Blogging and the Holidays

I think I have to be the worst Blogger EVER!!! I seem to never have time to post.......good enough excuse?? Didn't think so either.......so to all you readers....few and far between....I appologize. I am going to try post better!! The Holidays are fastly approaching and we have entered the holiday spirit at our house.......our tree......I don't really want to talk about....I am NOT happy with it this year. When we went to get it (I will keep the store annoymous) the trees were all wrapped in twine....now please tell me how you are suppose to see what the tree looks like with string on it?!?!? Needless to say we didn't pick out a very good, even, full tree......let's just say it looks like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree.....if I feel like giving you a good laugh...I will try post pictures. I try not to bad mouth the tree too much in front of the girls, because they love it, I on the other hand, don't!! With the poor growth and placement of branches on the tree's part and my poor decorating skills, again, Charlie Brown Christmas! O-well, I like Charlie Brown. Happy Holidays and enjoy the season!!

When She's a Senior........

This is too cute, I had to post it, however, when Josie is a senior in High School and I need to look for pictures for the yearbook, she will not be too pleased if I choose this one!! Only if we all looked that cute perched on the throne!! And no, we don't have a phone in our bathroom, this was taken a my parent's house!

HALLOWEEN!!!

Poodle Girls!!
Love the look Jos!

My little poser!

Decorating Halloween Cookies

Happy belated Halloween!! The girls were super cute in their 50's atire and we had a blast trick-or-treating thanks to the great weather!! The girls were beat after it was all done, so tired that we all over-slept for gymnastics the next morning.....but thankfully we did make it only 10 minutes late!! Here are a few pictures of our Halloween!!

It's Almost Halloween!!

I know, I know, it's been a long time since a post....I keep meaning to post from home so I can include this cute picture, but I never seem to have time!! Tomorrow is Halloween, I'm usually not one to get super excited for this holiday, but I do like the decorations and I love the girls' costumes this year. I picked them out since it will probably be my last year to do so since their independence is becoming very abundant. I think Alivia was a little disappointed that she didn't get to pick hers out, but she likes what she is and I promised her that next year she would get to pick!! I will make sure to post pictures as soon as possible after tomorrow!!! The weather should be great for Trick-or-Treating, so have fun and BE SAFE!!!

Josie's 2nd Birthday

The Birthday Girl......She's 2!!

Cheese!!!!

The Cabbage Patch Kid Cake!

All the kids....

Top: Abby & Cole

Middle: Josie

Middle: Max, Alivia, Mithell

Front: Noah

Decorating Pumpkins

We had Josie's birthday party this past weekend and it was a huge sucess!! She wanted a "baby" cake, so she got a Cabbage Patch Kid....oh the memories of childhood! There were lots of kids, cake, pumpkins and fun!! I believe a good time was had by all!! Enjoy the photos....sorry for the sideways ones....haven't figured out how to turn them yet.....I think I'm doing pretty good with getting pictures on my post!! ENJOY!!!

When it Rains, It Pours!!

It seems that at our house, when it rains, it pours. The girls both had fevers on Wednesday night when we put them to bed and carried them throughout the night and into the next day. Ali complained of a sore throat and Josie displayed the same symptoms. I looked in their throats and Ali's tonsils were swollen and huge. Josie's tonsils were swollen and even bigger, I'm talking almost touching each other. So on Thursday, we took them both to the doctor......Tonsillitis. Prescription for meds, took the meds......and so on. I stayed home with them on Friday and Josie broke her fever during her nap and was starting to feel better. Alivia on the other hand took a while to let her meds take effect. Needless to say by Saturday afternoon they were both feeling better. End of story, right??? NOPE. Josie awoke from her nap on Saturday SCREAMING in horrifying pain and holding and rubbing her eye. Calmed her down, tried flushing it with distilled water and she was still screaming with pain. So after supper, we took her to the ER (our new BFF) and she had a huge scratch on her pupil and iris, so after much screaming and a few eye drops later, the scratch improved by Sunday and after the follow up visit with the eye doctor today it is almost healed!! So that is our crazy weekend in a nutshell, sick kids, scratched eyes.....what more could you want!!

A Quick Weekend Funny

Last night we were piddling around the house and Cory said "Ali, can you please put my shirt in the hamper? " Ali replied disruntledly, " Uh! Your making me work like Cinderella!" What they don't pick up on!!! Gotta love those little kid sayings!

The FLU shot

So, we're driving in the car last night, running some errands and Cory blurts out "Who wants to get a flu shot???" Josie being the innocent saint she is yells "I do!" Which by the way is what she answers to anyone who asks her if she wants to do something. And Ali on the other hand says "Not me!" and I said "I do so I don't get the flu and can try to stay helathy" Then Ali replies, "Yeah, me too!" We continued to drive a few more minutes and Ali says "You guys were just kidding right?!?" We both busted out laughing and did not have the heart to tell here we weren't kidding!! So, needless to say, both my girls will not be happy when that cold day arrives and they have to get poked by that aweful little needle!! Tis the season for FLU SHOTS!!! Get yours today!!

The Weekend!

Okay, so I am a little late posting about the weekend, but I am skepticle about posting because I don't want to bore others, but I got up enough guts to post today. We, the girls and I, went to mom and dad's this weekend.....it was an early Saturday morning as I had to have Ali to gymnastics at 8:00 am, thankfully it is on the way home so we didn't have to go out of our way. I thought the girls would sleep the whole way since it was Josie's nap time, but I was wrong....they were awake and kept me company the whole way!! We arrived and had some lunch and played with mom, my grandma and my aunt.....at this point, I was non-existant, as I usually am when the girls are at my parents' house. We had an enjoyable afternoon playing with some cousins we hadn't seen in a while and that night dad watch Josie while us others went to the play "Little Shop of Horrors".....sounds a little scary and not so much a kid play???!! Well, IT WAS GREAT!!! Small town theater usually raises an eyebrow or two, but this theater usually has pretty good productions. Ali loved it and so did the rest of us!! Sunday brought some great food with the family and then it was time to head back.....a nice peaceful ride mind you, the kids slept and I enjoyed some fine tunes. That was our weekend, nothing too fancy but some good old relaxation. Nothing beats going home to relax and spend time with family!!

FIRST POST!!!

Okay, so this is my first post on my blog.....I have no idea what I am doing or what to write.....and I have no idea how to make my blog look cute and cool. So, give me a few entries and I will figure this whole thing out. I love reading other people's blogs and am excited to do my own, I always come off a weekend thinking " wow, I could write a lot on my blog, but have never done it yet, so here goes, my first post and now I have to keep up with it. I am mainly doing it for family and friends to keep up with us and our busy little lives!!