotate Christmas every year to someone else's house so everyone has a chance to host Christmas.

We both had a rough night last night, he woke up around 4am and was fussing so I laid there in bed for a bit to see if he would go back to sleep and eventually he did but I could hear his little runny nose... aww poor baby! He woke up again this morning around 6am, I fed him and put him back to sleep and he is still asleep right now at 10:15am- I wonder how long he will stay asleep? He is sooo not feeling good today with being sick. Just gotta let him sleep it off... I guess. Here is a slideshow of some pictures we took from Christmas. Hope you enjoy :)

Done, Done, and Done!

Done #1: This week has been somewhat stressful for me I have been really blessed in the fact that I have been able to stay home with the baby for the last couple of months and I just love being home with him. But alas, I knew this would only be temporary and I have been trying to come to grips with that fact that I will be returning to work in about 3 weeks. Which is 2 weeks earlier than originally planned because silly me misunderstood the maternity leave information. I do get 8 weeks off for my c-section and then 12 weeks for my Paid Family Leave, but of those 12 weeks only 6 of them would be paid and I was NOT prepared for this. So this is why I will be returning to work a little bit earlier. So our schedule will consist basically of me working 8am-2pm M-F (to keep my benefits), Andrew taking care of the baby from 8-11am by working from home from 9am-11am and then dropping the baby off at daycare from 11am-2:30pm or so when I can pick him up after I get off work.

Done #2: Praise the Lord, I was so stressed about trying to find someone to watch the baby and yet God is still so good to me through this stressful time and he provided a path for our family. Someone from our church's daughter does day care during the day, she has 2 wonderful kids herself so I know she will be great. And because she is so amazing, I will only be paying approx. $100/wk versus $265/wk (Kindercare). God has once again been gracious to us and provided an open door, I give thanks to God for such a blessing. I am really excited to bring the baby for daycare. I really like the idea of Hezekiah getting the social interaction with other kids so I think 3 hours or so is just an awesome thing just for that reason alone.

Done #3: Well almost done #3, Christmas is almost here and I think I covered all the bases or ar least tried to considering I had no car the last 3 weeks now and had to do all my Christmas shopping online. So now I just get to share the wonderful presents I bought with my family on Christmas day :)

2007 Christmas newsletter

Here is our Christmas Newsletter 2007, you can open it up by clicking the link below. Hope you all enjoy :)

The Holybee Family Christmas 2007

If you can't say anything nice...

Please don't say anything at all. I love it when people don't have enough guts to put their own name on such a rude comment. At least if you're going to be rude and vindictive, you should at least own up to it. Thanks for the comments- Love ya!!!

Thoughts of work

Time is closing in on my being at home with Hezekiah. I found out surprisingly today that I received my last check from the state for being off of work with the baby. I am really disappointed, and things are definitely a lot tighter now that we know this is basically all I will have in pay until I return to work January 28th. Andrew and I will have to sit down tonight and look at finances and decide whether or not I have to return to work earlier than I had planned. Andrew's car is in the shop right now and won't be finished until after Christmas, and the work that HAS to be done is going to end up costing us like $8000!!! Which really puts us in a tighter spot than we wanted right now with me not working full time and being home with the baby. I am praying that God will open a door, and things will work out financially so I don't have to return to work right after the new year.

When I return to work I will only be working from 8am-2pm M-F, which allows me to keep my full time status and my benefits for me and the baby which works out great because I was scrambling on how to figure out how to get the baby and I health benefits since I was only going to be going back to work part time. I really miss my job, and being in the department with my co-workers but I am so torn because I cry just thinking about not waking up with the baby and being able to feed him all day and see him develop. I know I will probably miss a lot of his milestones now  that I will be working more hours than I thought. I praise the LORD that Andrew's work has been so accomodating, they are allowing him to work from home until 2pm when I get off work and come home then Andrew will be able to go into the office and finish his hours... I am sooo thankful for that! I am going to miss my baby so much, awww I just cry thinking about leaving him :(

New mac commercial

The overflow

It's the overflow of my heart. I am not a prideful person except when it comes to my little son! I just love him more and more each day. Every week seems to bring new adventures, and what worked last week in getting him to sleep doesn't work this week. He wants to be held while he gets drowsy and then I can lay him in his crib and he falls right to sleep. Whereas before, he had no problem going right to his crib and falling asleep after about 5 minutes of sleep. I know that pretty soon he will probably start putting 2 and 2 together that if he cries he is always going to get picked up, so I am being cautious with that during the nap time.

He is such a great baby, and I could have NEVER asked the Lord for a better baby. What baby doesn't have his bad days, but as a whole he's pretty independent... doesn't mind playing on the floor or wierd people holding him. He only cries when he needs something, and when he gets tired he gets fussy. What baby doesn't though right!? His personality seems to be very happy, he smiles at almost everything I do, and stares at me in wonder when I eat a meal. With a face of like "What are you doing?" I just love his little voice, me and him play on the floor together while he just talks up a storm. Cooing at everything inlcuding the TV, hopefully he doesn't get hooked on the TV yet! I have so much love for him, and as I was rocking him so he would get drowsy I just stare at him and smile and I still think.... I cannot believe you were in my belly. I love you Hezekiah!

Merry Christmas...

From the newest addition to the Holybee family! I just had to make sure and post this picture because he just looks so doggone cute with the santa hat. These were not taken at a studio, I did them myself at casa de Holybee in his room and used a nice white soft blanket for his backdrop... so much fun. My poor baby is gonna hate me when he gets older because I take so many pictures of him ;) Christmas time is always fun!!

Hezekiah rolling over!

Hezekiah has mastered the rolling over from his belly to his back, he's on his way from back to belly. I am so excited to see this development, he has such strong legs that when on his bac will brace his feet on the floor and lift his whole body off the ground. Crazy kid! Take a look:

Hezekiah playing with his frog

First time for everything

Feeding the baby this morning and I finish with him and attempt to burp him and instead of a burp coming up I get all of the food he just ate all over me and the couch and the boppy. So, it's official I have been initiated with him pooping all over me and now throw up. I guess he just wasn't hungry or something because he doesn't seem upset or anything after it happened. So wierd, Thanks for the memories kiddo!