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- GRAHAM HAS FINISHED HIS MBA!!! I cannot begin to tell you how proud of him I am. He worked so hard from last January till last night........with no breaks. Every week straight he had something due. He is a trooper!

-We FINALLY bought a camper last week. It pays off to wait and look, we have been looking since the fall and REALLY looking since Dec. FINALLY we found exactly what we wanted at a price we wanted.

-Addie is the funniest child these days! Tuesday night I was changing her diaper at my mom's and Cale (my brother) came up the stairs to where we were. Addie looked over at him and said, "Hey Cale, come look at this turd!" I have never laughed so hard!

-My very sweet friend in CA who has been on hospital bedrest for alittle over a month gave birth to her little girl Reagan Grace Friday. She was with them for 4 hours then went to Heaven. She was very early and had a few other things going on. I have prayed and cried and prayed and cried for her. Lauren is the sweetest, strongest woman I have ever known. Please keep the Straub family in your Prayers.

-Yesterday we attended church at LVBC to see Lauren and Mack dedicated their lives to helping Weston be a strong Christian man. It was a very sweet program, and we were honored to be there :)

-I have been THROW away queen lately! I am getting ready for a yard sale in May and I AM GETTING RID OF ALL THE CRAP IN OUR HOUSE :)

-Graham will get tonight off, but tomorrow evening HE WILL be sanding the wall so I can paint the living room and kitchen. Its been 9 months already!!

-I am going to go finish my coffee in peace before Addie gets up and Ellie gets here. Have a nice week everyone!!

Egg hunt, and Easter

Friday, Graham was off so we took Addie to the Zoo. She loved it! Stupid me forgot to take the camera :(
Saturday we got up and dyed Easter Eggs. I have NO IDEA why I always do this the day BEFORE Easter? Every year Addie has had blue and purple fingers on Easter. Maybe next year I will remember to do it a few days before.



We went to the Egg Hunt at church that afternoon. Addie actually had a blast finding the eggs, it was just Mommie taking pics that made her mad.

OH Easter. It was an absolute Beautiful day! Except, Addie got up in a bad mood.......see she is terrified of Band aids (we don't really know why??), and Friday she insisted on wearing her old pair of crocs that I THOUGHT were too small but they seemed to fit okay.....or so we thought. They wore 3 blisters on her sweet little feet, so Saturday night we put meds on the blisters and band aids....needless to say she was pretty pissed about it.........She was also mad because the Easter Bunny had come to her house while she was alseep????SHE IS STRANGE! She didnt even want to look for her basket!

See when I was little the EB used to leave rhymes all over the house leading us to our baskets....I decided Addie would be old enough this year to do that and once we got her going she LOVED it!

After Addie found her basket and was looking through her things I finished getting ready. Only to find out that the dress I was going to wear that I had let someone cut off and make it shorter (it was long and I made it a knee length dress) did a HORRIBLE job. So I had to find another dress at the last minute, iron it and get out the door. Addie on the other hand looked BEAUTIFUL! BUT she was in a bad mood most of the day so I never got any good pics of her. So, one day this week I am making her put her dress on again and we are taking pics!

Here are the few I did get ;)

One of the best Pictures I have of Addie and Daddy

See what I mean, she was saying NO to the pics and this was one of the first ones!

No they didn't plan it, but Addie and Tanner matched perfectly!

Playing with the boys ;)

I teach Addie's class on Wednesday nights at church. It was so pretty last week, we finished the lesson early and went out to play. I captured these sweet pics of Addie, Tanner and Shane going to the playground.

We made these glasses in class, mom and I tried for 20 minutes to get Shane to put them on.....he said he just wanted to play! LOL I Love him!

When You don't think you are getting through....

Addie and Graham were playing in the yard tonight while I walked/ran. Graham was throwing a ball against the house (I know he is so a child, lol), and he looked over at Addie who was standing on the top of her slide. Addie was standing on her slide with her head down, hands clasped saying, "God, them mumbled something, then Amen".
We try very hard to remember to talk to God everyday. We try to teach Addie to have an open relationship with God. To be so comfortable with him that she can talk to him about anything and everything. But to be honest, we forget! I know it's horrible but sometimes I lay down in bed at night and realize we forgot our prayers (with Addie), or we get done with dinner and I remember to pray then. But when Graham told me she was standing on her slide praying...........I felt like Maybe, just Maybe we were getting through. Maybe she was developing a relationship with God!

New giveaway!

There is a new giveaway over at TomKat Studios for a CUTE CUTE CUTE tutu!

Here is the link!!

http://tomkatstudio.blogspot.com/2010/03/fabulous-giveaway-win-tutu-from-jessica.html

Go enter to win one for you sweet little princess!!

Alot of nothing :)

So I have been a BIG reusable grocery bag lady! For Christmas my sister got me this AMAZING HUGE bag with and H on it for shopping! Its HUGE and it holds up to 40lbs! I LOVE IT! I need more. Problem is it was a $30 bag! So After carefully looking it over and the fact that I just got a new sewing machine I have decided to make another one on my own.

Today, I was looking on Etsy and came across these little wonders

What a SMART idea! So I will be heading back to the store to find some sort of mesh material to attempt these little babies also! I JUST love it!

I am SOOO ready for Spring! I am ready to go to the park everyday...play outside....wear flip flops without anyone looking at me crazy (I've been known to wear them when it is snowing)...DRESSES....and it also is very nice to walk and run when the weather isn't 30 degrees (which BTW I have done really good with! I ran father last night than I have since high school!)! I can't wait to head over to Linda's tomorrow and get some fresh veggies for dinner! I really wish someone would come to my house and set up a garden for me! I would SOO do it except for the initial work involved! Maybe I will start with a very small one this year and add to it.

Yesterday, I went through every room in my house and made a list of what we needed to do/buy for that room. Needless to say, Graham was so excited when he got home and saw the massive list that was going to cost him......ooooooooo.....probably $10000 inside and outside (we need to cut a backdoor and build a deck. Oh and buy a hot tub for said deck :))

I am going to lay down and enjoy a few more minutes of quiet before Addie gets up! Have a Wonderful DAY!!

COUCH TO 5K

I have ALWAYS wanted to be a runner. I wanted to look like runner, and I wanted to just be able to go run several miles just for the fun of it. BUT I HATE running, with a passion..........Well I THOUGHT I hated running. Yesterday afternoon I was talking to Miranda (my sister) and she was telling me about couch to 5k program and how she really liked it. It's a 9 week program and is supposed to take even the most out of shape people and make them runners in 9 weeks. HAHA I thought....but after reading more about it (coolrunnings.com) I thought it seems doable WHY NOT?
I downloaded the App onto my IPOD, made a quick playlist and headed out. On my way to John A (the local track) I decided I needed one of those arm cuff things that holds my IPOD so I ran to walmart. By the time I got to the track I was STOLKED to say the least, I was SOOO ready to start this.

The program starts with a 5 minute walk warm up, then it dings and you run for 60 sec, walk for 90 secs. There are 8 run/walk sessions. After section number 5 I almost died....so I MADE myself get through section 6 and then just continued to walk instead of run the rest of the time. IT's HARD! But tonight I will do it again and I will go 7 times, even if it kills me.

My short term goal is to stick with this for ATLEAST 4 weeks. My long term goal.....run a 5k in the fall!
So there you have it!


ON ANOTHER NOTE:
My birthday is Friday and since we are going out of town that day Graham went ahead and gave me my present last night so I could play with it. He got me......................................................
MY VERY OWN SEWING MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Over the years I have borrowed my moms and the last 6 to 9 months I have had Dotties (My MIL). I was SOOOO excited to have my own, and to have a new one (the only ones I have sewed on have been from like 1970)! I have been sewing addie and Ali things all day long!

Also- We took Addie to the Circus last weekend.....SHE HAD A BLAST! I will post more and pics soon!

I have to get back to my beloved machine :)

I AM GOING TO BE HEALTHY..............

even if it kills me!

Today I joined weight watchers! I am pretty excited about it, mostly because my mom started it maybe 2 months ago and looks AMAZING!! I have been doing my workouts but it just isnt melting all this blame fat off my body! So HOPEFULLY this will help! So here goes nothing!

P.S.
You can join online for a free week trial of it and if you dont cancel and like it they will automatically enroll you and charge $65 to your account for 3 months. Then it is just like $17 a month after that! It seems to be pretty easy and you can even download an app on your ipod or iphone to keep track of your points!

WISH ME LUCK :)

Cookies and Milk Party

I don't want to go through moving my writing at the bottom to the top, so sorry! Here are pics of Addie's Milk and Cookies 2nd Birthday party, in no order!

Addie's favorite book is "If you give a Mouse a Cookie"! She loves it! She CRACKS up everytime we turn the page. One day we were reading it and I thought........wow what a great party idea! So I started brainstorming. I am very big on making Birthdays, Christmas and Halloween BIG DEALS. I have made Addie's costumes for Halloween both years, I went ALL out doing everything but the cake for Addie's first birthday party (and almost killed myself,lol) and Christmas........well, I did WAYY too much (we are going to do better this year). I love to bake so I decided I would make all the cookies, I would milk all the cows..........jk, and get my mom (the BEST story teller in history) to read the book. Then I decided since Addie LOVES her "Jammies" so much, she pretty much wears hers all day, we would do it as a "Bedtime Snack" and have everyone wear their PJ's! It was very cute to see all the kids in their PJ's!

All week I had planned on spending the entire day Friday making cookies........welp Friday morning Addie still wasn't feeling well so we went to the doctor. She had a sinus infection and he started her on some meds. That took half the blame day! I started baking around 11 am and pulled my last cookies out of the oven at 11 pm! I baked over 230 cookies, 9 different kinds! Addie sampled all of them, and she would have helped bake them but I couldn't let her spread germs around :)

Weeks before the party I gathered glass containers, some I already had, some I bought, some I borrowed, and decorated them with scrapbook paper and ribbons. I think they turned out really cute!

Tag, your it!

My great friend. from seriously like birth, has tagged me in a question thingy! Thanks http://theappleberrys.blogspot.com! The Rules: List 10 things that make you happy

1. God. Just his presence in my life lately has been WONDERFUL!

2. My AWESOME family. I don't know what in the world I would do without them.

3. Addie and her dance moves. We have NO idea where she gets it, because Graham and I CANNOT I repeat CANNOT dance. Addie on the other hand is pretty good :)

4. A good dark stormy day, at home with Addie building tents, and reading books (just like my mom did with me when I was young).

5. A new trial run in the kitchen with whatever craziness I can come up with....and it actually be good!

6. A Mommie Addie day! Doing all things girlie. Yes we have only had a few of these but as she gets older we will have more and do more girlie things like Mani's and pedi's instead of just the discovery museum.

7. A date with my hubby..............even it that means laying on the couch watching a movie!

8. Makeup...........allllllllll kinds! They make me extremely tooooo excited!

9. When my sister, Manny and Ali come to TN!

10. Every afternoon sometime between 3:30 and 5 when my mommy calls to see how my day went and tell me about hers. She is SOOO my best Friend!!

I tag whoever wants to do it~! Yeah I am lazy!