BIG BABY!!

This is the name of the new baby doll that came into our home at Christmas. Carly Beth got this baby doll from her Uncle BOBO and Aunt Teresa. We all love BIG BABY!! Carly wants us to love on her and change her and feed her. I think it is so cute to see the girls take care of her. Here is these pictures, Mommy was fixing dinner for the REAL girls and they were feeding BIG BABY. Don't know if you can see that BIG BABY is eating green olives or not. But that was what Molly said was her favorite.

Puffy Paint!!

While I was in Denver my mother-in-law bought the girls some puffy paint. Molly really loves it and she does about a dozen pictures a day. Just here in the past week or two, Carly Beth has been picking up on it. She is soooo funny to watch her try to squeeze the paint out of the little tubes. Here are some picture of her doing it. I was laughing so hard I could barely get the pictures taken. Then of course when she saw the camera she would say cheese and grin from ear to ear.

New Years Eve

I'm trying to get caught up here!! It is almost the end of Jan. and I'm posting New Years pictures. Hey at least they are on here right? OK...as long as I can remember I've always spent New Years with Rob. We always have a great time and what other way to celebrate the new year with the people closest to you in your life. This year we went to Matt's house. Michael helped Matt put some furniture together and do some odd and end things. I had to share the best part of the night, and I know Rob you are going to love it too....Michael got the honors of hanging up Matt's Boar in the living room. For as long as I've had my husbands deer head on MY living room wall Rob has been disturbed by it and I love it that now she has a Boar on her wall. After we got it up it really doesn't look bad!! LOVE YA ROB!! As the new year drew closer, some of Matt's friend showed up and they got a game of cards going. I'm not in these pictures because I was really sick. Right after midnight I had my shoes on and was ready to go curl up in my bed. The rest of the weekend, we were all sick. But regardless of not doing anything crazy for the new year....I wouldn't do it any other way, then to spend it with my husband and my best friend!! Thanks Rob!!

Pictures of Denver

Here are some of the wonderful pictures I got while I was in Denver. I was soooo pretty there. I loved the ones of the sunrise with the capital building in the view. That was taken from the hotel window. Can you imagine that view when you woke up in the morning. I would love to go back there so that my husband can see it. I just don't think that we will fly.....ROAD TRIP!!

Christmas Pictures

I know...it is the middle of January and I'm just now getting them on here. But at least I'm getting them on here.

We had such a good Christmas!! My sister-in-law Jennifer from Georgia came up to stay with us a few day and with her in-laws too. I was so nice to see them. We had a great time Christmas morning when the kids woke up. There was so many presents under the tree between my two kids and her three kids. Molly had a tree in her room, and when she woke up she came running to us and told us how Santa put 2 presents under her tree. It was so cute. Then the night before we spread reindeer food outside that she made in preschool. She even made some for her cousin Jason. We go online and got to see where Santa was, and when she saw that he was close, we ran to the bedroom, read some Christmas books, and then she was out. After opening the presents at our house we pack up and go to Nana's in our Christmas PJ's. We open present over there and have Christmas lunch. Then we go home and I start to get my house, and myself ready for my side of the family to come over for presents and dinner. It is a little crazy and a lot in one day, but I love it that we all get together. I felt very blessed this year. I have a great husband, two gorgeous kids, and some wonderful friends. What else can you ask for??

I'M BACK!!

OMG!!! I'm so glad to be back. I had a GREAT time in Denver, but that is going to have to be another blog. Getting there and getting back was awful. Like I said before I can't stand to fly. I was able to get some medicine to come my nerves. The bottle and the nurse told me to take it 1-2 tablets 30 minutes before flight. I did. We had to get on a LITTLE, what I want to call a toy plane, that we had to board OUTSIDE!! It was cold raining and it was about 6 am. The were in no hurry to get us on, so I had to stand there outside one the steps to the plane for quiet some time. I did get pretty upset. Stephany and Dennese suggested that I go ahead a take another pill because it seemed as it wasn't working for me. So I did. We got up in the air and things went Ok. The rest of it I don't remember. LOL!! The girls said that I was walking very, very slow. I didn't say much, but when I was asked if I was ok, I just smiled and said yes. I don't remember leaving Chicago to go to Denver, and pretty much most of that day. BUT....the best part of that is...I don't remember flying at all and to me that is GREAT!!
Now coming home wasn't to bad. I got on the plan to go to Chicago fine (with the help of 1 pill). Once we were in Chicago, we had a little of a lay over. When it came time for our plane to leave it couldn't because of a maintenance problem. The were trying to tell us that they were going to get it fix and we would only be delayed for 1 hour. My nerves really didn't like that. I didn't want to get on ANY plane that was having ANY kind of maintenance problems. I was really upset last night. Finally, they did canceled our flight. The airline put us up in a room and gave us a food voucher. We were able to get a flight home at around 7am this morning and I pulled into my driveway around 11:30 am.
I was never so excited to see my children's smiley faces!! When I came into the house and was finally able to put my arms around their little bodies tears of joy ran down my face like never before. I was also so glad to give my husband a huge kiss and enjoyed so much to be wrapped up in his arms again.
I know to many, flying isn't anything to you. But it is too me. I hope that the next time you fly and you may noticed that there is someone over there in the corner crying or pacing, that maybe my story will help you to understand maybe that they are going through the samething I did. Anyways, thanks for all of your Prayers!!!

Denver

I'm leaving for Denver tomorrow morning. I'm going there for a conference for Pampered Chef. I'm excited about all the new stuff I will get to see and learn. But I'm also very sad, because this will be the longest I will be away from my children. I know that they will be ok because my husband is wonderful with them. I love him for that. Tonight I told Molly that I was going to be gone for a few days and I wouldn't be hear when she gets us. She said to me "Mommy will you call me?" I told her that I would and that I would miss her very much. Then she told me, "I'll be ok mom. I'll tell you that on the phone when you call." So then I asked her to come sit with me so that I could hold her. She doesn't ever fall asleep in my arms. She has always been like that. Even when she was a baby. She always goes to bed on her own. Not tonight, she fell right asleep in my arms on my lap. It was so sweet. My heat is still hurting because I will miss them. Another issue for me is that I can't stand to fly. Robin can vouch for that. I'm the worst to fly with. There isn't anything that I like about it, at all. So please keep me in all of your prayers.
I will let you all know when I return safely.

Molly and Santa

Molly and Carly got there picture taken with Santa. Molly was so amazed by him it was so cute. As you can see there is no picture of Carly. She did not like him. I couldn't get her picture taken with them. We go up to Harrison County REMC every year to do this. I love that they let them get their picture taken with Santa. They also have the Easter Bunny in the Spring. Another thing that they do is they send the kids a letter from Santa too. Molly enjoyed me reading the letter so much that we were reading it every night. It was too cute.

Having Fun with a Gingerbread House!!

Say Cheese!!

The finished House!!

We had so much fun with this. I know that it a little late with Christmas being over, but these pictures were to die for. I love the looks on their faces as they worked so hard on it. The were so proud of the finished project. For now on this will be something we do every year.

Where is the Fridge??

I'm sure that all you mom's out there will understand this post. Since Molly has been going to preschool I have a hard time remembering what my refrigerator looks like. I love it when she brings home new stuff or when we make things here at home. She is always wanting to put it on the fridge. The hardest part about it is, which ones do you REALLY keep??

What are you doing Mom??

I was getting my sewing machine out to start on some Christmas presents and when I came back into the room this is what I found. All the kids had got their own chair and was waiting patiently to see what I was going to be doing next. I thought that it was so cute. The little boy in the picture is Cooper. He is one of the kids I babysit for.

Cookie Day

Every year I go to my sister-in-laws house and we do "Cookie Day".
It is where us girls get together and have fun all day without any children or husbands. I look forward to this every year. I don't have any grandparents living so this isn't something that I got to do with them when I was younger. We start out early that morning and bake all day long. Then when the evening come, we bring out the wine and sit up chatting and catching up. It is a blast. Thanks so much Connie for letting us do this.

Why such a delay??

Ok Rob here is a posting for you. Many of you don't know how busy I was during the holiday season. I was busy making presents, baking cookies, babysitting for four children and at the end I was also entertaining house guest for the holidays. Although I love to all of those things, it doesn't give me much free time to do anything else. That is why there has been such a delay on blogging. I did sit down tonight to get the Christmas background off and the "Ho Ho Ho" sign down. I will post some picture on here sometime this weekend. You all will be overwhelmed with how many pictures I have, but at least you all will know that I was thinking about how I wanted to blog all the moments. Now that things are calming down, I hope to keep up better with my blog.