Dan is the Man!

Last night we went to see Daniel play ball. It was the first game that we have been to and I regret that but boy did we pick a game to go to!!! Daniel played great!! The other boys were good too I guess but Daniel had 6 3 point shots!! The beat Parkview 60-54, it was close at a few points and you only looked with one eye open but they did great! Good Job Dan (even though I don't like calling you that!). I hope next Friday goes as well!

Well I couldn't post again without any pictures so here is Sally being a bit naughty again...had to take a picture and then she got in trouble.

So I went out tonight, I haven't been out in awhile as most of you know. Little to sheltered I guess. It was nice though, went to dinner had a great conversation. The best part is, I'm not stressed. I had butterflies when I got there but by the end of the evening I was happy. You know that high that you used to get when you were young and it makes you smile like a dork for days. Its great to be a dork sometimes. A lame dork is even better ;) Anyway, I had fun and it was great but I am not stressed about it. I am going to take it for what it is and that is was a fun night and enjoy the moment and keep smiling. Just had to share my happiness with you all. Goodnight!

UPDATE:For those of you who might question it, I do clean my table before I let people eat off it! :)

Well I really don't have any pictures to share because I am not on the picture a day band wagon, although I love the people who are!
News; Bailey will have her tonsils out on January 30th, she is a little nervous but I am sure she will be fine (I am just going to keep saying that), she will be missing pajama day at school though which Aubrey is upset about even though Aubrey still gets to go.
Aubrey has lost two of her bottom teeth (guess I could have taken a picture of that!).
I started back to school Monday...wow...it will be a long haul lets just leave it there.

As for now I will leave you with a blog that I really enjoyed. If it is possible to fall in love with words this person grabs me everytime they write. Hope it makes you think.


The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."Storm Jameson

Life is a string of moments, a spine tingling sequence of magical moments. Miraculous, electrifying, life changing moments one after another. Frozen in time moments that will never be repeated again. Yet how many of us fritter away a large portion of our momentous moments in a succession of relatively unexciting, uninspiring and generally unproductive activities? Way too many.
How about you? Do you habitually squeeze all the fun and excitement you can from each and every day, seeking to make each day your best day ever? Or does one day after another seem to blur together into an inconsequential haze? The way you approach these extraordinary moments systematically shapes the life you get to enjoy. If you're going to make the most of your life, you must start making the most of each magical moment.
When you energetically embrace life's precious moments, filling each thrilling minute with electrically charged enthusiasm, your life will instantly take on heightened meaning and increased passion. You will soon finding yourself loving the life that you live and living the life that you love. This was something that I missed out on for a large chunk of my life, that I now know I will never get back.
When you think about it, the only time you control is the moment at hand. After all, yesterday is gone and will soon be a distant memory. And tomorrow is never promised to any of us. That leaves us just one day the most important day ? the only day that ever counts. And that day is today. A day chock full of magical moments. A day that we'll cherish forever. Wasting even a minute, much less an hour or two, of the only day you will ever have is a mistake any of us can ill afford to make.
Why not set your sights on making today the greatest day of your life? Right this very moment! When you start squeezing all the living you can from every moment, you'll start adding magic to your life.
You need to seize the day right here and right now, right this very moment. Why wait and allow hundreds or even thousands of moments to slip right through your fingers? Don't wait or hesitate, but get busy and start snatching these marvelous moments before you lose them forever.

AHHHH!!!!! WOOOOHHOOOO!!!!!

Excited does not even begin to describe how I feel! I am one of the winners of Elsie's blog challenge!! Go to the link here and it will show you the winners I am number 5!!! I was so excited last night when I saw it that I started screaming! Aubrey said if I didn't stop screaming the neighbors were going to call the police.....so I guess stepping out of my box is paying off so far!!!


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Gratitude

There have been several things that I have wanted to share with you all recently and today I saw one that has to be shared right now!! Saw this on Donna Downey's blog. Not even half way through I had goosebumps....it is an awesome idea that should be used!! Things that seem simple can mean so much.

http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/

Elsie Challenge!!

Ok so I said that my resolution was to step out of my box.....here goes nothing. I am posting this page for all to see. Elsie has put up a challenge on her blog (link to the right) to make a page that shows how we evolved in 2007. Here is my page. Now posting pages on here is one thing but there will be a link on her blog....now that is a whole other ball park. If anything...it was fun and I got a page done.

Happy New Year

You know everyone makes those new years resolutions that they never keep...you know exercise more...stuff like that. Yeah I need to exercise more but I thought my resolution should be a little more fun. This year I am going to step out of my box. I am going to enter pages, I am going to talk to people that I normally wouldn't, I am going to be more brave in daily life, what is the worst thing that could happen? We had so many changes in 2007 that it seems like I should make inner changes in 2008. Lets see how it goes.......Happy New Year everyone!!!

Oh no Mr. Bill the puppy is going to eat you!!!

I love to make Christmas cookies.....well just cookies in general. This year we has our Giant to help, and boy did he. He was the master baker and I was the dishwasher.
The puppies even took a liking to him, but who doesn't like Giant? Such a great guy, even gets spiders off the ceiling!
This is one of Giant's cookies and I really think it looks like Mr. Bill. Every time I look at it I hear that high pitched voice 'oh noooo!' it makes me laugh. So I will not be eating this one....don't know what we will do with it maybe it will fly home with Giant and be a combo Mr. Bill and flat Stanley.

Here is their mess of cookies and my kitchen table covered in flour!!
And this....this is the end of me. Our sweet Sally can now reach the kitchen table. I am sure that Lucy is not far behind but Sally Oh Sally. She gets up there and walks along on her back legs sniff sniff sniffing the whole time every once in awhile her tongue slips out to see if something tastes good. Its one of those things that you just want to watch and laugh but you know that it is so naughty. Better stop it now before they get even bigger.

Well Merry Christmas Eve to all!

my oh my!

We went to Tennessee for Thanksgiving, everyone was excited!! We got there day before Thanksgiving, had Thanksgiving dinner, then Friday..........it happened! Baby Garrison was sick and apparently it was very contagious.......the whole family went down except my Dad. Marijo's (Garrisons Mommy) whole family went down except her Dad. 20 people in all sick from one small sweet little boy. We didn't get to go shopping or play...we made one small trip to the factory to get the girls picture in the giant rocker and that is all I have to share from that trip.
We were going to get a puppy for the girls for early Christmas. Her name was to be Lucy, and it is Lucy.....but we have Sally now also. Lucy and Sally our little peanuts. Yes I am crazy.
Did the Cecil Floyd Craft Show again this year. Couple of the same girls and a new one in the mix. We have loads of fun....didn't come home rich to say the least but it is SO fun to play and be together.

It has been over ten days since my last post and I am feeling bad about that. I know that my thousands of loyal readers (Jennifer) will be so upset by this fact. I really don't have a whole lot to share. I enroll for next semester in the morning at 9:30, I am excited for the new classed but VERY ready for the four week break!!! We leave next Wednesday for Tennessee, excited about that trip but it is my favorite part of the year. The girls are pulling that sisterly love thing the past few weeks I hope that will start to change soon. Other then that we are pretty boring. I will leave you with an old pic since I haven't taken new pics lately, there will be lots to tell and pictures to show after next week no worries loyal readers!! This is the girls at Aunt Barb and Uncle Jim's pond last year at Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween, hat day, & Birthday!

Like always it has been a busy few days, whats new. We of course went trick or treating, still tired from that but always fun. Went to see a few friends and Nana made chili so it was a good night....and gee we came home with a ton of candy! Joy!

This past week at school was 'H' week so that made Friday hat day! I personally think that the girls had the best hats since most of the kids wore baseball hats but I do think my kids are the cutest!

Then last night we had Amber and 'baby' Jennifer over for dinner, cake and ice cream. It was Amber's birthday so we sang and made her blow out the candles (I am sure she will be so happy with this picture! It was fun.

Well today is ballet and house cleaning so I better get on it!

I think we are ready

I'm not sure but I think we might be ready for Halloween.....Our house has spider webs all over, we have 5 pumpkins (3 carved & 2 not), we have our 'boo' garland, and we have an Elsie style skeleton on our front door. Yep I think we are good to go.....now in 4 days I will have to take it all down! JOY! No I really do enjoy it and pumpkin carving night has seemed to be one of our best nights of the year, very relaxed and fun. Mike has Wednesdays off for awhile so last Wednesday Mike and his Mom came over and they carved pumpkins and I made pizza. It was a good night they girls had fun and I always like homemade pizza. They girls like it too because they get to get messy and it is the one time that I actually say it is okay to sit on the kitchen table.

Life has been a little crazy lately but we are making it through. School is busy for all of us and life in general has had its ups and downs......we are alive though! Enjoy your Halloween, be safe!!

the purple hand

In the crazy life we have had these days with all three of us going to school and still trying to unpack the house, there are those moments where I think, 'this is an ok mess'. You know, purple chalk handprints on the back door can stay for awhile. I know that soon enough they will be tired of playing with chalk and on to other things so right now, the purple hand stays.

We'er here!

Well it was one long weekend but we are here with the thanks of great family! Most importantly Aunt Carolyn. Also thank you to Uncle Gabe, Grandmother, Papa, Mom, Dad, and Denise the weekend would have been much longer had I not had all the help! Can't forget Aunt Chris and the other Wares, Nana, and Shelly for keeping the girls all weekend! Now for the pictures! The first one is the house of course! Then the half of the room with green walls and pink dots is Aubrey's, and the half with Pink walls and green dots is Bailey's (note the unmade bed). The butterfly is a totally awesome nightlight that Aunt Barbara sent them, it is fiber optic so when it lights up it looks like the wings are moving, awesome. Then the last picture is all you will see of my room for right now. That is my dresser with my cool new drawer pulls that Mike bought me. There is still a lot more to do but it is coming along. I can't park my car in the garage but hopefully I will soon.

Okay so I haven't posted as often as I wanted but its been crazy. I have filled in for someone at work everyday this week and I think three days last week and I am still trying to pack. Packing is not nearly as far as it should be but I have two more classes today and then I will be home the rest of the day so hopefully I will get some serious stuff done. The big moving day is this saturday, which will also spred into friday and sunday but big stuff moves on saturday. VERY EXCITED!!! Now its almost time for class so I will leave off with a couple more pictures of those kids who follow me around.

Wow!

Wow it has been almost a year since I posted......thats bad. Do you think anyone still checks this? Probably not.

Lets see what has happened??? My sweet little store closed around January (very emotional) then around July the Springfield store closed, it was a rough ride but I think we have all survived, been a couple weeks since I have checked in with them all though.

I have started school, I am offically a freshman at MSSU! Yeah! I am taking 13 hours and a freshman orientation course which (steps onto the soapbox) is a HUGE waste of my time! Other then that is has not been so bad. The girls are back at First United Methodist and so am I. We started an early drop off program this year and I am taking care of those kiddos. We had a busy summer that seemed to fly by time spent outside, a trip to the lake, trip to the zoo with Aunt Carolyn, a pirate dance recital and packing. Packing? What? Yeah we are also moving at the end of this month if all goes well, I will keep you posted on that one.

Well I will leave you all now with a picture from the zoo. Hopefully now that I am on my new computer (thanks Mike love you) I will keep this up to date espically since there are so many changes!

Halloween 2006

action shots

As I said that I would I am posting ballet pictures from this morning! They are doing a lot more moving and jumping, I am sure that it helps that the class is a little smaller this time and there are no boys. Sorry for the quality of the picture I have to take them through a window so it makes a bit of a glare.

first day of school

Well I know that I am supposed to take pictures BEFORE school but....well...yeah...I kinda left my camera at work...bad mom...I know, so these are actually after school first day of school pics.
I am also posting them oh about a week or so late, but that way I can tell you that school is going great! There were a few days of Aubrey not wanting to go but now she is excited, maybe because it was 'A' week and she is all about the 'A' .......gee that sounds like a commercial?!? Anyway B was a ham like always and it ended up being a good day for the most part.

In other news they have started back at dance class also.....I don't get to go as much this time though because they are going for 11 to 11:45 so I am at work by then, but I am off tomorrow so I will take some pics and post again after. I think they are liking it so far a few of the same girls and some new ones too. No boys this time though, I am sure that my little flirts are very sad about that.
In my life.....still getting ready for the 'ScrapDiva' retreat with work...its almost here...YEAH!!
I have been working on my 'five year plan' some more, Aunt Carolyn is defiantly pushing me in the right direction so I hope to make some great progress here in the next few months, even though that means I might actually have to consider some like a real job....sigh...looking for something that is fun though. I will keep you posted on that.
Well off for now......

its been crazy like always with us. The girls start school Wednesday, so we had a little movie night with Shelly as our last fling before we have to go back.....it was fun they didn't fall asleep till 11 but thats okay.
Nothing much else going on working a lot getting ready for our "Scrap Diva" retreat next month and getting ready for back to school........I will leave you with a few pictures.