Spring messes...

It is way easier to post on facebook!!! I will try to not get in the habit because I know if you wanted to see my pics on facebook you would have your own account, but here is one more album from there. Our yard was flooding today, I know the story of lots of lives right now but because of the fact that I already have a pool in the basement because of water I really didn't want this to end up there too...

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=233345&id=814675018&l=20b9b18288

Aubrie's birthday

I just uploaded all these pictures and it didn't like me for some reason and won't do it on here, so here is a link to some of the pictures that I took at Aubrie's birthday parties. I made this album on facebook, but you don't have to have an account to look at them. Just click the link and it will take you there. Hope you enjoy!!!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=233333&id=814675018&l=d87dbd348c

Not Me! Monday...

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.


This week I did NOT take Aubrie in to get her 12 months shots on her BIRTHDAY. What kind of mean mom would do that? Surely not this one.

I also did NOT finally go to the doctor to finally get something to help me sleep--yes I tried all the things that he said I should before starting on a med for it. After NOT doing that I did NOT forget to pick them up for 3 days and am still NOT sleeping horribly.

I did NOT have to work this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday mornings and instead of cleaning when I was home I did NOT leave a list of stuff for my husband to do so that the house was clean for one of Aubrie's birthday parties.

I did NOT plan another birthday party for Aubrie--to make sure that both sides of my split up family could celebrate with us--only to tell John (my husband) this morning that if no one came over it would be too many...

And right now I am NOT sitting writing this NOT ME! MONDAY post while the sink is full of dirty dishes and the living room is kinda trashed and the washing machine is silently waiting for the mountain of dirty clothes sitting next to it. I know better than to neglect my house like that!!!

What have you NOT done lately???

Reason's I love and hate my house

This is a Plinky answer. For more info check out Plinky.com!

I love our house, I love the fact that it was made by John's grandpa. I love the fact that John's great-grandpa lived here, John's grandpa lived here, John's dad lived here, now John lives here, and now John's son lives here. I also hate the house for that same reason. This house is old. When the house was built they didn't have a bathroom in it, so that was added about 30 years after it was built. The entry way and the basement were also added about that long after the house was built. I am very grateful for the fact that my in-laws were willing to move out of here so that we would have a place to live. I love the area. The fact that we are in the woods and have nature all around us.

I would love it if the house were bigger. We only have two bedrooms, and with five of us, it gets small at times. But to put that in perspective, John's grandma, grandpa, seven kids, and his grandma's dad all lived in this house--with no running water and no bathroom. No basement either. So in reality this house is huge!!!

Aubrie walking

My baby turns one...

Enjoying a caramel roll that Mommy made!

Out enjoying the sun!!!

Aubrie is officially over a year now. Scary how fast this last year went. We didn't really do anything on her actual birthday. Her first party is tonight, with my dad and Karen coming over. Along with at least one of my brothers, maybe two. Monday is going to be her actual party. Grandma Kris, Grandma Margaret, Grandma Linda, Grandpa Tuffy, and a bunch of Aunts, and Uncles, and Great Aunts and Great Uncles, and Cousins are all coming over to help us celebrate!!! Wyatte said she needed a pink cake, with white frosting and sprinkles. Since John turns 31 on the 21st, I let him pick the meal. So fried fish, scalloped potatoes, salad and cake and ice cream are on the menu.

Just a side note, as I sit here writing this, I have the windows and the door open. The sun is pouring in the window along with the 50 degree weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!! I took the doors off of the Wrangler today after work and drove home with warm air pouring in around me!!! It was great

Change

Thought it was time for a change. If there is something that you can't see, or don't like, or a color that you think needs change let me know!

My form of productive...

We didn't have curtains over the windows, just some broken brown mini-blinds. I have been planning on buying or making curtains, but I couldn't find any material or curtains that I liked. I even checked out the shower curtains!!! Then one day a while ago I was walking around Target and saw this TABLECLOTH that was marked down 75%!!! The green isn't quite the same green as in the couch, but they are far enough away and there isn't enough in the couch to make it noticable (Yet) I cut the table cloth in half and then made the pocket on top for the curtain rod and was done!!!

These are the first curtains that I made. They are in the kids' bedroom. Wyatte picked the fabric out, and still loves them, although I only had enough fabric to make them for one window, and they have two, so... Now he wants to look for different fabric so they match.

I plan on getting some with the same colors on it. Notice the paneling to the right? We got a tip from some friends to fill the groves with wood filler and then paint, so I am going to get started on that this week (while we are snowed in) and then paint the bedroom green. Their bed is blue, but I think with the fabric it will be ok!

So if anyone needs something to do on a weekend they can come help me pick out a fabric, fill and paint walls, and I would love to make a shelf in the old window hole, so you could help me with that too!!!

Aubrie's first ponytail!

Aubrie's hair is getting long enough that I can put some of it in a ponytail! Well, parts of it are long enough! If I wanted I could put about 6 or 7 small ones in, but for right now I like the one little one at the top!

Birthday month

Aubrie practicing her standing! She loves these shoes, they are Pedipeds. Too bad this pair is too small for her now. We have another pair of purple ones with flowers, but she doesn't like them so much yet!
Combing her hair. She loves to do whatever Nevaeh is doing! She pics up stuff so fast.

Wyatte and Nevaeh are inside a igloo made out of milk jugs. The children's librarian started it and it has grown quite a bit! Sorry I missed out a pic of the whole thing, I will try to get one when we go to story time this week.

This is Aubrie's new cry. She scrunches her face up and opens her mouth as big as she can get it and TOTALLY fake cries!!! It is so cute I can't help but laugh at her each time she does it. She does have a real cry too, but this is her "I don't want to hear the word no come out of your mouth again so I am going to act like this" cry!!!

Aubrie is growing up so fast I can hardly believe it. She loves to share. If she picks something up off the floor that she shouldn't have she will hand it to you with out being asked--most of the time anyways! She has been sick the last couple of days and has been enjoying crackers mostly. I had started to wean her some, she was done to once in the morning and once before bed, but with her being sick, I have started nursing her more because she seems to be able to keep that down better. Here she is enjoying one of her crackers. She is starting to want to talk some, and if you repeat a word to her enough times she can get a word out of her mouth that somewhat resembles what you are saying.

She can walk now pretty well, it is still easier for her to crawl and so she resorts to that still, but loves walking around! She can't get up by herself unless she has something to hold on to. She is getting closer and closer to walking all the time, but for now she is evading bumps and bruises by crawling still!

She loves to put things in and take things out of boxes, or baskets, or in this case a train that Nevaeh got for her birthday. She will pick up toys on the floor and put them in whatever is close by. She loves it when Wyatte takes all his cars and trucks out, or the animals, she can pick up to her hearts content!

March is a busy month for us. On the 2nd I turned 27. Aubrie has her birthday on the 13th (this year it is Friday, the 13th :() Then on the 21st, John turns 31.

Turning 27 was hard for me because I realized I am in my late 20's. I don't know why it hit me that way, but it was hard to realize that I am in my late 20's. I did enjoy the birthday though. We got together on Monday with my dad and Karen and Kirk, along with Karen's mom and sister-in-law. We went out for pizza and then had a Dairy Queen cake. Then we got together with my mom and grandma on Wednesday and had supper at Dairy Queen and enjoyed another cake!!! I love those cakes!

Grosgrain: Cinnamon Sticks GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Grosgrain: Cinnamon Sticks GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

I love the necklace with the three letter charms!

Born 2 Impress GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Born 2 Impress GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

This is totally cute just had to share it!!!

Good News!!!

John and I bought each other birthday presents at Best Buy the other day. I got another computer!!! And John got an xbox 360. We also got internet hooked up today, so I am back in the game!!! I have really enjoyed being online again. I feel like I am connected again. So look for more posts again. Sorry it has been sooooo long.

2008 Amy Peterson Sweater Babies

This is a picture taken by one of my friends from church, Heidi Barton, of 8 of the 12 babies born at our church last year. Aubrie, Ian, Ben, Mason, Katie, Hannah, Jazlyn and Kyrie. Kyrie is the oldest at 13 months, and Ben is the youngest at 5 or 6 (sorry I can't remember for sure.) They are all wearing sweaters that they received as baby gifts made by Amy Peterson. They are all different and have their names knitted in along the belly. They are soooo cute!!! There is a zipper up the back to make them easier to get on and off. I love them!

Ok, so they are two months late, but..

Here are some pictures of the cake that I made for Wyatte's 4th birthday. He told me in July that he wanted a shark party, thankfully he told me that early on or I wouldn't have had time to figure out how to make the cake!!! It was actually pretty easy, the shark is two football cakes held together with frosting. The teeth are fondant that I rolled to points. The fin is also fondant. The eyes are white M&M's with a dot of black food coloring. It isn't quite what I pictured in my head, but Wyatte and the other guests loved it!!! We also had a toy shark "swimming" in an M&M "ocean", and about 30 balloons in different shades of blue and white floating around the house as the bubbles in the ocean! It was a lot of fun. Wyatte decided that he wanted shrimp and noodles to eat, so we had shrimp (and chicken) alfredo. I know what 4 year old boy likes shrimp and alfredo, but he LOVES THEM!!!

I know it is late, but this is really the first time I have had my camera around a computer since then, so you are just to to have to take what you get!!!

Update

Hello there everyone...

Just thought I would let you all know that Wyatte turns 4 tomorrow (Sunday). Crazy to think that my oldest is 4 already!

I am also singing in the Christmas Service tomorrow morning at Church. This is my first time singing in this church, and the first time in over a year that I have sang in public. There are 8 of uis singing "Oh Holy Night" as sung by Point of Grace. You can here their version of the song by going to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4ykTU_4SM

Not alot of time today, but I will post some pics of Wyatte's party and the fun we are having in the snow!!!

In no particular order...

Finally some pics of the kids! Sorry that I haven't been online lately, and when I have I haven't taken the time to put pics on here.

We have been busy moving and unpacking and getting ready for Wyatte's birthday (the 21st of December...) and all other goings on in life!!! We are moved into our new house and loving it. Well most of the time!!! It has a pellet stove and we are still working on remembering to check it before we go to bed so that we don't have to get up during the middle of the night to restart the fire! The kids are glad to be in our house. It was really weird in the beginning when Linda and Lavern (John's parents and the old owners of the house) would come over and knock to come in!!! It didn't seem normal!

Anyways, enjoy the pics of the kids from the last few weeks.

Moving

Ok, so I know that I haven't put anything on here for a while, and the reason is I have been busy moving our life from one house to another! So bear with me as we move. I also don't have internet at the new house, or a computer so my posts might be more spread out for a while. We are loving the new house, finding a place to put everything. I am sad about leaving my mom and brother, but we will learn to live with out the extra help!!! Pray for us that John can find a job so that we can pay for this new house!

Here is a link to some pics that I put on facebook of the new house. Before all our stuff was moved in mind you, it does look different now that I have things put away somewhat and a ton of other boxes laying around all over the place!!!

NEW HOUSE PICS HERE>>>

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

The costume in the blog is adorable! Go check it out!

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Halloween Pics...

I know some of you that read this don't "celebrate" Halloween, and we don't "celebrate" it either, but we do get dressed up in costumes, and hit a few houses that we know. Last night we started at Great Grandma Margaret's house...

Then we headed to our church, which had an event called "Trunk or Treat". Sorry I didn't take any pictures there, but the kids had fun walking around and getting TONS of candy there!

Then it was off to Great Auntie Marilyn's house. She gave them more candy than they got all year last year!!!

She is reading them a story in this picture...

Wyatte was Buzz Lightyear (from Toy Story), Nevaeh is a giraffe, and Aubrie is a Tootsie Roll (my favorite candy!!!!!)

Then we headed to Autumn Lane, an adult care home owned by John's sister and her husband. The kids made the rounds there and made away with TONS more candy!

Then it was off to a couple of the neighbors houses,

Nevaeh and Wyatte were getting friendly with the rat and spider that one neighbor had as decorations!

Then finally a stop at Grandma and Grandpa Hoard's house!


All in all I have a whole wipes BOX not container, but a box, full of candy! Way more than the kids and I need in the house! They had a ton of fun, and I think John and I did too! Now I am just waiting for the costumes to go on clearance so I can stock up for next year!!!