Our Day

It was a beautiful day today. I thought it was going to be an awful day when I woke up this morning and both girls threw fits over clothes and were just mouthy and awful. After Mykenzie was at school for her final day of her TCAP testing I got Kaylee ready and we met some friends at Chick Fil A for some playtime and some lunch. The whole group of us went to Target and did some shopping. I picked up the shower curtain for the girls bathroom before they sell out of them. Then Kaylee and I headed across the street to Walmart so I could get Mykenzie some new gym shoes for school. Kaylee has been begging to go to an ice cream shop for a little over a week now and though we had ice cream from DQ we ate it at home and that just wasn't the same for her. So I took her to Dippin Dots for an ice cream treat before we went to get Mykenzie.


After Mykenzie got home we went outside and played. The girls played on the swings and we played some soccer. The best part of the day is when we tried to fly a kite. OMG you would think that by the time you were 27 years old you would be able to fly a kite properly. Well then you would think wrong because I can't do it. I look like there is something wrong with me as I was running around the yard with a kite over my head. I gave up. We threw the kite in the trash.
Travis came home and we grilled burgers and corn on the cob for dinner and now the girls are putting on pjs and getting ready for bed. Mykenzie is having a fit because she can't find her pj shorts so my day is now ending just the same as it started. Joy. So the beginning and ending of my day sucked but the middle was pretty great.

Growing up

Mykenzie is getting a new bed that will be delivered any time now. Kaylee is getting to big for her toddler bed and it was time to get a bigger bed for her. We decided that it made sense for Mykenzie to get a full size bed and to give the twin to Kaylee. Kaylee has more toys in her room so she needs more floor space than Mykenzie and neither of their rooms are that big. So after ALOT of searching we finally found a bed. It is a white sleigh platform full sized bed with a trundle. Since they are delivering it today we broke Mykenzie's current bed down and moved it into Kaylee's room and she just slept in there last night. (side note:thank God I talked myself out of having them share a room! Bad idea) With the toddler bed set up next to the twin it made me a little sad to see how they have both grown up so much.






Now I have to find bedding for both girls rooms, which will probably mean redecorating completely ;-)

Biggest Loser Finale! Tonight!!!

I am a huge Biggest Loser fan! You get so attached to the contestants and it is so exciting watching them transform their lives. Tonight is the finale of the couple edition. The people that I really wanted to win have already been booted (I love Brittany and Bernie) but I am hoping one of them win the money for losing the most weight at home. This is the first REAL chance that a woman has to actually be named the biggest loser. I am counting down the hours till the 2 hour LIVE finale! Go Ali and Kelly!!! I can't wait to see how much more they lost since leaving the ranch! Anyone else out there watching? NBC tonight check it out! You'll get hooked

Sweet and Juicy Perfection!

So I bought a new gadget today. I went to the store and saw pineapple for only 99 cents. This is very cheap for fresh pineapple and I LOVE it. So I bought 2 :) If you have ever eaten and cut fresh pineapple you know it is a total pain in the butt to deal with. Peeling and coring it is a nightmare and generally leaves you with next to no pineapple to actually eat and enjoy. So I bought a new gadget that slices, skins and cores it all with a few twists of the wrist. I was unsure how well it would work and told a few people I would let them know. Well it was awesome!! I love it and for $9 it is well worth the investment if you are a pineapple lover!

Spring??

It was spring. We had some really beautiful days. We had 2 days that were over 80 degrees. Now it is 44 with a high of 47. Tomorrow High is 46 Low 33.
This. Is. Not. Spring.

Good Citizen

Mykenzie was choosen to be a Good Citizen at her school this grading period. Each grading period 3 students are selected per classroom. They had a Good Citizen family breakfast follwed by the awards ceremony. They do a pretty good job at making a big deal out of it and making the kids feel really special that they earned it. They all walk into the gym to music and clapping and they parade around the perimeter and take their places on the stage. Then each grade level is called to the front of the stage, their names are read and they are handed a certificate. They each get a Tshirt as well. Congratulations Mykenzie for doing so well this year and for setting good examples for others :)

Some Ohio Pictures

Here is a link to see all of our vacation pictures! And here are a few random pics

Jaden, Lily and Kaylee



Kaylee and Jaden


Kaylee and Lily


Mykenzie and Uncle Tony riding Jaden's dirtbike


My girls and Rachel's boys


Papa, Abby, Kaylee and Mykenzie

3:16

God so loved the World that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.


We have been studying this verse in church for the past 5 weeks. I thought it was appropriate to post in on here today being that it is Good Friday. Until this study I hadn't fully grasped the sacrifice that was made for all of us. My pastor said something while describing Jesus' brutal beating and Crucifixion that will stay with me always. He said Jesus didn't just die FOR us but he died BECAUSE of us. Wow. I never thought of it that way and I have to say that it makes me feel much more grateful when it is put to me like that.

Here is the sermon if you are interested
http://www.fbcsmyrna.org/common.aspx?shellfunction=mediacenter&cid=624&aid=5

Have a Great Easter everyone!

I'll admit I am "that" mom

I take Mykenzie to school in my pj's. Sometimes no shoes, sometimes Travis' sandals with socks. In my defense I don't have to get out of the car and I am only gone 5 minutes. IF I had to get out of the car I would get myself presentable. I was putting the girls in the car this morning to go to school and Kaylee says to me "Mom your hair is a mess" of course I reply, "Thanks Kaylee that is so nice" to which Mykenzie chimes in "No it's not Kaylee, It always looks like that." Lovely. I just looked at her and she quickly replied "well in the mornings it does" Kids are way to honest sometimes

Cold!

Ohio in March sucks. I said a couple of years ago that I would never go back to Ohio for spring break. Now stupid me decided it would be a great idea this year. The high the whole time we will be there is 40 degrees, oh and snow. Seriously I am over winter and ready for spring!! I guess next year we will have our butts out in the cold in January going door to door selling cookies. No more phone calls to try and sell them :( This is the LAST year I go to Ohio for spring break! It is such a good thing that I like visiting everyone who lives there. Hopefully this year I will be able to see more of everyone but I doubt it. I am already booked for Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday. Sunday is Easter and Monday is Travis' bday. I have no idea when I am going to see my Grandpa, my Grammy or my Aunt or Uncle even though I really want to see all of them. I will have to figure it out. I wish they weren't all spread out, that would be easier. I guess I will figure something out. Problem is people get mad if I only stay places for an hour or 2 and move on but there is really no other way for me to do it. I have so many people to see and so little time to do it plus working around every one's schedules. Freakin stress I tell ya! Now add cold and snow to it! GRRR

For crying out loud

So it started today. My child is giving smart ass answers on her homework. She had a graph she had to fill in (no clue how to do it thanks to teacher of the year) Then the question was name 2 facts about this graph. She writes "The graph is a fool. I don't know why." Can you hear me smacking myself in the forehead?!?! Then she gave the definition of a perimeter of a triangle rather than the actual perimeter of the triangle. This one I don't think was intentional since the question only read "what is the perimeter?" Not what is the perimeter of the triangle, but geeze! She got it wrong both on the school work side of the paper as well as the homework which just goes to show she isn't actually being taught these things.

On a side note about school they are starting to do multiplication already! She is doing x1, x2 and x5. Not all that difficult but still I was surprised to see her doing it. Parent/ Teacher conference on Saturday, joy of joys. I so love talking with this lady. I was checking out the 3rd grade teachers web pages today to get an idea of who to request so I don't have to deal with this crap again. I have it down to 2 people so now I have to ask around about them. Pray we get a good teacher next year!!!

Long time no blog

Kaylee is better. Whatever she had only lasted 2 days. Right now my brother in law, Tony and his girlfriend, Jordan are here. We have been putting Tony to work in our garage. We had a leak in the roof and it was ruining the ceiling in the garage and it was getting all moldy and nasty.

We decided to just give up with our huge fight with our home warranty people and just take the $300 they offered us so we can move on and have working appliances again. It sucks cause it was a waste of money for us but it is NICE to have a microwave and dishwasher again. Travis and Tony installed both of them yesterday. They finished the ceiling today while the girls and I played in the snow (yes we got snow again!!) Then Tony put up some picture frame molding in my dining room. Now I need to figure out what I am doing as far as paint goes in there. I can't seem to make up my mind. My latest plan Travis isn't on board with at all! lol He just doesn't want to do the work because it involves painting a room we just recently did. We will see. I need to worry about finding a kitchen table and some end tables for my living room first.

Now for the snow. This time it actually covered the ground and it was like 2 inches worth. The girls made snow angels and threw snowballs but the snow was too powdery and wouldn't pack well enough to make a snow man. It is now 2pm and most of it has melted. We went out right after breakfast to play so we didn't miss our chance.

We will be going to Ohio for Spring break this year, including Easter day. We have never been there on a holiday other than July 4th and Memorial Day before. Mykenzie is hoping the Easter bunny will be able to find us. I hate going up there at this time of year cause you have to bring your entire wardrobe with you. Hopefully we will get more spring weather and less winter. Who knows since it is a flipping blizzard up there now. I am excited to see everyone. There are 2 babies that I need to meet still! We leave in 13 days I guess I should be making some plans. Time is flying and it is sneaking up on me!

Poor Pitiful Girl

Obviously I am not abiding to the terms of our bet but, whatever. Kaylee is sick and wants me to be in the same room with her so really what else am I gonna do? She woke up around 12:30am crying and saying her throat hurt, I gave her some motrin and she went back to sleep. She woke up crying at 3 saying her legs hurt. She had a fever all this time too. I figured it was either strep or the flu because they are both going around. When we came downstairs to eat breakfast she threw up. She ended up throwing up 2 more times after that. I gave her a bath and she just cried and said ouch, ouch, ouch, the whole time. she went to the doctor and had a temp of 102.5. The doctor did a strep test and a flu test on her but they both came up negative. The doctor just kept shaking her head and saying "I can't believe they both came up negative." So she decided that with the symptoms she was having and how pitiful she was that she was treating her for both of them anyhow. She said the vomiting could be from strep. And that the way she looked and was acting combine with the other symptoms she was having was exactly like all the other kids who came in and tested positive for the flu. So right now we are pushing liquids to make sure she can keep them down and then we will start the meds.
She fell asleep in the car on the way home from the pharmacy and slept until 2:10, I didn't want to start pushing liquids then since we were about to get Kenzie from school (didn't want puking in the car if I could help it) Now it has been about an hour and a half and she has kept what she has drank down and her fever is way down with the motrin.
While she was waiting for her motrin before we got Mykenzie she just laid on the kitchen floor. She was so pitiful laying there. Of course I took a couple pics

I'll be damned

So I have lost a bet. My husband and I just made an incredibly stupid bet. We just saw Laura Linney on the pre Oscar show. Travis was asking what she was on and it dawned on him that she was on The Truman Show. He said she played his wife. Well I disagreed and said that she wasn't his wife. I just saw the last the 45 mins or so of it last week and he was trying to escape so he could go find that girl who was his girlfriend. I was positive he wasn't married in that show. Well freaking Wikipedia just proved me wrong, she was his wife. So the bet was no computer for a week for me or Travis had to wash dishes for a week. So I lost so I will be off the computer for a week. Isn't that nice. Seriously, this blows. I thought I was right!!!!! AHHH!

Freak out time!

I just tried to change my background on here and when I did all of the text was GONE!! I thought in one second I had lost years of blogging! Came pretty close to a heart attack. If this happens to you please know that the template is not compatible with new blogger. So for now I have a generic blogger background till I can find a cute one that works!

If you haven't read these books, your missing out

Well not all of you. But if you like some light hearted fun chick-lit then I reccomend these books. The way Meg Cabot writes is how if I wrote a book I would want it to sound. Like a real person! I finally after many months of slacking finished the Heather Wells series, this includes Size 12 is Not Fat, Size 14 is not Fat Either and Big Boned. They are funny murder mysteries if you can imagine that! By page 5 of Big Boned I was cracking up laughing! Here is a snippit of why.

She is obviously not a thin fit person but she is dating someone who is. He has asked her to join him for an early 6am run (she is not an early bird or a runner) Here is what takes place....

"You go ahead," I tell him, with a smile. I'll be right behind you."

Tad shruggs, gives me a good-bye wink- I guess he knows as well as I do that he is going to leave me in his dust-and takes off.

Yeah. No way I am going to keep up with that. But that's okay. I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm-

Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it.

Also, I think I felt something come loose back there. I'm not trying to overreact or anything, but I think it was my uterus. Honest. I think my uterus jiggled free.

OMG! It is so flipping funny! Go read them for yourself. They are easy, fast reads (if you actually sit down and do it) and are really funny and enjoyable :) She also wrote the Queen of Babble series (new one will be out this summer)which is also really good! Next I am moving on to Straight Talking by Jane Green :) Happy reading!

Let's resurrect a dead horse, shall we

So awhile ago I decided to bring some personal issues to light and get some opinions on the whole thing. I had a comment that came a few weeks after the fact that she wants me to comment on so rather than go back and comment in the comment section I figured I would just start a new post. You can click this link to read the original post

First of all let me talk about this point that was made.

"We are all hypocrites. The difference is the word repentance. Repentance is not just asking for forgiveness, it is turning from that sin and trying not to continue in that sin. But we can't do this alone. We need the Holy Spirit for that"

I agree we are all hypocrites! People who preach the word of God while having an affair astound me. However, if you read the Bible there are MANY things that are considered sin. Some Baptists believe that is a sin to dance. Some religions believe that it is a sin for a woman to wear pants. The Bible says that I have to obey my husband. Whatever! Love and respect, yes. Obey? I don't think so. All of these things I do, so I am living in sin because of them according to the Bible. I will not stop doing these things, so I cannot truly repent for them. Nor do I feel like I ever need to. So here is where it gets tricky, If all sin is equal in God's eyes and we all sin and will never truly repent for every sin we commit yet are required to repent all of our sin... How are any of us going to make it into Heaven? If ALL sin is the same in God's eyes, how can we assume that he just didn't mean those things and if we do those we will be ok??

Moving on to homosexuality
Here is the quote
"You said you believe that homosexuals are born gay. This is what you have to remember. God is not going to make someone gay and condemn them to hell. That is setting someone up for failure and that is not our God. Our God is love and he is for us, not against us. Also remember that Jesus came for the sick and the lost, not for the healthy. So, the people you are defending are the ones that need him the most. They are lost. And these are the ones that feel the most rejected.....Homosexuals feel rejection on a daily basis. Why? Is because they are being judged or is it because they know deep down inside their soul that something isn't right? I don't care who you are, we all at one point in our lives, question our sexuality. Every one of us as human beings wonder what it would be like to be with the same sex. You can deny it all you want but it is a temptation Satan will use to veer you off track of your life. "

I do believe that some people choose to be "gay" for a minute because they think it is the in thing. However I also don't believe these people are truly gay. That said I do think people are born gay. As for their feelings of rejection, well if you look at their lives they probably grew up with kids at school using words like "fag" and "queer" to talk to them with constant teasing and ridicule. Just like when kids in school are called "stupid", "ugly" or "fat" will always feel tormented and have feelings of rejection because of it. Also these people were brought up being taught that homosexuality is wrong, from their parents and society. How would they not feel rejected? They were probably brought to church as children and listening to the preacher tell them that gays were going to burn in hell, would that not scare the crap out of you as a child?? Most gay people didn't come to the realization that they were gay at an old age; they have known all their lives. They may push it aside because they are so afraid that what everyone says is true but since God knows are hearts he knows anyhow and it eventually comes out. Not to mention the fact that a lot of gay people are not having any of the feelings that you mentioned. They are happy, normal people living their lives being productive and are just good people. As far as the comment about we have all questioned our sexuality, well I am sorry to say NOPE! I have said that I should give up men and turn gay because boys suck, but never actually thought I would. I was born a heterosexual and there is no changing that just like there is no changing those who were born homosexual.

I won’t even get into gay marriage and how it is a travesty that the current administration wants to make it illegal as far as amending the Constitution!!! All I have to say is that if marriage is a religious thing, then why are Atheist's and non-Christians allowed to be married?? Maybe we should put that in the Constitution as well. Hmm, that will make you think huh?

I know this person was worried I was mad since I hadn't responded, but I am not. You are entitled to your opinion and I wouldn't have asked for opinions if I couldn't handle the opposing point of view. You didn't tackle abortion in your comment. I assume that was coming in part 2 of your reply. I don't plan to debate it with anyone. I am tired of doing it. My views are not going to change and those who feel the opposite of me are not going to change their minds. I have seriously talked about that issue so much that I am done....for now. ;)

And if all of that wasn't enough, here is a little food for thought. Aren’t having an abortion and the death penalty the same thing? Sure one is a baby with a clean soul and the other is a criminal. Is it our job to make that decision? Maybe God was keeping that person alive so he could repent and go to Heaven but you just decided you would make that choice for Him and now they don't have the chance. I guess you just played God, same as in an abortion. Hmm. How can you be prolife but also pro death penalty? Makes no sense to me!

*For the record I am pro-choice and pro death penalty
I am not writing to change people’s minds or start a riot! Just open your mind and get you thinking. Truth be told all of these things are simply things you BELIEVE! You may believe them with your whole heart but in the end someone will be wrong, you just hope it isn’t you ;)

Ok. here are some pics of my hair

Be honest. It is a bit too blonde for me. I would prefer no blonde at all. The bottom pic. is more accurate for the shade of blonde that it is.

Today I Love Aldi & Hate Old Navy. Who'd of thought?

I hit up Aldi for a few things today and while checking out some pretty purple roses caught my eye. I was checking them out and even though they were starting to wilt for $2.99 I still wanted them. The manager walked up and asked me what I thought about them. I said they look like they are dying. So he said "buy one get one free!" So I got a dozen roses for $2.99 today!! Yay! They are so pretty on my table.


Old Navy sucks. They are having the baby sale and it is 40% all the kids clothes. Perfect time to buy Kaylee some new pants since she just outgrew her 3T's. Would you believe they didn't have a single pair of 4T pants in the store!!! AHHH So I tried to order online and the freaking site is down! Dang it!

Funny pics

This was after a playdate we had on Friday. I think they were a little worn out! LOL