The Best One

I was flipping through all of our pictures from Christmas....This is the best one...I caught Abby just as she was falling off her skateboard...yes it was COLD that day and she's wearing flip flops and capris...sometimes I wonder about my children (later she DID put a scarf on that she got from her grandma, hmmmm, wonder if that really helped)

As Good As It's Gonna Get

Complete Randomness

• I ate a big fat cinnamon roll last night, and it was darn good...I was feeling a bit chubby afterwards
• I have fallen in love with baths...my husband started lighting candles for me and putting them by the bath tub, I can relax, clear my head, and do absolutely NOTHING for hours! or atleast until my water turns cold
• I am in the middle of filling out paperwork for financial aid...YES PEOPLE I am hoping to start taking a class or two of college, me???!!! Yippee!!! PE Teacher here we come!
• Are toy rooms ever NOT messy???!!!
• I'm nervous...I'm playing a piano solo in church on Sunday
• I miss running. I went for a run last night, the first in like a month and a half. It felt so GOOD!!!! I've been doing a new workout program and it takes up a lot of my time, so my running has fell to the wayside...but that will be changing.
• My boy is a busy body
• I need a new book to read
• High School Musical 2 wasn't as good as the first one
• It's power yoga day, guess I better get a move on!

Out of the Loop

Ok, I admit, I'm not your normal "mom". I don't dress up my girls everyday to match. I don't really even do their hair. Most the time it's a ponytail, although since there was '80s day at school a few months ago, Rebekkah wants a "side" ponytail almost everyday. Believe me, I have to put my foot down on that one. MAYBE once a week I'll give in. Everyday they are pretty much in jeans and a t-shirt....why? Because that's the easiest, simplest, thing to deal with.

At some point I thought I was a pretty "cool" mom...knew what was hip and jazzy and all that nonsense. But I was awakened a while back to the fact that I had no idea what was going on in the world, when Rebekkah started coming home talking about Hanna Montana and High School Musical. I have to admit, I had no clue what she was even talking about. Then I saw different peoples blogs and realized that not only was there a High School Musical 1 Movie, but there was a High School Musical 2!!! Where was I during the first one? And who are these people having High School Musical 2 Parties????!!!!! I was feeling VERY "uncool" at that point.

Well, we do the Netflix thing. And so I finally decided I better figure out what all the hype was about. So I told them to send me the movie and I'd see if it was worth it. After doing some digging, I soon realized that duh!!! It all came from the "Disney" channel! Gee, no wonder I have no idea what this is. We don't have the "Disney" channel, ANY cable channel for that matter. The only time the TV is on is during a basketball/football game, or Tuesday nights for "The Biggest Loser". Hence my uninteligence in the MUSICAL area.

The long awaited movie arrived...and it sat, and sat, and sat, next to our TV. I'm sure if the girls would have known that it was there, it wouldn't have SAT so long. But they didn't, so it continued to sit, and sit, and sit. Finally, last Friday, I told the girls that I had the movie and wondered if they might want to watch it. Joyous Cries and Screams were heard for miles!!!! I had NO idea what the movie entailed, so I told them that we could watch it, but if something was on there that I didn't like, it would promptly be turned OFF.

Well, the movie played, and played, and played. And to my complete "disgust", there was nothing bad in it. And of course the girls absolutely fell in love with it. AND want to see the 2nd one because "mom, there's a second one out too, and we HAVE to see that one now that we've seen the FIRST". My girls love pretty much anything that has music in it...so this movie, they just love. And now, I'm the cool mom once again because I let them watch High School Musical! And I might even think about letting them watch #2!

Christmas Fun

Growing up, Christmas time meant my mom doing lots of baking! She would take

her "goodie plates" to her neighbors and friends every year. She had quite

the reputation, especially for her one and only sugar cookies. In one word, yummo!!!

I have had some practice in making her sugar cookies, so I decided to start

getting out there and doing the baking thing myself. (Even though we'll be

heading into town this weekend to help my mom with hers! ha!)

It's a good feeling to take a recipe that was "handed" down to me, and have

it actually turn out good! After baking the cookies earlier today,

the girls and I sat down tonight, with our Christmas music in the background,

and went to decorating!!!!

It's frosting time! I'm amazed that there was any frosting left after the
girls did their five cookies! It won't stop getting on my fingers MOM!!!!

Enjoying a little treat!!!!

The finished product!!!!

After we were finished, I made up all the plates and me and the girls took

them to every neighbor in our cul-de-sac (mom, you would be proud, I even

took them to the new neighbors that I DIDN'T know and introduced ourselves!)

Then we drove around and gave them to friends and the few family members

who live out here! It was really fun and the girls loved it. It was raining and so

it was chilly and we got wet! After dropping cookies at a friends house, I said,

girls watch out for that huge puddle! As I proceeded to step right in it! Getting

my right leg, from the knee down, soaken wet! Sheesh! Anyway, it was

definitely a good time!!!! And mmmmmm, the cookies sure are good!!!!

My Boy

Since my munchkin is turning the big ONE tomorrow....here are some random things about him that I LOVE!!!!!

• He ABSOLUTELY loves his dad. He is a definite daddy's boy. As soon as dad comes home, mom is pretty much out of the picture. He'll go anywhere and everywhere with him, it's so cute.
• He pushes around cars and trucks all day. Even if its not a car, he will push it like its a car, wipey box, formula holder, you name it! And if it doesn't push like he wants it to, he gets VERY upset!!!
• He now refuses to eat baby food--its all normal food from here on out. His favorite things so far are bananas, apples, graham crackers, spaghetti (one of his very favorite), green beans, brocolli...and of course, good ol' mac and cheese
• He isn't afraid of anybody. Good thing and bad thing I guess. He doesn't ever shy away from anyone. Strangers can talk to him and he just smiles away. He likes everybody!!!
• He loves dogs! Or in his words, DeeDee's!! He loves looking out back at Lucy and watching her run around.
• He's a busy body. He doesn't sit still unless he's sleeping! He's not much of a cuddler at all :( I wish he was more cuddly but oh well. He just wants to go, go, go all the time.
• He loves BLANKETS!!! He doesn't go to sleep without a blanket. I guess that's one thing he will cuddle with is his blanket!!!
• Just like his sisters, he loves being outside. If he's upset and cranky about something, all I have to do is open the front door and sit out there with him and he's fine. He gets angry when I bring him back inside

It makes me a little sad to think that he's turning one...but it's so fun now seeing all the things he can do and how he is growing. I keep reminding myself to look at the new things he's doing, the little milestones here and there...because then I'm not focusing on him "not" being little anymore. But sometimes it's hard, especially when I realize that he is our last one, then it makes me want to hold on for a little bit longer. And when my husband looks at him and says, wow, he really is growing up too fast, then that makes me shed a little tear and be sad, because I'm not the only one who sees it.

It's funny how we can look back on our lives...and wish that we'd changed this, or changed that. Done something one way, instead of the way we did it. I was speaking with a good friend of mine earlier today and she was talking about how her and her husband had been watching their wedding video...and was thinking back to back then. They had their first daughter right away, just like us, and she was kind of wishing she hadn't done that. That she had spent more time just with her husband before having kids. She kind of felt like she regretted doing it so fast. It made me stop and think....and I told her that we had done the same thing. And there was a few times that I had looked back and thought, wow, what would our lives be like if we had waited? But I held no regrets and still don't wish that I had waited to have children. They really are my pride and joy, despite my faults as a mother, they love me for who I am. They don't care what size I am, or if I'm wearing makeup, or any of that. They love me because I'm their mom. I hold onto a piece of them everyday in my heart and can't imagine my life without them.

So Happy Birthday to my sweet baby boy...I love you!

Rainy Days and Bday Parties

The storm here Friday was awesome! The kids were running around

outside for hours after school. I decided to be the "cool mom" and not worry about

what they were tracking back into the house...they were having so much fun!!!

Abby bringing me a flower....ahhhhhhhhh

Love this picture of them...(no Abby didn't pee her pants!)

Walker
Aka...Walker Boy
Aka...Bugs
Aka...Walker Texas Ranger
Aka...Tiej
Had his 1 year birthday party!!!

His favorite present, his Mickey Mouse "ride on" given by none other
then Grandma 'Lainey!

The Birthday Cake

He really had no problem digging into the cake...well, he did a lot
better after we took off the 5 inch layer of frosting! holy sheesh!!!
He dug right in and thoroughly enjoyed himself...however, Nathan didn't
enjoy the aftermath of that cake in the diaper the next morning! We haven't
given him anything that was sugary like that...I think it was a shock
to his little body!!!! After a while he just started to play in it and throw it around...
that's when the "uncool mom" stepped in and took it away! GASP!!!!