Step Right Up...

NINE years ago I became a new, excited, tired, Mommy. Yea! Happy Birthday to Cade! We celebrated his birthday on Saturday

His carnival party was a lot of fun. The kids went to different "booths": tattoos, sand art necklaces, coloring wrist wraps, candy estimate jar, basketball game, football target and last, but not least...a dunk tank. It was hilarious. Aubrey used it as a personal spa and you can imagine how well that went over. The boys were not happy with her...she was just bopping up and down like there was no one else in the yard. (You've got to love it.)

Speaking of LOVE. Aubrey was on the phone with Melanie and she was going over a list of people she loves. She ended the conversation by saying. "And myself. OF COURSE I love myself." Hey, as a parent, isn't that what we want? A child who knows who they are and Whose they are? They are God's and they don't have to look any further to measure their self worth. I learn so much from the kids. I am challenging myself to make them my prime time entertainment instead of the t.v.

Gearing up for the weekend.

My sister in law, Ursula, kindly pointed out that if I'm going to do a blog, I must actually blog. Hmm, that's a thought. I told her that I expected to be like Carrie Bradshaw...I thought I would type and hear a narration of my life...hasn't happened...but that does remind me that I think Sex and the City comes out of dvd next week!!

We're getting all excited for this weekend!! We get to pick up Maw, Paw Paw, Aunt Shell and Max from the airport tomorrow. Cade has a birthday party this weekend and the boys have their 3rd football game! They are 2-0 but hopefully that doesn't go to their heads. This week's game is at 1 pm, which means we'll be in triple digits and I just may need to watch from the car! Seriously, give this a chance. Something good happens, I can lay on the horn. A questionable call, I can lay on the horn. You get the picture. :0)

Speaking of pictures, do you love this picture of them when they were 2 and 3 years old? What you may not know is they used my decorative baskets as helmets before Robert surprised them with their new uniforms. Gosh time has really flown by.

Rose is doing very well after her surgery. I tell you all the time how wild she is but here is proof. The vet came into the room on Monday, he turned around to expose the window of the room and she jumped on his back! I wanted to climb into the medicine cabinet, pop a pill and come back out oblivious. She also popped a blister his hand. And then we both laughed when he told me that she was not allowed to jump or run for the next week and a half. Yea, okay. So he told me she was a perfect candidate for at home sedation, for her own good so she could heal. Well, she's been home for 4 days and she hasn't needed one of the pills. The kids on the other hand...OH STOP IT, I'M JUST KIDDING!!!!!

~Adios.

She said it!!!

"I don't have anything to wear."

Yes, a litty bitty voice said those words today and I didn't know whether to laugh out loud or cry. I want to laugh, but it's no laughing matter . That's my line, that's my claim to fame.

A guest speaker came to our church to help us understand the different languages of a male and a female. He said when a female says, "I don't have anything to wear." she really means, "I don't have anything new." and when a man says, "I don't have anything to wear", he means, "I don't have anything clean." That is so right on, but who thought a little girl would say it???

So, I did as any wonderful mother would do...I left the house and let Daddy figure out her wardrobe!

That is the honest truth. I do not know what our baby wore to school but I cannot wait to see her. She would be beautiful in foil so I'm not worried, just interested.

Rose had to be at the vet at 7:30 am so she could be spayed. She took her quilt that Maw made her so she could smell us while she was in recovery. I pray that it goes perfectly.

Trial

Okay, please let me know if this works! I am staring this blog as a window into our world. It is not available for all to see so I chose you but I don't know much about the password you'll need to get in...thus TRIAL post.

Let me know!