Once upon a time....

I used to blog. When I didn't have kids and I thought I had something to say then. Then I had a kid and had a lot to say and many pictures to put up but not as much time to get it out there. Then I had a second kid and now I'm pretty much lucky to take a daily shower. Even now, I have a baby (I'm babysitting for someone and really I don't miss the baby stage AT ALL) sleeping on my couch, a 19 month old eating dry cereal in my recliner and a 4 yr old yelling at me from upstairs b/c she needs help with her panties. (She doesn't really, she just doesn't do mornings very well.) I am leaning on the kitchen counter typing and HOPING that my laptop doesn't decide to disconnect from the internet on me, otherwise I will have to reboot and then I will lose the 5 sentences that I've typed. I can't tell you how many blog posts that I've 'lost' b/c of this temperamental computer.
So let's see what you've missed out on since May....
Um, it has been HOT and DRY in TX but really that is just so old news now and I don't really want to relive it anymore.
We looked at schools for the girl to do a year of preschool before Kindergarten, fell IN LOVE with one but it is WAY out of our budget. We've decided while it would be nice to get her used to the idea of getting up and out of the house for school we really just can't afford to pay to send her anywhere. So she's going to continue to hang with us and we are all going to LOVE it. :)
I got to so on a 9 day vacation sans kids and hubby... I so needed the down time and it was AMAZINGLY AWESOME. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I missed everyone but really needed to do this for all of us. They did just fine without me. C has a few more gray hairs but they make him look distinguished. :)
The Girl was in a wedding over the summer and looked absolutely GORGEOUS! I'll have to see if I can get a picture of her on here (eventually). I was the photographer so I have a million pictures of that day. (I won't ever do that again, WAY to nerve wracking for me!) She will also be in another wedding in January.
The Girl had a birthday. We requested in lieu of gifts or gift cards to specific places that family donate to the swing set/play structure fund and YAY! they all came through, we made our purchase and it was delivered 2 weeks ago. Now we just need to get it set up. C has been working (at the office) for the past month and will continue to until the end of October. He has been getting home LATE and even working on Saturdays so getting it put together and installed is a challenge. HOWEVER, remember how I mentioned I was babysitting????? Well, the dad of the baby is pretty handy and I happened to mention yesterday to the mom that this swing set thing is becoming a challenge and asked her if her husband could do it and how much it would cost me; she said how about we swap it for babysitting this week. SO YAY!!!! Looks like next weekend the swing set will be installed (now watch it rain). I'm so excited that it will get done before November and it won't cost me any more money out of my pocket. WOOT! WOOT!
The Boy is trying so hard to talk to us and it is incredibly cute we just wish we knew what he was saying.
C entered his SENIOR year of college!!!!! YAY! He is doing so awesome and I am so incredibly proud of him.

That pretty much sums up the last few months in a nut shell...

I'm going to try and get on here more often. I have a friend who blogs a picture and a few sentences a day... I might try that out and see how it goes. :)

~Til next time! Be careful, and don't hurt yourself! ;)

I'll never catch up...

so since I spend my days making sure no one goes out the dog door (BOY) or falls off the tugboat in the sunroom (GIRL) and trying to make food fit for consumption, and having clean clothes for us to wear I don't blog and by the time I do get a few minutes to sit down I have forgotten what it was that I may have possibly wanted to blog about.

So instead you are getting pictures, since I still do manage to take those on occasion! :)

This is what we refer to as his "office":





Sometimes The Girl goes in there too... (keep in mind she NEVER did that before he showed he that it was possible!)


This is what my cuties looked like on Easter this year:



and "The Boys" at church on Easter:



and this is what happens when you ask a 3 yr old to take your picture:











Yeah, maybe that will be better next year. LOL

Then there is this kind, with the self timer on the camera... I always look like "COMEONALREADY!!!"



Get ready for some cuteness overload...









She likes to play "Mommy" (note the coffee cup LOL)





Ok, so that should hold you over for like a week or more, right? :)

The Boy and The Girl

are as different as night and day. I mean seriously, you hear people say it all the time and you (at least I do/did) think 'really? I mean it's is a baby/toddler/kid how different can they be???
OH. MY. WORD.
Where should I start? He eats more, he's louder, he makes bigger messes, he throws more, he gets dirtier... I'm sure there are more things I could list but he's only 14 months old!
The Boy is not a night owl like his sister, for that we are grateful; thankfully he is also not an extremely early bird. he generally will wake between 8-9:30am and he wakes up HAPPY!!!! He wakes up and plays w/ the stuff in his crib and talks and makes noises for quite a while, he hardly ever wakes up crying. The Girl on the other hand she used to wake up crying every. single. day. Now she wakes up and and whines and boo hoos and asks Where's Daddy? if he isn't home then there are tears, but if he is then at least there aren't any tears (yet).
He is ALL BOY! He LOVES balls and cars and trucks. He can already climb up onto the trampoline by himself (that was learned on accident). He LOVES the trampoline (so does his sister though...) At 14 months The Girl was totally into Sesame Street (and probably some other shows that I seemed to have blocked from my memory) but this kid couldn't care less about what shows up on the screen. He'll clap and smile for the theme song of Little Einsteins but that's about it. He will watch "the God" movie more than any other video but even that doesn't hold his interest anymore. Have I mentioned the climbing??? He is a stinking MONKEY!
He's super fun and has a great laugh and he's even signing... a little later than The Girl did, but in his defense we weren't really pushing/teaching it like we did with her.
He wants so badly to be a big kid and gets super upset when he can't do something that the others are doing.

So bottom line is that these guys are keeping me on my toes!!!

I scrapped....

and now I have the bug to do more scrapping... with pictures! This is the few pages I did for a new Circle Journal that I am in.

First of all, I haven't scrapped in way over a year AND I haven't bought anything new in that long either. I'm super "rusty" and most of my inks/markers/pens have dried up. :(

I have no idea why the pictures are sideways.... especially since I didn't take them that way and they do not show up that way on my computer other than when I look at the blog page. WEIRD!!!

1st Haircut!

Ok, so a before pic would be good, but you can see the "before" in his bday pics. :)
I was dreading this momentous occasion for a couple of reasons, 1) the 1st haircut seems to take away the look 'baby-ness' and I just wasn't ready for him to be a toddler yet and 2) b/c he is a squirmy-wormy and I was afraid he'd get his ear cut off or something. ;)
I was super worried about him being still b/c well, he's NEVER still; but he did SO GOOD! We went to this place that is geared for kids, instead of regular barber chairs they had a fighter jet, a jeep, a motorcycle and something pink but I can't remember what it was. The Boy was PERFECT. He sat still like a statue and the lady was real quick so it worked out beautifully.













and for the finished product... for now you'll have to just wait... unless you saw my pix on fb. :)